BLACKBIRD. THE EPISODE, THE SHORT STORY. OH MY GOD. WATARU. EICHI.
I can't believe we finally have the missing piece of their story. I love it. I love them. AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
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Hey Tumblr, it's been a while.
Ask The Werewolves #6 is now available to download, for as little as no dollars. If you need to catch up with the story, you can start at the start, or read the Q&A archive. And look out for Issue #7, planned for later this year. Keep on howling.
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Me, a cat therian: enjoying mimicking bird sounds
My brain: stop overthinking, not everything needs to be related to your theriotype, ur allowed to enjoy other things
Me: finds out mimicking bird sounds is a common cat activity
Me, sarcastically: well well well, never saw THAT one coming
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oooo wait so the akatsuki and undead songs that are getting the cool animated pv are the climax songs you're telling me
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To follow up on my "What Happens to Tim in an Age Reversal" poll, who do you think he becomes in the future??
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finally seeking out the rolleigns 2022 match in its entirety (by which i mean. including their full entrances/introductions
i just really appreciate how shitty both of them are. they're the worst. especially to each other.
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Hey! Do you want to support indie creators this Halloween season? (of course you do!)
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(There is also a pay what you want edition if that's preferable!)
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Author’s Note: Those of you who read the @sl-walker Blackbirds series (if you don’t you should be) may start to recognize a character at the end of this chapter. He is borrowed with permission, with gratitude, and with love for this reality. Spoiler Alert—things look slightly grim, but fear not. You can find her works here: https://archiveofourown.org/users/SLWalker/works
Chapters: 9/20
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ahsoka Tano/Original Character(s), Rae Sloane/Original Character(s), Qi’ra/Original Character (s), Original Character(s)/Original Character(s)
Characters: Ahsoka Tano, Rae Sloane, Qi’ra, Morgan Elsbeth, Simon Greyshade, Shyla Merricope, Shaak Ti, Plo Koon (cameo), Mace Windu (Cameo), Yoda (cameo), Jame Blackthorn | Bryne Covenant | Taliesin Croft |Tempest (Original Character), Dani Faygan |Ishta (Original Character), Nola Vorserrie |Seoladen (Original Character), Meglann Florlin |Ina|Hammer (Original Character), Phygus Baldrick | Touchstone (Original Character), Null-13 | Drop | Tarre Tredecima |Balor (Original Character), Talle Tredecima | Orla (Original Character), Alyysina Faygan’ii na’ Torstan’ii |Serquet |Sina, Ano Lessi (Original Character), Delilah Sal |ISB-010 | The Untrusted Other (Original Character), Edan Kozume (Original Character), Sulen Gallamby (Original Character), Nathanaan Beten’ii (Original Character)
Additional Tags: Hutt Cartels (Star Wars), Crimson Dawn, Nar Kanji, freedom fighting in the truest sense, Slavery, daring greatly, rebellion’s infancy, Love, love of the light, fighting slavery, Espionage, mild swindling in the service of the light, Family, Dysfunctional Family, Found Family, Polyamory, Corellian Family Values, Blackbirds AU (sorta)
Series: Part 46 of Rise and Fight Again
Summary:
World in Thrall! Ahsoka Tano, Bryne Covenant, and the other Links move to depose the new ruler of Nar Kanji, a Hutt apparently named Geddak, who is kin to an ally of Shyla Merricope’s, Geddan, who was executed for embezzlement on the orders of Ming Lardai. They intend to ally themselves with Kanjiklub, a criminal organization dedicated to freeing the slaves of Nar Kanji, while suborning Imperial officers such as Rae Sloane, and another criminal organization’s representative—Crimson Dawn’s Qi’ra. Along the way the deceptions they give rise to will imperil them all.
Just another day for them.
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The life of Josephine's crow was once saved by Garrett. Will the blackbird repay the favor?
Thranduil and Josie fic.
New chapter up
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ok first thoughts on blackbird (translation available here courtesy of @/funbirdnest and @/spectralpooch as well as yuko and asher)
positive:
i liked it! i thought it was cute! the idea of eichi and wataru working on writing the story together is very sweet to me.
also appreciate how gay it is that they made themselves the ~rulers of yumenosaki academy~
i really liked how the story handles wataru's anger; it's one of the things i find most compelling about him as a character and whenever a story makes that explicit i get pretty excited. it's nice to get narration from his point of view as well bc i do feel like he tends to keep a lot of his ugly emotions to himself so it's cool to really be in his head and feel them without the buffer he puts up to interact with other people.
i love the return of natsume's plan with the oddballs!!! element is my favourite ! story because i found the dynamic between natsume and eichi really fascinating, with how natsume hates eichi but out of understanding of how getting revenge would perpetuate eichi's values decides to instead work for a happy ending that includes eichi. this is something i so wished the story had played with more and it's really nice to see the return of the unique relationship eichi and natsume have by giving natsume's plans a more prominent role and effect on eichi's behaviour.
not so positive (feel free to not read this if that's not your cup of tea):
having said that... i'm not sure how much i really "buy" this as the backstory behind main story. this is just a personal qualm but i really don't like when writers canonize ideas that have a big impact on how you're supposed to read the original story years after the fact. the idea that eichi consciously wrote his own downfall against trickstar (in collaboration with wataru) in my opinion gives eichi more credit than he's gotten before... yes, he's always building self-destruct buttons into his own plans, because subconsciously he wants to be defeated, but taking that from his subconscious to his conscious desires is a bit revisionist imo.
i do think akira deliberately chose to give new weight to wataru saying to eichi in main story, "this is how you wanted things to unfold," but i don't really like it. wataru being able to pick up on what eichi can't admit to himself is one of my favourite things about their dynamic, but if this is something they literally planned together then that undermines wataru's intuition.
i guess i'm not fond of how much of eichi and wataru's behaviour in ! has to be reread as acting or lying in light of this new info. wataru's total disinterest in fine at the beginning of the year, whereby he claimed that his only interest in fine was eichi and didn't really care about the unit while eichi was in the hospital, just doesn't really make that much sense anymore if he knew exactly what purpose fine would serve and what role everyone would play in the story, unless he was totally lying. that's fine, but it's also like... meh?
same goes for eichi. he really went all out exerting himself to try to stop trickstar from overthrowing him. i feel like it means less or at the very least means something different if that had been the plan all along; like he knew how it was going to go and pushed himself that hard either out of a sense of pride or because he was going back on what he'd written and didn't actually want them to defeat him. this is all interesting but i just don't find it as interesting personally as the idea that like, he was moving unconsciously toward an end that he desired, all the while fighting his hardest against it out of pride. like it's a subtle difference but an important one. the new context means eichi has more self-awareness about the outcomes that he wants to achieve, but he doesn't really have a good reason to have that self-awareness at this point in the story (he certainly didn't have it when he was trying to mop the floor with wataru).
in general i don't really think introducing, years after material has already been out, the idea that characters were basically lying or acting for very long stretches of time, in parts of the story where there wasn't really any ambiguity or foreshadowing of the necessity of this, is a good writing move.
tw: suicide / i don't think eichi being suicidal after the events of element is unrealistic or unwarranted, but i do feel like "someone like eichi" should be able to appreciate why that's narratively unsatisfying. like i'm nitpicking here but, eichi feels like the things he did were completely unforgivable and tyrannical. archetypally, the end for a tyrant isn't suicide, it's execution. i feel like in his contemplation of suicide he should be more aware of this, like the fact that suicide would be giving himself a way to escape liability. if it's his pride to die before anyone can execute him then that's a matter he should be considering too. eichi is aware of narratives and archetypes, they're really important to why he sets scenes the way he does and why he casts himself the way he does. i feel like the total absence of any consideration of this before wataru shows up and basically tells him to end his story with a public execution does a disservice to his character.
this is such a nitpick, but eichi asking wataru for his help before wataru provides it undermines wataru's agency and power a bit in my opinion. one huge huge huge thing about wataru's character and his relationship with eichi is that he offers eichi his friendship, love, and support even though eichi doesn't feel like he deserves it. that's part of the concept behind wataru catching eichi when he's about to fall on the stage in daydream, and it's also like... the entire point of fine. eichi gets these friends he doesn't think he deserves but who wataru knows will make him a better person. this dynamic gets screwed up a bit if eichi asks wataru to help him and wataru only starts helping him after he's been asked. now it's negligible which of the two actually had the idea for wataru to join fine, and eichi doesn't really have any reason to be surprised by wataru's support and help when he does take up the request - first because he asked so clearly he figured he could receive it, and second because the way the whole scenario is structured, eichi doesn't have to wonder what wataru's motivations are. it appears clear that his motive is revenge.
eichi's surprise and confusion around wataru in general is severely undercut by the scenario. like... i don't even like ep link, but let's talk about it for a second. it's no longer surprising at all that eichi doesn't pick up on wataru's love for him in light of blackbird, because anything wataru would have said about being interested in eichi, etc, would have seemed like part of the script they created together, or even like making fun of him. sure, by the time ep link happens, it's been a long time, but it still isn't exactly fair for wataru to be that baffled and feel like eichi is idiotic for not picking up on his feelings when the way their relationship started was - in eichi's mind - with writing out together how eichi would be brought to justice.
tl;dr i enjoyed blackbird and thought it was a cute idea but it screws with my interpretation of the canon thus far enough that it's pretty much fanfic to me. i don't like the way you'd have to reread the characters in light of this info for stories that have been out for many years at this point.
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Brother,
We have a lot of catching up to do it, it seems. I see you have interesting company in the big and little sense. I must say I did always kind of envy your lack of necessity to higher powers, even our own parents, to tell you right and wrong. You have a strong moral compass, and even if I didn't follow it, I've learned to respect your conviction over the years... Which is why it pains me a little bit to see that you're so reliant and so slow to accumulate stability, decision, and honestly purpose. This is quite disheartening, so I decided to give you a little push.
Regards, Lilith .
Zeal's sister, Lilith, planted a little bit of a seed inside Zeal shortly after they met, attempting to give him bat-like wings that draw from their infernal legacy. There's a lot of complicated things going on here but the long and short of it is that Zeal has really adverse feelings to this piece of him, so this gift comes with reservations on his end.
Over the course of about a month or so these bat wings have been growing in, and would have rapid spurts of growth whenever Zeal tapped into his infernal abilities OR had angry thoughts towards Lathander. After a while he realized he could sit down and deconstruct his feelings about having fiendish blood and redirect where these wings would go, resulting in black feathers starting to sprout and the structure of the wings themselves changing to be more bird-like.
The wings are very ugly right now since they're in a sort of transitional state, so Z is very self conscious about them (he is, after all, a bit vain). But he's happy overall with the progress he's made within himself to redirect these feelings of his and own up to what and who he is.
Also, his horns are turning gold. More on that later ;)
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So a little update on where my writing brain is at right now:
I am currently working on developing two original stories - a queer modern-day cowboy story starring Danny Ramirez and Michael Vlamis (and featuring Danny Ramirez’s live-in best friend Jessie Mei Li):
As well as another one whose exact plot I’m still working out, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Pedro Pascal, and Ethan Hawke as an utterly sexy OT3:
So if anybody wants to ask me some questions about these stories, I will be happy to talk about them and in fact I will love you forever!! ♡
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been a while since i drew my most specialest boy! <3
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