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phoebe-delia · 1 year

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For @drarrymicrofic prompt: prompt. I'm doing something a little different here. I hope yall enjoy this. It's self-insert, technically, but in a way I think could be fun. We're going meta, folks! Rated M!

I put my laptop aside and thunked my head against the couch cushion. "This is useless."

"What is?" Harry sat down next to me, sipping from his cup of water and setting it down on the coffee table.

I turned to look at him. "This fic. I can't think of a prompt."

"Have you checked the—"

"Yes, I checked the microfic prompts. They're all great but I've already done a lot of them and the others haven't sparked anything specific yet." I narrowed my eyes at him. "Why can't you and Draco do something interesting for me to write about?"

Harry raised an eyebrow. "Why can't you come up with something interesting for us to do?"

"Like each other!" Draco called as he walked in from the next room. Harry snickered as Draco approached us and sat next to Harry on the couch.

I rolled my eyes. "Draco, for the last time, I'm not interested in writing smut. As much as I might love to read it, and adore my writer friends who do, it just doesn't inspire me creatively."

"Mmm but we get pretty inspired, don't we, Potter?" Draco took Harry's chin in his hand and brought their lips close.

"We do," Harry murmured, leaning in and kissing Draco.

I wrinkled my nose. "Can you not? Or at least do that in another room? I'm trying to be inspired to write something about you two idiots and your making out isn't helping."

Draco rolled his eyes. "Oh as if you don't love it. But—fine. We shall delay our mindblowing sex in order to help you pay appropriate homage to our relationship."

"How generous," I said dryly. "Now help me!"

Harry pursed his lips. "Have you tried listening to music?"

"Yeah, but all the songs I listened to I've either done already, or didn't really hit me right," I said. "Can't you two give me ideas? Just—give me words or short phrases that you might like to see me write about for you."

"What makes you think we know?" Harry asked. "You're the writer!"

"Phoebe, and I say this with all due respect," Draco drawled. "As both a manifestation of your writer's block and one of your—what's the word? Blob?"

"Blorbo," I said, smiling amusedly.

"Yes, that," Draco said waiving a hand at me. "What a ridiculous term, but anywho. As a beloved blorbo, I must remind you that you cannot force a good story. Inspiration strikes when it comes, and neither Harry nor I can tell you what to write. We are yours to place in infinite scenarios, but seeing as we exist entirely within your own mind, we are unfortunately no more informed about writing prompts than you are."

I narrowed my eyes again. "You're right, but entirely unhelpful."

Draco smirked. "I'd call that a job well done. Anyway, I'm bored of this. Harry, darling, care for a shag?"

Harry's eyes lit up. He nodded. "Let's go," he said, letting Draco pull him to his feet. They jogged toward their shared bedroom. "Good luck with the writing, Phoebe!" Harry called over his shoulder before they slammed the door.

I cringed and cast the strongest silencing spell I knew at the door. I picked up my laptop. "Useless," I muttered, and refreshed Tumblr once more.

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genericswordsmaiden · 3 months

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OH MY GOD I LOVED THIS. It's like each one of these movies progressively gets better than the previous, even though I still like Ghost Protocol very much.

Rogue Nation just kept me on the edge of my seat for two hours, that's something few movies can do. And the fact I only made three posts instead of four for this entry in the series is proof of that, I think. Solomon Lane is a great villain and it's definitely an improvement from the paper thin one we got in MI4. He's basically Ethan's nemesis, the other side of the coin. A cool concept to play around for sure!

I loved the Benthan moments (the "I'm staying" speech had both me and Ethan speechless lmao) Actually, I think Simon and Tom should star in a sitcom together but that's a story for another day...

Let's talk about REBECCA FREGUSON OH MAN SHE'S SO COOL and I absolutely dig how they didn't make Ilsa a love interest for Ethan. In the end they hugged because they saved each other (pure gratitude ughhh <3) and that was it. I wouldn't mind if they got together in later movies, I just love when romances grow organically.

Now let's talk about Alec Baldwin. I think the casting choice for him was stellar. Hunley is, well, he's a bit like Kittridge in the first movie, in the sense he's just technically doing his job but for obvious reasons he can't see the bigger picture - and when he does, he just does what is right, recognising his mistakes.

Luther is growing on me, and I am so so glad he's still around. He's been in all movies since the beginning, he's like a constant... a familiar face, even though he seems to have a smaller role than the other characters. I like his humour a lot and the way he's so protective of Ethan ;-; (see: the scene where Brandt tells him about the CIA hunting Hunt down - pun intended)

Benji is precious. At this point I think I can say he's my blorbo. Not only he has what I'll call (quoting the title of a Pegg blog here on tumblr) the shelter dog rizz, but he's so genuine and sweet and brave and just... Human. I actually think him and Brandt are the most relatable ones, like, they're not necessarily an archetype of a certain character like Ethan is ("The living manifestation of destiny" sounds so fucking epic tho ngl)

Also, about Brandt, legends tell that he still can neither confirm nor deny details of any operation without the Secretary's approval.

#claire liveblogs m:i #mission impossible #mi5 #mission impossible rogue nation

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nejackdaw · 1 year

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Part of what I really like about Tesblr is the life we've all breathed into not only our characters, but the NPCs (especially ISQ and Argis :) So, I figured I'd share a couple thoughts I have on my obscure little favorite, Celann 💞 my Dawnguard blorbo (cut bc it's kind of long, not NSFW)

Part of what's interesting about him is that he's a follower with perks–not necessarily perks that are useful to him, but he's got them. He's proficient with heavy armor and one handed weapons, but has perks in light/2H. Guards in both Skyrim and High Rock (Daggerfall) wear light armor and use/can use two handed weapons; he also doesn't tolerate any crime, so it's fun to think he was a guard when he was younger. (Idk how he got to Skyrim, but I like to think he grew up in High Rock. I have a vague backstory for him but that's. Akxnajwiwnw)

Despite his proficiency in heavy armor, his default Dawnguard gear is the light variant. Considering Isran only ever hears what he wants to hear, it's likely that sometime during their joint service with the Vigil that he heard Celann used to be a guardsman (read: trained in combat and useful,) tuned everything else out, and had him fitted with light armor instead of the heavy he prefers. Celann didn't want to argue–they always argue, and he's tired of it–and didn't care to bother Gunmar about it, so he hangs out in light armor since he isn't sent out often, anyway.

Avoids Isran like the plague. Frankly, it's clear that no one is working with him because they like working with him, only because they have to, but Isran and Celann clearly have bad blood between them. They work together because they have to and tend to blow up at each other if they're left together for too long, so the Breton prefers to simply vanish whenever the Dawnguard leader is getting too close for comfort. Conversely, he doesn't quite mind Gunmar and Sorine; the blacksmith can work quietly and doesn't try to force conversation, and while Sorine may chatter at him for a while about whatever she's working on, she never expects a response. Celann is content to simply ignore her and let her figure out whatever the issue is.

If you ever go looking for him, he sits in the same three places, on his own, and either in the dark or facing away from the hearth. He has no interactions with the other Dawnguard members, sits by himself, and it's about 50/50 whether he greets you when you walk by or just stares at you. He is unwell. That is depression. In my head, where the Fort has more than five rooms in it, he tends to drift around so quietly through the dark when his mood gets low that it's not uncommon to hear other Dawnguard members refer to him as a ghost, haunting the halls. Alternatively, depression can manifest as an itching, burning, sourceless anger, and on the flip side his typically nonexistent presence can be heavy, weighty and dangerous. Whenever more mellow moods give way to fits of rage he tends to leave the fort entirely so he won't lose his temper over being asked a simple question or otherwise bothered. He yelled at Sorine once and felt guilty about it for weeks, because seeing her so quiet and knowing it was his fault was horrifying. He put in work to repair their relationship, and since has just left whenever he gets antsy to avoid a repeat.

He likes to cook, but rarely has the energy to deal with making enough for whoever hasn't been dispatched. (Rip Celann, your only interaction is the cooking pot once in a blue moon.) When he does cook, everyone makes sure to show up–even those prone to working through mealtime–because, no offense to Durak or Agmaer, but most people can only handle so much orcish cuisine and the farm boy could use some practice. Regardless, Celann is in charge of dessert whenever there's any excuse for celebration. (I read Talviel's Tes races holiday dessert post one time and now Bretons and Swiss Rolls are linked in my head.)

As a personal touch, he wears silver jewelry (especially earrings and a necklace) to ward off undead–especially vampiric–contact. Meant to prevent vampiric bites. (Vampires and silver aren't mythologically sound, but it's fun to me.) Wears small, Mara style earrings in each ear since she's seen as a protective figure in High Rock, in addition to her more common attributes. (Fun fact: in this file I hoard silver jewelry for him to level my enchanting on. It is, surprisingly, seemingly much rarer than gold out in the wild.)

I also HC that he occasionally has bouts of insomnia, because… well, have you seen him? Depression doesn't lend itself to good rest; he's very conscious of all his moving around when he can't sleep so he tends to leave the barracks and wander around inside the fort. Pet the dogs, sit out with anyone he's familiar with who happens to still be up, etc. If Serana joined the Dawnguard, after Harkon is dealt with and the vampire hunters trust her, I like to imagine that he has, at least once, quietly and wretchedly asked at some ungodly hour if she can make people fall asleep.

#skyrim #dawnguard #celann #yeah uhhh i like him (vanishes)#i also have. art. of him #anyway lets see if tumblr manages to mess with this one too lmao #i always forget to tag #writing

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shastafirecracker · 8 months

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for the ask meme: 3, 18, 22?

another break for writing rambles!

3 what’s one scene you always wanted to write but can’t be arsed to write all the setup and context it would need? I would love to write just some smutty smutty PWP of polygun all having fun with vash’s vine tentacles but I keep being hung up by my own inability to let go of canon characterization - the fact that those vines are incredibly traumatic to vash and I have such a hard time getting him in my mind to a place where he’d be okay with even manifesting them, much less railing three people at once with them. argh! it took me however many thousands of words of the VWL post-canon AU to get to a place where I think vash is fine with feathering out and having oops-accidentally-psychic sex with wolfwood and livio. do I have to do that with vash/wolfwood/meryl/milly also?? (maybe?? i’m not saying it’ll NEVER happen I’m just saying it makes me insane)

I also have a slew of AU ideas that I know would make great 100k+ epics but like, man, that’s work, that’s so hardddd whine whine whine

18 do any of your stories have alternative versions (abandoned plotlines, AUs of your own work, alternate characterizations)? again I can’t say anything about BB fic yet, though I will! probably in december I’ll make a roundup post of discards and trivia. and I don’t think I ever have alternate characterizations, because having a strong idea of the characterization through-line is usually where my fics start. but in both Trillium & Ivy and my bb fic I have thought to myself that it would be so fucking easy to make them polygun instead of vashwood. there’s a very noncanon-to-t&i wip of the wives and the bfs having a bi4bi4bi4bi weekend getaway, which… I’m gonna hold onto because there was a polygun event interest check recently and I do like the bones of this wip, it just needs a LOT of work, so. if there’s an event it might be just the thing, idk.

T&I has the most abandoned plotlines of probably anything I’ve ever written besides my old destiel AU. modern-setting AUs have so many potential ways to get sidelined, at least for me. probably the biggest thing is that according to the original outline, the final showdown was meant to take place in like a warehouse at some docks (why? what??), zazie was going to drive everyone there because elendira sent them to get her man back safely, the WHOLE crew was supposed to go (vash, nick, livio, meryl, milly, kaite, zazie) and there were going to be? whole gun fight scenes??

this is a blatant example of what is meant by “don’t be precious with your ideas” - I wrote several thousand words of outline and then looked at all of it and said what the fuck, time to put all of this in the garbage disposal and start over. don’t be precious = drawfee’s whole bit of “delete your art.” sometimes you gotta accept not even scavenging for bits to salvage, just burn it all.

the fic is MUCH better for it

22 do you reread your old works? how do you feel about them? I do! I love them! oh it’s the tea, for me, the tea for me, the tea specifically designed to kill me, etc etc! I drift off from rereading my own fics in older fandoms often because I’m just not rotating those blorbos in my head so hard anymore, but for finished fics in my current fandom, it’s like hey wow this author wrote a fic that will push every single one of my buttons with extreme precision, because this author lives in my head and is me, lol. also, when I get a review that mentions any specific thing, I have to go back and reread that bit to extract all the dopamine from seeing it through fresh eyes and imagining how the reader interpreted it or felt about it.

#sf writes #writer ask meme #sometimes i think about the episode of 24 or whatever the fuck that was the original ending of t&i #and i'm like. did i have a fever? what tf was happening? brain?

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faux-parenchyma · 1 year

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I am politely asking you abou Joe (/EXCITED)

OHOHOHOHO MY MOMENT HAS COME THE JOE TIMES EVER!!!

As a little preface- this is a multi ending/route story au thing I’m doing w @mcytscienceside, of which I’m v v happy to say joe gets his own route. (It’s all under the cut ehe, apologies if it’s incoherent it’s literally 11 am and also I do not write)

Following the initial plot of Ren’s ascension to the throne, Joe, among the rest of the canon Square Table, belonged to the court of the king who passed prior. Though, now that Ren is here, the Square Table remains, their service not yet finished.

Joe takes on the role of a well-established scholar, his personal research pertaining to the history of his kingdom, as well as the active practice of poetic incantation. However, over time, this research quickly evolves into researching the existence of the kingmaker, and what gives said kingmaker the divine right. This reflects the one tweet Mr.Hills gave us a few months back, which is quoted as

[ I believe western monarchies are intrinsically flawed because they are rooted in the claim of “the divine right of kings”—the monarch’s power is granted by God. Anyone who lies about being granted authority from God is a liar I wouldn’t trust to hold my drink, let alone rule.]

Naturally, Bdubs sparks Joes interest, then. How can a seemingly normal man travel from kingdom to kingdom, crowning who he pleases for literal centuries- without dying? (Which this little tidbit makes me all happy considering the frequent association joe has with death) Surely it could ONLY be the cause of divine right- and therefore not a lie in the slightest? So Joe takes to studying The Kingmaker at any moment he can, scouring historical records for any information on Kingmakers, The Tree of Whimsy, and the like.

If he continues his research in the route, Joe finds his interest soon turn into an unhealthy obsession, though this was bound to happen, considering the quest for knowledge is a slippery slope. No matter how far back he delves into the historical records, it’s ALWAYS seems to be just bdubs, never aging in the slightest, always crowning king after king-

-that is until Joe finds a depiction of a very ancient looking man unlike bdubs, still holding the same title.

Did being a Kingmaker under the Tree of Whimsy work with some kind of anti-aging effect- and moreover, could there only be one Kingmaker at a time? There were obviously others preceding him- meaning the likelihood of another taking bdubs place was high. Could this be the ticket to evading death? Death was, after all, a concept that frequently left an unsettling pit in the scholars stomach. He needed to know more- the thought of being so close to unlocking the answers to his questions, yet missing one crucial piece, making him finally snap.

This new version of Joe essentially consists of the physical manifestation of his desire for knowledge, and his magical capabilities causing his mind to become muddled and manic. He appears unlike his normal, neutral demeanor- passerby even likening him to a GHASTLY version of himself (oooo wow it’s like Beetlejhost but mentally ill /hj)

The next course of action would be to confront Bdubs, and force him to let joe see the tree for himself. Why keep the secret to evading death all to yourself??

There’s more to this, but I think it would be silly goofy if I left it here bc I am evil and also want to draw my blorbo before I add more >:)

#hermitblr #hermitcraft #kingmakerau #joehills

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