#ask meme thingy

[flashbic]

Which of your bois would you stick in a salad spinner :D

That's just rotating him in my mind but with an extra step and I'm already doing that all the time, so. it gotta be Falconi

#if we're talking Death Machine: it's Scott. Scott is getting slad spinned #ask meme thingy #I still love that art tbh it's getting kinda old but. it sure was A Sign Of Things To Come when i drew it about one year ago

[stellarhoxy]

Tagged by @loniface

Last Song: (G)I-DLE - Put It Straight (싫다고 말해) (Nightmare Ver.)

Last Film: Star Wars 1

Currently Reading: One Piece manga

Currently Watching: Aint really actively watching any series really atm.

Currently Consuming: a can of cherry coke

Currently Craving: some fruit probably

Not gonna tag anyone who wants to do it can!

#ask meme thingy

[starberry-cupcake]

Getting to know my mutuals! List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox of some people who liked or reblogged something from you recently (if you want)! (ू•‧̫•ू⑅)♡

Learning new things that I'm interested in

When a story comes together

Café con leche at breakfast and merienda time

Crafting or creating new things from scratch

Finding new perspectives on things I thought I knew

#thank you for sending this! ♥ #ask meme thingy #kharjo-san #ask

[nomisupernova]

ohhh sasugetsu for the ship bingo?

i am abnormal about sasugetsu,,, i love sasuke being with obnoxious men that crack open his tough boy shell

#i'm aware it is a rarepair but i dont care! #sasugetsu 4EVR #kishi speaks #ask meme thingy #asks #answers

[remmicreates]

This is just kind of a brainworm I wanted to share, and your art style feels like it vibes with the humor/mood of the piece.

Barbie/Ken mugshot meme. Ladybug is Barbie. Rena/QB/Chat/Carapace are all crowded in together, clowning for the Ken picture.

Wasn’t planning on doing this trend but this sounded fun soooo :)

Might render it later but we’ll see,

#remmicreates #miraculous fanart #miraculousladybug #miraculous ladybug fanart #mlb fanart #miraculous #fanart #miraculous ladybug #rena rouge #miraculous rena rouge #miraculous chat noir #chat noir fanart #mlb chat noir #chat noir #mlb queen bee #miraculous queen bee #Barbie meme template thingy #remmiartrequests #requests/asks #my art #RemmiCreatesArt #RemmiCreatesRequests #RemmiCreatesSwaps #RemmiCreatesRedesigns

[fonulyn]

10?

10. If unpublished, can you show a sneak peek of what you've written?

:3

Piers tried not to let the anger show, but he wasn’t exactly sure if it worked. He pushed his hand between his thigh and the couch to hide how much it was shaking. He had no idea how to even react, not when all he wanted was the impossible, to save Leon from the life he’d lived. And he knew it was unfair to keep asking questions while Leon couldn’t keep from answering, but he couldn’t help himself. “She’s free now! Why are you still putting yourself through this!?”

The half-whispered answer was chilling. “It’s all I’m good for.”

The worst part of it was that Leon couldn’t lie. He truly believed what he was saying, and he thought that he had no value as a person beyond his job. That he had nothing else to give. Which was absolute bullshit. Piers wanted to scream.

(for this thing!)

#meme thingy #anonymous #ask and i shall answer #me and my fics

[krys-loves-otome]

Trick or treat! Mostly treat, please!

Mostly a treat, you say? Which means there is a little room for trickery, yes?

And who is better at trickery than dearest Mitsuhide?

A while ago, I made an attempt of using clusters to try and map out my thinking process when it comes to fic writing, so I could try and visually see where ramblings could take me. Here's the IkeSen portion of that (admittedly quite large) clusterfuck of ideas, based on an idea from an old Fictober prompt: You Keep Me Warm

So, based on this image and that Mitsuhide is at the forefront of this idea, let's go have a lil wip!

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The road to recovery wasn't an easy one, Mitsuhide was quick to realize, when he had found you had thrown your blankets off, once again. Even wrapping you as if you were a small caterpillar in the chrysalis did little to deter you. Perhaps he should next seek out midwifes for advice on techniques swaddling fussy infants as clearly his method was lacking. With a sigh, he knelt beside your bed and corrected the sheets, pulling them over your shoulders. It eased his frayed nerves that you were steadily gaining your strength back, thankfully. What he didn't like was discovering your chilled limbs whenever he checked on your during the night. Doubly frustrating was finding other parts clammy with fever. He wiped your brow with a cool, damp cloth. "…Is cold." you whispered hoarsely, shivering. "You'd be warmer if you kept your blankets on." Heavens above, he was turning into Hideyoshi, he thought with a bitter laugh.

Askbox Trick or Treat!

#meme thingys #krys's adventures in fanfiction #ikemen sengoku #mitsuhide akechi #ask box trick or treat #not an angst nor a bedwarmer but a secret third thing #I think that image was originally made last year? #and didn't make much from it #maybe a wip wednesday that originally featured Lancelot but I never got to include him #something to consider for later #lol

[altraviolet]

I was tagged by @viol3lite in this post here for a little chain answer thingy thing. Thanks for the tag :) The original post is super long so I'm answering here instead of reblogging the whole thing.

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

33

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

654,175

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Transformers. I used to write for other fandoms many years ago.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

LOL this is how all my stats look. The Echo Garden has a jillion more stats than everything else.

5. Do you respond to comments?

Yes :)

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I don't have any fics with angsty endings, per se. But horrific or sad or horrifically sad... probably "Lightning Rod."

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

Plenty of them have happy endings! Probably Echo Garden wins here. I literally wrote the sappiest ending I could, then wrote the whole fic, wondering if I could get to a place where the sappiness was in character, and it was. bahaha

8. Do you get hate on fics?

never got a flame on ff.net and I've never gotten hate on AO3 =)

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

lol. uhhhhh. the roboty kind

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

The craziest one was a character from TFP going onto a vessel from MTMTE. It's a crossover from different parts of the TF franchise, but not a crossover between entirely unrelated franchises.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not to my knowledge

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

yes! there are 2 Russian translations and 1 Chinese translation for Echo Garden, and there is a Russian translation for the Rodimus/Megatron fic The Field Ballad.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

not in TF fandom

14. What's your all time favorite ship?

Mirage/Skywarp :)

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

sequel to Face The Past. I have a bunch of stuff written but will probably never get it together.

16. What are your writing strengths?

worldbuilding, characterization (keeping characters in character even through an arc), flow

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

plot, ugh

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

is this a contentious subject? o_O oh maybe for anime, putting random Japanese in?

in Transformers fics the "other languages" aren't real the way non-English languages are real, so I can't put them in without inventing them and then translating them anyway. I put those parts in italics and make it known to the reader what's happening. I think it's good for showing character or culture

19. First fandom you wrote for?

I made my own Star Trek ship and crew xD

20. Favorite fic you've written?

oh nuuuuu how am I supposed to piiiiiiick...

*sigh* I guess Echo Garden? it was extremely long and extremely indulgent. I held back a little, but overall I did almost everything I wanted to do. the length came from the indulgence.

If you'd like to consider yourself tagged and join in, feel free =)

#writing meme #writing questions #what do you call this thing? #tagged thingy #long post #if you ask “which story has highest stat X?” the answer is always Echo Garden #just... it always is #and probably always will be xD

[andyridgeley]

me tryin to figure out if they were tryin to make a tiny dick joke about jamie like

#personal thingys #ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #lasso memes #was it that the hole was too small so when they looked at it they were like oh shit it got SLICED OFF #or was it like...thats just how it is babey #and im the WORST person to ask but its been making me laugh cause that whole scene was INSANE #he wasnt tied up to isaac but made me think of when isaac karate chopped his arm like foreshadowing hmmm ajdlfkjdkalsjf #this is so dumb but its making me laugh so im posting jsoakfjfksjahdf #i know the joke was that they thought something bad happened obviously it hurt but was there another joke there

[blehblarghblah]

Opinion on S3 of Infinity Train?

Tl;DR, I really enjoyed this Book! Grace's growth from a manipulator matched with Simon's trust issues were a clever pairing, especially in the regard that they are codependent enablers (Grace more than Simon at first). Hazel's presence was an excellent match for Grace and Simon's "companion" but Tuba leaving an imprint the way she did despite not being there for the majority only shows how good her character was.

The themes overall were done really well, as the show demonstrated a nice portrayal of how conflicting people can exist and what one can do to better themselves, or help others.

Good season, good characters.

To get into it in more depth...

My sister and I did not like these two because of Book 2, but when we learned they were gonna be the Book 3 protagonists I figured we'd learn to like at least one of them. Character wise, I prefer Grace over Simon but I still liked how they handled everyone's characters within this book. They really did feel like snarky teenagers with no adult guidance, who at their core were really the same scared old kids who got on the train.

When Grace told Simon, "I don't owe you anything" I really liked the emotions of that scene and dialogue. How Simon was portrayed with his trust issues, compared to Grace and her manipulation, I think was done well. He was meant to be someone frustrating and both the VA and animation carried that snark very well.

I also liked how their codependent relationship as mutual (though more on Grace's end) enablers was subtly expressed at first. It was a great take on expressing the problems of acting out for attention and issue of trust, but on top of recognizing good and bad friends. Or in other words, conveying the journey of recognizing flaws in an individual or self, and either striving to help others from them or realizing to distance yourself from the company you keep.

On that notion, Grace's number going down the way it did was a good way of expressing that while you've done a lot of wrongs in life, starting the path to redemption or making up for it can be an even greater step than you realize. I also kinda liked that One-One didn't know about The Apex. It sucked, obviously, but it evolved into an interesting element with Grace having to recognize her faults and the impact she's had on others, then expand on the idea of pushing out of that toxic mentality.

Good example would be Jesse confronting The Apex: as a Passenger, it sucked his "goal" was kind of being hampered by other Passengers who misunderstood the Train, but it did lead to him outright asserting he will be better which led to his escape.

Also, this Book had Samantha the Cat! Which was always a fun recurring character to me, so seeing some backstory for her was neat! I liked Hazel's character and what she did for Grace, her presence set a standard for Grace and Simon and I liked that a lot, since it forced them to compromise on the one thing we already knew they were adamant about: wheeling denizens. Amelia's return and knowing she's helping One-One now was cool to know, but it was also saddening to learn why Hazel existed in the first place. And Holy Hades did Tuba's death hit hard, she was such a good mother-figure and the delivery of that scene was so well done (followed up with the most twisted scene where Simon just happily tells Hazel he killed her).

The amount of characters within this Book blended well together, especially in terms of narrative. A lot of themes took place in this Book, and I liked that our cast of (mostly) four balanced each other out in terms of dynamics. Overall, I think this Book carried itself well with the characters it introduced and reintroduced. My sister and I really liked it!

Until next ask,

- Bleh

#ask bleh #anon asks #asks #infinity train #infinity train book 3 #grace monroe #simon laurent #hazel infinity train #tuba infinity train #amelia hughes #one one #one one infinity train #review? #i guess? #opinion thingy #infinity train memes

[nixie-deangel]

Tagged by @aqua-fail <33

7 comfort movies 🎥 🍿!

1) The Mummy

2) The Equalizer

3) How To Train Your Dragon

4) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

5) Rocky Horror Picture Show

6) The Princess Bride

7) Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Tagging: @trickstermoose67, @triskhellion, @lucide-dreamer-dreams, @a-redharlequin, @mxopifex, @buying-the-space-farm, @fuinixe and anyone else who'd liked to do this!

#Nixie Answers #Comfort Movies #those sometimes this list changes #these generally are the movies I tend to go back to over and over and over again #though sometimes the other lotr movies would end up on here #same with various star wars movies #and other classic disney movies #and just about most denzel washington movies as well #ask answered #ask meme #ask thingy

[flashbic]

🔥 unpopular opinion pls 🥺🤲

You get 2 bc you didnt give me a theme!!

🔥Death Machine: i'd actually be curious to see a remake or a sequel to it in any shape or form? The OG movie is perfect by itself and i love it to bits, but i would also have tons of fun picking at literally anything new, good or bad. It's not something that's needed, obviously, and i would miss the original cast so much, but if it happened i'd take a look!

🔥Cartouche salty opinion time no such thing an unpopular opinion since there's no fandom to speak of im still annoyed that they spend like 5 different eps on the Fleur d'Épine backstory! while Cartouche gets 1 episode that's really more about his brother than about him??? it's still a neat one, but my boy deserved better......

#cartouche prince des faubourgs #Death Machine #ask meme thingy #I have. So many more Cartouche opinions actually #but we'll stick to this one i guess

[8bit-mau5]

If I ask very nicely for a little love here would I receive it

#This is for an upcoming ask meme thingy but also I’m just #very sad! It’s my first day being away from my boyfriend #and I’m very 🥲 #8bit beeps

[starberry-cupcake]

For the fairy tale ask, 3 & 13, I'll bring popcorn

Hi!! Thank you for sending some! 

3. What is one of your favourite non-romantic fairy tales?

Actually, my favorite fairy tale in general is non-romantic: The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen.

Andersen had, I think, a very good handle of relationship dynamics that weren't plain or just archetypal, for the genre and the time in which he published. Maybe because he was writing in a place of self fulfillment and poetic intent rather than educational, moral or linguistic pursuit, maybe because he wasn't hetero or allosexual, maybe because he was born at a time in which he could and wanted to deconstruct what he didn't agree with in other stories (especially classism), his relationships don't tend to ever be simple or clear cut, and sometimes are not even endgame.

Not only the main motivator for the story is Gerda trying to save her friend Kai, Gerda also finds friends along the way, like the tough but sensitive Little Robber Girl who turns to care for her very dearly, or the Princess who is in search for a Prince who'd be, more than anything, a good companion for conversation and shared interests.

There is a lot of strength in love without romance in The Snow Queen. Which is probably why it always confused me that people at large thought that Frozen was somewhat doing something revolutionary.

13. Do you have a folklore rant you're holding in? (Let It Out)

I've mentioned this before but it still bothers me greatly: it angers me when people think that, in order to strive for diversity and representation in fairy tales and folklore, they have to slap Eurocentric stories into non European cultures. That's colonialism.

Taking a European story like Snow White or Little Red Riding Hood and stamping on some other culture into it for more diversity is to shoehorn a lot of folkloric remnants of culture, beliefs, religion, social categories of a time and place to people who not only don't hold them but who also have our own stories to share.

To name just one example of the culture I'm most familiar with because it's my own, Berta Elena Vidal de Battini, in the early to mid 20th Century, compiled 3152 texts throughout the territory of Argentina, annotated, cataloged and accompanied by a study of the diverse language changes of all territories and the cultural influences that combined in day to day life of the territory, both the native peoples foundations and the immigration influences.

3152 texts. Stories, fairy tales, fables, rhymes, cryptid encounters, poems, native peoples narrative, popular characters, etc.

Differently from the Grimms, Laura Gonzenbach and other compilers that set to do a similar job, Vidal de Battini preserved, as much as she was able, the linguistic variety of the story tellers, bending Spanish (from Spain) grammar to adapt to the regional vernacular and pointing out why some of these cases occurred and what influence did these things have linguistically.

And that's just one example. There's so much richness in folklore and stories of every culture, because every culture has stories.

I think that what Disney is trying to do lately, of creating new fairy tales that are conceptualized on more diverse cultural foundations, is a step forward, especially since most often there are, as of late, at least partially own voices in the crew. Disney became, whether we like it or not, the biggest platform for fairy tale distribution in the world. When people think of Cinderella, most people think of a light blue dress and a blonde updo. Still, they are a US based company with a capitalist nature and a majority of white folks in positions of power, and that ends up constructing filters and problematic situations, as well as it creates a landscape in which your story needs to pass through those filters in order to be listened to, which implies, it being a US based company, that the story becomes a monetized intellectual property.

I think it's just time to pass the microphone. If you want more diversity in stories, let those people you want to know more about tell their stories. If you are from a culture that doesn't get represented often and are more familiar with Hansel and Gretel than you are with your own folklore, or your first instinct is to re-write a European story to fit you, look around and search, because I assure you there's a lot of stuff there for you to discover and it's more wonderful than what you expect.

Thank you for sending some questions @demigodinmybed ♥ 

#ask meme thingy #fairy tales #hans christian andersen #argentina #berta elena vidal de battini #demigodinmybed

[nomisupernova]

WONDER for the fanfic wip ask thing

There’s a few scars across [Naruto]'s chest, around where his shoulder meets his neck, and a few more along his arms and hands, and Gaara silently wonders if the cruel people of Konoha are responsible for such a thing. His hand scars can be explained away by reckless training regiments, but the scars on the tops of his shoulder and arms look to be intentional, almost like he threw his arms up to protect himself from some assailant.

it felt incomplete without the sentence right after teehee

#i love writing beat-up boys #kishi speaks #asks #answers #ask meme thingy

[zoeythefloppyceilingchild]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox of the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you :3

Five things that make me happy, hmmm..?

My luvs (@arsonisawerido is one of them) <3

Mah friends (most of which I would definitely consider family)

Coffee (Da tall skele bean! I know you is watching :3)

Making new OCs.

Making bookmarks! (I want to make my own bookmark selling website once I graduate from the school I'm currently in-)

Recent liking/reblogging peeps :]

@coffee-gold-boi

@dragon-tamer-1

@leviathanverse

(I'm not going way down, so here's the recent three!)

#ask #anon ask #positive ask meme thingy-