#and then even if all of those apply & i do still play that wip i tend to dip after a couple pages anyway

[staygoldwriting]

Cousin Buckley: Part 5

Summary: You’re Robin’s cousin, and you might be falling for Eddie Munson... or will it be Steve Harrington?? 🖤💜

Please see my masterlist for Parts 1-4!

Warnings: mention of blood and a skinned knee, otherwise it’s pure fluff!

Word count: ~1.4k

A/N: AHHH I’m getting so excited about what will happen next even though I’m the one writing it 😂 Again, THANK YOU for the love--I’m sending it right back 😍 Please enjoy this one--it’s getting good 🙊

Taglist is still a WIP but I’m messaging those whose usernames won’t work!

“Okay, I’ve got to work from one to closing tonight, which is a total drag and barely feels legal, but I’ve got to save up. Do you have any plans?”

You were sitting on Robin’s bed as she fixed her hair for work. Robin had warned you that Thursday was her longest shift day, so you needed to make some plans so you wouldn’t be stuck in the house all day. You envied the day before; you two met up with the guys again and had lunch at the park.

“Actually, I was thinking about hanging out with Eddie,” you said, picking at your fingernails.

“Ahh,” Robin turned around with a smirk on her face. “Has the lady chosen her true love? I would have guessed it was Steve based on your interactions yesterday.”

You blushed; you and Steve had been playing around at the park yesterday. He pushed you on the swings, swung with you on the monkey bars, and then played out in the field, ending with you accidentally falling and skinning your knee as you dove for the frisbee.

✨

“Oh my gosh, are you okay?” Steve had rushed to your side. “Shoot, you’re bleeding!”

“I’m fine,” you tried to relieve him. “It’s just a skinned knee. Man, they do sting, it doesn’t matter how old you are.”

“Here, let me help you up.”

Steve lifted you up, wrapping your arm around his shoulder. He then walked you over to a bench, swinging your leg up on it. He grabbed a napkin, then squatted beside you to dab your knee. As you winced in pain, he looked up at you sympathetically.

“I’m sorry,” he said, rubbing your arm.

“Don’t worry about it, you’re helping,” you half-smiled, half-grimaced.

“I’ll be right back, I think I have some bandaids in my car.”

He came back with some bandaids. As he dabbed your knee a little more, you continued to wince. He gently applied the bandaid, making sure it wasn’t too tight. 

“Good as new,” he smiled then kissed his finger, pressing it lightly to the bandage then to your nose.

“Thanks, Dr. Steve, what do I owe you?” you joked, trying to hide the way your heart raced as he looked at you admiringly. He tapped his cheek playfully, making you roll your eyes. 

“You can also build up a line of credit,” he winked, pointing to his lips.

✨

You looked down at your knee and lightly touched the fresh bandaid. Steve was sweet, that was for sure. He felt like Hawkins, like those summer days full of popsicle stains, collecting fireflies, and freshly grilled burgers. He was the type of person you could dance with if a great song came on the radio while you were cooking. 

But something about Eddie made you feel different. Eddie wasn’t the typical all-American boy next door; he was softer, a sensitive soul covered by leather and tough patches and bands. When you thought of him, you thought of late nights gazing at the stars, of staying up all night just talking, of leaning on him the way you did two days ago, but this time with his guitar in his hands, strumming a song he made just for you. 

“Hello-o-o, Y/N,” Robin waved her hand in your face, snapping you out of your trance.

“Hey, sorry,” you shook your head. “What were we talking about again?”

“You possibly seeing Eddie today?”

“Right, sorry. Yeah, I think I’ll call him.”

“Go ahead,” Robin smiled. “I gotta go, but I’ll see you later, okay?”

“Okay. Bye, Rob, have a good day at work. Let me know if you want snacks or something, okay?” you hugged her as she nodded. 

“Seeya, Y/N/N.”

After Robin left, you got ready for the day and went to the kitchen to use the phone. Robin had written down both of the boys’ numbers in case you needed something while she was at work. You dialed Eddie’s number, and soon, a man picked up. 

“Hello?”

“Hi, this is Y/N Buckley. Can I please speak to Eddie?”

“Sure, one second, Y/N.”

“Hello?”

“Hey, Eddie, it’s Y/N. I was wondering if you’d like to hang out today.”

You heard a crash and Eddie cursing to himself.

“Sorry,” he said.

“What happened?”

“Oh, nothing, just dropped the phone. Yes, let’s hang out. What did you have in mind?”

“Do you wanna get some lunch?”

Within fifteen minutes, you saw Eddie’s van pull up into the driveway. As you were walking to the front door, he hopped out of the driver’s seat and rushed up to the door, ringing the bell. When you opened it, he beamed and brought a small bouquet of wildflowers out from behind his back, holding them out to you.

“Hey, these are for you,” he smiled as you grabbed hold of them.

“Oh, Eddie, these are so pretty!” you smiled. “Thank you.” 

You moved to hug him, and he accepted it, your arms around his neck and his around your waist. He rested his head in the crook between your neck and shoulder, and you could feel him smiling. You also smiled as you held him closely. He smelled like cigarettes and floral shampoo, a weird but not entirely unwelcome mix. As you pulled away, you looked away, trying to hide your blush.

“Did you know that wildflowers are my favorite?”

“I could say yes,” he scratched his head, a crooked smile on his face, “but I can’t lie to a lady such as yourself. In all honesty, they’re from behind my trailer.”

“Even better,” you said, and Eddie’s eyes sparkled. “I’m just going to put them in a vase quickly. Here, come in,” you moved to let him in.

As you found a vase and filled it, Eddie leaned on the countertop, gazing at you. He smiled as he saw the genuine joy the flowers brought you. As you arranged them, you narrowed your eyes to make sure the flowers fell evenly.

“You’re so cute.”

“What?” you looked up in surprise, a blush spreading quickly across your cheeks.

“What?” Eddie mirrored, eyes wide. 

“You think I’m cute?” you asked slowly. Eddie’s face didn’t change.

“I… said that out loud. Okay, um,” he shuffled a bit, snapping out of his daze. “I just need to be honest with you, Harrington and I decided that we weren’t going to ask you out, but, to be honest with you, we both really really like you and we’ve wanted to ask you out since the first moment we saw you. I don’t know how he feels, but every single time I see you, I feel like my heart is gonna burst out of my chest, and I know that sounds cliche, but honestly, Y/N, this doesn’t really happen to me. I’ve been labeled as a freak all of my life, so girls avoided me like the plague. When I met you, I felt like you were just being nice like nice people do, you know? But I feel like we actually get along and enjoy each other’s company, right?” he looked at you, breathing a little heavily.

“Right. I enjoy spending time with you, Eddie, honestly,” you said softly.

“Okay, so you like hanging out with me and I like hanging out with you,” his arms were flailing as he spoke, “but, Y/N, I feel like there’s something more, but I don’t want to make a single move before I hear how you feel. So, Y/N,” he held your arms, “please be honest with me and tell me the truth. I’d rather you reject me and we just stay friends than you say yes and be uncomfortable. How do you feel about me?”

Before you could answer, you heard a knock on the door. 

“Eddie!!” 

It was a boy’s voice. Eddie looked at you, a heartbroken look on his face, and turned to get the door. A rush of emotions filled you to a breaking point, and you grabbed his arm to stop him and kissed his cheek, quickly but sweetly. 

“We can talk later,” you said quietly, and Eddie nodded, his face softening. He opened the door, but when he saw who was in front of him, he groaned and dragged his hands down his face in exasperation.

“What do you want, Henderson?”

To be continued!!

🖤

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[askinsufferableprickmod]

do you have any tips for like... paneling? your lil comics, if i could call them that(?) with Dave are well made (to me at least) and I'd like to get into making comics! or if you know any resources that helped you. :') - sincerely, a beginner.

sorry to be answering this so late, wanted to try and give some kinda proper advice haha so what i do is i just make my posts as long as possible so that it takes up like all of ppls dash, this means they are forced to look at it and engage with it! no ok but for real, first off this is just how i do things and by no means any sort of proper tutorial or anything, most of this is prob kinda basic and intuitive stuff, but its good to be reminded of the basics and to notice why you might be doing said things intuitively so you can start doing it intentionally so how i approach things is by picking a focus panel whats the Punchline/Emotional pay off for the page/comic? and then i try and build the rest around that for actual Comics not every page is gonna have one of those ofcourse and thats fine i tend to often have to many focus panels,,,, lmao(which is why my posts end up so long,,,,) i try to group similar panels and make them smaller, it saves space, makes it so the attention goes to the more unique panels and makes things feel more sequential(or u can do like me and have too many similar panels and think, what if i just make it an animation, its just a few extra frames right,,,?<- clueless(i have done this twice now,,, the second is still a wip,,, )) heres one of my posts deconstructed using all this, id do more of them but i dont wanna make this even longer asdsd, but i think its pretty obvious to pick up on once you know the formula lol

after that i think its mostly just clear composition and flow so things dont get confusing(like what panel(also applies to text) youre suppose to read next and such(thats easier with this cus its usually just individual panels and not full pages)) edit: oh and resources that helped me, i mostly just looked at other comics, paying attention to how the paneling was effecting the story and mood! some comics ive looked at for paneling inspo are houseki no kuni, how they play with contrast and stuff, idk theyre all just very striking, i looked at ajin at some point as well for help with some action stuff, most action shonen are also great for that 2 so yeah, just find a comic scene that has the same vibe that youre trying to get and see how they did it, finding a few and comparing and contrasting what you feel works best thats my thought process while doing stuff at least! i hope this helps at least a bit haha

#another thing a teacher told me at some point is to make things Look Intentional? in this case they were referring to comic panels #and how if you have one of those classic slanted dividers(i dont remember what theyre called.. n am 2 lazy to look it up) #make sure its not just slightly slanted as then often gets misread as a mistake like you just messed up a straight line #so basically go big or go home #like art has no rules so u can do whatever you want and different things work better depending on the piece but its advice i try and follow #also paneling for ask blog stuff is a lot easier then actual comics its prob a good place to start to practice this kinda stuff #timing is also important? timing is why im doing 2 animations....... #they just werent working as panels cus they felt too slow? cus it needed 2 many panels that were all quite similar #so they took a lot of space and took 2 long to go through #which is why i was like ill just animate it!<- does not like animating #the things i do for this blog u_u #rambles #advice #anon #art

[aphroditestummyrolls]

time for a spare prayer for the wip game 💌

Hellooooo! This is a direct continuation of the last snippet, here.

He must’ve looked a sight for Kaz Brekker to stay silent while Jesper drained his whiskey decanter.

It did earn him a glance, though, one that Jes categorically ignored. After the day he had? It was easy justification.

“Have we found Rotty yet?” He asked instead.

Kaz took heavy steps to his desk, leaning on the edge and casting a careful eye back and forth between Jesper and Colm. “Floating in the Rosenstraat Canal.”

Rosenstraat. Near the old workshop, from before Kaz moved Wylan to the Warehouse District.

“All the way over there? But, Rotty knows— knew…” Jesper swallowed. “He knew where the workshop was.”

“The assassin clearly didn’t.”

He chewed his lip, eager to draw, to do something. “And? Was he selling us out? Was the assassin following him? What are we supposed to—?”

“I don’t bloody know yet, Jesper!”

“Wylan almost died!” It took more effort than he’d like not to throw his glass at the wall. “We’ve been waiting on your bloody plan for weeks, Kaz! You’ll have to either clue us in or admit you don’t know what you’re doing, because if we don’t do something about this soon, I’ll walk down the Geldstraat and put a bullet in Van Eck’s head myself.”

He hadn’t even noticed the others filing in. Nina still looked exhausted— they all looked a little haggard. Hell, Jesper was still bloodstained. And Da was…

He had blood drying all down his front, and was looking at Jesper with that wide eyed expression. Maybe, he supposed, threatening murder is a reasonable bridge too far. But, he’d said himself that he didn’t know him. And that was, undoubtedly, part of who he was now.

It wasn’t like it was something he enjoyed, but he’d gladly kill for the people he loved. And it felt like he was the only one trying to protect Wylan— he took one day off the job, and his merchling nearly died!

“For weeks?” Inej cut in, her brown eyes incredulous as she stared Kaz down. Saints, he’d missed her. “Was anybody even going to bother telling me that Wylan was being hunted by his father?”

“His father did that to him?” Da stepped back into the conversation. Jesper couldn’t help but feel like he would never get used to it— seeing his old da in Kaz Brekker’s office. It was like finding an old farm dog in a fighting ring.

“Yes.” Kaz hissed, and it wasn’t clear if he was talking to Inej or Colm, but he supposed either and both applied. “Let’s get the facts of today established, and then,” he looked at Jesper in a way that used to cow him, “I’ll consider telling you the plan.”

Kaz looked at Colm, then. It made Jesper’s chest clench uncomfortably— he didn’t like those eyes on his father. He was too close to becoming part of something. Part of a plan.

There were a lot of reasons that Jes had kept his lives so separate.

“Colm, what did you see? How did you find Wylan?”

And then, as if he’d been summoned, the office door opened once more, and a pale-face merchling dragged himself into the room.

Jesper immediately set his drink on the mantle, reaching him just in time to steady him. The urge to touch him, and touch him, and never let him go was almost too strong to resist. It didn’t help when Wy just leaned in, sparing him a small smile. He looked pekkid, with clammy sweat sticking his curls to his forehead.

“You’re supposed to be resting.” Kaz rasped, brooking no argument.

Wylan wasn’t so injured that he couldn’t still roll his eyes. “If you want to know what happened, you won’t get far without me.”

Thanks for playing ❤️❤️❤️

#six of crows #wesper #wylan van eck #jesper fahey #colm fahey #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #nina zenik #matthias helvar #thanks for playing!

[sadghoststudios]

STATE OF PLAY 12/23: a little news and updates roundup!

Howdy all! Squeaking in just before the new year, I thought now's as good a time as ever for a little roundup of anything you might have missed, and what we're currently working on! Aiming to do these quarterly from now on 🫡✨

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Recap and news under the cut!

2023 Roundup

DemiDato

We had two releases this year, but DemiDato was the big one! For those that don't know, this game spent a long 5+ years in and out of development hell, so it was a big relief to finally put everyone's hard work out into the world back in March.

We were also lucky enough to feature DD in the Queer Games & Queer Halloween bundles this year, so even if you haven't had a chance to grab the game outright, check your itch library - you might already own it!

As for the future of our monsters, a 1.1 update is still on the cards! The bulk of it is already complete - there's some script tidying and quality of life improvements already in the WIP build, as well as a fancy schmancy CG Gallery (which you can see a little preview of in the devlog I wrote). 

1.1 development has admittedly stalled a little, as I really want to implement some animated video transitions plus an animated intro and trailer into its final build, but it's been hard to find the time to teach myself a whole new skillset while also being in preproduction for our new title (more on that in a bit!). In my head for all the years of development, the game has always had a really cheesy reality show intro with horribl(y good) graphics, just like the real life shows that inspired it. So even if the feature didn't make it to 1.0, I still really want it to happen eventually. (Plus, when we do eventually rerelease on Steam, a trailer is very important for the store page! That means it counts as futureproofing, right...?)

If you want to hear some more about what the release was like, my dear friend Kaiju of Digital Diversity interviewed me right after the game came out! You can read the interview on Digital Diversity over here.

GrandNya

Our second game of the year was a short little nugget written for 2023's Josei Jam, and devved almost solo by timepatches (hi! that's me!)

It'd been a long time since I managed to get anything off the ground in a jam setting, and I still find it a little intimidating (it's really difficult for me to get new ideas & iterate on them fast enough to meet the start deadline and recruit others), so solo dev it was! My art is hardly intricate but it gets the story across, and I'm proud of the VN as a whole - whatever you think of 'wholesome games' as a movement, it's hard to deny that we all need a cosy space now and then, and that’s the kind of story I like to tell most. And it's not like GrandNya is all sunshine, either, which you'll know if you got to the end!

I also managed to apply to Hand-Eye Society's Super FESTival with GrandNya, and was somehow accepted, which I'm still pinching myself about! What a stellar lineup of games to share a page with.

Fest aside, it was a pretty quiet release all things considered, so don't worry if you missed it! Your grandmas are still there on our itch page anytime, to give you a lil’ pocket of safe queer story to live in whenever you need it.

Intoxicated

Now for something completely different!! Despite some prior medical commitments around the jam date (which then got moved, typical), I was VERY stoked to be able to hop on the team for Kristi HusbandoGoddess' Yuri Jam game, Intoxicated!

It was an absolute blast. Turtles were drawn in the group chat for reasons I can no longer remember. It singlehandedly made me decide that I want to do more jam work on others' teams, because I forgot how fun it can be working toward a common goal in a more relaxed environment! 

And the game turned out incredible. Check it out if you support women's wrongs! ♡

Plans for 2024

[Codename BAT 🦇] (the big otome/amare game)

Oh yeah. It's big.

I won't spill too much just yet, but just know that I've had this idea as a vague plot bunny in the back of my mind for years. Then, as my dear friend Charlie and I were on VC beta testing a late DemiDato build, it came up and they were so excited about the idea that I couldn't help but start seriously thinking about how to make it.

Well. That was in March. After I took a break and worked on GrandNya, I've been working ever since on building out the world (it's set in the same universe as the rest of our library, but deals a bit more with the actual ramifications of it all, so I had to set some things in stone I haven't before). More recently I've been building out the most coherent, easy-to-follow outline I can (not my strong point, and bless my beta readers for their support while I complain about it). 

Very soon I should be able to start writing! Terrifying! I can't wait. Once I'm a fair way into the script writing you'll get to hear about exactly what I'm cooking, and I think... you'll like where we're going.

[Other Redacted Thing]

Not my project so I won't spoil exactly what it is, but I get to do some UI work for an upcoming jam project and I am SO excited! I get to work with some very familiar faces again! You'll know what it is as soon as I'm allowed to tell you 👀

What I will say is that it shares a coincidental similarity with my long project...

That's it!! ✨

Thank you for reading all my waffle (being long winded is my special talent), and for sticking with us through the inevitable periods of radio silence! We're still just little fish in a very big pond, but every time someone plays something I made and feels some type of way, I remember what the point of all this is. 

It makes me very happy to be able to share stories with y'all. Here's to more in 2024!

♡ Madi Wander (@timepatches)

#indie game #visual novel #interactive fiction #sgsroundup #sgsnews #thanks to those who stuck with us thru this + past years! onward and upward for 2024 :)

[naranjapetrificada]

Fanfic Friday!

I still don't completely understand it, so this week I'm just gonna reflect on things that happened while writing this arranged marriage longfic, some of which I posted about on here and some of which I didn't.

I gave up on the Soup Paragraphs that were haunting me and realized I can introduce them later if I must.

I got in some "let go and let god" practice when I realized I don't have to get every little throwaway detail right, especially when it slows down my progress/makes writing miserable.

My therapist wants me to see about applying this Free Yourself skill in my non-writing life, to which I say I know you are but what am I

Characters put themselves in situations without my input and it was great!

Ceremonies are hard to write but at least I now know what Ed and Stede would be like if they were kids in a school play.

I started watching Rome again after thinking about it last week in the wake of the cancelation (I've had it on DVD for years). Still problematic in the way something made in 2005 will be, but otherwise it holds up incredibly well.

I've also stopped caring as much about all the people using the world's problems as a bludgeon against OFMD fans and the campaign to to save the show. For all the reasons other people have already articulated well but also, on a personal note, because of what this show has done for my relationship with writing.

I won't get into too much detail but suffice it to say I have a lot of baggage around writing, because of all the "gifted" nonsense of my childhood and my MFA experience as an adult. I don't blame anyone per se, but unhelpful social frameworks were unhelpful. Let's just say that when Pop-Pop said "if you were ever good at anything go do that" to Ed, it didn't not remind me of feeling obligated to do something that used to be rewarding but isn't anymore because it's what you're "supposed" to do. Anyway.

I wrote three short (<2000 word) fics between seasons 1&2, the first fic I've felt like writing in over a decade. It was liberating as hell to write again in a low-stakes environment, and with blorbo motivation to power me through the difficult parts. I never, ever thought I would write anything longer than 2000 words, but for the past (several?) weeks now I've been alternating between two drafts in tropes I can't get enough of, the shortest of which is around 10,000 (admittedly unedited) words.

The other is longer, and every time I work on it I keep having to break shit up so the chapters stay under 5000 words. This is unprecedented for me, and I've wanted to share it so much that I'm running out of shit to post on WIP Wednesday that won't reveal the plot or require too much context. I've never been in a fandom as creative (and creatively inspiring) as this one, nor have I every written so much in a single fandom before.

My relationship with writing wouldn't be healing like this at all if it weren't for this show and this fandom, and in particular I want to highlight the freedom in embracing the "David Jenkins School of Historical Inaccuracy." In fact, I've been keeping a running list of AO3 tags for the fic I've made the most progress on, and there are several "David Jenkins School of ________" tags, including Archaeology, Theology, and Comparative Politics. Thanks to seeing DJ's philosophy at work it's now possible for me to move on from certain details when I get stuck because they're "inaccurate" for the setting or whatever in a way I never could before. Now I feel empowered to move on from tricky details by asking myself:

Is it funny?

Is it related to the plot?

Is it character-building?

And if the answer to all of those is no, then so is the answer to question 4: "does it matter?"

Assuming I finish these longfics they'll be the longest creative pieces I've ever written and beyond the longest works of fiction I ever thought I would write, and for that I'm eternally grateful. Even if the world we live in is a crumbling disaster. Especially if the world we live in is a crumbling disaster.

#ofmd #our flag means death #renew as a crew #save ofmd #fanfic friday #WIP it good #edward teach #ofmd meta #fandom meta #writing process #writing woes #fic writing #arranged marriage AU #ancient rome AU (sorta)

[leonardcohenofficial]

20 questions for fic writers

i was tagged by @majorbaby to answer these—thank you so much!!!!!!!

i'll tag @draftdodgerag / @radioprune/ @sightofsea and anyone else who'd like to do this! answers below:

1. How many works do you have on Ao3? a grand total of five :D

2. What's your total Ao3 word count? 28,313 words!

3. What fandoms do you write for? currently have only published for mash, but i have fics for the man from uncle, star trek, star wars, doctor who, twin peaks, starsky and hutch, and black sails in drafts

4. What are your top five fics by kudos? i only have five fics on ao3 LOL

5. Do you respond to comments? i do my best to!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? i suppose it's (open your hands) given it takes place before "bottoms up" which is fairly angsty in the overall houlifield arc

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? between the two longform fics i've posted—someone is waiting and so this is the word—they both have happy endings! i suppose whatever is happier depends on if you're more of a fan of piercintyre or hunnihawk endgame

8. Do you get hate on fics? i've never received any direct hate, so none that i'm aware of.................... 

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? yes; not usually plain pwp because i like having somewhat of a story tied to the smut but every once in a while it's less plot-driven

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? i have not written any crossovers nor do i particularly feel any want to

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? nope/not to my knowledge, hope to keep it that way!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? no but would be honored and open to granting permission to do so!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? no, don't really have interest in doing so (LOL)

14. What’s your all time favorite ship? legitimately such a hard question lol; there are some ships that i don't even think about actively shipping because in my mind i nearly forget that they're not canon (see: spirk, skysolo, albert/dale, illya and napoleon, etc.) whereas there are certain relationship dynamics that continue to make me feel like the top of my head is being torn off and i think always will (twelveclara is absolutely insanity inducing, vanerackham also being a ship that really took over my brain and has not let go since, honorable mention to whatever barisi did to my psyche as a seventeen year old); not to mention all the relationships from non-fandom (for lack of a better term) media that i find extraordinarily emotionally impactful (tommy and axel in edge of the city, omar and johnny in my beautiful laundrette, whatever is happening between hamlet ophelia and horatio, same with karen joe and martha in these three, could name plenty of books and films and plays that this happens to me with)

all of this to say, it probably is piercintyre (still with a lot of love for hunnihawk) or spirk

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? i have a few mash fic drafts that have been sitting in my notes app since literally 2019 so we will see if those ever see the light of day lmfao

16. What are your writing strengths? i think i'm very good at third person limited POV, which is how i write all of my fics (i don't like first person POV fics, despise omniscient, and find second person hardest to write); i also think that i'm pretty strong with narrative structure (comes with being a dramaturg lol) and internal dramaturgy and detail when it comes to researching for my writing

17. What are your writing weaknesses? i don't write linearly (this applies to my academic writing as well as fics) which i think does often make it harder on myself when piecing together a bunch of vignettes and trying to make them flow; i think that my understanding of narrative structure helps me get around this but i do wish i didn't always throw in an obstacle to my own writing. i also think i can be a bit too succinct (this is more a challenge with my academic writing than my fics imho but is a note that i get consistently from my committee haha)

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? if the writer actually knows how to speak it and isn't just throwing text into google translate on a wing and a prayer, i don't always HATE it hate it; i've read a few good the man from uncle fics where if illya is speaking in ukranian or russian it's either mentioned in a character's POV or the text is put in italics which i think is a more effective device in communicating that the characters are speaking another language rather than the one the fic is written in

19. First fandom you wrote for? i wrote very bad doctor who and sherlock fanfiction when i was in middle school which i published on deviantart LMFAOOOOOOO

20. Favorite fic you’ve written? i think the honor has to go to someone is waiting—it was just such a labor of love and weaving in all of the sondheim references that have been so important to me with a longform exploration of hawkeye's takes on love was (as cheesy as it is to say) really special to me as a writer and it means so much that it resonated with so many people! (plus it has a very good soundtrack)

#thanks ben!!!!! #this was fun to reflect on #someday i will actually publish fic not on new year's eve again LMAO

[dhampir72]

Ahh all of your WIPs sound so intriguing! For the ask game, I would love to hear about “Bloom” and “A Series of Unfortunate Tea Times” if you feel so moved. 👀

Ahh thank you! As you can see none of them have really creative names, because I'm terrible at titles!!

So many people were asking me about "A Series of Unfortunate Tea Times" so I've posted about that one here.

Thanks for asking about "Bloom"! "Bloom" was a story very near and dear to my heart that I started during 007 fest, but never could quite finish. I think it's somewhere around 30k and still unfinished. I wanted to write something very soft, but I think this might be too soft?

Essentially it's another story where Bond is physically and emotionally tired of the job, but he can't quit because he thinks he's not fit to do anything else. And then he happens to meet Q outside of work and discovers that Q has a hobby for botany. And Bond learns that his hands can be for more than just killing.

Here is a snippet under the cut :)

Bond sees it now, why they’re called moth orchids. They have the shape of a Polyphemus moth, but they’re even showier in a rich, luscious purple. Bond reaches out a hand, but stops before he touches.

“You can touch them,” Q says, and, perhaps sensing Bond's hesitation, goes on encouragingly: “it won’t hurt them.”

Q lifts a hand and delicately strokes one of the petals with his fingertips. They’re beautiful, Bond realises. He’s always watched Q’s hands—at his workstation frenetically typing, meticulously fixing equipment, confidently checking the chamber of a gun—and always admired his efficiency, his quickness; the skills needed to go quickly without fumbling or causing error. But now he sees them in another way, the way he’s pretended not to notice for a while now; like how soft they can be, like they are when he applies antiseptic and plasters, the grace of his wrist when he unwinds gauze bandages, and it’s here now in the elegant sweep of his finger across this orchid’s silken petal. What would it be like? To have Q touch him like that? So purely, so purposefully? Is he even deserving of it? That gentleness?

“Go on,” Q says softly.

Bond hesitates again. For the first time in weeks, he thinks about the bomb dogs abandoned in the Middle East. Just like them, he’s been trained to do one thing. These hands are made for killing. And he’s good at it: with a gun, with a knife, with his bare hands round someone’s throat. He’s been doing this for so long that he’s not sure he’s capable of anything else. Gentleness? He’s not sure how to be, not anymore. 

But Q’s watching him, and it’s almost imploring, and Bond can’t deny him. He’ll try.

The back of his finger brushes the soft, purple petal. It’s smooth, and tender; fragile, almost. Like touching the inside of someone’s wrist. He could easily rip it, crush it in his palm. There would be no effort on his part to destroy it entirely. 

Instead, he touches it again, with the utmost care, just to prove he can. And he’s filled with awe and wonder at this, that he can be gentle, maybe even kind. 

It makes him wonder if one of those dogs left to die in the sand dunes of Afghanistan wandered into a village and met the kind hand of a stranger. Someone who put a bowl of water out for him, who shared their fire with him at night. Maybe someone who threw a stick, taught him to play, so that his dreams were not only ones of blood and smoke and IEDs. Maybe, just maybe, one of them got a second chance; a second chance to be something other than what they were made to be.

Out of the corner of his eye, he sees Q smile. He allows himself to smile, too.

His hands may have been made for killing, but maybe, just maybe, they can be made for something else.

#00Q #ask meme #ask game #wip game #it's a little rambly and could use a good round of edits #but they are cute and go on dates and do things in the garden and make soup and bread together #and q grows roses for bond because he loves him #and bond finds joy in texting pictures of new plants he sees when he's traveling for work #and they just find a spark in life again together #one day I'll pick this up again...maybe #queue branch

[iamalasagnagirl]

I absolutely loved your Ronance fic recs and May or May not have read all of them in one day… do you have any more recent ones that you loved?! I NEED more

Thank you, i'm really glad that was useful 💕

So, round two! These ones are also fics that i really enjoyed, so i hope you can find something you haven't read yet

Sins of the Daughter by uselessdisasterlesbian Or, the fic where everyone is gay, it's the Satanic Panic of the 1970s and 80s, and Hawkins is just another small town trying to save souls with no regards for the lives that may get ruined along the way. Words: 4757 Chapters: 3/? WIP

the crystalline knowledge of you by moonflowerdamie Robin’s eyes glisten with tears; those already shed create silver tracks on her cheeks that shimmer in a way that makes Nancy want to take Robin in her arms for the rest of eternity, to hold her until the world ends or else swallows them whole. Nancy brings her hands up slowly. Gives Robin the chance to pull away, if that’s what she needs. But Robin leans into her touch the second Nancy’s palms cup her face, desperate and in need of comfort. It makes Nancy want to sob herself. How dare they do this to you, she thinks. My beautiful, genius girl. How dare they make you feel small. Words: 3677 Chapters: 1/1

By skj

help, i just died in your arms tonight “… Nance?” “Mhm?” she barely managed to squeak. “Have you never…?” Nancy braced herself and pursed her lips before shaking her head quickly. or, Nancy's never had an orgasm. Robin wants to fix that. Words: 3574 Chapters: 1/1 SEUQEL —-> it must have been something you said The TV hummed in the background playing a movie Nancy was supposed to be watching, but she was not even close to paying attention. All Nancy could focus on was Robin’s mouth. or, nancy needs more of robin. Words: 2557 Chapters: 1/1

darling, are you ready for more? Robin cannot be crushing on Nancy Wheeler. And it really doesn't help when Nancy straddles her to apply her makeup Words: 4902 Chapters: 1/1

Super Freak by confusednerdling Robin Buckley is experiencing hallucinations from Vecna. Guess, there's no perfect time to come out to the girl of your dreams, Nancy, and have a heart to heart with your best friend, Steve. Words: 3683 Chapters: 1/1

i don't need no money, fortune, or fame by halest0rm The more she thinks about it, Nancy can't fathom the idea of having six kids. She also can't fathom having a future with Steve, either. Her mind has been drifting elsewhere. Words: 3894 Chapters: 1/1

by deckersring

and still I dream she'll come to me Nancy's departure for college hurts more than it should. Words: 2527 Chapters: 1/1

Lonely leaves "Why'd you want to boat on Lover's lake in October?" Nancy laughed, scratching her head as her girlfriend tried to push a wooden boat to the lake. "We haven't... been here... in so long, Nance. Look... at how beautiful... it is here... in fall!" Robin explained, still pushing the boat. Nancy had mercy on her poor soul and decided to offer a helping hand. or Two completely normal afternoons in the fall, many years apart. Words: 2039 Chapters: 1/1

Too young to know it gets better A well organized happy friendly get-together had suddenly turned into one of the scariest nights for Robin Buckley. She wasn't planning on coming out to the person she'd called a priss during her previous coming out... or A lot can happen on an August night by a campfire. But it's definitely not what either of the girls expected. Words: 3153 Chapters: 1/1

the rain and the butterfly Butterflies don't fly in the rain. They don't. It's a fact. Probably. A theory. A hypothesis, at least. No it's... it's real. Robin had never seen a butterfly dance between the heavy, but beautiful, crystal raindrops falling from above. or Robin makes Nancy fall in love with rain (and herself). Words: 5202 Chapters: 3/3

I Was a Teenage Werewolf by UnholyHelbig Werewolf!Robin and her interactions with Nance, like growling, warm temp and cues that Nance missed until a golden big wolf comes bounding into her on a night she is walking around Skull Rock. Words: 3547 Chapters: 1/1 friends don't yearn like we do By oaseas Nancy has never run from what she’s wanted and she’s not about to start now. Words: 5889 Chapters: 1/1

at the supposed end of the world by moonchemistry Robin doesn't want her or Nancy to die without telling Nancy the truth. She'd never forgive herself. She's going to tell Nancy she likes her. Words: 10255 Chapters: 2/2

by iiruwu

thoughtless indulgence Robin’s back straightens, as though to get a better look at the stranger further off, and her heart skips a beat. Steve looks up at the sound she makes and furrows his brows, wiping at the sweat on his forehead. “What?” “Who in the hell is that?” College AU Words: 6980 Chapters: 1/1

into the light Nancy goes to the Video Store looking for Steve and instead finds someone unexpected behind the counter. Words: 4245 Chapters: 1/1

red lips, blue eyes Robin looks... pretty. Really pretty. The thought should scare her, but it doesn’t, because the alcohol is thrumming behind her ribs and buzzing beneath her skin, liquid courage taking form. She decides to admire. She thinks she deserves it, just this once. Or: Robin stumbles upon Nancy at the Halloween party rather than Jonathon. From there, a strange yet profound friendship forms between the two of them. Robin yearns for more and Nancy aches deep inside. Words: 44231 Chapters: 5/5

teach me how to love (like real people do) Nancy has twenty-four hours to save herself, and she can't help but think that Vecna is right about what he whispers in her ear. Robin, however, seems determined to prove her wrong. Words: 9473 Chapters: 3/? WIP

Change is Worth Embracing by lezBeauregard In the little moments and attempts to upsell Steve, Robin finds herself unfortunately falling. She swears her insistence to go with Nancy hadn't been for any reason besides not being able to drive, but that was honestly coming into question. Meanwhile, Nancy is beginning to question her previous assumptions. Words: 17875 Chapters: 12/12

blackbird by aurumwrites one month after the events of vecna and the town being ripped into, robin finds herself completely lost. Words: 3998 Chapters: 1/1

Words: 8153 Chapters: 1/1

Won’t Go Down In History by mongr3l When you’re gay in Indiana, sometimes your only means of self expression is scribbling on your shoes. Thankfully, nobody has ever gotten close enough to Robin’s feet to read what she’s written. That is, until Nancy Wheeler is holding her by the ankles. Words: 34050 Chapters: 12/?

Unlikely, But Likely by Pocket_Sand Robin’s eyes lazily rolled around for a moment, searching for their target before eventually landing on Nancy. A dopey grin spread across her face and a deep chuckle came from her throat. “You’re pretty.” Nancy looked into her unfocused eyes and sighed. “And you’re concussed.” OR: Now officially a haven of one shots. Words: 34050 Chapters: 12/?

I'm reading a lot of ronance fanfictions these days, basically everytime I don't have to work or go out, you can find me reading some fanfics so everytime i find a good fic (which, be honest, is often since everyone is so talented 🥺) i can post them here, if it's something you can be interested about, just let me know and enjoy your reading

#ronance #ronance fics #ronance fics rec #robin x nancy #robin and nancy #nancy and robin #nancy x robin #stranger things fics #fanfictions

[darlingpoppet]

✨ Get to know me ✨

I was tagged by @alibonbonn a while back (thank you so much!) sorry for the late response but I suppose this is a good way to reintroduce myself to my tumblr followers (hey y’all!)

Current Wallpaper: I don’t wanna take a screenshot of it since it’s someone else’s fanart but it’s this Hades Patrochilles piece by Zeyan. (are they on tumblr? Idk lemme know and I’ll reblog it!) my home screen is a much older eruri fanart whose artist I can’t even remember anymore :’) hopefully they’re out there thriving!

Three Ships: Patrochilles, Eruri, ummmm FrodoSam (idk I’ve been emotional about them again recently) also I feel like this shouldn’t be allowed to count since I haven’t played the game but I’ve been mega eyes emoji over FFXVI ever since I heard about Dion & Terence because I’m SO WEAK for any and all king & lionheart ships (these are all king & lionheart ships!!!!)

First ship: OH GOD it was probably 1x2, Heero Yuy x Duo Maxwell from Gundam Wing aka the millennial baby’s first bl amirite folks? Wolfstar was also an early formative ship, from a book series whose name I can’t seem to remember now… hmm weird!

Fave color: mint green! I love wearing it and I love home aesthetics using it as an accent color

Last song: Mr. Kitty - After Dark

Last movie in theatres: ATSV babyyy!! I have half of that soundtrack stuck in my head 24/7 so any of those songs would also easily apply to the previous question

Last show: tv? I don’t know her (I’m pretty sure the last series I actually finished was OFMD but that was over a year ago and I still haven’t finished IWTV orz)

Currently reading: The Priory Of The Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon (the real answer is “the Iliad for the 84847384th time”. I also just finished reading Plato’s Symposium)

Current obsession: Everyone who knows me knows this by now but I’ve been deep in a Greek mythology rabbit role for about a year & a half now with no hope of escape. Particularly anything Iliad/Trojan War/Achilles/Patrochilles related. I’m sorry for the person I’m about to become when Dr. Emily Wilson’s Iliad translation is released this September 😔

Unrelated obsession: I love watching ASMR videos, especially ones with massages, hair brushing, or 1st person POV where they do your makeup or give you a spa treatment or whatever lol. Also wood soup asmr! I also recently got into keyboard asmr and bought myself some wireless keyboards for my birthday which make nice thocky/clacky noises 🤤

Currently working on: a lot of fic writing for zines, djs, and ao3, but my main WIP is Where The Dead Forget, a memory loss AU Patrochilles fic set in the Hades game universe, which also has a lot of my own retellings of the Achilles & Patroclus myths woven in. The updates have been slow in the last few months but I’m finally close to publishing a new chapter. We’re still in the early game so come join me! ✨

Tagging: @cosmicvoidance @cottonomz-again @johaerys-writes @lostcauses-noregrets @zorthania @erwinsalive, and anyone else who wants to do it! (sorry if you’ve already been tagged or did this I haven’t been around lol)

#memes #my fics #about me

[dream-of-the-bitchless]

Belated trick or treat? I missed you posting the trick or treat game yesterday!

Don't worry, I also have a belated response :b

I shall gift you a snippet of the second of my two current Corintheus WIPs. It's the first kiss between Dream and the Corinthian in what is a whole recounting of their story from the Corinthian's POV. I've never written a first-person fic and I know they don't tend to be well regarded, so I'm very nervous about it. Still, I hope you like it (:

***

Tentatively, he stretched a cold hand towards me, settling it on my left cheek. I was transfixed, my eyes glued to his as I moved closer in the most nonthreatening manner. His fingers caressed my cheekbone, traced the outline of my eyelid, and played with strands of my hair; the touch always careful as if I could disintegrate if too much pressure was applied.

It was with just as much caution that Morpheus closed the distance between us, placing his lips against mine.

A symphony of colours exploded behind my eyelids as both our mouths moved in synchronicity—or at least one of mines. The Dreamlord’s lips were cold, but his kiss breathed warmth into my lungs. His hand was still cupping my cheek, softly, and if I had wanted to, I could’ve pulled away, but I can hardly imagine anyone wanting to do so. My arms lay limp at my sides, my lips being the only point of contact with him, and I let him take them for as long as he wanted. My whole body felt on fire, even as Morpheus broke the kiss, still not letting go of my cheek.

I looked at him in astonishment, my mouth falling open, unable to hide my surprise. I didn’t know what to say, how to react. All I truly knew right then and there is that I wanted more; more of those lips, more of those hands. He looked back at me, his eyes still sad and the tears just as close to the surface as before, but there was something else as well now, something I couldn’t read.

#corintheus #the corinthian #dream of the endless #the sandman #current wip #fic drabble #text post

[space-writes]

writing questions tag!

tagged by @lexiklecksi, thank you!!

1 - What is your absolute all-time favourite ideas you’ve ever had?

Hm…I love all my current wips, but I think my favourite fun idea was the one I had for nano a few years back, called Gywnn Doomshard vs the Forces of Light, which was a comic fantasy from the POV of the literal forces of darkness, where instead of the Heir of Darkness being chosen from the long-time family of darkness for the most recent go-round of ‘fight the forces of Light’, his bodyguard got chosen instead.

It was a super fun book, playing with loads of tropes; the dragons unionised, magic only worked on you if you consented, there were imps everywhere, the Castle of Darkness was partially sentient…it’s an idea I really want to go back to one day. It’s very inspired by things like Dungeon Keeper/War for the Overworld, Grunts!, The Princess Bride, Labyrinth, Shrek and that kind of trope-y, fun genre. All the characters were so much fun to write.

2 - Is there a question you’ve been asked in the past that really stands out to you, and you still think about sometimes?

Nothing comes to mind particularly.

3 - What is your favourite part of being a writer? What parts could you take or leave?

When I get to the point in a story where I’m making it do what I want. When all the ideas come together, I get that little spark of ‘yes!’ and I can make the words sing. (also I love creating characters).

Obscure grammar rules can go away. I can’t remember them. I have to google things all the time. English is a stupid language and no-one should ever speak it but unfortunately it’s the only one I know.

4 - What is your greatest motivation to write/create?

To have the story I want to read. And lately, to make the people that read my writing go ‘AAAHHHH SPACE WHY’. That latter is the reason I’m planning to post Renegade Prince online somewhere with comments. I love those interactions. I save all the good comments I get and look at them when I’m feeling down.

5 - What is the best piece of advice you’ve ever read or been given as a writer?

That one tumblr post/several variations on it that if you’re stuck in a story, go back about ten lines and try again. If you write yourself into a corner, reverse out of the corner. It has saved me so many times: whenever I get stuck, I think of it, and apply it, and it fucking. works. every time.

6 - What do you wish you knew when you were first starting out writing?

That editing is where the magic happens. That first drafts are just to get an idea down, and that your writing will shine afterwards.

7 - What is your favourite story you’ve written to completion? Link it if you’d like and can!

Honestly recency bias is showing, but some of my fics lately I just really love. The series they’re part of aren’t done, but the stories themselves are. so for right now, I’m going to say body mine from obsession. It’s nothing like what I usually write, but it was so much fun to weave that strange little story and try something different.

8 - What is your favorite out-of-the-box quote?

WRITE IT BADLY. Write it badly, write it badly, write it badly, write it badly. Stop what you’re doing, open a Word document, put a pencil on some paper, just get the idea out of your head. Let it be good later. Write it down now. Otherwie it will die in there. - Brandon Sanderson

9 - Which of your characters would you say has the most controversial mindset? Why do you say so, and how do you personally feel about their ideals?

hm, I don’t know about controversial as such…certainly Vizaeth has the most unusual mindset: he’s so wrong about so many aspects of his life, but is fully convinced he’s right about them, and that the pain those things cause is correct (to be inflicted upon him, or upon others). Personally I don’t think even therapy would fix him, but it would help.

Otherwise, perhaps The Daemoness, who is an OC I rarely write about publically, but is the ruler of a hive-mind empire she built herself. Her powers enabled her to chain souls to herself, so every demon on her planet, and every creature on every planet she dominates become a part of her. She believes she’s doing what’s necessary: her actions ended the wars on her planet, and by taking over other planets, she leaves ‘peace and unity’ in her wake. However, she is by her nature a very bloodthirsty creature and craves the challenge of battle, so she’ll never be satisfied.

I just really like characters whose actions are reprehensible but whose internal logic chains make perfect sense to them, such that they couldn’t be another way. I disagree with Demoness that ‘dominating and soul chaining every living thing in the universe’ is the way to achieve personal satisfaction and universal peace, but damn she’s fun to write when I do write her.

10 - If you, when you first started writing, met you now, what would younger you think?

younger me would be so extremely hyped. look at all these words we wrote! we finished things? actually finished them?? and people like them?

they’d be a little confused at how gay and trans everything is but don’t worry, they’ll figure it out.

no-pressure tagging @vollzz @loopyhoopywrites @sam-glade and @saltwaterbells

blank questions under the cut:

What is your absolute all-time favourite ideas you’ve ever had?

Is there a question you’ve been asked in the past that really stands out to you, and you still think about sometimes?

What is your favourite part of being a writer? What parts could you take or leave?

What is your greatest motivation to write/create?

What is the best piece of advice you’ve ever read or been given as a writer?

What do you wish you knew when you were first starting out writing?

What is your favourite story you’ve written to completion? Link it if you’d like and can!

What is your favorite out-of-the-box quote?

Which of your characters would you say has the most controversial mindset? Why do you say so, and how do you personally feel about their ideals?

If you, when you first started writing, met you now, what would younger you think?

#writeblr #tag games #writing questions tag game #space has thoughts #zero pressure on the tags ik this is a longer one! #but this was fun!!

[x-authorship-x]

For the ask game: 🗣️ I love reading your thought process, so that should be fun! (What would be the chances of the WIP being about Shisui...🤔🤔🤔/jk) Hope you have a good weekend! xoxo

Hey Nalyvia ~~~

Just for that, I'll pick an unconventional one! 🤭

*insert fifteen minutes of digging through docs* FOUND ONE

Okay so this is gonna be minimally edited (because it is so riddled with typos it's barely even coherent lmao) but this is a Naruto/BnHA fic where Obito and Shisui are brothers! I actually keep within Shisui's Canon age range by having him at 14 lmao, Obito is 19-20

ADVERSITY

Obito spontaneously remembers he has a heart and grabs shisui before Danzo can steal his eye. Shisui loses his shit, thinks Obito is trying to stop him from saving the Uchiha, and goes all mangekyou, dropping their asses in BNHA. They have a major freak out and run around like headless chickens through tokyo as they beat each other's asses and the truth comes out in bits and pieces; shisui with the coup and Tobi being his older brother Obito who was saved by crazy ass Madara, before their fight is interrupted by a villain-hero fight, which they drop kick and then disappear in the aftermath.

They track down a library, rob a bunch of people, and do some research before having another huge argument about winding up here - obito is furious at shisui for dumping them when theres no way to get back whilst shisui is still raging that obito fucked off for five years - and decide on a truce to survive. Shisui points out that if they use their chakra in public theyre gonna get arrested and experimented on real fast, if not locked in prison, so they should look into get licenses; obito is like fuck no. so they decide to cut the labour between them; Shisui is old enough to blitz through middle school graduation before applying to high school (novelty, delight and frustration all at once) whilst obito is gonna go digging about what villains do around here and see if theres any chakra or way back etc. they manage to forge papers with liberal sharingan usage and thievery and get an apartment. Obito makes a comment about shisui going back to the academy; Shisui dodges the argumentative tone and seriously asks why Obito let him think he was dead but obito clams right up.

Shisui enrolls in online classes at a local school and dreams about what nightmare he’s abandoned his family to; obito seems to sense his mood but refuses to talk about it. This gets tricky when he starts going out at night and making a name for himself; Shisui tells him to aim for vgiliante, so that if he does get arrested then the heroes wont immediately chuck him in prison, but grey-scale enough that he can talk to villains. Obito says hes not gonna get arrested and shows off his kamui skill; shisui wonders what theyre gonna do about their shared ‘quirks’ being recognised. Obito whips out the orange mask and says he’ll stick to intangibility and pretend his daylight persona - not that he plans to be out and about - just has the energy manipulation required for Shunshin etc since they can both do it; shisui’s quirk will be energy augmentation, which allows him to shunshin etc; theyre keeping their sharingan hidden as nothing but a latent family mutation in the pupil. Obito starts making a name for himself, although he regretfully fails to kill-shot anyone as thats a very serious crime to get caught committing; he meets  heroes and starts playing cat and mouse with them.

shisui, meanwhile, is having a breakdown over the internet and history here, an existential crisis about propaganda, locked in their shitty apartment with a stolen computer to use for class and research. He starts wandering the city in the afternoons, feeling like his whole life has been upended; when he speaks to obito about it, his brother starts mocking him about getting a reality check from being a brainwashed little tool; shisui screams at him about being loyal and looking after those he loves at least and runs out into the night; obito goes after him and tracks him down to the beach where he sighs and begrudgingly apologises. Shisui asks why obito never came back for him, why he let Shisui think his brother was dead; obito tells him that when Rin died, when Kakashi was the one to do it… he felt like he’d gone insane and he didnt want to go back to a village, one he’d been desperately holding onto despite the fact he’d been left to die in that landslide begging for death but somehow holding on for hours of agony, and it felt like nothing had been what he’d thought. Thered been an old man and a strange creature who’d cursed him back to health, whispering strange things in his ear whenever he regained consciousness, and obito hadnt wanted to be Obito after that; he was better off having died in that cave… so he became someone else. Shisui tells him about losing obito and then his entre genin team in the same month, about gaining his mangekyou and the way the elders had suddenly seemed to crawl all over him in interest; about itachi’s vacant, tragic eyes and sasuke’s reluctant attention and the weight of fugaku’s disappointed stare; about no one wanting to look at him, even speak to him, until after he’d forced himself into the spotlight at the chuunin exams when he killed everyone he came across, so skilled and talented and look at me look at me - about joining anbu and finally feeling seen even when he was in the shadow corps. About the coup and danzo and walking the wire for months, trying to save everyone even as they dug their graves deeper and deeper. Shisui bawls his eyes out, suddenly so terribly young, and obito, for the first time since he ‘died’, holds him.

Its three months later when obito meets endeavour. It goes about as well as expected when endeavour almost exploded an entire block trying to burn obito alive only for obito to flee without so much as a singe-mark….all the civilians are found dumped, unconscious, in an alleyway a safe distance away(he grabbed them and knocked them out with kamui). Obito is launched into the public eye after that. Shisui starts looking into quirk history and politics and current rankings; obito is both uninterested and intrigued when shisui points out certain heroes and he goes around trying to meet them (edgeshot is cool but definitely not a ninja… he looks too much like kakashi and obito flees that thought). As the entrance exam for UA approaches, obito finally meets eraserhead, scares the shit out of the man when his quirk doesnt make obito drop from the side of the building he’s crouched on, and we get a detective cut scene about ****Obito's vigiliante name***’s quirk. 

Entrance exam day; Shisui really hasnt been getting out much and he’s shocked by a lot of things, especially when the guy next to him tells people off (which is valid because dont these people understand respecting authority and shit, but also really he shouldn't be putting himself out there like tht...). He ends up in the physical exam with tokoyami and is impressed and regretful for the loss of his crow summons; he compliments tokoyami afterwards and gets to meet dark shadow, who clicks and whistles at him to tokyami’s bewilderment. Shisui legs it out of there; no surprise, he passes first in the exam. Obito, meanwhile, is approached in a bar by dabi who introduces him to kurogiri as they both presumably have ‘warping’ quirks. Obito has hit something big; dabi is both pissed and impressed by the idiot annoying his old man.

First day of UA: shisui is in 1-A and meets tenya again, slinking to his seat away from the attention; denki complains that between Shisui and shouto theyre not gonna get any girls to themselves; dark shadow and tokoyami greet shisui and momo interjects with interest when tokoyami compliments him again on his amazing showing in the exams; Shisui is put off by the open discussion of quirks, since its handing out their own weaknesses, but shrugs off the attention as having a simple speed-quirk. Aizawa finally calls out to the class and they go outside for their tests; shisui’s genin test was to find his old sensei in the middle of the village without being seen by civilians. This test is just fitness. He gets a lot of looks in the changing room and shisui is annoyed he didnt think to cover the scars; he foolishly though hero hopefuls would be more trained than this; he just says that hes been caught up in a few villain fights since he lives in a rough neoughbourhood and unwittingly makes everyone wonder if he’s a bit of a gang-type despite his politeness lmao

Aizawa calls Shisui up to do first ball throw, revealing that shisui came first in both parts of the exam (shisui is a jounin AND he used a sharingan for the test, c'mon people) and Midoriya steps up to do his tests , making aizawa use his quirk to stop him hurting himself. Shisui abruptly realises he’s going to have to fake being influenced by aizawa’s quirk and pay attention in the future so that no one can mae a connection between him and obito’s vigilante persona. Mineta is expelled, classes begin, and absolutely no one predicted that Shisui would be sitting with Bakugou of all people. Why? Everyone else is waaaaay too open, Bakugou is short tempered and angry but hes also so much more feral to succeed than most of them. There's a difference between trying hard in school and being absolutely devoted, Bakugou has been living and breathing his training since childhood (Todoroki is the same but shisui can smell the trauma and also this in endeavors kid, he doesn't want to risk Obito's cover) and shisui respects that even if he's increasingly annoyed with his temper and lashing out.

Obito joins the League to dig deeper into the underworld. Bakugou warms up to shisui when he realises that shisui isn't interested in petty childish egos and is professionally fixated on getting his license, which also helps Bakugou stop focusing on how others are doing. Shisui flunks the sports festival, because revealing his fighting style and 'quirk' on tv is a hard NO and Bakugou almost loses it when he see that shisui is 'whimping out' and they have a bad argument. Shisui avoids endeavor, Obito catches the Hero Killer for the clout, Bakugou is kidnapped by the league and broken out by shisui, realising that Shisuis 'rough neighbourhood' backstory might be even more gang-related than even Kaminari was gossiping about...

Shisui/Bakugou, Obito/Dabi

And that's all I had! I just copy pasted it 😅 maybe this reveals a bit about how I plan a fic?

This was fun, thanks for playing! Have a great weekend too ✨✨

#torship #torship talks #ask #ask game #nalyvia #shisui #obito #naruto/bnha #bnha

[silvernyxchariot]

I'm having fun with these types of blogs.

Tell me a team composition that you love, but would have meta players raving, flaming, and crucifying you for.

For this blog, I define "meta" as the "most effective tactic available." In Genshin's case, ways to clear Abyss with 36 stars the fastest way possible and teams that cause the most damage. These teams are often repetitive across accounts, such as Raiden National (Raiden, Xingqiu, Bennet, and Xiangling) or Morgana (Ganyu, Mona, Diona, and Venti).

Much like my previous blog, I will not reply back to any comments. My purpose for this blog is to learn how others have fun with their Genshin teams.

This is a free/"safe" space to rant, but remain courteous and respectful in the comments section to others and me. Please. I will not tolerate anyone who wants to have an argument, be a snarky bitch, or give unsolicited "advice." I will block those involved.

Example, ofc, offered below the cut:

Old photo, Shinobu is now lvl 90. Anyway, my Kavetham team is the one I get the most backlash for. While it does have meta qualities, Xingqiu + Kuki + Dendro = Hyperbloom, the metaslaves cry so hard that I put the Kaveh and Alhaitham together.

"Kaveh and Alhaitham don't work together."

"They have no "synergy.""

"That's not enough dendro application."

"They're like lathering mayonnaise onto a CPU."

No. They're not "mayonnaise" and a "CPU" or water and oil. They are two Dendro units that provide dendro resonance, can be major powerhouses alone, but even more dangerous together.

I made it work.

Kaveh made it to Abyss floor 11, chamber 3. If they were all fully built, they would be MENACES. The best built is Kaveh at C2R5, Talents 6/7/9, artifacts lvl 20. Everyone else is still a WIP, low talent levels, artifacts lvl 0-5, and weapons lvl 20-80.

My rotation:

¹ Alhaitham's skill and burst (or just skill, if his burst isn't up)

² Xingqiu's skill or burst for hydro application

³ Kaveh's burst and skill to detonate the cores and apply more dendro

⚡️ Shinobu is there to be the responsible one(/hj, the healer) that makes sure the boys don't get killed and she applies quickening and hyperbloom. Kaveh is more or less self-sufficient with his passive and can keep himself alive.

Although Kaveh is my dendro main, I switch between Kaveh and Alhaitham as I see fit. To make it less meta, Xingqiu and Shinobu can actually be replaced with double hydro (ex. Mona and Barbara) or Hydro+Zhongli, because gods forbid Alhaitham takes damage from his own cores.

It works if you rotate it right, but no one wants to put in the extra work to figure it out. The meta creates a close-minded set of builds, and it's filled with people who just want those giant crit numbers. I don't deny the meta characters, teams, and builds do great damage, but the metaslaves so often claim their unwarranted "advice" is just "worry for the team's functionality," like "I asked if my Kaveh build was good, not if Kaveh and Alhaitham had "synergy."

Me with my team building & scheming shenanigans:

On a silly little note, I have decided to build DPS Noelle and QiQi, both characters that have been tossed aside by the meta. I'm so excited to build them.

I've asked this on Hoyolab a few times in BottleMi but the response was tepid. Only 3 brave souls decided to share their thoughts. I saw two teams of full DPS units and a Yoimiya main who said "any Yoimiya team" (they didn't elaborate further).

Yes, yes. I know. "Play the game however you want. 🙄 Why are you complaining? 😂" Oh, darling. It's ✨️cunt hours✨️ right now. And I'm sitting here with my wine ready to read. 💅🍷 📖 Rant to me, darlings, and I will listen.

#just ranting #Genshin Impact #Ayato Main #Kaveh main #hyperbloom #team comp #video games #on an extra note Dr Ratio's ENG voice sounds so CUNTY #so... I'm starting Honkai Star Rail... #DPS Noelle #卡维×艾尔海森 #Yes I ship them ♡ #I ship them with myself #I dont hate the meta just the mindless followers

[novelmonger]

OC Mundane Tag Game

Tagged by @sailforvalinor

Rules: Pick an oc you'd like to talk about and answer the questions for them! Then tag ten people, or as many as you can. 'Underdeveloped character I adopted' is fine, too! Absolutely no pressure to play, though.

Also, if some of it can't apply to your ocs, just answer what would be the answer - like if they're in a historical setting, they likely can't watch movies, but what is a movie they'd like?

(Also, most people have many ocs, so feel free to retag people and answer as many times as you get tagged! Or get really wild and just answer for as many ocs as you'd like! :D)

Aaaand for this one, I'm going to pick one of my favorite secondary (but still very important!) OCs, Dr. William Robbins from my Captain America WIP Take Me In.

1. What is their favorite movie?

While it's tempting to say Good Will Hunting (which is the movie that inspired Dr. Robbins in the first place), I think I'm actually going to go with the Italian movie La Vita e Bella (Life Is Beautiful). It's a dramedy about the Holocaust, and I honestly think everyone needs to see it at least once in their life. It somehow manages to be genuinely hilarious while still dealing with such a heavy subject respectfully. Dr. Robbins loves it because it shows people's resilience in the face of so much evil. He laughs at the funny parts, and always cries at the end.

2. What is their favorite season?

Hmm...I think spring. His wife has a flower garden, and he loves to sit outside on his day off while all the flowers are blooming, and just breathe in new life.

3. What do they find annoying?

People who manipulate others, people who try to take advantage of him or someone else, people who won't even try to change things but continue to complain about them. Dr. Robbins is generally a very even-keeled and patient person, and besides that, he has lots of training and experience in not reacting to people trying to ruffle his feathers. So it's probably not very obvious on the surface that he is annoyed, but...he totally is.

4. How would they like to spend their Christmas or equivalent holiday?

Dr. Robbins loves to spend Christmas with family. He and his wife have one son, who has twin daughters who are...toddlers, I think? And Grandpa has lots of fun with his little punkins, Bella and Sophia :3 Mrs. Robbins is also one of those people who just has a knack for interior decorating, even though that's not her job, so their house always looks beautiful during the holiday season.

5. Do they play an instrument? If so, what? How good are they at it?

I don't know why, but I'm getting harmonica vibes off him ^_^ Just as a casual thing, like he'll whip out his harmonica and play some tunes for his granddaughters to dance to, or to play around a campfire on vacation or something.

6. What's their favorite meal to eat?

Mrs. Robbins is an excellent cook, so really he loves anything she makes. But if he were to make a request, like for his birthday or something, maybe he'd ask for her chicken and dumplings, garden salad, and her excellent blueberry cobbler for dessert.

7. Do they have a favorite video game or board game?

He doesn't really know much about video games. Board games...okay, there's this board game my grandparents had that I've never heard anyone else talk about, called the Mad Magazine Game. It's basically a parody of board games (you're trying to get rid of all your money, you go in the opposite direction of most board games, etc.), and at certain points, you have to do crazy things like move to a different seat or exchange your hand of cards with someone else. Dr. Robbins things it's the best game in the world, though some of his family members are a little tired of it by now. He waits in eager anticipation for the day he can play it with his granddaughters.

8. Do they celebrate their birthday?

He does celebrate his birthday, at least with the meal I described above, but as we all know, life doesn't stop for your birthday when you're an adult :/ Far too often, there's some crisis he has to take care of or just a long day at work, so he doesn't make any big plans for his birthday anymore. As long as he can at least get a phone call from his son and a quiet evening with his wife at some point around his birthday, he's happy.

9. What's their bedtime routine?

After changing, brushing teeth, etc., Dr. Robbins and his wife like to sit in bed and read for a while before turning the lights out. They don't usually read the same things - Mrs. Robbins likes cozy slice-of-life type stories, while Dr. Robbins likes thick Dickens novels - but it's cozy and comfortable to just sit there reading next to each other. When one of them is ready for sleep (usually Mrs. Robbins starts nodding off first), they turn out the lights.

10. What's an oc (or canon character) that they like to spend time around? What do they tend to do together?

Dr. Robbins is Bucky's therapist. As you might imagine, Bucky has a lot of stuff to work through, so they spend quite a bit of time together, talking things through, working through various emotions, trying to change the unhealthy ways Bucky thinks and find better ways to live. I wouldn't say their therapy sessions are exactly enjoyable, but Dr. Robbins does get a lot of satisfaction and fulfillment from his work. There are few things he likes more than helping a client - especially one as complicated as Bucky - on their way to a breakthrough.

Tagging anyone with an OC who gives great hugs and you wish you could get one from them.

#tag games #captain america #whole shards #take me in #dr robbins (oc)

[cryo-lily]

So this is another clip for Isadola I couldn’t help posting as well.

This is quite possibly the furthest she’s been pushed up to this point. One of her best friends betrays her and shoot the love of her life. I say it a lot but Theron is lucky Issie just didn’t snap his neck then and there for shooting Lana.

You can literally see the conflict playing out in Issie’s head as the scene goes on. From pure anger and rage at Theron betraying them and again shooting Lana, to just the weight of the betrayal starting to weigh her down, then to genuine hurt that one of her closest friends and pretty much a brother to her would do this.

Then to just confusion to what he’s on about, as Isadola was genuinely didn’t want the Eternal Throne but tried her best to keep or make peace, all while trying not to forget what it’s like for everyone else in the galaxy trying not to let the power she controls get the better of her and blind her to what’s actually going on. 

But when it’s clear Theron won’t see reason she goes right back to stage one of her grief and settles back into anger for a long while. Theron knew exactly what he was doing, but even he didn’t think how far this betrayal of his would push Issie past a point of no return for her. And if Theron actually did manage to kill Lana, Theron would’ve created the very thing he was swearing to destroy.

Then after everything on Umbara we get this small exchange:

Lana & Isadola up to this point haven’t even discussed together what went down on Umbara. And this formal debrief was only scratching the surface of what each of them were going through.

In a small moment, Lana could feel under all of the surface anger how badly Issie was hurting from everything that went down; And she tried her best to show some of  her own sympathies on the matter before trying to apply to Isadola’s pragmatic side to get her to focus on the task at hand which worked to a degree. Lana knew there would always be time to comfort Issie better in a more private setting later, for that moment they had a lot of work to do.

And I think the biggest key into Issie’s feelings here is her choice of message to Theron. Despite all of her anger, despite her desire to on some level kill Theron, Issie still believes theres hope for Theron, that there’s more to the whole situation then what was said by both on that train. Theron, whether Issie likes it or not is basically a brother to her, and she refuses to give up what few meaningful attachments she has over disagreements.

In the end under her anger, she just want her brother back, she wants to continue trying to make the galaxy a better place. And despite what comes out of her mouth through anger, rage & betrayal, she still has hope that all of this doesn’t have to end in tears or blood.

Playing a Miraluka really makes you think of how emotions are conveyed and how it’s pick up on by those closest to them. And yes if asked about any of all this I could ramble for hours, thus my working on similar WIPs to cover such topics for Issie.

#swtor #swtor spoilers #nathema arc spoilers #swtor jedi consular #swtor oc mention #oc: Isadola Ardeen #Theron Shan #Lana Beniko #swtor clips #I think about this part of the story a lot #and how Lana & Issie cope with this entire set of events #hell this is the scene that made me think- #How far would either Issie or Lana fall if the other was taken from them #And I'm still not sure who would be worse tbh #but anyway I digress #swtor talks

[darkpoisonouslove]

Hi :)! 1, 2, 11, 21, 24 for the writing ask game?

1. Tell us about your WIP!

I'm passively working on 300 things so I don't know which one to pick. I just finished the first draft of a story yesterday but it's not actually done yet so I may as well talk about that.

It was supposed to be mostly smut but now it's 30% worldbuilding, 60% feels and 10% smut (at least there's still some of that there; at the rate this was going that's a miracle). Is all of the worldbuilding, especially in the beginning, necessary? No. Can I make it somewhat relevant if I tie it to the feels? Yes. Would I have left it in even if I couldn't connect it to the rest of the story? Absolutely. I love my worldbuilding, what can I tell you?

The story is called Imitation Play and the premise is that the main characters have to go undercover as spouses because they kind of failed their mission and now the city they're in is crawling with law-enforcement looking to arrest them. The rest of the story was supposed to play into the "only one bed" trope but they don't even make it to the bed... or to the sex. Actually, the title can also be applied to the smut because magic.

I had this idea in August but it was such a mess that I couldn't bear to look at it and I left it alone. A few days ago I read through it and it turned out that the problem is that I was trying to do too much all at once, as always. Once I fixed that issue, I managed to find my way through my meandering middle section and in three days, I managed to crank out the first draft. It's 4,899 words which is way more than I expected. Not to mention that I will be adding more when I revise it because I am awful at describing bodily sensations, especially on the first try. I also managed to piece together the thematic and now I need to go through all of it to see if there's anything to be added on account of that.

P.S. This has a sequel that is such a non sequitur that I will probably scrap it altogether.

2. What are you planning to work on next?

I'm trying to finish several more prompts that I have left from last year's 200-followers celebration. What I am really dying to work on, though, is a multi-chaptered idea that is only seven chapters so I'm hoping I can get it done (nvm that I abandoned the 4-chapter story I was working on in the beginning of October but that month was such a horrible time for me).

I don't know if I can do this without mentioning names but let me try. So the MC was just rescued from the man she was in love with years ago. She had to betray him because of her conscience and now he's back from his imprisonment and he had her locked in a cell. She was rescued by the woman that she's currently in a relationship with (who also saved her life back when the betrayal happened) and now it's the two of them against her ex. The thing is that she's still not over him and they're caught in their love-hate relationship that's starting to really reflect terribly on everyone else. I want to work on this because the point here is actually that he's trying to convince her that her current girlfriend is only with her because of hatred for him and doesn't actually love her, is only doing it all to spite him (because he's clearly the center of the universe). He's wrong but during this entire process the MC figures out that her girlfriend has intense negative feelings towards her (for very complex reasons) that she's repressing because she's afraid of what those would mean for the love between them. That is sort of exactly what tore the MC and her ex apart, though, and she doesn't want to repeat the experience. I couldn't recap everything because there are way too many thematic connections and magical happenings and feelings to deal with but that's exactly why I am so excited about this. Also, the MC ends up making a horrible choice because of self-loathing and love. She's desperate to give the people she loves (but keeps hurting) the chance to live out their lives in peace if not happiness even if it means dooming the rest of the universe. It has a lot of "love as poison" moments and that is *points to url* right up my alley so... I'm excited!

11. Favorite fictional world?

I have to say the world of Winx Club. It has a really unique blend of fantasy and sci-fi that is super fun and interesting to watch. The visuals and inner workings of everything are also very original and I am especially fond of it because it opened my eyes on the endless possibilities of crafting fantasy while also keeping certain modern day or even futuristic elements that will make the story stand apart from all the medieval-europe-setting fantasy.

21. Your characters are stranded on a deserted island. What happens?

I want to go with the Company of Light + Valtor (from Winx Club) because I write almost exclusively about them. The thing is that they all have magic, though, so for them to be stranded, that will have to be removed. I was thinking maybe they just can't use it to get away from the island, but no. If Valtor is also there and they have magic, they will try to kill him and vice versa. Now if they don't have magic, that will be interesting because the main problem will probably be a a crisis of self-image for all of them rather than a crisis of survival. They are all very capable even outside their magical abilities and they are all survivors so I'm not worried about that. Most that can happen is Valtor trying to kill them anyway but through sneaky means such as laying traps for them. Griffin knows him and the way he thinks, however, so really the biggest drama here will be the other Company members potentially having to listen to an extensive lecture on the inside workings of Valtor's mind, which they will all hate for different reasons. But the main issue is that he's pretty much their main enemy, who threatened everything they loved, and Griffin was on his side and willing to kill the other Company members with him before she betrayed him because even she was no longer okay with what he was doing. They are all (including Valtor) avoiding the topic of her relationship with Valtor so this will be a fun development for all of them (now I want to write that). But on to the identity crises.

Valtor is literally made of magic so him being unable to do magic will drive him up the wall. Especially since he also has deep derision and resentment for anyone without magic. And on top of that, the people that he hates the most are right there and he has to use archaic means to get rid of them when he could have just used a single spell and been done with it if he had magic. Though, I can imagine him enjoying the sense of hunt that this situation could have.

Marion has the same power source as Valtor but she's not made of it like he is. However, it comes as her birthright along with her crown and it's pretty much the only part of being queen that she is attached to (aside from protecting her people, which she also can't do from the island). So not having access to that power is going to be a big blow to her and also potentially make her question all of her life decisions to devote herself to a lifestyle that she hates.

Griffin is very intrinsically connected to her magic as well. Defending her right to her (dark) magic is what has driven her for most of her life so having to live without it but with the weight of the colossal mistakes that she made in the name of it could just drive her a little bit insane. Oh, and facing Valtor when neither of them have magic and their relationship was heavily based on their connection to magic and to each other through magic is a bunch of panic attacks waiting to happen.

Faragonda has a complicated relationship with her magic. She switched from dark to light magic and that sort of cost her everyone that she loved before (mainly her mother and Griffin, who have issues with light magic users and the oppression of dark magic users). Having to live without it now is like a glimpse of the life she could have had with all its positives (not having to go through all of her pain) and all its negatives (potentially not becoming friends with Griffin and the rest of the Company at all).

The truth is that I haven't really figured out Hagen, Oritel and Saladin's feelings on their magic but in any case, they aren't quite as attached to it as the characters I already listed. Their biggest dramas stem from a different place and so their identity crises would stem more from their loved ones (aka the other Company members) not having their magic.

Marion's power is sort of the reason why they're at war with Valtor and his creators so Oritel (her husband) and Hagen (her best friend) will both get a glimpse of not having to fight that war without her powers.

Oritel will struggle with enjoying any part of her being without her magic because he knows how attached she is to it. But at the same time, they and their child and their people could have had peaceful lives if not for her power so that will cause some tension in his mind and between the two of them. Plus, he has a tendency to equate all dark magic to evil (which isn't true) but then again his stance on Griffin or Valtor won't change now that they don't have magic so I don't think that will be quite as significant as the above problem.

Hagen basically abandoned his whole life just to help Marion and Oritel with the war and he is struggling with defining himself out of his relations to them so things would have been vastly different for him without the war. That means that he also might have not met Faragonda, though, and he has it bad for her so the struggle continues.

And Saladin is... kind of there, as always. I really need to work more to develop him and his role in this group's dynamic.

24. Does your WIP have any themes or motifs?

The WIP I talked about in question 1 has a theme of building facades and pretenses to keep yourself safe from your feelings and other people disappointing you. But it also deals with what that demands from a person - how you have to walk a fine line between the pretense and the reality in order to either not give yourself away or not fall into and get consumed by the mask you're putting on. It's about remembering that you're wearing a mask and that you can and have to take it off to connect with yourself again.

#winx club #winx griffin #griffin x valtor #winx valtor #winx faragonda #griffin x faragonda #company of light #my wips #my writing #ask #intothewickedwood