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Can we get a brief synopsis of what Edie’s reaction was when she was presented with two royal kitties for her birthday 🥺

i think it went roughly like this:

and much weeping ensued

our girl edelgard was pretty much comatose for the rest of the night, holding her kittycats in her arms and silently bawling her eyes out while byleth stood around being Very Concerned.

the process of naming the cats took over a day and involved edelgard tearing apart her bookshelves in her search for suitable options, (cross-referenced with those already on the “list of potential future cat names” she’s been developing since she was seven). byleth found her own names for them organically within a few minutes.

(you can find my story about her majesty’s favored felines on ao3)

#sterge.eml #fe3h #fire emblem #fire emblem three houses #edelgard von hresvelg #edeleth #byleth eisner #edelgard #byleth x edelgard #accidentally flattened my layers while working on this so hopefully i don’t need to make any edits OOPS! #in the days after

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i also write exclusively with fountain pens (cursive anon)

anyways i liked your recent comic, i feel like edelgard's cuteness is amplified by her short statue. makes me want to pick her up like a cat lol (says someone who is also short)

Byleth: Like a cat, huh...

Edelgard: ... can I help you?

Byleth: Tada

Edelgard: UNHAND ME THIS INSTANT

anon, you really shouldn't give her any ideas. for edelgard's sake.

#fe3h #fire emblem #fire emblem three houses #edeleth #sterge.eml #sterge.pptx #edelgard von hresvelg #byleth eisner #in the days after #fountain pen supremacy 💪😤 anon i fuck with you big time #i've spent. an embarrassing amount of money on pens. #my workhorse is my parker im. i don't leave home without it!! #my grail pen is now at a price point i simply cannot abide and so i will have to dream of it eternally #unless i win the lottery i guess #alas. #probably should have colored this but whatever #narrowly avoided that emperor pantyshot. sorry perverts #i cannot be arsed to draw all their regalia anymore save for special occasions #thus byleth is out here in her thursday best (ladies night at the club) #knee brace over tights. are you sure? #please excuse my dust and be nice to me while i learn how to draw feet #idk that i ever even drew heels before i started drawing these chucklefucks #i am not a professional (or remotely trained) artist #i am simply a dyke with a pencil and more time than sense

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I LOVE SOCKS!!! 🐾😻

socks loves you too!

#fire emblem #fe3h #fire emblem three houses #edeleth #in the days after #sterge.eml

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DID YOU SEE THE EDELGARD SWEAR VIDEO

each and every time i get one of my units killed, i hear her voice yelling “YOU DUMBASS”

#sterge.eml #fire emblem #fe3h #edelgard #she should say fuck. she has EVERY RIGHT!! #thank you for the reminder anon i’ve ​watched it thrice today now #i’m halfway interested in playing drakengard just for the insanity of the dialog #but lord knows i’m just gonna boot up morrowind or fe3h again. #i think if edelgard had cussed byleth out once or twice i might have been a better tactician #i’m not good at this game. simply Determined.

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Hello! I am enjoying your ferdibert tale so much, I’ve been eagerly checking the tags every day for updates and I’m just so incredibly enamored with it all. Your art is fabulous too and your Hubert is WONDERFUL! Do you have a ko-fi or anything like that? I want to give you a tip for how much joy you’re providing 😭🧡🖤

WOW, oh my gosh, you are so sweet!! i'm so glad you like it <3 i don't have a ko-fi, though i guess i will look into setting one up as it would be pretty neat!

it would bring me equivalent joy if you would donate anything you might have sent me as a tip to a cause like the trevor project, shatterproof, or to help local organizations in palestine. thanks so much for your support and feedback, it means the world!!!!

#sterge.eml #lemonbronze #are you seeing this dad. people actually want to pay money for my goofy little cartoons #i've been Extremely Unemployed for a hot minute so i should probably figure out the ko-fi thing

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🦈❤️ (for that writer ask post)

🦈 Which character is the toughest to write?

i’m lucky in that most characters flow pretty easily for me, but i’ve struggled the most with writing ferdinand and bernadetta.

ferdinand’s voice is more challenging to execute than i ever anticipate it will be. i barely featured him in chapter 1 of muscle memory, but it was enough to stress me out. he has this particular tone i can’t seem to nail—he’s overly confident and sunny in a way that can come off as oafish, but that oafishness is usually hiding a clever and thoughtful truth.

in general, i like bernie, but she’s not my favorite lmao. pre-timeskip, i find her to be so tough to write as she spirals for nothing and can easily take control of a scene. it’s hard to keep her on task, and i worry about her coming off cringey. i’ve only made an attempt at writing her in echoes of zanado and i’m not sure i’ll do it again, though i’ll definitely give post-timeskip bernie a chance to shine at some point. gotta reward her for all that growth.

i’ve also taken a few stabs at writing locked tomb fics, but i simply cannot get harrowhark’s voice quite right, so those have yet to see the light of day. alas. maybe i’ll finish one eventually!

❤️ What is your favorite line that you’ve written in a fic?

hmmmmm. i don’t feel like i’m particularly skilled at crafting one-liners that stand out or are all that witty. i tend to either be partial to parts of sentences or entire passages that flow well. for whatever reason, i was pleased with the line in muscle memory chapter 2 about kissing the “soft plateau below her navel” even though it’s just describing a tummy lol. the words feel nice together.

i’m gonna cheat and throw a few out here. edelgard’s rant about the cats’ names in her majesty’s favored felines was so fun to write and still cracks me up. she’s so high-drama smdh. love her. there’s also a really stupid sex joke early in that story that’s not even a joke, per se, but also makes me laugh.

i think like you mean it contains some of my most primo navel-gazing angst, and i’m especially fond of the very last paragraph:

She held her like she was the other end of the tether, like she was the only thing keeping her here, like holding her could save her, could give her purpose, could make her worthy, like the heat-on-heat of their intertwined bodies could make meaning of all the things that didn’t make sense in this world. She closed her eyes, and held her, and begged the favor of an absent god, praying that she—that this—could be enough.

i also like this line from chapter eight of at the edge of the void:

And even without her love, he would still choose to make himself a planet and remain in her orbit, knowing full well he would be eventually swallowed by the gravity of a dying sun.

unfortunately, my neuroticism doesn’t let me like it that much because i’ve not put enough thought into whether anyone in fódlan, especially edelgard, has a concept of what gravity is or that suns (plural) can die. i won’t let me have any fun.

#fe3h #fire emblem #sterge.eml #wakingupclean #thank you for the ask!!! #i really posted that ask game and then proceeded to get stoned and sleep for like thirteen hours. OOPS #someone’s insomnia’s been acting up (mine) #i have some lines i’m Very Pleased With coming up in vesties chapter 5 and in a yet-untitled edeleth smut i’m chipping away at #that smut fic is gonna be a lot of fun. #i’m trying to only work on it after i get through some of the vickyvesties though #stergeon can have little an edeleth as a treat #but only after talking shit about silver snow

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Sorry if this seems sudden, but what are your thoughts on a Young Edelgard befriending a Young Byleth who canonically doesn't have friends due to how people are afraid and creeped out by her behavior?

Yea, the tragedy is how Byleth has nobody their age to connect with as well as most not getting them to the point of dehumanization until Garreg Mach, but it's neat to think of.

ohhhh tbh i love this… in my mind, young edelgard is very precocious, but also extremely coddled (comes with being royalty) and kind of oblivious/condescending without meaning to be. “aren’t all tutors dreadful? hm? you don’t have lessons? what do you do all day? what?? you work??? is that allowed????”

like, well-meaning with a strong sense of justice, and genuinely curious about other people’s lives, but without a frame of reference for anything yet.

and young byleth, as you say, would have been intimidating to be around lol. an eerie and serious kid who probably learned how to kill a man not long after she learned to walk. i see her as being affable in the sense that she just kind of goes along with whatever situation she’s in, without any investment in it one way or another beyond doing what she’s told, but she would definitely be confused by other kids and struggle hard with social cues, etc. until she gets sufficiently good at reading people as to passably mask. it’s a very lonely and difficult way to live.

i could absolutely see edelgard running into this weird little girl and adopting her on the spot. “why don’t people play with you. what do you mean, you don’t know how to play. we’re going to play a game right now; so there.” edelgard is nothing if not driven and dedicated to the causes she believes in (and her massive savior/martyr complex doesn’t help lol—she’s already adopted one local weirdo by becoming besties with hubert). so i think if she set her mind to being byleth’s friend, she would make it happen. this kid is now her personal project. they WILL be friends.

and i reckon that friendship would do wonders for byleth. she had so little interaction with anyone her age in her youth, and having one real friend might make all the difference for her. edelgard could help ground her, and help her better understand the world they live in, and keep her in touch with her humanity—or, really, help her discover it in the first place. meanwhile, edelgard could learn a LOT from byleth, who’s spent her life unhoused* and pretty much living paycheck-to-paycheck with jeralt’s band of violent (and likely alcoholic, per jeralt and alois) mercs. byleth could lend her some perspective and further shape edelgard’s love for the people of fódlan, as well as her understanding of what kinds of societal changes are needed to make things better for everyone.

who knows, that connection might even lead sothis to emerge earlier…

the concern, of course, is jeralt, who (for debatably valid reasons) never wants to stay anywhere for too long, and probably would get super freaked out by the idea of his kid hanging around one of the heirs of the adrestian empire. whether they’d actually have enough time to become friends… idk.

but kids are funny when they set their minds to something. i’d like to think edelgard would decide, day one, that they’re friends, and friends help each other, so that’s what she’s going to do. i’d like to think that when edelgard found out byleth’s group would be leaving again soon, she’d use that big brain of hers and coax her father into hiring the mercenaries on for a long-term mission or as a standing battalion. adrestia’s been on the outs with the church for a good while already, so jeralt might feel comfortable enough to consider putting down roots, even if just for a little longer than usual.

that could REALLY change both byleth and edelgard’s lives. in my little daydream, byleth starts training to be a knight and a personal guard for edelgard, and basically spends as much time around her as hubert does. and maybe, when the insurrection happens edelgard is taken to fhirdiad, hubert stands a better chance of finding her with someone by his side who has spent her entire young life in the woods and on the roads, tracking enemies and avoiding pursuers. maybe they find her. maybe they help prevent some truly terrible things from happening.

what happens from there, idk; so many of edelgard’s views are informed by her experiences and it gets too complicated for my tiny brain to realistically figure out what would occur and who she’d be if it went down like that instead.

but byleth would be changed just by knowing edelgard. having someone in her young life who is invested in her, who sees beyond the fog of the day-to-day, who’s interested in what she wants, who embraces and celebrates her quirks and doesn’t shun her for them, who grants her stability and some agency in her own life… someone who sees her as a person, not just as a sword or set of hands… how could anyone not be changed by something like that?

* with the exception of Whatever The Fuck she was doing while jeralt was parading around in leonie’s village for however long. this is my least favorite plot hole in the game, namely because leonie acknowledges it. “huh. i don’t remember you being there, and you don’t, either. maybe you were with a relative”??? what relative, IS?? how many living relatives does byleth have that aren’t trying to turn her into a mommy-god??? why fake your kid’s death and disappear “for her safety,” just to ditch said kid somewhere with someone for months?????

WHERE WAS YOUR CHILD, JERALT??????

ok i’m done yelling lol. thank you for this ask, this was really fun to think about <3

#fire emblem #fe3h #i love them girls. #as someone who is neurodivergent i vibe hard with neurodivergent byleth takes #but i’m also reluctant to go along with them as the writer of a fic where byleth gaining her heart also turns on The Emotion Fountain #i hate to potentially imply that she ‘got better’ from being neurodivergent. #hopefully it does not come across that way in my fic lol. to me it’s all plot-reasons #but also as someone who was a weird kid who Did Not Get It socially: it resonates #kids are so interesting and so funny #sterge.eml

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🌻💡💌

🌻 How often do you read your own fics?

uh well immediately after i post a fic, i re-read it like three times because, inevitably, i will find a zillion mistakes i somehow missed in my previous fifty rounds of editing. then i will be unable to look at the piece for a month or two. after that i’ll remember it exists and do another round of edits. usually this is the most extensive edit as i’ve had enough time away from the work to realize where and how i was talking out my ass. sorry to anyone who reads my stuff before this happens lmaoooo i hope it’s stomachable!!

after that, i can (usually) bear to look at the fic again and i’ll remember i wrote it for me and that’s why it contains all kinds of stuff i like lol. i’ll re-read and do nitpicky edits maybe once a month or so. more if i’m proud of it.

💡How many WIPs do you currently have?

ummmmm. let’s see. in no particular order, i’ve got a good chunk of progress goin’ on these right now:

the victors; the vestiges. chapter four is so close to being done but i have to keep touching it and touching it.

recognition chapter 3. this chapter is technically smut, but rather unsexy smut. twin character studies in a smut wrapper. apologies to anyone who’s subscribed to that as i have no idea if i’ll ever be brave enough to publish it.

yet-untitled edeleth smut that is purely about sex for sex’s sake. i’m having too much fun with this one

very angsty fic about byleth’s first days in enbarr

morrowind reincarnation-slash-modern au

a way too ambitious nerevoryn fic i’ll don’t think i will ever finish

that casphardt fic i promised you ten thousand years ago OOPS!!!!!

i’m also dreaming about doing a political drama set in fhirdiad just after the war but i’m not sure if i have the brain or historical chops to pull it off. maybe someday.

💌 Is there a favorite trope you like to write?

hmmm. i don’t think so? i really enjoy writing and exploring established relationships, but i wouldn’t say it’s necessarily my favorite as i enjoy writing non-romantic stuff, too. thematically, my favorite thing to write about is devotion. i’m pretty much always writing about devotion or grief (usually both).

#fe3h #fire emblem #tes #sterge.eml #charlesworthy #thank you to the OG for the ask 🙏🙏🙏😤😤😤😤 you are dope as fuck my friend #a real one #everybody go read charlesworthy’s stuff #hir fics are so fucking good #imagine if i finished that casphardt fic. what then #i also am kicking around an edeleth modern au because i love office dramas and nasty powerful women in their thirties #and i have an outline for an edeleth-doropetra double date but no work on that yet #lastly i’ll Eventually have a new longfic in my series in the days after where we get some TWSITD action #that one is still an outline too but it’s marinatin!!!!!!! #not counting my failed locked tomb fics here as they are disappointments to me. #hopefully on my next re-read i’ll be a more careful study and figure out how to write that series in a way that pleases me #‘women’ isn’t a trope or theme but as long as i’m writing about women i’m having a good time

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for the writer ask

💭🚦💛 💌

💭 What inspires you and your writing?

this is a real marketing major-ass answer (from your local marketing major), but i love sharing knowledge and telling stories. writing’s one of those things that’s a bit of a compulsion for me—i’m always writing something. i took a five-year break from fiction writing before i stumbled ass-first into fanfic last year, but even in those years when i was focusing on my career, i was writing guides and trainings and a ton of other stuff—just not anything fun, lol.

writing is also so cathartic. sometimes i set out to tell a specific story, but at other times, a particular emotion gets me in a vice grip and i have to put it to words before it’ll go away. my stories tend to wind up as emotional dumping grounds as a result.

i don’t write things pulled directly from my own life, but there are bits and pieces of myself and things that have happened to me scattered throughout stuff i’ve written, and usually when i’m about 75% of the way through a piece, i’ll realize it’s absolutely related to something i’m currently going through. funny how art works that way, even when you don’t intend for it to.

and occasionally i just have a fire lit under my ass about an issue and i get so hot about it that i gotta compile my thoughts. looking at you, silver snow

🚦 What sort of endings do you prefer to write: ambiguous, bad, happily ever after, etc.?

look, i would love nothing more for them girls (pick whichever girls you please) to have a happy ending where they kiss and are stupid in love for the rest of forever. i love reading those kinds of stories. but in my heart of hearts, i love an ambiguous ending. i like when there are still questions after the story ends. i like thinking about where things could go or how the characters will go on after the events of the story. like, shared space could be read as having a happy ending, but i don’t really think it is. and with the victors; the vestiges, well. you’ll see :0)

come to think of it, i’m not sure i’ve ever written a happily-ever-after, but i don’t think i’ve ever written a 100% bad ending, either. i read too many bury-your-gays stories and watched too many sad european queer coming-of-age films in my youth to ever be happy putting that kinda thing out into the world. i want to write about love with all its ugliness, but not despair or hopelessness. i think what most appeals to me about an ambiguous ending is that lingering feeling of hope. it’s not the same as the kind you get from a happily-ever-after, and something about it speaks to me.

💛 What is the most impactful lesson you’ve learned about writing?

honestly? how to take criticism. i took a creative writing class in high school where we had to read our work out loud and then receive feedback on it from the other writers in the class, and that did a lot for me. going into that class, i’d already been writing for forever and had won some little local writing contests and such, so i was a wee bit of a pretentious douche. but i’d never gotten real critique before beyond, essentially, spelling and grammar checks. it humbled me lol. it made me grow so much as a writer, and i could see where i needed to improve or where my head was wedged way too far up my own ass for others to follow. it also helped me recognize strengths i didn’t know i had, and that was huge. it’s easy to get into a self-doubt spiral when making creative work, and good, constructive criticism can do so much to help avoid that.

to this day i love critique. i like knowing what worked or didn’t work so that i can continue to improve as a writer and do better next time. did my themes land? did something really work, but another part fall flat? i’d love to know!! i try to treat everything i write as practice for the next thing, and frankly that’s helped take some of the pressure off so i don’t go into total Perfectionist Mode.

i know critique is kind of a sensitive topic in fan spaces, but i think that’s because a lot of people have gotten unsolicited criticism that is purely critical and isn’t constructive. but getting good, constructive criticism will do so much to help a person grow as a writer. it’s scary, and sometimes it hurts! writing is very personal for most people, and it stings when things aren’t received the way you think they will be. but i know i’ve grown more from having my failures pointed out (and, very importantly, having the good things about those efforts acknowledged) than anything else.

💌 Is there a favorite trope you like to write?

actually Just answered this in another ask!

#sterge.eml #foxyjeongin #thank you for playing my little game and letting me talk about stories (and about me lmao) #sorry this is kind of a long post #i talk too much #i think i sound pretentious in this ask whoops. sorry #unfortunately i kind of am. i’m working on it. #… ​i guess the short answer to that first question is ‘emotions and mental illness’ lol #if you follow me on twitter (not recommended as it’s just me complaining about the weather and not being able to ride my motorcycle) #you know that every time i bring up my writing in therapy my therapist rocks my shit by revealing the story is #in fact. #NOT about what i thought it was about #or more accurately ​it’s ALSO secretly about whatever’s going on with me in real life lmao #y’know what’s really fun? looking back at something you wrote in a manic or depressive episode and going ah. hm. interesting. #the signs were. in fact. there. #(this is in fact not fun and i don’t like it. but it always happens.) #everything i write is accidentally Also about being bipolar. no getting around that #i tend to have issues organizing my thoughts and feelings to even figure out how tf i’m feeling #(forget making any attempt at doing so verbally. i have chronic foot-in-mouth disorder and accidentally say shit i don’t mean all the time) #but writing stuff down has always helped me sort through whatever mess is going on in my noggin and i love it for that #learning how to take critique is my no. 1 piece of writing advice but no. 2 is to read #read the classics. find out why they’re classics. read weird shit. read shit you don’t like. find things you like about em anyway. #and importantly: figure out WHY you do or don’t like it #it’s funny to re-read a book i haven’t read in a long time and discover OH. that’s where i get that technique from. #or that’s where i got that idea. or that’s why i had X thing happen in this story. #or why i like this type of character or scenario #nothing’s truly new and original #we’re all an amalgamation of influences and that ruuuuules #celebrate it!!!

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From that ask game you reblogged (I'm assuming FE3H 🙃):

- What is one canon thing that you wish you could change?

- What is your wildest headcanon?

- Is it easier for you to write angst or fluff?

💥 What is one canon thing that you wish you could change?

oh gosh. this is a lot of power to have and i have too many ideas. it’s hot on my mind because of the vickyvesties, but i freaking hate how almyra is treated in canon. fódlan is atrocious with any and all foreign policy but sweet sothis are they dicks about almyra.

[spoilers for white clouds and azure moon ahead btw]

i also would have loved more screen time for our agarthan pals. i really, extremely do not fuck with clowns, but i still wish we could have gotten more depth from kronya, who was just on the cusp of being really interesting.

i realize i’ve cheated and said more than one thing but whatever i’ve got one more: all of azure moon should be placed in the circular filing cabinet, but especially rodrigue’s death scene. insane to have felix’s dad’s death be entirely about dimitri when felix is standing right there. triple insane to have it happen at all when byleth could just fucking rewind it!!! hello! did you forget you have time powers??? wake up girl!!!! we got an explanation for why she couldn’t undo jeralt’s death, but they don’t even hand-wave away rodrigue’s. byleth just accepts that he’s gotta go. what a joke!!

👻 What is your wildest headcanon?

morrowind is yuri and i made a 3.5 hour long powerpoint presentation to defend that stance.

for fe3h, i don’t think my headcanons are too wild for the most part, but i subscribe to the theory that sothis’s dragon form is um. really big. like, say, yea big:

my hottest take? the agarthans were kind of right. unfortunately they were too stupid and evil to make anything of being right.

💘 Is it easier for you to write angst or fluff?

oh, angst. absolutely angst. when the mood strikes and i get the right idea, i can crank out a fluff fic pretty fast, but if i set out to write fluff, i could wind up sitting around for hours trying to come up with something. i’m a lot better at plugging away at angst.

my fluff fics are also prone to taking sudden turns into angst if i don’t keep a close eye on the flow of the conversation. the beginning of chapter 3 of the vesties is supposed to be very light-hearted and sweet, but it was an ordeal keeping byleth from souring it all. she’s so emo in that story and it’s terrifically hard to make her have any fun. i had to scrap six or seven paragraphs and rework them completely because she bummed claude out so badly at his freaking new year’s party, and that simply would not do.

#fe3h #fire emblem #sterge.eml #kyokoenthusiast #thank you for playing my little ask game my friend you are lovely!!! #at some point i’ll write up my rant about the agarthans #haven’t quite organized all of my thoughts on it #might do a fic on it someday. who knows

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Just wanted to say I greatly appreciate and adore your ongoing Hubert's Perfectly Normal Day posts, your writing and art are ever so charming and a delight to behold, thanks for sharing it with us! :D <3

thank you so much anon, this is so lovely <3 i'm super grateful for your support!! glad you're enjoying it!!!

#tbh i'm kinda blown away by the reception on this so far #i'm aware this whole thing is kind of insane but i'm just doing everything that i find fun and putting it all in one project #it honestly amazes me that anybody else likes it lmao #sterge.eml

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hello (i am the cursive anon) but have since left the anon because WOW i truly didn't expect you to make a comic out of my silly rambling so i just have to THANK YOU for your drawing. also, mechanical pencils are better than traditional pencils. however, the one problem that i have with them is that the lead can break pretty easily which is highly annoyingly as someone who both writes fast and hard. random but have you tried calligraphy? it's super relaxing even if you don't have the best handwriting 10/10 recommend

oh and another wacky idea, i think that edelgard might have a special wax seal reserved just for byleth (color would be either blue or red with gold) and with an extremely fancy E

awww i’m so glad you enjoyed it!!! i got a little carried away lol but it was very fun to draw.

100% agreed on the lead issue too 😤😤😤😤 it’s very annoying. i like having nice thin lines for traditional drawing/sketching though, and battling a pencil sharpener all day to maintain that crispness just ain’t worth the struggle lol.

i haven’t tried calligraphy but i’d really like to!! i get so envious of people who can bust out swoopy, swirly, pretty letters so gracefully. whenever a calligraphy video comes across my dash i’m Fixated 🤤 it’s so cool. i’ll have to make an attempt at it eventually.

also agreed on edelgard’s fancy wax seals. she definitely started doing it at hubert’s insistence (he was really sick of trying to figure out which pieces of edelgard and byleth’s correspondence were personal or business-related). i love big fancy “e,” though i could also see her agonizing over getting exactly the right design or symbol to use on the seal as to represent her feelings for byleth. girl loves her symbolism.

byleth: it’s… a bird… dragon? wolf?

edelgard: [launches into a twenty-minute long diatribe about the eagle’s significance to the hresvelg family, why she chose a wolf for byleth, and how the symbol represents their unity]

byleth: it’s, um. it’s very cool, el.

meanwhile byleth’s solution was to write “(Personal)” on the back of the envelope.

#sterge.eml #foxyjeongin #fe3h #fire emblem #in addition to being emperor of adrestia edelgard is also the mayor of new dork city

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On fountain pens and cursive:

Fountain pens slap. However, I dislike pencil strongly but also make too many mistakes for pen, so I am locked into erasable inks only. So it’s gel pens for me forever I guess! I write in either print or cursive depending, but I find most people my age or younger (I’m in my early 20s) just can’t read cursive. Hilariously, this means I do most of my writing printed but I write poetry and rants and journal entries in cursive.

I also use cursive to take meeting minutes when the meeting people are older than me because there’s like a 50/50 chance it impresses them lol.

shaking your hand 🤝 fountain pen gang!!

i’m a mechanical pencil guy on the rare occasions where i’m 1. handwriting and 2. Not writing in pen. but i always respect the og #2. i’m just a little neurotic about keeping a pencil perfectly sharp and a mechanical one solves that problem lol.

tbh using cursive Tactically is a big brain move and i respect that immensely. i’ve drawn comics for a long time and before i picked up fountain pens, said comics were the only reason i remembered how to write in cursive lol. it’s kind of a shame that more people can’t read it these days but hey, if it makes it a makeshift form of code, that’s pretty neat 😈

#sterge.eml #azure-clockwork #i will spend assloads of money on pens but balk at expensive mechanical pencils #which is a little stupid as i’m Very Picky about my mechanical pencils and i’m never perfectly happy with them #maybe if i got a good one i’d 1. be happy with it and 2. not lose it #there’s an idea. #thinking about erasable inks… that’s pretty slick #when i’m not using a fountain pen i prefer a 0.7 pilot g2 #i fuck with pilot g2s so hard #rollerball gang rise up 💪💪💪💪

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random but i like that you write in cursive, i also do but it's not very common in the english speaking sphere

big respect!!! for the most part, my actual handwriting is kind of a cursive-print mishmash that is hard to make heads or tails of. i really try when lettering comics lol.

my elementary school teachers promised i would use cursive in my daily life when i got older. i don't think they meant i'd use it almost exclusively in goofy comics about video game women but i'm not about to waste the knowledge

#sterge.eml #one of my many pretentious traits is that i handwrite almost exclusively with fountain pens #which lend themselves very well to cursive #although they do not help make my handwriting any more legible #it's just soooo fun to do all the cursive loopy-loops with a fountain pen that has nice flow

[stergeon]

i have discovered your fanfics and i am positively feral about them. i thought my fe3h phase ended a long time ago but you brought me back in the trenches. i love how you write el but especially byleth. i don't think i've ever seen such a unique portrayal of her. thank you for the delicious fanfics <3

omg anon this is so sweet!!!!! thank you so much for reading my fics and for your lovely message <3 welcome back to the trenches!!

#sterge.eml #printing this out and putting it on my fridge #tbqh this made my day #i’ve been in despair over the fic i’m working on right now and fell ass-backwards into the Tunnel of Doubt #trying to bring this positivity forward #gonna finish my fic gonna see it through #be strong sterge. be strong for anon

[stergeon]

Ok I just got here from your ao3 and I am totally not shocked you also like tlt. That tracks. Also, nice work on the quality taste!

ayyy thank you lol, i have a weakness for powerful women with weapons

#if there’s also a meditation on grief and religious imagery? i’m done for #mix in a sense of futility and timey-wimey nonsense and you have built the perfect me trap #sterge.eml #tlt in particular got me with the rapier combat as a former fencer who still daydreams of picking up a sabre again #plus them girls are yuuuuuuuckyyyyyyyyy #what’s not to like