#just as standalones but yeah

[yandere-sins]

Unfortunately, I don’t think I will be able to do something for October.

It’s plaguing me a lot since I love those silly, creative months and October is lowkey my month, my favorite in the whole year bc it’s pretty and my birth month. But while I loved those Sintember prompts (no joke, probably some of the best prompts I have ever used), now that I am struggling more with them towards the end, I can’t possibly imagine doing another month of prompts and my mental health is just not good enough for that. There’s also other stuff I’d just rather do than a month-long challenge again. The sintember prompts definitely helped to with motivation and keeping a steady pace, and I plan to finish them by the start of next month still, but I can’t write another eight prompts and post them all before October starts, only to start all over again from 0, so I’d rather not (’:

It’s sad to break a tradition, but I hope you guys will like the stuff I have planned for next month just as much as e.g. Kinktober or the like ♥

#Admin #Good to have it off my chest #I was really planning and calculating things but it just doesn't always work out like I wanted it too #maybe it's better this way #I'll probably do some kinktober prompts #just as standalones but yeah #not the whole list #and then the other things I'd really like to do like alien and requests #yall didn't sleep throughout this month with your ideas and I am grateful ♥

[smalltownfae]

#the goblin emperor #booklr #piranesi #black water sister #lonely castle in the mirror #sistersong #spinning silver #the seventh bride #the last unicorn #the house in the cerulean sea #the forgotten beasts of eld #it was hard to pick a mckillip and a kingfisher book #I decided on one book per author so... #my polls #best standalone fantasy #making this post I am now wondering if women are more likely to write fantasy standalones than men #either that or is just because I read more books by women in general #and yeah there is no neil gaiman book here oops #I haven't reread the ones I liked in a while so I am not sure if those would top my other 2 four stars in here

[mytrainline]

I hope that with BG3's success, microsoft greenlights another Pillars of Eternity,

like, it is an itch that needs scratching.

i know Avowed is on the horizon, but man i want another crpg in eora, it just feels right

#bg3 #pillars of eternity #also #having more of pillars' music would be SO APPRECIATED #they so much more identity to them and really felt like its music /for that world/ instead of mostly generic fantasy music ykno #yeah its mostly the soundtrack for me #if not just please release another banger set of eora music as standalone then obsidian. please and thank u!!! #aksdjfadjlsasln

[dufrau]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler Characters: Robin Buckley, Nancy Wheeler Additional Tags: Smut, but like, barely, obnoxiously soft domestic smut, something for the old marrieds, this is not sexy its just cuddly tbh, Ronancetober, Day 4: Kiss, because they do kiss in this so it counts so why not, Banter, i dont know they just love each other tbh, good for them good for them, POV Robin Buckley, ambiguously older characters, how old are they?, no idea tbh Summary:

"It's my job, Robin," Nancy mumbled. It was a weak and unconvincing argument, evidenced by the way she stretched her arms up over her head, her back cracking, her neck bent back just so. Her throat exposed and asking to be kissed.

Robin kissed it, and Nancy whined in weak protest. Robin kissed her neck again, higher up, by her too tense jaw, and again by her perfect little ear.

"It's my job to take care of you," Robin whispered in that ear, and she felt Nancy agree in the way her whine ground down into a content hum. "And it's also two in the morning. Come to bed, nerd."

-

Ronancetober Day 4: Kiss

#ronance #ronancetober #ronancetober day 4: kiss #BECAUSE THEY DO KISS #yeah so anyway this is a standalone little thing #but it is also secretly the bigfoot epilogue #because i wasnt done with them yet #this is smutty but not like super graphically #its more just cuddly #ronance fic

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

yeehaw just wrote over 3k and i can't publish Any of it without miles of fantasy au context

#technically its a full scene and a half #brain: hey what if a solid thousand words was just silly puppets having breakfast #and then i said 'damn youre so right' and yeah. silly puppets having breakfast and arguing over ale vs mead #i love writing from barnaby's pov. im so unfunny that its ruining his reputation #i go There Could Be A Joke Here #but head Empty so there isn't one. i continue on. rinse and repeat #anyway big scene of barnaby and wally bonding #as i was writing i was honestly like 'the wallaby enjoyers would have a field day with this' #am i one of them? no. however i know my 'qp barnaby and wally' belief bleeds into my writing #so yk. its easily read either way. #of course i immediately counteract it by sprinkling in a laughingstock crumb or two but yk yk #fantasy au is so fun to chew on... everyone gets to say Fuck and threaten genuine violence... #absolutely unprompted #speaking of writing im actually going to Attempt nanowrimo this year #im gonna try to belt out the roughest rough draft of a standalone book idea #i still need to finish the outline but! im sure i can do that in 10 days! #but anyway ive been having so many fantasy au feelings lately idk why #i think i need to rewatch lotr! extended editions of course im not an animal. #well i am. but - yeah whatever yall get it #im craving that sweet sweet high fantasy & worldbuilding & high quality cinema

[avithenaftali]

#diana wynne jones #howl's moving castle #Sir Not Appearing In This Poll #my DWJ posts #I'm not picking fights with that other DWJ poll I just have opinions apparently #and those opinions include “the genuinely best and most genius of DWJ's books are her standalone novels and that's that on THAT” #genuinely I don't think this poll will get nearly as much traction as the other one because Howl's Moving Castle is not involved and #look I love HMC as much as anyone else but there is a reason that DWJ is one of my favorite authors and HMC is absolutely not that reason #my personal favorite is Time of the Ghost though Fire & Hemlock and Black Maria are in close contention #but also I'll point at almost any of her standalone books and be like “this is also brilliant and here is why!” so yeah I dunno #I can often do the same for her series novels but her standalones tend to be genius in far stranger and unexpected ways and #and those strange unexpected brilliances tend to also be the exact reasons why DWJ is one of my favorite authors I guess

[court-artist-under-the-stars]

Ooc // pre-tumblr, I actually had multiple stories! Not listed chronologically.

Anti-government multiverse theory story about four queer teenagers with various powers and their maze headquarters

An AU (???) of above story where two of the teenagers fall in love in, like, the most fanfic-tropey way possible (Some tropes include: Meeting in a coffee shop (one working there, the other being a sleep-starved college student), fake dating (for a ball), one of them Getting Sick and the other helping, one teaching the other how to do their version of art, etc.)

A story where a guy and girl fall in love but oops girl has Deadly Flower Disease (not the hanahaki thing) and dies before he can tell her he loves her

Very happy-go-lucky girl manages to have a (female) demon fall in love with her and have said demon banished from hell for falling in love with a human

Above story having demons be dead children?? Specifically this demon being a “demon of regret”, where a miscarried (/aborted? I’m not sure past me knew what abortion WAS) child was a “child of regret” and having a different look to other demons

Two magic twins, the god of magical knowledge and the goddess of magical energy. One cannot exist without the other, and with either gone, magic will be undone completely

Said two magic twins falling in love with two different characters: the goddess falling for a necromancer/bard combo, and the god falling for a prince, that, due to a controlling mother figure (not even his real mother, son of two women but kidnapped as a baby), could not speak “the common tongue”, and could only speak in an ancient language

A story where you (aka y/n) were roommates with a persona at the time, who had magical powers similar to error sans (I was an undertale fan pre-tumblr), but was corrupted by Shadow Magic Creecher and eventually succumbs to her corruption (this one I can talk about for AGES it was so fleshed out)

Different anti-government story about a teenager with powers finding out they’re destined to die and make the afterlife better for everyone, with more like, fluff in-between their plot points (Their villainous mentor figure finding love in a past rival and their sister figure fucking killing a guy out of revenge for her sister). This one is the most recent, and I can still probably make something out of this

Vague fairy species, positivity, negativity, and Bambi, one dying quickly, one living a human lifespan, and one who’s actively poached and hunted

And more!

Honestly, I can look through the old notebooks I had in 2021 and vaguely give you a description of Every Story I Ever Thought Up

#honestly I love the AU idea so much it’s so tropey and cliche but also urban fantasy and I was exploring so much at the time #I kinda want to rewrite it to not be an AU and just have it standalone #It would be a nice webcomic I think #I loved those characters so much #a lot of these were in my Quotev Era #because I was kind of intimidated by Tumblr but took a lot of inspo from it #Honestly #yeah let’s make that tropey ball of nonsense why not I have everything planned out already #it wouldn’t be great considering it was 2021 ish writing and my art style at the moment is kind of rigid in everything #but I’m gonna make it[ #dip my toes in and stuff #Jesus I need to go to bed #ooc post #Ooc #etc tags

[beatcroc]

comic planning/roughs on the clock at work 👍 ok. this one's still a few posts out though

#god i really do just need to get a tablet or. something #some way to draw digitally on the go bc my laptop is um #at least 200% less portable than your typical old clunky laptop. its a whole ordeal #and as u can see tradish scribbles are barely usable #though i guess it would help if i ever remembered to grab something besides a shite pen at work lmao <-hates pen forever #mad bc i think this one is kind of mid+redundant for what i'd intended it to do bc of how some of the previous ones shifted #but i still gotta draw it bc one of the later ones uses it. buh #when i said these werent chronological or connected btw i lied #though only VERY VERY LOOSELY so. enough to bother *me* if i don't do them in order #but not enough that's really going to be noticeable to anyone else. they're each still intended 99% as standalone. #the arc is very minor but its there. for me. for anyone else it probably just amounts to a couple easter egg references/ consistencies #by the by the pizzaposts before this arent part of the series. #one small quickie thing and one i would...really like to get done sooner rather than later bc i need it out of my system #former's like 70% sketched im just waffling on execution #latter is uh...theres a lot there but it's harder to work on And harder tell how close to done it is. #unrelated its funny how i Always forget brick until i start putting anything down and then its like oh god yeah i can do bg Jokes with him #funny in the sense that one of my webcomic protag oc's is a...spatially similar deal as him [little kid with a big bear companion] #and i ALWAYS forget the bear when im scripting it. until i start messing with the layout and its like fuck theres a bear. #i have to do things with this now. fortunately thus far it hasn't been too hard to adapt #much rambling tonight goodbye. i haev to go block all these damn bots

[theheadlessgroom]

@beatingheart-bride

"Well, we insist that you take it," June replied gently (if a touch firmly), reaching across Wilhelm to push the key back towards Emily, adding, "As my husband said, we talked about it earlier: Even before we knew more about everything you've been through...we saw how much you care for our son, and how happy he made you. We could see that the world seemed...much less lonely to you, being by his side, and...well, we can't bear the idea of you being lonely anymore. Least of all after everything you told us.

So, we want you to have a key to our home," she continued, as she took Wilhelm's hand beneath the table, a quiet mirror to the way Randall held Emily's hand in turn. "We want to make it very clear to you that...we're not afraid of you, and that we would like to have you here with us, that you're welcome in our house, anytime."

"I...I can see now that...you're not the monster that I...that I've read about before," Wilhelm added gently. "I should've seen it before, but I didn't, and I'm sorry for it, I'm...I'm so, so sorry, lass. I want to make things right, and so, I want you to have that key, to show that...we trust you. And we want you here. We really do."

At this, Randall smiled gently as he looked from his parents to his beloved, giving her hand a little squeeze, as if to encourage her to accept-he could see that his parents really did trust and care for her, that they regretted the way they had treated her, and wanted to make things right. It was a touching notion, given how alone Emily had been for so long, and he could only hope that she would accept the key, and the offer to become a part of their family.

#((i agree! i think 'house of 1000 corpses' could've defidently remained its own thing)) #((and didn't *have* to spawn a full trilogy-especially because i'm honestly not a fan)) #((of the direction the series went into; because arguably 'the devil's rejects' and 'three from hell')) #((skewed less towards out and out horror and mixed more grit and action in)) #((and it makes me miss the trippy; kinda psychedelic approach to 'house'!)) #((i know that's a semi-unpopular opinion i'd get flack for in some circles but that's just how i feel!)) #((even if it's not my cup of tea overall; i like the weird and colorful riff on 'the texas chainsaw massacre')) #((that never asks us to root for the fireflies or be sympathetic towards them-i like it's trippy visual style)) #((and over-the-top fever dream pitch it reaches by the end; with all the weird dr. satan stuff and the like!)) #((so yeah; i absolutely agree-'house of 1000 corpses' would've been a perfectly good standalone)) #((and didn't need to spawn a whole franchise-not every horror movies needs a franchise!)) #outofhatboxes #beatingheart-bride #V:Dark Shadows

[one-bunny-a-day]

22/05/2023

#daily bunny #142 #standalone bunny #you ever just #yeah #eyestrain #potentially #the bg is a lil hard on my eyes so tagging just in case

[cmonangel]

okay so i finally read a ballad of songbirds and snakes which led to me rereading the hunger games trilogy over the past week (SO GOOD i could make a whole other post) but then i thought it would be a good idea to watch the movies but then literally started sobbing from the beginning and started again every time single time they showed rue before the games even started or anything

#as a standalone book abosas is like ok but i actually thought it was fascinating like just how the games developed #like seeing how the media and sponsors started and then rereading the original books its SO interesting #im really tired but the relationship between the districts and capitol and tributes and audience and everything... suzanne is a genius #also i briefly went into the tags on here and my one thing is why are people not talking about tigris more?? #she could have a whole other book #i wish i could talk to suzanne collins and ask her why she chose tigris of all people to become a stylist and then what happened #did she think she could help the tributes like her cousin and then they had a disagreement of some kind? #no one is doing it like her #and im just blown away like rereading the books bc yeah theyre incredibly violent and there's the stuff with that peacekeeper #and then finnick in the capitol which is real and painful but it's so different from popular ya currently #idk what middle schoolers are reading these days but im just thinking about how acotar is marketed as ya #i just appreciated how katniss loves people and you can tell by her/their actions words etc instead of everything being some crazy #physical attraction all the time #which makes sense with katniss's circumstances and everything and she even says like she doesn't want to get married etc #because of the world they live in and thg isn't a romance obviously while the popular newer books im thinking of are marketed as romance so #maybe im just mad bc i gave in and read fourth wing and it was so garbage #idk i have a lot of thoughts but i dont think these are making sense

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

this is a very venty post don't mind me :D

that nintendo direct was so horrible.

it was literally like 80 percent remakes and remasters.

never in my life have i seen an announcement video exist just to say "every game you've ever known since the 90s is being remade/remastered, sorry, we ran out of originality".

literally like all the video game market is anymore is remakes and the movie industry is just as bad.

the nso releases are fine because they're not like, remakes taking up full game slots. they're old games that are being made accessible and that's great... but there's no need to remake this many games when they can do that. remakes used to be rare. remember stuff like the wii u shop and stuff? with all the games they had on those things? now it's a tiny selection and everything else is a remake :/

also I feel like a lot of new rpgs are just like... lowkey fe knockoffs now instead of original rpgs.

i'm happy for like... two existing remakes, but one of them is mario rpg which people wanted waaaaAAAAAYYYY before the remake and remaster era, and the other is baten kaitos which im not actually happy about remaster-wise (the updated ui is trash, they took out very specific charms of the original ui), just happy that it will get more recognition/notice from people since it was never popular.

they also completely removed the english voice acting which like okay yeah it wasn't always that great but the voices fit perfectly and it wasn't as bad as fans meme on it for! it just sounded like they were talking through a tube and that was actually the worst part of it lol.

someone suggested to me that they may have just lost the data for it, but idk. i wish they'd just admit that somehow if it was the case, because it bugs me that the english audio is just completely gone when ultimately i really liked it. i wanted the game to be accessible to newer players, sure, but i also wanted the english audio there. ig that's because i grew up with it and i liked it, but it's still such a bummer for me!

paper mario being put on the nso and tyd getting a whole remaster does make me sad tho bc it feels like they're leaving the original in the dust when it was so good. if you're gonna do tyd, at least do them both.

good for innersloth though, i'm sure they never imagined being on a nintendo direct. they're the real winners here.

#DCB Comments #the FE fandom is just as bad too. every single solitary direct that comes up they're like #OMG FE4 REMAKE. like ??? I used to be just annoyed but #now I'm just feeling the “shut the actual fuck up” mood bc it's ALL they care about for FE anymore #nobody wants new FE games. they're just obsessed with the idea of remakes #it's more annoying bc it's all the majority of the FE fandom talks abt anymore #also does anyone even know if games on the NSO ever get a remake or if originals of remakes go onto NSO? #wondering bc I don't think I've seen a game on NSO get a remake or vice versa #like I was always wondering if Mario RPG would be on the NSO but it never was and now it has a remake coming #since FE4 6 and 7 are on the NSO I can't see why they would be if remakes were coming #also if they're in the process of making a new console do y'all still think they'll release Gamecube on the NSO? #idk if they'd release PoR on it since they'd prob remaster that one (I don't want a remake for it but remaster might be nice if they #update the map graphics and stuff) since it would net them way more money to release the game as a standalone but if they #did put it on NSO I'd really love that. I get up I play PoR. I lay down I PoR. I go in the car I play PoR (I don't drive lol) #but anyway yeah I'm just tired of every single Direct having FE fans being annoying as fuck #also ppl were apparently legit like omg the new banner coming means fe4 remake will be on the direct #oh my goooooddddd stfu at this point I just don't want it remade bc i am 💅 p e t t y 💅 bc ppl are so annoying abt this #when a leak for a new game came out (engage) from a very reputable source ppl knocked it and called it ''obviously fake'' #(the joke is now not just ON them but IS them) but then when they got a ''leak'' abt an fe4 remake they ate it up #like wow lol. wow. they won't believe anything unless you say fe4 remake then suddenly they believe anything you say abt that alone #it's rly sad that my favorite game has become a cesspool of annoying fe fans #the thing is fe doesn't come out with a whole lot of remakes. it never has #it's just that when gaiden got a remake ppl have NOT shut the fuck up ever since #and I've seen ppl saying every game under the sun should be remade #frankly if they remake anything right now it should be poor fucking shadow dragon (yes. the remake.) #anyway most of y'all know how annoyed i get abt this lol like yeah maybe someday fe4 could get remade but #it's the fact that the modern day fans are SO fucking annoying about it now. back ten or so years ago fe4 fans were just happy TO play it #we were just happy to have it at all even in emulated form and it being an snes game #we loved it as it was and didn't bitch about it bc it wasn't uwu modern enough (and i've played casual mode since new mystery) #now ppl are just like oh i like it but i don't want to play it unless it's remade

[insomniamademedothis]

Oswald Danes is 100% based on Donald trump and there is nothing you can do to convince me otherwise. In 2011!!!

#torchwood #miracle day #yeah I’m watching miracle day guys really it’s actually good you just have to mentally detach it from the rest of torchwood like it’s not #connected it’s a standalone series which happens to have 2 of the same characters and be really really good #even if it is largely based in America.. #but you can’t tell me any different about Danes and trump #maybe if more people watched miracle day 2016 wouldn’t have happened

[zoekrystall]

Did that fav pkmn thing on a whim and I'm sorry for all my babies I didn't choose bc I really like too many by some.

Love how it's mostly pretty ones and then there's clodsire. Even tho I got it in my team since the beginning of violet do I continuously forget its name bc I just call it by the nickname blobby (one of the rare times I didn't spend hours googling the perfect nickname but it nonetheless is a perfect one)

And for fun without any legendaries as fav

Reg nicknames I even write all down so I only spend decades once for each pkmn (unless I don't like the prev one anymore). Need to update that someday since it's mostly old revolution ones but hey. Blaze do I use for arcanine nowadays more and ninetails got others. Gardevoir got soteria nowadays which I prefer more. Etc.

#a wild lux appears #(made this in december but for whatev reason left it in drafts until now. prob bc I wanted to limit non important posting idk) #Maybe you think garchomp is there bc of other reasons but I use it since dpp bc cynthia made kid me go 'woah!' #I remember having looked up as a kid to cynthia and juniper a lot and that fact n reason behind it makes me also go yeah no I was a girl wh #one day decided to be happier otherwise. Bc the reason was 'oh wow female and cool so I can indeed be that :0' most importantly with junipe #bc I never cared for battles. ye ye ignore fictional professions I was like 8. reason I loath alola tbh I missed doing non battle side stuf #I vividly remember picking my first pkmn game up (hg) and just immediately going fuck being a trainer let me be a prof and it's so funny ho #my horrendous sieve brain has that laser ingrained. Sometimes still brainstorm and I would prob study ghost pkmn tbh who by sheer luck isn' #dead yet. That and maybe being v charismatic to that type idk. Why bc I like those lil fellas. #What I also find extremely funny is having went by sonia prior to swordshield and there being a prof sonia. Wish I still went by it when it #dropped. Imagine. Kid sonia wanting to be a prof and meeting swsh sonia being on her way to be one. I either would've made her my #personality (which I think I nonetheless did I think I changed my icons to her) or would've wildly shaking her going 'it should have been #meeee'. which ig I mentally do by every rival or friend group person that takes that route like take me w you I hate battles please. Insane #that only blueberry academy me start to hate em slightly less. After over a decade of battles. Ig alpharad's n others streams w nuzlockes n #all started to also show me the appeal of actually strategizing instead of brute forcing which I did. #*that only blueberry academy MADE me #Whatev. Also no I don't got anything else that another pkmn would kickstart talking abt. Just know I drag my 2013 xerneas everywhere w me #and it is a fucking crime that I can't throw it into violet. What is this. You clearly don't mind throwing others into regions they don't #belong to at all (which I personally really dislike hc lore wise but gameplay wise whatever let new trainers catch old legendaries) #To come back to fav pkmn yes I'm in the dragonair boat. I hate evolving mine. Dragonite is fine I like it standalone but I like the #aesthetic of dragonair more. Idfc abt logic or whatever this is aesthetic talk. Yes I prefer some fan evos more. #I keep wanting to play that fusion fangame and if you want to know what pkmn I like I found out I have a huge overlap w alpharad there #Which sucks for us both! We adore pkmn that get lewded the most and I hate my life. You do you idc some are humanoid I have to admit that #but I personally would prefer to not see any art or even just jokes abt ANY of that. Humanoid or not I Do Not See. #I don't block let alone report over that just. tag and don't bring that to my doorstep thx. #What I will at most block n judge is if you touch any of the kids idc in this franchise if they're just pixels. #Can you tell I am writing this close to midnight anyways this is all. This became like a completely dif post in the tags welp

[telekinetiq]

#. this is the first time i've used the poll feature lmao #. but yeah pls be honest!! if you rly aren't interested that is FINE! i will not be hurt / mad <3 #. i genuinely just wanna gauge the amount of potential interest. I'll prOBABLY still write Gira regardless- #. this will probably just determine whether i use the standalone blog or just keep it on the WIP multi.

[anti-dazai-blog]

Got the most baffling ask from [redacted] about an hour ago saying that I should “stop judging Dazai for past actions” and I’m still thinking about it.

What. what does that mean.

#I havent even started analyzing the light novels yet Everything I talk about is in the main manga?? #What “past actions”??? #Regardless of Time not existing (in the Real Life sense) in fiction #So there’s no such thing as “past actions” (in the Real Life sense.) there’s only “before” and “after” the main story #Meaning if there’s a ten year time skip at the end that’s seen as “the future” rather than “the present” #The main story will always be “the present” #The main story doesn’t become “past actions” as soon as there’s something that comes after it #And with the way BSD is written very little could even be considered “the past” in and of itself #Yosano and Kenji’s backstories are shown as flashbacks within the main story so technically they can be seen as “the past” #But the Light Novels are shown as standalone stories (as in you don’t need to read the main manga to read them) #So if I were reading Dark Era then that would be “the present” and the main manga would be “the future” #Because. Time doesn’t move in fiction. It’s stationary. #What’s “the present” is a matter of perspective when you have a story like #The same way when a movie has a sequel. if you watch Movie 1 the sequel is “the future” but if you watch Movie 2 it becomes “the present” #While Movie 1 is “the past” #And that’s not even touching on how fictional characters can be judged by absolutely anything they did at any point of time #Because like I said. Fictional Time Is Stationary. #And I hate to say it but everyone very much judges Real People based on past actions? #Yeah I do actually think people should be held accountable for their crimes and not just forgiven because it happened a while ago #“But judge.. I killed all those people 4 years ago!! Why are you so caught up on the past??” #Anyway back to my original question #In context of this blog. What does that even mean. #(Like. Am I only supposed to talk about the latest chapter or something?) #(Do you sit in literature class going “why’s Hamlet judging Claudius for his past actions??”) #(Like. SIR. That’s a part of the story for a reason.)