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15-lizards · 16 days

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Why are the riverlands stuck in early middle ages while the westerlands and other places are like already in renaissance fashion, what would be the in world explanation for that? I know that nobles from different southern regions probably don't have THAT much contact but still things like tournaments and intermarriages could be enough to bring influence from one region to another, no? So I kind of don't understand how fashions like of the stormlanders and riverlanders still exist and they didnt start to wear things like stiffened bodices and stays yet

not a critique, i'm only curious. your headcannon posts are always a feast for the eyes

I have a couple lines of reasoning actually

1. Straight up vibes.

2. Westeros is supposedly obscenely big (like South America size if I’m correct) and this is a pseudo-medieval fantasy, meaning that fashions travel and develop slowly. Though you are right some places should have adopted certain aspects of a fashion, but I imagine that they don’t either due to the climate or level of practicality. So yeah obviously people shouldn’t be wearing early medieval and high renaissance fashions at the same time, but I just try to give a vague guideline for my headcanons as to what people might wear, I don’t mean anything concrete by it! Again, since this is a fantasy, I tend to imagine these pieces of clothing as not exact expys of their historical counterparts, but inspired by them

#asoiaf hair and clothing #I think ab this a lot actually #but Westeros is fucking gigantic and things move slow and also different climate #or at least that’s my reasoning #though they should all have some similar base level of clothing

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bucketsofmonsters · 2 months

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hi oh my goodness I discovered you today and I can't get enough of your writing! Its all so lovely!! I was wondering if you've ever done/plan on doing any oneshots or series with a transfem reader? :>

Pls ur too sweet, thank you!!💕 I’ve absolutely thought about it but I wouldn't say I’m actively planning anything. For a canonically trans woman reader, I worry about being accurate to trans women, I’d have to put a lot of time and thought into it but its something I'd be totally willing to do.

In terms of reader characters, I try to keep my readers as open ended as possible, let people put what they want onto a character, but I do tend towards readers (or just pov characters in any smut I write) with the parts I’m familiar with. Hence the whole ‘afab reader’ thing I do a lot where I avoid gendered language to let people project the gender they’d prefer onto the reader, just inform people of the genitalia they'll have. Most of my readers live in a genderless void without pronouns or names or anything else I can avoid. My problem is simply that I am not experienced enough with penises to write from the pov of someone with one comfortably lol, otherwise there’d be no problem. I certainly would be open to trying, especially if someone came to me with an idea they wanted to see, I just worry about being authentic more importantly to a trans experience and less importantly but also difficult for me, with being able to portray the biology properly.

Long story short, I’m absolutely open to it I just would want to make sure I’m doing it respectfully and truthfully in all aspects if that makes any sense

#asks #I think ab this a lot actually #it’s a strong maybe from me lol #I hope I phrased this all okay #also obv you can project whatever you want onto my readers #if you want to decide they’re post op trans women I think that’s wonderful and I support you #also idk if this is an issue but is afab reader something that is understandable and practical??#I don't want to make anyone feel excluded but its the best way I can think of to convey readers genetalia when relevant #open to ideas tho

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fearforthestorm · 1 year

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okay so. plates.

there's a post floating around on here somewhere about a ceramics class where half the students were instructed to make as many pots as possible no matter the quality, and the other half were instructed to make only one high-quality pot. by the end of the class, the students who had made lots of pots were making better pots than the ones who were supposed to make one perfect pot, and the lesson there was that you get better at things by making more things and letting yourself be bad at it, rather than trying to make one perfect thing.

you have to make shitty things because you have to make things, because making things at all is more important than making good things, because making shitty things is how you make better things.

a friend made the joke that "maybe not THAT shitty though, like that's not even a shitty pot anymore that's just a plate," and while i kind of agree (that's a whole different post), i also immediately went another layer deep with the metaphor: even if it's not a pot, a plate will still teach you things. a plate has its own purpose, independent of a pot - it's job isn't to be a pot, it's not going to teach you the same things that a pot would, but it has a purpose too. just because it's not what you wanted to make or meant to make doesn't mean it's not useful! nothing made is ever wasted.

#.lyr #exactly two people have the full context of the conversation that got me thinking about this #sorry our jokey conversations on late night vc got me thinking about what it means to create. yeah its all philosophical now. sorry :/#(/j)#idk i just have a lot of thoughts ab what it means to make things. to be someone who makes things.#no creation is ever wasted actually. yeah even the really shitty ones that are actually plates.#and if youre still making stuff? youre doing really really good. doesnt matter if its plates or pots or anything else.#youre making things. thats the important part.

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unfinishedslurs · 11 months

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do u love the colors of the comphet

When it’s over, when Henry Creel is dead and dust and they’ve emerged battered and triumphant. When she and Jonathan have ended things. When there is no more fighting to be done, she and Steve give it another go.

She knows he’s going to ask the same way she knew in ‘83. There’s no waiting this time, no need to wonder if Jonathan might want her too. They gave it the old college try (He lied to her. He was lying to her for months, and she knew something was wrong before that. She thought they could work it out. She’s so fucking sick of lying to herself being lied to).

He asks with wide, hopeful eyes, running a nervous hand through his hair. He doesn’t have anything to be nervous about. She made up her mind before he even asked.

She can do it right this time. She can love this boy the way she wants to. The way he wants her to. They’ve both grown in the years since. She’s going to do this right.

That’s the mantra she keeps in her head when he picks her up and spins her. I can do this.

She can’t do this.

It’s somehow the same and different from when they dated the first time. They’re going through the same motions, but there’s something lacking. They’re both older, more jaded. They’re not kids anymore, and it shows.

They rarely kiss. He hesitates now in a way he didn’t before. Sex is something they don’t bring up at all. Eddie makes a crude joke once, something or other about what Nancy is like in bed, and she and Steve make eye contact. There’s something there, something like mutual understanding, before Robin smacks Eddie upside the back of the head and the moment breaks. She keeps thinking about it long after. Whatever it is that they shared, they don’t talk about it.

Maybe they’re lying to themselves, both of them. Puppets going through the motions, too stubborn to admit they’re play acting as real people. Still, she can’t give this up. She can’t make the same mistakes all over again.

Robin corners her two months into the relationship. Part of Nancy is surprised it took her this long. The rest of her is angry she brings it up at all.

Saying she’s cornered might be doing her a disservice. They’re having a sleepover, painting their nails and talking about boys. Everything a girl is supposed to do. Except Robin is awkward and fumbling, and every name she brings up sounds like a question. Nancy only has Steve to talk about, and barely talks about him at all.

Finally Robin sighs and puts down the nail polish. “I feel like this subject is making us both miserable,” she declares. “I don’t want to talk about boys, I was just doing it because I thought that’s what you’re supposed to do at girl sleepovers. I haven’t actually been to a sleepover since I was in middle school and the other girls decided I was weird, but I’m pretty sure the point is to have fun. This is not fun. This is agonizing. We should talk about something else.”

“Steve isn’t making me miserable!” She snaps, before realizing she sounds way too defensive.

Robin peers at her. “Yeah, see, that’s not what I said. That’s not even a little bit close to what I said. Maybe we should talk about this instead. What’s the deal with you and Steve?”

“What deal? There’s no deal.” She turns around and rummages through the nail polish selection. Robin doesn’t exactly have a variety. Her options are red, dark red, and black. She chooses the brighter red with the absent thought that the black would look good on Robin, with her long fingers and dark eyeliner. Then she banishes that thought away.

“There’s definitely some kind of deal.”

“There isn’t.”

“Nance.”

She can’t help but turn around then, drawn in by the tone of her voice. There’s a glass wall inside of her, and someone is pounding on it, trying to get out. She wants Robin to see it. She wants someone to see behind the glass. There’s something in her trying to get out.

“Nancy,” she says again, eyes searing into her soul, “are you happy?”

She smiles, fake and fixed on her face. The glass stays firmly in place. “Of course I am,” she replies. “Why wouldn’t I be?”

The next time Robin wants to hang out, she’s busy with college preparations.

It’s not just Robin. She thinks everyone can tell something’s wrong with her. Eddie gives her these looks every time she and Steve are in front of him, like he’s putting together a puzzle. Her mom keeps trying to talk to her. Jonathan keeps trying to talk to her.

They know, she thinks wildly, every time. She doesn’t know what it is they know. She doesn’t want to find out.

She avoids them all.

When she and Steve go to dinner, the waitress captivates her.

Long, dark hair in braids. Long fingers tapping against the notepad. Dark eyes in a dark face. She’s always loved brown eyes. Nancy has never been one to be jealous of other girls (lie, lie, lie), but suddenly heat floods her body. She wants to be as gorgeous as this woman. She wants her full lips, popping gum. She wants the woman’s swaying hips as she turns and leaves their table. She wants— she wants—

She tears her gaze away to find Steve already looking at her.

The heat is dosed by the ice that fills her veins. All her senses go on high alert until she realizes he’s actually staring past her. She turns around to see the bartender. He’s handsome, she thinks, tall with tan skin and brown hair carefully styled. He’s talking to a customer, teeth shining as he laughs.

When she turns back, Steve has firmly fixed his eyes on her. She could almost believe he’d never been staring at the bartender at all.

There’s something there. Something just out of reach, something she could put a finger out and touch if she were braver. She doesn’t. There’s no gun in her hand here, no adrenaline to keep her going after it all falls apart.

“What did your dumb boyfriend do this time?” Mike demands, storming in her room. Nancy has half a mind to yell at him to knock first before she registers his words.

“Steve is- Steve is fine,” she says, startled. “He’s great, actually. Nothings wrong.“

“Then why are you so miserable all the time?” Mike accuses.

“I am not miserable!”

“You are! You both are, and neither of you will tell anyone what’s wrong, or why-“

“I don’t know why!” She shrieks. Mike falls silent, eyes wide, and Nancy suddenly realizes she’s crying.

“I don’t know why,” she repeats. “Everything is fine. He’s like, the perfect fucking boyfriend. It’s me, I’m the problem. There’s something wrong with me. There’s a beautiful boy who loves me, and I’m- I’m trying. I’m trying so hard to love him back, but I can’t. I can’t. There’s something wrong with me.” She’s desperate now, wiping away tears as she curls into a ball. She feels pathetic, crying in front of her little brother. She’s the oldest, she should be keeping it together, she shouldn’t let him see her like this. But she can’t help it. There’s something in her screaming to get out.

Mike, with all the grace and bewilderment of a newborn deer, gingerly pats her shoulder.

“Have you…talked to Steve about it?”

She gives him a cutting look. It’s probably not as effective as she wants it to be, with her red eyes and tear streaked face. Mike holds his hands up.

“I’m just saying! He’s your boyfriend, you should talk to him. And if you don’t want him to be your boyfriend, you should really talk to him.”

“I want him to be my boyfriend, I just need to get past whatever this is—“

“Nancy,” Mike says. “It’s not just you. He’s miserable too.”

“Because of me. I just need to—“

Mike shakes his head. “I don’t think it is. If it were because of you, he’d be acting different. More…kicked puppy, or whatever. He’s just being weird, and won’t tell anyone why. Dustin said he asked Robin, and she doesn’t even know.”

Nancy doesn’t have anything to say to that.

“I think you need to talk to him,” he says again. “I think you need to talk to each other.”

“When did you get so smart?” She asks, instead of crying again.

“I’ve always been smarter than you.”

She kicks him for that blatant lie.

“Are we holding onto a dead thing?” She asks out loud.

He rolls over and looks at her. She’s worried she’s hurt his feelings, broken his heart again, killed any chance they have at a relationship, romantic or not. Then he snorts.

“Robin got to you too, huh?” He asks, flopping back onto his back to look up at the sky.

“Mike, actually.”

“Mike? That shithead? What does he know about relationship problems?”

“Are we having relationship problems?”

“I mean,” he says, wry twist to his mouth, “we haven’t had any arguments.”

“Nope.”

“Or general drama.”

“That might be debatable.”

“There’s no need to spice up our sex life.”

She snacks him for that one, and he laughs. She props herself up to look him in the eye. His face is more open than she’s seen it the entire time they’ve been dating.

“I think you have to be in a relationship to have ‘relationship problems,’” she tells him. “Are we in a relationship?”

He visibly considers this. “I mean, I asked you out, and you said yes. And we never broke up.”

“We haven’t kissed in at least two weeks.”

“Did you want to?”

She takes a moment to think about it. “Not really,” she admits, and his face splits into a grin.

“Not that you’re not still wonderful, Nancy Wheeler,” he says, teeth shining, “but I don’t think I want to kiss you either. Isn’t that weird?”

When they dated in high school, it was like he couldn’t stand being away from her. He spent every moment he could kissing her, wherever he could. Sometimes it felt almost like a performance he put on for the people around them, lifting her up and spinning her just so everyone would know how in love they were. It was stifling at times, feeling like something to prove. Still, it was how he was, so in love he could burst with it.

Now, she wonders if it was always a performance. Maybe they’ve both been on a stage, and neither of them noticed the lights blinding them until now.

“It is a little weird,” she says finally.

“Right?!”

He holds out a hand to shake, the other one firmly in his pocket. God, she wishes she could love him. “Good go, eh Wheeler?” He asks, smile crooked and shaky.

She snorts. “We made ourselves and everyone around us miserable,” she points out. But she takes his hand.

#do u love the colors of the comphet au #nancy wheeler #robin buckley #steve harrington #lesbian Nancy Wheeler #gay steve harrington #stranger things fanfic #stancy but make it the most tense awkward awful decision these two have possibly ever made. out of a lot of awful decisions #blah blah blah smth ab growing up and growing older and wanting a redo for your past mistakes #and wanting to feel the way you did before it all went wrong #but you realize that maybe you were idolizing that past version of yourself that never really existed #and maybe you never wanted it in the first place. maybe you only told yourself you did #maybe it would have gone wrong anyway #i don’t outright say Steve or Nancy are gay in this but it’s HEAVILY hinted at #they’re not ready to admit it to themselves yet. and that’s okay. the world isn’t ending. they have time #*slaps roof of nancy wheeler* this baby can fit so much projection in it #i feel like I need to say I’m not anti-stancy. i actually do like stancy when it’s done well. HOWEVER #i don’t think bringing it back two seasons later in one of the weirdest ways possible is doing it well I’m sorry #Maybe if we get a stoncy make out sesh in s5 I’ll change my mind #*crossing my fingers for a post-monster killing stoncy make out sesh in s5*#the ONLY ship I want to be canon. and the one least likely to happen. it’s so hard shipping polyamory I should watch sense8 #why did I go on this rant. idk. enjoy <333

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snickerdoodlles · 6 months

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YOI ? 🙏

it took me a little while to dig through my mess of a folder, but the story idea that made me snort the hardest when i rediscovered it was a 'Yuuri on tinder' fic. this is everything i have for it:

Yuuri is legendary on tinder. “No I’m not,” grumbles Yuuri, attempting to ignore Phichit’s dramatics using the very devil at the heart of the issue. This is not his fault. Sean Richardson’s adorable Dalmatian is in three of his four profile pics and Yuuri is in love. He thumbs fly across the screen, phone dinging with another match. Phichit gasps, phone out. “And Yuuri achieves a match again! That’s right folks, Yuuri Katsuki continues to do the impossible and achieve a match for every swipe right!” Yuuri rolls his eyes. It’s all nonsense, of course. Vicchan is in every one of his profile pics and clearly the main draw of his flock of admirers. Which is completely fine for Yuuri. He’s only on tinder for the pets, it’s good he’s drawing a like-minded crowd.

i don't remember the exact plot of this story (undoubtedly because i was sure i'd never forget it), but one day, Yuuri decides to get a tinder to meet fellow pet owners. im sure his logic when he did this was impeccable. yuuri is very oblivious to how successful he is on tinder. Yuuri pets so many dogs, sleeps with so many people (coincidence, he's sure), and Viktor is absolutely in love with Yuuri's massive photo album of dogs until he discovers how Yuuri met all of them (cue Viktor struggles, because DOGS but also JEALOUSY) (and also why won't Yuuri sleep with him, he brought his dog all the way from Russia 😭)

#yuri on ice #i feel like there was a specific plot i had for this one but ???????#OH ACTUALLY what would be hilarious: i think this concept was for post-sochi BUT make it pre-sochi #yuuri swipes right because nice abs ft a dog that looks a lot like vicchan/makkachin #is MORTIFIED when he arrives and there's a viktor in tow to an actual makkachin #tries to run away with makkachin still in his arms #viktor is rushing after him because :D :D :D HELLO :D! :D! :D!#ask game: fics im not writing

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c0smic-v0mit · 4 months

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Recently I've been playing games from a series called Oddworld and I had to draw Abe & Munch! I wanted to draw Abe in the more realistic look of Soulstorm and the more cartoony look of the original games too! :D

(sorry if the drawings look a bit off, I've never drawn Abe & Munch before and I haven't done traditional art in ages lmao)

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lovedazai · 6 months

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i dunno if you count this as a req or not (tell me if you do because some writers i also follow don’t, just tell me <3), but i wonder how dazai would be with a reader that hates alcohol? like to the point even the smell makes them feel nauseous 😭 also i hope you’re alright, mai!!

ur ok nonnie !! i never mind getting dazai asks, i can talk ab him forever & ever !! oo my first thought was “dw he’ll drink enough for the both of u” but then i read the rest hehe….i def think he’d tease u ab it >:/ it might make him change his habits at least a little if u refuse to cuddle up w him cus he stinks like alcohol :< he’d even try to clean up his room before u come over im picturing him kicking all the bottles like into his closet so u dont see them, hes trying his best !!

#valentines #dazai love club ⊹ 𓂃 ｡ ‧ ₊#i know everyone talks ab chuuya n wine but i actually think dazai is closer to an alcoholic than he is >:/ !!#ps im ok nonnie !! <3 sending u lots of love mwah!!!!!!

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brookheimer · 1 year

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been seeing some weird takes ab the shiv pregnancy. like being ambivalent about how the writers will play it is one thing — it could end up being an incredible exploration into shiv’s internal life and her as a person beyond her relationships with men, but there are also a lot of ways to fuck up a pregnancy narrative and most are exercises in thinly veiled sexism, so it’s only natural to feel uncertain. we just don’t know how it’ll go yet!

…..buuuut. saying that pregnancy playing a role at all in shiv’s life/arc/character inherently reduces her to being The Woman just feels soooo like … rooted in internalized misogyny to me? that’s kinda doing the same thing as everyone always does — thinking less of a woman once she shows signs of, y’know, actually ‘being a woman’ quote unquote. a female character won’t stop being fully-fleshed-out, strong, independent, and interesting the second she get pregnant. pregnancy isn’t, like, just a sexist trope, guys. it’s a real thing with real importance in the lives of many, many people! pregnancy isn’t reductive to women, it’s just a part of life for some women! a lot of the time it feels like ‘good female characters’ are only seen as ‘good’ so long as you can almost forget that they’re female, so long as they act so ‘masculine’ it’s like they’re just a regular complex male character repackaged in a female body. but to be a complex female character, you’re going to have a relationship to your gender! that’s inevitable and necessary in order to actually create a good female character, rather than a good character who just so happens to be female. and this isn’t even touching upon the weird essentialism of being like oh womanhood = pregnancy & vice versa like…. y’all are complaining about the show ‘reducing shiv to womanhood’ but are you sure you’re not doing that? and besides what do you even mean ‘reduced to womanhood’? was she not a woman before? is she only a woman now that she’s pregnant? just some fucking bizarre takes all around.

the rest is under the cut because this got long, sorry !

i mean, why are we acting like the decision to explicitly explore shiv’s relationship with motherhood and femininity is bad writing and rooted in misogyny — like, not even the way it’s done, just the decision to make shiv pregnant? like, making a female character pregnant is not sexist in itself, at all! that is just part and parcel of some women’s lives! the only reason you would think pregnancy as a concept for a woman is sexist is if your internalized misogyny makes you think that pregnancy weakens or devalues a ‘strong woman’ !!! why are y’all acting like pregnancy is this terrible emasculating trope that puts the curse of Woman on characters like you sound like the roy men

and, like, maybe the storyline will suck! maybe it’ll be shitty and weird and not-so-secretly misogynistic. maybe the way they end up writing it will be yet another Career Woman Grows Heart And Has Kids or the equally bad Career Woman Feels Forced To Reject ‘Womanhood’ Entirely And That’s Supposed To Be Empowering narrative. but maybe it won’t. maybe it’ll be fucking great. maybe it’s fucking needed — maybe it will try to unravel to undo this exact centuries-long prejudice against pregnancy, against women who ‘act like’ women, whatever that’s supposed to mean. we just don’t know yet. so, like, while it is so fair to feel ambivalent about this development, maybe try to figure out what the root of that ambivalence is — is it fear that the writers will fuck it up, or is it your own pre-existing biases about pregnancy and stereotypically ‘feminine’ experiences and traits? because, yknow. it just feels kind of weird to act like the mere existence of pregnancy in the arc of a female character is inherently diminishing and reductive to her — after all, what you’re saying between the lines is not only that pregnancy diminishes and reduces independent powerful women to just being women, but youre also literally reducing the entirety of womanhood to pregnancy and the entirety of pregnancy to womanhood, and all of that feels just, like. a strange stance to take, maybe

#this is not about anyone or anything in particular!!!! i’ve just seen a lot of random weird posts and tags that just have these undertones #of internalized misogyny and judgment towards pregnancy and a lot of things that i just like… don’t think people really meant to say #if that makes sense. like it’s not purposeful there’s just some really weird language being thrown around that just feels very like… judgin #a woman for ‘acting like’ a woman #which is inherently a weak bad thing #like womanhood and strength are not diametrically opposed guys. you don’t have to choose between self-respect and femininity #actually this is getting into another arg about the unempowering nature of a lot of abortion plotlines these days but that’s for another #time so i digress #might delete this later i’m not trying to like start drama. i’m just thinking thoughts ab shit i’ve seen on reddit twitter sometimes here #sometimes articles…. idk. just thinking thoughts here fr #succession #succession spoilers #shiv roy #casey shut the fuck up about shiv roy #100

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