#i thought it was just inquiry

[classicslesbianopinions]

i don't believe that dante's inferno is fanfiction but i do believe that saying dante's inferno is fanfiction is a great way to find out whether or not the person you're talking to is completely insufferable

#mod felix #i subscribe to the 'the designation of fanfiction relies on the modern-day legal concept of copyright' school of thought #but like. i'm just thinking about like. #how people will use that example to like. dismiss any conversation about fanfiction as it relates to 'classic literature' #and it's like. well i think it's more interesting to talk about how fanfiction and fan culture is similar to/different #from literature and literary culture from the past? #literary culture isn't the right word but 🤷 #anyway. some people are really contemptuous of fanfiction and they're missing out on some interesting lines of inquiry.

[capn-twitchery]

I love your ocs but I fear I am a bit out of touch with some of their lore. how much does Grace know about the red honey fuckery?

thank you sm!! :D♥︎ don't worry--i'm not sure i've actually spoken about this a whole lot!! (plus my lore is scattered around random posts like a ransom note. imagine being organised, couldn't be me)

for context: the two of them are a ridiculously slow slowburn bc neither of them know how to talk about feelings, they go in different directions a lot, twitch's response to Having Feelings (or anything) is to disappear to zee. everything takes forever. there's a summary of their timeline here if you want it !!

ANYWAY to answer:

tl;dr summary: most of the time, nothing! eventually, more than anybody else.

so, for most of the time, grace knows absolutely nothing. nobody does, really--twitch doesn't tell anybody, they don't want to talk about it, nobody sees their face at all.

as far as anyone knows, including grace, twitch's bad memory, lying & inconsistent stories are just a personality quirk. and they get sick sometimes, they just need bedrest & won't be available for a few hours, a day, a couple of days. nobody is allowed to see them.

grace remains mostly unaware for a long time--he has inklings that something is up. once he gets to know twitch better, he can tell they're not themself sometimes. but prying would push twitch away, so he just offers help, if they want company, for their headaches the surgeon mentioned. he'll leave the cabin door unlocked, just in case.

he has no idea how bad the "headaches" are until it's happening right in front of him, once they're close enough for twitch to trust him to that degree. he has no idea why it's happening, but he knows twitch doesn't want to tell him, either. and when they're sobbing in his lap, pleading for something he doesn't understand to stop, begging him to help them tie a blindfold because they don't want him to see their face, it's not exactly the time to pry.

it happens a few times. it never gets easier, and it never gets any clearer. it's not til after grace leaves for the new sequence and comes back that he finally sees their face uncovered. he doesn't connect any dots-whether that's because he genuinely just doesn't make the connection, or because twitch doesn't want him to make a big deal about it, who knows!

while he was gone, twitch starts connecting some dots: something's weird with their memories. they don't know how to process it. they bring it up subtly, ask grace if he knows anything about red honey, and maybe he can figure it out himself. he tells them he does, he learned about it during nemesis, in the palace cage gardens. it still haunts him, sometimes, the prisoners with their crying, the suffering the hollow looking eyes-

the eyes.

everything clicks all at once-twitch's eyes, their headaches, the memory issues, the inconsistencies, the lies. it only gets worse when twitch tells him they're starting to wonder if the memories are all theirs.

oh, god. how could anybody do that to them? who did that to them? but twitch doesn't want him on any kind of revenge mission, they don't even think they remember where the cage garden was, and they don't want to try either. he settles for comforting them the best he can-but what can anyone do to help, really?

at the very least, trusting someone enough to talk about it is a huge weight off twitch's shoulders. grace can help them try to figure out what's going on with their memories, it makes them better at talking to each other. it's not easy, but it helps twitch to move forward-slowly, but surely

#sorry this was an essay i just had lots of thoughts #being so normal about them as always #i hope it's legible i am sleepy but i wanted to answer >:3 thank you so much for giving me the excuse to ramble hehehe #it always means a ton♥ #inquiries #solreefs #londonmusings #grace #twitchery

[weedle-testaburger]

i swear whoever named the whole 'grant for going to restaurants to stimulate the economy' thing we had in the uk during covid came up with the name as a bet

#personal crap #uk politics #i thought for a sec it might be trending bc with the cost of living crisis they've reintroduced it #but ofc not it's just trending bc the covid inquiry has pointed out 'hey trying to financially incentivise people #to go out to restaurants during covid was a really stupid thing to do' to the government #seeing them grill rishi (pun unintended) is very satisfying though

[anthonycrowley]

genuinely cannot tell if you liked the new season or fucking hated it with every inch of your soul

it's complicated. it's layered.

#inquiries #Anonymous #gomens #gomens tv #the thing is i did genuinely enjoy it but i had to physically sever ties with every single bit of what it has to do with the book #(except the crowley momence that Do properly fit with the book. those can stay. because i am a crowleygirl gn first and a human second) #like then i can genuinely enjoy it. but if i remember the book exists for even a second and put them in the same space together #like in my brain. it all collapses like a house of cards and i hate it with all of my soul. #so like. it's complicated. it's layered. #i also just. love the existence of the romance plotline even if i don't like. care. really? #like about the actual plot. i don't really care. actually. #i don't care because we knew and we have known despite the fact we never thought it would be canon so i don't actually need to see #neil's take. like i do not need to see neil's fine BUT IF THEY WERE fanfic. i don't. #but the fact that it exists is both absolutely sublime and the most hilarious thing i have ever witnessed because of the Lore. #like i support gay rights. but this might have been a gay wrong. but i support those too. so. #yanno

[gorgynei]

there is romance for than or meg, or both

my god i had no idea. thats so funny also that its both of the characters who kind of hate zag and really dont want to talk to him ever unless he pesters them

#tbf i could see it with thanatos. like they already seem a bit like exes #but with meg i thought it was just to become friends. jumpscare #askbox of inquiry

[teejaywyatt1]

Okay so I received a few good questions earlier regarding it and I’m trying to see when exactly do y’all want this Skyline Prelude? I’m currently attempting to work out a timeline for the stories that either need to be written or updated before the year is out and I just need to know everyone’s thoughts before I fully commit. I’m also in the process of conceptualizing at least three new stories from different fandoms I want begin writing for 2024. 🙇🏽‍♀️

#Heat of the Moment drops this month #I have about three new stories I want to start writing next year #I Like the Thrill will also make its return soon #Just let me know so I can get my thoughts together #Also hit up the ask box or any questions or inquiries #fanfiction #fanfic #ao3

[vermillioncrown]

🧠 Lang-zhangmen? Or Shuangfeng?

🧠 Pick a character, and I'll tell you my favorite headcanon for them.

i'll do both

=

lang-zhangmen likes to fish in their spare time. now, the sect knows this, but no one has ever seen this nor admitted to seeing this. they talk about fishing to their personal disciples, sometimes the dinners have fresh catches of the day, and the time that yan xichao was 'fishing' was from word-of-mouth of various fishing techniques as apparently mentioned by lang-zhangmen over the years. however, no one catches them fishing because they use their typically done-up looks as a distraction so when they dress down, they just look like a random elder of the sect (they have a second 'identity' but only their peers know enough to confirm).

=

shuangfeng kids, as you can imagine, are fucking relentless when it comes to roasting their own. like most canto kids being left to their own devices (more or less), they have an extensive list of nicknames for each other and notable people that the sect encounters.

an example that has happened within the last few months of the qishan wen discussion conference is of an older disciple with surname lan, or laan in cantonese (not 'blue' like the gusu lan, but 'orchid' lan).

kid is a known party boy, and i think i've already hinted that shuangfeng doesn't care as long as you don't proverbially shit where you eat. but he finally goes on a bender so bad that he is the spiritual originator of The Hangover, xianxia version, which has him vehemently swear in the middle of heaven's court peak to "QUIT EVERYTHING. I ABSTAIN FROM EVERYTHING". and he does, and practically forces himself to be like a monk. vegetarian and shit.

now, the cantonese word for 'to abstain/to quit' is gaai.

after legendary laan's adventure and officially quitting while he was ahead, everyone now calls him 'gaai laan', which is at least two-fold pun and can be reached for three.

戒蘭 'gaai laan' for his renouncing of all partying, 芥蘭 'gaai laan' as a homophone for chinese broccoli and mocking him for becoming like a real monk, and a subcategory of taunt for him fucking around before bc a unit vegetable [一]條菜 [nei] tiu coi is a derogatory way of referencing someone's girl. their hoe, essentially

and with all canto nicknames i know of, they eventually act like actual titles for that person rather than a way to poke fun at them. we'll never learn disciple laan's full name, sadly

#inquiry #Anonymous #verm ask game #fanfic #on dbd #bruh i thought i would have less work and now i have more work again 😭 #i can't just do the bare minimum or let people do whatever #at this point malicious compliance only hurts me #seguing from work complaints... #chinese classifiers for counting things is hard to explain #they are not the same as how collective nouns are in english #similar but not same #japanese has something similar where what you're counting is referred to based on categorization #and sometimes the same noun in chinese has different classifiers that imply different things #'tiu' is a classifier for something long and skinny #and very casual canto skips out on some numbers and possessives that are implied #nevermind that chinese doesn't use articles #anywho i hope this was something

[inun4ki]

💭 [ yami, hah!]

send me for a thot / accepting!

"Ara...you're not going to tell him, are you? Well, I think Yami-dono's a little bit scary. He reminds me a little bit of my father, at least from a time when he was good. I realize that's oxymoronic, but I don't mean it negatively. That is to say, I'm not sure that I can trust him, but I certainly don't want any harm to befall him. I'd rather he live a happy and healthy life where he has one less troublemaking brat to deal with, far away from anything that can... Ahem, well. Think about it like this: Would you want the person who's been stitching up your wounds, taking care of you when you're on the brink of death- Would you want that person to live a continually sad, lonely life? I feel like I've brought him nothing but trouble - which is true, there's no convincing me otherwise - and I think the only way I can make up for that is by sticking around."

#死/// Inquiries. #死/// A Survivor's Nightmare. #/ his thoughts are nebulous and beat around the bush #/ but what he's saying is this: #' i'm gonna keep coming around because i owe it to him and i want him to be happy ' #' father figure? *gestures* family? just a friend? i dont know or care ' #/ he's been soff today

[aeide-thea]

[fic crit, amatonormativity (blogger's own) cw]

revisited a story that i remembered really enjoying, but have had difficulty digging up for a reread because, as it turns out, it's a good 200 pages deep in the relevant pairing tag, and—

turns out that i do still really dig it, and also that the other thing i remembered about it is equally still true, which is that it totally fails to really resolve the emotional side of things! like, it's a fic full of Plot and briefly- but vividly-drawn OCs, and people from the main characters' pasts who show up in ways that work for the story but are also random enough to lend verisimilitude, and we get to see the elements of the foil's day-to-day life—what keeps them busy and burnished when they're not off Adventuring with our protagonist—in generous, engaging detail, and all of that remains really satisfying and compelling to me; but it's billed as a fic ft. a pairing, and yet all we see of that is an established, undiscussed level of ambiguous intimacy that's lovely and warm but queerplatonic at absolute most, and doesn't get tied into any sort of bow by the end, even a friendly one.

and the thing is—there's absolutely nothing wrong with that! if it weren't for the pairing tag i probably wouldn't even find it unsatisfying: it'd just be lovely warm plotty genfic, and i'd enjoy the hell out of it! but i am, for better or for worse, amatonormative enough that when i see a story with a pairing tag, i do personally expect some combination of Romance Feelings and/or sex to appear on the page, unless the author's notes inform me the relationship is queerplatonic or similarly asterisked, and having that expectation go unmet feels like a disappointment even when the fic is on all other fronts the opposite of disappointing. which i'm fully ready to accept is my own failing, rather than the story's! but. idk. pondering and processing. :)

#(i understand this is a totally useless post without citing the fic but. rude to do that! so. #just thinkin out loud here in my Thoughtful Spot (milne voice) 4 my own future reference. #inquiries privately entertained.) #anyway honestly part of me wonders if the author just ran out of time‚ as much as anything else #because it's one of those 'wrote this for a challenge‚ got carried away‚ bon appetit' situations #but another bigger part of me just thinks they don't conceptualize Satisfying Relationship Arcs the way i do! #which—maybe they're aro but also honestly i know allo writers who don't write relationships i find satisfying so. who knows really #generally best not 2 assume even if available evidence points a particular way! #anyway. truly a stupid number of words just 2 say: (re)read a thing; loved it; was disappointed by one aspect of it; #feel stupidly disproportionately let down by that‚ in the way one does when everything else was good and it got you hoping #you were Kindred Spirits and then you turn out to not be‚ not quite‚ after all #fannish things #also i guess #bookblogging

[sonego]

.

#can i say i don't find that lance video the shitty interviewer one funny #idk it's just plain homophobia and it's soooo uncomfortable to see #and i don't think lance's reaction was haha funny he actually looked pretty uncomfortable too to me #and who the fuck goes around asking men why they're being affectionate in 2023 ?? get over your homophobia dude #idk i hope i'm not being Too Serious but every time i rewatch that clip i get lowkey upset #and i don't think you're a bad person or anything if you laughed/found lance's reaction funny/thought it was a 🤨🏳️‍🌈⁉️ moment #but personally i feel like it's dangerous to almost normalize that kind of invasive inquiries into people's lives/sexualities #regardless of if they're actually gay or not #and also to kinda. minimize them and be like haha see my ship's gay #again sorry if i'm making this into a bigger issue than it is but it just upsets me 😭😭 #i've heard these kind of homophobic questions that people (both who are asking them and who are witnessing them being asked) dismiss #as just curiosity and it's like. uncomfortable as helllllll and lance DID look uncomfortable and that's ultimately the main reason why #my stomach clenches and i get tense seeing that video cause him forcing a smile and then lowering his head was. not what i'd call 'sass' #no shade to anyone but that's the reaction of someone who's hating being asked that question and is feeling judged and cornered #and jesus i've been there and i want that interviewer to get fucked and never go near the paddock again lol actually why's he a journalist #anyway. rant over. sorry for being Annoying bye #nico.txt

[capn-twitchery]

oh hey back to red honey talk :3 how would Twitch feel learning about scenarios where people consumed it against their will? ie. jamie's situation, or the situation with victor albert being given it as a baby

please you can't come in here with a :3 right after "red honey talk" when that's like waltzing into my inbox with a hydrogen bomb

anyway this got me Thinking. i think twitch would simplify red honey in their brain for a long time into Just "people only take this by choice and totally disregard or even enjoy my/other victim's pain, and that makes them bad." because that's a lot easier to process! i can't imagine they're putting a lot of thought into whoever is consuming the red honey or why, they just know it causes them pain

so i don't think it would even occur to them (or, more accurately they just don't like to think about it) that someone could do all of that, and then ALSO inflict it on other people to make them suffer too. that's a whole new level of fucked up for them to process

that said, if they Did find out--once they'd gotten over the "oh god do people actually do that" hurdle, more than anything they'd be understandably Fucking Furious at whoever forced someone to take it against their will. does red honey not already cause enough pain that they have to bring in other innocent people too?? i think twitch would 100% consider it one of the most evil things anyone can do

as for whoever was forced to take it-although they're Obviously uncomfortable with the concept of anyone taking red honey, they'd understand it wasn't their choice. they absolutely do not want to talk about it, it gets left at that, but they wouldn't be upset at the person.

(extra for funsies: one possible exception is if it was their memories. that would complicate things. they still wouldn't blame the person who experienced them, but the concept of being around someone who knows that they went through that and knows things about ""twitch"" that twitch doesn't even know themselves, and doesn't want to know, makes them feel 1000 emotions they can't put a word to.

if it was someone they didn't know well who approached them to tell them, they're getting kicked to the ground + threatened with a sword to never, ever speak to them again or they're getting permakilled.

if it was someone they knew & liked--honestly, they're still getting threatened with a sword and told to stop talking Right Now do not say another fucking word about this we are forgetting this happened and you are not ever mentioning it again.

but even with someone they were close to-they would find that incredibly difficult to move past. they have a very real fear of people seeing them differently because of the cage gardens or because of something related to who "they" were Before the cage gardens that they're not even aware of themselves. even if it's pity, or sympathy they don't want it!! i think thy could move past it eventually, providing that doesn't happen, though. and providing the person respects their wishes, of course)

#inquiries #thedeafprophet #sorry this is so long i had a lot more thoughts than i xpected but thank you this was SO FUN to think about >:3 #jamie don't bring it up or you're getting threatened with a sword. sorry #but not kicked to the ground! because twitch thinks they're fun enough to not threaten permakilling! win! #if they like people it's an empty threat really but they just get Heated and want people to know they're very serious #and a sword will make you look very serious very quickly! #anyway thank you for the ask hehehe >:3 #londonmusings #twitchery #long post #i think

[softdaddybabe]

okay but are y’all actually into masc bulge pics? asking for a friend?

#this is a completely genuine question #I just got a soft packer and I’m vibing with it #I can’t tell if anyone actually likes the thought of feeling the bulge #or if they prefer it hard (?) #send help to this gay #wlw #nblw #butch4femme #butch4brat #butch look #butch lesbian #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtq community #gay #lesbian #questions #serious inquiries only #men dni

[sadistic-sakamaki]

Anonymous has said:

Favorite archon? Character?

Regarding this post.

Ooc; Favorite Archon is the one and only Rex Lapis, Mr. Zhongli himself! Favorite character in the series as a whole is Kaeya. I’d die for him.

If Kaeya has a million fans, then I’m one of them.

If Kaeya has one fan, then I’m THAT ONE. 

If Kaeya has no fans, presume me dead.

#【 INQUIRY 】 #anonymous #{{ y’all come off anon i need genshin friends jaksfjakfa fr fr }} #{{ i actually thought abt rping kaeya once but then I was like hhhhhhhhh too much commitment so little time }} #{{ so i just watch kaeya rpers from afar they are very good yes }} #{{ everyone is a great writer in this fandom no questions allowed because i don’t want to & i’m spitting facts!!! }} #【 OUT OF CHAOS 】

[kiwinatorwaffles]

Do you sometimes miss getting bullied about baldsuma, xitties, etc? /hj

get off of my page /J

#JUST WHEN I THOUGHT IT WIULD BE OVER… /j #birdhouse inquiries #anon tag

[klug]

⭐️ only if you don’t have too many and feel like it though!!

frieren from sousou no frieren! a very long-lived l elf mage who studies demon slaying magic and collects "weird"/useless magic as a hobby. she's trying to learn more about humans.

and apologies for all the anime boys but also probably nagisa from enst ^^ one of my big faves...very cool on stage because of the persona he puts on, but off stage is rather naive/spacey and he enjoys collecting things like rocks and fossils :)

#inquiries #curioshop #these take me a while bc i put a lot of thought into them hi #also i have more to say about nagisa than this but main points is he's just a silly guy and ibara goes crazy about that

[vermillioncrown]

Not very familiar with knb but it seemed to be a lot of self loathing for me? Like if you asked Kuroko if Kagami would do something so cruel to Miho and just drop her for maximum psychological damage he'd be all WTF NO HOW DARE. He knows Kagami is a kind person who cares for his team, but he's seen his old teammates change too. And specifically with him, he believes Kagami will help any of their teammates regardless of talent and will help them mentally, iirc Kagami has also been training up the other first years and helping them keep their heads cool, but their mental weaknesses are things like nerves and insecurity. If the other first members struggle Kagami will help but Kuroko will obviously be swept out with the trash if he can't keep up.

Kuroko loves basketball, and a large part of that love is about team play and being with his friends, and then the Teiko disaster happened. So it seems to me(based on the wiki and bil) he made like a detailed plan for things to Go Right this time, how to be a better shadow, but he couldn't be sure how long it would take to find and train a proper light. He was determined of course, the darker the shadow the brighter the light but he must have been aware that it might take a bit to create the right dynamic. And then Kagami showed up and was obviously perfect for the role. But Kagami rejects the whole thing but doesn't reject him, Kuroko's worth is not based on how useful he is, he's more than just a shadow or phantom. So right off the bat Kuroko gets not only the exact kind of player he needed to be paired with to defeat the Miracles and make Seirin number one, but also that kind of closeness and acknowledgment and teamwork that he craves without having to prove himself first. If Kuroko doesn't know what he did to be worthy of this, then how can he know what missteps will make him unworthy? Boy seems like he has a desperate need to be useful at all times, and he is scrambling to try to be as useful to Kagami as possible, both as a player and as a person, but if he can't fully embrace Ball Is Life, will that outweigh his usefulness, make him more troubme than he's worth? He's miserable at the thought of losing Kagami and being distant from the rest of Seirin, but he can't let go of his former teammates either.

From a cold logic standpoint, even though Kagami obviously doesn't care for the Miracle bullshit, he still treats Kise and Midorima kindly despite not as nearly a close of a relationship as he does with Kuroko. Kagami bitches and moans but he genuinely helps Kise and Midorima and is willing to banter, and eventually the whole circus will be in his living room. But you can't just outlogic trauma.

A+, full marks

notes of appreciation:

you went into the wiki and looked things up

references to in-fic events and behaviors

understanding of tendency to allow injustice onto self vs others

you can't outlogic trauma

the need to feel useful as a metric of self-worth

low self-esteem and feeling unworthy of kindness, plus being comfortable in discomfort

#inquiry #Anonymous #on bil #we're done here i think #kuroko pov discussion has exceeded the chapter word count #and that's not including my responses #also thanks for recognizing that si!kagami is very conscientious in how he outwardly treats the clowns #you get to see in his head. he's safe in there thus he can bitch and moan all he wants #but it's about what he chooses to do outwardly #he thinks they are rude and annoying but it's a deliberate choice to not be mean to them #petty? sure. but not mean. #^you know what? it's the same way everyone went on about zhou le for his pov #the same grace extended to other characters wasn't so in his case #just because he thinks how he thinks? are we catholic here? #thoughts are thoughts actions are actions