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self-portrait as my joke self-insert guido salami-wielding nonna's little twink Durge character, Lorenzaccio

#next day timezone/bump/shameless self reblog #knocking out teeth with spicy salami uwu

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self-portrait as my joke self-insert guido salami-wielding nonna's little twink Durge character, Lorenzaccio

#portrait study #baldur's gate 3 #they dual-wield salami #this was not supposed to be a serious playthrough but now it is #my spirit guardian is my literal nonna #baldurs gate fanart #bg3 durge #tav

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thank you so much for your answer and for allowing me to print your fics! after deliberating it, i want to work with both in your likeness and narrow porcelain plinth of flesh. i'm a bit nervous because it's my first time making proper covers and back covers (i've just been working with plain book cloth for a while), but i hope it comes out all right!! and sure, i'll make sure to send you the final results! thank you again and have a nice day. :)

if you can hold off a little, I can do a quick review of both those pieces before the end of the month :) I'm sure it'll come out well! good luck, and thanks for letting me know.

#ask #writing #elden ring #I haven't glanced at either of those pieces in a minute so they probably could use fresh eyes just in case #best of luck anon #bookbinding looks complex but very snazzy

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happy not-wip-wednesday to one of my longest-suffering OCs

#elden ring #tarnished #tarnished oc #wip #he has been some variant of overburdened in every character-creation game i've played since 2010

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hello!! i wanted to ask if it's okay to print out your fanfics for personal use? my boyfriend is a HUGE fan of your works (reasonably so, i've read some of your fanfics too and i must say that you're one of the best fanfic writers i've come across on ao3) and since his birthday is coming up in june i wanted to do a little bookbinding project with one of your fanfics, if it's okay with you!!

Sure! If it’s a proper fancy binding, I’d love to see the result.

[Also if you tell me which one it is, I can do a quick reread to make sure there are no lingering typos/errors, which I still find in my work from time to time :’)]

#ask #writing #thank you for asking anon #anyone can print to read my stuff but I’d love to see the bound result #I’d like to fancy-bind them for myself whenever I decide to stop going in and nitpicking little things from time to time

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bad decisions baby

#film still study that I turned into #laurence the first vicar #but bebe #my version of him is always rotating in my mind #he might as well be an oc to a degree #rotisserie burning deer babygrill #bloodborne

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#next day timezone/bump #self-indulgent reblog

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#bloodborne #laurence the first vicar #ludwig the holy blade #been a minute since I did any #holyvicar #ludwig has the patience of a saint #for this overdramatic little tyrant #and his strategic swooning backbend

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not wednesday but here's a wip uwu

#wip #bloodborne #laurence the first vicar #wip wednesday #but not #last week was a blur tbh

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taking a """"break"""" from creative writing to finish some other projects, so here's a year-old reblog. happy anniversary to this meet cute gone sideways.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Bloodborne (Video Game) Characters: Gehrman (Bloodborne), Laurence (Bloodborne) Additional Tags: their Byrgenwerth-era misspent youth, speculative worldbuilding, First Meetings, Gehrman’s thankless job babysitting a self-important dandy, only a little slashy if you squint Summary:

Admittedly, Gehrman would not have thought to watch for scholars voluntarily skulking off to certain death. Is there a word, he wonders, for audacity so blinding it’s deadly?

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Wrote another little Byrgenwerth-era oneshot to take a break from working on a longer, larger Healing Church piece. If you’ve read parts of my Bloodborne work, they all follow the same timeline, including this.

@bornetoblood kindly let me take a headcanon and run with it, broadly, as a prompt: They first meet when Laurence gets himself lost in the labyrinths. Gehrman is the one sent to retrieve him.  

#a year later and gehrman's ineffable sad wet dog energy is still for you tinygigas

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I am so glad they’ve stopped trying to kill each other in the time trials.

thank you @tinygigas I love them <3

@subzeroparade requested something from Pikmin... not quite critters from the bestiary, but they are critters nonetheless :>

#other people’s art #pikmin #oatchi #moss is old and tired and over it and I love her for it #doing the lord's work here tinygigas #fwiw I love the dappled lighting

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#next day timezone/bump #self-indulgent reblog

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#bloodborne #lady maria of the astral clocktower #I want her to sling me over her back and disappear into the woods with me #bloodborne fanart

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Litanies, the """""last thing I'll write for Bloodborne""""" (I may have once said), is a year old. Happy anniversary dead cetacean on a beach that may or may not be a god •ᴗ•

Chapters: 7/7 Fandom: Bloodborne  Rating: M for typical Bloodborne yucky bits  Characters: Gehrman, Maria, Laurence, Micolash, Ludwig, Caryll, Rom, Willem, Byrgenwerth-era and DLC focus

I don’t really understand what I saw. Something dead, or so it seemed. I watched the scholars open it. Dismantle it. I saw them elbows-deep in it. And I think, truth be told, that I should not have witnessed what I did.

The Fishing Hamlet: six accounts, four survivors, and the language of disbelief.

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This sprang fully-formed from my brain after re-reading Joyce Carol Oates’ outrageously excellent Poe Posthumous; or, The Light-House (which has sat, squirming, at the back of my brain for the better part of a decade) and shares some thematic kinship with Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth, the direct inspiration for the DLC’s Fishing Hamlet. This is written with both these works in mind, a vaguely mystery-box narrative approach, and an immense amount of delight. 

edit: I forgot to mention that if you are particularly bitter about academia, then this work is definitely for you. 

#anniversary self reblog #or something #still one of my favourites #the latent horror of academia #the grad students who broke the world #bloodborne fanfiction #writing #bloodborne

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I imagine, when they both still worked at Byrgenwerth, they'd drink in sullen silence after a chalice dungeon dive went badly.

#maybe not entirely silence #laurence would run his mouth eventually #cause a scene with other patrons that gehrman would have to settle #get them both thrown out of the pub #the most respectable tomb prospecting duo at byrgenwerth #bloodborne #laurence the first vicar #gehrman the first hunter

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Vanitas has me in a chokehold. I am OBSSESSED!!!!! What do you suppose Godwyn's relationship was with his father and mother? I am desperate for headcanons 🥺 It's so interesting because, after the revelation of Messmer potentially being the unwanted child, I wonder what it's like being the queen's favorite, Marika's most beloved child, the demigod everyone in the lands truly loved (aside from Miquella, of course), like holy shit.

Thank you!  If you’ve read Vanitas, then I think you have them all lol. Almost all the headcanons I think are worth sharing tend to make it into my writing. 

Since Vanitas includes flashbacks to Godwyn’s youth, his relationship with his parents varies as he ages. But most of the fic deals with Godwyn coming into his “prime”, or almost - though not as self-assured as he is in Narrow Porcelain Plinth of Flesh - so there’s a period of realisation/maturation he goes through based largely on 1) the recognition of one’s parents’ mortality/fragility (in the case of Godfrey) and 2) separation from and rejection of the ideals/values/notions imposed by parents (in the case of Marika) and being willing to, quite literally, disappoint a parent, and their idea of a legacy, to become fully oneself. Making peace with the dragons is the one big, consequential rebellion among all of Godwyn’s more meaningless little ones in the face of the future laid out for him. 

But as a young god I headcanon him as a mama’s boy lmao.

(And in a similar vein to Miquella, I think - who in my writing/headcanon is very close to Godwyn - in the sense that Miquella is driven to do what pleases his father, take up his interests and his mantle, only to later find himself fundamentally let down by it all. I like to imagine the Greater Will’s influence having a sort of depersonalising effect on Marika/Radagon - stripping them of their more recognisably human qualities - and even in that utmost expression of godhood, both Godwyn and Miquella looked at their respective mother/father/god, and decided they didn’t want that to be their legacy.)

To your point about Messmer - I am inclined to try and piece things together with the DLC only while playing it, so I haven’t really speculated or given much thought to Messmer’s place in the whole thing - but I am excited to see how that adds another layer of complexity to the melodrama of this fucked up family •ᴗ•

Ty for the ask! Here’s a (WIP stage) panel from an age-old unfinished thing of Godwyn’s tomb effigy. 

#ask #writing #elden ring #godwyn the golden #I am compelled by this idea of godwyn both wanting to carve his own path and not be the golden child (at least in the beginning) #but also refusing to rock the boat or change anything about what displeases him in mother's rule #vanitas is also about that: fortissax convincing godwyn to try ruling as himself #and not in the shadow of his parents' respective legacies #he has long come of age and now he's gotta make dinner himself

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I realised this week that my first Bloodborne fic, petal-veined devourer, is over a year old. Happy year (+++) of putting brainrot to paper (and sorry to those I dragged into the hole with me) •ᴗ•

Before Ludwig can react, the vicar reaches out and lays a gloved hand on his forearm, with the sort of familiar affect one might use for a close acquaintance. When he speaks again his voice has changed, and he adopts the register of an adult who must cultivate a sweet tone with an irascible child. "And I think, perhaps, it eats at you. How simple it is to fashion a gilded cage instead of a throne from which you can rise at any time. Easier, though, to claim that you’re trapped. To sink a little deeper; to nestle into the soft embrace of every useless vice men inevitably succumb to.” He glances past Ludwig to the sitting room, as if to demonstrate his point. Ludwig notices for the first time the small upturn of his nose. There’s something maddeningly insolent about it.  “Carve whatever path you choose,” the vicar finishes, drawing his hand away, “but consider doing it through the Church. Come out of this self-imposed exile on your own terms. You are not your kin, nor your ancestors. You need not die here, or live leashed to the Crown.” “But leashed to you, instead?”  “Are you a dog, Chevalier?” Gentle derision bubbles up from the vicar’s voice, the edge of laughter. “Then I shouldn’t need to leash you.”

#next day/timezone/I love them your honour bump