#meme prattle

[anghraine]

Fic author interview (meme)

I was tagged by @incognitajones! Thank you very much <3

1- How many works do you have on AO3?

222, though some are very closely interconnected.

2- What's your total AO3 word count?

1,193,545, says the AO3 statistics page!

o_O

3- What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

LOL, I had just automatically rearranged my stats graph to rank fics by kudos instead of hits. It's:

Season of Courtship (inevitably), a Darcy/Elizabeth canon-compliant engagement interquel I wrote as a teenager;

But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul In Hell (always a pleasant surprise), a short AU in which Luke convinces Anakin/Vader to flee the Empire with him;

per ardua ad astra, a Rogue One+ANH Jyn/Cassian AU in which Jyn, Cassian, and Bodhi escape Scarif only to get trapped on the Death Star and forced to pass themselves off as Imperials;

we get dark, only to shine, a longggg yet unfinished AU of The Borgias in which Cesare and Lucrezia begin their affair during S1 instead of S3 (CW for canon sibling incest, murder, etc).

Contradictions and Varieties (baffling), a short Darcy/Elizabeth AU I wrote for a fest in which it takes them slightly longer to get together.

4- Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try, especially with fics I'm actively updating, but I'm always behind on it. I mostly just get distracted and forget.

5- What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending?

Oh, interesting question! I don't write a lot of angsty endings, but there are a few options, and I think it probably would have to be the gift of men, a short (~1k) Fourth Age fic in which Eldarion goes along with a politically convenient marriage to one of Faramir and Éowyn's daughters, and falls in love with her, only for her to die of old age while Aragorn and Faramir are still alive and Eldarion remains young.

Honorable mentions: Set On This Path (Luke and Leia are brought up in the Empire + fusion with the story of the bloodbending brothers in B1 of Legend of Korra, complete with murder-suicide) and the last day (a chirpy epistolary fic that takes an abrupt turn after the genocidal attack that begins the Guild Wars games).

6- What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending?

Um, just considering the ones that have endings, to be fair, and ... hmm, that's harder. A lot of happy endings! Probably the ones that are happiest for me, personally, are First Impressions (m!Elizabeth/f!Darcy re-telling of P&P) and whatever we deny or embrace (f!Cassian/Jyn).

7- Do you write crossovers?

Not often, but sometimes! Like now.

8- Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Yes! I've gotten hate more than once wrt Season of Courtship in various versions (even before it become so overwhelmingly the popular favorite of my fics). The rest has been on other fics and mostly on ff.net.

TBH the subtler stuff bothers me more than outright hate (corrections based on adaptations or fanon or expanded universe material I already said I wasn't using, concern that I might switch permanently to a new format I'm trying out, etc).

9- Do you write smut?

Very rarely. I respect people who can write good smut (hi incognita!), but I'm definitely a fade to black sort unless the ship is already so out there that I'm long past feeling self-conscious about it.

10- Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Yes. It's happened a couple of times, but the main one was someone who stole a few Austen fics from various people and tried to piece them together into something they could sell on Amazon. One of the fics was The Rich Are Always Respectable (not what I would choose to plagiarize if I were going to, but ... okay).

11- Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes, several times. I think it's cool!

12- Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I wrote a short fic with my friend @tulinlina many years ago :)

13- What's your all-time favorite ship?

Darcy/Elizabeth. Truly this ship is the terror of the seas!

14- What's a WIP that you want to finish but don't think you ever will?

Oh, man. This probably requires more self-knowledge than I really have. Um ... I hate saying it, but we get dark, only to shine is likely this. I had so many plans for where it was going to go, but I'm just in a very different fannish place these days.

15- What are your writing strengths?

It feels weird to say, but I think I write solid dialogue (it's certainly my favorite thing to write!) and fairly clean prose in general.

16- What are your writing weaknesses?

Description is my truest nemesis—I tend to place scenes in just empty or vaguely described space. Fight scenes and that sort of thing are really difficult (for related reasons). Finishing things—my stuff nearly always grows out of control and it screws up pacing and so on.

17- What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

A little goes a long way, IMO. I did a bit of it in my fic about Leia and Cassian and Alderaanian, in tongues and quiet sighs, so I can't judge it too hard, but it's very much something to handle with care (especially with conlangs—Tolkien fic can be pretty grating this way).

18- What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Tolkien! My first attempt at a fic was a Faramir-goes-to-Rivendell-instead-of-Boromir AU that never got very far.

Well, my first serious attempt at fanfic, that is—I wrote original stuff for years before that, and I guess technically I tried to write Trixie Belden fanfic when I was about 10 ... and the original stuff spun off from a piece that was basically a Secret of Mana fanfic I wrote even before the Trixie Belden stuff. But in terms of something written within a fandom community, the Faramir fic.

19- What's a fandom/ship you haven't written for yet but want to?

Hmm. I'm not sure, actually. I mostly just write stuff if I feel like it. Oh—it's cheating, but I've barely written Korra/Kuvira even though I adore the ship. I'd like to write a proper Korvira fic someday.

20- What's your favorite fic you've written?

This changes pretty often, though there are always a few that come up when I'm asked. At this moment in time, probably The Jedi and the Sith Lord, the third (sort of) of my f!Luke Skywalker fics, and the one where the story finally swerves off the canon tracks and becomes its own thing. Maybe (probably?) not my best work, but the Lucyverse is my baby and I think TJATSL is my best work in it.

Tagging: @elwing, @kareenvorbarra, @heckofabecca, @veliseraptor, @rain-sleet-snow

#long post #anghraine babbles #fic talk #sadly not tagging all the fics individually #words about words #meme #meme prattle

[hayaku14]

#kaitou kid #kuroba kaito #dcmk #detective conan #magic kaito #dcmk stans: OMG THE MONOCLE IS OFF WE CAN SEE HIS EYES #kaito's left eye: BITCH IVE BEEN HERE THE ENTIRE TIME???? #left eye is side eyeing us so hard rn #but you dont understand!!! kid without the monocle!!!! exposed and vulnerable!!!! RAAAAHHH #dc prattles #dc memes #detective conan movie 27

[goldensunset]

brain’s about to get in trouble with whatever stuffy local authority’s in place for saying only ‘ephemer’ as opposed to ‘master ephemer’ because they see eph as being some sort of deity or whatever and he’s gonna be like ‘I Personally Knew The Guy. I watched him light his microwave mac and cheese on fire because he forgot to put the water in it on multiple occasions. you’re descended from him? that’s cute. he and i once rode in a shopping cart downhill and crashed into the fountain together. we had a warrior’s bond. with all due respect i’m not doing the whole formalities thing for him’

#it’s gonna be the ‘I Know More Than You.’ meme #‘don’t prattle on about what kind of person he was to me thank you very much’ #kingdom hearts #khml #kingdom hearts missing link #khux #kh brain #ephemer #mine: kh

[daemonicdorset]

I don't think this needs a caption, really.

#obey me #obey me! #obey me game #obey me! game #obey me shall we date #obey me! shall we date? #obey me one master to rule them all #obey me lucifer #obm lucifer #om lucifer #obey me memes #daedor memes #daedor prattle

[sugarpasteltmnt]

@tmntaucompetition i want to submit propaganda for my "The Neon Void" AU but have no idea how or what to send--

but to everyone please know that you're all so cool and my Leo is literally going around the comp like this:

#everyone is so cool and awesome and WOWZERS!!! #WAAA💕🩵💘!!! #no idea how i got here omg ;w; #i wish everyone good luck and to have fun!!! #tmnt au competition #tmnt au bracket #tmnt au competition 2024 #The Neon Void #The Neon Void TMNT #TNV TMNT #rottmnt fanfiction #tmnt fanfiction #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #ROTTMNT #save ROTTMNT #pastel's silly memes #pastel prattling

[ddset-moved]

Look, as much as I adore Lucifer (he is, admittedly, my favorite), MC's insistence on getting to the attic is incredibly funny to me.

#obey me #obey me! #obey me game #obey me! game #obey me shall we date #obey me! shall we date? #obey me lucifer #obey me mc #omswd lucifer #omswd mc #daedor prattle #daedor memes

[daedor]

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney- Turnabout Samurai

#ace attorney #ace attorney memes #ace attorney jack hammer #aa jack hammer #daedor prattle

[hollowflight-propaganda]

Just thought y'all should know

#I for one wasn't expecting this but I'm not arguing #music #ed sheeran #passenger #destiel #people apparently just tag the memes with “destiel” and I think it's funny #all the little lights #let her go #worst sin the album commits is not including I Hate but other than that I don't have any major complaints #phoenix prattles

[hippie-self-shippie]

auhhh……. hamburger sandwich to diet coca cola….

#i was gonna draw something for this but ummm i didn’t so take this thing instead #patches’ prattle 🧸 #🍵koneko chan🍵 #s/i: gaijin san #selfship meme

[todayisafridaynight]

DON'T EVEN WORRY ABOUT IT DUDE I LEAVE ASKS FOR WEEKS BECAUSE I'M EVIL (EASILY DISTRACTED AND INARTICULATE) SHDGKJDSHDSLGF see you got to it before I was even done with a stream...

But yeah The Smile Ruined My Life. It helps it's not as silly as his last card's though lol

The "soul patch" is a bit of both; it is amplified a lot by lighting, but you can see it's noticeably darker/less patchy than the rest of his facial hair in his texture even when lighting isn't a factor and it's like that for his younger model too. I rarely notice when Tsutsumi actually has one though because it blends in with the shadow lol (sorry for the disgustingly high res texture btw I don't know why they did that and Tumblr blows it up to max size anyway </3)

YAYAYAY HOPE YOU ENJOY GOD OF RISK <3 Genuinely don't remember a single thing so probably due a rewatch for me as well. I do miss Hit Me too...

That's exactly the vision! Sad dog left out in the rain. I love fish out of water (so to speak) type stuff where the character is normally So Serious and So Capable. Jo just Existing In Public is such an image, right... because he's like... this guy with a fifty-foot AOE "leave me the fuck alone" aura active at all times but wearing one of THE most eye-grabbing fits... Honestly kind of insane no one ever connected Aoki to the yakuza before Nick's call-out post, though.

It's fun to imagine RGG characters just living their lives too. I LOVED Mine's first event because he had a lot of commentary on random encounters you could have in Y3 and even achievements you could get, while offering a pretty good idea of what his day-to-day is like

he cant be smiling so sincerely while holdin a fuckin katana that looks RIGHT RIDICULOUSAELKJA (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)(;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)

if my followers can handle me posting masato and aoki's skinned face texture, then i can surely handle a bit of extra hi-res stubble ☠️☠️ BUT i dosee it. if i squint real hard (the shadows in the rggo card really do help point it out)

I'M ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH THE FIRST EP RN (got distracted for a sec to hang with my bro) AND SO FAR IM ENJOYIN IT !! Business Bullshit has always entertained me, and esp when kaori's being so hard headed rn only to be faced with the facts that if she doesnt change Serious Shit is going to hit the fan is ABSOLUTELY pulling me in

YAYAYA THATS EXACTLY IT I LOVE FISH-OUT-OF-WATER TYPE OF SCENARIOS TOO. it really is funny that no one connected the dots when every other npc or character seem so deadset on clocking characters like kiryu frame one as yakuza. meanwhile there's alligator-print, perpetual-scowl and slicked-back hair jo and everyone just seems to be none the wiser. He Just Looks Like That Don't Be Rude☠️☠️

i LOVE imaginin charas doin mundane shit so much, it's probably why i really enjoy slice-of-life stuff. Oh The Beauty Of Everyday Life Etc Etc- esp when applied to yakuza characters where it should be hard for a day to be bland and not noteworthy ☠️

#long post #snap chats #got distracted. IRONICALLY SO. #my college mate was askin me how i make my art dynamic and emotive and im like girl idfk i didnt know you thought it was That #im just a goofball making silly shit.... i cant help you make art bro.... i can tell you the rules of comedy tho. Subjectively. #IN ANY CASE. i forgot what i was gonna say 🥰 #OH I REMEMBERED it took me looking at jo's goofy ass smile to remember #never over that PLEASE NO STOP IM CRYING #because ironically i did think about jo smiling this week. idk WHY- im lying i do know why #if i ever say 'idk why' im lying and 75% of the time it's just cause im embarrassed of the actual reason #in any case the actual reason why was cause Of Course i like it when tsutsumi smiles #i think it'll be a day in hell we see jo have a Smile smile but his smaller ones are Just Fine as well #also. every time he smiled in y7 it was to precede some heinous shit happening and it makes me laugh #fuckin smacking ichi with money/gauging a mate's eye in. yeah thats bout it ainit #crying thinkin bout it still IN ANY CASE NO I START LAUGHING CAUSE I WAS LIKE #'ah well i can draw jo sincerely smiling and that'll be that OR. i could redraw this meme 😭☠️☠️' #PROBABLY WONT I WONT LIE OR GIVE ANYONE HOPE but god the mental image made me hack up a lung #ive prattled so much tho i wanna at least finish this ep tonight i can worry bout all that in the future☠️☠️☠️☠️

[anghraine]

I just remembered that I got tagged in a meme by @veliseraptor! Thank you <3

Rules: answer the questions and tag 9 people you want to know better.

last song I listened to: O sole mio (performed by Pavarotti). I was just shuffling through my "Liked" list, but it's hard to skip past Pavarotti, haha.

currently reading: the last thing I was reading was, I'm pretty sure, The Female Hero in English Renaissance Drama. There's some stuff about The Duchess of Malfi in it that I needed to talk about in my dissertation.

current watching: Rings of Power!

currently obsessed with: the usual level of P&P/Tolkien/SW, but nothing very focused. My brain is mostly just zzzzzzz or white noise tbh. :\

Tagging: @elwing, @heckofabecca, @brynnmclean, @ladytharen, @garethsedwards, @yavieriel, @him-e, @irresistible-revolution, @kazaera

#anghraine babbles #meme #meme prattle #my little piano: music is magic #tv: lotr #ivory tower blogging #renaissance blogging #rare breed of attack unicorn

[phoenixflames12]

what i appreciate about you most is your approach to beauty; you are so conscious of it in all shapes and sizes, your reblogs dot my dash with art and crafts and literature and photography and i am so grateful for that, it always brightens my day and i always hope it brightened yours too, because i feel like you‘re being so hard on yourself and putting so much pressure on yourself and you deserve some lightness in your life, some warmth and ease and comfort. i just want to wrap you into a big hug daily and tell you you‘re kind and talented and smart. because you are. ❤️!

Dearest nonnie, oh nonnie, nonnie, you have no idea how much these words mean to me. The world feels dark (both on a personal and a fandom level at the moment and I am clinging to what little joy I can bring to it.

All my love,

Phoenixflames12 xxx

#by others #q + a #phoenixflames12 does memes #phoenix prattle #the askbox/dms are open!

[daemonicdorset]

My dealer: Got some straight gas. This strain is called “falling in love with a human” youll be zonked out of your gourd

Me, an angel: yeah whatever. I dont feel shit.

Half a century later: My love, I could swear that I've been reincarnated without memories of my past life and family.

My brother, falling from grace: god is lying to us

#obey me #obey me! #obey me game #obey me! game #obey me shall we date #obey me! shall we date? #obey me shitpost #obey me memes #obey me incorrect quotes #obey me lilith #om lilith #obey me lucifer #om lucifer #daedor prattle #daedor memes

[sugarpasteltmnt]

downloaded an old man to help with writer's block and My God it's working

[Ghost Leo by venelona-turtle-den]

#sobs thank u future Leo ;w; #i'm trying my best ;w; #pastel prattling #pastel's silly memes

[ddset-moved]

How I look kissing Leviathan:

(he is the one on the fence)

#obey me #obey me! #obey me game #obey me! game #obey me shall we date #obey me! shall we date? #omswd leviathan #daedor prattle #daedor memes

[tigirl-and-co]

Me drinking leftover new year's champagne and reading pony fanfiction

#titi talks #pony prattling #mlp #brony #this is one of the two old brony memes that live in my brain forever and ever