#chat; orion

[samxbradford]

closed starter for @orionxblakely where: downtown, wherever their apartments are

The scenery drowned in the muffled sound of music playing. The door leading to his apartment was only partially shut, barely keeping the warmth within the confines of his home as he stepped over the threshold, out into the cold corridor. Feet were wrapped in two different pairs of socks as his knuckles connected with the door to the neighboring abode. One. Two. Three. His knocks were loud enough to call for anyone's attention, loud enough to make one thing clear - this was urgent. A borderline emergency.

#chat; orion #chat. #i hope this is okay #if you need me to change literally anything pls let me know #also #ignore the aggression in the gif it's not that bad ok thank u

[harlowhanlon]

closed starter for: @orionxblakely WHERE: Book Haven

Tender fingertips caressed the spines of books collected in the shelves to her right. Bright eyes read the script, all those titles and names and creeping indecisiveness crawled beneath her skin. Harlow remembered vividly, the day she began to fall in love with literature, on that rainy summer day. Her father's personal library had been a playground as good as any and she'd eaten up the written words as though to appease an intense hunger.

Now she felt no different, with only few other people frequenting the book store, Harlow's mind fell a little more at ease and a tender smile found its way to plump lips. It was merely a whisper of an expression. Only noticeable to those who paid enough mind to the small details.

"Excuse me?" Slowly tearing her attention from the shelves, she diverted her gaze at a man she believed to have seen here before. "Hi, sorry. Do you work here?" Without missing a beat, she continued. "I have a question. I'm looking for a christm- a present for my dad. His preferences lean more toward classic literature and I wondered if you had any recommendations."

#chat; orion #i hope this is okay dear. if you need or want me to change anything please let me know!

[fxreflyes]

the Dog Star✨

#sirius black #harry potter #marauders #sirius orion black #sirius black fanart #marauders fanart #Harry Potter fanart #I’m finally working on how to learn photoshop! #redid the one I did of this before #thank u cat for inspiring me to actually finish since I started right after we chatted abt art <3 #hp fanart #my art #a break from our aesthetic content for some fanart hahaha

[cherrytimemachine]

Jhiaxian Academy of Advanced Technology and the Outliers.

#senator shockwave #roller #skids #damus #tf glitch #whirl #rewind #orion pax #trailbreaker #trailcutter #windcharger #idw mtmte #idw g1 #transformers idw #transformers #cherry chats

[infamous-if]

This is more of a writing question as I really admire your work and I’m trying to write my own IF but am kind of stuck. I’ve done a lot of the character drafting and plot drafting, but when it comes down to actually sitting down and WRITING the story (even just a small portion) I just get stuck.

So I guess my question is, is how did you start writing the actual story of Infamous? How do you get about moving the story along?

Thank you and OK! This is going to be long because I'll share my beat sheet for the first act of Infamous!

So I've talked about this very briefly, but I will never stop championing beat sheets. I get so many questions every day asking me how I write so much and so quickly, and it's because I already have a layout planned that's basically just holding my hand. I'm not a magical wizard with a writing wand (though I wish...)

This is a traditional novel system and my only background is writing traditional novels. Infamous is my first IF, and I did have to tweak how I approach writing because they're just not the same. IFs are different because they're essentially multiple novels in one. One route can look completely different to another route, but the basics at least helps you with narrative plotting.

Once you recognize the building blocks of a story, it'll become easier to write it. For example, here's the beat sheet for Hunger Games. It is known that Hunger Games follows a beat sheet beat by beat and does it very well.

I will give you my beat sheet for Infamous

MC has a dream of the final goal of the band. It's meant to mirror what the end goal of the story is supposed to be. Ruining it by wakening up is meant to hook the reader by making them realize it's not true yet. Set up the story conflict: the tour. I introduce the characters and their dynamics (orion getting angry at MC for sleeping, Rowan joking around with Orion, Iris and Devyn etc.) I foreshadow a few things and I set up the stakes of the tour and how much the band needs this. (They talk about their gigs and how they want to do more.)

The inciting incident for INFAMOUS is winning the audition and finally getting on tour. That's what incites the story! The first dilemma is getting into a fight at the party due to cheating allegations. Now the reader is aware that this isn't all sunshine and daisies. We're all just fucked, basically. j/

Well. This is pretty obvious. Having to make a choice on the bus. It helps that the tour hasn't started yet and both options deal with characters that have conflict with MC and the band (Seven and UWB) so now it's like: this decision will impact the rest of the tour, and makes it much bigger than just choosing to ride with a band every other week.

obviously this is all spoilery but your goal is basically: how do i make my MC suffer as much as i can? conflict is fun to read, it's what drives people to continue watching/reading/ investing. For IFs it goes beyond that, because people like making decisions on how to fix conflict or make it worse!

I love talking technical writing on my personal @amyreads I don't talk about it much here because it can get boring. But yeah! If you have more questions you can swing by there :)

That's all! I hope it helps a bit! <3

#inbox #writing advice #i really said i'd take a break #I WILL! #once im done with orion pov heh #writing tips #writing chat

[devilart2199-aibi]

okay wait now im curious what's your favorite ships from each continuity you've read/watched

Oh geez this is hard! HMMMM 🤔

G1: Powerglide x Astoria, Seaspray x Alana and Mirage x Cliffjumper bc it's really wacky 😂 I feel like there's more that I can't think of rn

Beast Wars: Blackarachnia x Silverbolt and Tigatron x Airazor 🥺🥺🥺

TFA: Blurr and Shockwave just Bc all the art is fantastic, I honestly don't get the pair myself, but maybe i missed something 😂 love is being crushed in a hydraulic press

TFP: HMMM 🤔 probably just Breakdown x Knockout?

Cyberverse: Windblade x Slipstream!! and Hotrod x Soundwave. Hotrod x Soundwave is kinda just bc if feels really random to me and that they are some of my favs 😂 I've also seen some cute art.

Earthspark: BreakBee is all I can think of 🤔

Shattered Glass: can't think of any

IDW 1.0: Windblade x Chromia (I haven't read all of it yet but the random ones I have I like them) (yes I know I know I really have to read it I'm just a horrible procrastinator 😭)

IDW 2.0: Knockout x Breakdown and Nautica x Roadrage. I feel like there is quite a few from this one I'm just not remembering 😔

And I think that's it?? I'm definitely missing somethings, but I'll probably remembering later hahaha

#aibi chats #i have no idea what the whole relationship between Senator Shockwave and Orion is but judging from fanart I'm gonna cry and love them T-T

[sixoclockuty]

(sorry for the bad quality)

(for those who can’t see what it says, here:

first photo: “I do hope Starlo grows out of this state eventually.”

second photo: “He neees to find himself a wife and settle down.”)

i can’t find solomon’s dialogue but do yall ever think about this. and how solomon says something like “i think he thinks we hate what he’s doing, but that’s just not true”

like hm. hmmmmmmmmmmm. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

#the ipad is dead chat #starlo uty #uty starlo #starlo’s family #it feels…… contradictory #like i don’t think she hates it really but i don’t think she likes it #but solomon says…………. that they don’t hate it???? #idk. this is really miniscule and doesn’t actually mean anything probably i just noticed it #OH OH and orion is like. he talks about how starlo gets to do allat while he’s stuck with farm work. and he says he’s considering doing smth #then says ‘i’m not bored. just protecting the family business.’ like ?????????? #idk. this is probably irrelevant but i like looking at things as i replay the game #just wait til i get to ceroba’s house guys. just wait.

[samthecookielord]

my friend is going to pax west and i wanted her to get something signed for me... so i spedrun this as fast as possible sfdhfdshjfsd

#cookie lords art #failboat #failboat miitopia #failboat friend #failboat floop #failboat mar #failboat orion #failboat shrimp #failboat chat #failboat chi #failboat erica #failboat bo #spamtang #failboat petunyawn #failboat simple bob #wincar #purple shep

[basilcruzzzz]

Dysfunctional Fam™

Dysfunctional Fam™

sunboi: yo guys why poseidon looks mad

messenger pigeon: wdym bro

sunboi: he looks ready to turn someone into a dolphin

drunk_on_LOOOOVE: ey! That’s ripping me off!

sunboi: fine he looks ready to turn someone into a horse happy

drunk_on_LOOOOVE: very

seaking: ATHENA.

Athena Parthenos: Poseidon.

sunboi: soooo

What’s wrong people???

free therapist here yk

seaking: WHY IS HE BACK ATHENA?!

Athena Parthenos: it has been years poseidon

Let. it. Go.

sunboi: so were ignoring the free therapist offer

ok

interested in a calm the heck down lollipop?

seaking: I AM NOT LETTING IT GO AFTER ODYSSEUS STABBED MY SON IN THE EYE

Athena Parthenos: so what?

Your son was ugly anyways.

seaking: GASP

YOU DID NOT SAY THAT

NONONONO

.DFKAKFHSDFAKSDFHKASHFDASHDFKSH

messenger pigeon: bro got so mad he couldn’t even speak properly

drunk_on_LOOOOVE: lmao screenshotted

Athena Parthenos: Stop being childish, Hermes, Dio.

messenger pigeon: hey, listen, im just tryin to break the tension for our readers

Athena Parthenos: what

drunk_on_LOOOOVE: what

sunboi: what

seaking: what

messenger pigeon: what

sunboi: moving on-

You two @seaking and @Athena Parthenos take this to the Dms

Me and Hermes here need to talk privately too.

messenger pigeon: what..?

sunboi: you heard me, messenger boy

dms, now.

messenger pigeon: … sure.

*

sunboi > messenger pigeon

sunboi: why are you hiding from me, hermes?

messenger pigeon: what do you mean?

sunboi: youre avoiding me

You wont even look at me

Hermes

What are you hiding

messenger pigeon: i cant tell you, apollo

sunboi: what do you mean?!

Is someone threatening you?

If they are i swear on the styx im going to toss them in the worst pits of tartarus

messenger pigeon: NO NOTHING LIKE THAT!

I just…

I cant say

sunboi: hermes please

I need to know

I dont want to be like this anymore

messenger pigeon: apollo…

Its supposed to be a secret

sunboi: so? 

That’s not as important as us

messenger pigeon: its about artemis

I just thought that, you know,

It wouldnt be fair to tell you to keep it from her

sunboi: i can hide something from her

I swear!

ive gotten better

Tell me

messenger pigeon: alright. Ill tell you

Its about orion

He’s returned.

sunboi: no.

No, no, no, no, no

It cant be

messenger pigeon has sent a video

messenger pigeon: this is the video hephaestus saw on cams

This is why he took so long to respond

im sorry apollo

sunboi: artemis is goig to finds outtr

yuo knwo that riughts???

messenger pigeon: eventually, maybe

but not now.

sunboi: i dont knwo whaat illl do if orion comes back

Wha t if artemis seeshim and brings him to olympus

Thentheyll both hate me

I dont want artemis to hate me

messenger pigeon: apollo thats not going to happen

Shes your sister

she’ll stick by you

I know youre panicking

Want to call?

sunboi: mhm

messenger pigeon started a call that lasted 6 hours

*

messenger pigeon > machines <3

messenger pigeon: hephaestus

machines <3: you told him, didnt you?

messenger pigeon: how did you know?

machines <3: I saw the messages in Dysfuntional Fam

messenger pigeon: well, you’re right

machines <3: do you really believe that he’ll manage to keep it a secret?

messenger pigeon: well it seems he hasnt kept a secret from artemis in a long time

But we dont know, so maybe he has

machines <3: i suppose thats fair

But its just a guess

not fact

messenger pigeon: are you angry?

machines <3: no, no

I should’ve expected it, really

after those issues with the cows were ironed out, you and apollo were inseparable

messenger pigeon: thanks for understanding, hephaestus

machines <3: no problem, brother

~

sorry for not posting but hereeee

#ares #zeus #hermes #hephaestus #posideon #athena #hermapollo #apollo #hermes x apollo #kinda #sorry for not posting #artemis #orion #chat fic #greek mythology #greece #fanfiction

[gnomey22]

An onslaught of Failtopia text posts

Haven’t made these in a while, and I’ve barely featured the series’ most chaotic character in them. Time to change that

Previous volume:

https://www.tumblr.com/gnomey22/726926093879263232/too-many-failtopia-text-posts?source=share

Next volume:

https://www.tumblr.com/gnomey22/729994600306098176/still-more-failtopia-text-posts?source=share

#failtopia #failboat miitopia #failboat #failtopia chat #failtopia mar #failtopia chi #failtopia erica #failtopia orion #failtopia bo #failtopia lanc #failtopia shrimp #failtopia rose #failtopia hank #failtopia simple bob #Chat #Mar #Chi #Erica #Orion #Bo #Lanc #Shrimp #Rose #Hank #Simple Bob #lanchi #eribo #marion #failtopia text posts

[brainrot-stitch]

Glass dip pen doodles 🔥

#ignore how odd the big dawn headshot looks :( i cant exactly erase. cuz like. its ink #do u like ot chat. i mean gang. do u like it gang #:3 #stitch art #art #doodles #oc doodles #dnd ocs #wof ocs #glass dip pen art #ignore the various :3s #its the demons. i swear. #I STILL DONT HAVE A SET DESIGN FOR ORION/HARU. CRYING #also his name will be decided soon.... #😈 😈

[the-masked-artist05]

Fun fact about Orion and Nyx [and by extension their parents and Materia]: their "fur" isn't fully fur, but instead a mix between regular animal fur and bird feathers [I call it furthers until I come up with a better name for it.] The quill and shaft are thinner than regular feathers but are by no means weaker. Instead of vane or regular feathers material, the fur protrudes out of it instead. It can grow long like fur and hair and acts similar to the two.

Another fun fact about them is that their teeth are long and thin like an angler fish but more uniform like a shark. Their teeth are strong and possess a bite force akin to that of a crocodile. Also, they're retractable! :)

#mask chats #blood moon lagoon #sda #nyx evander #orion evander #{materia} #Another fun fact! Did you know most canivores possess long sharp teeth?

[orionfantasies]

What are your selfships and how would you describe them in.. let's say.. 4 words? :3

Odhdidh this is going to be tricky to answer 💀 I have two main selfships but four selfships in total ✨ surprisingly they're divided equally into two different medias funnily enough 💀

For Genshin specifically

Venti x me (main) - which I've dubbed as venori✌️ - four words.... two immortals in love (that's the best I can come up with LMAO)

Lyney x me (side) - has no ship name yet unfortunately 😔 - four words.... love at first show

Twisted Wonderland

Idia x me (main) - idion which sounds a lot like idiom 💀 - four words.... socially anxious geeks bonding

Lilia x me (side) - all I'm thinking of is lilori which in hindsight is actually really funny for the ship name, Ooo wait lilion could work too 🤔 - four words.... angst waiting to happen

Thank you for the ask Vi <33 was fun staring into space trying to decipher only four words to describe each selfship 💕

#orion's silly chats #This is the perfect excuse to make ship tags 💀 #I should really make a pinned post lol #venori ☁️ #idion 🎧 #lilion 🦇 #And Lyney will have to wait for his tag because I need a while to think about that 💀

[insecuregodcomplex]

buddie + O

O. The stars or space.

The quiet blanketed around them, the world asleep for the night. Even Buck was quiet — although he couldn't keep his foot from tapping. Eddie wordlessly reached out and took his hand, wrapping it in his own. He didn't have to look at Buck to know a gentle smile played across his face. "I don't want to leave L.A., but, man, sometimes I forget what a sky full of stars looks like." "You ever learn how to look for constellations?" Eddie asks, turning his face to him. "I tried," Buck began, "but never managed to do it right. At this point, I just try to look for patterns. That's all that's really visible in the city, anyway." With a small grin, Eddie cast his eyes to the view above them. "Looking for patterns is half of it. Once you start knowing what patterns you're looking for, they start coming easier." He points up. "Look north, and find one of the brightest stars. Using the North Star, you can find the Little Dipper. See how —" Buck cuts him off with a kiss. "Sorry. It's hot when you know stuff." "I know stuff!" Eddie retorts. "Maybe that's why you're so hot all the time." Buck's eyes flicker with a mischievous glint, and Eddie pulls him in with a roll of his eyes and a smile of his own.

thanks for sending!

send me characters and a letter for a quick story!

#nilefreemans #can u tell im working on my orion fic too #chit chat #v writes sometimes

[cherrytimemachine]

Senator Shockwave

#senator shockwave #orion pax #ratchet #roller #tf kroma #tf lobe #shockwave #mtmte spoilers #idw mtmte #idw g1 #transformers idw #transformers #cherry chats

[amyreads]

this will probably be as long as shit so im sorry in advance but i just had to say that u are such a skilled writer its absurd. ur character building is absolutely insane and honestly u have one of my favourite writing styles in general, not just in interactive fiction

also orion has absolutely taken up my entire brain space rent free like holy shit hes comfy in there ..... imo the fucker is definitely touch starved but like by choice because he is insane

:,) thank you <3 and favorite writing style in general is such high praise MY HEART

hehe and oh he is def touch-starved honestly some of the content of his pov chapter surprised me, it does give a lot of insight to his route so thats fun hehe

im glad you enjoy infamous and never apologize for writing anything long !

#inbox #infamous chat #orion quinn