#Thanks for asking! <3

[blutopaz15]

😅 & 🧠 for the ask game! :)

😅 What's a story or scene you've created that you're a smidge embarrassed exists?

A lot of my early stuff, tbh 😅 Like, don't get me wrong: I'm glad those fics exist because I can't imagine my life now if I hadn't gotten back into fandom and started writing rayllum back in 2020. Those fics are what led to me getting to know so many people I consider friends. But like...I was just making up problems in some of those stories that in hindsight are like...what?? Not to mention that I didn't know how to pick a PoV and stick with it. 😅 Sooooo....yeah.

🧠 Pick a character, and I'll tell you my favorite headcanon for them.

How about one for Rayla, one for Callum, and one for both? :)

For Rayla: that braid that holds her arc 2 hair in place? yeah, she started doing that while she was gone as a way of reassuring herself that Callum loves her (like imagining that he'd do it for her if he were there). thank u, Tales of Xadia

For Callum, not so much headcanon as much as something fanon that I really loved before arc 2: I really love the thought of him connecting to the moon arcanum, and after TTM, I really really really loved the thought of him coming to understand the moon arcanum being linked with him forgiving/understanding Rayla.

And for both of them...one of my favorite things I've written in a fic for future, engaged rayllum that I will be considering canon until proven otherwise, from my angsty little pre-s4 fic:

fanfic asks!

#rayllum #ask games #thanks for asking! <3

[in-hav3n]

𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐋 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐈𝐓

Your husband James decides to surprise you with a new haircut...and a new video shoot. Would you like this change on him?

"Okay, so...10 more minutes and...it will be ready...", you explained loud to yourself as checking the cooking meat in the oven. Satisfied, you nodded as closing the oven door and putting your towel aside on your shoulder. Now, time to check on the vegetables. You weren't especially a great chef for you started to learn cooking a few years ago but you always wanted to do your best to cook the best meal you could do for your husband.

A smile just appeared on your face at the thought of him when he'd discovered you prepared his favorite meal. But nervousness quickly invaded you when you realized that it could not had the taste he expected and this was stressing you as hell.

"Honey, I'm home!". With the sound of the boiling potatoes and the kitchen hood, you didn't hear James coming back home from a work day.

No rehearsing or recording today, only talks and meetings about the next song of their new album "Load" to be out and the video shoot they'd want to create with it. He had told you he'd be home for dinner and he was right on time.

He walked over you with a smirk on his face. He had noticed of course that you didn't hear him and he wanted to surprise you. James was a big goofy and he liked to play different kind of jokes on you. He watched for some seconds what you were doing, leaning against the door frame of the kitchen, arms crossed, admiring how you quickly moved from every kitchen stations to get everything ready. A delicious smell invaded his nostrils and made his stomach grumbled.

When you bend over the oven one last time to check on the meat, he realized it was his chance. Slowly, like a predator, he walked carefully, hoping his boots wouldn't make too much noises on the ground but then he remembered you didn't even hear him speaking loud a few seconds ago.

He kept walking until he arrived behind you and without a warning, he gently pinched your two hips making you scream of surprise. James laughed loud, proud of his joke, and you turned around to gently tapped him with your kitchen towel.

"James Hetfield! How dare you!".

"James! How dare you?!", he laughed, imitating your voice in a very feminine, high-pitched way as wrapping his arms around you for a cuddle.

"Silly!", you giggled as pinching gently his chest. "I could had a knife in my hand and hurt you!".

"Oh Mrs Hetfield would had killed me then?", he grinned wild with a goofy giggle. How much you loved hearing him calling you this way! You smiled, amused, until you noticed something different on him.

"James, baby?", you said soft with a frown, checking on him. Yes, something was different, you could tell but what was it ?

"What is it honey?", he kept playing as embracing you, bending to kiss your cheek then your neck. "Can I have my welcome kiss now?"

"Wait!", you exclaimed as cupping his face with your hands, stopping his movements to kiss you on the lips, and made him lean forward. "You hair!".

"What is wrong with my hair?".

"What have you done? Your hair is darker!".

"That's right!", he proudly said with a cocky smile, showing you his new hair color like if he was a model, posing for photograph.

"But...why?", you asked with a frown, not sure of your feelings about it. When he decided to cut his hair off the first time, it had already been a shock for you. But now, you already missed his blond hair.

James lost his smile. He thought you'd have liked it cause damn, he really loved it but he was really surprised of your reaction.

"Don't you like it ? It's for our next video. It was my idea...I thought it was cool and different".

"Well...It's different I agree. It's just that...it's a big change baby...and...", you mumbled, trying to find your words, placing your hands on his chest. You didn't want to disappoint him cause you knew how insecure he could felt sometimes about his look. As you knew that this album was a big change for the band and they sadly didn't receive a lot of good reviews.

"But it's me, with just a different hair color now", he added like if he needed to justify himself. You smiled lovingly at him, caressing his cheek with your palm.

"I know it's you. And you know I'll always love you no matter how you look". He smiled, comforted by your kind words, and finally bend to kiss you on the lips. It was a sweet and tender kiss.

"Now I remember why I've chosen you to be my wife". You giggled loud against his lips before biting his lower lips.

"Stop being silly!"

*

One month later, James surprised you - but not for a joke this time - while you were lying on a deckchair in your garden. You were comfortably settled, reading one of your favorite novel for the third time.

"Hey baby!", you said smiling to him as he came over, hiding something behind his back. He had still kept his new hair color and you slowly get used to it. If James loved it, you had to accept it? "What's up?"

"Guess what I have here...", he asked with a big grin on his face, nearly jumping on his feet. You placed your book aside and sat, wondering what it could be. You smiled, amused by his behavior.

"Hum...I don't know. Good or bad thing?"

"Good one", he replied, excited.

You searched for some seconds in your head what kind of thing James could brought home on this normal day or was it a special day and you forgot it ?

"A little clue, perhaps?", you suggested and he agreed. He started to hum a melody that you quickly recognized as "Until it Sleeps".

"The video! You got it ?!"

"Yes!", James exclaimed, happy, with a jump as showing you the video tape. You giggled as clapping in your hands.

"Show me baby!".

Comfortably sat in your couch, you waited patiently for James to play the video tape he just inserted inside the video recorder. Once done, he came back next to you, one arms resting behind your back, eyes fixed on the TV as he pushed the button "play". He was watching it for the first time as well and you could tell he was nervous.

The music started and you carefully watched their final work. James was right, the video was really original, different from what they had done before it was in a good way. The story behind it matched good with the lyrics of the song and you analyzed every detail, searching for the meanings of each scenes.

They were all amazing in their character but your eyes couldn't left James of course. He was totally playing his role and his performance really touched you, considering the meaning of the lyrics. You knew the kind of fight he was having against his addiction.

He was incredible. He was gorgeous and finally, you started to like those dark hair on him. You had to recognize that it was really suiting him very well...He was absolutely sexy.

The video ended and James looked at you, excited to now your opinion about it. "So?"

"Mmh...", you started with a grin as looking back at him. "Where to start...?". You teased him as coming closer to gently caress his cheek before your fingers rushed through his hair. "I think you should keep that color for a couple of days or months maybe...".

"Oh really?", he smiled big, leaning against your touch.

"Oh yes, I really like it". James smile grew bigger and he bend to peck you on your lips. You gently rubbed your nose against his before you whispered : "This video made me changed my mind".

"Oh that's nice!", he chuckled before his arms wrapped up around your chest. "Then why was I worried you would never like it ? I just had to wait...until you like it baby...", he murmured before he bend to make you lay down on the couch, showing you one more time how much he was loving you...

A/N : Thank you again @ridethehet for this new idea with our beloved Load era James! Hope you'll like it honey !

#james hetfield #james hetfield x oc #request #request 4 #load era james #hope you'll like it people #married life with James is the best #james hetfield x reader #until it sleeps one of my fav #I loved this idea #Thanks for asking! <3

[deathnot-e]

HI.. IF YOU'RE STILL ASSIGNING SHINY PKMN ... may I ask for m... My wife🐍.... 🔽

heyo! :3 okay so this is based purely on aesthetics, but I saw your wife and went !! shiny zoroark. so behold, a shiny unovan trickster friend!

doubled for size. 💜✨

#kuroh's mailbox. #shiny pokémon ask game. #wintrmute #thanks for asking! <3

[jaggededges123]

Z?

Z - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go!

well, i was thinking about this a few days ago so i will share my findings with the class, so to speak XD i was wondering why i haven't really seen ship weeks around in tlt (i know i've only been here for four months but i've really been looking like, very hard). and then,, once again,, i had to look at the difference in size between mdzs (80k fics on ao3), svsss (20k fics on ao3), and tlt (5.5k fics on ao3) and remember that i'm bringing my mdzs fandom behavior into a much smaller fandom overall lmao (though proportionally to fandom size, through our hard work, my rarepair in tlt is a slightly bigger ship somehow which is hilarious to me) and that was the end of that little foray into the contemplation of the difference between my backburner fandom and my present obsession fandom for now. different classes in terms of size

#thanks for asking! <3 #ask game

[ithinkwehitametaphor]

Can you please drop your favourite christmas cookie recipe? <3

My favorite cookie recipe is quite simple but I like it a lot, so here it is :3

Ingredients:

500 g butter

380 g sugar

3 eggs

grated peel of half a lemon or orange

a small sachet of vanilla sugar or real vanilla

750 g all purpose flour

2 tea spoons of baking powder

(g = grams)

Mix butter with sugar until smooth. Add eggs and grated lemon peel, stirr. Mix flour with baking powder and vanilla sugar then add to mixture. Put the dough in the fridge for at least 1 hour!

Roll out dough and cut out cookies.

Bake cookies for about 10 minutes at 200°C (390°F)

Decorate to taste with icing, chocolate etc. For my icing I usually use powdered sugar and lemon juice plus liquid food coloring.

#cookies #cookie recipe #my baking #baking #thanks for asking! <3

[a-beautiful-fool]

HII HOW ARE YOU

I’M ACTUALLY MUCH BETTER RN! LIFE IS GOING EXTREMELY DECENT

HOW ARE YOU?

#answered ask #lou’s inbox❤️ #thanks for asking! <3

[subbe93]

Hi subbe I just wanted to ask you what's your opinion about coai shipping

Hey there, and thanks for asking ❤️

So, what do I think about CoAi? Nothing, really. Ai is nice and cute, and I think she should smile more because she has a cute smile! I think I understand why people ship her with Shinichi/Conan: They are in the same boat and they have experienced the same things. But somehow I can only see them as good friends. And I wish to see Ran and Shiho/Ai also getting know to each other better and being friends ❤️

And the same goes for many other Detective Conan ships which includes Shinichi or Ran. I can see why people ship them, but for me, Shinichi and Ran are meant to be. I can’t see Shinichi with Ai/Shiho, not with Kid, not with Amuro or anyone else than with Ran. The same goes with Ran: People can ship her with Sera, Araide, Eisuke, whoever, but I just can’t see her with anyone else than with Shinichi.

And just saying, I don’t hate any ships. I think that everyone can ship whoever they want together and I respect that, but I also hope that people remember to respect other’s ships too.

But for me, Shinichi and Ran are meant to be. When I started to watch Detective Conan, I hated Shinichi. I hate characters (and people) who are so self-centered, so full of themselves, and womanizers, and even though the main story interested me and even though during those first 5 minutes Shinichi was so cool while solving that first case, I saw those traits in him in the next minutes and my first thought was: Really? Do I need to watch over 800 episodes where THIS guy is the main character?! I hate him already!

But then we got the scene where Ran tells Shinichi that it’s okay to flirt with girls, but he should at least pick up his favorite. And do you remember his soft gaze when he looked at Ran? Ah, I was so melted, like… That boy is so in love with that girl, and part of me hated it because my picture of Shinichi was still a selfish womanizer, and that sweet Ran would deserve so much more, so much better, but goddammit, that look…

Luckily my opinion of Shinichi has changed 😂 I love him too ❤️

And after that, there were so many moments where we saw how much those two care for each other, how much they miss each other, how they can feel when the other one is in trouble, or how far they would go for each other… They are soulmates. And even though Shinichi is jealous and does pretty much to stop other boys from flirting with Ran, I remember one of my favorite ShinRan moments (Chapter 337/Episode 270) where Shinichi says to Ai that if he would tell Ran how he feels, she would just miss him more. He is the guy who breaks her heart by making her wait and he doesn’t want to see her cry anymore, even if it means he has no longer a place in her heart. I cried and it hurt. Oh, it still does. Because Ran's happiness is so important to him, so important that he is ready to "let her go" if it means that she could be happy, that she wouldn't worry, that she wouldn't cry. Not because of him. And if that doesn’t show how much he loves her, then I don’t know what. He had said somewhere in the beginning of the manga/anime (actually chapter 71/episode 10) that it hurts him to see Ran cry, and I can’t even imagine how it must feel to be the reason why the person who you love most in the world, cries because of you. And he can't do anything about it.

Oh boy, there are so many scenes that I would love to bring up (like in the school trip, that Bloody Ceiling -moment when Ran clung his arm scared and Shinichi just looked at her softly and told her it's okay, that she should pay her respect (or something)), and there are so many good posts on Tumblr about ShinRan that I would love to dig up and link them here because I agreed with them so badly, but maybe I got carried away and in the end, you just asked my opinion about CoAi, so I got a little bit distract 😂 But I wanted to explain why. And of course, I also know ShinRan is the main pair of the story, so the creator can make them be anything. But I have to say, even though there are long times that nothing happens between them (and I don't like it either), Aoyama knows how to do ShinRan - at least for my liking ❤️ They are a sweet and pure pairing, they complete each other, and they believe in each other... They are just... perfect ❤️

Haha, well, this became much longer than I thought, but that happens when I talk about ShinRan 😂 But hey, thanks for asking ❤️

#thanks for asking! <3

[amoron4everyone]

Now that we're entering into 2024, I'm asking some artists and writers that I follow:

1) What is the one piece you're most proud of from this past year?

2) What are some pieces that you would have liked more people to see? If you can include links, I'd love to go check them out!

3) What were your top three favorite pieces (art, comics, fics, etc) that someone else has made this past year?

(As always, no pressure to respond! Feel free to just ignore, or let me know if you'd rather I not send you these kinds of asks in the future.)

My favorite piece from this year was definitely this one!

Not only because it took 20 hours (sobbing) but because I was trying something new with the motorcycle and the "rendering". I'm just really proud of it.

2. Something I wish got more attention (from myself included, I really need to start writing for it more) was my fic, Adopted!

3. Oh boy, this is a hard one. There's so many options. I think most of them will be from @tapakah0 or @somerandomdudelmao and even @pinetreevillain! I love Tap's animations/animatics, Cass' most recent installments of C.A.S (specifically the episodes where Mikey and Donnie were being awesome and kicking kraang ass, god that was so fucking cool). And I really like Pinetree's art, rottmnt related or not! (And also I may or may not be a sucker for their Timothy x Donnie ship).

TLDR: I liked drawing Punk April because I'm gay, I wish more people read the fic I need to keep writing and Tap, Cass, and Pinetree have so much cool shit that I just can't choose what my favorite is <3

#thanks for asking! <3 #I love getting your asks #they're so much fun to answer

[brigittttoo]

For the WIP guessing game: new?

ohoo, success! I've got a good one for ya:

Obi-Wan can tell this is the silence of Cody thinking about something, stirring into it over and over from new angles in his mind, running down channels.

#the other grows rampant #thanks for asking! <3 #ask games

[littlemissheavenonearth]

How were you introduced to your favourite band? 💖💖

My favorite band is Guns N' Roses. Nobody introduced me to them, I guess I sort of started getting into them after Metallica.

I realized that I really, really liked GNR's music and I realized how I sort of connected to their music in a way and it felt sort of special.

#Thanks for asking! <3

[blutopaz15]

👀 and ❌ for writer emoji ask please

👀 Tell me about an up and coming wip please!

Trying to think what I have that I may haven't rambled about too much on here yet...😅

Ohhh, I know! I have a snake boi Callum WIP that I started but didn't finish for the last event involving Callum doing some v sketchy magic with Rayla worried af about her mage.......hopefully will finish for snake boi callum week 2.0?

❌ What's a trope you will never write?

To be honest, there's REALLY not much that squicks me...so I don't know that I have a good answer. There's plenty that I'm not currently interested reading/writing...but who's to say what hyperfixations might come down the road eventually, you know?

I will say that I think I would really struggle to write fic that ends poorly for rayllum. An angsty ficlet or oneshot here and there is about all I can take on that front as far as writing goes (though I'm def not opposed to reading sad-ending rayllum if I'm otherwise interested in the premise.)

fanfic asks!

#rayllum #ask games #thanks for asking! <3

[tarydarrington]

Ehehehehe what abt caleb starts counting? owo

c: this one is short enough and close enough to being finished that I’m not going to give too much context/summary, but here’s the beginning:

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The last of the Nein shuts their door for the night, and Caleb starts counting.

At minute one, Essek steals a glance at him over the top of his book. Caleb meets it with a raised eyebrow, and he retreats with a pleased smirk buried between the pages.

At five minutes, Caleb sets his own book down on the table with a stretch and a contented hum. "How is your reading?"

Essek turns the page. There is something deliberate in the way he moves his fingers that suggests he knows the way Caleb is watching. "Dull," he says mildly. "Have you made any progress on the amplification we spoke of?"

They discuss their research until the fifteen minute mark, at which point Caleb's hand finds its way atop Essek's knee. Twenty minutes, and it's traveled to his thigh. Twenty-five, and Essek begins to thread his fingers through the ends of Caleb's hair, twice as scandalous.

Twenty-nine minutes and fifty-seven seconds. Fifty-eight. Fifty-nine.

"I think it is likely our friends have settled--"

"Good."

Then Caleb climbs halfway into Essek's lap and is dragged the rest of the way, and this is what he’s been itching for all day.

#''it's almost finished'' she said. ''last edited june 13 2022'' said google docs #shadowgast #wip title ask game #sailorspencer #thanks for asking! <3 #wip tag

[crimsonrainseekingflower]

6 and 10 for the ao3 writer wrapped!

6. Favorite title you used

i think i'm legally obligated to say AITA for contemplating deicide in the wake of my husband's sudden age regression? bc it's long and silly and there's nothing i love more than funky clickbait titles for svsss fics 😆

10. What work was the quickest to write?

i wrote Cursed in an afternoon! i was in the middle of a bunch of other projects but i really wanted to write something for the first day of junmei week. so i did!!

[ao3 wrapped - writers edition]

#thanks for asking! <3 #ask #livingmeatloaf #ask game #ask meme

[deathnot-e]

hello hi howdy, i am here for pokemon ask game,, :>

holding out my scientist husband, maybe one for him? :>>

[ @/juugahusband ]

heyoooo! :3 for some reason, I can see him having a shiny dragapult friend! one of its attack has it launching the two lil dreepys at its foe. c': catapult ghost dragon, woo!

doubled for size. 🐉✨

#kuroh's mailbox. #twokairevolution #juugahusband #shiny pokémon ask game. #thanks for asking! <3

[katebeckets]

Strawberry & grape!

strawberry: favorite desserts?

I loooove dessert hehe the ones I suggest most often are boba, ice cream, or crepes (I get strawberry nutella). But I also love cheesecake (especially Cheesecake Factory cheesecake), sata andagi (my grandmother's especially), shave ice, frozen yogurt, churros, some types of cookies, egg tarts, mochi... I'm very much a sweets person hehe

grape: if you could take a vacation anywhere in the world, where would you go?

To me, a vacation is relaxing, so probably somewhere along the California coast because it's beautiful and familiar 😌

send me a fruit!

#versus a trip you know? #but also just a hard question for me since i don't spend much time thinking about traveling #thanks for asking! <3 #strideofpride #answered

[camgoloud]

please please please tell me more about "rotted leaves and lemon rinds" and "and you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile" 👀

my pleasure!

'rotted leaves and lemon rind' is a tlt fic about two characters named augustine and mercymorn (the saint of joy) who have hated each other for several very sexually charged millenia. she spends the fic trying to get him to get off his ass and help her kill their mutual friend god (john). he spends the fic being very reluctant to get off his ass. here's an excerpt:

“As dead as I can make her,” he’d said, and Augustine had never pressed him, because he couldn’t—he could never bring himself to speak too harshly to John, especially not on this subject, not when it was evident already from the set of his shoulders and the emptiness in his deep-space eyes that he was staggering under the profound weight of a grief that even Augustine, who’d been mourning half his own soul for dozens of lifetimes, didn’t believe he truly understood—but the Saint of Joy had done so, fervently and at length: “What does that mean?” she asked him, her voice ascending in pitch across the length of the sentence until it hit properly stratospheric, and Augustine resisted the urge to throw things at her until she stopped only because John was still standing right there, having just delivered them the news that he’d finally given into the only request the two of them had ever made of him in conjunction with one another, and Augustine understood that to thank him for yielding to their joint betrayal by immediately attacking his co-conspirator in his presence would have been simply unthinkable. Joy never did think about things very much before she said or did them. “As dead as you can—what is that supposed to mean?” she said again, hands waving in the air, face bright with unbridled passion, eyes shining. “It means you’ll never have to worry about her again,” said John. Then: “Excuse me.” And he’d wandered quietly away, down the hallway of the Mithraeum towards his private rooms in the center, and that had been the last they’d seen of him for weeks.

on an entirely different tonal note: 'and you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile' is, of course, a fun little romp in which our friend colin hughes has a very bad time:

By the end of it with Cartrick it’s not just Colin: the whole team’s had about enough. Isaac’s no exception. As they towel off and start tugging on clothes, he turns to Colin and asks him whether he should call the Uber to their usual post-loss spot, the one where they make all the drinks stronger than God, or whether Colin’s already on it, and normally Colin would already be on it, except that Isaac uses that one specific voice he’s got when he says he wants to get our minds off this shit tonight which means he’s definitely going to be trying to pull, which means there’s going to be a lot of girls around all night, and Colin kind of wants at least one part of his day to not be hard. Just this once, he tells himself.  So he pulls a Roy Kent: makes his incomplete-but-technically-true excuses about being too tired to deal with that kind of night out, points Isaac in Montlaur’s direction, and hurries to slip off into the car park ahead of the rest of the team, with plans to go straight home alone and sulk the loss off in private this time.  Except as it turns out Colin isn’t any better at Roy Kent-ing off the pitch than on it after all, because by half an hour into his quiet evening, alone, staring at reflections of himself in the walls and replaying that seventy-third minute gone wrong in his head, he feels like he might be about to go insane or possibly explode. Is this really how Roy feels all the time, storming back and forth in his bubble of angry silence with only his own thoughts for company? No wonder he tosses around and breaks so much shit. Colin eyes the floor-to-ceiling glass surrounding his living room on all sides: best not to start throwing stones, he decides. The house being a rental and all. 

#thanks for asking! <3 #my writing