#that’s what the quotation marks mean

[mew-sanctuary]

Welcome to Mangrove Island Pokemon Sanctuary!

A poke-ask blog set on the beautiful Mangrove Island! This island is home to a plethora of endemic life, this island is mostly untouched by humans. There is one building on the island, a old research station.

The sanctuary was established by Professor Mangrove, a specialist in rare and mythical Pokémon, when he bought the island sixty years ago. He believed the tropical island was prime habitat for the Pokémon Mew, despite no records of the rare Pokémon on the island. Despite his extensive records and notes of the flora and fauna on the island, there are no official records of Mew.

Currently, the island is owned and inhabited by Professor Mangrove’s great granddaughter, Top Ranger Alex and her partner, Gale.

All characters are currently available for asks!

Character References:

Important character notes:

Rosa and Ryo are the biological parents of the triplets Mito, Kami, and Aura, and Mewa is adopted.

Side ask blog of @psychic-nature

#poke-ask blog #character references #fan blog #side blog #Pokémon #pokémon mew #mew #mew clone #goodra #flygon #alpha pokemon #shiny pokemon #tiniest pokemon #pokémon ranger #the mews also use they pronouns #that’s what the quotation marks mean #I spent way too long on the island drawing #Gale’s design was created by the amazing @pokemonadoptionagency #seriously I spent an hour sketching Gale and couldn’t make a better reference #so I’m using this image because the pose is perfect

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

My academic hot take: There is a very real frustration in studying an "obscure" topic that increases the feeling of distance between you and "laymen" (aka anyone who isn't your advisor/someone studying the same thing.)

And I certainly don't begrudge people who have a more accessible or widely known topic. It's just a fact that the question "what is your dissertation about?" takes way longer to answer when you have to give a 101 lecture first (and you have to calculate whether the person asking is patient enough for that lecture)

#grad school stuff #and i do mean 'obscure' in quotation marks #i study a big european empire #and i still had someone with a PhD in a different subject ask why i was going to Austria to do my dissertation research #when i told me advisor he sighed and said “sometimes you have to call it the Austrian empire for people to understand” #my answer to what is your dissertation about: #a doomed emperor of a country you had no idea had two empires #from an empire you might know if i call it its post 1867 name #people who study the American civil war dont have this problem

[aroaceleovaldez]

Dude I don’t know where you’re getting this information that 13-14 guys can’t be tall at all. Literally every guy in my freshman high school grade (13-15 year olds) were all 5’6-6’0 at the beginning of the school year and they were all actively growing taller as the year went by. Letting people think Nico is average height or tall is not hurting nobody and you are still entitled to your opinion that Nico can be short. I believe all of Nico’s of various heights can coexist peacefully.

I did say "average" height and was only referring to the fact that Nico's canon height is never explicitly stated. Anyways allow me to rephrase:

my grievances only lie with the wiki for being baselessly wrong. tall nico headcanoners i have no beef with you understand i am simply being silly goofy on my blog mwah mwah

#ask #Anonymous #i just think it's fun to acknowledge that people have gotten taller in recent generations #so Nico's generation is short by comparison #nico grumbling that he's average height by his standards #and like. idk in canon he's short. whatever. do whatever you want. i ignore canon all the time #quite frankly Rick wrote some lame-to-terrible stuff at times that i do not wish to acknowledge #some of it because it is blatantly offensive. some because he is simply Wrong. others because i just feel like it #that is the beauty of fandom and i will never tell anybody what they can or cannot do #except for people trying to insist something is canon to prove themself correct when it's not. cause that's rude #nico's height is canon is a vague ''shortish'' but also char heights are wildly all over the place anyways #theres no numbers it could mean anything. just scale Michael appropriately in comparison #so who fuckin knows. go wild. i'm not your boss #im just here. i just go here. #there's a reason i differentiate ''coded'' vs ''canon'' (heavy quotation marks) vs ''headcanon'' vs ''theory'' vs ''extrapolation'' #which is a whole fascinating literary analysis vs fandom thing you could get into but i am probably the only one who finds that interesting #short version: canon is simply a liminal state do whatever you want forever #and please never take anything from my blog as strict fandom law or something i'm just saying shit. i just do this for fun.

[spurious]

fic writer 20 questions

I was tagged by @alienfuckeronmain & @nimuetheseawitch to do this one!

How many works do you have on AO3? 108. I need to add some ficlets to my collection but I've been slacking a bit on that, so.

What’s your total AO3 word count? 274,716

What fandoms do you write for? Star! Gate! At! Lan! Tis! The hyperfixation is strong ok. It's the thing that shook loose my half-decade dormant desire and ability to write, so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What are your top 5 fics by kudos? 1. Twenty Questions, 248 kudos 2. Ink and Wings, 221 kudos 3. Five Times Rodney (and John) Visit the Millers, 190 kudos 4. Solitary in a Wide Flat Space, 163 kudos 5. Abercrombie & Rodney, 151 kudos

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? I really try to!!! One of the things that was not good about posting all my ficlets onto AO3 in quick succession was ending up with more comments than I could handle, so now I have a...backlog. Getting comments makes me feel so good though, and I just...want to honor the effort made with some of my own in return? Idk, I've talked about this a fair bit in a handful of posts but I'm just really not used to the amount of interaction I get in SGA fandom and I still feel.......very blessed lmao. Bleh sincerity on main how gross

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? We Are Standing On the Edge, a Jin/Kame fic about a road trip and the apocalypse which I wrote for @merionettes in a fic exchange in 2010.

What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Most of my fics either have happy endings or implied happy endings? I like making good things happen to the characters I love so much. Sometimes after making bad things happen to them, but. At any rate, O I Think We Should Be Brethren is my personal happiest ending because of how long and hard a journey it is to get there.

Do you get hate on fics? I got a hate comment once, on the (in)famous Kanjani Cannibalism Fic.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Do I ever! I like to write kinky sex as a means of exploring and facilitating vulnerability. I also like to write blowjobs.

Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? I've never written a crossover! ..............I don't think, at least.

Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I am aware of.

Have you ever had a fic translated? Yes! A couple of my Johnny's fics have been translated into Russian and Chinese.

Have you ever co-written a fic before? Not to completion.

What’s your all time favorite ship? Yokohina, Sakura/Syaoran, McShep...don't make me choose between my children like this??? Sakura/Syaoran literally invented romance for my teenage self, like I am not kidding at how formative of a ship that was for me in my life. Also why I started learning Japanese, so. Yokohina will forever be beloved to me in the same way that Kanjani8 will forever be beloved to me, in a way that is (literally) tattooed into my flesh, in a way that influenced my life massively, in so many aspects. I will never not be thirsty for the two of them saying weirdly romantic things about each other in public forums, for them being the solid foundation upon which their group is built. For Yoko being a pigtail-pulling twelve year old boy towards Hina even as they're in their mid-forties. AND THEN THERE'S FUCKING MCSHEP. A ship that I knew about when it was popular and brushed off as an Any Two White Guys, Migratory Slash Fandom Thing. A ship that, when my wife and I started watching SGA, we said "haha wouldn't it be so funny if we ended up being all in on mcshep?" A ship that resonates in my heart in the most bizarrely intense way and shook loose the desire to write and create from its atrophied place in the back of my head. I love them. I hate them. They're perfect.

What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? I have about 25k of a later-years yokohina friends to FWB to lovers fic that I wish I could finish but the McShep brainrot is.........so strong. On the other hand, never say never?

What are your writing strengths? haha so much harder to answer this than weaknesses!!!!!!!!!!!! I think I can write good funny dialogue, which is amazing to me because when I started writing my dialogue was horrendous, just absolutely awful and stilted and I hated writing it so much! like it was a running joke between me and my best friend at the time that I could not write anything that sounded even remotely natural or like real human speech. guess that shows that practice makes perfect or whatever? idk.

What are your writing weaknesses? endings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ensemble casts/scenes with more than two people in them. plots more complex than simple romantic contrivance.

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? nah. It always feels a bit fanfiction.net anime fandom to me?

First fandom you wrote for? speaking of fanfiction.net anime fandom....I wrote Sakura/Syaoran angstfic into a notebook when I was 13. The first things that I actually shared with other people were either Harry Potter or the fics I wrote about the boys at my church who were just unnecessarily homoerotic with each other in the way that only teenage church boys can be (iykyk)

Favorite fic you’ve written? guess. 🙃

Tagging: @sga-owns-my-soul @stargayatlantis @hearteyesmcgarrett @texasdreamer01

#i was very honest in my answers to this #which means i might delete it within 24 hours of posting #and also why it took me like three weeks from Phoenix tagging me to actually post it #also while grabbing the link to the cannibalism fic i checked what comments are still there and there's one that cracked me up #when i first got it and now which included the phrase “i don't really like 'murders'” #the quotation marks kill me every time #“murders”

[fated-normal-767]

I don’t think you ever elaborated on Iris stabbing Python in the thigh with a screw driver, care to change that ?

hm. I think I do care to change that (read more because I wrote a whole damn paragraph about that freak❗️)

well initially a damaging impact to a central part of a computer system would be like stabbing an ice pick into someone’s brain, so it’d cause almost all typical signs of a seizure; sudden muscle movement, collapsing, inability to respond coherently to input, and possible inability to breathe. Python designed himself to have extremely human responses and biological systems, so despite a lack of real lungs or muscles, all of those are still entirely possible visible symptoms. In terms of actually being stabbed, it’d have the same feeling of pain as being stabbed while the impact was just in pythons ‘flesh’ but impact with an actual motherboard component would cause an override of initial programmed reactions (in which he’d normally feel a human amount of pain and react as if physically injured due to the stimuli created, even if no key components are damaged at all) and start causing responses and stimuli more in line with a program trying to desperately diagnose, redirect, and reassign errors. In order to figure out what solutions should take place, an error diagnosis would require increased awareness of both the sensation of the stabbing, and all the created error input, probably causing signal and awareness of other stimuli to become temporarily impaired, and an appearance of either collapsing entirely or going into shock. The pain of the stabbing would probably come back at this point, after being dulled by error inputs. For a redirecting of necessary functions, he’d probably lose feeling entirely in the site of the injury, and gain an increased awareness of sensation at any other sites of key components, which then are assigned any recovery processes, and at which point, shock and seizure symptoms would wear off, but python would remain unconscious for a short period of time till all errors were repressed or dealt with to a limited extent- if he remained unconscious till entirely repaired, he’d be incredibly vulnerable to more injuries with absolutely 0 ways to defend himself. Shortly after regaining consciousness he would feel nauseous, or some similar experience, and would probably be much more vulnerable to sensory overstimulation and overload considering he has less capacity to process stimuli.

#whether this is my medical knowledge programming knowledge or strange freakish behaviours talking I do not know. #but. hm. I mean it reads like a medical report but it can also be easily read as about gay sex (unintentional but not surprising) #this is the basic medical perspective on what must’ve happened #but be aware that iris was there too and he was freaking the fuck out #most likely trying to help but with extremely limited knowledge of how #so probably just providing more ‘unwanted’ stimuli for the already overwhelming seizure type shit #and unwanted is in quotation marks for whatever reasons you think it should be ❗️ #maybe this can’t be read as like gay sex at all and there’s just something wrong with #my perceptions of medical situations and analysis. but it’ #it’s Whatever. #theproject.

[xueyuverse]

Palestine will only see peace when Isnotreal leaves their lands.

Hamas only existed 40 years after the nakba, Zionism already existed a century before the nakba happened.

If you support Palestine, then you have to know that there is no way for Palestine to coexist with Isnotreal, that Isnotreal will not stop in Palestine (as was shown in the recent news of Isnotreal bombing 3 places in Lebanon. Is there Hamas there too?), that the consequences caused by Hamas are not 1/3 of the consequences caused by Isnotreal (+3000 Palestinian children killed since October 7th, not counting the previous deaths).

Everything that is happening happens since the Zionists, with the aim of creating a Jewish state (after all, for Zionist Jews this would guarantee protection for the Jews of Europe and for non-Jewish Zionists it would have the advantage of not having to "deal with the Jews" more, and many Jews at the time rejected this whole idea as something very separatist) invaded Palestinian lands with the intention of taking those lands for themselves and expelling, even if only by force, the Palestinians who lived there.

Isnotreal was born and raised under pure colonialism, it has always been colonialism, and you can find this by searching the name Theodor Herzl and reading the articles posted by Decolonize Palestine.

#decolonize palestine #stand with palestine #palestine #isnotreal is a terrorist state #and they won't stop in palestine #like they bombed another country for free what do you think that means #“ah but HAMAS” there is no Hamas in Lebanon and look what happened #This is genocide and the last thing you have to do as someone who supports Palestine is support isnotreal in their actions against “hamas” #“hamas” in quotation marks because the number of civilians martyred since October 7th provides no justification for these actions

[compacflt]

i'm so curious: what's your favorite thing you've written? something that makes you nod and go, "yeah, that's it right there. i did that." just the best combination of words you've ever churned out in your personal opinion. it makes you proud just Thinking about it. could be a sentence, a paragraph, etc.

very cute ask anon, thank you. im going to assume for your benefit that you mean specifically my icemav writing—obviously I write outside of top gun and am very proud of that stuff but it wouldn’t make sense out of context.

There’s a lot of more recent stuff that I’m extremely extremely proud of on a technical level, but I’m prouder of this paragraph below on a deeper more existential level.

This paragraph was one of the first parts of WWGATTAI i ever wrote—august 12, i think, well before I had fully realized the characters’ voices or their attitudes towards life/each other; I only had about 5k written of what is now a 300k+ project (at the time of writing this paragraph i wanted it to be 10k max) and had no real outline, didn’t know who or what I was dealing with, hadnt seen TGM in two months, had done no research (so it’s not at all politically/militarily accurate or anything, why the FUCK is ice going to fucking GUAM)—and STILL this wound up being my favorite paragraph in the entire fucking series. not to suck my own dick or anything. I’m STILL so proud of this paragraph, 9 months and 275k+ words later, even though i Absolutely Would Not write it this way now.

#narrative distance both incredibly close and incredibly far #he’s trying to rationalize this whole situation and by extent the whole plot of his life #we’re inside his head as he tries to convince both Pete and himself of this huge huge lie #which is that leaving (right after he fucked their relationship and their best friend just died) is worth it for the navy’s sake #and it will make him a good man #in the masculine strong man leadership sense #and Pete (first name instead of last name; über vulnerable in the worst way because he’s crying yet doesn’t want to be seen crying) #counters all of this lie with—does it? does it really mean you’re a good man? it means you’re the weakest most subservient man i know #bending over backwards for the navy instead of your FAMILY #yeah i would absolutely not write this paragraph this way NOW but i am still so proud of what it represents in the story #& the very experimental 2nd person without quotation marks is i think done very well #at least for august 2022 me #some wording/phrasing/detail issues but other than that—a great paragraph! #again not to suck my own dick but you asked! #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #icemav #top gun #top gun maverick #top gun fanfiction #edts notes #asks #this is a terrible chapter in aggregate but it has some of the best diamond-in-the-rough moments in the whole series #ughhh the Pete this has nothing to do with Afghanistan; pete this has nothing to do with iraq etc line…. SOO good omg i love it sorry

[sajdd]

time to revert to my toxic inniter ways. the fact that somehow the fandom and cwilbur himself finally acknowledges that he is wanted and that people tried to bring him back, and that they were hurt by him "Leaving™". as if ctommy hasnt been proving all these things AND still managing to forgive him and believing in him trying to be a better person.

sorry im salty but ctommy hasnt been working his ass off all this time, only for c!wilbur to get that realisation from c!eret of all people who had just called him a bad person 3 mins prior and was Demanding an apology.

#discourse #also i used the leaving in quotation marks on purpose #call it what it is cowards or ill explode #DOES CTOMMY MEAN NOTHIGN TO U??? #WE BETTER GET THAT APOLOGY SOON OR ELSE.

[youcouldstartacult]

sometimes i think of the shit i got up to on the internet when i was younger and just have to laugh like it doesn’t even feel like part of my current reality… like that was someone else!

#like thank god it wad nothing Bad Bad Bad #just funny like what do you mean i met up with someone i only knew online when they randomly flew to my city #like we had facetimed before but still 😭 #they were like from switzerland or something #i was so young and so trustworthy #they ended up being really nice and it was overall very fun :’))) just crazy to think about lol #i wonder if they even remember me probably not #and another online friend admitting they had a crush on me so i said we could be ‘in a (long distance) relationship’ #but getting so anxious 8 hours later i ‘broke up with them’ #quotation marks because it was all just so unserious and no one would consider it a real relationship SKSKKSKS

[vero-niche]

the issue with metallic rouge being as good, nay, better than i hoped it would be is that i cant really say much on it. no notes carry on queen

#naturally 'issue' is in more quotation marks than what would fit into a text post #i mean. by god i will try to post on it bc i simply must ensure more people watch this show #but yall get the jist #metallic rouge

[catboyrichardkarinsky]

you can say anything you want about Ben Platt. you can say anything about the "upcoming" Merrily we roll along movie we have to wait 20 years for which is insane considering it might not even be good because when have they ever truly captured a Sondheim musical's essence in a movie adaptation. But THAT BEING SAID. they cast both Charley and Mary to be played by queer actors. which imo is the correct move. a power move even.

#it also makes Frank the straightest in the trio which is funny because to me he's not but it is funny #and doesn't feel that incorrect yknow what i mean? idk i don't even know what i mean #merrily we roll along #and yes anytime i talk about this movie i put upcoming in quotation marks because what the fuck

[comradeboyhalo]

i miss the late night puffy-bbh streams bc i think out of all streamers she got him to “”””break character”””” the most

#many quotation marks cause i dont want to imply hes being fake all the time #but yall know what i mean

[pandalandalopalis]

mad that the show made it that laenor sprung the name "joffrey" for their third son on rhaenyra without talking with her about it, when in fire and blood (as far as i am aware, based on quotes, i have not read it myself), rhaenyra let laenor pick the name for their third child, and i always thought that was such a touching tribute. i hate that the show ruined that like what the fuck.

#obviously 'their child' is in quotations marks you know what i mean #house of the dragon #laenor velaryon #rhaenyra targaryen #joffrey velaryon #fire and blood #panda posts

[pa-pa-plasma]

"This is an example," I said.

This is another example, I said.

need to prove something

#writing #this guy is saying that they've read over 2000 books & that anything that isn't just plain letters is bad #that means italicizing or using quotation marks or apostrophes & what have you #i think they're fucking stupid of course. but there's 2 other people who apparently agree with this idiot #should note that they also think if you haven't published a book professionally you aren't allowed to call yourself a writer #& their answer to every writing question is literally just ''read'' #oh they would've hated that sentence huh #should also note that more than one person has replied to them with ''we should just get rid of spaces too while we're at it huh?''

[krynutsreal]

Can't believe Mondo out gay-ed Taka

congrats to Mondo Owada for out-gaying taka for abouuuut [looks at the video length] 6 seconds

👍

#mondo owada #kiyotaka ishimaru #i mean. taka literally has a reference to the devil wears prada so idk man. how long do you think mondo could out gay him . what even is #out gaying. would they make it into some dumb competition like they did with the sauna contest except theyre jsut . acting [quotation marks #] gayer than the other? who knows. i am ultimately braindumping onto you anon i apologize #would this lead to some realization that hey wait. maybe this isnt just a bro thing. hey wait a minute #ok thats it sorry thsi is all a joke #krambles #ask

[existentialcrisistime]

help the "quotation marks around part of a tag move it to the front of the tags list" bug/feature/hack no longer works, now how am I meant to add an additional thought to the beginning of my tag rambles?

#thank s I hate it #“you see what I mean?” #good news for people who actually like using quotation marks as speech marks though #what next‚ commas don't make a new tag happen?? #nic stuff #tumblr