Chapter 1: Constellation
the first full chapter of my fic is finally published. nevermind Ao3's numbering, since they don't seem to have prologues. the chapter is here:
bit of a peak:
Hwa
New Atlantis was like nothing she’d ever seen before. Growing up on Neon, she was certainly familiar with the ocean, but never had she seen man-made pools of water that were created for the sole purpose of being pretty. Also, the much lower gravity gave her a sense of floating. This was…freedom. She grinned maniacally and ran up to the pool outside of MAST. Vasco, somehow with his electronic voice, sounded displeased. “Captain Kim. Protocol Indigo requires me to bring you to The Lodge.”
Hwa ignored the robot and jumped into the pool causing a bunch of passerbys to stare. But she didn’t care. This was so amazing and so beautiful! As someone who lived all of their life in the narrow, grungy alleys of Ebbside and the Underbelly, rarely getting to see the sun, this was her idea of heaven. She laughed uproariously and splashed and jumped like a small child. Neon was very far away, indeed.
What a turn her life had gone! Just two weeks ago she was in a shoot-out on Neon over an Aurora deal gone bad. Her superiors usually didn’t send her on jobs like that since she was too valuable an asset for street deals. But, this job required breaking into some pretty high level areas and terminals. So, they ordered her to go. At least the experience refreshed her training, which was a help when the Crimson Fleet arrived on Vectera. Barrett and Lin were shocked at how well she handled herself. She alone had taken out half the pirates. In fact, Lin looked a little scared of Hwa. Prior to the fire fight, Lin thought Hwa was just another dusty.
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What is up with all the *insert character from The Outsiders* × reader crap? Like, bro. All I wanted was some good ol' Johnnyboy posts and you give me this. Like, why? Smh.
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~The role of the king is a lonely one to play~
Song by CG5 : Lonely King
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Hey homestuck people
Should i read homestuck? i know literally nothing about it except it's long as fuck. i am trusting tumblr with what i spend my free time for the forseeable future and i'm sure i won't regret this! (i'll update all 0 people who care whenever i reach the end of... whatever grouping system this long john novel of a webcomic has)
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I've been seeing a lot of posts lately talking about how no one comments/reblogs/replies/etc anymore, and, as someone who comments regularly on a lot of fanworks, it sometimes makes me wonder if my efforts are worth anything. Then I remember how much happiness I get from comments on my own work/posts and how much the community of fandom can matter, and I remember the power that can be found in spreading joy instead of disappointment.
So -- to everyone who comments on fanfiction: thank you. You make the writing process worthwhile and so very rewarding. You make people happy every day.
To all the people who reblog art and gifsets and meta and anything else with enthusiastic tags: thank you. You make people smile and promote interesting conversations and make being on Tumblr so much more fun.
To anyone who sends people asks about their works, whether it's unprompted or part of an ask game: thank you. You give people reasons to talk about things they love and feel like a part of a community.
To the people who makes reclists: thank you. You give us more to read while showing the author how much their work is loved and appreciated, benefitting so many people.
To everyone who organizes events and groups and blogs and dedicated to fandom: thank you. You build community and love and excitement so effectively and it's wonderful.
To all the authors and artists who respond to comments and build community: thank you. You make people smile with your work and then again with your response.
To everyone who contributes to fandom and community in all the other beautiful, varied ways that I can't even begin to list: thank you. You are why we're here.
And, finally, to every writer, visual artist, gifmaker, cosplayer, maker of edits, writer of meta, or creator of art in any other form: thank you. Your work is wonderful and you make fandom what it is, regardless of who sees your art or how much response you recieve.
Keep going, everyone. You are a part of something beautiful.
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My brain could not decide whether I should draw Undertale or Deltarune
So why not both ?
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there’s a question to be asked i think about to what extent “getting out” can be conflated with “being saved” in this show, and what freedom actually means to any of these characters.
like you can argue that shiv saved ken by voting against him on gojo, but what if your intent behind saving someone is to inflict a worse punishment than if you’d just left them trapped? can a child weaned on poison survive on milk, or are you just sentencing them to a death by inches, starved of the only thing they know? and if you save someone specifically because you know that being saved is the worst thing that can happen to them, is that kindness or cruelty? at what point does a good thing become a malicious act?
and you can say that roman is finally free, but what exactly is he free from? the company? his father? does unlocking a cage mean saving a dog, or are you allowing him out on the street knowing there’s a kill shelter nearby? if the driving anxiety behind roman is that he’s an idiot and a failure—that he’ll never amount to anything, and trying will only lead to pain—and he’s finally cut loose once all of those anxieties have crystallized into cold hard fact in his mind, what has he actually escaped from? if the cage is in your mind, is it even possible for somebody else to unlock it?
the fundamental truth of a tragedy is that even being saved can be a death sentence, if the characters are incapable of escaping the thing doing them the most harm (themselves and their childhoods)
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