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not-poignant · 10 months

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There's been lots of Temsen talk around here, so I thought I'd drop by and tell you how grateful I am for TND and Temsen in particular. (TW scars) I have scarring on both sides of my torso. It's not raised or painful, but it's very obviously there because of the colour difference with the rest of my skin. It looks like spots and mottles. In TND, you wrote about an old sickness that ended up causing some Vench's skin to have spots and mottles (maybe some of them were just born like that? Im unsure) Until it was revealed that that's how the spots and mottles came to be, I had envisioned the Vench as these beautiful creatures, you know? And after the backstory, I still did. It made me realise that someone else may find my spots beautiful too (although, I realise I'm not an underground skin touch wowie creature, so it's different, lol). What I'm trying to say is that that part of TND but also just TND as a whole has helped me work through and accept so many parts of myself. Once it's finished, may I print it? To keep it on my bookshelf :). If I were a better artist, I'd draw something for you from TND, and if I were a better writer, I'd write. I'm really trying to convey how much TND means to me, and I don't think I can properly. I wish I could make you a 7 course meal, because I am a decent cook! If I didn't love you before (I did), I certainly do now, for having created this wonderful story and blessing us with it. I hope you continue to do things you enjoy and take breaks and eat good food!! Love <3

Hi anon! Tbh a 7 course meal sounds nice, I've only eaten mandarins today, because I've been in too much pain/fatigue to manage like...meals. So I'm always very amazed / in awe when other people have the energy to make things like sandwiches.

In TND, you wrote about an old sickness that ended up causing some Vench's skin to have spots and mottles (maybe some of them were just born like that? Im unsure) Until it was revealed that that's how the spots and mottles came to be, I had envisioned the Vench as these beautiful creatures, you know?

Tbh, anon, all of the mottles except for very few which look very specific (and have only been described once), are all not scars, but very beautiful, shining parts of the vench's bodies. I mean, Augus also perceives the scars from the rotting sickness that Wirth explains as beautiful (it is a white, shining scar that's very noticeable), but every other time vench mottles are mentioned, they're just a part of the vench's normal skin, in the same way that frogs also have very pretty blotches/mixed colourations. Mottles are clan specific (scars aren't), in terms of their colours (in fact hair, eye, and mottle colour are all clan specific in The Nascent Diplomat).

So envisioning vench as beautiful creatures who have naturally occurring mottles (that aren't scars - the scars only affected one generation of vench and they are the vast minority, the only one we've met so far is Wirth) is what was intended re: the story.

That being said, I really love your interpretation of things as well. I've written stories in the past where characters have quite serious scars, and their love interest has always seen them as beautiful or as neutral, as having merit or as signifying how strong the person with the scars was, or generally as being significant in some way. Stories like Into Shadows We Fall, The Golden Age that Never Was, The Beast that Chose Its Own Bridle, Stuck on the Puzzle, even moments in The Spoils of the Spoiled, Falling Falling Stars, and it will be present in stories like Mallory & Mount as well. It's definitely something I've spent time on as a concept, even if it's not something I did for more than about five seconds in The Nascent Diplomat!

In that sense, I definitely think you will meet someone who either finds your scars beautiful, or alternatively, just a neutral, normal part of you. I have over 3 metres of surgical scars on my body, anon, and that doesn't include the scars I have for other reasons (stretch marks for example). Some of those scars are in very obvious places, some aren't, but there's very few parts of my body you can look at without seeing at least some.

Meanwhile my partners both have freckles absolutely everywhere (though they're fading now, as they get older), and I think that's amazing and really cool, and I love those freckles, and I don't understand how anyone could mock someone for it, because that just doesn't compute to me.

No body is perfect, and any body that is, will not be perfect for long, we all have an expiry date, we all attain scars and wrinkles and blotches and freckles and warts and hormonal discolourations (I have two dark patches on my cheeks from being on the combined Pill for such a long time - my Mum always covered hers with foundation, I don't cover mine at all, it doesn't seem like there's much of a point when I have a 20cm scar on my neck anyway.

Learning to at least be neutral with our bodies, is an admirable and I would say even necessary goal. Learning to be positive or loving our bodies is amazing for the folks who can get there!

Once it's finished, may I print it? To keep it on my bookshelf :).

Of course!!!

I apologise for not having put down the kind of profound meaning that you picked up from the story, but I still really support and love that interpretation, especially since I've written versions of it across so many narratives in the past, and will continue to in the future. Your interpretation makes the narrative a lot more powerful, and that you turned it into something that you could use to help transform your feelings towards yourself and your scars and your body is an absolute credit to you. I think you're amazing :) <333

#asks and answers #long post #the nascent diplomat #fae tales worldbuilding #pia on worldbuilding #the scars are intended to be beautiful #augus goes out of his way to ask if it's appropriate to call them comely #because he finds them very pretty #(but it's good to ask because some people don't like their scars being commented on in this way)#but anyway your interpretation is top tier anon #i really appreciate you sharing it with me #administrator gwyn wants this in the queue

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mrs-lockley · 1 year

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(I'm definitely not procrastinating)

⭐⭐⭐SPAMMING YOU WITH STARS NYEEEEEOW ⭐⭐⭐

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I wanna learn more about your Kapangpangan fic! I need crumbs please I'm begging KAJHSDKJAS Anything you wanna share! (Also love love love your work and your support! Literally you are so kind HNNGGG)

Hehe thank you Nelly! I'm actually struggling with part 2 right now so this will help me sort my thoughts out! I'll do 9 facts for each star 😘

Where the Spirit Meets the Bones was partly inspired by the Little Mermaid. I was surprised I haven't seen a Little Mermaid AU for Namor, so I decided to write one! I debated on making her a Sirena because I did see a few Sirena/Mermaid fics in the tag, but after doing some research, I decided to settle on Sirena because I felt that a Sirena was right for her.

The title and premise of the fic is inspired by the song ivy by Taylor Swift, my favorite song from my favorite album by her (Evermore is her best work and completely underrated, imo). The entire song screamed Namor to me and if you look closely at the lyrics, it'll give many hints to more of the reader's backstory. 👀👀

Speaking of the reader's backstory, it's been hinted at throughout the first part, but she was human before she became a Sirena. How she became a Sirena and why the ocean spared her life will be revealed in part 2! She may seem sweet in part 1, but she has just as many skeletons in the closet and darkness like Namor. She's just better at hiding it.

Originally I was going to have Namor and our Sirena meet when she rescues him at sea because she was intrigued by the wings on his ankles and pointed ears. But I scrapped that idea because I wanted more of a slow burn and build up before that meeting. That’s when I got the idea of her finding Namor visiting his mother on the seashore and leaving behind the jasmine flowers as an offering.

Although he did not know what our Sirena looked like when she rescued him, Namor painted jasmine flowers in his cavern to mark that that was the first time he was nearly discovered by humans in a foreign land, but was saved by her.

His original intentions were to learn more about her to see if she was a princess or goddess that he could have diplomatic ties with, so he restored her necklace with vibranium and offered two Talokanil pearls as a possible token of diplomacy and courtship. But all that changed when he and the Sirena meet face-to-face for the first time. It was almost love at first sight, but it was definitely love at first sound.

I went back and forth on having it be a standalone, but then I decided to make it a duet. I have several ideas for part 2 that I don’t want to spoil too much, and depending how long it is, I might make it 3 parts if people are still interested 👀 It would take place over the course of the 20th century and lead up to modern day

Part 2 will go more in-depth about their relationship, and I may or may not be planning on incorporating the bakunawa as a metaphor for their relationship since I already did a lot of emphasis on them meeting under a bright moon

Ultimately I made the reader a Sirena Kapampangan because while I do love reading Filipino!reader fics, I felt a little isolated because I don’t understand a lot of Tagalog. My parents only spoke Kapampangan at home (I can speak a little bit (but understand Kapampangan fluently), my mom made me speak English when she spoke to me in Kapampangan so I wouldn’t struggle with English) so I struggle with grammar sometimes and don’t really know which is my first language. I did pick up a little bit of Tagalog from watching TFC and most of my Filipino-American friends are Tagalog. We would do Taglish with each other but I’d get my Kapampangan mixed up with Tagalog words and get frustrated with myself for not knowing Tagalog, but also feel incredibly guilty because I’ve heard that back home, Kapampangan is slowly dying out and I want to preserve it. I can’t read or write Kapampangan and some of the Kapampangan terms I used in the fic, I had to double check the translations to make sure I spelled it right. This is getting a little personal but even among my Filipino friends, I always felt like the odd ball and a fraud because we don’t know any other Kapampangans here in the States (and a majority of my immediate family are in Pampanga). So this fic is really personal to me because for once, I feel a bit more included in the Filipino space. The Asian diaspora is real and even my Fil-Am friends feel it too, so we try to learn more about our history. It’s just even in the Asian-American community here in the States, Filipinos are still looked down on by our East Asian cousins that I still struggle with my Southeast Asian and Filipino identity. Doing research for this fic has made me want to learn more about my history, specifically Kapampangan history, which sadly I did not learn much about from my parents because growing up they did not get a chance to teach us much about it since they were working to provide for my Ate and me. So in a way, this fic is really personal and self-indulgent because this is the kind of fairytale that Little Me would have wanted to read. This fic is a fairytale for my younger self and other Filipino girls, not just Kapampangan, to read. It’s a love story for our younger selves.

#this got long but thank you nelly <3 #I always look forward to talking to you because I love how receptive and understanding you are #tbh I sometimes feel ashamed being Fil-Am because I don't feel like I'm a true Filipino as listed above #you're the first Filipino back home who actually makes me feel welcome and doesn't think I'm a typical American #namor x reader #namor x filipino!reader #namor x filipina!reader #namor x woc!reader #namor x asian!reader

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rebelyelll · 7 months

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Chapter 7: Misfit On a Journey - Author's Notes

This chapter is where the pacing starts to slow down in comparison to the past 6 chapters. And I'll be upfront about this honestly: yes, it makes me worry. Because although, there needs to be some scenes/chapters where the pacing is reasonably slow to establish important details, I have this looming fear that readers will be like, "why does this story feel like it's slowing down?"

Well, sometimes it's necessary to have parts of a story that aren't paced quickly all the time. At least that's how I feel about it, or what I was thinking whilst writing it down. (I'm used to writing build-up and character growth, so please bear with me. I am not a prolific/professional writer.)

The Cast

Edguy appears in the warehouse the following morning after the Motorhead gang throws a mad rager one night. Where has he been? That's the question. I could explain it, though, I am trusting of readers to piece it all together eventually, so I won't spoil lol.

This guy. He's just so... so... sigh he's difficult as fuck to write. I don't know if that's obvious to readers or not, but it's very true for me. I know his personality, but for right now, his own personal motivation for joining Motorhead in the first place is a little unclear. I have hopes that this perplexity can be eradicated as I start to focus more on his backstory (which I happen to have an outline of in my head, but you know how writing characters goes. Something could change at some point lol.)

During Edguy's conception, the original plan was to make him a machiavellian that gets a thrill out of manipulating people to the point that they trust him. And that's when he weaves these deceitful situations only to screw them over and get what he wants with no remorse. Bear in mind, he is still this way. BUT! For the sake of not revealing too much just yet, I won't say any more about him.

Husselhoff and Tiny Dancer have made another appearance. It's at this point in Whiplash where we are supposed to assume they had no luck in catching Léon in Chapter 3. But I won't lie, part of me feels I could have SHOWN that they lost him, but at the time of writing chapter 3 I was doubting myself and thought the chapter was already long enough. Also, I didn't want to detract from the action taking place by switching to a scene that wouldn't feel relevant anyway, so I just left it. I trust that people that have read chapter 3 get the idea.

Geil comes across as this intimidating, mysterious guy whose facial and bodily features are mostly shrouded in darkness. (This will come to mean something later, so remember that.) He is just as vital to the main plot as Edguy. What begs the question is: why is Léon a prime target to Motorhead? And what is the reason he was framed by Edguy for the murder of innocent civilians? What the hell did he do to piss them off this badly? At least I'm hoping that's what people are asking themselves. If not, I am failing somewhere lol.

**This next section covers some minor spoilers. If you don't want to read those, feel free to skip ahead to the next section highlighted in red and gold.**

PATHGOD Clones

Edguy's stand ability was fairly simple to conceive, which worries me that it's too simplistic despite having tricks and twists to define it. Stands are admittedly one of my biggest weaknesses when it comes to writing a believable fight scene. I fear people expect me to create something deep and uniquely esoteric. Another problem that stems from this is: what if the stands I create are too simple that everyone writing a fanpart has used before? Which I feel a lot better now having accepted that it's just one of those things that generally happens all the time.

I won't say too much about what the stand's ability is COMPLETELY other than the doppelganger in chapter 6 had a different ability from Rebel Yell while still being faithful to it at the same time. To clarify: Both Rebel Yell and Red Jumpsuit Apparatus are chemical compound stands. Each just has a different method in how it works. For example: Léon's stand alters his form and things in a 10 meter radius to clay. But RJA alters its user's body into metal and produces immense heat capable of melting steel.

How this ties into PATHGOD'S ability is that it takes the element (such as: fire, wind, earth, and water) that matches the personality of the target and uses that against them in its own unique way. HOWEVER. this was not how I originally planned it to be. This was originally going to tie into stand evolution, and how these abilities tie into mirroring the target's stand's full potential. However, writing stand evolution into Whiplash just didn't feel like the right path to take, so I changed it to make it more interesting. And partially because I do NOT feel like stressing myself out with evolved stand abilities and how complex they are. I already have a hard enough time writing interesting stand abilities by themselves.

Post Cliffhanger

I really want to give Edguy more pov focus, but I'm not yet sure when I can do that. Probably once I'm finished writing Chapter 18 (which I am currently doing). Since some new threats are going to be established in Chapter 19 and 20. Those are going to be the turning point for the main characters, and things are going to get much more serious. Shit, I almost gave too much away. AAAAAAAA I just want to talk about the story!!!! But... can't. Don't want to ruin it. All you need to know is that more major villains will be springing up like daisies here in the near future, so I can't wait to see how readers will react to that!

References

The title of the chapter, Misfit On a Journey -- lyrics from a song called Ghost in the Moon by Avantasia. Such a gorgeous song which I feel is about someone who is gravely misunderstood by their peers and just wants to be accepted for all that they are. In a way, I feel like this fits Leon, but why I wanted this to be the title in a chapter that isn't focused on him is solely because I feel like the word "misfit" also represents Edguy to a certain degree. He isn't so much in a gang to feel a part of the scene, but for things that haven't been conveyed yet in Whiplash.

Edguy -- named after one of my all-time favorite German metal bands by the same name. (Just go listen to one of their two albums: Tinnitus Sanctus and Theater of Salvation. You'll see what I mean.)

Canneberge -- They are briefly mentioned and will make a grand appearance in Chapter 13. Their name is a reference to the Irish rock band, the Cranberries. Canneberge is just French for Cranberry.

Boulevard de Rêves Brisés -- this is a direct translation in French for Green Day's song, Boulevard of Broken Dreams.

There weren't very many references made in this chapter, but here they are! If you are just now reading these notes, and you want to get in on the fun, click HERE to read Whiplash Riot! New readers are very much always appreciated! Thanks!

#whiplash riot #author's notes #jjba fanfiction #writing community

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meister-draws · 3 years

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Oh boy

I'm going to do my best to answer you without revealing too much because I don't want to spoil part 2 before it's out

1) The eeveelutions are definitely an option I've chosen for 1010 (I feel that was obvious already) and I can see how genesect would work for Neon J as I had thought about it too. However, I've already picked out a pokemon to go with the eeveelution 1010s, one that works similarly to genesect. Now that I've said that you can probably guess who it is.

Also, I'm not going to reveal which eeveelutions I chose for 1010 (although this would be obvious too) but what I will tell you is that I haven't picked both vaporeon and glaceon, so genesect wouldn't really work out.

2) I've actually considered both moltreses for Tatiana because I like the idea of her being a fire-type legendary. Galarian moltres definitely suits her aesthetically but what bothers me is that it isn't a true fire type- it doesn't even know a single fire type move. If I do pick galarian moltres for her then I agree that she wouldn't be an asshole but she'll still be as stern and intimidating as her human counterpart and will use that intimidation to bring order.

3) That's an interesting take for DJ Deoxys, even though this backstory can also work for DJ Minior (if we were to work around the fact that minior has the lifespan of a mayfly once they come to earth.) Some lore that I have in mind for the NSR artists is that, while they are associated with Tatiana's guild, they all run their own teams and they each specialise in specific kinds of missions much like how in-universe some teams only specialise in rescue jobs while others like team charm only focus on exploration and treasure-hunting. DJSS seems like the type who would only specialise in exploration; discovering new landmarks and just making a big fanfare out of his discoveries because of course he would. But DJ aspires most of all to take his missions to space since there's only so much you can uncover on earth while the infinite cosmos has so much undiscovered territory. This is where Tatiana's support can come in. He can keep his role as a teacher too as some kind of side-gig, lecturing pokemon about the world and space from what he had learned during his expeditions.

4) Idk if I really want any of the 1010s to still be robots in this AU since it seems out of place for mystery dungeon, but I can still try and play around with the idea. And as I said earlier, I've already picked out a pokemon for NJ to go with the 1010 eeveelutions and this pokemon will have the ability to change into a grass type along with the other types the boys have. I could tell you more about it, but I'd rather save it for when I post part 2

#ask #anonymous

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