#well whatever this is also my sideblog and not my main.

[glitteringdepths]

had some brainworms about transfem furina.... can anyone hear me.

i feel like this would have really interesting implications in her story, much as she loves acting, but struggles with it due to the 500 years she spent being forced to act, would being a woman be the same for her? she doesn't know where the act ends and where her actual identity begins. is she a woman because she wants to be, or just because she had to be one. even if she enjoys it more than the alternative, does she actually enjoy it? or is it just because she was one for so long that she enjoys it?

i can imagine that focalors likely didnt care much about her identity/presentation as archons have been shown to be able to change their forms at will basically, but furina is the human counterpart of focalors. she doesn't have that ability to change herself just like that. i imagine gender identity would be much more important to a human, especially one that must keep up an act at all times, than a god, and thus something that would affect her. something she would think about. a lot.

maybe post-prophecy, she would experiment. figure out if femininity is in fact something she wants. maybe she would try to go back to being "cis" and then realize it wasn't right for her. and i imagine that she would flourish more being able to properly express her femininity rather than doing it just because it was apart of the role.

#my art #genshin impact #furina #idk. i think trans readings of furina in general are very interesting. it could work any which way for her. #but. something about the transfem furina hc really hits for me and im not sure why! #it got me thinking! #sorry if these thoughts arent coherent. im not the best at expressing what i want to say. hope it makes sense though! #but god. furina and how complicated her feelings must be on everything is so so so interesting #it must be a nightmare to figure out who she really is and how she really feels. how she really thinks. #since her identity got blurred together with that of being an archon #kinda scared to post this bc i dont usually post headcanon type stuff (probably fear about being Wrong about something) but here we go! #well whatever this is also my sideblog and not my main.

[wotb-blog-2024]

WIP Great Chain drawing

#my art #wotb #wolves of the beyond #decided to make a sideblog to this old af book series that i'm getting back into apparently. started drawing this tn and then made this blo #old fandoms and hyperfixations rly do stick around huh #anyway it started with me being kind of afraid to post on my main account #it's so stupid esp bc i've posted art there for years but #it's like. i'm afraid of being judged or me being judged or ppl thinking it's not good or whatever? #but i've always loved to make art and share it #so. even if it's not on my main rn. here we go #it actually kind of works great bc this is such an obscure fandom #so this blog is a good place to not only post my own shit but to reblog other ppls art #my main blog is. well. my main blog. it has everything on it #it's not really a specific theme/fandom blog or even a mostly-art-blog anymore #i've usually been unable to bother to run or even start side blogs or fandom-specific blogs #but here's my attempt at a blog for this fandom lmao #anyway i drew this bc i'm rereading (on book 2 rn) and faolan has to carve the great chain #so i was like. that's a lot of shit to cram onto one bone/canvas let alone make look good and artistic and such #so i decided to try it to see how it would turn out #i'm drawing it according to the canon list (i think it's in book 1 but it's also on the wiki) #i'm adding some of my own twists tho. like the volcanoes by the gnaw wolf #and the mountains being in the 'rock' category and the fish being in the 'water' part of it #i also decided to make a great chain that shows the beauty and importance of every part of it instead of gnaw wolf mistreatment or other bs #i may eventually add things like worms and bones to the 'dirt' part as well #the things between the 'other four-legged animals' and 'plants' categories are the 'birds besides owls' #i may end up adding more and/or making those more detailed and recognizeable #if i add more shit to this or redraw it i may also add more owls and more gnaw + watch wolves #i don't know if i'll end up bothering bc it's A Lot but i may eventually do a colorized version #maybe on the computer with my tablet (which is not at school rn) #probably a good idea bc i have carpal tunnel and need to be careful w drawing and typing. tbh i also need to finish some hw and go to bed

[unfortunatelyilikebnha]

[ID: a screenshot of the art that appears when you pull shenhe in Genshin Impact. End ID.]

I GOT HER AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#I’M SO EXCITED I’VE WANTED HER EVER SINCE I MET HER!!!!!!!!!!! it took a fair bit of grinding bc I had barely any primos saved up but I WON #I didnt have guaranteed either so like!!!! #anyways sorry for being cringe abt gacha game on main (well…technically sideblog but w/e) I was just rlly excited #genshin impact #shenhe #anyways I levelled her up to 50 immediately (couldn’t go higher bc I didn’t have whatever enemy her materials come from unlocked) #gotta get her some good artifacts & also go do that quest to unlock that island so I can get more of her enemy materials!! #I assume she uses the blizzard strayer set. sigh. back to the blizzard domain ig. #at least I can get my sisters to help me probably. and I can maybe pick up some better artifacts for my kaeya too #oh no now I have to choose between pulling for the mist splitter (for kaeya <3) or shenhes spear #well. that’s a decision for later (but not too much later since there r only like 5 days left on the banner) #anyways I’m gonna pass out for like 2 hours and then do some schoolwork.

[girlwarlock]

PvP BLAZE IS (supposedly) live 04/20/2023

I think this is a really cool update, but an important thing to note is that:

* * * * LETTING OTHERS BLAZE YOUR POSTS WILL BE ON BY DEFAULT * * * *

It's a per-blog setting, so you can turn it off for your main and on for your sideblog(s) or v/v.

Even on a blog which has "let others blaze my posts" on, there will be a per-post toggle so that you can have a blog be blazeable but still post that kinda personal journal-y thing without needing to worry about some asshole paying $10 to make 2500 strangers see it (or whatever tumblr's rates are, i don't remember).

Also, if someone *does* blaze a post that you didn't want blazed, you have the opportunity to cancel the campaign at any time, even before the campaign starts generating impressions. So if you forget to tag something unblazeable, you're not helpless in the face of someone deciding to blaze it.

#tumblr blaze #tumblr update #cool new tumblr features #i honestly think this is really cool #but staff didn't do a fantastic job in their post of selling the opt-outing-ness of it which is a big thing for tumblr users #most tumblr users don't want their experience to change v much

[corvid-language-library]

A brief introduction

Hello! 👋🏻

I'm not new to tumblr or langblr (you may know me as nordic-language-love), but I've decided to make a new blog for a whole host of reasons. And it's only courteous to have an introduction post when ones makes a new blog, isn't it?

👩🏻 You can call me Victoria

🎂 I'm in my 30s

🇯🇵 Originally I'm from the UK, but I currently live in Japan (Tohoku) where I teach English

🇳🇴 Learning Norwegian and Japanese. Japanese is currently my main focus for obvious reasons, but Norwegian will always be my fave <3

🗣 Other languages I'm interested in: Finnish, Icelandic, Spanish, Irish, Korean, Ukrainian, Tswana, Cornish and French

💬 Big linguistics fan too (etymology my beloved)

📚 I'm an aspiring bookworm. My favourite genres are fantasy and sci-fi (with a lil YA sprinkled in there). Find my 2024 TBR here.

📝 I also write! Getting something published someday would be nice, but I'm more focused on just having fun. I write primarily fantasy.

🩰 I practice yoga (intermediate level) and ballet (total beginner)

🧠 I'm neurodivergent. I have no official diagnosis yet but I have been referred for an assessment. I'm 99% sure I have ADHD (probably combined, possibly just inattentive) and autism's been suggested as well.

✉️ I'm shit at replying to messages. If I never get back to you please don't take it personally!

More about this blog

This blog is gonna be a bit of a mix of all my hobbies and interests because I can't be bothered to run like 5 different sideblogs anymore. However, my main interests that I'll be posting about are languages and reading.

I have a fitblr for my diet and fitness shenanigans! You can follow me on @flyingfitandsugarfree

I go through phases of posting original content, but I mostly post about my own journey and whatever random thoughts pop into my head

I try to post language learning logs once a week, where I kinda summarise what I've been working on and what progress I've made

Because I live in Japan, I sometimes like to post about my life there and how it differs from life in the UK

I don't really do aesthetic posts. Most of what I post is wordy and boring lmao

If you feel like being my friend, give me a follow! I'd love to get to know you :)

My 2024 Goals

#introductory post #langblr #japanese langblr #norwegian langblr #language blog #bookblr #readblr

[thegrimreaperisanerd]

So there are a lot of very talented artists amongst DE fans (drawing, painting, writing, ect) so I've been thinking: would folks be interested in taking part in a gift exchange?

I'm thinking forms style; If you're interested then enter your @, your medium/ the sort of stuff you want to create, and a VERY basic "likes/ dislikes" list: then there's a random draw on one of those websites (I usually do my work's secret santa...) and once you've gotten your @ for somebody else, you create something for them! I took part in something similar for Soul Eater years ago and that was really fun

I want to gauge interest before I set anything up but my thought process was; you've got until December 3rd to sign up, you get your draw on December 4th, then you have until December 21st (winter solstice) to make your thingy

On the 21st/ 22nd you then post your creation and tag the person you're gifting for in it🙂

I know it's short notice! But it's just an idea I've had, if it goes well it can always be repeated with a better timeframe lol (and somebody/s more competent running it)

Speaking of: I'm not the most tech-savvy/ have issues organising shite sometimes/ already have two bloody jobs (December 4th is my choice since that's my next feckin' day off, aghhhh) so if anyone would like to ASSIST I plan on setting up a sideblog, and I would be extremely grateful.

Also I plan on taking part, so if you want to assist but worry I'd embargo you from the exchange part then don't even worry about it, I'm chill as fuck.

Uhhh, yeah, putting this in the main tag but plz share if you ARE interested, also feel free to hit me up with suggestions or whatever, ESPECIALLY if you've done something similar - I will check in with this post again after I've come back from my second shift (around six hours from now)

#disco elysium #DE gift exchange #<- tag im using for now I'm also open to better ideas for a name

[sanctus-ingenium]

Been binge reading TVM and I LOVE IT. Bowman was already my favorite character but this story has already skyrocketed for me just how much I adore him. Though Felix is a very close second just cause of how he is with Carmen. I’d also love to know more about the Rangers.

1. Did you draw from any particular real world inspiration for them?

2. What’s the backstory behind how the Rangers came to be? Any little stories of particularly notable members you’ve thought up?

Yay awesome.. it's definitely the bowman book so I'm glad the focus on him is working hehe

1. Yes! The rangers are almost entirely a play on the Fianna, a band of heroes and hunters from Irish mythology. I strongly recommend you check out their stories because they're some of the greatest stories you'll ever read - start with the salmon of knowledge and then try diarmaid and gráinne. Fun fact, in older drafts of my books I call the rangers The Fianna but I found it messy.

As for real world inspiration, there's actual irl rangers as well, stewards of national parks and rare habitats. The rangers in Inver do not fight faeries so much as they manage the Ruad and ensure it is safe, and in Pascal's time (the far off distant future of 2017) rangers have become more ecologists than anything else, as their deep knowledge of the region and huge archives of faery activity over the centuries lends itself wonderfully to monitoring habitat health. So many of the ecologists I know were also used as inspiration hehe

2. The rangers of the Ruad (not the Greys) were founded by Finbarr Ó Casaide as part of the war that founded the state of Inver. He and the first rangers built the main Spikes barracks because (if you check the habitat map you'll see) there's a broad stretch of ancient yew wood north of the Lough, ideal for making bow staves. So Finbarr was a Spikes ranger. He and the others engaged in guerilla warfare against the werewolves led by the first D'Ouilly traitor, in particular the Tanet sect.

This is a short book I do want to write (it's on the table!!) eventually but you can find out more about Finbarr and his mortal enemy Olivier by searching the names on my blog. I'm stuck on mobile for the time being but I did write a pretty long summary of the pair of them and their relationship dynamic a few months ago.

Notable rangers include Finbarr himself but also Bowman André, who was the ranger who drafted the treaty between ranger organisations and the new werewolf monarchy, enshrining the terms of their operations in the Ruad into law. Although Finbarr's side lost their war, André's negotiations led to the current state of the ranger barracks as both gender neutral and independent of royal law, self-governing and so on. These wins came from the fact that any time the monarchy tried to employ its own army into the Ruad to protect trade or fight faeries or whatever, the soldiers would inevitably desert, or start pissing and moaning about it and why can't we just get the rangers to do the work instead. The flip side ofc was that most rangers are convicts who joined or were pressed into the service, because so few people willingly join an organisation that forces you to spend months at a time in the most dangerous habitat known to man, with no-one but other rangers for company.

Another notable ranger is Sharps Captain Torben, he's extremely famous and well-liked in the Régian [victorian] era due to his notoriously kind and gentle touch, as well as his good decision making skills meaning that there were almost no civilian fatalities under his watch for years at a time.

Finally another famous ranger is Hooks Captain Celeste, in 1969 she anticipated the disaster that almost swept Cánamac town away and ordered an evacuation before the tidal wave struck the town. I've written about that disaster on my sideblog @ranticore ;)

#mvf #setting: inver #Spikes Captain Nico Fuentes is another famous ranger.. for all the wrong reasons [trying to romance pascal] #i hope ppl get the barracks naming scheme & what im doing with it lol. hooks spikes sharps and spurs.. all sharp things #alluded to in one of the original púca stories #as a means to defend against faeries

[starsmuserainbow]

Before everything else, a summary in one sentence:

Please like (or comment on) this if you are alright with me interacting with you with any/all of my muses.

So, this is a… well, I’m just gonna call it an Interest Checker for all my muses. Except, it isn’t really a “checker” in the way that you see other people do. I don’t want to have a list of muses you might be interested in, that feels too much to keep up with and checking through a list everytime before sending something also kinda, doesn’t feel like my thing. No, I’d much rather simply have likes from those of you that are interested in (or willing to) interacting with all my muses, which is what this is for.

As of posting this, the muses on here are:

Starfire

Blackfire

Wildfire

Galfore

Starlight

Moonshot

Cat

Mia

Liquor

Kage

Lightning

Mar'i

Sheshe

Pyrrha

Akari

If you’d like to know more about any of these muses, please check my muses page.

If there ever come more muses than this, I’ll probably repost this because that’s the easiest way to keep track anew. Sorry that at that point you’ll have to be bothered to like it again, but, it’s gonna be my way of making sure to not overassume things when I add someone new.

A few “terms and conditions” below:

If you’re meaning to like this for/from a sideblog and don’t want to do it with your main for whatever reason, please feel free to just tell me outside of this and I’ll probably comment your sideblog-url down here myself so that I actually have it on this post for looking for it.

If you aren’t fine with all of them, don’t worry, that’s totally fine too! It’s totally okay if you don’t like this post, I won’t hate you for it or anything ridiculous like that. You could comment here with mentioning with whom (if more than we’re already interacting with) you’d be okay, but you absolutely don’t have to. I’ll just stick with what I - through IMs or by what we’re already doing - know you’re okay with, in that case.

If you intend to remove your like again after a short while - if you’re one to regularly clean up your likes, for example - I’d more appreciate a comment on here, because that actually stays. Otherwise, a removed like (or you can always ask me to remove a comment too? I think that’s possible for the OP to do?) means to me that you are no longer interested in all of them, for whatever reason.

Obviously, if we ever are no longer mutuals, I understand that as you not “liking” this anymore either, whether or not your like or comment is still here.

Liking this doesn’t mean you get something from all my muses instantly. You might never get anything from them, or not from all of them. It’s mostly just a reassurance for me when I want to like call-things or send things in or like suggest plot-ideas or something, that I know ‘oh yes I can suggest/send muse x to this mun because they are alright with my other muses’ when that muse of mine might never have interacted with yours yet.

#✫ Out of Characters ✫ | OOC #All Muses Check #✫ General Tag (Starfire(Canon)) ✫ #✫ General Tag (Blackfire(Canon)) ✫ #✫ General Tag (Wildfire(Semi)) ✫ #✫ General Tag (Galfore(Canon)) ✫ #✫ General Tag (Starlight(OC)) ✫ #✫ General Tag (Moonshot(OC)) ✫ #✫ General Tag (Cat(OC)) ✫ #✫ General Tag (Mia(OC)) ✫ #✫ General Tag (Liquor(OC)) ✫ #✫ General Tag (Kage(OC)) ✫ #✫ General Tag (Lightning(OC)) ✫ #✫ General Tag (Mar'i(Semi)) ✫ #✫ General Tag (Sheshe(Canon)) ✫ #✫ General Tag (Pyrrha(Canon)) ✫ #✫ General Tag (Akari(OC)) ✫

[sm64mario]

hey, it's mun again. i was a little dramatic last time i did one of these but it's been about a month or two and i've calmed down a bit and y'know i feel like i've gotten comfortable with letting the mask down and just kinda bein' frank with you fellas, so let's get down to business.

i activated tipping for this blog! i do not need money. i am some fat cis white guy who's very lucky to have a mother who can feed me while i make bad life decisions. but, if you decide for whatever reason that you have a few extra coins lying about, and you'd like to toss 'em to a blatant shitposter, i'd be thankful. i was thinking about maybe doing like a 'wario post' for each one i get because i feel kinda greedy about turning it on but that might be leaning too into the gag.

was also considering making a sideblog for roleplay purposes. i think i deleted all of the older posts where i'd write paragraph long replies to my old rp partners but i miss it and wonder if i still have it in me. i'll shill it if i ever make it happen.

currently, the queue is set for two posts a day, and i'll occasionally add an improvised post or two if inspiration strikes me, but i hope the blog isn't too stagnant or anything! the quiz cards should help shake things up, and i'll occasionally try to find neat stuff from mariowiki or TCRF as well, but you know the drill by now - it's just mario shitposts and good feel. also, i realized i should probably start IDing the photos i personally post, so i'll try to add those.

my main blog is @absolutedingus, but i tend not to make original posts or queue or tag stuff on there, so don't feel obligated for follow or interact with it. if you have any pressing questions, concerns, or notices for me, please consider sending them there! in the future, i may link it in my description, but i worry it'll look too clogged with the disclaimer already there.

thank you for reading to the end! i'm not sure how to wrap this up. i like my wii u.

[project-sekai-facts]

It's Q&A Sunday with your host R.Q anon! This weeks question is...

What was the reason you originally got into the game? Also was there anything that made you get so into the lore?

That's all for this week! See you next week for another Q&A Friday

To cut it short because there was genuinely a whole year of me almost getting into sekai and then Not, it was because of the fucking sonic costume. I saw the game was getting an EN version but was debating getting it because I didn’t like vocaloid at the time, but I saw a promo saying they’d give out a free sonic costume for X amount of preregistrations or whatever and I was super hyperfixated on sonic at the time so I did my part. It actually took me a while to get into the game but I’ve been deep in prsk hell for almost exactly 2 years now.

As for why I got into lore, it kinda was a natural thing for me? I’ve always been into that sort of thing, even as a kid some of my main interests included DC, Star Wars (sorry for having the interests of a middle aged cishet dude) and Winx Club, all of which are kinda heavy on the lore side to varying degrees. I think going directly from Sonic -> prsk kinda helped as well. Like Sonic is lore heavy as is but I was super into that sort of thing and used to lorepost on my sideblog for fun lmao (also where my character analysis hobby originated. Ig you can blame hedgehogs for why I’m like this then lol). Like the concept of the sekai immediately caught my eye, I thought that was really cool compared to the other idol games I played, even if it took me fucking ages to read past the main story.

#asks #mod talks

[spitdrunken]

currently i'm really busy with writing for my thesis, which unfortunately leaves me with little creative juice... ive been engaging with other people's creations a lot more rather than writing for myself, but have some assorted thoughts on things ive enjoyed recently below, for anyone who is interested. feel free to send me asks about anything that's mentioned, but because of the above, might take me a bit to get back to u <3!

these aren't really x reader thoughts, just rambling! if you read this, thank u, i am giving you a kiss on your forehead/hug/fistbump/handshake/whatever words of affirmation you have been wanting to hear today. pick your favorite!

(Pokephilia mention) Pokémon Legends Z's announcement!! It'll be forever until it's released (which, as a true Pokémon fan, I'm very happy about BAHAHAH), but I'm so excited! Very curious how they are planning to implement, what seems to be, citybuilder elements... If Emmet shows up in this game, I'm going to be super delighted, but I honestly doubt it. Either way, it's made me think a bit more about the twins, and Poképhilia stuff in general as well! It's such a shame/pain the main tag is blocked... one day I will start and stick to my intention to write, like, porn about all the Pokémon, haha. A dream...

(cannibalism(????) monster eating??? mention. consensual!) Dungeon Meshi really was as much fun as everyone mentioned! Don't really see myself writing fic about it, except for a very specific idea I had... I like the thought of Laois 'obsessed with eating monsters' Touden got to meet a monster (AKA Reader) who is equally obsessed with the idea of being eaten!! Maybe a mermaid, or something like that? It's his one chance to eat a humanoid monster! Though the others probably won't believe him when they tell him that it was 100% consensual, and are judging him harshly LMAO

Welcome Home updated! Very happy about this. Though I don't connect them publically, I actually have written quite a bit of WH fic and my sfw sideblog for it used to have more followers than this one LMAOO. Maybe one day I'll write NSFW works for it, but I dunno if there's interest... Plus, I very much fall underneath people the creator would consider 'unwelcome' in their squeaky-clean fandom or whatever, but they have like a quarter million followers now, lol. Anyway, Wally is, as has been said many times before, the Most! He draws me in <3

And also, poor Eddie, lmao. It's very interesting to me, with the inclusion of the Narrator, that the characters seem to be forced to steer in a specific direction, if that makes sense? To upkeep a certain mask. I wonder if 'as above, so below' is a reference to that, in the sense that whatever is dictated by the stronger forces of narrative, is what shall occur 'below'-- In their world. Like, the animosity some of these puppets have for each other!!!!! Some of them are just straight up Not Friends, lmao.

I need to play more of it, but if anyone is reading this, go play I Was A Teenage Exocolonist. I expected it to be waaaay more popular, especially on Tumblr, but it's so underrated? The writing is wonderful, the characters are well-defined, and the art is breathtaking! Please take a look at the trigger warnings, cuz there are a few that are definitely applicable, but it's soooo good... If it has to be said, I romanced Dys first, lmao.

I am watching The Apothecary Diaries right now, just started today, and can I jsut say... I'm such a fan of all the women in this show!! I love the perspective it gives on court life a lot! Maomao definitely is pulling in all the men AND women, huh.... i appreciate that. Jinshi also 100% wants to get degraded by her, huh. Maomao is the sexywoman of this show.

#nw #insight into my brain...

[longbobmckenzie]

Love is Blind - Episodes 1-4

Feels like I should just start sideblogs now that I'm branching into so many fandoms, but oh well they're all the same genre with overlapping fandoms so you get to deal with it.

Initial thoughts...

It goes too fast. Way too fast. I get that a lot of the show is based on the wedding planning stuff, etc, but we get 1-2 dates with these guys and have to choose based on those?? In some cases you're getting proposed to on your first date?!?!

I would've preferred the dates portion get spread out over a longer period. It'd be nice to get to know the other women a bit better, have more time to spend with them, have more rivalries and love triangles. Just flesh it out a little more

At first I thought I was gonna just play this once and that was it, but... well... I have 3 profiles already for THTH so I used them all and have 3 ongoing routes

Part of that was because the people I was chatting with when I first started playing met different people, so of course we had to figure out the variations and meet everyone! But I also liked more guys than I expected

Nico's my first and main love, I'm apparently a sucker for an accent and he's got the right mix for me. Sexy, dangerous, but he's looking to settle down. Perfect!

I had the mystery man glitch at first so I didn't get the mystery man dialogue with Nico but it's the same for everyone

In that sense it's a little disappointing that the sleepover date and mystery man stuff is shared dialogue/gifts but whatever - I give them a little leeway because it's the first season

I'm with Blaze on another route but also want Zayid - however I did a route where I didn't accept any proposals and got dumped, but a week later got a call from Sofia, who said I'm going to Mexico. So I get another chance and can't wait to steal Zayid from Autumn!

Overall, at first I was kinda meh on it but it grew on me. I think it's a tough show to translate to a game so for that reason I understand why they rushed through the first few episodes, but in future I would like to see a bit more of the pods (especially since that's what gets heavily promoted for the show) and get to know the characters better before accepting proposals.

#lib #love is blind #lib game #love is blind the game #netflix love is blind #longbob has thoughts

[havenotwillnotreadthebooks]

10 first lines

Alright, I wasn’t tagged at all for this but hey, open tag courtesy of @aroace-moron so might as well do something fun, eh?

All of these are from my silm fics.

Rules: Put the first sentence from whatever fic you want in the post. Can also be the first two, or three, if you'd like. Link the fic. It doesn't have to be 10 first lines, it's just a pretty number. You can do 11 too. That's an even prettier number.

What matters is ‘you’ and not the state of you: Maglor doesn’t know what he is raising.

The world may be your canvas, but you paint on it beware: Elwing raises an eyebrow, face ice-like. “For what reason has a royal of the Noldar come to my doorstep?”

Staccato: Dior was no fool.

The trees have reclaimed the land in which hell had been brought: Chapter 6: Twins - Elwing & Elu+El Twins: It started as whispers along the whistling wind.

Full disclosure, i am a monster: It’s his father again.

And when we’re in the dark, it echoes in your heart: Maedhros wakes up gasping.

I keep my enemies closer than the mirror ever gets to me: “Should we’s be in ‘ere?” Elrond whispered to his twin.

I take scraps from dinner as little parts of love: Nolofinwë couldn’t believe his brother.

My love reigns in suffering: Luthien was sitting in a pasture of swaying flowers, shielded from view by the tall grass she was enshrouded in.

Eldritch Silm Outtakes: Chapter 2: Get In The Water: They say he stole the sea from Ossë.

Tagging: @crystalcatgamer @foolofatook001 @melestasflight (it be me Kefi on a sideblog, for those of u that are main blog mutuals 🧊🪶)

#silmarillion #tolkien #ask game #silm fic recs #kidnap fam #maglor #maedhros #elros tar minyatur #elrond #elwing #nerdanel #dior #nimloth #elured and elurin #celebrimbor #silvergifting #fingolfin #Nolofinwë #luthien #eldritch peredhel #I don’t have any silm mutuals that tag me in ask game stuff so we be inviting ourselves to open tags now #done waiting wanna have fun #tag.words

[stars-n-zeds]

Hiii I really enjoy your tugs ocs, and I was wondering if you had any other fun facts or doodles of them.

@6lovelytenders (because the fact you can't send asks from a sideblog infuriates me)

aahhh thank you sm for liking them!! they’re very much my beloveds [also yes it is very aggravating you can’t send asks from sideblogs but that’s another time]

this is my actually decent first attempt at a half-body design for mockingbird! and if you're wondering yes that is boo perched on her

Mockingbird is GREAT at mimicking bird calls [obviously like her namesake] and it’s a little quirk she picked up from living upriver since there were so many more birds at her old port.

She also has very extensive albeit pretty useless knowledge about all sorts of animals, whether they be land, air, or water.

Mockingbird is biromantic! She likes guys and gals.

She’s taught Boo a few basic words like hello, friend, bye, and trouble. He’s been trained to come back repeating “Trouble, trouble!” whenever he spots something wrong, like a ship needing help and similar situations.

She's VERY quick to defend Sea Rogue whenever anyone tries to bring up the pirate situation upriver since word of it got there. Hell no is anyone gonna try to accuse her older brother of being an actual damn pirate. [i do want to do a post ab this in the future hehe]

Boo is also very fond of bringing Mockingbird trinkets, making a neat little pile at the top of her dock that is specifically off limits for workers who clean her off every now and them.

Contrary to popular belief, Boo doesn't only hang out with Mockingbird [even though he does a majority of the time] and actually will hang out with Zebedee too, as he's the only one of the Z-Stacks that doesn't flip out when he lands on them [besides zos of course, she doesn't really care].

Boo also has a weird feud with Top Hat since the railway tug really doesn't like birds, but he knows better than to make a snide remark about the crow whenever Mockingbird's around otherwise he'll definitely get an earful. [or whatever the tug equivalent of ears are]

In more general headcanons, here's what I imagine both Mockingbird and Zosteria's voices to sound like!

Mockingbird-

Zosteria -

[very VERY different from each other but they fit both characters pretty well]

While Zosteria does look pretty intimidating and it can be a little difficult getting close to her since she's so tough-shelled, once she lets her walls down a bit she's a great listener and gives pretty good advice.

She definitely has a soft spot for younger tugs and tries to look out for their well-being, even from afar.

One rule of thumb that you should always remember when you're around Zos is to never try to wake her up after a long day unless it's absolutely necessary. Because you'll have a considerately grouchier and angrier Zosteria on your hands, which is is not a very fun time.

Although she'll never admit it aloud, Zosteria has a big soft spot for dogs. She's the one that pushed [well, more so forced] Captain Zero into giving food scraps to the small packs of stray dogs that live around and in Bigg City Port, and she secretly hopes one of them will imprint on her hard-shelled captain one day. One day!

She has a very sarcastic and dry sense of humor which is very true to the current situation of the 1920s/1930s.

Zos doesn't really tell the story of her scar that often because it's source is actually pretty stupid, and she finds it funny listening to boats come up with some WILD ways she got it.

Zosteria is very AroAce. No romantic or sexual relationships for her, the only ones important to her are platonic ones.

Though it might not seem like it from first glance, Zosteria has many, many stories she's willing to tell to those who want to listen.

I didn't mention this on Zos's main bio but she also considers Lillie as a decently close friend. Zosteria and Hercules are the main ships Lillie sees from her point at Dem Der Rocks, and it's always nice to just meet up there and talk whenever they want a little bit more time away from their fleets. [although Zosteria is always quick to skedaddle whenever Lillie and Hercules want to be alone with each other]

Something else I also forgot to mention is that Zosteria and Zip are supposed to be a reflection of Hercules and Ten Cents, mostly because I love the younger switcher sibling looking up to their older ocean tug sibling VERY much.

i'll probably make more as i develop them [and hopefully others!] more, but that's all i got for now :)

#tugs ocs #tugs oc #tugs fanart #this is tugs #bigg city port #z stacks #star fleet

[teecupangel]

Hello! I love your fics and was wondering if you had any advice for someone who has never really written anything before but would like to start?

Like with yours, do you have the whole story planned out beforehand or just the some plot points and wing the rest?

Also, when making your mutli-chapter ones, how many chapters do you find yourself writing in one go?

Hello! I’m glad you loved my fics!

Oh, hhhmmm. I mean, I guess the best advice I got since I started writing is to write what you want to write and read. Write with the idea that your main audience, the one you’re trying to make happy, is yourself.

As for more concrete advices, I have a habit of forgetting specific words and OneLook really helps. I also reblog any posts I think that might become a reference in a specific sideblog so they would be easier to find. So if there’s any reference you think you’d use a lot or might use, you can either save it somewhere you can access easily or, if it’s in Tumblr, create a sideblog for them.

As for planning the whole story, especially a multichaptered one…

Well…

What I first do is make notes of what I want to include in the fic. The notes can be detailed or just a simple list, the main point of the notes is to give you an idea of the flow of the story. It’s not meant to be a beat by beat of what you’re going to write. Just… a guideline that you can edit at any time.

After that, I usually research whatever I believe would become part of the timeline, especially for fics set in historical setting like AC. For example, in Eagle of Alamut, I primarily research how Alamut would look like (taking inspiration from both AC Mirage’s released promotional photos and Prince of Persia the movie’s Alamut design) and noted important dates leading to the Third Crusades. For Ouverture, I researched where in Paris I could throw Desmond in (and that’s how I learned of Mozart being in Paris and able to incorporate him in the story).

Also, I made this timeline to make it easier for me to look back at everyone’s ages and any important AC related events.

I usually make this very barebone like this one for The Price of Power

Of course, you don’t have to research everything immediately. Most of the time, I only do light research of the timeline and focus more on researching what would be necessary for the first chapters. For example, I knew shit was going to go down in 1187 which included a battle that leads to Saladin taking Jerusalem. Did I specifically know the important names, dates and locations? Nope. It was written in my notes as “1197 Siege of Jerusalem”. I only researched about it when I was writing Chapter 32.

The main reason why I do this is because… I cannot stress how much my writing deviates from the original plot. If you read the og plot for Eagle of Alamut, Desmond and Altaïr were never meant to meet until the start of AC1 and they were meant to have a more… rivals vibe to them but if you read Eagle of Alamut, you know that went sideways already.

… or maybe I plan to ‘correct the timeline’ later on, who knows. (I know. I already have it planned, mwuhahaha)

So it’s honestly better in my opinion to not plan too much. Take note of the key plot points but think of those as a helping guide, not a strict point by point milestone.

Like… spoilers for Ouverture, a key plot point was Desmond taking Arno away from Paris and going to the homestead. That was a key plot point that will forever be part of the story. Did I plan for Desmond to develop a sorta father/son bond with Bellec? Nope. That just happened while I was writing. And it was because of that deviation that the conflict with the council became part of the fic.

So yeah, in a nutshell, I plan some plot points and wing the rest. Most of the time, I usually wing it when the writing goes in a direction that ends with me going “Oh, we’re doing this? Alright.”

For your last question, well… I have a strict schedule I adhere to because not having it makes it hard for me to get anything done. I usually spend 3~4 hours per day writing depending on if I have any urgent work that needed to be done that day and have to OT. During that time, I get approximately 700~1000 words written per hour and my chapter lengths vary in terms of… how I feel.

Like, for Eagle of Alamut and Zero Eclipse, the chapter length varies because I deem a chapter complete only if I feel like it’s a good stopping point (and yeah, sometimes that does mean cliffhangers, sorry).

But for something like Beloved Moon or fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum, the chapter ends when the ‘theme’ is reached. For example, Beloved Moon’s chapters usually ends with someone saying the moon is beautiful or any of its variation while fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum’s chapters always ends after the ‘night’ is concluded. There's also The Shadow’s Endgame that I mostly try to end in a way that makes it feel like each chapter is a CoD campaign mission. And then there's Möbius that almost always ends with Desmond fainting XD

So yeah, if you’re asking how many chapters I write in one go in a day? It’s either 0 or 1 XD

#ask and answer #writing tips #i guess?

[sinestrosmind]

Hey hi I'm Tony, I'm 23, and welcome to my art blog!! This is a sideblog to @sinestroslight, though I don't really use my main blog as much as my art blog lmao

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