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gracefall-mcyt · 2 months

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...SO. Hermitcraft Lifeline AU trailer I made for a class last semester.

Does contain spoilers but they're left vague-ish? Vague enough that I don't think it spoils the experience at all. Go read SlashMagpie's Lifeline AU. Please.

Now crossposted to Youtube!

Notes about stuff under the cut :)

Okay so. I know there are some inaccuracies to the actual fic, major and minor alike. However, this took me around 60 hours to make, and I wasn't able to work on anything else in between because of my deadline. I am not going back to fix things now. I spent the entire latter half of my winter break pretty much just working on this, because, like I said, I was doing it for an assignment.

It was a film studies class, and we had to create a pretend cult classic and then create some creative representation of it. I chose to do an adaptation of Lifeline AU for mine! That's why there are the black frames near the start–originally there was some pretty typical movie trailer text, I just didn't feel like including it here.

I'm going to be real, I would not have been able to get through that project if I wasn't doing it with LLAU. Lifeline AU was my lifeline, in a way. If I had stuck with my original plan, then I wouldn't have come up with such a GOOD final product. I probably would have quit the trailer and settled for a poster. With this, that never crossed my mind. I wound up with a product that I had genuine creative passion for, based on a story that I have immense love for.

@slashmagpie , thank you so much for writing this fic. I have said it before and I will say it again; this is my favourite thing I have ever read. Between its plot, characterization, worldbuilding... EVERYTHING. It's such a beautiful story. It's one of few works to actually make me think, to make me consider what's right and wrong, in a sense. Every time I reread it, even if it's just a small little section (or all of Asking for a Miracle. I'd say that that one has the biggest chokehold on me of the llau fics), I feel myself experiencing the fic all over again.

Going to be honest, I wasn't going into LLAU with any expectations. I found Lost Boys bc i was looking for fics with aliens, and so i decided Empty Oceans would be my "last fic before sleep." I ended up not sleeping that night, spending the next few hours reading through all of the series (aside from Twenty-Eight Days of Delirium, but I did go back to that one later that day), listening to the same song on loop the entire time. I was so engrossed by the story I didn't even notice until I was halfway through Asking for a Miracle.

I rambled on about the fic to anyone who would listen. My best friend, my cousin, my younger brothers, my older sibling, everyone. Eventually, when one day my cousin came over to have a sleepover, I was like. I know you're not going to read it. Would you like me to tell it to you? And she said yes. I expected it to take maybe a half hour. She expected it to take one hour. It ended up taking two and a half. By the end, she said "this sounds like it would make a great movie", so we ended up writing out the script for the very trailer you see above.

My cousin is actually the one who drew the beautiful clock seen at the beginning and on the monks' robes! She gave me permission to use it. I would tag her, but she doesn't have any public social media accounts.

At some point I'll come back and list all the small details, bc I put in quite a few, but for now I'm tired of typing up this post so you'll have to wait :)

Song used is Imaginary Worlds by Tyler K

I forgot where exactly I got the clock ticking sound effect but I will try to find it and link it eventually.

As stated before, this is entirely based on Lifeline AU by SlashMagpie. Go read it if you haven't already, I'm begging you.

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foreverydinger · 11 months

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Finally Free || Self Para

Date: June 16th, 2023 Summary: Tony Rydinger goes to graduation! TW: None

The morning of graduation didn't feel like Tony even woke up beforehand. He seemed to simply float out of bed in a mildly dissociated state and autopilot his way to the kitchen. Ian had made the tea and coffee already, a fact Tony was thankful for as he began breakfast. He didn't even speak before the meal was finished being prepped and Ian seemed to just know he needed the space to process what was happening.

If you asked Tony to recount the details of his morning routine he wouldn't be able to tell you, he went from sitting at the table with his breakfast to walking to his seat during the ceremony.

Luca wasn't far ahead of him, Tony gave him an encouraging smile and a nod when the little elf appeared anxious, and Tony had already spotted the Lightfoots and Jessica in the crowd. Barley hadn't been quiet during their walk to their seats and Tony shuddered to think what he had in store for when he and Luca crossed the stage.

He knew this ceremony like the back of his hand and sat in roughly the same area every year. The exact spot changed with the names of his classmates but Rydinger tended to fall in a familiar place. They had the same decorations each year and Tony hadn't even needed to buy a new cap or gown this time, just the tassel with the year 2023 dangling from it. Normally he'd make a mental note to just add it to the keepsake box but this year he was going to hang it from the rear view mirror in his car Tang. This time he could actually be proud of earning it.

Tony sat back as the speeches began, laughing at the silly jokes and nudging those nearby when the pictures of them all flashed across the screen. There was even a small section poking fun at specifically Tony which he blushed at. Someone must've sent in old photographs of Tony and he glanced up at Ian's beaming face as he wondered if his boyfriend had anything to do with it.

He'd have to get to the bottom of it later.

When it came time to walk Tony breathed deeply, trying not to appear nervous despite the fact he knew there were many eyes—so many more eyes than before—watching him cross the platform and receive his diploma. He tried not to balk or cringe as the whoops and cheers came from the crowd (he could see Barley waving a sign) despite the headmaster having insisted everyone hold their applause.

"Well done, Tony," the headmaster whispered to him with a wink. "You did it." As Tony hurried back to his seat he realized that this diploma wouldn't be going into a box like the others. No, this one he could hang up for everyone to see.

The closer to the conclusion of the ceremony came the faster Tony's heart beat in his chest. Adrenaline and nerves over whether the curse was truly broken or only temporarily was all he could think about. What if the curse reset and Ian forgot again and now he wouldn't even have the journal to remind him? What if this was all borrowed time?

“Congratulations, Class of 2023,” came the headmaster’s voice booming over the speakers. “You did it!”

A whimper escaped Tony as the headmaster made the announcement and Tony waited for the other shoe to drop, waited for the rush of magic and the slight sparkle to spin around him and doom him to repeat the hell he'd already endured for so many years. But it didn't come and as Tony searched the crowd for his family waiting in the stands for him he saw the way Ian's mouth formed the words I love you and knew, once and for all, that he was finally free.

#god i'm fucking crying i'm so fucking proud of him #[ s. finally free ]#[ graduation ]#[ curse ]#[ curse break ]

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heckyeahepithetswitched · 4 years

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candaru liveblogs reading her own writing: episode 5

redwood arc let’s go

for some reason I remember spending a really long time on this intro; like, the words weren’t coming out right and I couldn’t even think of an opening scene (not that what I ended up with was great)

...but this whole page is my favorite scene xD

it also took a while but when I realized “wait this is the swap version of my brotp” I knew I just needed to dig a little to find a golden dynamic and then boy did I

these two are idiots and I need to talk about them more often

the change from “preferred extracurricular activities” was changed to “astronomy signs” since... let’s face it... most of Percy’s dialogue could remain untouched and still fit swap!Sylvie, so I tried to find excuses to at least change the flavor to be sleep-related when possible

in another screenwriting book I read about how change in location can make a scene much more interesting

so everybody thank the author of that book for the birth of boxer!Molly (because I wasn’t sure where she lived yet and this was a good vague way to dodge showing her room)

(very mild tw below)

this was supposed to just make her vague and mysterious (like how Ramsey is originally shown in silhouette) but I think I accidentally just made her even more attractive

whoops

not as good as the line “well, I do have an... EYE for these things,” but the joke here is that Zora is an antique.

once again I love lines that are like “wait hold on—” and nope we’re just continuing into the scene, never gonna address that again

it actually took me a while to decide which of Molly’s girls got to take Fred’s role; at first I felt it should be Phoenicia or Trixie since they are her best friends, but later on I knew that whoever it was would have to get themselves stuck in the woods somehow, and since the “car crash” joke isn’t funny without— well, Car Crash— I had to find another way to basically leave them immobile for Detective Sylvester to find. Not knowing much about Trixie and Phoenicia, it was hard to come up with a way to do that without involving a bunch of other people (which I’d then have to get rid of before Sylvie came in), so I ended up going with Death Cap since

1) I needed someone with an epithet,

2) I already had the idea that she had mushrooms that could knock someone out via spores, and

3) Jello was probably joking about the “mushroom girl is the final boss” thing so he’s not gonna invalidate my made-up epithet

...on a related note, “Fiona Boss” is a lame pun on “final boss.” You’re supposed to say it with an Italian mobster accent.

I also decided (...back in the Museum Arc but shhhhh) since there’s no canon voice for mushroom girl, it would be cool to have her be mute.

and I was right. it IS cool. mute characters are awesome.

my beta reader thinks swap!Bugsy and Arnold are more interesting than their original counterparts and... I actually kinda have to agree

then again Bugsy and Arnold are my least-favorite canon characters so I may be biased

this ongoing bit is probably one of those jokes that was more fun to write than to read, but I really did have a fun time writing all their constant bickering

yeah I debated whether or not I was allowed to use this gimmick for a LONG time and eventually decided yeah, heck it

kid!Zora is largely responsible for how involved I got with this fandom; I have literally never been this active in any fandom, ever, with people latching so hard onto the ideas that I put out and then making their own works out of them and continually spinning this bigger and bigger web of fanworks and love for these characters

what was I talking about I don’t remember

So, there’s actually quite a bit to this line! In the original, Ramsey says:

“The make alone is pretty nice. ‘Bout 60 years old— Eh, 65, give or take. ‘Prolly worth at least a few thousand bucks.”

As you’ll notice, Ramsey was correct in his estimation— but Zora is even more accurate, because her Epithet lets her tell the age of an object down to the minute. She rounds to half a year for Molly’s sake. And the use of “pesos” rather than “bucks” (slang for American money) was 1) to imply that different forms of currency still exist in EE, and are slowly merging together like the languages did, and 2) as a small shoutout to the ethnicity headcanons of my Zora friends (before Jello actually confirmed her ethnic makeup publicly).

this is code for “I’ll decide Molly’s motivations to join the BB later”

*puts my hand to the screen longingly*

ms lockhart you’re one of my favorite characters and you weren’t even in the show

I’ve stated this on record NUMEROUS times but I can never say it enough

Eros is Percy’s weird uncle figure

I tried REALLY hard to stick with characters’ canon powersets, but in some instances it was absolutely necessary for them to fulfill their roles (i.e. here and with swap!Percy in the museum). anyway people seemed to really dig Daydream so that’s cool

Mela is a reference to Doctorsleepytime’s blog but he never read the scripts :”)

before I had a deadline it was really hard for me to find motivation to work on the scripts and VP Gorou ended up being my sole biggest motivator because I knew batsy would love him and I also knew batsy would actually read the scripts

thanks batsy

the Banzai Bees all having Howie’s disposition but a fierce loyalty to this big soft donut man is probably one of the purest things in the Redwood scripts, if not the purest

we never actually see Molly go fully feral in the museum scripts so it’s fun that we get to here. in my head she’s got the frazzled hair, the foaming at the mouth, all of it. do not mess with Molly.

to take the place of the mildly-customized Banzai Blasters, I needed some mildly-customized Worker Bees

I ended up using the OCs I created once on a whim

I died when I realized I had an excuse to make mistew wamsey canon

I had to add the Jenga tower because I realized Ramsey never fired a gun for Sylvie to hear hgksdaflghdsf

would you believe me if I told you I almost had Zora turn into a kid (and then continue pretending to be one for the majority of the scripts) to convince Sylvie into letting her go

you all know I hold the highest respect for Mr. Blaber as an incredibly skilled creative writer but even legends make mistakes and this is me calling him out on a poor choice of analogy

yes I see how it’s related because it’s about saving/catching the many vs saving/catching the few but STILL

zora: wait you can be a cop and also a good person?? wack

at first when I realized “wait, banzai VPs are supposed to work in pairs,” I was worried that I’d have to find another character to accompany Gorou

but then I realized having a partner who made him do all the dirty work and never went out with him was the most Gorou-like solution possible

THIS IS ONE OF THOSE LINES THAT’S FUNNY IN CANON BUT THEN THE SWAPPED VERSION IS SO MUCH WORSE

I wanted to emphasize how swap!Sylvie’s just a little bit less pure than canon!Percy. Percy immediately refers to Ramsey as “partner” once they start working together, even though he’s a criminal, whereas Sylvie at this point still very much sees Zora as a means to an end. It’s a small difference, but it’s there.

oh yeah I forgot to talk about how I ended up with an uneven number of characters to swap so instead of doing some weird three-way swap with Howdy, I just gave his role to the cat

and honestly that was one of the best decisions I ever made on the Redwood scripts

#candaru liveblogs reading her own writing #epithet switched

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bathedinobscurity · 4 years

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IB | UNDERTALE VERSE (because i forgot to add it in her original verse set whoops)

v5 | gambling with roses tw for mentions of death and also just a very depressing story

In this verse, Ib is one of the rare few humans to be born with the determination soul trait. For the first eight years of her life, she’s completely unaware of it, and has yet to unlock the powers it carries with it.

All of that changes when she stumbles into the Fabricated World.

With all the enemies running amok, it’s no surprise that she’d meet her end somehow while there. And after her first death, she discovers the power her soul has. Hers, however, isn’t the same as the regular powers.

Instead of resetting, she has the power to reroll. Along with rolling back time, it also changes things. Each time she rerolls, something in the real world is different. But the surprising thing is... the Fabricated World never changes.

The first time she reaches the end of her journey, she rerolls again to save Garry, who had been killed by Mary before they could make it to the exit. But the same thing happens all over again. And again. And again.

No matter what she tries to do, it seems that Garry is doomed to die.

But still, she keeps trying, desperate to save the life of her friend. Though she never physically ages, she spends the equivalent of three years rerolling and rerolling and rerolling, hoping that something will change.

But it never does.

Finally, Ib realizes she’s driving herself to madness. For the sake of her own mental health, she decides that after one last attempt, she’ll stop. After trying for so long to change things, she’ll finally leave the art gallery.

The ending remains the same. Garry dies at Mary’s hands, and Ib sets Mary’s painting ablaze. This time, there’s no going back- she leaves the Fabricated World for good.

#ooc | muse stuff #ib | verses #ib v5 | gambling with roses

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farcryfuckmeup · 5 years

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Hey there! 🤗 Just seen your latest post and I have a request in my mind. Not so clear but I'd love to see something about whump John / fem!Deputy 😻🤩 I'm pretty new with these requesting stuff, so sorry if this is the wrong place to do that 🙈

More Time

wc: ~915

TW: MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH, BLOOD

this one is a bit shorter than my usual stuff but here it is! check out my masterlist and tag list!

He was already injured.

It’s what Rook repeated in her head like a mantra as she sprinted after the man parachuting from the sky.

He was going to hit the ground before she could get to him, but he was hurt. How severely, Rook had no clue, but it was an advantage she had over him.

When she got closer, Rook could feel the lump beginning to form in her throat. Ever since John had run from the church in Fall’s End with two cultists flanking him, rage had been coiling inside of her chest like a snake. John had always talked about indulging her sin, well by god she was going to.

With each footstep toward him, the adrenaline she felt ebbed away a little more until the pounding of her heart was no longer in anger, but in fear.

Her breaths came short and quick as she stared down at him, her handgun aimed square at his chest even though he was clearly in no condition to fight.

His favorite coat was stained with blood, and his face was splattered with it as well. From where she stood Rook could see that blood was beginning to collect on his bottom lip.

John’s eyes slowly opened, immediately finding her own. A soft whimper escaped her when she realized that he didn’t look afraid or angry, but rather a little proud.

Rook’s hand holding the gun began to tremble before she finally dropped to her knees next to John’s side. Tears were streaming down her cheeks as she took in a sharp breath, but she bit her lip to try and hold it all back when she felt a soft touch on her knee.

“Will you stay with me? I don’t want to be alone.” John’s voice was weak, but it was clear and easy to understand. He didn’t sound panicked despite his words, but Rook thought she was going to collapse into a thousand pieces right there and then.

“Just-just focus on breathing for me, okay? I’m not going to leave you. I’m not going anywhere, I promise.” Rook stuttered as she shifted around to where John’s head rested against the ground. She pulled her leather jacket off and bunched it up before carefully using it to cushion his neck.

“You were one of the few good things in my life,” John paused to cough and her stomach flipped at how wet it sounded. “I’d do it all again you know. I wouldn’t change a single thing if I knew what would happen.”

“I know you love to listen to yourself talk, but please John, for the love of god, please just stop.” Rook’s tone was pitched and wobbled with desperation as she moved to kneel over his body and her gaze darted around trying to identify all the different points he was injured. She kept having to start over because she couldn’t keep track of them all.

John just smiled lovingly up at her and touched her cheek gingerly. Rook’s eyes fell closed at the feeling, her own hand coming up to cover his. She gave it a light squeeze and clenched her jaw to try and stop the onslaught of emotions threatening to spill over.

No. No. No. No. No.

“I don’t-I don’t think I could ever love myself Deputy, but you helped me to forget hating myself.” His voice was so calm through his coughing that if Rook wasn’t looking at his broken body, she just might have believed him. She reached out with her other hand and brushed it across John’s forehead, letting it rest on his jaw as she forced a tearful smile.

“You’re not going to start in on all that goodbye shit, Seed. Not now, not ever. I just need you to stay awake.” Rook’s eyebrows were screwed together as she tried not to break down into a puddle of tears.

“I want to hear you say it.” She froze at John’s words, her chest tightening as she forgot to breathe. He didn’t have to say anything else, she knew exactly what he meant.

“I love you.” The words shook as she said them, her fingers beginning to quiver against his jaw. She didn’t try to hide the tears anymore, her voice cracking as she lowered her head closer to John’s.

The smile that formed on his face was heavenly. It made him look at peace. In the entire time that she’d known him, something was always plaguing John’s mind. He rarely looked as peaceful as he did now.

Rook felt her heart stop as she felt John’s hand being to go slack underneath her own, and she noticed his chest was no longer rising and falling with each breath. She pulled her bottom lip between her teeth as it began to quake, but she couldn’t help the sob that forced its way out of her throat as she set John’s hand down on top of his chest.

“I got you, it’s going to be okay. It’s okay. I’ve got you. You’re safe now. You’re alright.” Her body shook as she began to cry, and Rook lowered her body down on top of John’s as she touched her forehead to his. Her hands were fisted in his coat and some of his blood was transferring onto her skin and clothes but she couldn’t be bothered.

He was really gone, and she couldn’t help but wish she’d gotten to do more with him.

“I do love you, John.”

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