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frankiistein · 6 months

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crossposting from the bbs abt my new hc for media liking jacques after alot of rotating the idea in my head

so something ive been thinking abt alot wheb it comes to me/ja is their motive for being together. jacques is a little more obvious-the very second comic shows jacques has an attraction to monsters and the story consistently shows this attraction persists until today, so evidently media fits that attraction he has (and ofc we cant igbore that media is simply nice and affectionate 2 jacques... usually)

what i always wondered, why does media like jacques tho? jacques doesnt seem that nice or affectionate 2 him back, and even when curator demands his explaining he cant rly do it other than 2 say hes cute. i think considering media is immortal something as shallow as physical appearance would be boring (most likely he has seen alot of cute birds in the billions of universes he has been to and jacques doesnt look notably different from other crows in maldevara) and curators strong reaction implies its not likely media has a habit of "dating"living ppl, so jacques is rly an exception.

which leads me to this line from an archetype of a person from universes before:

This immediately unsettled you the first time you got off the phone with him, although at first you couldn’t pinpoint why—he stops talking, you hear nothing, seems like base Reality—although it hit you, a few days after you had started allowing him to prattle into your messages unprompted, that it was not simply that you could not hear his voice, it was that you couldn’t hear his thoughts either.

this hasnt been shown anywhere else in the story yet at all so actually i wonder what medias "mindreading" involves and why jacques is an exception/why that matters

altho on that vein i think this might be the best theory for medias attachment that is jacques being so unreadable makes him more unique and unpredictable. the lack of real science in the story makes it easy to miss that media is the closest the story has to being a legit "scientist", or at the very least defse matches that idea

defse (and/or medias previous iterations) advanced their species w/ technology, created a reality bending voice (which, considering what ava is, is basically like making an ai at the level of a god) and in present day while the "mad scientist" theme isnt as prominent media does still talk about "inventing" things like the hands and the robots (and ofc the whole reconstruction power as a whole)

ava herself says the conflict between her and marginals started with media specifically getting bored of the same things over and over again, in a dead world that cant organically change or grow, the idea of usurping god is implied to be a desire for the power to make "something new" (which may be to create a marginal that is "actually" alive, considering the obsession with the living) ◀ also this might actually be a decent motive why they made bien in the first place, if demons are souls then maybe nakig demon eyes was not just about the eye but about trying to artificially create "soulstuff", bien was just the accidental result

all that said a big part of medias character is a value for change, showing him as the sort of prometheus or even lucifer like character against ava who seems to be shown as the more traditional one wanting to return things to how they were before

if media being an immortal who has overseen universes for billions of years to the point where he gets mindreading powers (which as the story says may not exactly be real mindreading powers but more just developed intuition from seeing the same "archetypes" reused in different universes) it makes sense that he would be very interested in anyone who was different from everyone else

in retrospect this isnt actually that subtle and the story does kinda point it out but ig i never noticed the significance xD image has some convos that point to this idea

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starryevermore · 3 years

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AO3 stats game

thank for the tag @ilguna!

How many works do you have on AO3?

128 (but, if we’re talking individual parts to series and stuff, we’re at least at 254 for 2021, so maybe closer to 300 including stuff before this year?)

What’s your total AO3 word count?

384,413

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

oof. on ao3 (and here/on my old blogs), I’ve done the traphouse, marvel, defending jacob, the red sea diving resort, the bronze, the devil all the time, once upon a time, stranger things, monday, we have always lived in the castle, the martian, knives out, fantastic four, the iceman, not another teen movie, and why don’t we. outside of here and ao3, I've done harry potter, percy jackson, twilight, the kane chronicles, justin bieber, one direction, supernatural, doctor who, sherlock, and national treasure. (there’s probably more lmao)

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

she gets the flowers

better than revenge

ending unplanned

the notebook

you are my sunshine

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I try to! sometimes it takes me a while to respond tho and I feel weird replying if it’s been more than a week lol

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

uhh have we seen my fics lmao? let’s see...either ransom’s bonus chapter for she gets the flowers (“all he wanted”) or lee’s bonus chapter for holding her heart (“here lies lee bodecker”)

Do you write crossovers? If so what’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I sure do! maybe let’s ride just based on the sheer amount of characters I'm planning on including. but I also once wrote a very strange percy jackson + the kane chronicles and twilight crossover, so maybe that. or that one time I tried to write justin bieber into national treasure, but we’re not gonna address that (I was nine, leave me alone)

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

oh definitely. mostly in relation to updates. someone on quotev once said that they loved my story but they’d hate me if I didn’t update it. so, I just never updated it again cause fuck that kind of guilt trip. also, on one of my ever after fics, someone just gave a real backhanded compliment that was like “I love this but it should’ve been longer” that pissed me off. (it’s since been deleted cause I don’t need that kind of energy in my life lol) but that’s the tame stuff. I try to forget the harsher shit I've gotten lmao

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

yep! mostly tame-ish stuff? I've ventured into some noncon/dubcon material, but I have to be in the right headspace for that, which doesn’t come often lol.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

you bet your ass I have. most people deleted it as soon as I commented that they were thieves and what they’re doing is illegal, but some push back. wattpad and tumblr are usually good about taking stuff down. (or at least wattpad is if you’ve posted that work on wattpad, which is why I unfortunately crosspost over there) it’s cute tho how some people try to act like it’s a compliment that they stole your shit 😒

Have you ever had a fic translated?

well I've never given permission, but it has happened a couple of times cause people love just taking other people’s hard work 😍

What’s your all-time favorite ship?

percabeth ig? sarahbucky (or buckysarah?) is a relatively new ship to me, but I'm getting really into them, so they’ll probably be my otp soon enough.

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

any percy jackson and twilight crossover I've done. but in terms of recent works, idk they’ll probably all be done, but I make no promises as to when.

What are your writing strengths?

maybe dialogue? I feel like that’s the one thing I can do really well.

What are your writing weaknesses?

definitely descriptions. I fucking suck at setting the scene and describing emotions, which is why so many of my fics are

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

do your research. it’s long, and it’s hard, but it makes for a more immersive experience. if you can, try to find someone who speaks the language so they can translate for you, but if you can’t do that, definitely do a lot of reading to make sure you’re getting the right things. especially because some words have certain dictionary definitions but the way they’re used in speech is probably different from their definition.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

national treasure

What’s your favorite fic that you’ve written?

evermore!! my baby, my love, my sweet child

tagging; anyone who uses ao3 lmao

#tag game

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