#also i think i made this meme before like 4 years ago

[creaturadarling]

uh yeah... so

#also i think i made this meme before like 4 years ago #but it was ghostface instead of the knight #glad to say i've graduated to tall and silent assholes as my type #the oni dbd #the knight dbd #kazan yamaoka #tarhos kovács #dbd meme

[sbeep]

[Artworks above drawn 2 years apart]

It really buoys me that people enjoy Julia, thanks for the message! I made her in World of Warcraft at a very difficult point in my life as some distraction and escape, she’s very close to my heart, and her story coalesced as I went along playing the game. I’ll cobble together some snippets from previous posts that can be found in her tag on my blog.

Julia is a most knightly knight, chilvalric and noble by birth and to her core. She leads with action, example, and proves herself with deeds. She’s not a great orator, she was never destined to be a Queen, but it’s hard to find a soldier who can inspire more loyalty and valour than the Lady Blackbrooke, Knight of Brightwater.

She’s honest, forthright, skeptical and kind.

(Re no. 4: Meme made a few years ago before new and superior adaptation of IWTV but the tropes still stand lol)

Julia spent her living years as a Paladin of Lordaeron and lady of a vassal house that served the Menethil family faithfully.

She bore one child out of wedlock, a son, at a young age and had to send him away to live with a family friend.

Later she had a daughter.

She died when the undead Scourge sacked Lordaeron and was raised on the battlefield as a Death Knight.

She served in the Lich King’s army for years as a commander, able to raise new dead and knights, until the knights of the Ebon Blade were freed.

Through the story since Wrath she has served in the Alliance army, leading both living troops and a cohort of Alliance-loyal Ebon Blade knights.

She is a Deathlord, highest rank of the Ebon Blade undead knights and frequent critic of/counterbalance to Bolvar.

I like to connect my OCs together and imagine their stories like the cast of a novel or show, and her family- House Blackbrooke- is ancient and honourable. It has ties to elves, other human kingdoms, and was deeply mourned when it was seemingly wiped out during the Scourge of Lordaeron.

Her firstbirn son, Ballard, was raised by the Summerkeep family. He is a scholar and explorer and lives quietly in Dalaran with his partner Reko (my friend heychief’s character).

Julia’s daughter Geneveive is newly returned to the life by the grace of a red dragon, and has stayed with the Horde that sheltered her when she was one of the Forsaken.

Julia herself has found some happiness with a large brash man named Rorred (also heychief’s OC), whose village she destroyed when she was under the Lich King’s control, and his companionship has helped her reconnect with the world again. 

I think the next part of her story will involve reconnecting with her children, but I’m not sure how it’ll go! I just like thinking about them all a lot :)

#*Blackbrooke

[animation-meme-nostalgia]

HELLO GAMERS AND WELCOME TO THE ANIMATION MEME NOSTALGIA BRACKET!!!!!

You been in the animation meme community for longer than 4 years? SAME!! And I'm making a bracket about it! Without further ado lets get into the rules and get your 'Opinions' (hehehe) on the bracket!

-> SUBMISSION FORM [CLOSED!] <-

-> RULES!!! <-

-> Must be from the timeframe of 2006-2019! Any ones after that I would consider to be too new

-> This is not a battle between the artists who made the original memes, it is a battle between the meme song clip itself! TLDR how nostalgic and how much head bopping would you start doing if this song played in your general vicinity

-> When submitting, please submit the original meme! If it was taken down/ privated, just find another one and make sure to list the original makers name

-> As well as if the original meme is labeled 16+ or NSFW/suggestive try to find one that's not. Staring at UnknownSpy intently

-> You can submit multiple animation memes! Don't submit the same one twice though please pretty please. And don't put multiple in the same submission or I will cry and sob intensely

-> BRACKET INFO!!! <-

-> Brackets will be updated (hopefully) every week or so!

-> There'll be (hopefully) a total of 32 or so contestants, depending on how many submissions I get. Could be more could be less I dunno

-> TAG LIST BELOW <-

#on a completely unrelated note < not a poll nor relevant to the bracket

#AM nostalgia attack < poll post

#AM nostalgia calm < not a poll post but relevant to the bracket

-> ABOUT THE MOD <-

Oh is it me time I suppose it's me time. Anyways hi I'm Vector/Jamie at @v3ct0rgraph1cs, I use he/it/wire/beep pronouns, I'm a real life computer robot guy and also the poll mod!!! I've never done a poll bracket before but I've been in the animation meme community for like. 7 years now so I think I'm qualified to do this maybe

I still make animation memes too I only started posting them like 2 years ago when I got toon boom and also a graphics tablet and've been doing it ever since, started from my roots in flipaclip though ✌ my channel is V3CT0RGRAPH1CS if you wanna check it out maybe :]!

Speaking of checking stuff out go check out my partner! They run the @tf2shipswag account and they inspired me to make this one because sillyyyyy, go check it out at @fr0ggs they're very nice and cool and also they take commissions so Get One<3 I'm assaulting you to buy art from my partner /nf

The guy in my pfp his name is Vector he's not me but he might as well be

inspired by @tf2shipswag, @ultimate-objecthead-hoedown, and others :]

#poll tournament #tournament poll #poll bracket #animation meme #pinned post #AM nostalgia calm #AM nostalgia attack #on a completely unrelated note #< bracket tags

[alackofghosts]

got two lil bits of memery for you today ehehe. i'm tagging @callsignnightshrike, @azemessence, @jul-likes-magpies, @fourteenthz, @all-of-humankind - no pressure of course, and feel free to snag one or both memes!

first off tagged by @oneiroy, thank you <3 :3

Last Song Listened To: doctor blind by emily haines & the soft skeleton. recently remembered this song from My Youth and now youtube likes to sprinkle it in sometimes on autoplay lol

Currently Watching: recently graduated from obsessively watching sunrise/sunset times, currently obsessively watching the local weather site for spring weather updates. tv shows, never heard of 'em

Sweet/Savory/Spicy?: i tend to actively crave savoury things more often, but i'm waaaay less picky about sweets (if it's sweet i'll probably eat it, it is as shrimple as that)

Relationship Status: 2 aromantic 4 this

Current Obsession: like two weeks ago it would still have been fallout 4, but i have returned to being able to do and think about other things since then. i don't have anything that's of the making me chew on the bars of the cage right now levels of obsession, but you know, having fun noodling about in ffxiv now that i have escaped todd howard, making little plans for what to get done before dawntrail and drawing my lil pictures

and also the 5 songs i'm into meme, tagged by @crackinthecup <3 sticking it under the cut for length!

...narrowing down the criteria for this was a challenge and a half, but i'm playing this on hardcore mode and leaving out 1) oc/character/ship songs 2) all time faves that i love but i'm not super actively listening to right now, i've only got 5 songs after all, gotta make 'em count!!

1) stoppa mig juni (lilla ego) by kent - tbh still kinda reeling from the revelation that kent... good??!! when ingenting made me want to set the radio on fire as a 12 year old. anyway, this whole meme could be populated by kent alone, i've been listening to them so much

2) it will all make sense in the morning by halou - i adore the atmosphere in this song so much, one of those 'i wanna apply this to something but i don't know what' tunes

3) a masters in reverse psychology by murder by death - ...if i pulled up a random song from this album to put on this list. well. i'm SO obsessed with the whole album, not a single bad song on it and i love listening to it from start to finish all the time

4) children of the sun by poets of the fall - the absolute fight for my life against rule nr 1 when it comes to potf... and even so, the line is very blurry with this one BUT i just love this song, it's so gentle

5) isa tuli koju by metro luminal - the obligatory estonian entry and i'm trying to be slightly less predictable by not listing terminaator for a change. it's a bit of a meme with my family, but i can't deny that this song nevertheless fucks, i love the dark lyrics

#meme tag

[ralphlanyon]

TC tag game

Tagged by @spudodell!

Rules: Answer the questions and tag other TC fans!

1. "He would not fucking say that" only they did and it's canon. When/who?

Not that they're necessarily out of character, but whenever Renault is clearly projecting her own internalized misogyny onto the characters (e.g. Laurie calling Nurse Adrian a "silly little dumbbell" at one point or the narrative voice commenting on Aunt Olive's lack of makeup), I am like

(Granted, her other contemporary novels that actually feature female protagonists are even worse about this… 🫠)

2. Did they kiss in the study? Yes/no + why you are 100% correct about this.

Yes, absolutely! I previously wrote this meta about why I think so here. But here are a few more reasons:

"Over and over, during those first months, Laurie had relived the scene in the study, guarding it with fierce secrecy as a savage guards a magic word." It would be quite odd for Laurie to constantly relive that last meeting with Ralph and guard it with "fierce secrecy," if Ralph had done nothing more than chastise him, give him an old book, and turn him out of his study. So something intimate must have happened there that Laurie still obsessively thinks about.

The infamous ellipsis after "Come here a moment" was deliberately added to the 1959 edition (one of the only additions Renault makes, rather than subtractions), which I think is probably to help clarify the significance of that pause.

Laurie's proprietary behavior towards Ralph at the party, especially him staking claim of Ralph in front of Bim (and frankly a lot of about Laurie's behavior towards Ralph in general), makes a lot more sense if they had a "moment" together in the past and both of them never got over it or each other. It would help explain why Laurie instinctively feels he does have a claim over Ralph (as the Odysseus to Ralph's Penelope, to use Bim's analogy), as well as why Ralph continues to carry a torch for him after seven years and countless other relationships.

3. Mandatory question about Ralph's alleged tattoos.

To be honest I don't think he has any tattoos yet (or at least any in areas that would be normally exposed to the public), or else Laurie would have commented on them like he comments on just about everything else about Ralph's appearance. I could see him getting some in the future though, maybe some nautical-themed ones and probably at least one related to Laurie because he's sentimental like that.

4. 53 vs 59 edition: quote a line or paragraph that is better in the edition you like the least.

I generally prefer reading the '53 edition mainly for the extra bits, but there are several stylistic writing choices I do prefer in the '59 edition. One of them is Ralph telling Laurie, "I didn't think you had that much bitchery in you." He says "cattiness" in the '53 edition, but Laurie is very bitchy (and Ralph likes that about him!).

5. Which TC character would feel right at home here on tumblr dot com?

Bim or Sandy! They would be bringing the tea. ☕️

6. Tag yourself at Alec's birthday party.

Probably part of the couple holding hands in dead silence, lol.

7. Post a TC meme.

I have a lot of memes in my TC tag, but here's one I made a while ago:

8. Easy to talk about who deserved better. Who deserved worse?

Dave because he bores me (the worst thing a literary character can do). Also Ralph's parents and Jeepers.

9. You can break the fourth wall (at any point in the novel) and say a single sentence to our protagonist, Laurie Odell. What do you say?

"You are intensely afraid of abandonment which is why you keep trying to leave people before they can leave you. (Please go to therapy.)"

10. What's a question you have about TC? One you haven't found an answer for yet.

What do Laurie and Ralph do for their post-war careers? There have been several excellent ideas in post-canon fics, but I haven’t quite settled on my own headcanon for them.

Tagging: not sure who hasn’t been tagged yet, but feel free to nab if you see this!

#the charioteer

[phoenixyfriend]

ღ For rexsoka, if you don't mind

Send me a ღ and I’ll fill this out about a ship

This ask meme is from a year ago. I'm not taking new prompts.

I'm going to use a "war ended, no-66" setting. Ahsoka's 19/20, and the clone aging was brought down to 'standard' so Rex is mid/late-twenties and progressing at a normal rate. Ahsoka's relationship with the Jedi is... let's go with 'neutral but also irrelevant.'

Who’s the first to wake up in the morning: I want to say it's usually Rex? Ahsoka's better at sleeping in, but they both tend to wake up pretty early. It all depends on if Ahsoka's got an early obligation. Rex will wake up at 6-ish naturally, while Ahsoka can wake up anywhere between 4 and 11 if she's feeling like it.

Who’s the one to make breakfast: Rex likes to cook, imo. However, he's also more in need of a 'made' breakfast. He cannot eat the bacon raw, Ahsoka. That's a food poisoning risk.

Who’s the one to serve the other breakfast in bed: Ahsoka! She's very keen on pampering Rex when she can.

Who would suggest a quickie in the morning before work: I think this one is also Ahsoka. She tugs her blankets down, pulls her sleep shorts up just enough to show a bit of cheek, and arches her back to show off Booty just as Rex exits the shower. Cue a little wiggle for sexy attention.

Who suggests they both ditch work to lay around all day: Either of them, but I think Ahsoka does so slightly more often. Less of an ingrained worry of Significant Consequences.

Who chooses the movies: Usually Rex, I'd say.

Who initiates kissing during the moving, thus distracting the other from the movie all together: I genuinely believe Ahsoka's the horny one in this relationship, and also the one who's willing to initiate things at Inconvenient Times.

Who orders lunch: Rex.

Who steals food from the other’s plate without asking: Ahsoka, she's more playful in general.

Who curls up next to the other and falls asleep due to a full tummy: that one's Ahsoka. She is Curl Up Cuddle prone.

Who distracts the other from trying to work at home: I think they both do it. Ahsoka more at first, but Rex gets into it after he's had a few years to relax.

Who asks to go get ice cream like a five year old: Ahsoka. I think she likes to play up her relative youth to make Rex laugh. She's an adult, but sometimes it makes him gigglesnort if she does something Silly in this vein.

Who takes pictures of their partner eating ice cream: Ahsoka wants to post cute pics of her boyfriend on Spacetagram.

Who makes a sexual joke about the dripping ice cream on their partner’s face: Rex. Ahsoka may be the horny one, but Rex makes the sex jokes, at least a little bit because her being the Horny One means she's easier to fluster with sex references and innuendo.

Who cooks dinner: Again Rex. If he wants to tease Ahsoka, he decides to do it in the traditional uniform that is 'boxers and an apron, boxers optional.'

Who cleans up the kitchen afterwards: Ahsoka. She's faster, somehow, and also Rex usually does the food prep work, unless Ahsoka's bringing back takeout.

Who stays up until 2 reading: Rex. I want him to wear reading glasses in bed while Ahsoka's conked out and snoring.

Who stares at their partner while they're sleeping: Ahsoka. (Sometimes it's. a bit creepy. she's got tapetum lucidem and sometimes the vibe is kind of like a predator instead of like a lover) (Rex is used to it) (that's just How It Is when you date a tog)

Who kisses their partner while they sleep: Oh, this one's Rex. He thinks it's cute and sweet and Ahsoka agrees when he does it while she's secretly already awake

#star wars #the clone wars #rexsoka #captain rex #ahsoka tano #phoenix answers memes

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 06/01/2024

Wario's Hampster Mine

Season 6 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume DQ

Credited to Wario

Requested by MtH! (@mth-emma)

It really has been fascinating to follow SiIva's timeline of events, and in the process also follow the timeline of what comes in and out of fashion with that certain demographic of internet users. During Season 3, with the original King for a Day Tournament, the clear breakout star was Unregistered Hypercam 2, and his setlist of immensely charming sources all meant to evoke the earliest of times on YouTube. I've covered my affection for plenty of these on the blog already - YACKER TOILET, Never Gonna Give Up Mahjong, Unregistered CyberSpace 4-5: Arrow of 2009 and THIS. IS. SOLEANNA. have together pretty much covered most bases of Hypercam's particular brand of rips.

Yet...there was one song that was suspiciously missing - one that, even in my time exploring this old age of the internet that I was just shy of participating in, I hadn't really heard before. This is the Hampster Dance, and Wario's Hampster Mine.

It's kind of nuts to think that The Hampster Dance's origins as a meme precede the shift of the millennium - its often cited as one of the earliest memes ever made, and was originally just a joke website playing a sped-up Disney song with a bunch of Hamsters. But, that was enough to grab people's attention, the sheer force of "SO RANDOM!!" humor turned the site into an internet-wide in-joke, and in the year 2000 we'd get an official Hampsterdance theme, based on the site's original 7-second looping music. A meme had officially been born, and exploded in popularity.

The King for a Day Tournament was over five years ago at this point, yet it to me was the first sign that nostalgia for the old internet was going to become a very real thing - the novelty that Hypercam introduced has now become an immensely popular aesthetic, and its one that I'm very much a fan of. Hell, it was thanks to this new uptick in popularity - thanks to rips like Wario's Hampster Mine - that I even learned what the Hampster Dance meme was. Despite being such a crucial piece of early internet history, it had completely slipped me by until Season 6, and the 22nd anniversary of the official theme's creation. SiIva celebrated the occasion with an event filled with rips like this one, and it was an immensely fun time.

Of course, I mainly covered this one for being a request, but I'd probably have picked this rip from the event as well due purely to my Mario Kart Wii bias. Wario's Gold Mine is an absolute banger of a track in every sense of the word and already has such an inherently silly energy to it, that it only made sense to be arranged in this fashion. And, yeah - though I don't know who exactly to thank to it, the arrangement is very well done, in line with the spirit of the original meme whilst still following every part of Wario's Gold Mine seamlessly. Its a truly excellent tribute to perhaps the oldest of internet shitposting culture, the seed that would eventually bloom into the random, zany, silly internet culture of the early 2000s. The one that helped start it all.

#todays siivagunner #season 6 #siivagunner #siiva #ripper unknown #wario #wario's gold mine #mario kart wii #mario #mario kart #mario music #mkwii #hampster #hampsterdance #hampster dance #hamster dance #hamster #old internet #2000s internet #cringecore #cringe culture is dead #Youtube #Bandcamp

[vinceaddams]

top five clothing items you wish you'd wear more often, please! and the five you do wear the most, please!

Oh heck! I still have asks from that ask meme thingy I reblogged 2 weeks ago, sorry for taking so long!

Hmm, tough to choose specific things I wish I wore more often. I do have a bunch of fancy 18th century things that sit in my closet most of the time, but usually when I leave the house I'm either going to work or to the grocery store, and I don't feel like being super fancy for that. Cuff ruffles would get in the way of all the hand washing and such, and breeches would be annoying at work because I use machines with knee levers.

I guess I wish I wore my nice shoes a bit more often than just for photos, but they were expensive and I don't want to wear out the leather soles. Maybe I ought to get little rubber soles added.

Oh, and my embroidered monster waistcoat! I wish I wore that more, but it's from an older pattern that doesn't fit me very well. The embroidery is also a bit worn out in places, alas.

It's a bit difficult to know which things I wear most frequently, but here are my best guesses for right now. (My summer answers would of course be different.)

1. This brown wool waistcoat from early 2019. I wear it all the time in the cold half of the year.

Just like the monster waistcoat, it's made from a pattern I drafted before top surgery, so it really doesn't fit me anymore. It's also getting pretty shabby. I've been meaning to make some new everyday plain wool waistcoats for a while now.

(I wear that green shirt pretty often too.)

2. This cap. It's just two pieces of linen, and I made it in 2018. I like wearing caps indoors when it's cold, and also under my wool hat outdoors. It adds an extra layer of warmth, is softer than the wool hat, and protects it from my very oily scalp.

I have 3 of these caps, but this one is my favourite. It's also something I ought to make more of.

3. These pants. They're just plain black cotton fall front pants.

I could pretend I'm wearing them the most because they're fully lined and therefore warmer than my other pairs, but the fact is I've got 3 other pairs of pants with holes worn in them that I need to patch and have been avoiding for a shamefully long time. It's a pretty easy thing to fix, and I will likely put it off for several more weeks, if not more.

I feel the need to point out that not all of my wardrobe is in such a miserable state, I at least have a good amount of shirts!

4. I don't think I have any pictures of it, but my winter coat is just a plain medium grey modern (by which I mean at least a couple decades old) wool one. Here's an image I found on google of approximately the same coat.

It was my grandfather's, and is a bit too big for me, and the lining is getting pretty worn out. Someday I want to completely pick it apart, recut it, and re-sew it with a new lining, but I can't do that until I have a backup winter coat.

5. This poor flannel nightgown which has finally worn out! Just a few days ago it developed a huge hole in the back panel, and a small one by the button placket, so it's destined to be cleaning rags and/or firestarters.

The buttons might end up on another nightgown though. So I guess this is no longer a thing I can wear frequently :( In the linked post I actually made 3 nightgowns from the same pattern, and that was the medium weight one, so now I'm down to the very heavy fish print flannel one and the light rayon one, and need to make more. (A very common theme with my wardrobe things, alas. I am slow.)

But I did just finish a new nightgown this week, made from a completely different pattern that I'm quite excited about! I'll get some pictures soon!

#ask #ask meme #me #clothing

[not-poignant]

4 & 10, Underline The Black :3

More Underline the Black! Hell yeah:

4: What’s your favorite line of dialogue?

I don't have a favourite, but I do like Gary's dirty talk because it's so... formal and filthy at the same time, and I love with someone is really vulgar using formal language (I write a lot of doms and tops like this tbh and really enjoy it).

And I also really enjoy some of Efnisien's insults. The biggest standout there is 'I bet you fuck like mashed potato. Bland and soft.' That one even made Gary laugh.

10: Why did you choose this pairing for this particular story?

My beta and I started shipping Gary and Efnisien in the first 3 chapters of Falling Falling Stars and then were like 'shit we can't we can't we can't' and focused, but it was always in the back of my mind.

We weren't the only ones either. A few commenters picked up on that early chemistry and also shipped them, like, the spark was there for a few of us years ago.

But I had put them out of my mind so I could focus on FFS and Arden/Efnisien and keep the relationship with Dr Gary professional, and deflected anyone kind of asking about Efnisien/Gary because I knew if I gave them too much mental time, I'd feel very... /thinks/ obsessed enough I might get too distracted from FFS.

Within a short time of finishing FFS though, I realised that like...nothing was stopping me from writing an Efnisien/Gary, and also because FFS was so popular, I realised maybe - maybe - the story could also potentially do well? I loved the idea of an omegaverse scenario, simply because I think Gary and Efnisien slot into the role of alpha and alpha (but biological omega) very nicely. It also enabled me to explore a new relationship with Crielle and Efnisien that hasn't existed before, yet is incredibly plausible for Crielle (she already is a mad scientist, so why not on Efnisien? Lol).

But yeah, Gary and Efnisien was a pairing I saw potential in, within the first 3 chapters of FFS. Silvia and I literally had to be like 'okay no focus we can't keep talking about this, this is not the story' - but we did like... years ago! I actually shipped Efnisien with Gary before I even shipped him with Arden.

But as soon as Arden stepped on the page, I knew Efnisien was destined to be with him in FFS, so Gary waited his turn :D

--

From the fanfiction (and AO3 original fiction) meme!

#asks and answers #memey goodness #underline the black #efnisien ap wledig #dr gary konowalous #falling falling stars #efnisien's had a lot of emotional lines that i actually really love #but that insult stands out because i haven't heard it anywhere #and it was invented #and when i read it to glen he was like 'where did you get that from' #and it was kind of nice to be like oh i made that one up dslfkjdas #because i actually think it's pretty savage lmao

[onlymorelove]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💖

Thank you so much for sending me this ask, Stella! <3<3<3 Did you do a self-rec thing of your own? Pls link me if you did; I'd love to read it. I can't pick favorites of anything, so I'll just mention five fics I wrote that I like.

Unwell (Fandom: Bones (tv show))

Yup, the mighty Temperance Brennan was sick. Takes place after Season 3, Episode 4.

I love banter-y ships. I wrote this fic 15 (!!!) years ago, but I remember getting a kick out of mixing banter and silliness with deeper conversations. Booth even reads Brennan a short section from a romance novel. :D It's been a while since I wrote Unwell, but I think I wanted to follow some loose threads in Bones and explore the emotional ramifications; fic is such a great place to do that. He's a candle (burning in my room) (Fandom: MCU)

It's just sex, isn't it? (Some talking + a lot of feelings + a smidgen of smut = this fic.)

This is a Steve/Tony fic, and it means a lot to me; I think it always will. There's a splash of body image issues, a dash of pining while fucking, and a ton of emotional vulnerability that's tied up in the sex, the build-up, and the afterglow.

My only sibling killed himself in February 2018; my dad died less than five months later; I started writing this story around three months after my dad's death. Life was a huge struggle, and so was writing, but I tried really hard to get down words, and I pushed myself with the imagery and the feelings. some words build houses in your throat (Fandom: MCU)

The night before they travel back in time, Tony says what he needs to say.

Someone anonymously sent me a "stevetony + confession" prompt in response to a three-sentence fic meme here on tumblr. This fic was my attempt to fill their prompt. It's a sort of missing scenes fic for Endgame. I was hungry for a little bit of team feels. I wanted Steve and Tony to both use their words AND try to behave like adults. Adulthood is complicated. We don't always get everything we want. Not all of our dreams and wishes come true. I wanted to play with honesty/revelation but also with restraint. And I really, really wanted Steve and Tony to quote parts of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass to each other. So I wrote it. ;) I Barely Knew I Had Skin Before I Met You (Fandom: Timeless (tv show)

Sometimes love is found in unexpected combinations. Lucy wakes in the middle of the night to find one less man than there should be in her bed. [Set sometime in the future. Lucy, Garcia, and Wyatt are in a polyfidelitous relationship. Translation: the three of them are romantically involved and are faithful to each other. They also live together.]

As mentioned above, I have a weakness for banter. I wanted to write a story with a poly ship—Garcia Flynn/Lucy Preston/Wyatt Logan. I wanted banter, flirting, and domestic fluff, and I wanted discussions of grief and loss because I thought they made sense in the context of the show's canon. A few small scenes popped into my head, and I wrote toward and around them.

my life is for you (and no one other than you) (Fandom: Teen Wolf (tv show)

It’s a journey they began years before, but one they have to take again and again. Together. (Post-coital, slice-of-life fic. AKA sass and fluff.)

Courtesy of my Thiam phase in 2017, here we have Liam Dunbar and Theo Raeken as adults, being established-relationship ridiculous and sweet. Thanks again for the ask! *hugs*

#answered asks #ask games #crownofstardustandbones

[ladyfenring]

Thank you @lord-aldhelm for the tag! 💜

How many works do you have on AO3?

132!

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

Apparently it's 1,585,653.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Currently just TLK, but every now and then HotD or whatever period drama I'm currently watching will catch my fancy.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

gonna be honest, every time this question comes up on an ask meme it makes me cringe a bit, because 3 of them i don't feel are remotely worthy of the honor and I think I just posted at the right time. anyway they're all GoT/asoiaf fics.

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I always try to, unless the comment is like, idk, annoying or completely incomprehensible.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Oh man. I've written a lot of angsty endings...I think I'm just going to go with the most recent, which is The House That Godwin Built.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

also going with the most recent here since there are too many to choose from, too tempting not to touch

8. Do you get hate on fics?

yeah 🥲

9. Do you write smut? If so what kind?

All kinds babeyyyyyy

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I have written exactly one crossover as a dumb joke and it was where Steve Harrington was Jean-Ralphio and Mona-Lisa Saperstein's biological father

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

It used to happen a lot but not so much anymore

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

A few times! It's a really nice feeling :)

13. Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

@itslaurenmae and I co-wrote Stolen Sweets together!

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

eadith x eardwulf aka flowers in mercia i am so deeply unwell about this ship i made up in my head but also it's real I'm so Pepe Silvia about it

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

I started this Barkskins fic literal years ago that went into the loup-garou thing that is CONSTANTLY coming up in the narrative but tbh i had no idea where to take it after "yeah they're werewolves" so I feel like. I shall never finish it.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue, I say, perhaps overconfidently. I attribute it to my theatre background but I'm always reading and, for that matter, writing dialogue with a voice in mind. I also speak a lot of the dialogue out loud to myself to make sure it sounds right, which is why I now live alone. I also know my basic editing (spelling, grammar, punctuation, tenses, etc) is almost always in good shape.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I am SO BAD at writing descriptions, it's something I'm actively working on. Action scenes are also something I struggle with, my eyes glaze over those scenes in books and television, and if you've ever read my fics, you'll notice I like to pull a GRRM and knock out my characters whenever possible.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

If it's not necessary to the plot, why confuse the reader when you can just as easily say, "He said to the woman in sunglasses, this time in Russian..." or, "He didn't understand the two men, who sounded as though they were speaking in French..." Unless that dialogue is relevant to the plot, I guess I just don't see the need.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

I'm pretty sure it was Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

The House That Godwin Built will always have a special place in my heart 💜

tagging @ivarthebadbitch, @stannisfactions, @wildwren, @wexpyke, @abnerkrill, @skatingthinandice, and anyone else who wants to play!

#i'm sorry i've literally blanked on all my beautiful moots who write fanfiction i do this every time and yet i learn nothing #cue me scrolling frantically through my activity feed

[astorytotellyourfriends]

annual writing self-evaluation

All answers should be about works published in 2023.

i. Optional if applicable: link to last year’s self-evaluation

1. List of works published this year (in the order that they were posted):

as per usual that list is too long for this post so here's my 2023 fic roundup

2. Work you are most proud of (and why):

far and away it has to be before i bury you purely because it was 1. SUCH an endeavor to begin with, and 2. so unbelievably different from anything i've written before. like, the criminal minds au was me dipping my toe into the pool of horror/suspense, and this fic was diving in headfirst. and i know it's not everyone's cup of tea (or most people's, tbh) but i've been so pleased with the reactions of those who have read it and i'm so, so thankful for it 💛 (honorable mentions to always have & i always will and a tender age, tho)

3. Work you are least proud of (and why):

it's not that i'm not proud of it but a fic that's been hanging over my head all year is if the fates allow because god i hate that it's almost been a year since i updated it and I'VE BEEN TRYING to work on it but my brain just refuses to focus on it! i'm really hoping to finish it soon, though (and the gd pirate au too UGH).

4. A favorite excerpt of your writing:

man am i glad i did an ask meme like a week ago that asked this question so i can snag an answer from that rather than spending 3 hours combing through my fics lol

5. Share or describe a favorite comment you received:

lmfao @cyraclove left this one on a snippet of the onlyfans au i sent her and it's my favorite thing ever

6. A time when writing was really, really hard:

there's been a few instances of that over the last year but no specific events immediately come to mind. it seems to come and go in waves for me and all i can do is just ride it out and hope my inspiration comes back.

7. A scene or character that you wrote that surprised you:

ok like i swear to god i never thought i would write omegaverse and yet a tender age happened and it basically came pouring out of me and onto the page so like?? what the hell was that??? (also no i have not forgotten i promised a sequel, it's percolating i promise)

8. How did you grow as a writer this year:

i tried new genres!! i really enjoyed the writing process!! (even if it made me absolutely insane at times)

9. How do you hope to grow next year:

i've said this a billion times before but i think next year i want to try writing original stuff alongside fic. idk if i'll finish a whole novel or what, but i'd at least like to start something.

10. Who was your greatest positive influence this year as a writer (could be another writer or beta or cheerleader or muse etc etc):

my friends 💛

11. Anything in your real life show up in your writing this year:

not that i can think of but i did actually let my sister read some of my stuff and she told me that i have a lot of ust in my writing and (yes this is weird but she's my sister and i know she means well) that she wished i had an outlet for it irl so like. i guess that's something?

12. Any new wisdom you can share with other writers:

i always say the same goddamn thing and today i saw a post that really encapsulated that so i'm just going to copy it here:

13. Any new projects you’re looking forward to starting (or finishing) in the new year:

as per usual, so many. i've got a bunch half-started already that i haven't shared yet and i'm really hoping to be able to get them Mostly Finished before i start posting them, so keep your fingers crossed and an eye out 👀

14. Tag three writers/artists whose answers you’d like to read:

@cyraclove, @medusasfinalgirl, @staceymcgillicuddy (and anybody else who would like to do this, i'm tagging u)

#annual self evaluation #about my fic

[cathalbravecog]

some drawings i never posted because they were unfinished / i didn't feel like it that may be interesting to some!! (GONNA BE LONG !!)

do know that some of these ARE old and like.. dont reflect my current art! ok? ok! i just wanna show off some stuff.

ms paint doodle interaction comic between archie and frostbite - this had a lot of dialogue so i lost motivation to write it. is also unmotivated to just draw a fic and wants to draw character expressions. sad.... this prolly will never be finished but i may make a shorter version.

unfinished drawing of belle holding a baby tony - if you dont know, tony is my oc. theyre belle's child. they're an adult now, but i wanted to see them interact with belle as a Bebé. i rage quit on this drawing bc it was meant to be a quick doodle but i am a perfectionist and i overdetail stuff... yeah.

unfinished hr from a meme i was gonna draw - he was gonna be holding several sets of pronouns and honorifics to reference their shuffling pronouns when checked on cogs ink. "why does hr get so many pronouns?" idk. ask her.

whatever angst/vent this was gonna be...? stuff i probably wouldnt post anyway but i think the concept of this is cool.

dr sherbert gadgetmaker! my second toon ive ever made after getting back into toontown this year. originally his last name was icepop in ttr, i think. then i went. no. you gotta be more inspired by GARY THE GADGET GUY!!!!!!!! :3 anyways i cant figure out his design at all im struggling very badly! like with all my other toon designs, i think the flesh mouth is gonna GO ! GOODBYE!

first ever attempt at drawing pace. clean but i hate it. no stylization yet. but hey, gotta try stuff out before you make it cool. but uh yeahi dont like this drawing its boring, but some may appreciate it!

collin my boy what are you reading

also collin concept art when i was getting closer to his current design. YOU DONT WANT TO SEE THE INITIAL CONCEPTS. bro was a FLIP PHONE. excuse me abt the empty space but other art was there that i already posted months ago

eren

Let him play games on your phone. he needs at least 4 hours of subway surfers gameplay a day. be nice to the boy

chair.

#old art #doodles #guz art #wip #long post #frostbite #archie archaeopteryx #dr. sherbert gadgetmaker #id put character tags here other than ocs but i dont want this in main tags

[lesbianjoannaharvelle]

gygsyugiau ive tried writing this asks a few times before and i always chicken out but i need to tell you how much i love your destiel his hands amv. i have no idea how i first saw it because i wasn't following anyone in spn circles when you first posted it and had no context as to what spn was outside of tumblr memes, but i still fell absolutely in love with it, and would rewatch it almost weekly (then i lost the link for a few years but thats not important-). about half a year ago i started watching spn, and am currently around the season ten mark. every few seasons ive revisited the video and just like??? the way you laid out the clips in accordance to the lyrics??? the lines you included???? the non-linear-ness????? ahsgaiuhsiugaiugskashdiuhadiuhdoiqhdoiqhwdoihq

i want it played at my funeral

oh my God, thank you so much, I feel so honored! ;_;

This really means so much to me since that amv is the one I put the most work into and it also was the first full song I edited (although I cut out one small part; but it's still the longest amv I ever made). It's so crazy to me that you didn't even know spn and it still moved you in a way! That really is the greatest compliment. <3

I remember listening to the song the first time but I wasn't really paying attention to the lyrics but when the "And you know you love him" part came I was immediately like "this would be so cool for a destiel amv". And then I actually listened to rest of the lyrics closely and I think especially the "prolonged eye contact in casual conversation" part was sooo destiel-coded that I decided I would do the whole song! And it was so much fun. I worked on it several months, I actually had a script for it and once I started working I very quickly knew which scenes I would use for which lyric. And the chorus was planned very early on as 1.) early Destiel 2.) Dean and Cas beating each other up 3.) them being happy and smiling at each other and 4.) Dean losing Cas over and over again.

Oh, and I didn't want to end the video with the confession/Cas gets taken to superhell scene because I found that depressing, so I took the scene with the happy reunion and I think it fits very well!

So, I hope these little background facts were a bit interesting jshdfjdshfjds

Again, thank you so much for sending this ask, it really made my day!!!

#ngl i teared up a bit reading this <3 #ask #fave

[sparkymalone]

Oh my it's yap o clock here's a little story on how hajime and fuyuhiko fell in love in my au

Also it's kinda a pjsk x Danganronpa au

Father-fuyuhiko

Dad/dad- hajime

"daddy! father!" My dad and Father looked at me they were tugging me into bed together my father put me in my large bed "what is it yume?" He said "I wanna ask how did you and father fell in love?" they looked at each other and laughed at each other,father's cheek turn red "well it's a pretty long story" daddy said I just laughed "it's okay it's like a fairytale then" they both smiled "well okay then get comfy it's a wild ride" my father said sitting down next to me

15 years ago hajime Hinata was a reserve course student who couldn't be around other talented students however one day a reserve course student named natsumi kuzuryuu invited him to her house to make a project alongside two others as they got there hajime met a cute looking boy who had a buzz cut hair Rosy cheeks dirty golden eyes he was fuyuhiko he talked to him a few times but not too long hot...he saw him with 4 kids 2 girls and 2 boys who were trying to write lyrics hajime couldn't stop staring at fuyuhiko for some reason "hey hajimemes why are you staring at my brother and his mentees?" Natsumi appeared out of nowhere hajime jumped "gah! Don't scare me like!" Haji also realized that fuyuhiko is a mentor Nat just crossed her arms "if you like those girls sorry bud they are like 16-17 years old" hajime felt weriden out they were too young for hajime anyways "no! I'm not Looking at them!" Hajime denied it "then who were you staring at?" The two heard the 4 kids and fuyuhiko laughing hajime eyes were glued onto fuyuhiko,natsumi eyes widen smirking "come on memes mike and Athena need our help" later on hajime finds out that the kids with fuyuhiko were street performers called "vivid bad squad" fuyuhiko babysat the group sub leader An and the orange and yellow haired boy this made haji a bit curious he just saw fuyuhiko as a Yakuza and didn't knew that he was also a street performers teacher as him and his group were making a science project he stood up to get water he went down seeing fuyuhiko who was wearing a suit and underneath the jacket was a pink vest he's eye lashes were super pretty he was with that blonde ponytail girl(hajime could of sworn he saw the same girl hiyoko talks to daily) named kohane "fuyu-sama who's this?" Kohane said gently "oh this? I think this is my sister's friend" fuyuhiko stared at him "if you're looking for water it's over there" he pointed at the water dispenser "yea I got kinda lost in this mansion" kohane said embarrassed a bit "same" as hajime got his water haji couldn't resist looking at the beautiful man where he literally spilled his water quickly running out of the room embarrassed

After that haji couldn't stop thinking about fuyuhiko even if he tried he was so dizzy in dreams of that beautiful man...one day when hajime was waiting for chiaki his friend to arrive he heard a little singing a nice melody came from somewhere "what's that noise? "hanpa nara K.O. fuwafuwa shitai nara douzokaien junbi shichaou ka naite mo waratte mo aishite ne" it was a guy singing ado by the kagamines hajime was to curious and investigate the singing as he went around trees he saw a guy sitting under a tree "nandaka na… tte tsumannai koto mo aru deshou ronrii ronri no nooto handii honki dassou" it can't be... fuyuhiko?! No way he's into vocaloid?! He stayed to listen to him singing "yan nacchatte doro ni Bad gohatto darou ga oborete ochite sorosoro ikka" he's voice is so attractive.... "motto ganbatte agaru made motto ganbatte" hajime snapped out realizing he needed to go before fuyuhiko realized

As time went by natsumi invite hajime to his house more often and hajime was always happy because hajime was able to be friends with fuyuhiko and talked with him on a regular daily basis by just talking to him hajime and fuyuhiko sneak out without natsumi knowing just to see the ocean which was not far away from the manor "y'know I love the ocean breeze it's silent and calming I love silent noises" fuyuhiko smiled he looked so pretty under the moon's light "me too" after a while the two develop crushes on each other hajime being a trainwreck trying to get fuyuhiko's heart without him knowing fuyu likes him back the vbs also tried helping fuyuhiko out by making pick up (failing miserably) "how am I supposed to let him know I like him...?" Hajime said to himself trying to sing a song to erase his train of thoughts until "hey Hinata" it was fuyuhiko hajime blushed out of no where surprised by fuyuhiko "o-oh hey fuyu-kun"

"Listen I'm going to my friends y'know the vivid bad squad? They have a live event today and I want you to come" hajime blushed "m-me?" He stuttered "yea toya gave me an invitation to get a plus one natsumi and peko are busy right now..." Hajime heart did 3 backflips "of course!"

At the live event the vbs were there getting excited over hajime talking to him and asking him so much stuff "hey there I'm toya nice to meet you" toya a blue and purple haired boy said to him "o-oh hey there" an akito and kohane smiled at him knowing what's up while fuyuhiko was helping the kids practice for the live event teaching them songs they can sing at the show hajime stared at him "oh so you like vocaloid?" Hajime asked fuyuhiko eyes widen "oh yeah I really do" he laughed "yea he's such a good singer!" An compliant him smiling at him *thanks an"

During the live event the kids were doing so well and sing and dance so amazingly singing the song "Utsuro wo Aogu" (with the help of a singer from their phones) they were in synced with each other which made fuyuhiko happy and seeing him happy after the live event hajime already had to leave as his parents were worried sick about him "thanks for inviting me to the live event" he said "anytime dude hope to see you again soon!" Akito said waving as hajime walked away fuyuhiko was hesitant about something "hey hajime! Fuyuhiko needs to tell you something!" An said fuyuhiko looked at her confused "is there something you need?" Fuyuhiko just went ahead and kissed him on the cheek and ran off "oh"

"Yume there's more then just that story but-" hajime and fuyuhiko realized yume was already asleep they giggled and kissed each other and went to sleep as well "we can tell her more tomorrow"

There's wayyy more then this by the way I planned on a camping trip with vbs story hoped the pjsk characters weren't ooc and there wasn't much dialogue but it worked out well for me at least

Lol that's a very cute idea for them meeting and falling for each other. I don't know anything about PJSK so I don't really get that aspect, but it was still cute. My only critique would be to pay a little more attention to punctuation and grammar, but I realize this wasn't a formal fic or anything.

Great job, though!

[lycorim]

WIP Words Meme!

Tagged by @alleyskywalker - thank you!!

My words: kiss | gentle | dark | touch | laugh

1 - Kiss

“You skate beautifully.” The boy continues. “If you can’t perform like that today just because your laces won’t tie, that would be a shame,” he hands Theon the skates blade-first. “Try them on, at least. There’s an ice cut before my group, anyway, so you’ll have plenty of time to get them back to me.”

Theon could kiss this boy right now, this beautiful, selfless, ginger angel! Instead, he accepts the boots with a shaky smile and hopes it conveys the same thing. (From my self-indulgent Throbb figure skaters AU)

2 - Gentle

What I would give for half of that energy, mused a trudging Frodo. He made sure his cousin was safely distracted attending the hobbit that just walked in, a young man with gentle strawberry curls who he recognized from the flower shop next door, and pressed his forehead wearily against the espresso machine.

If I asked off now, would it sound like an admission of defeat? He pondered, eyes closed against the metal’s gentle heat. (From my only LOTR WIP, a SamFro reincarnation coffee shop AU thing that I started two years ago! Also bonus points because "gentle" appears twice in this snippet.)

3 - Dark

Robb scoffed. He pulled the blanket tighter around his bare shoulders in lieu of Theon’s body heat. “Maybe I would like it there. You don’t know.”

“Maybe,” Theon agreed. Upright on the mattress, his fingers traced over a well-faded scar on Robb’s neck. Neither were bereft of scars anymore. Dark eyes bore into his, but with a sorrow that fit Theon’s sharp face poorly. “But Harlaw won’t like you.” (Throbb elopement AU)

4 - Touch

The match was too easy. Theon might outclass the lot of them with even a poorly strung bow, but swords came to him as naturally as humility. He had expected a deterioration of the Ironborn’s brazen ego as his swings fell and landed; he had planned for Theon to grow more and more defensive as the fight drew on. What he had not planned for was exactly how long he could cling onto the shorn threads of his pride, beating after beating.

But that was no issue to Jon. He wore his frustration like the lining on a coat - subtle, and easily contained. Theon wore his like an oversized hat. “Damn you!” he shouted, gasping and ragged, as a labored swing just touched Jon’s leather pauldron. (ThJon/GreySnow/SnowJoy or whatever body-swap soulmates AU)

5 - Laugh

Sea Bitch, he named her, at the witty age of fourteen. Asha laughed and called it stupid. Robb probably would have done similar. Even his Uncle Victarion had a good chuckle at the poor Bitch’s expense. But Asha would never even have a ship of her own, none of them were the prince, thus Theon was left to name the vessel as he so pleased.

Of course, he agreed with his sister now, well into his seventeenth year and well above the crass humor of an adolescent. But the name stuck, and the ship remained the only bitch in Theon’s life. (Throbb Role-Swap AU)

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Noticing now that pretty much all of my WIPs are Throbb oops. Also, I don't think I have any mutuals who haven't already been tagged 😭 So, in the spirit of not dropping the ball, if you want to do this meme, consider yourself officially tagged!!

Your words are: fall | hold | smile | care | treasure

#my fic #wip #wips #wip meme #asoiaf #lotr #samfro #samfrodo #throbb #snowjoy #greysnow