#thanks for the ask! it was lots of fun to answer lmao

[hunieday]

Nikaido Yamato - Drama Collection vol.2 Rabbit Chat

Please note that I am not a professional translator and I'm only doing this to share the side materials to those who cannot access them, if you notice any mistakes please let me know nicely. Enjoy!

Natsume Minami: Good evening, Nikaido-san.

Natsume Minami: I heard that we'll be appearing together on a variety show next time to promote the drama. I look forward to working with you.

Nikaido Yamato: Hey there, Natsume-chan. Thanks for your courtesy.

Nikaido Yamato: So about that show... they said the theme this time is "youth" in relation to the drama, and they sent a bunch of surveys about it

Nikaido Yamato: What did you answer, Natsume-chan...?

Natsume Minami: Oh. Aren't you looking forward to the talk on the show?

Nikaido Yamato: Well yes, but I'm just wondering about the direction you’re gonna be taking

Natsume Minami: Direction?

Nikaido Yamato: Are you gonna answer it lightheartedly or seriously?

Natsume Minami: Well, I think we need to be serious.

Natsume Minami: That's why I even answered the 5th "Please describe your flavor of youth" question seriously.

Natsume Minami: I wrote that it “tasted like milk tea."

Nikaido Yamato: Oh, so that's what "flavor of youth" means, as in what you drank the most back then.

Nikaido Yamato: Well, ŹOOĻ sells the tough-guy image well so you should be fine with that answer.

Natsume Minami: What do you mean back then? I was talking about when I was in school, I was really into drinking black tea.

Nikaido Yamato: Oh, I see!?!?

Natsume Minami: Oh my. What did you think I was talking about?

Nikaido Yamato: No, my bad. It's nothing.

Natsume Minami: 

Natsume Minami: So, what's your flavor of youth, Nikaido-san?

Nikaido Yamato: Uhhhhhhhhh...

Nikaido Yamato: Maybe melon...

Natsume Minami: How adorable. You like it, don't you?

Nikaido Yamato: Well, yeah...

Natsume Minami: Did you also eat it during those "back then"s you mentioned?

Nikaido Yamato: Forget about that LMAO

Nikaido Yamato: But maybe we’re too young to be calling it "youth", I just liked it as a kid and used to eat it a lot.

Natsume Minami: I’m guessing “youth" refers to teenage years, but it's complicated to define. There were other questions about what we did after school.

Nikaido Yamato: I see. You were busy with work, Natsume-chan.

Natsume Minami: Yes. Unfortunately, I was always so busy with work that I don't remember much of my school days.

Natsume Minami: If anything, I think now feels more like youth for me.

Nikaido Yamato: I get that.

Nikaido Yamato: Hanging out with those guys feels like I’m back in junior high.

Nikaido Yamato: We do things like chugging soda in the middle of summer, having snowball fights in winter, it’s like I’m doing kid-like stuff all year round.

Natsume Minami: Sounds fun. It's like having a little family.

Nikaido Yamato: Maybe LMAO

Nikaido Yamato: ŹOOĻ kinda feel like siblings too

Natsume Minami: Wait a moment. Who's the oldest?

Nikaido Yamato: That’s what you’re concerned about?

Natsume Minami: It's extremely crucial.

Nikaido Yamato: If we ignore the age, the oldest would be Inumaru, then you, then Mido, and the youngest would be Isumi I guess...?

Natsume Minami: I see. Our interpretations aren’t too off, but Mido-san and Isumi-san could probably be reversed.

Nikaido Yamato: Huh? Mido’s the youngest?

Natsume Minami: Since he’s a cute guy.

Nikaido Yamato: Maybe Natsume-chan is the oldest son after all...

Natsume Minami: You're also quite cute, Nikaido-san.

Nikaido Yamato: Where though!?!?!? I'm three years older than you, I’m a grown man who loves beer!

Natsume Minami: During skateboard practice you asked, "Natsume-chan, if I fall, will you help me?" 

Natsume Minami: I thought the way you were trying to tug at my heartstrings by acting like a spoiled child on purpose was cute.

Nikaido Yamato: Don't say it was on purpose LMAO

Natsume Minami: Your character this time resembles you in that aspect quite a bit.

Nikaido Yamato: Oh, he was pretty spoiled wasn’t he?

Nikaido Yamato: He couldn't accept his best friend leaving, so he blamed everyone around him for his problems and vented his bad days to his friends so they would comfort him

Nikaido Yamato: Wait... I kinda feel like I’m having déjà vu...

Natsume Minami: Oh?

Natsume Minami: In reality, all he wanted was to skate with his best friend again, but he couldn't say that one word, so he struggled with despair all the while.

Natsume Minami: He was unable to be fully emotionless, so he couldn’t help but show vulnerability and kindness to those who loved him, which resonates with you deeply.

Nikaido Yamato: Damn. You really went into details 

Natsume Minami: It's fun. I enjoy discussing acting with you.

Nikaido Yamato: I feel the same thing. I feel like we fit each other’s style more every time we’re acting together, Natsume-chan.

Natsume Minami: Are you flirting with me?

Nikaido Yamato: So wanting to work with you more is the same as flirting with you now?

Natsume Minami: You're making me blush.

Nikaido Yamato: Liar LMAO

Natsume Minami: It's true. You said "I just wanted to laugh and skate again. It’s enough for me that I was able to do it today." in the script. Your expression at that moment was just like that.

Nikaido Yamato: That’s the one thing you praised me for on the spot, it's embarrassing to hear it again in text

Natsume Minami:

Natsume Minami: Being able to discuss our work like this feels like youth to us, doesn't it?

Nikaido Yamato: Maybe you’re right! I'll write that the coffee I'm drinking now is the flavor of youth.

Natsume Minami: Can I match your answer? I was just drinking some too.

Nikaido Yamato: Oh, what a coincidence. Though the flavor of youth turned out quite bitter.

Natsume Minami: It's a special flavor, just like us.

#idolish7 #i7 #ainana #idolish7 translation #nikaido yamato #natsume minami #drama collection #rabbit chat #drama collection vol.2

[a0random0gal]

If you had the chance to change something about the dance of the dragons (TV show or book), what would it be? For example, how a character dies, which team a house is on,or an entire character personally. How would you change it to make the story better, in your opinion?♥️🖤💙💚

Ohh anon i've got a list.

When it comes to the tv show there are a few choices the writers made that just don't sit right with me.

Laenor

I do like the characterization they went for, he's a pretty cool dude who really loves his weird, dysfunctional family. What I really don't like is how they handled his death.

See I truly can't stand it when a character is sugar coated just because they're the protagonist and thus must be righteous and always objectively correct.

So to witness the writers white wash his murder, having him flee to essos instead of being killed by Rhaenyra pisses me off. I get that after showing them being good friends it would be very odd to have her kill him.

But that's the thing, they should have opted for a more ruthless Rhaenyra in the first place!

Laenor's death in the books (at least for me) was the first instance of Rhae Rhae making morally wrong choices in order to pursue her ultimate goal. It was compelling! Here she just takes the easy way out, without having to make a tough choice.

Also his survival really fucks her up when you really think about it. Now all her sons are bastards since her marriage to Daemon isn't valid, and for the upcoming season 2, how are they going to handle Addam and Seasmoke? Laenor is still alive, his dragon won't accept a new rider. This doesn't make any sense and just causes plotholes what the actual fu-

Sidenote: After Laenor's very moving speech on how he was done goofing off and was now willing to really step up for Rhaenyra and their family it's super strange to imagine him ditching them all immediately afterwards Lol.

Rhaenys

My gosh, where do I even begin with this woman?

She too is pretty cool at the start, but then episode 9 rolls around and I roll my eyes.

She's so hypocritical. She tries to shit on Alicent for "toiling in the service of men." When that's all she does in the goddamn story!

She wants Baela to get Driftmark, tells Corlys about it, he shuts off the whole plan cause he wants a kid who he's not even related to on the driftwood throne, and when she complains about it he dismisses her.

So what does feminist Rhaenys do about it?

She... submits to her husband, something she conveniently forgets about when talking to Alicent. My god. Just remove this entire exchange, it hurts to watch.

And the coronation scene, Jesus Christ! It was so cool in the books, why did they have to ruin it? Had they replaced it with something better I wouldn't have complained, but this is just, the worst.

Rhaenys shows how badass she is by.... Brutally crushing hundreds of small folks to death and almost slaughtering the greens.

Cool, cool, absolutely necessary. Thanks Sara.

And you know what's even more infuriating? When she flees to Dragonstone to inform Rhaenyra of all that happened. She says she didn't kill the greens cause she didn't wish to start a war. I'm sorry what?

That would have ended the war at the start! As glad as I am that Rhaenys didn't barbecue them it makes absolutely no sense!

If she had killed them there would have been no dance in the first place!

I hate these dumb show only moments. They needlessly complicated an already complicated story and just mess everything up.

There's probably other stuff I could rant on, like how Aegon was made a rapist sorely to make the audience think:

Oh look! The greens are so baad, they believe a rapist alcoholic douche should be in charge instead of our empowered dragon queen, they sure do suck!

Or how house Velaryon was disrespected and mistreated by D*emyra but still somehow decided to support Nyra's claim.

They didn't really have a motive to be greens though, so I think they should have stayed neutral. Their fervent black support makes no sense.

The writers really should have given them more reasons to back up the blacks or had their beloved queen treat them better so that their loyalty made more sense ( I mean holy hell I wonder how they will handle the two betrayers and Corlys's arrest lmao).

But other greens have already shat on these awful decisions and I won't beat a dead horse.

Book

When it comes to fire and blood I surprisingly have very little complaints, except of course, the Jaehaera situation.

My poor baby deserved better, I've made a post about it in the past

(where I ranted and said stuff I kind of regret now, don't post while very angry guys I don't recommend it)

tackling how the little queen was unnecessarily killed off and how her death genuinely adds nothing so why was it added? God I get upset just thinking about it lol.

Some people say George did it cause he needed Aegon's kids to be born after Viserys's, and apparently he couldn't fathom a married teen not having kids until her 20s, which is veery weird.

The more plausible theory is that he got rid of her cause he wanted more Velaryon queens to showcase how close they used to be to the Targs.

Which is something I had understood already thanks to Alyssa, the sea Snake and all the Velaryons who were masters of ships but whatever.

#hotd #house of the dragon #hotd critical #anti team black #pro team green #rhaenyra targaryen #asoiaf #aegon ii targaryen #corlys velaryon #laenor valeryon #rhaenys targaryen #rhaenys velaryon #jaehaera targaryen #fire&blood #hotd season 2 #thanks for the ask! it was lots of fun to answer lmao

[sleepis4theweak]

I just saw your post on Mikey doing angry stimms and had to ask for more /nf since this is the first time I've seen someone draw angry stimms for a character (it's not that common from my perspective)

Thank you- love your artstyle so much!!! :D

(P.s. I also get angry stimmys too sometimes)

Aww- thank you so much for this ask! I am really, really happy you liked it!! And yeah I feel like angry stims aren't talked about as much...

Anyways I was really super excited to draw more- still using stims that I have done, though these are a little more uh... aggressive? I wanted to preface this by saying that I do these gently, or they are stims that I've replaced with something else hehe :)

For my angry stims a lot of it is based on frustration so it's kinda a lot of flailing? Like aggressive shaking. The biting one isn't something I've done in a while- and is one that I would try to do gently (would not recommend that one lol), and the punching of the thigh is something I tend to do (gently) when I'm hella frustrated with homework :)

#You are so so right about angry stims not being shown a lot #I think partially because they aren't all fun or cute- like these more aggressive ones shown here #or because they don't match.. like with the jumping one I drew earlier. Angry stimmys are veeeery interesting tho :) #I like to hear that you share it <3 #side note I had to sit there biting my hand (gently) for like a solid 10 minutes to get the pose right lmao #ANYWHO SERIOUSLY THIS ASK MADE ME VERY VERY HAPPY!!!! SO THANK YOU FOR SENDING IT!!!! :D <3 <3 <3 #answered asks #tmnt #rottmnt #tmnt mikey #tw biting #just in case :)

[ladytauria]

any jason headcanons you enjoy?

oh this is a fun question, thank you <3

some of these are going to be more widely accepted fanon, i think, but! ^^;

smallest robin turned largest robin. (i actually think for size it goes jason > dick > tim > damian > steph. i also like the idea that as red hood he's taller than bruce, but bruce is broader/heavier.)

ik canonically he didn't join the school's theater/drama club bc of robin commitments, but in my head he was still part of a group <3 maybe they had a city one during the summer? idk

i also think he was starting to get involved with the martha wayne foundation before he died.

alfred & he are close. ik canonically alfred tends to be a lot more victim blame-y with jason (as all of them are) but i think that entire retcon was stupid so <3

he can cook and cook well!

related: he also stress bakes. and cooks, too. also a stress cleaner. actually, just in general, i think he responds to stress with action. anything that feels "useful" or "helpful"--so feeding people, maintaining weapons/armor, cleaning up a space, etc.

very neat, and meticulous about his space. like, he might have a few things lying around that are "in use" but for the most part everything has a spot.

phobia of needles! it was worse when he was robin, but as an adult he's worked on it & learned how to manage it. however, in times of high stress it shows back up. and he's not good with any kind of unexpected need for shots.

i saw something somewhere about jason having multiple copies of books--not necessarily editions (though def that too) but like... one to put on display & one he can annotate/dog-ear/mark up/etc as h pleases. which i like a lot!

also inspired by something else--this time a piece of art, i think for something set in the batman beyond universe--but. i think he develops hearing problems, and maybe even already has? (actually; on that subject, i think he probably has tinnitus now, and maybe develops hearing loss as he gets older.) [updating with a link to the art]

good with kids. that one might just be canon xD

does a lot of volunteer work when he's not vigilante-ing. he does work with various places, but i think one of his favorites is like, storytime with kids at a library, or something.

i go back & forth between "jason is warmer" and "jason is colder" post-resurrection, and i think i like to stick with somewhere in the middle---he gives off a lot of heat, but has a harder time retaining. so even tho he feels warm to everyone else, he's still cold.

not really a headcanon, but. white streak + autopsy scar is peak jason design~

& i'll stop there bc this is getting p long!

#not on the list above but: i also like hc's about jason with body dysmorphia #anyway #that got a lot longer than i expected! i thought i'd just have a couple but i ended up with. more than that xD #thank u for asking cordy this was rly fun <3 #dcu #jason todd #jaybird #asks and answers #felinemotif #OH i'm also a big fan of jason with a little more fat over his muscles #but i think that's probs obvious from my fics lmao #batfam

[emilyartstudio-s]

Everytime I saw your art (on twitter) it makes me wanna draw. It makes me want to go back to drawing because it made me happy. I just wish that I would have/find more time for myself to draw things that makes me happy again. College has been biting me in the ass and I'm slow af with my hw

Anyway I love your art a lot and I hope you never stop making them, but also please take care of yourself and don't push yourself too hard. Thank you for putting a smile on my face :) (and for making me squirm sometimes cus 💙💚)

Have a good day/night!!

OMG YOU ALL ARE SO LOVELY THANK YOU FOR THESE MESSAGES!! I reread these and others so much you guys literally fill my heart with so much love!! Thank you <333!! IM SAVIGN THESE FOREVER TO LOOK BACK AT :,))

#SAVE #asks #SAVE FOREVER #there's a lot of asks that I want to draw for so im sorry i havent answered you :(!!! #I was still kind of hesitant to post here on tumblr because all posts automatically upload to pintrest for some reason lmao #Like it's not a big deal but ugh I always wanted tumblr to be my safe space #and that kind of kills that vibe #If I draw (for a crazy example) a character in certain clothes FOR FUn then pintrest people will be like “This is so out of character lol” #IT WASNT FOR YOU THATS WHY BOBO LOOKING ASS ITS FOR REQUESTS 😭 #Not to mention that commissions and patreon are now my top priority rn :''')!!! I need to manage things better aa #thank you for sendign anything at all! I appreciate them all!!

[ziptiesnfries]

amputation and reanimation could be funny and silly

You're right, it could be! Coming right up: body horror with a dash of absurdism.

Content warnings: body horror*, amputation, medical/laboratory setting, restraints, mentions of nausea

*Context: a limb is detached and reanimated separately from its owner

The test subject groaned, turning their head to the side. Their vision swam as they struggled to keep their eyes open. Their left arm throbbed. What … happened?

“Oh, good, you’re awake. I wanted you to see this.”

The voice was fuzzy, but it still snapped the subject to attention, sending a jolt of adrenaline through their system. The doctor. The operating room. Their …

They were still restrained to the operating table, with straps across their forehead, their chest, their wrists—but they blinked rapidly as they looked down, almost unsure of what they were seeing. Why couldn’t they see their left arm? For a few moments, their eyes lingered on the empty spot where it should have been, before they realized that it was still there. Their upper arm was, anyway. But it ended in puckered, stitched-up skin right below their elbow.

The blood drained from the subject’s face. A choked noise escaped their mouth as they began to hyperventilate. What did he do to them?

“Hey.” Fingers snapped, and the subject’s bleary gaze darted over to the doctor. “Eyes up here. I want to show you my experiment.”

The doctor stood off to the side, next to a smaller metal table. On it sat the subject’s arm—the other half of it, lying there limp and bloodless. Wires and electrodes snaked out from it, and there was some kind of metal piece on the end, where an elbow should have been—where it should have been attached to the subject’s body.

Bile crawled up the subject’s throat, and they struggled to swallow it back down. “What—what did you do?” they croaked.

The doctor frowned. “You know how I feel about stupid questions, my dear.”

Their breathing picked up again. Stupid questions? Their brain couldn’t process it, any of it: their arm detached from their body, the doctor’s words … What the hell was going on?

When they failed to respond, the doctor sighed. “The what is fairly obvious: I amputated your arm, of course. But the why is much more interesting.” He grinned, moving over to a large levered switch on the wall.

When he pulled it, the wires in the arm—their arm—crackled with electricity. Sparks flew in all directions as the arm shook and spasmed unnaturally under the currents. The subject watched in morbid fascination, unable to tear their gaze away as their nausea built.

Finally, the doctor switched it off again. The arm fell still, but the doctor continued watching it, and so did the subject—they weren’t sure what else to do.

The index finger twitched. At first, the subject thought it must be their imagination, just a trick of the light, but then—the other fingers began moving, too. The fingers deliberately lifted up and brought themselves down, one by one, in a familiar motion that made the subject’s stomach flip. That was one of their fidgets, something they did when they were bored or anxious. But they weren’t the one controlling the movement right now.

The doctor grinned broadly, laughing. “What a success! It can move completely on its own now.”

The subject wanted to ask why, but they found themself unable to speak, their eyes glued to their arm—their former arm. It was still moving, the fingers wiggling around experimentally, the wrist flexing. The fingers curled, and the arm began to rise up, balanced on its fingertips. It took an experimental step, inching forward, the thumb positioned in the back for balance. It was walking.

The subject was vaguely aware of the doctor laughing in delight, babbling about how he hadn’t expected this to happen so quickly. But the sound of his voice, mercifully, began to fade along with their vision. As the subject’s eyes rolled back, the last thing they saw was their arm balanced on its fingertips, hobbling across the metal table.

#whump writing #whump #prompt fill #lab whump #medical whump #body horror tw #nausea tw #amputation tw #restrained #zipwrites #asked and answered #thank you for the ask! #i had a lot of fun with this one lmao #it's so funny and silly and morally abhorrent

[scucouncil-doodles]

ask for da bois (/genderneutral): their sleep schedule?

gods don't really need sleep tbh

(more specific thoughts I have are just that condi does tend to go long periods of time without sleeping just because of getting wrapped up in projects, charlie and bizly are pretty similar in that they don't really tend to sleep a full night but it's not unlikely to find them curled up in some weird nook somewhere, and grizzly actually sleeps the most like a normal person since they'll sleep at night and also take naps! but just generally they suffer when they have to go back to mortal sleep schedules for any reason LOL)

#slimecicle cinematic universe #bizlychannel #charlie slimecicle #condifiction #grizzlyplays #modoodle #thank you for the ask btw!!! super fun to answer I'd love to do lots of stuff like this :D #generally speaking I want to try to answer asks the day after I receive them so hopefully no one should ever have to wait super long ^_^ #oh also I'm going to try and add image descriptions to all of these :] starting now since I know my handwriting is awful LMAO #so if you ever can't read it check the alt and it should be there!

[hecatesbroom]

Regarding your post about fic asks, I'll ask you the same question you asked me: have you written any passages (recent or not) you're really proud of / happy with? And also -- is there any piece of media you like (whether it's a book, a show, a movie, anything) that has influenced your writing style, in your opinion?

Aa thank you!! These are very fun questions!

Any passages I'm proud of... hmm. Honestly, I suck at remembering the things I write after publishing them (no idea why!) but this is the one passage that immediately came to mind, from I'm tired of wanting more. I feel like it invokes a very clear image!

She flits from room to room in her white nightgown, bare feet making barely a sound on the floor, feeling heavier than ever — yet insubstantial like an apparition. She's here in the living room, touching the lacquered wood of their coffee table; but she's also somewhere far up in the night sky, her mind clouded with a thick fog of exhaustion, just aware enough to notice her surroundings — but too far away to fully be a part of them.

This one's a little long, but I really love this passage I wrote in my Grease AU. There's something about loving someone so much you decide they deserve better than you that combines so well with Blanche and Rose (and this AU specifically)

So she takes it slow because she hopes Rose will leave, for her own sake. Because the Roses of this world deserve husbands and children and stable lives, where they can wear floral dresses and drink tea with their equally floral, equally cheerful neighbors every afternoon. Rose deserves everything that Blanche will never be able to give her, because girls like Rose aren’t fit for a life of kisses stolen in places where no one will be able to see; of pretending to be roommates, when really the woman you’re living with is the love of your life; of going on separate holidays so no one gets suspicious, and of going on dates with men — many, many men — to trick everyone into thinking you really are just roommates (when all you’d wish for is to spend your evenings out dining with your girlfriend, holding hands, proud to show her off on your arm).

Just one more! This one was a lot of fun to write, and I still love the mental image it provides me with (from and my heart (...))

She’d wanted nothing more than to grab the then-freshly made cheesecake from the counter and dump it over their soppy, sentimental heads.

As for anything that influenced my writing... I was reading a collection of short stories by Hella Haasse (a Dutch author) yesterday, and that really took me back to my earlier writing days. There's something about her writing in general that I've always adored, as well as some of the themes she uses, that I think inspired me a lot back when I was still figuring out my own style!

I don't have a specific piece of non-writtten media that influenced my writing in a way I can remember now. But film and TV in general did have a huge part to play in the way I write! What I love most about them is that they're visual stories, and obviously they use different storytelling techniques to get something across. A movie can hardly go straight out and tell us "[Character] is sad for this and this reason." Which isn't really something you ought to do in writing either, but what takes it one step further in film, is that you can never say something outright unless one of your characters wants to say it -- which is something I try to keep as a general rule of thumb for my own writing.

#thank you so much!! i had a lot of fun answering these! #i tried to keep it short but i guess at this point everyone knows i'm incapable of keeping things short lmao #ask #my writing

[ssluggishh]

do you have a favorite sea slug? If so can we see them

HI !! i would love to share some of my favorite sea slugs with you :D

i'll start off with the Melibe genus because they have some really cool looking guys there.

Melibe colemani

probably my all time favorite sea slug. i like these guys because they look so unique !! it almost looks like a skeleton or a net. this image lets you see the transparent parts of the body easier, especially on that rhinophore (the antennae coming from the head on the right side of the image)

Green Melibe (Melibe viridis)

you miiight recognize this thing from that post about this thing tuesday. the way these guys eat is very similar to that of the Hooded Nudibranch, which is another slug from the Melibe genus. it is so so fascinating to me. they trap their prey inside their hood and then sweep it in from both sides to chow down.

i'm also a huge fan of sacoglossans, which are sea slugs that can photosynthesize using a process called kleptoplasty. i also think a lot of them are just really pretty lol. a very popular sacoglossan is the Leaf Sheep.

Little Leaf Sheep (Costasiella kuroshimae)

the Cyerce genus is another type of sacoglossan that has captured the attention of a lot of tumblr users, most notably Cyerce nigricans and Cyerce elegans.

Black-and-Gold Sapsucking Slug (Cyerce nigricans)

Elegant Sapsucking Slug (Cyerce elegans)

this post is already long enough, but i'll close this off by saying i also enjoy nudibranchs from the Proctonotoidea and Aeolid superfamilies :]

#thank you for asking !! <3 #its always a lot of fun looking at these guys so thanks again for giving me an excuse LMAO #i'll have to make a post about some more obscure sacoglossans one day ...... bc i rlly do like them a lot #sea slugs #nudibranchs #sacoglossans #slug answers

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

Ooh yay, another ask game! I'm very curious about blue and brown! (At least, I'm assuming you won't mind if I send you two questions in the same ask haha)

Oh you're right, I forgot to specify!! Absolutely, I don't mind receiving more questions in a single ask (it's a sure way to make me happy, actually!). Speaking of which -- thank you so much for yours!

💙 Blue: What inspires you to finish writing a fanfic, and what makes you quit writing one at any stage in the process?

I'll start with the second part of the question: I don't think I've ever decided to completely *quit* writing a fanfic, per se. I sometimes stop actively working on a WIP for a while, but I always pick it back up in the end, even if it takes me multiple months and tries. Some end up fairly different from how they were at the beginning, but they always end up somewhere, eventually.

As for the first half of the question, the answer is very similar to how I decide to write a fanfic in the first place -- I need the right moment of inspiration! Sometimes the trick is listening to certain songs while I write, sometimes I need to take a walk or read or do other stuff so my brain can work behind the scenes, sometimes I bolt up in the middle of the night and I've solved whatever issue there was that stopped me from finishing a WIP. A thing I do when nothing else works is writing it down in the worst possible way, just to fill the page, even if it sounds more like a sequence of bullet points than an actual fic -- once the page isn't blank anymore, things get easier for me :)

🤎 Brown: How did you decide to write (or why are you writing) a certain fanfic? (Asker, feel free to choose a specific story you're curious about. You can also let the answerer choose the story.)

Oh, in general, I just play around with the idea for a bit, maybe try writing down some lines / an outline in my drabbles document, and once I get the feeling that it's flowing properly it gets transferred to its own doc and becomes a full-fledged work. Very rarely, I get ideas that I don't feel like writing down at all (mostly because they're too angsty/don't vibe with the canon material lmao) and I just keep those in my head to play with when I'm in the mood for something with no stakes, apart from my own enjoyment :)

As for specific works, I'm often inspired by music (4/8 works published on my Ao3, and at least one WIP in my WIP folder, were inspired by songs). Other times I watch a scene or an episode in a show and I feel the need to delve into it a little more, or maybe I simply want to spend a little more time with it (this is what happened with sonata for trio, for example). It's more rare, but sometimes I get compelled by personal experiences (this is true for one other WIP and for A Piece Of (Cheese)Cake, at the moment -- I got the idea for the latter while baking a cake myself!).

Finally, sometimes I get inspired by mutuals' posts, as you well know! :) i hope you do believe me [...] was inspired by one of your posts! Your observations hit just right for me, and my brain provided some scenes that were simply too much fun not to write down :) You all have such wonderful ideas -- even if I don't write a fic for them, I hope you know I'm rotating them in my head at all times :')

#what usually happens when i get the idea for a fic is that some dialogue lines / scenes pop fully formed in my head #and i have to write them down before they disappear #and then i play connect the dots with them lmao. and somehow i end up with a coherent thing #(at least. i hope?) #it's a fun -- if unreliable -- process #i guess ultimately my decision criterion is: is it fun? will i have fun writing this? #and if the answer is yes then. perfect! #that 'writing it badly' method is SO helpful. it takes me so long to use it because the empty page syndrome is STRONG #but once i decide 'fuck it. im just going to write it as badly as i can' then it's ON #it unlocks a new way to proceed. it's really cool! #aaand that's it i think. thank you so very much for the ask!! i had a lot of fun with it! #writing #personal

[valeffelees]

Fandom asks 9, 13, and 19!

hey Ace, thanks for coming to hang out! 🖤

9. Best new fandom discovery of the year

best fandom discovery of the year for me was def your aromantic Carry On content. no, i'm not just saying that. i don't know how to explain, but there was something really good for me about getting to read aspec headcanons and realising, hey, i can just... do that, if i want to. i'm living in a happy little world of my own with my demiro Simon hc now and, fuck, is it ever nice here.

13. Favourite villain of the year (oh no this is about to be so long) (had to switch to my gdocu to type all this) (i'm so sorry)

Oh God, lmao.

So... It’s the Mage. BUT LISTEN, I want to defend myself here ‘cause it’s not like I read Carry On and was like, “oh man I love how commendable this guy’s actions are”, like no.

My whole thing with Davy is that I like what an absurd shitbag he is. I mean, at the end of the night, he is such a deplorable motherfucker. (And okay, sure, maybe I’m a little notorious for getting puppy-eyed over an atrocious fictional bastard or two.) (I acknowledge and accept my flaws.) I don’t think he’s a good person. But I think he’s interesting, and part of the reason I ended up getting so attached to him is because I got tired of the way he was portrayed in fanfiction like he was one top hat away from tying damsels to railroad tracks. I kept expecting Dudley Do-Right to make a cameo.

I got such a chip on my shoulder about it that I started really thinking about him as a character, y’kno? And I thought about him so much, and wrote so many personal meta essays about him, and created this whole character analysis of the way he speaks, the way he thinks—every time he’d appear in a fanfic in a way I didn’t like, I’d pause from reading to write a breakdown for myself of why I felt the portrayal didn’t align with what I expected of him—and when you spend that much time with a character, y’kno, it is hard not to get a bit attached. You start to care, and have fun. I think he’s fun. In my own fanfics, I’m very confident in my portrayal of the Mage when he’s the main antagonist per canon, but I’m also not afraid of pulling out his stitches and making him into a better character for Simon’s sake because of the perspective I have of him. It’s actually really neat to explore, creatively speaking.

I get why people don’t like to think about him very hard. I don’t blame them. He hardly deserves it. And there are plenty of characters in the series that other people really like (Fiona Pitch, for example) that I don’t care for and so don’t think about much, unless I have to for a scene. But I think it’s a shame, too, ‘cause in my weirdo opinion, he's genuinely an interesting character, he’s a great villain.

When we think of nuanced characters, we usually think of morally grey ones. Of good people on the wrong side of things, or no side of things, who make selfish choices and aren't always trustworthy and don't pretend to be otherwise, but what happens when you have a character like Davy who believes in goodness, who views himself as the absolute good, but has fundamentally failed at every opportunity? Davy’s character is plagued by his sheer capacity for making bad decisions. He’s an extremist, and he’s capable of a staggering amount of cruelty. Davy Cadwallader worships at an altar of false gods and logical fallacy.

In the tags of another post, a long while ago now, I once talked about Davy and how his mind functions on a trolley-problem-system. His moral compass, his political pursuits, they are a set of tracks, and he is at a lever: if he pulls the lever to the left, he sacrifices only a few people. If he pulls the lever to the right, he sacrifices thousands. Against all odds, Davy intrinsically values the path of least resistance: to save more people than he hurts, except the problem is that he hurts readily, there is no middle ground for him, there are no other options, he believes it is necessary and doesn’t care who those “few” people are. He doesn’t care if they are his friends. He doesn’t care if they are innocent bystanders. He doesn’t care if it is his child. Afterall, it’s all for the greater good, right? 

This is how he views the entire world, he has so much bitterness in him, so much resentment, he fuels every choice, action, decision, thought by this logic, and because of that, he feels absolved of the wrongness. 

I’ve had a post in my drafts for the last few weeks that sums it up pretty good: “the thing i love about the mage and what makes him a really great villain to me is the way he has this looney tunes logic about him, you kinda have to look at him like he's animated out of nothing but smear frames. the mage views himself as ultimately and fundamentally righteous. and it's not even that he's ignorant to his own moral failures, he feels absolved of them, he truly believes everything he does is for some greater good. he's claude frollo with a robin hood complex. i fucking love his final scenes bc it's like watching a candle that's been burning for too long start to drown in its own wax.”

And n e way, yeah, that’s the story of how Davy Cadwallader is my favourite villain of the year, fuck the Mage, here’s his theme song:

19. Fandom that made an unexpected comeback

Merlin, for sure. i've been in the Merlin fandom for years, but i go through phases with it, yk?

[questions are here, ask me things!]

#thank you for asking no. 13 even tho you had no idea what you were in for with it bc ngl i had a lot of fun answering lmao #ask game #aroace-genderfluid-sheep #valen and the void #carry on #davy cadwallader

[unproduciblesmackdown]

a decade later sure i'll put it into Text Post "tumblr user claims: plausibly may feasibly" form, starting with these classic screenshots i still have saved

this being dialogue from 2015's always watching: a marble hornets story, which is like hey this is a pretty well produced indie venture & you can sure like sit through it even if you then never watch it again b/c it's still kind of overly on the beaten path & "i'm not sure this choice is justified in much of anything" (see: bizarrely omnipresent thread of a love triangle just to be There; typical Mental Patient(tm) Harbinger; several real marked More Is Less instances arguably) that is still a better time than other random horror material i've seen & hated vs. only mostly been underwhelmed by but in an Overall Shrug way alone. yeah imdb's 4.7 out of 10 seems fair enough if you consider like 5 stars truly middle of the road solid if forgettable vs that anything < 7 stars is for [Bad!] or whatever

anyways the main character is named milo & indeed the creator(s) / actors / writers troy joseph & tim were involved in the production at all: tim at least by being the first step in doug jones's casting by reaching out directly (online), but troy & joseph also via Some writing, like in that slender game sequel also: not the Primary creators / writers, but still officially involved in the creative process at all. & i knew of them & they knew of me by this time & in a [source: dude just trust me] style of way, i, a tumblr user, am like "i think milo alwayswatching Could be named after me, milo unproduciblesmackdown. lol." b/c also like yeah i can take it on the chin if it's a coincidence, which is also likely. great name & it's just not being used enough in fictional & nonfictional people's names. you might also be aware that some role in tribetweIve is named milo (maybe the main guy. i never watched it) so you might also speculate it's named after that guy, which seems plausible also, But: afaik there are no other similar plausible shoutouts at all, to that series or to emh which was just as majorly like One Of Those 3 Biggest Online Series. may or may not add a grain of salt to take it with. like my own "of course, there's a grain of salt in 'milo just like me milo, and Uncoincidentally?' b/c how wouldn't there be. a name people have"

the dude just trust me argument: distilling it down to "i went to their first convention & then the same one the next year, & in these experiences i Know they knew of me from that + also online, where people knew my name was milo as well" and "it seems feasible enough it's an easter egg Not Coincidence that i first knew this character's name happened to also be milo b/c someone who experienced a clip sent me an ask about it, so they assumed it was a possible actual connection too lol." and, of course, it might be a fun coincidence after all. but i'm still like "yeah no it Could be a funny little shoutout to me specifically for real" and mean it and, again, i can endure it if i'm completely wrong. b/c who could care, and also b/c it's so funny that the character is a guy who basically just is like "i am going to have a bad attitude. b/c of the insistent tiresome love triangle thing. well now I'm insistently tiresome" and fucking everything up but like, sure. exasperating epic fail protagonists

the only relevance i think it has besides "to me, b/c i can go haha yeah. that might be like: just like me!!" is that it's Also plausible b/c yeah marble hornets Is the kind of series that might go "this could be an easter egg about some queer autistic tumblr user we know about" lmao, its Inherent Queerness both re: the material and in the creators' knowledge like yep that's how our Appreciators skew! like it's low stakes to be like [lol, Me. perhaps] b/c it's obviously of zero importance like it adds no info, i'm just some rando queer fan from back in the day, but it's this potential Fun Fact that's funny to know & it's about "yeah like they knew i was trans back then too & that it was like, amidst the MH Fans, like nobody's cishet man (shaggy rogers voice)" Gay Rights!

#marble hornets #It's Possible And Someone Should Say It #and like fr i'm saying it with a swagful humility b/c yeah ofc it feels like an overreach to be like ME Milo???? but it could be fr #and ofc it's just a funny little detail If So so it's also really not that much of a reach b/c nobody else could care one way or another #the only possible Reactions beyond ''main character named milo? this has zero extra meaning for me'' #is Me; Specifically going [gasp!] (which i did anyways b/c Pointing! & b/c yeah thee whole time it's like It Could Be Just Like Me Fr) #and tribetwelveheads going ''like as in tribetweIve?'' which like still maybe but gotta keep it real with you chief: Less Likely #it's funny if i'm right And it's funny if i'm wrong so like yeah ofc i'll Just Say It. i can endure in good humour if Knowing no it's not #and like i could just ask. but in my prior chitchatting with [Yeah We Know Of Each Other] quadruple A status #(amicable and/or allied acquaintance) like it just hasn't ever been much or really At All abt marble hornets or anything else ''official'' #yeah i Could barge into tim's dms like HEY do you MAYBE KNOW this trivia?? about MEEE??? but like. i'm not gonna lmao #i'm gonna be like: post more new kittycat pics worstie!!!! if anything. #or be like ''you're So right. recommend skinamarink to all past present future marble hornets fans'' hell yeah king #(as someone who Hypothetically enjoys horror; thus in actual practice virtually always hates horror. That Fr! sm good fckg food) #anyways like it can't possibly matter. sure just as plausibly a ''haha no it Is coincidental'' situation like & so i can endure that though #it's most plausible thanks to the [i did manage to make it to their first convention! a lot of fun. & i bought their mask] #like this fact was 99% irrelevant to Anyone Else; e.g. anyone online then or now #but it did boost making me a specific person the main creative / production trio guys Knew Of lol. being a queer autistic fan can do that #i also never use these screenshots lol but i did save them & still like just now stumble across them like oh yeah that guy! that Mystery! #we can keep it up for that mystique & ambiguity. & b/c again i have no cause to barge in at an A.A.A.A. like Answer My Trivia Boy!! #this would Also be funny but for the sake of any actual 4A rapport i will not be attempting it for Detached Jests #(conveniently this prevents me from bravely enduring taking it on the chin anyways! hence casually posting a Fun Fact. we'll never know) #also remembering i don't even have my name being milo on my blog header. But It Is

[boxwinebaddie]

ninaa... u should probably put the salsa coffee down and sleep!!

that is...a phenomenal idea, my friend! because i just got home and the room is...Spinning. very fun! i'm the picture of health, clearly.

#this is very sweet thank you friend #but no 100% #the picante coffee did not solve my problems #*gordon ramsey vc* i did appreciate the depth of flavor tho #i want to answer more asks but alas...i am not well #i need to rest lmao #and hopefully i can get a cool one done later #or lots of little ones #anyways if i post one in the next hour or two pls beat me up and tell me to go to bed i am supposed to be sleeping #uncle nina take a break challenge #consistently failed i'm so bad at it #fun fact one of the ladies i work with was like #so when did u graduate #and i was like oh i got my teaching credential last year #and she looked at me really hard like #college? #and i was like y…es? #and she was like #I THOUGHT U JUST GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL #IM CRRRRRYING I DO NOT LOOK GROWN IG #IT WAS SO FUNNY I WAS DYING

[jurassicpark1990]

Hi Bethany! I've been meaning to tell you that I enjoyed your post about going through the rolling stone list of best albums from 2023 and it inspired me to do something similar! I have been listening to a lot of newer genres over the years but moving further from hardcore and metal which are my fave genres and I wasn't too happy with that. The other day I randomly came across a list of best hardcore albums of 2023 and I decided to listen to them all similar to you in hopes of adding more hardcore into my playlists and it's been fun! Thanks for the inspiration! (And thank you also for checking out the spanish albums too. I wasn't expecting you to actually listen to them and I think it's awesome you did!)

hello!! i love this so much?? i feel like an influencer but in a cool way 😎 funnily enough i actually started this a couple of years ago because i felt like i was just listening to the same pop punk/hardcore/metal that i listened to in my teenage years and wanted to branch out! but it really is just a nice convenient way to find new music with no consequences if you don't like it, even if it is in your fav genre because there's always new music that slips under the radar <3

i am a big fan of music in languages other than english and rolling stone does a semi-decent job of including them and (without knowing for sure) i would say spanish is the second most represented language! most of these artists are from south america or caribbean islands but have also seen actual spaniards in the past (rosalia is the first that comes to mind). most non-english albums are from european languages but also get some asian languages as well (mostly kpop and jpop but have seen some south east asian artists) this year's list has had a few african artists but most have been in english (i mentioned mr eazi in my original post and his songs are in ghanian pidgin english)

finally i'm extra glad you sent this because it made me realise i hadn't seen you on my dash for a while and i must have accidentally unfollowed??? stupid ass app sometimes

#took me a few days to respond #but this ask is everything to me elle <3<3<3<3 #i hope you find some new music you love!! and if you have any recs please drop them #and sorry for the word vomit about the other languages lmao #non english music is fun for me for a lot of different reasons #thank you for this ask and best of luck on your journey!! #and yes very glad your back on my dash as a treasured mutual <3 #answered #eyssimont #beth stuff

[crescentfool]

i'm a little late (oopsies) buuuut if you're still answering 'em, 6 and 14 for the artist asks? ehehe

hi misty!! thank you for stopping by with the artist asks, i'm happy to answer them!

6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously (i.e. this horse wasn’t supposed to look like the Last Unicorn but I see it)

it took me a bit to come up with an answer for this because stylistically speaking, i try to be very deliberate with what choices i want to try out and yoink from artists...

that said, i think that whenever i do any silly comics, because i'm not too well-versed in the medium, i feel like my expressions end up getting subconsciously inspired by expressions i see passed around a lot... like anya's waku waku expression or MS paint tails...

so basically memes...! im a very silly littel guy. oh and do cats count i swear my expressions are based off of meme cats sometimes.

14. Any favorite motifs

i think in most arts of mine it's very easy to see that i'm so very fond of sparkles... i can't help but insert a little ✨ into my work... i am also very fond of the moon (all phases are cool but i am most drawn to crescent and full moons). this is probably not a surprise whatsoever given that ryoji's one of my favorite characters 🤣

i think i just really like circular motifs in general too... like radial lines? concentric circle? is that what they are called? my vocabulary regarding these are a bit lackluster, so here's an example of what i mean featuring a sylvain concept from may 2023 that will probably not see the light of day </3 (this was supposed to be for his birthday) (being impaled by the lance of ruin is a great birthday gift i know)

for composition heavy things i usually enjoy integrating character motifs... whether if it's very direct (e.g. crests for fe3h characters, the moon for ryoji, water for minato), or just something that i feel reminds me of the subject matter... (i love sprinkling music notes whenever i draw ryomina i just think there's intimacy in sharing music together when you use ur headphones to isolate urself but umm thats very unrelated to this ask.)

i also really enjoy visual motifs being used to make characters look like they are being displayed in a church (see this tweet for examples of characters)... i guess you could say religious imagery? i'm very fond of the art nouveau style and i feel like i'd wanna make a few pieces like that!

#lizzy askbox #thank you for the ask!!! i had a lot of fun reflecting on these #especially number 6 given that i had to think a different angle that wasnt necessarily 'style' #i did briefly consider yosuke as an answer to number 6 (he subconsciously informs my ocs but i cannot fucking explain that #also that's writing and not necessarily drawn art #14 was also fun! it was a nice realization that maybe i would enjoy relearning about art history #ive had some art history classes in 2016 but i dont think i drew a lot at that time to incorporate what i learned from those courses #into my own works... and also thats just a long time ago that i can only remember the general gist haha #like.. relearning about art history to be able to put names to the motifs and styles that were around #i definitely know that some people are inspired by classical paintings and i think thats fucking swag #and i probably would be too if i took a look at them again! #actually the sylvain wips not that bad. maybe i should come back to it. LMAO #i think i stopped because i tried to clean it up and god forbid i clean anything up (hate that shit!!) #anyway im rambling. thank you again! i love talking about art i will still be happy to answer more of these! <3

[catzgam3rz]

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Well, if you INSIST

#rambles #answered asks #homestuck #hs #hiveswap #trollsona #aayjae catzga #CatzGam3rz #<- character tag lol #hello did i take a shit ton of quizzes before making this? absolutely #also turning my sona which is mainly red and purple to fucking GREEN?? tough as hell lol #peridot-the-kitten #peri #thank you for the ask peri i actually had a lot of fun with this lmao #even though i was given the second worst class outfit (first is bard of course)