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cheer-soli-art · 1 year

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It was a good year for art

Commentary for each artwork under the cut :D

February - biblically accurate bam - This was back when the jokes of ‘biblically accurate (insert noun here)’ had really hit mainstream, or maybe I just finally got inspiration to do something about this topic. Since Bam is the night, I added the usual night symbols of moons and stars. The waves at the bottom represent how the tides change with the cycle of the moon, and it ties in well with the idea of Bam being a ‘new wave’ in the Tower.

March - double city - An artwork that I haven’t released anywhere on the internet until today, as it was part of a school exhibition. The idea behind it was taking the place I grew up in and the city I lived in at the time and merging them into one location, representing how I am influenced by both cultures.

April - Marpril Colors Series - 17 Azure - This was a series of sketches I did over March and April, as a countdown for my return from Tower’s Tale (TT) hiatus. During these months, I was busy with school stuff and working on TT, so I didn’t have much time or desire to make other artworks.

May - Part 1_Page 201 - I started working on this TT page in December of the previous year, as the scene this page is a part of was important for me (oh, and the plot too). I was still practicing a new style, and though I don’t like it as much now, I still think it was worth the experimentation.

June - yanfei.jpg - This one was part of a Six Fanart Challenge that I never finished. Whoops. Anyways, I drew her because she’s the character that I’ve played with the most. I’m really proud of how I was able to capture most of the details, especially that staff, haha.

July - KBWday5.PNG - Ah, yes. The KhunBam month, where I spend 3 weeks thinking about what to post only for me to procrastinate on it until KhunBam Week arrives. I like this artwork because it’s where I finally started using references (lol), as well as understanding more organic backgrounds.

August - glitterandgold_01 - One of the two artworks I made for a WIP Big Bang. This is also the first artwork of the entire year that I finished on my laptop instead of my phone, as I had lost my stylus and only bought a new one around this time. I like that I was able to carry the dramatic mood from the sketch to the final version.

September - Part 1_Page 237 - There wasn’t a lot of artwork activity this month, apart from TT, so here is another page I’m really proud of. I wanted to communicate the overwhelming difference in power between the characters, so the pages before have a lot of open paneling and negative space that progressively build up to this one, which covers nearly the entire background in green. The frame around Goseng and Bam is actually the same proportions as the usual page border, but shrunken, to make it look like the fire was spreading beyond the edges of the page, to really emphasize the probable helplessness Bam is feeling in the situation… Sometimes, a lot of thought goes into these pages.

October - kitsune khun - This is a drawing I made for a raffle winner on Twitter. I included it here because this and the other artworks I made that week felt like they ‘clicked’. They were the ones that all the process from previous artworks were leading up to - finally I had an artwork that I was very satisfied with, where the process was fun and the final result was pretty to look at too. I’m a huge fan of using complementary colors, especially orange lighting and blue shadows..

November - Snow Study (gasp) - I don’t do studies as often as I should, so this one came as a surprise. I save a lot of images from Bing’s daily wallpaper, and since the cold weather was coming, I painted this chilly town with one as a reference. I also wanted to update my blog so it matched my current style, so this was drawn for that reason too.

December - ‘Polaroid’ mini series - “with hyung.png” - This is one of four artworks I made in a ‘polaroid photo’ style. I really like that aesthetic. There is something very nostalgic and deep about it - capturing a moment you deem important. Taking the context of polaroids and film into account, you don’t have the luxury to take various copies of a moment and pick the right one afterwards like we do nowadays, so ideally you’d want everything to be perfectly in place and extremely important before you press the shutter. And yet, in these ‘photos’, the moments captured are not of grandiose events or life-changing moments, but of casual, daily life. I wanted to appreciate the ordinary in this small series. Maybe I’ll revisit it next year.

Bonus round

There were a few artworks that didn’t make the cut, but I still wanted to talk about them. So here they are.

“A summoning ritual (that worked a little too well)” - This is where I started the habit of drawing genshin characters when I wanted them on my team. Though this one is a little rough around the edges, I still like the colors and texture of the artwork.

“met gala hwar” - I was watching a video talking about how the Gilded Gala was a disaster (unsurprisingly), and one of the looks that went by (as examples of what worked) caught my eye. So I drew Hwaryun in it.

“Part 1_Page 216.PNG” - I have a very consistent system for numbering pages - just thought you might wanna know. I didn’t count this one in the final cut because some of the panels here were from pages drawn last year, so I felt that I was cheating a bit. There is a lot of thought behind this particular panel, but I will discuss that one when I release the full cleaned-up version sometime in the next few months.

“a precious jewel” - This artwork means a lot to me. Though it was rather quick (done under an hour, curse my comic panel habits), a lot of ‘feeling’ went into it. I think that out of all of the artworks, this is the one where I’m pouring what I’m actually feeling at the moment - I can’t quite put it into words here (as it is a little awkward, and I’m afraid of things getting lost in translation too), but I’ll try. I think that for that hour, I understood where Khun was getting at with the jewel metaphor, but rather than wanting to hide someone away, it was more of wanting to keep those feelings close to my heart… that kind of thing.

“Bleak December_07” - My entry for Secret Santa this year. Just thought I’d include it. I signed up to an email address sending Edgar Allen Poe’s works, and was floored by The Raven, so the title and tone of this short comic reflect that too.

“fall for you, fall for me” - i like khunbam. and i like autumn, now. i like coloring khun’s hair, ‘cuz its color can look so different under different lightings. it’s a simple and easygoing artwork. i like simple and easygoing things sometimes too.

#art summary 2022 #art summary #artists on tumblr #my art #digital art #I’ve had to draft this three times thanks tumblr

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earlgreymon · 2 years

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hot summer night

🍶 miyako + iori // [day 6] exam (challenge) - for @digiweek 2022 for this day, i'm trying to write about that one dynamic (and perhaps two characters) i rarely wrote about. this fic was tricky to write and i even finished this the last one among all the digiweek contents i created. but that's what this day is about, right? and frankly i'm happy with the result! this fic was inspired by this fanart. the first time i saw it, i knew i had to write about iori accompanying drunk miyako someday. this fic sets before kizuna and before miyako left for spain. idk why i remembered miyako having an exchange program instead of being a full-time student in barcelona. let's just assume it that way in this case, and sorry if i was wrong. at least i correctly implied miyako as a gemini (this is canon fyi). also, no, this is not a romance fic between those two, even though it has hot in the title (sorry i'm on title block so i only snatched one of the script's song titles). there's a minor kenyako, though. happy reading!

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Iori found Miyako in front of his cram school that night in June, looking very standout with her purple strands and cherry-tinted lips. It was easy to be in the limelight when you wore makeup and shirts with striking colours among students with crumpled uniforms and weary faces after studying for the whole day.

“Iori-kuuun!”

Her high-pitched voice didn’t sound like a mature college woman, however.

Iori sighed, getting a second-hand embarrassment because everyone’s attention diverted to him after she echoed his name. He proceeded to walk out and approached her, asking the obvious, “Miyako-san, what are you doing here?”

“Meanie. Is that something appropriate to greet to your senpai?” Miyako pouted for a second before returning to her jolly mood. “I happen to be around so I figure I can ask you to accompany me for a dinner.”

He glanced at her feet and atop of her head, only to find something was missing. “Where is Hawkmon?”

“Oh, I told Hawkmon to fly to your house with some food from my konbini. Armadimon is home, ne?” she responded. “Come on, Iori-kun. It’s been a long time since we had fun just the two of us. Isn’t this a perfect time now that I’m going to leave next week and the others are too busy with their freshmen stuff?”

It was not a bad idea at all. He initially planned to grab a takeaway because his mother and grandfather were out of town, but now with Armadimon’s dinner settled, he didn’t have to worry about his partner starving alone.

He just didn’t know that Miyako also had her own plan of ordering a bottle of sake right when they just stepped inside the yatai tent.

Iori took a seat beside her, eyeing her ever so cautiously. He remembered the day Miyako turned twenty last May, and she decided to celebrate it by secretly grabbing a can of beer from her store. She posted its photo in their group chat, prompting joyous reactions from Mimi and Taichi, in addition to a jealous wail from Daisuke. Miyako then seemed to embark on her personal adulthood venture, trying different types of liquor ever since.

“…you do understand that I am still a minor, don’t you?” he said as he watched her pouring the sake into a cup.

“And why do you think that will stop me? It’s not like I’m asking you to drink along.”

“Just because I’m younger than you, that doesn’t mean I cannot tell you off.”

“Well, can you?”

He could, for real. He just chose not to.

Miyako then chuckled. “Don’t worry. It’s because you’re with me that I have to drink more responsibly. What will people say if they see a high schooler carrying a drunk woman home?” She took her first shot and whooped right after her cup was empty. “Ahh, this is sooo good! You’re going to love this once you turn legal.”

“To be honest, I cannot see myself drinking even when I reach the right age.”

“Aw, what a shame. I look forward to coming back here and sharing sake with you.”

He pondered, sipping his ice tea. “Well, perhaps I can make an exception for you.”

“Right? I don’t think lawyers can survive without attending nomikai,” Miyako instigated as she snatched the first fresh-grilled yakitori from their plate. “Speaking of which, is that what you really want to aim for? Go to law school and become an attorney?”

“That’s the plan for now,” Iori also grabbed a negima but did not bite into it before he finished with his answer. “I know it’s hard to enter a law school, so that’s why I sign up for cram school as early as possible.”

“Yeah, but I just—” Miyako sighed. “I don’t want you to keep studying and let your youth pass without having fun. You’re only in high school once, so do something crazy. Skip a class, have some dates, go on a summer vacation with your friends….”

Iori paused, looking at his faint reflection on the glass.

“I am having fun,” he continued. “I have a great time battling monsters and saving the world. It makes me realise that I want to fight for the right thing and help people to get out of iniquity. And I believe becoming a lawyer is a good way to accomplish that.”

He was aware of how idealistic he sounded just then. If he was with other people, they would certainly be laughing at his words, telling him that the world was too cruel of a place for justice to prevail and he should just stick to a dream that was more within his proximity.

But he wasn’t with other people right now. He was with Miyako, who cracked a smile while looking at him with proud glimmering behind her spectacles.

“That’s just really you,” she said. “I know you’re a good kid the moment I laid my eyes on you. And I hope you know that I’m always rooting for you, no matter what. After all, I’m the big sis who just loves my reliable Iori-kun a bit too much!”

And that was when Iori couldn’t help but giggle. He was used to people calling him mature even when he was a little boy, but once he wore the high school uniform and felt a lump growing in his throat, it was still surreal for him how he really reached the age of adolescence. That was why he was glad to have Miyako around because she was a constant reminder of how he would still be someone’s little brother.

Her phone suddenly vibrated above the table, and as she picked up to see what was on the screen, Iori noticed her face getting a bit red. Somehow, he reckoned it wasn’t because of the sake, yet he didn’t want to pry further so he chose another topic. “How’s your departure preparation?”

“No hay problema! I’m leaving on Wednesday’s noon, though, so I guess you can’t set me off to the airport.”

“Ne, sorry for that.” It was rather unfortunate for him that Miyako chose to fly to Barcelona instead of using the Digital Gate for the sake of enjoying that wanderlust feeling. Iori started to consider whether this would be the right time to skip a class just like she advised just now. “Is there anything I can help with?”

“Hmm. Just promise me to pick up when I video-call you,” she said before quickly adding, “oh, oh, I know! You can visit me during your summer break. Ask Ken and the others to join too!”

Just like that, he easily solved the puzzle. “Ichijouji-san?”

“Ah, yes! He’s helping me learn Spanish even though he’s busy with college,” Miyako responded, and Iori could hear her voice turn jovial at once. “He even texted me just now to check my progress. I think I should go meet him tomorrow.”

There was something stirring inside him that he tried to brush off by picking up another skewer. However, it was obvious he didn’t sound so thrilled when he blurted out, “Oh.”

And Miyako caught his reaction with pleasure. “I thought you no longer hate him.”

“I don’t hate him.”

“Are you jealous, then?”

“No.”

But boy, did he never stray too far from the truth.

After all, he was a little brother who just cared about his big sis a bit too much.

#digimon #digiweek2022 #by me #fic #ioyako #is that the name of this dynamic??#or is it miyaori??#iori hida #miyako inoue #constructive criticism is welcome since this is the first time i'm writing them #also i know that's a beer image not sake lmao #couldn't find a better pic #digimon adventure 02

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athenagc94 · 2 years

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Written in Rose Quartz

Epilogue - Unsuur/Builder Fic - Rose Quartz

Here’s the last chapter of this fic. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed writing it. I’ve got more ideas with different Sandrock characters, so keep an eye out for those in the future. And, of course, fanart of all these characters once I pick the pen back up.

You can also keep up with it on my AO3 here.

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“Okay, but get this.” Heidi settled back in her barstool and crossed her legs. “The busty geegler that saved the hero at the beginning was actually the leader of the bandit gang the whole time and the hero decided to—”

Robbie groaned. “You need to stop taking book recommendations from Ernest.”

Heidi wrinkled her nose. “It’s called good literature, Robs.”

“Is that what we’re calling it?” Pablo muttered under his breath. Robbie snorted as she took a sip of her drink. The sandthorn juice burned her nostrils and she bit back a cough. “No offense, but you wouldn’t know good literature if it bit you in the ass.”

Heidi crossed her arms and huffed. “Those’re some bold words comin’ from two people who don’t even know how to read.”

Pablo rolled his eyes. “I know how to read.”

“The back of shampoo bottles doesn’t count.”

“I, for one,” Robbie announced loudly, drawing a stink eye from Yan who sat all alone at the end of the bar, “have never read a word in my life.” That was a flat out lie. She liked weird books—much weirder than Heidi’s romance novel between a busty geegler and a human, but Heidi’s pinched expression made the declaration worth it.

“Besides, there’s too much excitement in the real world to bother with books.”

“Speaking of excitement,” Heidi leaned forward in her seat. Across the saloon, someone whooped followed by the clink of glasses. It seemed everyone was in high spirits that evening. “It’s finally the big day, isn’t it?”

Robbie toyed with one of her curls. “You’ll have to be more specific.”

“The day your boy toy officially moves in,” Pablo said as he stuffed a berry tart in his mouth, “It’s all you’ve talked about these last few months. Or have you already forgotten how sickeningly in love you are?”

“Oh, I might have to remind myself.” Robbie tapped her chin. “Where should I start? The way Unsuur’s back muscles flexed perfectly as he helped unload the latest water shipment from Atara or the fact that when he was trying to get Banjo out of a tree, he almost got himself stuck instead?”

“I watched it happen,” Heidi attested, “Burgess had to help him down.”

“But Unsuur rescued Banjo in the end,” Robbie said.

Pablo made a noise of disgust. “Of all the men in this town…”

“Of all the men in this town,” Robbie bit off, “Unsuur is one of the finest.” She shoved him playfully. “And you’ll do well to remember that, unless you want to fight me in the town square.”

Pablo threw up his hands, but wisely kept his mouth shut.

“So, when does he move in?” Heidi vibrated in her seat. She loved love and decided to experience it through her.

“After he finishes his patrol this evening.”

Robbie smiled to herself. Though it would hardly make a difference. Unsuur spent most nights with her anyway—claiming something about his duty to ensure her safety while Heidi finished construction on her expansion. Now that it was done, they could make it official. She had a second level with two bedrooms. Her old room could become a storage closet—as it was probably intended to always be.

Her favorite addition had been the balcony at the back of the house. She and Unsuur could sit out there and quietly watch the sunset at the end of a long day—just like they always planned.

Her first purchase at By the Stair was a full bed that looked small in the new bedroom. They would need some more furniture to fill the space. Though Unsuur and his incredibly long legs would thank her for the worthy investment.

“It’s a little empty right now,” she said with a shrug, “but more furniture will have to wait until I’ve rebuilt my savings.”

“Need some help with that?” Pablo grinned fiendishly.

Robbie shook her head. “Absolutely not. No more bets with you. I think I’ve learned my lesson.”

He pouted. “Oh, come on. I think you’ll like this one.”

“He always says that,” Heidi whispered in her ear, ever the sound voice of a reason. Though, she liked to think she’d grown wiser as well. She thanked the lapis lazuli. “Don’t fall for his tricks. He just likes to stir up trouble.”

“Why don’t we let Robbie decide for herself.” His gaze flicked over her shoulder. “One hundred gols says you can’t get that guy who just walked in to kiss you.” He thrust his chin in the direction of the upper landing. Robbie turned to see Unsuur and Justice stepping through the door, shaking sand from their hair and coats. Just seeing him made her smile.

“I’m thinking of the awkward, gangly one, but I guess it’s your choice.”

She slapped the bar top. “I’ll take that bet.”

Pablo snickered. “Of course, you will.”

“Easiest hundred gols I’ve ever made.” She finished off the rest of her drink and slipped out of her seat.

She hurried up the landing and cut the guys off before they reached the bar. She whistled softly, “Well, aren’t you gentlemen a sight for sore eyes. I do love seeing a man in uniform at the end of a long day.”

Justice snorted. “Evenin’ to you too, Robs.” He brushed past them to join the others at the bar. He took the open seat next to Heidi and she ducked her head sheepishly to hide her blush when he greeted her. Robbie arched an eyebrow. Curious. That reaction alone would warrant her attention sometime soon but, right now, she had a bet to win.

A gentle smile curved Unsuur’s lips. “I thought you’d still be working at the shop? Did you finish up early?”

“Arvio brought the bed this morning and it didn’t take that long to set up. I figured I’d come meet you up here when you finished your shift. You always have dinner here on Fridays.” She wrapped her arms around his waist and pulled him in. His brows rose ever so slightly—a question in his eyes. “But quick, I need you to kiss me.”

He glanced sheepishly at the other patrons. “What? Why? We’re in public.”

For someone so daring behind closed doors, he still got adorably flustered when she showed any affection in a public space. “Pablo bet me a hundred gols that I couldn’t get you to kiss me and I gladly took that bet.”

The corner of his mouth twitched. “Well, now I know I shouldn’t.” Even as he said it, his hands settled on her hips. She smoothed the fabric on the front of his Civil Corps jacket, feeling the muscles hidden under the layers of fabric. A purr rumbled deep in his chest. “How else are you going to learn your lesson? Taking bets from Pablo gets you into trouble.” He couldn’t even keep a straight face as he said it.

“This seemed like an easy hundred gols. I know you’ve had your eye on that stone table and chair set at Arvio’s—the granite one.” She bumped noses with him and he nearly melted into a puddle at her feet. He loved gentle touches and she was more than happy to shower him with them. “Every little bit helps.”

He shrugged. “It would look great on our balcony.”

“So, then, what do you say?” She leaned in a little closer. “It’s just one kiss.”

“With you,” his fingers dug into her hips, “It’s never just one.”

She stuck out her tongue. “I mean, that’s fine with me too. He didn’t say anything about stealing more than one kiss from the awkward, gangly one.”

He made a face. “Is that really how he described me?”

“Does it matter?”

Unsuur sighed in exasperation. “One kiss, then we’re leaving. Uncertain is probably getting lonely without us.”

“But that’s why I made Undecided out of that tanzanite to keep him company.” She tapped him teasingly on the tip of his nose. His body turned to liquid as he gazed upon her with a look of pure adoration—along with something else—something that made her belly tighten.

He leaned in until his lips brushed the shell of her ear. “I want to take you home.”

Her body burned brighter than a star on the edge of extinction. The unspoken promise in those words and the way he pressed his hips subtly against hers told her exactly what he had planned for her once they made it home.

Home.

She never called anywhere home before Sandrock. She was a wandering soul, flitting from place to place with no real direction. This whole time, she’d been looking for a justification to put down roots, but maybe she didn’t ever really need one to begin with.

She was just too afraid to take a chance, and that stupid fortune had been her excuse, but Unsuur made it worth the risk.

“Kiss me.”

He pressed his lips to hers. Someone whistled behind them, but she didn’t care. The rest of the saloon and its patrons melted away until only Unsuur remained. The man she loved, her rock, her reason to stay.

She finally found her home.

And it was here, in Unsuur’s arms.

#my time at sandrock #mtas #mtas unsuur #mtas fanfic #mtas heidi #mtas pablo #mtas justice

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magicofthepen · 3 years

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For the character thingy, romana and leela?? ❤

ROMANA - I’m going to answer for Romana I, since I already did Romana II!

favorite thing about them: so I fell in love with Romana I instantly when I watched The Ribos Operation. I was like “wait no one told me that Romana’s basically a recent graduate who always thrived in school but has now suddenly been thrust into the Real World and is a bit of a mess” and oh my god why is she so relatable, also I love that about her. I love that she doesn’t quite know what she’s doing, and her academic brilliance doesn’t necessarily help in the situations she’s finding herself in, but she keeps trying and learning, so by the end of season 16 she’s much more confident and capable on her own than she was when she started. I just absolutely adore the premise of her character and how she develops during the key to time quest. also her banter skills are so excellent. (….this wasn’t one thing whoops. 😄)

least favorite thing about them: I feel like it’s something about how she’s portrayed in the Gallifrey audios, but I can’t quite articulate what? but I feel like somehow, some of the things I really liked about her on TV (her witty fun banter, her determination even when she’s out of her depth) aren’t represented as much when we get glimpses of Actual Romana I (not Pandora or an alternate universe version). idk if this is even fully true, it’s just….she doesn’t quite have the same vibe as the character I remember from the TV show (but this is also tricky because the Lies scene, the Matrix projection in Lies (which *isn’t* really her technically) and the remains of her consciousness in the body that Pandora’s using are the only times we get Actual Romana I - which isn’t that much time to express all the nuances of her character.)

(continuing to skip the favorite line question because it’s too hard)

brOTP: her and the Doctor!! (like I said in the Romana II ask, I used to ship them more, but lately I’ve been more into a platonic interpretation.) I just as instantly fell for their dynamic in the Ribos Operation - two people with very different personalities who don’t get along but are forced to work together and gradually become friends?? this is exactly the kind of relationship arc that I adore. Their banter and snark is So Good (I was so entertained by their interactions in Ribos Operation that my brain refused to pay attention to anything but their scenes, and I ended up having issues following the plot later oops). And I love their growing respect and care for each other - how they go from being mutually dismissive of each other to valuing each other and being a solid Team and just really genuinely liking each other! their friendship is just Very Good (…..and now I really want to rewatch season 16….I’ve only seen it like one and a half times but I loved it very much….)

OTP: I don’t think I have any ships with Romana I that I would consider an ‘otp’? (the closest would be her and the Doctor since I have sometimes shipped them and I adore their relationship in general)

nOTP: Brax/Romana again….and tbh with Romana I it’s more of an actual nOTP (rather than ‘kinda nOTP, kinda ‘it’s complicated’’) because this is the time frame when she’s actually his student and so my discomfort with student/teacher relationships really rears its head (although there’s still one fic out there that I just think is so well-written.....but it does show the relationship as very unhealthy).

random headcanon: .....so sorry to continue Sartia posting, but oops the first thing that popped into my head is my new maybe-unrealistic headcanon that Sartia was Romana’s first kiss. in a teenage “I’m curious and want to try this thing and you’re the only person I hang out with, but it doesn’t mean anything....or does it??” way. (.....this is so self-indulgent in such a terrible way rip.)

unpopular opinion: Armageddon Factor is my favorite Key to Time story! (I gather this is an unpopular opinion in Doctor Who Fandom At Large, it doesn’t seem to be liked as much as some of the earlier stories in the season.) technically I’ve only seen it once and it was a couple years ago, but I remember loving it as a Romana story, there were a lot of really interesting character bits for her!

song i associate with them: hmm I don’t really have one? my Romana playlist is specifically for Romana II in Big Finish so....yeah.

favorite picture of them: anything with her Ribos Operation outfit (with the full cloak), it’s iconic and beautiful! on a similar note, I love this Romana I art by @volucris-liga, it’s the first Romana fanart I ever reblogged and it’s so pretty!

more under the cut!

LEELA

favorite thing about them: her resilience and her kindness. Leela goes through so much grief and pain, she has her world upended again and again, she never really finds a place where she belongs. and yet she still keeps choosing to love, choosing to keep fighting for what she believes in, choosing to rebuild again and again. and sometimes it’s really hard and she doesn’t want to go on….but she does, and she finds moments of happiness again. and that strength is really powerful. and no matter how cruel the universe (and other people) are to her, she is still relentlessly kind - she listens, she protects, she wants to help, she cares.

least favorite thing about them: I mean, the “savage” stereotype that her character references is a racist/anti-indigenous trope (especially the whole dynamic of the Doctor trying to “civilize” her ugh). and I hate that characters keep calling her “savage” (even when they’re the Bad Guys, it’s still bringing up this trope again and again, and it’s even worse when it’s the Good Guys). why are they still doing this.

brOTP: see all characters listed under otp, every relationship that I ship is also an incredibly important friendship in Leela’s life and I love all of them <33 as far as relationships that I see as entirely non-romantic….I really love the version of Leela and Ace’s relationship that exists in my head (and in fandom) - they didn’t get to interact enough in the audios, but I absolutely think they were really close, because of their shared experiences and the ways their personalities mesh. (I feel like I should also say the Doctor here, but tbh I don’t remember her TV stories that well, so I don’t really have a solid memory of what their relationship was like.) and of course, Leela’s parental relationship with Rayo is very important to me!

OTP: once again, ot3 my beloved <33 and Leela/Romana first and foremost (I already rambled about them here, so I’m just going to second everything I said earlier).

and I also ship Leela/Narvin, although I’m not quite as invested in that pairing? (due to a combination of ‘Romana is my favorite character and so I’m just more interested in her relationships with other characters,’ ‘I joined the fandom when things were pretty much all Leela/Narvin all the time (I say with great respect and affection for the artists and writers putting out amazing content for that ship) so I was motivated to write fic primarily for R/L and N/R to balance out the ot3 content,’ ‘apparently I have a contrary streak with Gallifrey and the more the writers push a romantic interpretation of a relationship, the less interested I am in actually shipping it,’ and ‘I’m not really into Leela/Narvin as a pairing on its own - although I do love a lot of fic that portrays them that way bc it’s just very well-written.’) But just. how they form a grudging alliance for Romana’s sake and then develop genuine respect for each other and then build this really solid foundation of teamwork and fondness and care and really relax and feel comfortable around each other….the way they become ride-or-die for each other and just trust and love each other so much….it’s Very Good!! (And I did love writing scenes with the two of them in Call It Home - I might not focus on them, but I do genuinely love their relationship.)

And of course Leela/Veega <33….I debated if they even interacted enough in the actual audios for me to consider it an otp, but I love the idea of their relationship and the story of them in my head so much?? going to link to this post because it really captures my feelings about them - they’ve both been through so much grief and pain by the time they meet, they’ve both lost people they love before, so the idea of them choosing to love each other and build something together against the odds is just. very powerful. plus I have a whole playlist for the family they’ve built together, which is a strong indication that I really love this ship. 😊

nOTP: Leela/Andred. last time I answered an ask meme about Leela, I had this complicated response about how I hated Leela/Andred when I watched Invasion of Time (bc it’s so abrupt and arbitrary), and then Louise Jameson’s voice acting Convinced Me To Care because oh she really did love him....alas i am a Leela/Andred detractor at heart, and I have been nudged back to my default state by re-listening….I simply hate how he treats Leela in Gallifrey.

random headcanon: I really like the idea of Leela being more politically involved in her own right after they all return from the Axis. She’s just spent a lot of time leading a group of people who don’t have a voice in the government, fighting for their rights against the established injustices of Gallifreyan society. I don’t think she’d easily slip back into only being Romana’s bodyguard after experiencing more political autonomy on the other Gallifrey. What exactly this looks like in practice I’m not sure about - in my one fic ‘verse, I wrote about her being more directly involved with the Academy as a political liaison and guest tutor, and also advocating to Romana for policies that would benefit those who live outside the city on their home Gallifrey. but there’s probably a lot of options to explore here!

unpopular opinion: hmm I don’t think this is necessarily unpopular but idk and I want to talk about it: even though Leela identifies so strongly as a warrior, a “happy ending” for her would, I think, need to involve getting away from fighting. too often she throws herself into a fight to try to avoid thinking about how much she’s hurting, and it doesn’t work, it doesn’t stop the pain. and in the Time War, she’s tied her identity so strongly to war (it’s inevitable, inescapable, and she will Fight and Defend because that’s all she has left). there’s a difference between “I am a warrior” and “all I am is a warrior,” and Leela’s slid too far into the second one, and she needs to untangle her own identity from war to heal.

song i associate with them: Freedom by Karmina (it’s a song about going on defiantly in the face of heartbreak - “Tearing my room apart, I’m starting over” / “Take my pride I can still survive I’ve got my freedom” / “Hunt me down you’ll never find me now that I’ve got my freedom”)

favorite picture of them: the first one that came to mind is this gorgeous art by @laurelhach (which I didn’t realize was based on a picture until I stumbled across the original picture and was like oh my god!! it looks exactly like the art!!)

#thank you for sending these!! <33 #sircarolyn #asks #gallifrey audios #romana #leela #ramblings #gallifrey spoilers

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astarlightmonbebe · 3 years

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2020 Creator Wrap

Rules: It’s time to love yourselves! Choose your 5 (or so) favorite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc.) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought into the world in 2020. Tag as many writers/artists/etc. as you want (fan or original) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works.

tagged by @eponinemylove (dkskss i kept forgetting about this whoops)

these dreams, like ashes float away - aka the modern mdzs retelling except not really, with a side of mystery and self indulgent characterization and canon bashing (i love to bash canon with a frying pan. any canon at all). okay technically i only finished posting this fic in early 2020, BUT it’s still the longest thing i’ve ever written and yes, maybe it is a mess of a fic/plot that really demonstrates my stress level when i planned it out and wrote it, with so much whump and bias (yes i was mad at some characters, but so what). anyways, so maybe it is a mess but whenever i actually reread it i think that it is pretty good, and yeah, i’m proud of it.

in the shadow of a flame - the atla retelling, except the main characters are the fire nation gang, with ty lee as the avatar, zuko and azula as her companions, featuring yue as a waterbender and mai as an earth/metalbender. perhaps i have not actually updated or written on this since the end of october (rip!) but i am actually pretty proud of it and i definitely plan to try and complete it eventually. also this fic has had a pretty good amount of growth (likely due to some popular fanart for it), which makes me happy to see.

this mai edit set - 2020 was the year i actually started learning how to use photopea, and granted i haven’t made that many edits, but this one is one of my faves, even if it isn’t my most popular.

this ty lee edit set - same as above, basically, except i really love these ones. like the aesthetic, the face claim? perfection!

a tie between your touch burns & falling peach blossoms - the one shots i published on ao3 this year! the first is something i literally wrote at midnight in one go; focusing on the inherent homoeroticism of rivals (and fighting with one another) for dance of the phoenix, and the second is a lan zhan centric reincarnation au mixed with some chinese mythology, which i wrote in a day (instead of doing online school work because, you know).

honorable mentions:

my entire star edits tag for 2020 (there’s like 17 i think? which isn’t a lot, but also they are all dear to me so)

i have some slytherin centric fics from where i fell back into harry potter over the summer, and most of them are extreme fanon, but hey, i like them.

bottom of the deep blue sea cql fmv on youtube. tbh i haven’t vidded since the summer, even though i have ideas again, and the ones i made this year are nowhere near as satisfying as the ones i did in 2019, but this one was pretty good (despite some mistakes that i noticed too late to fix lol i cry).

this meta on the end of cql (specifically when lxc stabs jgy and a look in on nhs) because i like how i worded it, even if it isn’t the longest cql meta i have, anyways i just have a lot of thoughts about nhs and the full circle, cycles in the cql, etc...my brain is getting distracted just thinking of it again. i had a lot of good thoughts about cql this year (half of which are still in my drafts or docs).

a qin su (+ wen qing) character study where she and wq are ghosts stuck in koi tower. this one i’m still writing, but ideally it will be posted as a one shot before the year is out. i just haven’t finished it yet, so it’s not on the list ahah.

cql canon divergence fic which is really only a set of ideas and scenes in my head, but i really do what to plan it out more fully and write it one day (ideally in the near future), but basically it’s canon divergence where wwx doesn’t rescue jiang cheng from lotus pier and the golden core transfer never happens.

i’ll tag @theserendipityofjimin @etherealjjong @emirablights @curlykytta & anyone else who wants to do this !! (sorry if any of you have done this already xoxo)

#tagged #my tag #tag #eponinemylove #lovely mutuals #2020 wrap #my fics #my writing #2020 was like. a low point in many ways #coughcough i binge watched some seasons of some not very good show for no reason ahh #BUT i also did create some pretty good things this year #and my thoughts were on POINT #so there's that #yes this is one giant promo for myself that's exactly right #i didn't link like any poems because this is not my writeblr BUT i did publish a poem collection if anyone is interested aha

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piratejenna · 4 years

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The Guitarist’s Serenade (Part 2)

Whoop! Chapter two is finished! I have spent a wild amount of time working out the backstory and details for a specific scene that I was going to write, and then this chapter happened and an entirely different conversation/scene happened, but man am I stoked about it!

Also, YJ_Doodle on twitter did an absolutely beautiful piece of fanart for the fic and everyone needs to go look at it immediately! I’m so honored, and they deserve so much love for this!

And with that, I give you Chapter 2!

Ch 1 (AO3 Link)

Jove tries to sleep.

He really does. He tosses and turns in bed for a good hour. He knows he needs sleep—they were out very late and he still has work this week—but he can’t stop the thoughts in his mind.

It’s around 3 AM when he fully gives up. He can’t stop the panic in his head, so he might as well try to do something productive about it. Careful to make as little noise as possible—Apollo still has work in the morning—he pulls a box out of the closet and starts sifting through it.

It’s a rather empty box. After… well, everything, he’d lost most of his stuff. What hadn’t been lost in the fire in Khura’in had likely either ended up with Thalassa or simply been left where it was. All he had now were the things he’d left behind with his friend.

Terran had never minded letting Jove crash at his place—even after the man got married—and when he and Thalassa had gotten ready to leave, Terran had agreed to let Jove store some stuff with him. Along with that, Jove had sent his friend postcards and pictures from time to time, just to let him know he was still alive and doing well. And for whatever reason he’d keep all of it.

Jove pulls out the stack of pictures to look through. There aren’t many. Some are of him and Thalassa before they left, and a few are after. Many of the pictures are badly framed or blurred or washed out, which is why they’re in this box instead of hanging somewhere in the apartment. As he looks through them, he tries to remember Thalassa.

The memories that come to mind are not the major ones. Moments that are seemingly insignificant but stand out so clearly in his mind all these years later.

They snuck up to the roof of one of the venues after the show one night. He remembers sitting back against something, lightly strumming his guitar as Thalassa walked back and forth along the raised edge of the roof as if she were on a tightrope.

“Have you always wanted to be a musician?”

He shrugged, “Not really. I mean, clearly nothing else was calling enough to convince me that college was a good idea—” she laughed “—but that wasn’t what I dreamed of when I was little.”

She stopped walking for a moment, “What did you dream of?”

“Well, it’s kinda silly, but I wanted to be an adventurer.”

“A what?”

“You know, one of those people in action movies, where they just take off to somewhere unknown to look for treasure or something. I would make my own ‘treasure maps’ and pretend I was on an expedition for some lost artifacts.”

She smiled softly, “I can see you doing that.”

He snorted, “Right, cause I definitely look like somebody who could handle no air conditioning or hair gel.” He picked up his strumming again, “How about you? What kind of crazy dreams did you have?”

She smirked, “I didn’t have to dream about things like that. I grew up here.” She gestured widley.

“So? Just cause your idea of an exciting adventure isn’t ‘normal’ doesn’t mean you didn’t have one.”

“Hmm….”

“Ok, how about this. If you could go anywhere—and I mean absolutely anywhere, no strings attached—where would you go?”

She took a minute, continuing her walking again before turning to him with a big grin, “The stars.”

He laughed.

“What?”

“Nothing. It’s just, that’s a very unusual answer.”

“Well, Jove Justice,” she put her hands on her hips, “I am a very unusual person.”

He remembers teasing her about that more than once. He’d even mentioned it before they left, telling her “It’s not the stars, but” before she’d cut him off with a kiss.

And traveling with her had been a wonderful adventure. And it was more of those little moments, not the actual places themselves, but just the two of them. He remembers getting locked out of their hotel room one night and trying to climb in through the balcony, only for Thalassa to stop him: “Jove, there’s someone in there.”

He’d paused, looked around, and said sheepishly, “I don’t think this is our hotel.”

Somewhere they’d visited—he thinks it might have been Zhenga-Fa—they’d eaten at a restaurant where the manager and staff didn’t speak English. Thalassa only knew a little bit of the language—most of it stage and performance related—so she’d asked for “the best that you have.” The food had been amazing, so they’d tried to ask what it was called so they could order it again somewhere else. However, when they tried at another restaurant, a waiter who spoke some English informed them that they could not order “only the best for you” as it was not the name of a dish on the menu.

He finds at the bottom of the stack a blurry photo of Apollo, probably only a week or so after he was born. He remembers the day he was born, of course. But the clearest memory that stands out at the moment is a few days before they left for Khura’in.

He’d woken up to Thalassa already sitting up with Apollo, singing softly to him. She didn’t look up when she said, “I think maybe we should go back.”

He’d felt a little panicked at that, that maybe something was wrong, “Why?”

“I think…” when she looked up, she smiled at him, though her eyes were a bit sad, “I’d like Apollo to have more than I did. Growing up on the move, never having somewhere that was home.” She looked back down, “I know that he’ll be fine, as long as he has us, but… but I’d like if he didn’t go through that too.”

Jove shifted to wrap his arm around her, “Well, that sounds like a pretty good plan to me. What do you think ‘Pollo?” Apollo stayed quiet. “I think that’s a yes.”

They’d planned for Khura’in to be their last trip. They already had the tickets, and it seemed like it would be a nice place to visit before starting the journey home.

His mind is quick to latch onto Thalassa’s comment. Quick to remind him that he had, essentially, done the exact opposite of what she had wanted. Apollo had grown up in practically a war-zone, constantly on the move for security. And even when they had left, it had taken them another year of moving around to make it back to California. Sure, they were here now. They hadn’t moved in any real sense since Apollo was nine. But that didn’t erase those first nine years…

He tries to stop that guilt trip because he knows nothing’s going to change about it and it’s not helping with the current issue. Except it’s not an issue. Because it’s ridiculous. Thalassa is dead. She’s not working as a Borginian singer.

They’d gone to Borginia. It had been a short trip, but they’d been there. And for whatever reason, Borginese was one of the languages she’d been pretty good at…

When Apollo gets up at 6 AM, Jove has accomplished two total hours of sleep—if he’s generous—and around two hours of driving himself nuts with what-ifs.

He does his best to not look like he’s been up practically the entire night and joins Apollo in the kitchen. Apollo, at least, looks like he got some sleep. Probably not the best, but he doesn’t look like he’s about to keel over, which is more than Jove’s willing to say for himself.

“Plans for today?”

Apollo shrugs, “Not really sure. I mean, I guess I’m going in to work today…” he trails off and rubs the bridge of his nose. “Honestly, I mostly just want to check in with how Trucy is doing.”

Jove smiles. One good spot in the mountain of guilt his brain has been churning through all night: Trucy. Whatever else there is to deal with, he’s grateful that Apollo has her. She clearly means a lot to him. Not to mention it’s sweet to see him take his older-brother role so seriously.

“Probably a little early to head over there.”

Apollo snorts, “Yeah, not expecting anyone at the Agency for a couple hours.” He mutters something under his breath about reasonable business hours. “I’m actually meeting up with Clay in…” he looks at his watch “twenty minutes. He would not stop texting me this morning. Guess the news finally jumped on the concert.”

“But you can’t tell him anything, right?” They’d all had to sign something about not sharing details of the incident. Jove was normally pretty good about reading the fine print, but over the past several years he let Apollo handle that. Perks of having a kid who’s a lawyer.

“Yeah, but this way I can tell him that in person.” Apollo rolls his eyes, “That is easily an hour long text conversation and no solid guarantee that he’d stop hassling me about it otherwise.”

“Fair enough.”

Apollo heads out shortly after, and Jove is left to decide what to do with himself. His next job isn’t til tomorrow evening, so he doesn’t have work obligations. Normally, a good thing. Right now? He’d give anything to have something to distract his mind.

After trying—and failing—to find something around the apartment to occupy himself, Jove decides to throw in the towel. The only way he’s going to be able to get past this is to stop trying to avoid it. He needs to look into the accident.

It’s surprisingly easy to look up the news articles. Embarrassingly easy.

He doesn’t remember any of them. He’d pretty much ignored everything after the first one he saw. There’s a mix of relief and guilt as he goes through article after article that simply mentions her departure from the Troupe. Those with more information just parrot back the same vague details: “A tragic accident.” It’s not even clear if the accident was related to the show or not. Heck, it could’ve been a traffic accident for all the information they give.

On the one hand: relief. He wouldn’t have had any better a picture of what happened if he had been following the story back then.

On the other hand: guilt. Holy crap did it seem obvious that something sketchy was going on.

Several articles and a few video clips, and there are no interviews. No statements from anyone involved, not even stage hands. It’s not until he hits the fifth article that there’s even a mention of when the accident happened, though even that is a vague “over the weekend”.

There’s also the fact that practically every one of them mentions her husband and daughter.

Jove’s mind starts to spiral down that path, but he quickly shuts it down. There’s no use in getting hung up on that. He has no idea if things would have been different if he’d known about Trucy back then, and it’s not like she’s in a terrible place right now because of it. She’s happy, and she’s taken care of. This is not what he’s looking for.

It’s nearly noon by the time he feels he’s exhausted what he can find, and even then what he found wasn’t much. The best he’d come across was some weird abandoned blog that had screenshots of a tweet of some reporter claiming he would have a “‘shocking revelation about mysterious magician disappearance’ end quote” soon, and a comment that said tweet had been deleted.

Yay internet conspiracy theorists.

He considers trying to get in touch with the reporter, but decides against it. The accident was twelve years ago, and likely the tweet had been deleted because he wasn’t able to get anything. Even if he indulged this ridiculous theory that it had all been a cover-up, there’s no way some random reporter would have gotten anything useful about it.

Around this time Jove gets a text from Apollo saying he’s been hired as the defense for the piano kid from the concert. Court’s tomorrow and he’ll probably be at the office late getting prepared. Looks like he won’t have Apollo to help distract him this evening.

So, he moves on to the next possible avenue. Lamiroir herself.

She has an official website, but it’s mostly promotion for her work: links to purchase her music, tour dates, information about upcoming projects, and so on. There’s very little about the singer or her background. The bio section is short, but it does link to a few articles about her.

A little more digging from those and he does come up with something. Not much. But just enough, unfortunately, to keep feeding his delusion.

Lamiroir’s career started several years ago. She was discovered by her producer singing in a restaurant. Prior to that, nothing. No information to be found. She seemingly popped out of nowhere.

It’s really nothing, just a simple coincidence. A phrase that is losing meaning everytime he says it.

He spends a good hour debating what to do—if he should even do anything. He already has things he wants to talk to Apollo about, but no matter how strongly the universe is bent on convincing him that he’s seeing his dead wife, he is not convinced enough to tell Apollo. So he makes a decision. He’s exhausted the resources on both Thalassa and Lamiroir that he can access himself. If he wants anything else, he’ll probably need to ask someone. And he is not at all ready to try talking with Lamiroir again—not to mention she’ll be needed in court tomorrow.

That does leave one option. An option Jove is really, really not interested in.

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He wonders if this should have been harder. He feels like it should have. Something about being able to just look up contact info online and set up a same-day meeting just feels too easy.

It’s definitely not because he had hoped it would be too hard and thus prevent him from doing it in the first place. Definitely not that.

Not helping at all is the fact that they are meeting in the actual “back room” of this restaurant that Jove’s never heard of, noise from the dinner rush in the main room only just audible through the walls. He kind of regrets not wearing a trenchcoat to add to the spy/mafia movie vibe. He’s actually having to remind himself not to laugh as he sits at the table at the sheer ridiculousness of this situation. Which is, of course, a great state to be in right before this kind of meeting. Hopefully when his guest arrives and the meeting starts, that will be enough to sober him up.

The door opens.

He was wrong.

Jove does an admirable job turning his snort into a cough, but from the look he receives it wasn’t good enough. The man in the doorway stares at him for a moment in disapproval before it becomes clear that Jove is in fact going to have to introduce himself.

“Guess it’s been a while.” He points to himself, “Jove Justice.”

The man’s eyes widen as he stands frozen, before abruptly turning to leave.

“Wait!” Jove stands up, wondering for a second if he shouldn’t just let him.

Valant Gramarye looks remarkably unchanged for how long it’s been since Jove has seen him—far more unchanged than Jove expects he himself looks. The most striking difference is the mustache he now wears. Beyond that, it’s easy enough to see the same man who’d sneer at him as he did his pre-show run-throughs. Valant turns back slowly, crosses his arms, and waits.

Jove clears his throat and tries to sound serious, “Look, I just had some things I wanted to talk with you about. Not long, and we don’t have to speak again after that.”

Valant stays in the doorway another moment before nodding and moving to the table. “I believed you had died.”

Ah yes, he’s missed these pleasant conversations with Valant.

Jove decides to simply shrug, “Guess you were wrong.”

“Mmmh…”

They continue to stare at each other as Jove realizes he’s not entirely sure how to ask what he came here to ask. He and Valant have never gotten along well, and he’s not sure the man won’t just leave any second. Well, he’s already here. Might as well bite the bullet.

“There’s no good way to ask this. I need you to tell me about Thalassa’s accident.”

Valant almost flinches. It’s subtle, but Jove catches it. He twirls his cane—Jove had always found that annoying and apparently twenty odd years hasn’t changed that—and responds, “For that level of information I’d expect a more convincing story of your daring escape from death.”

Yeah, that’s not happening. “Right,” Jove crosses his arms and glares at Valant, “how ‘bout you tell me literally anything you know about my supposed ‘death’ and I’ll fill in the blanks.”

There’s a drawn out pause before he finally says, “Thalassa told us you were dead.”

“She was mistaken. There, filled in all your holes. So, back to my question—”

Valant stands up abruptly, knocking his chair back with a screech, “You, Justice, are no less infuriating than you were as a child, and I see no reason to allow you behind the curtain of events that do not concern you.”

Jove launches to his feet as well, “Thalassa is my wife. I think I’m damn well entitled to know about her death, certainly more so than you are. And calling me a child over a three year age gap is pretty petty, don’t you think?”

“Thalassa was your wife. And seeing as you were not parted from her by death’s cruel grasp, you apparently willingly forfeited any rights—”

His hand is stinging before he realizes he’s punched Valant in the face. “Don’t you dare try and tell me why I lost her. You have no idea what you are talking about.”

Valant’s stage mask slips, and for a moment he openly gapes at Jove, hand cradling his reddening check. “You—”

Crap. You’re not here to fight. Fix this, Justice! “Look, I just— I just need to know what happened.” He moves back to the other side of the table and gestures at Valant’s face, “I’m—” well, he’s not sorry “—I didn’t come here to fight. It won’t happen again.” Yeah, cause that’s a promise he can keep.

Valant continues to stare for another minute, and Jove really expects him to leave. But surprisingly, he returns to his seat, though he doesn’t drop the glare. “I will answer what I can.” The look says he means that as much as Jove means his own promise. Lovely.

“It was twelve years ago. Without warning she was pulled from our lives. Our work and public image was incredibly prominent, and Magnifi didn’t want a spectacle made out of it. That’s why the story was limited to as few details as possible.”

Neat. Tidy. And nothing he hadn’t learned online.

“Thanks for the summary. What I need is the details.”

“Why? As I’ve said, it’s been twelve years. Twelve years during which you’ve been alive and well, and yet you’ve decided only now to care?” Valant cocks his head, the patronizing tone dripping from his voice.

At least get a little more out of him before you punch him again.

“It’s not that I didn’t care, I just—” Cared too much? Cared so much that he couldn’t bear even the thought of having to read about her death? “Recently, I’ve had reason to look into this, and as you’ve said, sources are thin. I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t have to be.”

“Then perhaps you’d find it more prudent to ask specific questions if you are uninterested in a summary.” Valant spins the cane again, tossing a pointed glance towards the door.

He has a point. Even if Valant was more willing to talk, specifics would help. But how exactly is he supposed to explain what he needs? So my own death was faked in a suspicious accident and I’m wondering if that’s what happened with Thalassa, so any suspicious, sketchy details you could give me would be great. That is assuming that Valant wasn’t in on the cover up.

Assuming Jove isn’t losing his mind and there was even a cover up at all.

“What actually happened? All I can find is that there was some kind of accident, but what does that mean?”

Valant shifts in his seat, and the hardness in his glare softens. He looks—if Jove didn’t know better—uncomfortable. “It was as you’ve said, an accident. Tragedy befell her, and there was naught we could do to stop it.”

Jove grits his teeth—don’t punch, “Ok, what kind of accident?”

“That is not for the public to know.”

“I think we’ve already established—”

“You,” Valant jabs at him with the cane, “are not a member of the Troupe. Ergo, you are a member of the public.”

Don’t. Punch. “Look, if you’re gonna be difficult, then fine. Here’s my question: do you have any reason to believe that Thalassa might still be alive?”

Valant stares, and Jove can practically see him stumbling over the question. Finally he clears his throat, “I’m not clear what you—”

Jove slams the table, “Did you see her? Afterwards? Do you know with 100% certainty that she’s dead?”

A beat, then, “I suppose… we never saw definitive proof...”

Jove’s heart clenches. This is not what he was looking for. Isn’t it, though?

“One last question: do you know the singer, Lamiroir?”

Valant’s smirk returns and he laughs, “Know her? I worked with her just yesterday in a resplendent performance.”

“You— you were at the concert?!”

“Of course. My talents and expertise were the only thing that could have pulled off a stunning show such as that.”

What had… well, he hadn’t actually watched Lamiroir’s performance. But if Valant had been there… If he’d personally worked with Lamiroir, then surely he would have realized…

She never sang with the Troupe.

“If that is all, then I believe I shall be taking my leave—”

“Did you ever hear her sing?”

Jove’s face heats up as he hears the desperation in his own voice, but Valant doesn’t seem to notice, “Of course I heard her sing. As I said, I worked on the performance—”

“No, not Lamiroir. Thalassa.”

Valant laughs again, “Thalassa? She did not sing. She was a star of illusions and spectacle. She would never stoop to the simplest of displays like yourself.”

Jove hardly registers the insult. Valant never heard her sing. And if she only spoke through a translator, or even if she hadn’t but spoke with an accent…

This is too much to process. He’s starting to think this was a bad idea, and he definitely needs to leave before he has a meltdown in front of Valant. Doing his best to stay collected, Jove nods to the man, “Thank you for your time.”

Valant gives a slight acknowledgement with his hand as he stands, “I trust you will respect your word moving forward.”

What was he— oh, right. The “them not speaking after this” thing. Yeah, no complaints here. Jove nods, and moves to leave, though something prompts him to add, “You know, Trucy hasn’t seen you in a while. I assume she’d appreciate a visit.”

“Ah, so you know about the young Miss Trucy.” There's a slight edge in his voice that makes it clear he expects this to sting Jove. And oh, how he will enjoy spinning that on him.

“Of course I do.” He turns a smug look on Valant, “I’ve been in touch with her since Zak’s trial.”

“Really? And what possible purpose could someone like you have for such a thing?”

To his own surprise, Jove answers, “Honestly? Went looking to adopt her.”

“You?” Valant’s laugh has a mean-spirited touch, “A man such as yourself responsible for the care of a child? Whatever led you to believe that could be a successful endeavor?”

A mental gut punch would be just as good as a real one. “Well, I think my twenty-two year old son is a pretty good indicator of that.” Jove takes just a second to savor the stunned look on Valant Gramarye’s face and strides out the door.

#ace attorney #jove justice #Thalassa Gramarye #apollo justice #aa fic #my writing #valant gramarye #jove justice lives au #guys i'm getting really excited about this fic #i've got several cool scenes in mind #but i'm also that person who loves research and yikes does this case have a weird timeline #did you know that there's a day where nothing happens? (it's this day)#no investigation and no court we just skip to the next day #that plus when information about certain things is revealed is giving me a very tight timeline for certain things #we might be changing some things #i mean it's an au #we're already playing loose with things #get ready for another fun heavy conversation!

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damoselcastel · 4 years

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2019 Author’s Notes

A yearly-sum-up of my personal thoughts for my written works in 2019 (ones with chapters updates count too), like I’ve done before. All of the fic I listed can be found on my AO3.

JANUARY

Sheltering Boughs - a nsfw FE9/10 Tibarn/Elincia fic This fic was basically the naughty sequel to Shelter from the Storm and was directly cause by the overwelmingly positive response that fic got. And the fact people actually commented. Like I had NO IDEA anyone other than myself and one or two others actually shipped Tibarn/Elincia, until that fic actually got a response. This basically was just channeling more of that energy into smutty speculation, and it was fun writing a different OTP of mine getting it on (like Eli is way more of a sub than Hin). Tibarn being canonically stupid-strong also let me write a position that's otherwise impractical, lol.

FEBRUARY

Miles Before I Sleep - a FE14 Leo/Flora fic My pinch-hit gift for 2018 Nagamas, which also happened to contain loads and loads of my headcanon for the Ice Tribe and Flora in particular. I always thought the entire situation with Flora and Felicia was more than a little absurd- with how the game focuses on them being MAIDS than the daughters of a cheif and political hostages. Nohr's past also has lots of potential for surviving terrible situations/drama, and I admit for being one of those who've imagined just how awful the Concubine Wars could've been for the kids. Anyway, I feel like this ende dup more as a backstory than ship fic, but I like how it came out hinting for future possibilities.

MARCH

Bridging the Sky - a FE14 post-Conquest Marx/Hinoka fic The ball I'd picked up when I'd dropped IAWG, where all of my possibly-game-canon FE14 ideas was channeled... and seem to have dropped after 3H came out. I finally got to the start of the twisty romance and left it on a cliffhanger, whoops. Might indeed have devolved into eternal hiatus, right now I just don't have the inspiration/motivation to dig back in... I'd like to, to finish both this and IAWG, but likely won't be happening tomorrow.

APRIL

Set a Crown on the Blind Harper - a FE6 Klein/Elffin fic For the 2019 Spring Rarepair exchange. Admittedly I don't know as much about FE6 as I do about FE7, shipping included, so sent as much time contemplating the ship dynamics (and canon epilogues) as writing this fic. Just to try and get a read on how the ship might work. I did my best and the Giftee liked it, so yay?

Off Call - a FE14 modern AU Marx/Hinoka My chillest series of shippy drabbles, I added a couple more at the start of the year. Chap 10 was inspired by all the reactions I saw to the finale of Season 8 for GoT on twitter, which was a wile ride in itself... it almost makes me hope to see a FE4 remake in my lifetime just for the handful of blind playthrough reactions.

MAY

Sherlterless - a FE9/10 Tibarn/Elincia fic Again something inspired by the response to SftS, this was meant to explore moments where canon could be tweaked to have these two characters interacting... I admit the "canon" kinda makes some things inflexible and might be why it's harder than not to try to get updates finished (it's like all outlines, apart form the posted chap)

NOVEMBER

Sense of Tatse - a FE16 ABO nsfw Felix/Ingrid/Sylvain fic The fic that ate most of the year, and where most of my FE16 speculations got vented. I started it when I knew 70% of what went on in 3H's plot, but 100% knew that I really dug the Blue Lion childhood quartet. Somehow the Trashiest Trope got involved, can't quite remember why, but it was fun to write out most of my worldbuilding on Betas. I need to make a less trashy take on these characters/world out there, cause I'm fairly sure ally my FE fic writer friends are staying well away from this one, lol. (though I've been spoiled with fanart, which makes everything worth it) DECEMBER

Sub Rosa (my 2019 Nagamas gift fic, currently WIP)

#fanfiction #fire emblem #writing #for a year #2019 #author's notes #my fic #meme #long post

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koi-sims · 5 years

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Do Sim Evil Better.

I’d been knockin’ this idea around for a long time, and after collecting (or making, in the case of the CAS background) all the right cc, I decided to do something fun and unrelated to my stories and make the most handsome, most ingenious, and most evil man to ever exist in a narrative, Corin Deeth III (who actually named the Corin in my current storyline - Corin with two “r”. #bigFan).

Reader, you may or may not be familiar with the story of Kakos Industries and if you aren’t you truly are missing out. It is the best podcast I’ve listened to since The NoSleep Podcast, and to be honest...I think it actually one-ups my beloved NoSleep. It is a very fun and witty podcast with some great humor, greater hijinks, and can I just mention how alluring Corin’s voice is? Just sayin’. The storyline is awesome, too...so many great characters. I want to make Jr. and Malantha next~ I’ll leave some links at the bottom of the post for those who may be interested. Anyway, without further ado, let’s meet the man of the hour, shall we?

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Well hello, Corin~.... Now, I may have missed the mark, but I always envisioned Corin having short, trendy hair that still embodied professionalism and and air of slight douchery. I have seen a lot of fanart where Corin has long hair and perhaps that is canonically true. If so, I apologize Corin, please do not send me a pair of exploding sneakers. I may have missed his eye color too, but I went with a very piercing blue-green because that’s just my personal taste and light eyes with dark hair is so badass.

Corin’s traits came pretty natural - evil, confident, and I picked hot-headed because it would best help his in-game aspiration (Criminal Mastermind) moreso than him being hot-headed in the canon. He is actually always as cool as a cucumber. I admire that.

And a little in-game blurb for him because why not? Am a ridiculously enamored fangirl? Maybe. (I spelled his name wrong up top, but I fixed it AFTER I took that and the next cap - whoops)

And just for fun, this personality notice about Corin popped up when I went in to do his photoshoot. I just love it and the look on Corin’s face at the time - Ah, the taste of accuracy.

Now, on to the main event. I’ve always wondered what Corin’s sense of fashion was like, and now having listened to 99% of the podcast (it was so fun to catch up, I’m pretty much stalling on finishing what’s out now because waiting for the next is gonna hurt so bad) I’ve gotten too curious and decided to raid his wardrobe. What’s in there, I wonder??? Let’s find out.

Everyday Wear

Oh of COURSE Corin looks dark and dapper in a suit for everyday. Look at that little splash of color! I bet you used the blood of insubordinate employees to make that tie custom, didn’t you? Magnificent. What else do you slip into on the daily? Maybe when you’re home relaxi-

Oh. Um. Well...You do wear a cowboy hat very well, Corin! I mean...they match the boots and everything! I...I’m sure there are a lot of experimental abominations to wrangle around the office so why not dress the part? Not gonna lie, that shirt looks breezy and comfortable as hell. Maybe take a trip to the mountains with King Leopold sometime? (I...I know what happened in the story, and I refuse to let it go. #OTP.)

Formal Wear

Ah. The natural snazz comes out around the time of the Shareholder’s Ball and the CEO Festival, doesn’t it? You didn’t strike me as the bowtie type of evil CEO but I’ll be damned if it doesn’t look amazing on you. I see you’ve forgone your gloves for formal wear. Hard to eat the deviled eggs and tiny cheeses in those, non?

...This must be the suit you wear to the CEO Festival. That’s really the only explanation as to why it always turns out to be...what it usually becomes. I am going to assume that this suit belonged to Mr. Corin Deeth I and you wear it in his honor. I sure he is looking down on you, pleased but also wondering why you haven’t indulged in what is (still) in the right-side inner pocket.

Athletic Wear

You cannot be a successful CEO of an evil megacorp if you let yourself go. Hence why you slip into nothing but basketball shorts for a long, strenuous...sweaty...satisfying...workout. Between culling unnecessary employees and flawlessly delivering the shareholder announcements, you’re deadlifting 400lbs and making 1st in marathons, aren’t you? Of course you are.

And then there’s jazzercise. Cardio IS important and I mean...just running can be a bit tedious, yeah? You’re so well-rounded, Corin, golly. Honestly, I’m not at all mad at your fashion choice for this one. You don’t have to hide it, we are all friends here. The 80′s were a great time and I am happy you’re keeping the impeccable athletics fashion alive.

Sleepwear

Even mega evil mega CEOs need rest from time to time and nothing beats resting out topless and in trackpants. I see you are wearing ADIDAS, the most evil of brands. Not much else I can say. I am too busy admiring what jazzercise has done for you.

Uh oh. It must be one of those days. Malantha has flustered you again, Dirk is texting for more life advice, and Jr. is sending way too many...um...”special photos” to prove his is thinking hard on how to best contribute to the company. Good thing Brosephus is totally awake at 2am and ready to video chat about all of this. It’s SOOOO LAAAAAAME, right?!

Party Wear

Rollin’ up to the New Year’s Festival feels good, especially when you look this mighty fine. Nothing like finally getting past Yule and Anti-Celebrating by finally cutting loose again and making those ultra evil resolutions. Again with the gloves, I see. Well, I guess better safe than sorry. There’s no tell who’ll feel your wrath after four Blue Motorcycles.

Hm. This is quite the uh...departure, Corin. I mean, nothing ever looks bad on you but where on Earth would you even wear this to? Where would it even work??? ...Oh, right! The Festival of Adorableness! Awkward or not, you’ve made it work. I’m willing to bet the Division of Subversive Cute helped out with this ensemble. Kudos to them! I’m sure burning it afterwards was incredibly satisfying for you.

Swimwear

Why are you looking so bedeviled, Corin? How, when you look that prepared for a pool party, can you possibly be in such a foul mood? Oh...oh wait. Malantha has hidden your sunblock, hasn’t she? Goshdarnit! How can you possibly be evil without being as pale as your skin tone will allow?! That Malantha...she truly is evil, isn’t she?

Welp. I guess if you’re going to get a tan, might as well hit every spot you can. Suck on that, Malantha! (....) Also, breaking out the zebra print speedo wasn’t the worst idea you’ve ever had, and I both applaud, and ready my binoculars for, you choice of white swimwear. No booty shot? Ugh. Fair enough...gotta leave something to the imagination, I guess. #disappointmentOverdose

Warm Weather Wear

This is the look of a man about to take off on his mega evil yacht and never look back. That shirt, unbuttoned down to where it is suggestive but not desperate, those shorts, defining the thighs while still looking professional, those boat shoes that scream class and bless you for not wearing socks with them. There is a thin line between evil and insane and you ride it perfectly.

Apparently, even evil knows it wouldn’t be summer without an obnoxiously bright Hawaiian shirt. Ain’t even mad. Oooh, and white pinstripe pants....why yes, dear, they do make you look taller and thinner! I can almost hear you now, as you swagger out the front doors, “I’m off to the Maldives, screw y’all! Also, if a single brick is out of place when I get back, I’ll kill you.” You tell ‘em, Corin.

Cold Weather Wear

Brrrrrr. Generally, evil is always cold, dark, and hateful but sometimes even the weather puts up a good fight. Stylish as ever, you have broken out a very elegant scarf and jacket, expertly layered as to properly insulate all of the darkness within. No hat, though? Of course not. Evil does not get that chilly.

Corin: “What you mean I didn’t win the Ugly Sweater Contest?!”

RUN.

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And that concludes are journey through Corin’s wardrobe! This really was a lot of fun to do, and I’d be ever so pleased if the fine people who bring the @kakosindustries universe alive enjoy it too! I’ve also redecorated Corin’s in-game home (the Alto Apartment’s unit that was formally Lobo’s #sorrynotsorry) and I would like to share that one day too, if I get around to doing the photo tour. I will share some links below to a few relevant sites for anyone whose interested in Corin and the Kakos Industries story. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Cheers!

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WCIF: Kakos Industries

Kakos Industries Home - where it’s all laid out

Kakos Industries on Tumblr - contains information about episode releases, fan-created content, and other candid goodies

Kakos Industries on TVTropes - [SPOILERS] a nice place to gather info about the series and related tropes therein

And of course you can find Kakos Industries on Facebook, Twitter, and any podcast service worth it’s salt.

#sims 4 #kakos industries #corin deeth iii

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mythgendered · 5 years

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this art done by my lovely naem circa 2013 <3

so, uh... hopin’ y’all don’t mind a dash spam too much but, hey, it’s 4/13 and I think I’m allowed to be a little indulgent and nostalgic

it’s been 10 dang whole years of Homestuck, i’ve spent almost seven of those dang years here on tumblr, and most of those dang years were spent on my needlessly convoluted ask blog-turned-fanventure, unstUck/uracilumbrage

i...can’t say in good faith that it’s a good comic -- almost all of it was written as i went, and sometimes i would straight up skip ahead when i got bored, which is hardly good for storytelling! it also doesn’t help that i was writing it as homestuck proper was still ongoing, and i was trying to cut into some Deep Lore shit that hadn’t been fully fleshed out in canon. i got some decent guesses in, though, so i feel pretty good about that!

but yeah, it’s kind of a mess, especially when it starts spilling out into the role play side, which for some reason i wanted to tie into my comic’s canon? oh god, some stuff is straight up Lost now, due to blogs deleting or changing urls. at least most of the story is coherent!

but i’m rambling, and also dunking on myself. at the end of the day, i can’t say i had anything but the most amount of fun doing this lil fanventure. it’s sloppy, and i spent way too many years on it, and i ultimately never finished it (whoops!), but...it was just so much fun to work on my own little story! doing my own flavor of Homestuck, and letting the cherubs do their thing. and it connected me with so many people!

so many cool peeps and good friends who i still know and love to this day. to say nothing of my lovely girlfriend, who was so wonderful and supportive and gosh i still blush when i remember the lil fan messages she sent before we started talking formally ;u;

and i guess! that’s what i’m here clogging your dash with. not just to plug my defunct comic -- though if you wanna check it out i’m not gonna say no -- but to just...share my little corner of the Homestuck Experience on this most four of thirteens. back when i was in college, chipping away at panels inbetween role playing with some of the best people i know, listening to all the HS albums and waiting intensely for the next upd8.

(Oh, and rewatching [s] Caliborn: Enter a lot. a lot. you guys have no idea how many times i rewatched and screencapped that flash for panel and/or role play purposes. so many times you guys.)

so much of the good in my life over the past near-decade came about thanks to Homestuck, and i don’t think i can ever fully express how much it means to me.

i hope you don’t mind me going on about myself for this long! but like i said i’m indulgent and nostalgic rn. when I think back on Peak Homestuck days, this is what i remember: waiting on upd8s in one tab, hammering out my own panels in another, all while meeting and getting to know some truly wonderful people.

happy Homestuck day, y’all. i’m glad we all got to experience this gr8 comic that brought so much love to our hearts <3

(and if you’ll indulge me more, i’m sliding some more out of context panels and rp pics under the read more to complete my nostalgia trip. there’s a lot, and almost all of it is incomprehensible rp jokes! but it’s the stuff that made me smile, and what i think of when i fondly regard my homestuck phase)

thank u for these ash im so so sorry i never actually ended the comic and got to post these kxzhsdghf

(thank u forever nursey i got so much mileage mangling ur gorgeous talksprites)

(thank u forever nursey and ash)

(ily naem)

and if you stuck around, behold: one of my first ever hs fanarts! it hurts to look at!

and if you’re here, thanks much for indulging me, haha. have a good and i love you <3

#homestuck #caliborn #calliope #fanventure #4/13 #gif warning #gif warning under the cut too #HIDEOuS TRASH LORD #darling mUse #epilepsy warning under the readmore #just in case!!#happy homestuck y'all #my art

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efortmanteau · 5 years

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TMA Headcanons

I sort of spoiled myself in terms of headcanons for The Adventure Zone, so now I try to finish/get caught up on podcasts and form impressions entirely in my head before introducing visual ideas via fanart. And lately I've been focusing on The Magnus Archives SOOOO here we go:

My headcanons for The Magnus Archives. A few were originally written after listening through s2. I've added my s3 thoughts below characters or in a new section. I'm only 3 episodes in to s4 so no spoilers after the end of s3.

Jon (I only recently discovered that there's no H in his spelling, whoops) aka The Archivist - Obviously Jon doesn't really have fun ever, so the main word I think of is 'austere.' He's a pale white guy with dark hair and greyish or brownish eyes who basically always dresses formally--collared shirts, slacks, maybe even vests, usually neutral colors. He's thin, but not fit--just the type of guy who doesn't put on weight since he doesn't focus much on food. Rectangular face, maybe has facial hair… I haven't decided, but if he does, it's like a goatee/mustache scenario that's always well trimmed. In my mind, he's young to mid 30s, but could look older. When he's scared or disshevelled though, he looks a lot younger. I think he's also kind of short, maybe 5'8", so he keeps really good posture to make up for it. Ben Whishaw is almost right, but he'd have to be homelier. S3 updates: Not really any? Although apparently it's Jon without an H. I've confirmed that he looks older than he is since the spider picturebook episode (which I would love Don Hertzfeld to animate, perhaps with assistance from Jules Feiffer who is 90 gd years old… that episode is so vivid in my head). Also I forgot Jon has worm… scars? Pock-marks? Not sure how that works, but you probably don't see them much, given I can't imagine him in short sleeves or shorts, although maybe he has a few on his neck visible pretty frequently, above collars. I'm was pleased to learn he is canonically asexual, but not all that surprised. Something about the way he interacted with Georgie in her apartment had me wondering… maybe it reminds me of me and my ex (I'm the asexual one, my ex isn't, but we still get along).

Martin - I immediately imagined Marty (Terry Gross Waters-Waters SAT tutor in Gayle) when I learned more about soft, sweet lad Martin, so Matty Cardarople has always kind of been in my head. That is probably just a similar name situation, but it's kind of perfect. Since Martin said he wasn't the smallest of guys but still made it into a basement window, I imagine he's kind of tall and chubby, but doesn't seem tall, slouchy, not the most confident person. Sort of a Neville Longbottom situation (before the glow-up). I think somewhere between Matty and Nick Robinson is around the correct appearance: a little more clean shaven and formally dressed than Matty often is with shorter hair (but still flippy), but softer than Nick is. This guy wears sweaters a lot. I guess he's canonically 29 at the end of s1--I had imagined him in his mid 20s somewhere, but I guess he was pretending to be older since he claimed he had a master's degree. S3 updates: Martin is probably the one who was most easy for me to imagine. I never really thought of his fixation on Jon to be a crush, which I'm really intrigued by in terms of character development. I was parsing it more of Martin being a bit of a subservient character, that he was like that to everyone in the office, but we only saw it from Jon's POV as the primary narrator. If I do a re-listen, I'll be very interested to pick out some Martin/Jon moments now that I have a different context.

Sasha (or maybe Sascha) - I sort of had Sally Donovan from BBC's Sherlock in mind initially. I tried to stray away from that and looked up "half black actress." I picked out Zawe Ashton without even realizing that she had in fact played Sally (in one episode, so not her main actress) because of her hair and skin and the fact that her face is pleasant, but not the typical hyper-button baby doll face that some actresses have. Sasha has natural hair with light curls (sometimes straightened). I originally pictured a small afro, but I think in s2, they refer to her as having long hair, so I guess not? I'm also not clear if that was Not-Sasha imitating her, or just straight up not looking like real-Sasha at all. She's slim, pretty posh/minimalist in style--grey herringbone peacoat, umbrella, boots. I imagine she's half Russian heritage-wise, since is a common Russian diminutive for Aleksandra. I would put her in the 25-27 age range. S3 updates: I caught on to Not-Sasha (partially because I saw the name in the voice actor credits, whoops), but I think I also caught something in Lottie's flat affect that clued me in. I thought that the imposter was just good at disguise, not that people had been cursed to forget what real Sasha looked like, so Melanie's introduction and take on Sasha/Not-Sasha threw me off a bit. I don't remember if the "long hair" comment was for real- or Not-Sasha. But I don't have any headcanons about Not-Sasha… just that she looks nothing like the original.

Tim - In my head Tim is the tallest main character, maybe 6'2", and pretty fit. He's imposing at first glance, but since he's so congenial and laid back (at least in s1 before Jon totally pisses him off) everyone who knows him knows he's a nice, fun guy. He's black, with fairly dark complexion, short hair, clean shaven. He probably wears sweaters too, but like… the thinner kind. None of this bulky knit from grandma that Martin rocks. I first think of Alan from Russian Doll (Charlie Barnett), but darker, just black instead of more mixed. I'd say he's around Jon's age. S3 updates: RIP in pepperinos. I guess him being fit is not unreasonable since he is… canonically? (does Alex and Jonny joking about it make it canonical) an outdoorsy adventurer. I certainly missed his friendly nature, but my headcanons didn't really change. He just looked a lot more tired up until the end of s3.

Elias - He is older than the rest of them, I would guess in his 40s or 50s, but given that it's canon that he rose in the ranks kind of quickly, maybe he's not that old after all. I don't really have a good mental picture of him, maybe because I can't differentiate his voice from John's a lot of the time until I piece the context together. In my mind he has a beard and mustache though, kind of full, and maybe dirty blonde hair that's greying a bit. S3 updates: I wouldn't be surprised if he carried a cane that was actually a sword or a gun (I'm American, so having a gun seems very easy to me, so I'm not sure if that would be rare in England). Also, did I hear something about having a grey bun? Maybe I'm completely confusing it with something else, but I'm chuckling about man bun Elias.

Michael - Well, he isn't human… but he looks kind of like a really pale guy who is mishapen and thus wearing a lot of clothing at first glance? He probably wears a lot of clothes so you can't really make him out under the trench coat, scarf, hat, etc. (I might be confusing him with someone else). I think it's canon that his hands are large and maybe have too many bones. For some reason, Michael reminds me of tourmalinated quartz--black and white for the most part, striations cutting through the clearer crystal--sort of like a metaphor for how he kind of… dimension hops? Ends up where he isn't supposed to? I imagine striations of his appearance sort of blip in and out when you look at him based on the static he causes on recordings. S3 updates: I now know that he was an assistant to Gertrude. I guess my idea of his human form is basically the same color and demeanor, just not other-worldly in proportions and bone count. Probably the tall gangly type of white guy. ALSO I guess he's kind of Helen now…? I'll do a separate one for Helen.

---BREAK to add characters I didn't write about until the end of s3---

Basira - I assume she is a Muslim woman, based on her name. I imagine she wears a hijab. I picture her as Middle-Eastern, perhaps Iranian, but she could also be black (there are a fair amount of black Muslims in America, not sure if it's common in England). Other than the hijab, she's not very feminine in her styling. Being on the force probably means you want pretty functional, utilitarian garments. I don't remember if she talked in great detail about how she joined the police, whether it was straight from school, but in my mind she's late 30s.

Daisy - I think I recall she has a back tattoo? She's a murderer so she has a tough air about her, but she's also a subtle murderer, so nothing about her screams that she's dangerous… you just get that feeling, you know? I imagine a white lady, short blonde hair, blue eyes. Kind of like Brienne of Tarth, but more plain than ugly. She's maybe early to mid 40s. I'm not sure if her relationship with Basira is supposed to be romantic or not. I kind of prefer this weird closeness that doesn't always equate to trust given their specific experiences. Regardless, I imagine they are around the same age.

Melanie - Melanie is probably the youngest, early to mid 20s. Typical build and height, maybe a little chubby, but not unable to climb fences or anything (gotta hunt them ghosts). She has a short, asymmetrical bob, dark hair, but part is dyed a bright color of pink, purple, maybe green. I imagine she has a go-to windbreaker that has some neon colors.

Helen - I'm so sad that we had to lose Michael to gain Helen. I really love the Spiral and the characters we've met who are involved with them. Helen in my mind was a badass realtor, ready to close a deal, very driven… and that carried over into becoming SpiralHelen. She sort of outsmarted it with the locked door, didn't she? I can't imagine that's very common for humans/avatars to get the better of their entities. She seems really strong willed, so I'm excited to see where she goes as a human who is becoming an avatar. I think her personality translates into her being 40-something but like lowkey hot? She probably rocks a suit with a skirt in bold colors that men's wear usually doesn't offer (all over red suit, tailored to her, pumps, straight brown hair, nice makeup). I'm not sure how the Spiral would affect her… maybe her angles just get a little more pronounced? She's probably not yet to the point of disfiguration that Michael was anyway.

Georgie - She is like a terrier who will bark at a big dog because they don't know to be afraid of it (or… how to be afraid of it, in her case). She is short, 5'2" or less (I just remembered that a lot of the listeners probably use metric measurements, so sorry for that, but I'm not going to bother converting). I imagine she is cute--she dresses up for her dates to Hungarian restaurants (my favorite detail omg girl get it) and wants to look hot, but really she can't get away from cute. Brown curly hair, big brown eyes, button nose. But resting bitch face… gotta ward off those catcalls and get taken seriously somehow.

Jergen? I can’t spell, it’s Jurgen - Jowly white guy. Wispy caramelly colored hair that's going white. Probably pretty tall, which I'm sure what an annoyance in those tunnels.

Gertrude - At first glance, just some old white lady. But after you get to know her, you realize she can probably murder you and is nowhere near as frail as you think. Curly, wiry grey hair.

#tma #the magnus archives

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shieldfansunite · 5 years

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Fanfic Questions

Taken from @ao3commentoftheday

Fandom Questions

1. What was the first fandom you got involved in?

Heroes of Olympus !! Yup I started writing fanfic for the HoO fandom.

2. What is your latest fandom?

The Hunger Games. Right now I'm writing with a Hunger Games OC <kinda oc kinda just merged fandoms>

3. What is the best fandom you’ve ever been involved in?

This is hard, I think HoO, just because people interacted a lot with my writing. I love the AOS fandom but not a lot of people comment.

4. Do you regret getting involved in any fandoms?

Kane Chronicles. I only write stuff for it for like 2 months, and now I have no inspiration for it. Yet a lot of people keep asking me to write more.

5. Which fandoms have your written fanfiction for?

Heroes of Olympus, Percy Jackson, Hunger Games, Agents of SHIELD, and Kane Chronicles. I can't think of anything else.

6. List your OTP from each fandom you’ve been involved in.

I have a "one OTP per fandom" rule so here's the short list.

PJO - Percabeth

HOO - Jasper

KC - Sadie and Anubis

7. List your NoTPs from each fandom you’ve been in.

As far as NOTPs go I've really only had them for SHIELD. And they are Fitzaida and Skimmons.

8. How did you get involved in your latest fandom?

Honestly I just went "I want to rewatch Hunger Games and read the books" and next thing I know I'm writing OC fanfics about them.

9. What are the best things about your current fandom?

Shield is my current fandom and I think the few people who do comment really leave long meaningful comments instead of small things.

10. Is there a fandom you read fic from but don’t write in?

Marvel. I've never written something from Marvel but I want to.

Ship Questions for your Current Fandom

11. Who is your current OTP?

Fitzsimmons obviously.

12. Who is your current OT3?

Not romantic but the Bus Kids. Daisy, Jemma, and Fitz.

13. Any NoTPs?

Fitzaida and *romantic* Skimmons.

14. Go on, who are your BroTPs?

Fitzhunter

Fitzenoch

Fitzdaisy

Skimmons

Fitzdeke

15. Is there an obscure ship which you love?

I love Raina and Gordon, and the Coulson and Audrey *the cellist.*

16. Are their any popular ships in your fandom which you dislike?

Skyward, it used to be a NOTP but at this point I just don't like it.

17. Who was your first OTP and are they still your favourite?

Fitzsimmons and yes. Forever and always.

18. What ship have you written the most about?

Hehe Fitzsimmons.

19. Is there a ship which you wished you could get behind, but you just don’t feel them?

Philinda. I mean it has cute moments and everyone loves them but I just, they're meh for me. I really want to be hyped for them but I'm not.

20. Any ships which you surprised yourself by liking?

Dekedaisy. Or Lemonsquake. Honestly I don't like how much I like it 😂

Author Questions

21. What was the first fanfic you ever wrote?

It was a multi chapter one shot fic collection for HOO. I believe.

22. Is there anything you regret writing?

Yes. 2 fics. Horus' Heir, and Ocean's Twins. Neither are finished and I hate how I left them but don't have the effort to finish them.

23. Name a fic you’ve written that you’re especially fond of & explain why you like it.

From the Rubble. It's a AU version of season 5 episode 22 and I love it because it challenges me to have to look up things and is emotional and angsty.

24. What fic do you desperately need to rewrite or edit?

So I am rewriting one right now. *From the Rubble.* Also I want to rewrite some of my WIPs and finish them.

25. What’s your most popular fanfic?

A Heroes of Olympus dabbles collection fic on wattpad with 106k views.

26. How do you come up with your fanfic titles?

I have NO clue. I just think if random ideas till something sticks.

27. What do you hate more: Coming up with titles or writing summaries?

Summaries. Because I want to have something catching to make people read, without spoiling things.

28. If someone were to draw a piece of fanart for your story, which story would it be and what would the picture be of?

I would LOVE a sketch of From the Rubble. With Jemma by his beside, where he's asleep or awake and they're looking at his x-ray. Or when he's in a wheelchair and yeet.

29. Do you have a beta reader? Why/Why not?

I have one for From the Rubble, Bella. Just so I can make sure it's good and emotional and flows.

30. What inspires you to write?

A lot of things. My fandoms. Prompts. Au ideas I think of etc.

31. What’s the nicest thing someone has ever said about your writing?

That I could write an episode of SHIELD. I cried.

32. Do you listen to music when you write or does music inspire you? If so, which band or genre of music does it for you?

I do. I have different playlists for characters. *Some are my OCs, some are canon* and I'll listen to it when writing about that character.

33. Do you write oneshots, multi-chapter fics or huuuuuge epics?

I try and challenge myself to write all. But more my One Shots become multi chapter and my multi chapters become huge epics 😂

34. What’s the word count on your longest fic?

23,764 words and counting for my fic From the Rubble, and I'm only on chapter 3. I probably have longer ones on wattpad but idk. Also

35. Do you write drabbles? If so, what do you normally write them about?

I usually find dialogue prompts and write a drabble based on it when I'm in a writers block rut. Usually Fitzsimmons though.

36. What’s your favourite genre to write?

I love writing angst. Whoops.

37. First person or third person - what do you write in and why?

Usually third person, but when I am doing more emotional based things first. Basically if there's action, third. If its little action and mostly emotion firt.

38. Do you use established canon characters or do you create OCs?

Both. I usually write canon character but try and expand on OCs on occasion.

39. What is you greatest strength as a writer?

How fast I can write. I can usually write 5+ pages or more in an hour if I'm really focused.

40. What do you struggle the most with in your writing?

I struggle with revising and editing because I get excited to share my work.

Fanfiction Questions

41. List and link to 5 fanfics you are currently reading:

1. https://archiveofourown.org/works/16032374/chapters/37421072 *consequences*

2. https://archiveofourown.org/works/3711769 *actually haven't technically started this one*

3. https://archiveofourown.org/works/10702368 *because little Fitz*

4. https://archiveofourown.org/works/7252501/chapters/16466803 *I started this forever ago*

5. https://archiveofourown.org/works/18466984/chapters/43752301 *promised a friend I'd read this*

42. List and link to 5 fanfiction authors who are amazing:

This is hard because I don't read fanfic as much as I write. But Nindragon on Ao3 and biochemsimmons on Instagram. I can't think of any others I have read. Sorry.

43. Is there anyone in your fandom who really inspires you?

I mean this is hard. A lot of writers really I aspire me. But I think Bella does the most. Just because we share angst ideas and I get muse from them.

44. What ship do you feel needs more attention?

PLEASE write more Deke and Daisy stuff people. I'm begging.

45. What is your all time favourite fanfic?

Consequences *link above*

46. If someone was to read one of your fanfics, which fic would you recommend to them and why?

From the Rubble. Because it's an idea I'm committed to so I am putting a lot of effort into it. I'm making myself edit it a lot and writing longer chapters. I think it's the best I've done.

47. Archive Of Our Own, Fanfiction.net or Tumblr - where do you prefer to post and why?

Ao3. I hardly use tumblr and fanfiction.net confuses me and I forgot it existed.

48. Do you leave reviews when you read fanfiction? Why/Why not?

I try to! I know how important they are to writers so if I like the fic I try and say something about it. Even if it's small.

49. Do you care if people comment/reblog your writing? Why/why not?

I love when people share my work with others. Comments mean so much to me and the more comments I get the more dedicated I am to a fic.

50. How did you get into reading and/or writing fanfiction?

Um I read HOO and had to wait for the next book. No one I knew liked it so I started looking for things relating to it, like edits. Stumbled on fanfiction and thought "I like writing. I'll try this."

51. Rant or Gush about one thing you love or hate in the world of fanfiction! Go!

I hate when I work really hard on a fic and no one really tells what the think. And if I get a comment its "update." Because I want to know how my reading affected you. I also love being able to change different things I don't like in my favorite show 😂

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saphirecross · 5 years

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questions. fandom questions. questions in which i am too lazy/tired to use grammar. but questions none-the-less i think maybe. But yes, on to these questions, where i may occasionally use actual words how they are supposed to be used. Anyway, yes.

1) Are you ever in a fandom and there is a ship that you don’t necessarily like, but you don’t hate (or maybe you REALLY don’t like it) but at like 3 A.M. you are sitting at your computer just doing whatever it is you people do on your computers at 3 A.M. and you are just like man, i really want to look at fanart/read fanfics/headcannons for this one ship that i haven’t even come across in forever but like, i must remember the right way to search it NOW? Like, you know the feeling? THAT one? and you know that eventually you are going to go to sleep and when you wake up it will be another back burner ship because there is that one that is just absolutely precious and you fully support it, but for right now, for this slot of time while you are surrounded by media it is the #1 ship and it is the best. (honestly this is me with the Cinder/Emerald stuff. i mean... it exists but like... white rose also exists...) you know?

2) or maybe you aren’t even part of a fandom but you were on the internet and hey that couple looks cute and now you don’t know how you ended up passing so much time clicking through a path of pictures and you don’t know where you are anymore, but while you don’t know all of the deets because you never watched/read/played/whatevered the source material you are still pretty aware of what is going on and you absolutely love these two disaster children and no you don’t even know who they are but you have to protect them because you are pretty sure that that ones mom wants them both dead. (i have no clue what i found but chick with green hair and blonde chick are adorable, i love them, i don’t know who they are, i have no desire to, but they are my children)

3) or you are scrolling through tumblr, just being bored, and you see a fanart/fanfic/whatever for something and you have no clue what it is from, or what it is about, you don’t fucking know, but you NEED to find out. You have to involve yourself with the source material and you need to find more stuff from this fandom because DAMN it just looks GREAT. Like, you don’t know why, but this pretty black bird with the weird red mark and that blurry football player in the background make you really want to hunt down this show/book/whatever. but it isn’t in the tags. So you hunt through the blog and finally find the same raven except again, no tags. But now there is a clear image of a boy so now you are looking for this boy, etc, etc, until finally you are on what you think based on context clues is a shape-shifting psychic wolf and you finally find tags that tell you what it is from and you go and consume the source material and now you are tits deep in a new fandom and it is fucking precious. (the ravens name is Caleb, the girl is Lilliana, the wolf’s name is bane, and i love them all. Also, Xev is a precious baby and he doesn’t deserve this shit... ANyway,)

4) Or like, randomly NEEDING to revisit a fandom you haven’t seen in forever. Nothing happened to push you in this direction but you have chocolate and sprite and you want to go back and look into THAT fandom and maybe its from a cringey phase in your life and maybe you think it is stupid but regardless, you need to check in and then its an hour and a half later and you realize you ran out of andies candies. and fuck is it really that late already, i was just dropping by, whoops. (... Black Butler... I don’t know why. It just sort of happened.)

5) or like, you started a thing a while ago and kinda liked it but like... eh so woo now its time to finish that thing. Wait it has TWO WHOLE SPIN OFFS NOW uh... OKAY BINGE READING THIS SHIT TONIGHT. (Started reading a fanfic for a thing it had like 6 chapters. i bookmarked it. i was clearing out my bookmarks and i found it. it has 36 CHAPTERS and seriously two whole additional spin off serieses and like... yes. this was like a year ago and i don’t know why i am remembering this now but it deserves it’s place on the list)

6)or finding a fandom and loving the fandom but having no interest in the ships or anything or even the source material to the point that you don’t even really go watch the source material. you just sorta read all the fanfics that you happen across on this hell site and enjoy the headcannons and fanart and stuff because it seems cool but not like... something you would binge watch ( i am not stating what it is here because... as much as i love the fandom it scares me too. pretty sure they could kill me. Love you guys)

7) or starting a thing and getting really immersed in the fandom but not ever really finishing it so now you are like here but you don’t entirely know what’s going on so you just kind love everything and smile and die a little. (Hunter X Hunter. I started watching it with a friend. We never finished it. We got about halfway through what is on Netflix. I honestly don’t even remember the last thing to happen. but i love Killua and Gon and Hisoka is a fucking creep)

8) or like, you see a fandom/interest come across your dash so much that you just assume it was something you were interested in at some point and followed some poeple but then you like... forgot about it... and you don’t really remember anything about it. So like... you don’t really know. Maybe the people you follow just collectively started liking stuff they hadn’t before, which is fine, but you can never be quite sure. (i have seen A LOT of witchy stuff recently, and like... it seems in character for little fourteen year old me but like... i can’t quite tell...)

9)Or like, you see a post that is really random and it reminds you of that one thing you used to be really into but they are completely unrelated and you have no idea why that thing popped into your mind but you remember a surprising amount about it. (I really wanted to play trumpet. i did all of the bok studying but i was shit at playing. I practiced a lot... but it didn’t really work out. I saw a post about shoes the other day and i just kinda laughed for a minute remembering the trumpet thing and then i started remembering little facts and i just kinda... huh)

you know those feelings? like... those things that are like... is this something i am/was/could be/should be interested in? or is this just meh? you know the feeling? these are my questions. questions. fandom questions. questions in which i am too lazy/tired to use grammar. but questions none-the-less i think maybe. But yes, questions, where i may occasionally use actual words how they are supposed to be used. Anyway, yes.

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noerixo · 6 years

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Voltron Tag Game

Quick Voltron Q’s

I was tagged by @omgverybouquetkoala ♥️ thank you!

(I filled this out before S6 dropped and then forgot to post it whoops... but only felt the need to change one answer.... which will probably be obvious.)

How did you discover the show?

A couple fanarts came across my dash right after the series dropped and my first thought was “they rebooted Voltron again? Ugh” lmao. However, at the time I was becoming frustrated with the snk manga and also simultaneously going through some serious health problems so I was desperate to find a new fandom to distract myself from the fact that I was kinda dying lmao.

I had no idea who was behind the show or anything but looked it up, realized it was on Netflix and decided why not give it a try?

I decided to watch it mostly because I was really into Keith’s character design.

Was it love at first sight or did it take you a while to get into the show?

I did not like it at first lol. I just thought ok this is cute but obviously written for 8-year-olds and and I was pretty :/ so I was disappointed. I was disappointed in Keith too, he just kinda stood around most of the time he was the whole reason I watched so I was underwhelmed. I remember I kept season 1 playing in the background while I cleaned my house that night, only half paying attention and I stopped at like Episode 4 or 5 (whatever ep Lance gets hit with the explosion) and wasn’t sure if I’d ever finish it.

Then I spent that whole week worrying about Lance’s well-being and binged the rest of S1 my next day off. I haven’t really looked back since. But also never forget my irrational love for Lance is the only reason I got into this show lakfjwkfj.

Do you have a favorite episode?

Kral Zera The Black Paladins

Do you have a favorite Paladin?

Lance is still my favorite (gasp). Keith is a very close second.

Do you have a favorite Lion? (If it’s different from your fav Paladin, why?)

Red.

Which is both different from my favorite paladin and not. How’s that? I’ve also written Lance piloting the Red Lion in every fanfic I’ve written since 2016. You can’t trick me.

Do you have a favorite Villian?

I’m really interested to see how Haggar/Honverva’s story continues.

Do you have a favorite Alien Race? (Recurring and/or minor)

Mermaids.

Favorite side / other character(s)- Rebels, Generals, Blade of Marmora, Garrison, etc?

I like Zethrid. And I’m still mad about Thace getting killed.

How/Why did you join the fandom?

I literally joined the fandom overnight after finishing S1 lmao. My first fanart was of Allura (posted on a different blog and since deleted).

Care to share your favorite headcanon?

That Keith has fangs / freakishly sharp canines :0

What do you think is the best part of the show?

The characters!

Any hopes and wishes for future episodes / seasons?

I just want the characters to find happiness. I want Keith to not be alone. I want them all to bond and be each other’s extended family. All of them. Not just two characters for ship purposes. (¬_¬)

Do you think you’ll stick it out until the end of the show?

I guess since I’ve made it this far...

Tag your friends or someone you want to get to know better:

I think all my mutuals have already done this... maybe? If not, feel free to steal it and tag me. I’ll come read it!

#memes #tagged in

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Your colors lately are even more beautiful!!! Your art is amazing!

AHHHH thank you!!! so much!!!!!! I have, admittedly, finally been putting more effort into them haha it’s good to know it’s noticeable! ;;

Anon said:My dude, I want to own Bakugou's shirt in that Kamino squad drawing

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! happy you liked it!!!!! :D

Anon said:What do you think of Kaminari x Ibara or Toga x Twice?

I don’t really have strong feelings about either, honestly :O but the only person I really ship Ibara with is Tetsu, and I can’t say I’m much into villain-shipping in general

Anon said:Have you read Sweater Weather by crispykrimi?

Nope, I don’t really read tddk fics, sorry ^^’’

Anon said:Do you think kirishima goes to izuku and they talk about their relationships?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm honestly, while I realize that Kiri and Deku are on friendly terms, given canon I’d say if Kirishima needs to talk to anyone about stuff he’s gonna go to either Baku, Kami, Sero, Tokoyami or Mina, since those are the people we’ve seen him open up to, in canon! Same goes for Deku, if he gotta open up to someone it’s gonna be Iida, Todoroki or Uraraka :0 well, it’s not like it’s impossible for them to talk about it, but I can see it happen more in a possible future where they’ve grown closer than they are atm in canon! At least imho haha

Anon said:I just wanna say that I’ve been following you for a pretty long time (since the tattoo au was just starting I think) and you’re art just continues to improve and look amazing as time goes on. I’ve always loved it but these past couple days I saw some of ur recent stuff and was just blown away bc it looks so good. Thanks for drawing and sharing ur art w us, I love seeing it!! I hope u have a good day!!!

THAT SURE IS A LONG TIME!!! I’m so happy to hear you stuck around that long aaahhhhhh ;; and thank you so so so much for the compliment, oh my god!!

Anon said:have you ever considered kiribaku getting hit by someone w/ a body-swapping quirk?

I have! It’s a trope I find real funny - but I’ve also seen a whole lot of art/fics for that topic already, would people even seriously be interested in seeing more? It looks like the type of thing that’s gonna come out more or less always the same, which is why I never really bothered to draw out my ideas haha

Anon said:Your kids!au makes me wanna write so bad.

THAT’S GOOD!!! Inspiring people is the best thing I could ever ask for!!!! (...remember to credit back to the post if you use any of my ideas tho ;; pls)

Anon said:Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!!! I love love love looovee the kiribaku kids!!!!!!!!! Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!

THANK YOU!!!! I’m super happy you like themmm!!!!!

Anon said:Hey:) just wanted to leave you a note to let you know how much i adore the way you draw Tamaki. Of course I love your kiribakus and bnha art in general, like your comics, but not a lot of people draw Tamaki and I really love yours:)

Holy smokes thank you!!!! Jiki is actually incredibly comfortable to draw, I’m glad you like my take on him! I’ve got so many unfinished sketches of him.... I should really try to finish those...................

Anon said:so this ask is like,, basically a huge appreciation ask for your comics bc they're cute and funny and they always light up my day!! on a side note: are you franeridan on ao3 bc if so I'm dying thank you for bookmarking my fics

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!! And yes I am!!!! whatever fics they were if I bookmarked them they were for sure incredibly amazing and made my day better so thank you so much for using your time to write them!!!!!

Anon said:may i ask the heights of teenage mako and tai!!

Mako is just a little bit under 2m and Tai’s ~170cm! As things are then, Mako’s a lil bit taller than both Baku and Kiri while Tai is obviously shorter!

Anon said:i used your art for reference. is it ok if i post it crediting you and saying you drew the picture that i took reference from?

Sure, if it’s just for reference and credited I don’t mind! (but if you were using my stuff for pose references may I suggest you avoid doing that in the future cause my anatomy is absolutely terrible you’re just gonna end up making my same mistakes aaahhhhhhhhhhh ;; there’s lotsa more accurate refs around, believe me)

Anon said:please draw more shinsou he looks amazing in your style!!

Thank you! And sure, in the future why not!!

Anon said:Just wanted to let you know that I was scrolling through your bokuroo tag and 1) Aaaah I'm still so in love with how you draw kuroo and 2) I love how I can see the way your art style has improved over time and it's just so nice to see?? Bless your art so much and you're such a great person too I'm cry

SOB thank you so much oh my god, this really means the world to me???? ;; so many compliments holy smokes bless you

Anon said:Hi! I'm the anon that sent you the message about the A Day to Remember song for KiriBaku, and found another awesome song for them - Let Me Be by Escape the Fate. It's super cute and sappy for an alt/hardcore band and it fits Kiri more than Baku, imo, but could honestly come from either of their perspectives. ~SongAnon :)

AH GODS that’s sweet ;O; how come hardcore bands always go so soft on their ballads I cry - I feel it works perfectly from Baku’s pov too, tho!! Let him be Kiriiiiiii ;;; sweet

Anon said:I just wanted to say that I love your art and style as a whole, but I really really appreciate the way you draw Kirishimas eyebrows... like they look so simple but,,, they truly make my day 💕

Kirishima’s tiny eyebrows!!!! I’m glad you like them, they’re weirdly expressive and easy to draw honestly hahaha

Anon said:your art is shit //no no no nonno oo fdjsakfl;d I MEANT THE SHIT your art is the shit fjkdsa i'm so sorry i love you and your art this is why i can never compliment anyone ahhhhhhh //i'm crying omg i saw someone else send a separate ask to someone elase that was like your art is shit but it is the shit and i was like whoaaa how cool but noooooo jfsdakldsfa kms i'm sorry

This was a bit of a trainwreck ngl haha but it’s okay anon!!! It was an honest mistake, don’t worry too much about it!!! Thank you so so so much for liking my stuff

Anon said:Hi erm I believe that YouTuber "AnimeUproar" used your kinoko komori fanart without crediting you and I'm not sure whether you gave him permission. The title of the video is "EVERY QUIRK EXPLAINED! | Class 1-B (My Hero Academia / Boku no Hero Academia All Quirks)" // Same anon as before and he also used your Setsuna art in the same video. The kinoko art had your watermark cut off while the other one didn't but they still have no credit anywhere and I'm not sure whether you have permission. Sorry if you did and I'm just being stupid lmao but it's the same YouTuber and the same video in case you want to message him

If it’s not credited you can be sure I didn’t give them the green light to use it, honestly - but, you know. Whatever. I’m tired. Let them use it. It’s a video so it’s not even like people can save it and reupload it anywhere else. sigh

Anon said:I am like 2000 years late but,, your bakubaby sketches saved my life wow they’re so cute

*cries forever* thank you !!!!!!!!!!!! ;;O;;

Anon said:All of ur art especially recently is just??? Blowing me away?? Oh my god?? I just your coloring and then that fantasy one holy fuck the DETAILS I feel like I can touch it it's so good I can tell you put a lot of time into it it shows it shows so much god it's so high quality I'M STILL !?!?! your art seems to get better all the time thank youuuuuu for blessing us w it it's so incredibly lovely ahhhhhhhhh

I’M SO HECKING HAPPY YOU LIKED THAT ONE cause it really took forever honestly - it was fun from start to end so it’s fine, but, you know, it’s cool to see it was worth it haha thank you so so much for the complimentsss!!!!

Anon said:I love your art so much :') it makes me so happy whenever I get a notification from your blog

I still can’t believe people really have notifs on for this blog oh my g o d ;u; thank you

Anon said:I just wanted the share, that I came across your art in a trash, and scrolled down your blog looking for more, and I liked it so much that I decided to follow you... Only to find past self already did whoops haha. So I liked you enough to follow you twice!

THAT’S SO COOL!!! Holy smokes!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!! °O°

Anon said:I just went thru your whole art tag chronologically and omg you've come so far! Every time your art crosses my dash I smile and I'm happy every time I see it!

Have I? I have!! Sometimes I look at my really old art and I hate it and want to delete it but then I’m like, comparing it to the new stuff makes me feel good about it so it’s still there - that does mean sometimes people are gonna see the old stuff too, tho #rip I’m sorry you had to see that stuff, but thank you a lot for thinking I got better!!!!

Anon said:I love how Jirou's eyes look in your style. (How everything about her looks, too.) Damn, she's a stunner, isn't she?

*whispers* she is oh my g o d !!! I love Jirou. She’s just. So goodlooking. Gods. I’m glad you think she looks good in my style!!!

Anon said:ur momo and jirou are so beautiful!!! 💙 if i wasnt already as gay as it gets id have a major enlightenment rn ahhh

GOSH!!!! thank you so much!!!! :D

Anon said:have you considered... minamomo and/or kyooru

Never before Jirou and Tooru, actually, but I have thought about Mina and Momo and I’m still unsure about where that ship even came from. Like, not in the sense that I think it’s a bad ship, but in the sense that I really don’t understand it :0 why do you like Mina and Momo, anon? There’s so many people shipping it, I’m curious about where it came from! But every time I asked I got no answer #rip I wanna be interested in it, help me understand why it should be interesting!

Anon said:Have you ever considered Aoyama x Sero?? 10/10 recommend.

I haven’t! Mostly cause I generally hc Aoyama as ace, really - but that’s an interesting ship I might think about more :O

Anon said:I finally started reading BNHA again after dropping it in May and HOLY SHIT DID I MISS A LOT!! JUST THAT ARC WAS INSANE??

I know right??? I KNOW RIGHT????? I loved that arc from start to end, no lies anywhere, such a genuinely good arc!!!

Anon said:Hey fran, I just wanted to say that I like your art very much and that I love to see how much you are improving as time goes on. You are doing great. ♥

So many people telling me that I’m improving oh my g o d it makes me so happy ;u; thank you so so much

Anon said:ahhhh i loved your aokaga drawings, they're the cutest and I hope you make more of them being cute together!!!!

Eek, sorry anon but I’m really not into making content for that ship anymore ;^; I’m glad you still like the old things, tho!!

Anon said:I really wanted to tell you that I love your art so much I can't even explain. It cures my anxiety and I'm not kidding. When I feel down and shitty, I just go through your blog and your fanarts make my day (my favorite ever is your bokuro). The way you put the emotions into characters gives me life, honestly. Thank you for your art

THIS MEANS!!! THE WORLD!!!! TO ME!!!!! Knowing that I can help you like that is such a good feeling anon, holy heck!! Thank you so much for liking my things and sending this ask!!!

Anon said:heyo tell us abt some kami angst hcs :)))) tenk youu

Anon............. love............... whatever in this blog made you think I might have angst headcanon about anything..................... I’m the most fluff person around............

Anon said:That idea you had about making hagakure's costume out of her hair or something like mirio's!!! WHAT A GREAT IDEA IVE NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THAT BEFORE!! You're so smart! I LOVE IT

THANK YOU BUT IT WASN’T JUST MY IDEA!!! After Mirio explained his costume the idea was floating around on my dash a lot, it just made sense to a bunch of us!!

#fran answers #seriously so many people telling me my stuff is improving #it's making me so happy cause i feel like im slacking off so hard lately jesus christ ;u;#thank you !! <3 #anonymous

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