#update questions

[fizpup]

littlest bishops

#cult of the lamb #littlest pet shop #cotl #lps #shamura #heket #I hold them gently in my hands. they curse my bloodline #I miiiiight try and do the lamb and narinder too but leshy and kallamar are out of the question 💀 #also I really thought the update would drop this weekend 😭😭😭😭 pain

[genshin-impact-updates]

Been getting a lot of asks assuming that I work for Hoyoverse lately, so I thought it would be a good time to post the reminder! I'm not upset, I just don't want to cause any disappointment (or shock anyone when I swear or say something gay lol).

#not an update #unofficial #however i do have an answer to one of your questions. wanderer is five foot nothing. #this was revealed to me in a vision by dawei himself and i know it to be true #also i love both travelers but i use lumine

[fcthots]

Jason Todd is the living embodiment of that one meme. Allow me to elaborate.

You: Hey I’m ab to get in the shower. You wanna join me?

Jason: There’s a pistol taped underneath the island in the kitchen. If I ever say no to that question, I want you to shoot me. Aim for the head, don’t stop until I’m dead.

#lol that rhymed #jason: if I say no to that question assume it is an imposter and shoot on sight #sorry for the no updates. school is being mean to me #jason todd #jason todd x reader #saph’s thots #red hood #red hood x reader #jason todd imagine #jason todd x you #red hood imagine #red hood x you #I took some liberties and don’t remember the source #maybe modern family?

[adrift-in-thyme]

Me five minutes into any Zelda game:

Credit to @linkeduniverse

#any Zelda game you can tumble in of course #it’s one of the first things I check when I start #yeah yeah that’s how you use the sword #but can I somersault? #that’s the important question #linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu wind #lu update spoilers #trin rambles

[jos-art-loft]

Welcome home theories about Eddie, etc.

So interesting that our glimpse into "sentience" from the last update was Howdy naming off the reality of Sally's order, but he didn't seem at all distraught. Now Eddie's dealing with stress - questioning his entire purpose - and is literally dissociating between an animated and physical reality??? He is not okay???

Did Howdy go through this before, did he get "corrected" by Home in a similar manner? Or at the time of Homewarming, was Howdy not yet aware? Maybe they're not in chronological order?

Frank also breaks character from "Mr. Dear" to just "Eddie" when he doesn't get a response. His tone is different, voice lighter and frantic. I know the whole Julie/Frank bit must be a red herring because it's the Website's perspective, but I REALLY want to know how these characters exist "off camera."

What is their reality when we're not watching it??

ALSO WHY WAS THE HOT DOG EXPLODED-

#welcome home #welcome home spoilers #welcome home update #eddie dear #howdy pillar #wally darling #I ALWAYS HAVE MORE QUESTIONS #Also the animated commercials were heavenly #stunning

[muffinlance]

Wait, what’s going on with Embers???? That fic has been on my read later list since 2021, what’s happened with it???

Brief overview, then I'm likely never touching this topic again, because this is not a Drama Blog:

Context: Embers is a super old AtLA fic that was written during the early fandom days, read widely at the time, and was the origin of the widely-used fanon name of "Wani" for Zuko's ship (kind of by default that it was one of the first popular fics to give his ship a name, I think?), even though most fic writers don't seem to realize it's from there anymore.

"What's Going On": I used to include a link in all my stories to it, because I believe in crediting other writers for borrowed elements, and I was using "Wani" in all my fics. But BOY did I not want to be sending readers that way anymore, so I've adopted a new name for Zuko's ship, and removed all Embers links.

None of the criticisms about Embers itself are new; I'm assuming they date back to when the fic was being written, because this isn't an "it aged badly" thing, this is an "actually yeah this gets worse the longer you think about it and I shouldn't have ignored my bad feelings just because some of the worldbuilding was interesting" thing.

An Incomplete List of Why I Made the Change:

I don't actually like the story that much anymore, and don't want to rec it

I tried to re-read it recently to see if some things were as bad as I remembered and it turns out they were So Much Worse Oh Yikes. More specifically, the treatment of Katara and Aang and their respective cultures has... rather a lot going on. One example: The Fire Nation and Air Nomads are both given multiple backstory elements in an attempt to make the average Fire Nation soldier's participation in the genocide/war in large part the fault of the Avatar and the Air Nomads themselves, and also fully justified from the Fire Nation perspective. And I do mean fully. One of its core tenants is "People from the Fire Nation (and only people from the Fire Nation) who don't follow orders Literally Die, therefore murdering pacifists and babies and continuing the war (and their regularly scheduled war crimes) is the only thing it is physically possible for them to do". I cannot emphasize enough how literal that is.

Also the name "Wani" means "Alligator" and is... objectively a pretty lame name for Zuko's ship? Where's the personality, where's the deeper meaning, where's the resonance with Zuko's themes? @tuktukpodfics initially thought I was calling the ship "Wanyi", and that's what I've switched to, because it is Objectively So Much Better. In their words: “Wànyī (萬一): Literally ‘one in ten thousand,’ ‘perchance.’ Used grammatically in Chinese to mean ‘what if’ or ‘just in case.’ I think a ship called ‘The Perchance’ is perfect for a boy clinging to false hope.”

TL:DR; I don't rec Embers anymore, because I don't actually like the story anymore, and there are things about it that get worse the more I think on them. I've removed links to it and renamed Zuko's ship to "Wanyi" ("The Perchance") because our boy deserves a ship name that reflects his character arc.

#for the record if you ever find something kind of rancid in my fics #do please let me know #EX: I've rewritten scenes to be better Actual Blind Rep for Toph based on blind reader feedback #and I'm debating how hard it would be to ignore/re-write the canon issues of Water Tribe sexism (for the Southern Tribe at the least) #because that is a common complaint I see from the people who's RL cultures the Water Tribes was based on #probably I can do more interesting things with that going forward #in other words justice for Hama and Hahn #at least the show itself made Hama excellently complex #anyways back to doing actual writing #please no follow up questions #though I will say anyone who wants to update their own fics to use Wanyi (or any other name): go for it! #all you need to do is plop your chapters in a word editor and find/replace the ship name! it took about 40 minutes to do literally #all of my fics and I had some other editing to do besides! it'll be even quicker for you! #let's sink the Wani #avatar the last airbender #atla #Zuko

[samberrybay]

This part in 32 chp always felt kind of odd to me and this is the reason why:

The coward wolf boy, Lock. Until Choi Han found him, Lock had been hiding as the chief had told him. The Lock at that point is very much a coward, a weakling, and kind of slow. In simple terms, Lock easily took the position of the character that readers found to be extremely frustrating.

This has bothered me since I first read the novel, and to this day, even after several rereads, it still haunts me.

Cale simply isn't the type of a person to actually call a kid, no matter how they behave, to be "frustrating".

(When the text said "readers" it's damn well obvious of Cale being the one to think so.)

Pondering for some time I can roughly guess why the wording was so unexpected for his character.

At the time of the assassination/kindaping in the village, Lock was only thirteen years old. He also hasn't had his first berserk transformation yet. Therefore it is not surprising that Lock's uncle hid him and told not to go out, saying that everything was fine and he should continue to hide.

Now let's look at the situation realistically.

Lock (in tcf) jumps out of his hiding to protect his younger siblings. The adrenaline and inner Blue Wolf Tribe's instincts to protect turned on his berserk transportation one year beforehand, however if not Rosalyn and Choi Han, who came earlier than in the actual novel, i don't think it would help much.

Lock would possibly be able to kill a few people or at least seriously injure them, but CMON. They killed an ENTIRE village full of berserk Blue Wolf's and with almost-Wolf King (Lock's uncle). Do you really believe that a thirteen years old boy jumping into his first berserk transformation would be able to fight properly against strong organization that had holy water or some sort of holy artefact on their hands?

Again, if not for Choi Han's and Rosalyn's arrival... it would have definitely ended pretty bad.

In TBOAH Lock for some reason didn't jump out. Different circumstances, wrong wroted part in the novel, idk, but the fact is stated: Lock stayed hidden. He also most likely survived only because of Choi Han's help. Just with much worse scenario where he was left alone from the whole village.

And it wasn't Lock's fault yet again. He was a child. No matter if a Beastman one or not, the boy was just an innocent, naive and weak child.

So why would Cale, Kim Rok Soo at the time, find him frustrating? Extremely so even!

The answer is much easier if you think about it.

Because it wasn't Kim Rok Soo blaming a kid for being weak and cowardly in a fearful situation, it was a man who saw his own past that he hated so much.

A coward, a weakling and kind of slow.

For Rok Soo, who blamed himself for half of his life for the deaths of team one members, Lock was like a salt for still open, but ignored wounds.

KRS greatly disliked and maybe even envied Lock for a bit. The boy got a new family, he got friends and some sort of guidance from them even after facing so much despair.

While he was all alone, trying to understand what to do on his own.

It sure is irritating for Rok Soo.

Yet Team Leader Kim Rok Soo was probably unable to fully hate Lock for his weakness, because while the latter was still a kid, the same forgiveness can't be used on him. At least in his own head.

So with conflicting feelings Cale settled on "Extremely frustrating" description.

#overall it is actually just my sleepy thoughts #KRS's self-hatred is so strong it is kind of amazing but mostly heart breaking #this man holds too much trauma #and with each novel update i fear that we still don't know all of it #i love Lock's and Cale's relationship so this is why i was really questioning this part #pls cry with me because of this realization #tcf #trash of the count's family #lcf #lout of the count’s family #cale henituse #tcf cale #lcf cale #tcf lock #lcf lark #tcf novel #lcf novel #kim rok soo

[its-wabby-stuff]

Mikey Goes To Oz

<Time spent: 49 hours 17 minutes>

When Mikey takes some time away from a loud family squabble he accidentally ends up getting “flushed” down the sewers. This winds up sending him to the colorful land of Oz where he meets a good witch, a wicked witch, a brainless scarecrow, a heartless Tinman, a cowardess lion, and a powerful wizard, all disguised behind very familiar faces.

A canon adjacent spin off set before the season one finale but after they discover Splinter is Lou Jitsu

I wanted to fit each of the boys into their “you’ve had this all along” category. Leo isn’t brainless, in fact he’s pretty clever with a street smart, people reading ability on par with Donnie’s intelligence. Donnie isn’t heartless, he just has a tough time expressing his feelings. They are complex and unalgorithic but he can get just as excited or sad or angry as anyone, as much as he may deny it. Raph isn’t a coward, but being brave sometimes means admitting you’re scared and that you maybe don’t have all the answers. You dont have to be strong all the time and you don’t have to do it by yourself.

In the movie Dorothy’s journey home is also a representation of her running away. The important thing was to remember there were people who cared about her. Mikey is experiencing a similar phenomenon, wanting the escape the bad vibes in the lair. His “you’ve had it all along” is interesting because it is an object, since the Ruby kneepads could’ve taken him home the whole time. And sometimes getting home means going on a journey only to realize you never left.

I put April as Glinda because Glinda appears as a defender of the weak, and I see April in a similar light. Always willing to help and beat someone up if it is so required. Splinter as The Wizard of Oz represents Splinters own willingness to hide behind different personas, his running from the past and the pulling back of the curtain for Mikey in timeline. The Wizard grows through the movie, albeit quickly, and ends up leaving Oz to go home leaving his legacy with the scarecrow, the Tinman, and the lion. In this case the passing of the baton to his sons.

Meanwhile Draxum as the wicked witch felt much more how Mikey sees Draxum at this time in the show, mostly just an antagonistic force who wants something from them. Fun fact: I imagine throughout this dream, Draxum is uninterested in being the wicked witch but is pressed into it via plot. Hence his disinterest in being “melted.”

Additional characters not pictured: Big Mama as the Wicked Witch of the East (those were her Ruby kneepads!!) and Todd as the Mayor of Munchkin Land. If you can think of more, feel free to leave them in the comments or tags.

#rottmnt #wabbystuffpost #Mikey goes to Oz #I’ve had this in my WIP file for far too long #I got a little lazy with the rendering #especially for the first piece #I may update it later but for now it’s going out like this #let’s just say it’s rise style #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #leonardo #donatello #raphael #michelangelo #april oneil #baron draxum #Hugnin and Munnin #splinter #Lou Jitsu #wizard of Oz #my art #wabbyart #questions are always welcome #close ups of specific things are under the Mikey goes to Oz tag #tmnt #please don’t flop #additionally Leo doesn’t have as many bones so he’s tripping or supported on almost every page #Dorothy tells off the Lion in the movie as the Scarecrow and Tinman cower and I imagine that’s a very funny scene in this AU #I also think Mikey keeps mixing everybody up with their irl people #if you haven’t seen the movie in a while I recommend watching it again cause some scenes may be funnier with this context

[unorthodoxx-page]

A Tale of Spirits Status and Other Updates (Long Post)

I've gotten a lot of questions about A Tale of Spirits and its hiatus status over the past few days (months lol). I've been mulling over this post for a while now, avoiding it if I'm honest, but I've gotten to a point where even I can't avoid the writing on the wall.

So, let's start with what's holding me up. Over the last ten-eleven months, I've been dealing with a nerve issue in my wrists and hands (both, if you can believe it). Now it's nothing super serious (we haven't had any surgery talks, thank God), but it bothers me constantly throughout the day, and having an office job doesn't really help. It's crazy to go through some of these older Tumblr posts because my hands were bothering me even then, but I didn't want to admit it.

Long story short, I feel like I'm caught in this...loop of trying to heal. I'll have really good, consecutive days, and when I think I'm on the right track, something happens, and I'm pulled right back into it. It's frustrating, demoralizing, and terrifying all at once. I try not to spiral into worst-case scenarios with this whole thing, but my hands are numbing while I'm typing this. So....yeah, it's slowed my writing practically to a halt. I can bang out a couple hundred words here and there and focus on one-offs since they don't feel so...daunting, but chaptered anything mentally makes my hands twitch. My long sessions are gone at the moment and this leads me to that writing on the wall I mentioned earlier.

I don't know when A Tale of Spirit will return.

Man, that hurts to type. ATOS has been a part of my life for almost two years now. I've grown so much from this story, and my writing has evolved so much from this story. I have so much fun with ATOS. I mean, that's the point of fanfic, but I have fun with ATOS. I go back and reread parts, and I laminate past narrative choices as if those words are written in stone. I snicker while working out dialogue and really (and I mean really) let loose with action choices and experiment.

Hell, I have AUs of this AU on my drive lol. I owe a lot of my growth and confidence to ATOS. I mean, I read every comment and every Tumblr message (and I mean every comment). The support and love this story has received makes me believe that I'm not as terrible of a writer as I thought, that I might actually hack it in the literary world, so it's devastating that I can't put all my energy into this or my personal work.

To be honest, I'm still halfway in denial. I know I'm going to finish this story eventually. I love it too much, but I can finally admit that I'm not sure when that 'eventually' will be. Geez, I should've written this a while ago, but denial is a blinding thing.

I tackle writing when I can, but the nerve thing has thoroughly pulled me into a slump.

I'm going to update ATOS to say indefinite hiatus and put this same message on AO3.

I'm not saying goodbye to ATOS. I was deep in my unposted arcs before all of...this reached a peak even I couldn't ignore. I was really doing something with April, Zuko, and Suki (fun dynamic, by the way). Azula's been fun to play with, and angry, fed-up turtles have been a challenge in a half, so I want you guys to see that one day.

So, there it is. I know this is closure for some of you, and you all deserve to know what's going on with ATOS. I know this update will be a relief for some of you because now, there's no more guessing. The dreaded 'indefinite' has been typed and sealed in digital ink (dramatic, I know).

I'm going to leave it here because I don't know how to end this post. I'll be around, lurking in possible (short) one-shots and slowly chipping away at ATOS. So, until then, rest, rehabilitation, and copious amounts of books and music to listen to.

See you soon.

#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt #crossover #fanfiction #fanfic #atla #a tale of spirits #crossover fanfiction #atos #a tale of spirits question #a tale of spirits update #fanfiction update #health issues are the worst #this literally pains me to write #i'm not abandoning it #hiatus announcement #avatar the last airbender drill

[agtavio]

From the start- a glow of the eye a grin a little too wide a laugh too high

#luffy #one piece #monkey d. luffy #mmm #big fan of nika being a entity or whatev and being with luffy from the start bigggggg fan #this was way out of my skill range >.> #when i dont practice fundamentals and question why its soooo hard 2 draw #i also get bored fast #my attention span is like 2 minutes istg #i have a lot of wips #i dropped another drawing for this one #mandatory life update > #i have the tightest schedule known to man if they dont accept my schedule change request #sorry i loooove going off in tags #Agtavious Art

[vanillaflowerstuff]

let him in!! come on do it. coward

#welcome home #wally darling #fanart #my art #scopophobia #horror #idk what to tag this with #also posting stuff for a new fandom is making me anxious #as it usually does #but i'm really enjoying this update it's so good #making Discoveries and stuff #i have so many questions and thoughts

[zetterbabe]

5 Second Challenge

#jack eichel #connor mcdavid #brady tkachuk #cole caufield #clayton keller #josh morrissey #troy terry #matty beniers #seth jarvis #mario ferraro #charlie mcavoy #THE NO BALL QUESTION... fellas pls #also everyone SHOULD know two: their own & gritty #I can forgive not knowing a third but cmon #the batman question was so easy too #*xp #THIS HAS LITERALLY BEEN PROCESSING FOR AGES IN ANOTHER TAB BUT APPARENTLY WAS READY IN MY DRAFTS? IDGI #I also had everyone tagged... I'll update this later game is on my b

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i'll admit it. he's blorbo shaped

#and i will never scribble him the same way twice #there is Something about him #i hope we learn so so much about this funky dude i wanna know how his mind works #whats his lingo? his mannerisms? whats his favorite kind of leaf? important questions! #i have these questions - with some variation - for all of the neighbors but rn ive got bug brain #who is this strange motherfucker.... #hey maybe we'll learn something in the Update #we're gettin close! im getting nauseous from nerves! yeehaw! #scribble salad #welcome home #howdy pillar #hes certainly a Challenge to scribble ill give him that much #four arms AND four legs?? oof how does he manage #i can barely coordinate the standard 2s i have #WAIT. four arms... four legs... eight limbs #Does Howdy Is Spider???? #im sorry i have to squish him now. to the farm in the sky he goes

[lolo3h]

Shadow Milk watching Pure Vanilla lie by omission must have made him ecstatic

#cookie run kingdom #cookie run #shadow milk cookie #I though that in the theater of lies update that shadow milk was going to mention it to pure vanilla #with the whole “who is the biggest liar” question #that reminds me pure vanilla also hid the truth when he was living in black raisin's village as the blind healer

[askchuuyanakahara]

uhm... chuuya... where's your coat right now? ...wait yoSHIKO-

Chuuya: "Although.. it has gotten a lot colder than before.."

Dazai: "Don't worry~. I wasn't planning on it."

Chuuya: "Let's get to my floor."

Dazai: "I mean.. usually I'd get yelled at for being even 20 metres away from Chuuya. But now I'm getting invited to Chuuya's apartment?"

Dazai: "Even with a 'truth serum' or whatever."

Chuuya: "We're here. Come on."

@suru1990

#ask #update #anonymous #suru1990 #bsd chuuya #bsd dazai #bungo stray dogs #(skk are very good at not really answering the question) #(alsooo I am also watching a studio ghibli film today!! The newest one!!)

[ask-asks]

These Are Sure Some Asks

What do you really need right now?

What are some of the things that have made you who you are?

What are some of your pet peeves?

Share a dark thought? (Go on, vent a little)

Something that makes you ridiculously happy?

What are you craving?

Song stuck in your head?

Last thing you watched?

Shows on your watch list?

Books on your reading list?

Something on your wish list?

Something you want to monologue about?

If you were a note, what note would you be?

Tactician, fighter, generalist, or supportive role?

Talk about a stuffie.

They say you can tell a lot about a person from the state of their desk... Do you have a desk? Can you describe it?

Space, enchanted forest, magical kingdom, or underwater city?

What are some of the meanings of your name? (Or url if you don't want to say.)

What fictional doctor do you wish was your doctor?

Are you a gamer? What was the last game you played?

How do you take your pizza?

Strangest thing that has happened to you this week?

Share a bit of philosophy?

Do you follow the news?

What's on your mind?

What is your dream mode of transportation?

What fascinates you about humanity?

What about life makes you smile?

A dream you wish to make true?

What is your favourite way to create?

Insert your own question here!

#asks #ask list #ask memes #ask games #ask #ask me #fill my inbox #questions #question list #questions list #updated to include title!