#i need to make a google doc. the hyperfixation is spreading

[valfeathers]

BENS!! i forgot how fun drawing/designing pastas can be,,, i’m re obsessing

ramble down here btws,, //death mentions since he is a ghost

ok so ben is an old fave and i have thoughts. this first new hc design isn’t that remarkable except for the fact that instead of trying to make ben look like a dark/‘corrupted’ link, i tried to draw him like a kid in a hand-stitched link costume.

i will be drawing/writing(?) ben as a kid btw, specifically a ghostly 12 year old kid whose hobbies include trying to stress his cohabitants into early retirement.

the ben fullbody on the left is a slightly more corporeal form that he uses when out in the open and interacting with people in person. while still ghostly (like. swipe at him and your hand will go straight through him kinda ghostly) it’s more solid and has more of his features that he possessed before his death. he floats!! that’s his main mode of transportation in the open. he floats.

the one on the right is one that you’d see onscreen! he’s quite literally ‘rendered’ differently giving his victims that patented dread associated with ben. uncanny valley yk

when scared or upset his pupils vanish leaving you with those empty dark scleras. this doesn’t happen often though!

anyways that’s all for now!! an anon asked me to draw hoodie so i’m off to go do that :)

#ben drowned #creepypasta #finally posting these quick quick come get em #i need to make a google doc. the hyperfixation is spreading #i still love ben sm he has lots of good memories (and people) associated w him in my mind :) #creepypasta fanart #ben drowned fanart #creepypasta headcanons #v’s gallery #clip studio paint

[theguildawards]

Hello guildmates!

The Nomination Period is now closed! Below the cut you will find a complete list of all the fanart nominations received for The Guild Awards this term! The mobile-friendly version can also be found in a Google Doc here that has the complete list!

You can find the list of all the fanfiction nominations here!

If you do not see your nomination, or you find issues with the links, please reach out to us as soon as possible!

We are going to give you 2 weeks time to enjoy all of the pieces nominated for this term! We strongly encourage that when you view a work of art or read a fanfiction, please reblog or leave a comment to let the creators know how much their work and talent is appreciated!

The voting period will begin April 15th and end April 29th at midnight PST!

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Thank you to everyone who nominated for making this term absolutely wonderful and happy voting!

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FANART

Best Action/Adventure

“Jacked Erza” by @pkuinn (tumblr)

“Dragon / Goddess Irene” by @eepintothewoods (tumblr)

“Super Late But Happy Gruvia Day” by @hollie-artz (tumblr)

Best AU/AR

“Shiny Shiny Gold” by @fainttwinkling (tumblr)

“It’s Lisanna’s turn to be badass” by @pencilofawesomeness (tumblr)

‘Circus AU Lucy by @beanthespleen (tumblr)

“Just some late night Lucy star dress doodles” by @beanthespleen (tumblr)

“FarmLu” by @likubears (tumblr)

Best Canon

“Capricorn Star Dress” by @moxiepoxart (tumblr)

‘Dan Lucy, Your Bobbies’ by @boxonarock (tumblr)

‘Cuddling’ by @smappybubbles (tumblr)

“Like The Natsu I’ve Always Known” by @shiiro-arts (tumblr)

Best Angst

“I love them so much” by @shiiro-arts (tumblr)

‘Manga Redraw’ by @Azriaann (tumblr)

Best Dark

“Rogue on the Battlefield” by @celestialrayna (tumblr)

“He’s Fine. Don’t Worry About It” by @kitsunegender (tumblr)

“For All You Gajeel Thirsters” by @mavikiu (tumblr)

Best Humor/Parody

“they are too silly” by @heartonxions (tumblr)

‘Happy Valentine’s Day!’ by @riveluart (tumblr)

“Them, Basically!” by @friedmeatbuns (tumblr)

“Shadowgear Lethal Company” by @firapolemos05 (tumblr)

FarmLu” by @likubears (tumblr)

“I Feel Like this Joke is So Them” by @acnologias-ass (tumblr)

Best Kiss

“Happy february to them” by @lav3nder-bees (tumblr)

“Punks and their short bf/gf (pic 3)” by @merryweathart (tumblr)

"A Bit Early But Merry Christmas Everyone!"  by @hollie-artz (tumblr)

"Natsu's Kiss" by @disnimeartzy (tumblr) 

Best Romance

“Sleepy afterschool lolu” by @l-owe-i (tumblr)

‘Untitled’ by @roseletterchan (tumblr)

“Untitled” by @bakutenshi (tumblr)

“This is how it should be” by @moxiepoxart (tumblr)

“Gruvia Week Day 3: Starlight” by @jmoart214 (tumblr)

Best LGBTQ+ Romance

“Untitled Fraxus Week Prompt” by @bluessom1 (tumblr)

“Happy Valentine’s Day!” by @nostalgiedromer (tumblr)

“My peppermint pookies” by @mousecracker (tumblr)

“Music!” by @itsfasterifyouroll (tumblr)

Best Character

“The Sun” by @moonylilies (tumblr)

“untitled color palette challenge (jellal)” by @acnologias-ass (tumblr)

“Lucy 🌻” by @melognut (tumblr)

“Levy bout to fuck shit up” by @phoenix-before-the-flame (tumblr)

“Erza for a friend :]” by @cassikitty (tumblr)

"Mira" by @imyourcoopid (tumblr)

Best Duo/Pairing

“Gajeel + juvia = besties” by @anniechuuu (tumblr)

“Natsu and Happy fanart” by @lostprinxe (tumblr)

Best Group Depiction

“It’s Nice to Have a Family” by @classysassy9791 (tumblr)

‘ Untitled’ by @watcher-ofthe-sky-art (tumblr)

“Levy and her boys” by @riveluart (tumblr)

“Dragon Fam Christmas Sweaters” by @pencilofawesomeness (tumblr)

Best Manga Coloring

“Fire & Lightning” by @fairy-edits (tumblr)

‘I Hyperfixated’ by @fairy-tail-trash (tumblr)

“Minerva Orland of the Sabertooth Guild” by @googler49 (tumblr)

“Congratulations 100 yr quest!” by @vaniliens (tumblr)

Best Redraw 

“Screenshot Redraw of the Raijinshuu + Laxus” by @sheltered-uno (tumblr)

“manga redraw🫣” by @azriaann (tumblr)

“Gray and Wendy” by @heartonxions (tumblr)

“Some Manga Redraws (thunder legion)” by @zai-doodles (tumblr)

“Falling with the Stars ✨💫” by @limboistic (tumblr)

"Loke and Gray" by @konohamaru-sensei (tumblr)

"Team Natsu 🔥🗝️⚔️❄️💨😸😾"   by @c-art-y (tumblr)

Best Overall

“Levy all Soft and Glowy” by @mavikiu (tumblr)

“Punk Boyy” by @heneryque (tumblr)

‘Erza Scarlet Art Nouveau’ by @Syenneart (tumblr)

“Erza for a friend :]” by @cassikitty (tumblr)

"Juvia Lockser" by @imyourcoopid (tumblr)

"Edolas Lucy Loml"  by @robin-vb (tumblr)

#fairy tail #theguildawards #ft awards #tgat12024 #fairy tail fanart

[godslush]

Appending some stuff to Slash Girl’s info, but not really expecting anyone to read it because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯   I just want it somewhere accessible to me that doesn’t involve logging into Google Docs or Dreamwidth.

DWN.054β - Slash Girl

Purpose - High-speed recon, wide-range intel/target acquisition and mapping. Dinosaur army support tracker and assistant spearhead combat robot.

Personality

Tactically quite smart

Good at noticing small changes in the environment, making her an excellent tracker.

Puts a lot of effort into hunting; extremely task oriented. A ‘hunt’ could be of the physical sort, but also extends to recon/’research’ or even menial retrieval errands.

On all other accounts, somewhere between dumb lizard and idiot bird

Hunt-motivated, but quite lazy otherwise. Spends a lot of off-time sun basking.

Has good eyesight, but difficulty with glass. Can (and frequently does) walk into glass doors if they are well-kept, lacking decals, and not automated (and will still run into automated doors while overclocked due to internalizing their opening speed while not overclocked).

Arbitrarily territorial and over-protective. High likelihood to hyperfixate.

Acts like a badass, actually very easily startled.

Due to quirks in her heating system (see below*), the quickest way to increase her internal temperature without overclocking is to imbibe blisteringly hot liquid, which has given her a reputation for being a coffee addict (as it is her most frequent blisteringly hot liquid of choice).

Given reptilian similarities and shared functions as recon bots, Slash Girl fondly considers Snake Man to be an old uncle.

Skills

High sprint speed and powerful jumping capability.

Strong senses, capable of monitoring and transmitting multiple forms of data (visual, audio, thermal, etc.) at high speeds.

Melee attacks are primarily kicks. In a game environment, this would entail:

A fast ground slide, similar to Mega Man’s, but damaging.

A three-hit standing kick (high, middle, and low)

A front-flip into a one-foot ground slam, utilizing the brake-boosters in her shins.

‘Signature’ moves involve arm-feathers:

A forward slash similar to the Slash Claw, with no shockwave.

A rapid, top-like spinning attack utilizing the brake-boosters in her arms.

May get ‘dizzy’; she can visually handle straight-shot high speeds, but her gyroscopes aren’t calibrated to handle something like this.

A three-way spread projectile. Feathers stick to terrain to form temporary hazards.

Can raise her feathers as a shield to block projectiles, but cannot obliterate them.

Other

Some ‘basic’ comprehension processing and databanks were removed to make room for the sheer amount of high-speed data she has to gather and transmit, rendering her effectively illiterate. She can still understand and speak multiple languages, but she has no databank for any written language, on the assumption that she is transmitting all visual data she collects to somebody who can.

This is fixed before she is activated in the 21XX timeline, since she is no longer needed for mapping and recon. Were she to be activated in the 20XX timeline, however, this quirk would still stand.

About a head taller than her brother, and much more heavily built.

Due to her design emphasis on distance speed, she’s built to take g-forces and to absorb the impact of sudden stops, making her surprisingly tough and sturdy for a high-speed recon bot.

Although her sprinting top-speed is higher than her brother’s she is far less nimble at close quarters.

Frequently overestimates her ability to brake; crashes are not uncommon. She even has foot spurs, and brake-boosters in her shins and arms, and she still manages to screw this up because she tends to use those more for augmenting her attacks than remembering what they’re actually for. If she used them properly, this would not be a problem. But it is.

Using her brake-boosters to augment her attacks causes unnecessary jarring wear on her joints and internals, as they were not built with that functionality in mind (they can take sudden, massive single impacts from braking, constant heavy pressure from g-forces, and rapid low-pressure joint movement and minor impacts from running fast in the first place, but repeated large impacts in a short time frame can cause compound problems). It also depletes her energy much quicker.

Higher base jump, but unable to grip and scale walls.

Shares her brother’s sensitivity to cold but with lesser severity. Completely lacks his milder vulnerability to high heat*. However, her circuitry and other components tuned for maximum efficiency at dangerously high speeds are strongly susceptible to electric-based attacks.

* Both Slash Man and Slash Girl have unique internal properties due to their high-speed functions. Since neither manipulates time to move quickly like some other speed-based Wily Numbers, both require extremely wear-resistant joints and other internals.

To get around this, both are augmented with a unique, waxy jelly with a stark heat gradient; at room temperature, it is fairly rigid and almost sticky, to allow for internal support, but at higher temperatures, it turns into a high-efficiency joint lubricant. If either robot’s core temperatures are brought too low, the jelly quickly coagulates and locks up where it shouldn’t. Directed electrical currents allow the jelly to resist thermodynamic equilibrium, so the jelly is only affected close to the heat source, allowing the material to support multiple physical states within the same compartment.

Slash Man, being an earlier model, gets around this by constantly overclocking and running hot 100% of the time, explaining why he’s… Like That. But it also means he wears out the jelly (and other internals) at a much higher rate, requiring more frequent replacement/repair. He also contains more of the jelly supporting and cushioning internal components, so high ambient heat or direct heat-based weaponry weakens structural stability overall, giving him his two-pronged temperature weakness.

Slash Girl, by contrast, has most of the jelly compartmentalized to high-wear moving parts only, and an internal toggle for her overclock to get things moving, which she leaves off when she has no important tasks, making her sluggish and lazy most of the time. Finding sources of heat to warm herself up allows her to function meaningfully when she’s not clocked up, but it usually takes a while to raise her core temperatures to a point where it can affect the pertinent portions of the jelly.

To speed up her heating process, she can drink blisteringly hot liquids... such as overheated fast-food coffee. This has given her a bit of a reputation as a caffeine-junkie, though only the thermal heat is of value to her. Dousing her internals with coffee also has a downside of causing more problems than good, so despite her requiring less maintenance than her brother in theory, she finds herself needing repairs just as frequently.

The material itself is fairly versatile for other purposes, and for a while was used as an incubation medium for certain types of robots (especially reptilian), as well as a diagnostic suspension due to its unique properties at very specific temperatures, though heated microfilaments spread through the entire medium is required to keep it at a uniform temperature given its usual resistance to equilibrium. Over time, most of its general functions were phased out in favor of less finicky substances.

It is the same goop that Slash Man throws capsules of as a means of subduing prey, since it is found in ample supply at Robosaur Park given its other uses.

#fancharacter #mega man #slash man #headcanon #dai's mega man dump #DWN.054βスラッシュガール

[ladyfl4me]

november, friday, march

november - rituals for getting in the mood for writing

open a google doc, get some tea and coffee, put on some music, pray

honestly, i just. try and dive right into it. putting on music really helps get me in the mood, especially for specific scenes. sometimes i just get a whole outline written, then get super caffeinated, @ everyone in my friends’ discord server, write until the character limit tells me to fuck off, and hit send. the instant rush of validation really helps when a chapter’s giving me problems and/or i’m not feeling confident about something. now that TMWCIFTC is getting more complex, i’m leaving the livewriting concept behind, sort of - it’s harder to think on my feet when there’s fifty different plot points to juggle and very very specific things that i want to happen. but I might start doing it again towards the end of the story.

friday - most self-indulgent fic i’ve ever posted

probably to the edge of night, my really off-the-wall alternate avengers endgame LOTR/MCU fusion that i haven’t touched since like. july. basic premise, the One Ring was an asgardian hell construct that was a set with the Infinity Gauntlet, and odin fucking lost it, so he spread the story of LOTR throughout the universe (with varying interpretations) as galactic propaganda to cover his ass. i have no idea what the fuck i was smoking when i was writing this, but i still have the folders and folders full of outlines for this story and oh man, it’s fucking wild. written purely to satisfy my obsession with lotr and marvel, both of which have declined significantly since i started listening to taz. (the adventure zone: “mom says it’s my turn on the hyperfixation”)

march - do i listen to music while writing?

oh fuck yeah i do! song radios on spotify are a lifesaver, because i can pick a song with chill vibes like “Blue Aubade” by Slow Meadow and let it roll. though sometimes, i also like to listen to Audiomachine - they do a lot of really good trailer-style epic music that’s fun to play in the background while writing battles and shit. 

with everything i write, i try to assemble an instrumental music playlist to act as the “soundtrack” of the story. I played violin for seven years and was in color guard for three; i have a soft spot for making wordless songs tell stories. as it happens, i have a handful of playlists specifically for TMWCIFTC that i listen to, depending on the scene i’m trying to write. there’s some general mood ones, songs that give me emotions when i think of them in context of the epilogue that i’m writing, and just. bangers. there’s a lot of crossover, which is a sign i need to listen to more music

my TMWCIFTC playlist

my songs that made me cry playlist

my general amnesty playlist

my general amnesty wordless playlist

writing ask meme! ask me anything from this list!

#asks #waveechocave #christina writes #tmwciftc #taz amnesty

[maltedmilkchocolate]

I wanted to add some more thought into that fantasy post I made the other month, in a slightly more organised manner. My general issues with ADHD represented in fantasy (and sci-fi) tropes boils down to how:

Media suffers a huge problem of either 1) Stereotyping ADHD as hyperactive caffeine squirrel, or ‘being away with the fairies’ (zoning out). 2) ‘Curing’ ADHD (and other disabilities) via magic/sci-fi etc. 3) Just plain glossing over/ignoring the characters disability all together & showing zero consequences/benefits to situations they’re put into.

So I often think about how characters with ADHD (and lbr other types of neurodivergence too) would handle and abrupt change into a magical/sci-fi world, where they’ve had this curse/gift/change put upon them whether they asked for it or not. (i.e werewolves, vampires, other creatures). I always think “How would this affect me as an ADHD person?” because I’m so used to reading the problems above & not only does it irritate me, but it throws me out of the story world you’ve created. So here’s some things I know would get effected if I was in that position as a character:

Sensory Overload & Meltdowns: ADHD minds have trouble with information, senses, and emotions because we cant FILTER that constant influx of information (a lot of us also have Sensory Process Disorder (SPD)).

So in a fantasy setting where a character gets turned into a vampire, or a werewolf, that would probably be a large adjustment period of meltdowns or shutdowns and overload, whilst we learnt to adjust to all of this EXTRA ADDED magical information. (Be it literal information, emotional regulation, actual senses.)

Magic creatures are very often trope’d with having ‘super senses’. So you can see how a Double Helping of sensory input would be unpleasant.

Coping mechanisms: We have a lifetime of coping mechanisms. So we would probably adjust pretty quick-ish? Like we'd know how to handle ourselves. We’d recognise our stressors (sometimes), and remove ourselves from them (probably), or reach for a stim toy, or fall back on a dozen different coping methods we’ve learnt from life.

Whereas in contrast, an NT person might not know how to handle themselves with all the new influx of sensory input, cause it's not something they have past experience with, or have ever grown up with.

Stimming: Give me an ADHD character who's a werewolf, and chewing stims are one of their greatest go-to’s even though it gives them jaw ache. And then oh! how they sulk when they BITE THROUGH IT because werewolf and magic sharp teeth.

> "I just bought this yesterday!!” Your character wails into the cushion, arms spread out across their best friend's sofa. "It cost me $10. I had to wait two weeks for the delivery. Two weeks."

> “There, there friend-o. Rest in silicone pieces.”

> “Wow. I came here to cry on your shoulder and i’m honestly feeling so attacked right now.”

Stim jewellery shaped like the moon because IRONY.

Magical/Alien communities that make stim jewellery that will expand with transformations, that way if they wake up somewhere far from home, they can have something to help calm down with and it won’t be broken.

SPD & APD: Noise cancelling (or reducing) headphones because hypersensitive supernatural hearing is not a friend to someone who already has SPD/APD.

> "These fabulous things cost me like $45, but they’re neon green and i'm telling you it was WORTH IT. Plus I’m now a fashion icon."

> “You look like a Splatoon squid, bro.”

> “And yet! Not only am I prepared for the worst sounds, but I will also rock this colour whilst doing it.”

Gloves! Because there’s so much metal in the world and depending on your lore, that stuff BURNS. It’s supernatural protection, AND sensory protection from those unpleasant textures too. (win-win).

Medication: A character having to increase their dosage or medicine type because it's not as effective anymore. But they still need it. However explaining the reason why.... isn’t so easy.

You can't exactly go and tell a medical professional you're now a mythical creature. > “Hey doc! So, I’m a wolf now. About that...” *finger guns*

> “My... ‘living’ situation has uh, changed. And lately everything is too much and very stressful, and uh...”

*Googles* “ECG’s for a vampire without a heartbeat.”

Uncommon moon cycles: Like January 2018 just gone: A month with the two full moons ?? They get NOTHING done. They're just an executive dysfunction DISASTER. But it's fine because their bestfriend acts as a look-out guard whilst they run around as a wolf cause gotta get that sweet hyperfixation on the moon.

Like there’s a THOUSAND ways you can represent an ADHD (or other neurodivergent) characters life... just in general, and in fantasy (and sci-fi) tropes, without erasing their ADHD, or curing it, or making it a ‘super power’, or stereotyping it.

It’s just another facet of a character, and it literally affects the way we interact with the world. So instead of having your magical fantasy idea ‘fix’ them, just think about the ways your fantasy idea could cause them problems, or how could it benefit them? How would they adjust? How would they tackle new problems? How would they integrate into a whole new world they’ve discovered. Etc For real it doesn’t have to be a story about having ADHD, that honestly doesn’t need to be the focus if you don’t want that. But if you have a neurodivergent character in your story, whether a main character, or a side character, just take the time to research their particular diagnosis so you’re not just writing stereotypes, or straight up ignoring the symptoms that come with it.

#Actuallyadhd #adhd #fantasy #sci-fi #writing #representation #werewolves #vampires #fiction