#joywrite

[gamejoypod]

I really like Human Effigies taking the place of Humanity in Dark Souls II.

Hollowing is a really interesting facet of Dark Souls to me, and the Effigies hammer home how personally charged the phenomena is.

In DSII you only get to create your character after being invited to look into one and recall the person you used to be. At this point I don't think there's any difference between an identity you remember and one you spin from imagination. The important part is that you have *something* you can hold tight to your heart that will drive you forward through the trials & horrors to come

I can picture the Bearer Of The Curse (Seek, Seek, Lest) resting by a bonfire and staring through their helmet at the delicate lattice of the Effigy, remembering or imagining as an exercise. Reinforcing their sense of Self; their thoughts, their ambitions, the principles they would follow.

I don't know how to dismount this one, I just like how introspective DSII gets in comparison to the others and the effigies are part of it

#dark souls 2 #dark souls #fromsoftware #joywrite

[brandtner]

finally we got our long awaited srpska x serbia smut, thank you lord for the fanfic you brought upon us

Please, I'm saying this with an oily intonation, I am just a simple writer like every other. Call me by my name. ;)

Hope you will like it anon.

#asks #No in fact keep it up. I like being called that #(for those who didn't read the fanfic) The joke here is that this answer is a quote from the fanfic #It was really fun and easy to write this ff :) #Joywriting

[joygaytrash]

I forgot how hard it is to write my god how did I pump out fan fics like every other week???

#writing an original thing and good lord #ive rambled for like half of it #six pages and counting #joywrites #joygaytrash

[the-cinnabunny-archives]

Hi there! For those of you who have had the pleasure of not knowing me and my fics before, I’m Amy and I’m amythecinnabunny on AO3 (I’m @amythecinnabunny here too if you ever wanna throttle me talk). You may be wondering why I’m not posting on @join-the-joywrite and there’s a simple explanation: I Am Lazy. I don’t want to fix all the links there. I’m just not gonna do it. Instead, I’m going to do the “sane” thing and start over :>

It’s gonna take a while, so just bear with me a moment, folks ❤️

if you like my work, you can buy me a coffee!

✨Masterlist✨

Banana Fish

The Ghost of the New York Public Library

Bungou Stray Dogs

All’s well that ends well (to end up with you)

forgive me for letting you down

I’ll dial drunk (I’ll die a drunk)

if you loved me, why’d you leave me [sskk multiverse au]

It’s a logical ruse

It’s a minor thing, okay?!!!

Love, Chuuya [skk, mcd, no ability au]

tell me it’s love (tell me it’s real)

this isn’t fair (this nightmare) [dazai mcd, dadzawa pov]

we love the things they are for what they are

what a wicked game to play (to make me feel this way)

wrap me all up (in your love)

Julie and the Phantoms

….. I’m gonna come back to these in a minute

Marvel

Pigs Might Fly [tumblr drabble, crack]

More to follow

Miraculous Ladybug

Coming soon

Moriarty the Patriot

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore the fuck art thou like this? [sherliam textfic]

My Hero Academia

Class 1-A and the League of Villains Adopt The Local Villain

Fake dating at its finest

I love you

Strawberry

The Kumi Chronicles [main story]

The Kumi Chronicles [side stories]

there’s no pain that i won’t go through (even if i have to die for you)

#writeblr #fanfiction #marvel #miraculous ladybug #my hero academia #mha #bnha #bungou stray dogs #bsd #Julie and the Phantoms #jatp #banana fish

[4theloveofdiego]

As you can see here I do not accept requests for a while from this point on. 

I have so many of them waiting and I get a damn writer’s block whenever I look at them 😔 I guess it’s time for me to take a break and only write those when I feel like the result would be great so I don’t disappoint you all. (And yes, I’m scared af that forcing it would only trigger a depressive episode.)

It doesn’t mean that I’ll stop writing though! I’ll just switch to “joywriting” for a while. I hope you understand.

#psa

[callan52]

[shittyficsfordays]

The prompts list I’m using is this one by @joywriting-prompts , starting off incredibly weak with decorating the tree ship

“Oh. Wow.” Hayes had no idea how to respond to the scene that had unfolded in Malcolm’s quarters. The tinsel around the headboard was nice, he figured, but something about the sharp, pointed bulbs hanging from the ceiling was… concerning, to say the least. 

Malcolm waggled his eyebrows, waiting for Hayes to elaborate.

“It’s, uh, very seasonal. You don’t see much holiday cheer this far out.”

“Don’t see much of anything this far out. Candy cane?” He offered a big one, still intact despite the rough travels they had faced since leaving spacedock. 

Hayes moved to take it, stepping across the threshold of the door. Once within the quarters, everything seemed to intensify, becoming even more in-your-face than they had been from the hallway. Malcolm wore an exceptionally smug grin, and it only took Hayes a second to realize why. He groaned, more annoyed at getting tricked than anything. But Hayes still met him halfway and reveled in the sweetness of the moment.

#shittyficsdecember #star trek enterprise #sneaky mistletoe placement >:)

[madeleinejoanstars]

Actual footage of Jupiter in Capricorn feels in my home office - the banner is my favorite part. 🏹🌟 Effort + effervescence for the win. 🥳 Jupiter, the ruler of growth, fortune, expansion, and high concepts feels slightly out of his element in sober, Saturn-ruled Capricorn. He wants to throw a big party in Capricorn's house, but spartan Cap keeps their domain clean, quiet, and organized. They're an odd couple, but these sorts of cosmic partnerships sometimes have the potential to teach us the MOST. 🌟 This transit indicates that discipline, compelling goals, and following defined rules and routines are what will bring us true luck. Ask yourself: what are the unglamorous, unsexy steps to your huge, glamorous objective? 🌟 Jupiter in Capricorn can help us learn to create our own luck at the intersection of ability and opportunity. 🌟 If you want a little cosmic help figuring those out - and overcoming procrastination to get them done - you can order a copy of "Saturn is My Co-Pilot: An Energetic Planning Guide to Structure Your Success," my 40-page workbook that offers a practical (and magical) approach to getting into alignment and reach your chosen destination. Link in the bio! I'm wishing you the big magic of Jupiter in the powerful pinnacle of Capricorn! 🌟💗 #werkbitch #JupiterinCapricorn #JupiterReturn #saturnismycopilot #oddcouple #practicalmagic101 #youbetterwerk #workitgirl #astrologersofinstagram #witchesworkspace #workfromhome #banner #yourekillingmebuster #hailSaturn #workspace #colorful #joywriting #worksmarternotharder #astromemes #astrologersdesk #astrologerworkspace #astrology101 #rainbowconnection #howtocreateamorningroutine #nightroutine #createyourownluck https://ift.tt/38Trss7

#IFTTT #Instagram

[klarolinefanficdirectory]

Fanfiction Updates: 1st January 2017

Happy New Year everyone! May 2017 be a good one (and Klaroline endgame)!

Ch 8: A Beam Of Light by AvidReader2016

Ch 21: Songs Of The Moment (Drabble Collection) by 3tinkgemini

Ch 65: To Rely On The Kindness Of Strangers (Drabble Collection) by honestgrins

Ch 3: Lives We Lived (Drabble Collection) by JoyWriting

Ch 18: Die Another Day by 0oHarleyQuinno0

#klaroline #klaroline fanfiction #UOTD

[gamejoypod]

Confession time: I think Dark Souls 2 is my favorite of the trio

Yes, even though there were genuine missteps in design that made the experience worse

Yes, even though Soul of Cinder and Slave Knight Gael are narrative pinnacles of the series that (almost) redeem ds3's backpedaling

(I also really really like the way ds2 handled dual wielding)

There's just something so much more compelling about ds2's atmosphere & framing. It's like a swimmy, heady, hyperreal dream that you can't wake up from.

Instead of a roll-call of all the epic guys you're gonna fight, ds2 opens with "you've become nothing. you're cursed, lost, alone and addled. you're about to go through hell and you better figure out what's going to keep you from going Hollow right quick."

From the ones I've played, the white-hot core to Fromsoftware's stories seems to be a consistent question. "What goals and ideals will you hold on to tightly enough to be able to firmly plant your feet in an impossibly bleak and hellish world and walk forward?"

Ds2 aims the question inward. It's introspective, but tauntingly so. It shows you the fate of would-be monarchs and conquerors, of kingdoms that rise and fall like tides. For all your effort and accumulation of power, you too will be just another footnote in the unending cycle. So why are you REALLY here?

It's that challenge paired with an oddly warm, almost fairtyale type setting in Drangleic that keeps pulling me back, like a moth to a flame.

And good god it's nice when my character actually looks like they know how to use their weapons

#dark souls #Dark souls 2 #Fromsoftware #joywrite

[joygaytrash]

I wrote something and posted it on AO3

Give it a read I worked hard on it

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23018620

#the modern nein #mollymauk tealeaf #caduceus clay #yasha nydoorin #lucien #critical role #joywrites #joygaytrash

[gamejoypod]

IDK about you guys but V.1 Freud's AC has the most intimidating name on the roster in my opinion

There are other confrontational AC names but even the most aggressive ones are still a little showy. Makes sense, you wanna gas up your AC & how well you fight. They're almost sporting in an "all's fair in love, war and mercenary work" kind of way

But LOCKSMITH instantly made me feel like I was in a different kind of danger.

LOCKSMITH isn't going to do a dogfight-dance and pelt my AC with explosives until its functions fail

LOCKSMITH is going to open up my AC's core, rip me out of the cockpit and smear me like a grape on the pavement

The other Mercs are here to Engage With Enemy Combatants As Needed, Freud is here to Kill People

#armored core 6 #ac6 #armored core #joywrite

[gamejoypod]

Been thinking about the CATAPHRACT. It's undoubtedly an entertaining & possibly silly design but something about it felt kind of unsettling too, here's my two cents why

[AFAIK] You never see a single human being in this game, I definitely haven't yet. The only visuals you have to associate with the voices of your fellow pilots are their emblems and crucially, their ACs. As far as we're concerned, someone's AC is just their body. The steel and circuitry may as well be flesh and blood

It's very transhuman to me, especially when you can choose between having 4 legs or treads that emulate the mechanics of a wheelchair if that's what you're comfortable with. A pilot's selection of parts & paint become their identity as far as the player can see

Which is why when the committee-design bunker-buster tank with a "body" dangling between the treads comes ripping across the snowfield, it feels a little like body horror by contrast. The little reflections of humanity you *can* see through the bulk is grafted to a more conventional war machine. it just.. hangs there

The PCA already feels impersonal in their tech and tactics, but the CATAPHRACT just feels inhuman. I love it for that.

#ac6 #armored core 6 #armored core spoilers #joywrite

[gamejoypod]

"I won't miss" and "only I can fly high enough" are very good lines from Rusty but i think my favorite is the one I heard on repeat while getting systematically dismantled aboard the Xylem

"Things will change, but I'll remember you"

Everything Rusty says during that fight has a very specific emotional angle, at least to my ear. He's maintaining his deep respect for you even through his disappointment in your actions.

I love that I can't hear any Regret or Remorse in his voice either. Sorrow for sure, and a bit of Pain, but he's too resolute in his path to regret putting a threat like you down.

There's also a really tasty implication if you don't assume that you die when you fail this mission. Wrecking an AC doesn't *necessarily* mean the pilot dies too (lookin' at you, Iguazu). Rusty trashes your AC and sends Walter's Hound packing with their tail between their legs. "Things will change, but I'll remember you" turns into a figurative memorial.

The threat you posed to Rusty & his ambitions is dead. You can't keep up, you can't fly as high, and you both proved it. You exist as a memory, left to languish in the wake of someone who you could have flown alongside if things were different.

I saw a post a long time ago about how lovingly the voices are performed in Fromsoftware games, and AC6 is keeping that torch burning in my opinion.

#armored core 6 #ac6 #armored core spoilers #fromsoftware #joywrite

[gamejoypod]

i beat Balteus last stream and i have some extremely normal and very hinged thoughts about the music that scores the fight, a track called Contact With You

I love the subdued percussion, it makes room for the constant munitions & gunfire to fill that role

I love the radio static from your comms substituting for hi-hats

I love the barely audible choir floating behind the chaos

There's a noisy, out-of-key bass drone that i take as representing Balteus itself that is constantly getting drowned out by pad chords & a soaring melody. This isn't about Balteus, but something so much greater.

The fear, desperation, doubt and hope are dripping from this track but aside from the lower arpeggios it sounds like the higher melody is designed to center your focus, almost meditative

The thing that nearly brings me to tears is right before the end. For just one measure, you get a single fully resolved Major chord that cuts through the fear, simultaneously refreshing your focus and sharpening the tension and stress of the rest of the piece.

You've always had enough time to take a full breath in your cockpit. this single, fleeting chord feels like the game is reminding you of it. "don't forget. take a breath and finish the fight, because you can do both"

If i want to get really out there, it feels like more than the game just wanting to you to do well, it's like you're being pleaded, begged to overcome this challenge. Even with what little i know about Rubicon, Ahyer and the Coral at this point, it might not be just an abstract cry for salvation.

Balteus is just an autonomous craft, there's no human will you're pitting yourself against. Walter isn't there to advise or command you. The whole encounter is for slamming the gaps between you as a player and 621 as a pilot together. Your fear, determination, emotions and goal are the same now.

Contact With You is the score to the player and 621 uniting and awakening as the same, single entity. It's not a "Vs. Balteus" theme, it's "Becoming Raven"

#ac6 #ac6 spoilers #armored core #joywrite #armored core 6 #armored core spoilers

[gamejoypod]

Finishing Yakuza 0 has me thinking I might finally get a handle on my housework if I start calling tasks things like "Kitchen Revitalization Project", "Raid on the Bathroom" and "Clear out the Headquarters"

#yakuza #yakuza zero #Yakuza 0 #joywrite