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nerdieforpedro · 6 months

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Weddings 101 with Dieter Bravo

Chapter one: Transportation? I'll Cover it

Dieter Bravo x plus size OFC (Maya)

Fanfiction 18+ (not this chapter but later chapters will be)

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Summary: Maya is just trying to be a good big sister. Yet, even the planes are conspiring against her. She encounters Dieter who who likes that sass and that ass. No candy was harmed in the writing of this chapter.

Warnings: Cursing, angst, self-doubt, bad jokes, Dieter being soft and cute, card games, body insecurities, brief mentions of drug use and alcohol, etc. (none too serious, that’s for later)

Notes: I've wanted to write Dieter for awhile and I'm glad that I was able to get a rough draft together, outline and now part one. I think it will be three or four parts depending on where I can take the story. I swear I did go over it several times while editing, but I was laughing at my own jokes, so there may still be some typos. 🤔

“So, what you're saying is that even though I have paid three months in advance and have my confirmation code right here both in my phone and printed I don't have my seat on my flight?!” A woman stood with both hands on the counter, visibly frustrated but not yelling.

“Yes, yes ma'am that, that is what I'm saying I again I'm so sorry just so sorry.” The young man at the service counter apologized again. It’s all he could do.

“I mean I appreciate that you're sorry but it's not gonna get me on the flight. I need to be on the flight so that I can be at my brother's wedding. Is there another flight going out later today?” The woman asked, wiping her brow. She had worn a sweatshirt and leggings because it was supposed to be cold in the airport and on the plane. The young man tapped a few keys on his computer and looked up, his eyes wide.

“There is ma'am, but the flights aren’t going out until like, 10 tonight.” He broke the news. The woman groaned.

“Sir you you realize it's it's eight in the morning. How… how can there not be any more flights to Hawaii of all places until ten tonight?!” She questioned, that time she did yell. She felt it was ludicrous, the entire situation.

“Well ma'am it's it's based on availability and, and, and consumer interest and it looks like most people were were interested in morning flights. No one was really booking any of the afternoon flights so we cancelled those and just you know some people wanted the red eye flights. I mean we will give you vouchers for the price of your flight and an extra $250 for future flights with our airline. Because I feel like that that's exactly this time…” All she heard was that she wasn’t going to be in Hawaii by later today. Which meant she wouldn’t check in, then have to find another hotel, maybe it would be near the wedding venue if they even had any availability ….all horrible.

Maya rubbed her temples in defeat because she had planned that she was going to fly out in the morning from San Francisco where she was now and then fly the rest of the way to Hawaii. She was now stuck in San Francisco with no way to get to Hawaii on time to participate in her brother's weeklong wedding to albeit his lovely wife but fucking destination weddings man. The woman stepped away from the counter, her gray slip-on sneakers squeaking on the cool tile floor.

“Hey what's cooking good looking, you need a flight out?” A man in a gray robe, sunglasses inside an airport for some reason, a Gray T-shirt, striped Gray and brown pajama pants maybe and grey Crocs. He appeared to be holding a goat. He sauntered up to the service desk alongside Maya and leaned on it casually. The man had been keeping track of the exchange, it was much more entertaining than the random loud kids running around and all the stretched-out pants that said juicy and they were not in fact juicy. Instead, he found the loud woman to be much more succulent.

“I mean I do, but he said there's no more flights out. What? Are you going to give me your seat because I got a wide ass.” Mya put her hands on her large hips, she leaned forward on her right foot and her thigh jiggled. The man in the robe took notice of her hips. They looked like they’d swallow his fingers when he held onto them, he would like to know for sure.

The man laughed and replied, “No. I got a private jet and honestly, I'm tired of looking at just my assistant because he tells me all kinds of stuff I can't do or shouldn't be doing.” He pointed at a nervous young man who held a briefcase and a duffle bag. “You wanna ride with me Miss Toblerone? You seem fun.”

Perplexed, Maya considered both the man's appearance and the offer. He seemed like he had just rolled out of bed, was holding a goat but also had this really fluffy hair. Honestly, it just made her wanna smack his head and like play with his downy mop a little bit. The man had this little mischievous looking grin that was surrounded by a little mustache and facial situation going. It could be that she was tired from getting up at 3:00 in the morning to make sure she was at the airport packing up her crap and making sure that it was indeed the two carry-ons and one personal bag per the airline. It could have also been the horrendous drive over that mostly was sitting in traffic for a ride that maybe should have taken 15 minutes but took an hour and a half. She had to factor the time in and also finding which gate after security, which security was its own monster in and of itself so at this point a pajama clad stranger with fluffy hair sexy grin and a goat was looking real good right now.

“Fuck it let's go, my name's Maya. I not particularly a fan of Toblerone though, they’re decadent. I guess it’s good to have one everyone once in awhile.” She replied to him and reached her hand out, he took one hand off the goat and shook it then held on to it a little too long. The fluffy man kissed it and trailed his lips up her wrist which the woman shivered a bit because it's like who who does that out outside of Bridgeton? Her new traveling partner said his name was Dieter Bravo which sounded familiar, but she couldn't quite place it. Just like she couldn't quite place him, she felt like she would remember if she saw any man looking like this, but she'd worry about that later right? Now she just really needed to get on a flight from San Francisco to Hawaii, so she gathered up her purse, her backpack and suitcase follow Dieter, but he stopped her and told his assistant to take her backpack and bag from her. Bravo then questioned why she had so few bags, Maya told him that she didn't want to pay the carry-on fees because it the price of the flight out here was outrageous already in addition to the hotel. Dieter asked why she was going to all the trouble, she told him it was for her youngest brother’s wedding.

“I think you can be more indulgent then that Toblerone. Especially for a wedding.” The actor took her hand and walked with her while the assistant got another person to help with all the bags, the majority were Dieter’s.

Dieter said once they got to Hawaii, he would look around for some more clothes for her. Maya laughed and said he's probably going to have to look hard for that stuff because she didn’t know if any of those designer stores there would have her size. Likely not, those mannequins are probably one of her thighs. Dieter grinned and told her that it was alright, there’s more to work with and to use. He then cleared his throat and said that he meant as far as fashion choices.

Maya had a feeling she knew what he meant. She had an extra bounce in her step at the thought giggled. She may consider it after they’re off the jet and they can find some privacy. She wasn’t into people watching her have sex.

Once at the jet they were greeted with two stewardesses in suspiciously short skirts, but the woman figured that's probably what Dieter or whoever Dieter’s people were had paid. Honestly this was a completely free flight, so it didn’t matter how she felt about anything. Besides, how much were those stewardesses getting paid? Could it be a part time job maybe, it’s something to look into. The pair were served with sushi which was actually pretty lovely, she hadn't had California rolls in quite some time. Bravo offered her two of his, he enjoyed watching her put them in her mouth. He did offer some wine but she said she's not really into wine.

“We got a bartender over here tell him what you want.”

So Maya told the mixologist to make her some lemon drops which was basically lemon, lime, and vodka with a little bit of sugar added in it. Dieter said that he hadn't had those for quite a while so they toasted and took off toward their destination. It was when they were in midair, when Dieter took out a pack of cards and shuffle them saying that they were going to play poker.

“My dear sweet man, I'mma level with you. I don't know a thing about poker. The only card games I've played are go fish and Uno.” Maya chuckled as she continued to sip, the alcohol was making her slur already and her eyes were a tad glassy.

Dieter’s eyes widened.

“I haven’t played Uno for years! Finally, someone else who wants to play uno!”

He hopped up out of his seat which the captain had not turned off the seat belt sign, so he bobbed and weaved a little bit and went to somewhere in the back of the plane. Maya couldn't quite see where he went, the fluffy man grabbed little Uno box and Maya cautioned him by saying you know we should wait until the seat belt sign goes off because she wasn’t trying to bob and weave as well on the plane. After about thirty minutes, the sign did go off and then they were free to sit across from each other at a little table that was built into the jet. In setting up for the Uno game, the two flight attendants couldn't be bothered because they're just they're here to look hot, not for weird games. The young assistant was just so happy that Dieter had someone else to focus on, he was taking a nap because that man looked stressed, he was probably going to have gray hairs before he turned thirty.

“Toblerone, we got to make this game interesting though.” Dieter stated as he removed his robe and shuffled the card. “I’m gonna take this seriously.” His sunglasses came off next, serious indeed.

Maya scoffed, finishing off her drink and leaned forward. Removing her sweatshirt, she revealed she had on a pale pink t-shirt that read ‘Live loud and love long.’ She rested her elbows on her knees while Bravo delt the cards, she noted his triangle tattoo on his forearm and wondered how long it took to fill that in. She just had scars and stretch marks. Dieter’s eyes floated to her shirt and licked his lips. He found himself curious about the second part of that shirt.

“So, it's not just enough to be playing Uno in a private jet? We have to have stakes too? And my name’s Maya, not Toblerone. Still not a bad nickname though.” The plush woman picked up her cards and scanned them, not a bad hand, but not great either. “How often are you playing games with stakes in the air, lovely man?” She was trying to find a nickname for him as well, none sounded cool though. Dieter could have cared less, he soaked up any name she was willing to call him. Her voice sounded like smooth caramel to him. Wait, he had an idea.

“Yeah, I haven't really done it with anybody else for like a while.” He paused. Was he just talking about the cards? His assistant was normally troubled by Dieter’s lack of routine, but kept his schedule packed, which left little time for extracurriculars he was used to. The pregnant pause caused Maya’s head to tilt with her lips pursed. “No, no, no, no. Scratch that. I do it all the time. Cards all over the place. On the walls, Several packs at a time. All the packs.” The croc clad man stuttered as he attempted to clarify what he meant, which just solidified what he said further. He’d won awards for his acting, yet his was doing a piss poor job right now. “If I win,” Dieter explained as he picked up his cards and looked at them, once of his hands held his chin, presumably deep in thought. He was but he felt like he embarrassed himself. There was no way she was going to agree to meet with him after they left the plane. “I get to keep calling you Kit Kat, Milky Way or Toblerone and you have dinner with me.”

Maya just stared at him smiling. “Dinner? I honestly thought you were going to mention cards on the ceiling and on the beach.” She waved her hand, their banter was one thing, but dinner? This man did not want dinner. He just wanted a fun night because his assistant has been cockblocking him. She wasn’t opposed, but she didn’t want to be a fun fat fuck for him either. It wouldn’t be the sex that would be bad, though it could be, she just didn’t want to wake up with that shame again or alone in bed as she had too often before. Her smile dimmed. “I’ll agree to the nickname game but not dinner. We ate here on the plane.” Her eyes focused on his hands, then lips, Maya couldn’t directly at his face. It was bad enough she was considering it.

Bravo noticed her demeanor change. The card talk had been too much. It’s not like he hadn’t thought of getting her in bed or wherever she would agree since seeing her at the airport. He didn’t want her to feel bad about it nor obligated. Maya had been fun to talk to, he hadn’t felt the need to snort or shoot anything yet. He wanted to know why, he thought dinner might help with that.

“What we ate wasn’t a full meal. I’m still hungry.” He played his first card, “I want dinner with you because I like you, Maya. For more than getting a quick thrill, plus if I don’t see you later, I won’t be able to use any of your nicknames.” Dieter flicked his chin toward her, indicating her move.

Smooth bastard. “Fine but if I win, I get to call you Sugar lips, soufflé or pretty boy.” Maya sucked her teeth and drew a card from the pile, she didn’t have the right color or number. She started to tap her foot nervously, this was dangerous. He was cunning, deceptively so. She hated that she was enjoying their wordplay.

“Wait the first one I get but why the second one? And why pretty boy? You called me man earlier Toblerone?” He was able to put down two more cards. Maya cursed under her breath and was able to be rid of one card on her turn.

“We’ll see how this game goes and that will tell me if I call you a man or a boy Dieter.”

Maya lost uno and Dieter decided he would keep Toblerone and Milky Way. He did tell her that she could call him Sugar Lips. He liked that one. Maya drank a second lemon drop as did Dieter. Now dinner was happening off this plane. He danced with his third drink, snaking his hips in a circle to music only he could hear. After polishing it off, he grabbed Maya’s hands and pulled her up to dance as well.

“What song are thinking of Sugar Lips? I can’t tell by your dancing.” The man’s laugh was infectious, and Maya started cackling as well. They spun around as once of his hands ran down to her side, grabbing a handful of her hip. He guided her from side to side, slowing down. His lips kissed the back of the hand he still held in his.

“No particular song. I just felt like dancing. I get to have dinner with you, my Toblerone. I’m excited.” Dieter answered, he kissed her jaw and met her eyes. His hand on her hip loosened as he started to circle his palm over her hip and part of her ass. “You’re soft Maya. Wanna find out what makes you that way. I feel like I need to, you know?” Her breath hitched with each of his touches, her resistance fading with each movement they took together. Would she make it to dinner?

Next: Chapter 2

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libras-interactives · 2 months

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Since you asked for questions relating to your ocs

What colors do your ocs think they look good in, and what hues they actually do?

Alternatively,

How do they wake up in the morning

And a question for you! Have they always had the same traits or did you edit them over time

You didnt mention a character so Ill do the main four: Jack, Marius, Lottie and Eveline :3 cut bc its longish! the migraine has passed but ill still answer questions hoho

Jack has no idea what colors he "looks good in" (if you asked, he'd probably say none) ... if one could dress him up, he looks great in blacks, deep reds and probably darker earth tones! Marius looks excellent in creams, browns and pastels; he knows it, so he wears it. Eveline has the same coloring as him, and wears similar colors at Flynn's behest, but jewel tones look best on her. Dark greens and blues really bring out her eyes. Lottie loves different shades of green, and has always worn them; she looks good in them but I think dark reds or deep pinks would look nice too?

Marius wakes up on the floor, usually. Or tangled up. He moves around so much its a wonder he hasn't smacked his head. Once his face is washed, he's up and raring to go. Coffee and a cigarette helps. Jack wakes up slow. He has to unfurl himself, pop like three dozen bones, blink painfully at the light, hide under the covers, eventually get dragged out of bed (or off the floor). Eveline probably didn't sleep much, but she takes a long time to get out of bed. She lies there, debating if its worth it. Eventually she slides out from the covers, straightens her floor-length silk nightgown and sloooowly pads to the bathroom. Lottie depends - how much did she drink, and is she waking up before 10am? If she's exhausted and hungover, expect hissing and claws when you wake her up. Before 10 she's basically a zombie, sleepily going through her morning routine. She's got more energy if she's up by noon.

Lottie is pretty much the same; she's @juniperss OC - though under my writing she's probably gotten more,,, wild? Tho Dana just encourages it LOL. Marius was initially closer in age to Eveline and more mature and self-destructive; he could still probably turn out like that, esp if his friends aren't around. Jack changed a ton. He was originally a completely different minor character and Larochka's employer (she's p much the same, just a diff job and a decade younger.) I think, if he was isolated and went further into a life of crime, Jack could turn more into his first draft self - running a sketchy place, violent, and aware of how unnerving he looks and using it to discomfort people. First draft Eveline is the same physically, but more cold and stuck up, and not nearly as much trauma. She's since become far more compassionate and depressed, and has a lot more going on in her backstory. Callgirl!MC is kind of her "leftovers", and without the snobbery. Eveline and Marius weren't initially related, changed that bc they looked so similar and I like family dynamics. That ended up opening a lot of doors to their story.

#ty these are very fun~~#adding onto eveline; she and rocky were like...#a crackship that formed in a groupchat and was gonna be referenced but i pushed the breaks on that so hard lmao #not every thought needs to be written LOL even if its a fun ship for me to think of #also jack was originally british but it felt out of place + i love appalachia #libra says #anons !!#if:devil's moon

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chipped-chimera · 10 months

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WIP WEDNESDAY - 21/06/23

(I mean it’s technically Friday now between timezones and spoons but have this otherwise I’ll keep forgetting) My first WIP Wednesday! Thanks @theviridianbunny for the tag! I’ve been really getting stuck into modding - as well as falling into my usual mod habit of ‘start like six project at once and end up with a million WIP files' but I guess I’ll talk about the major ones.

Graphic design is my passion ...

(Long) rambling about mods I'm making + things I've learned below the cut~

My V’s tatt project is still ongoing, and I’ve (somewhat begrudgingly) been trying out Substance Painter to work on bits of it, mainly polishing seams between UV maps. It’s definitely got a lot of benefits, especially for graphic placement in really tricky areas (like anywhere in the entire head mesh region for example) but I still think a lot of the heavy work will still be done in Photoshop so I’ll probably be writing up both experiences with them when I do that tutorial I keep hinting at for complex tatt work. I’ve started drafting a tumblr tutorial but I wonder if that’s the best format, maybe a PDF? Google doc? Github wikis look cool? (tho I think I need to pay for that) - if y’all got suggestions for tutorial formats pls let me know!

As for the other arguably overly-ambitious-project-where-I-bit-off-more-than-I-could-chew ...

H A I R.

Hair has been the bane of my existence for about the past week( ... weeks? Maybe two?), most of it involving cursing, a lot of reverse-engineering game meshes and smashing my head against blender. But if not already evident from my monowire post - I am a stubborn bitch with too much time on my hands so even though there were at least two moments where I wanted to curl up on the floor under my desk and just stay there - we got there.

This all started because my favourite hair mod which I cannot split from my V’s identity was acting funky and the shape of it had been altered since a physics update. It wasn’t her anymore. So I needed new hair. I tried editing the existing hair. I tried importing the old hair mesh. I tried so many things and they didn’t work out one way or they threw a million errors or there were an obnoxious amount of verts.

I even tried looking for replacement mod hair. None of them fit, all of them felt too ‘clean’ for my V. So I just concluded: FINE. I’ll make my own damn hair. From scratch. At least then I’ll actually KNOW what’s going on with the mesh, right?

Problem with hair is tutorials are very limited in respect to Cyberpunk, so I had to learn a lot of this by myself and looking at other processes used for building game hair. I’ve had a previous stint in game design at uni but it was very introductory and more broad-strokes concepts not specific stuff like what ‘real time hair’ is and how you actually go about placing hair-cards (there’s a million different ways btw) but after another 3 days smashing my head against blender I finally got shit to work to a satisfactory level using hair tools for blender and the particle hair grooming system (not the 3.5 blender system, maybe more on that at some point).

Putting together the hair cards I was 120% convinced this was going to blow up in my face, primarily through vert count. But this hair tool plugin? Alarmingly efficient. I was frequently checking my work against Alt's hair mesh (one I was planning on rigging to) and here's the final-ish stats -

This is with only Alt's hair mesh selected (no cap) and then only my mesh(s - lots of layering to build it up), and by comparison I felt I'd built up the density of a chinchilla. This is not a brag, this is mostly genuine confusion over how efficient this plugin is, all I did was smack around hair curves. It did all the UV mapping junk on the fly.

Although structurally complete, I still consider this a WIP (yes I know there's a reeeeal fun vert funkiness in that second render, it's been fixed) since I'm having to go back and fine-tune some of the UV's the plugins mapped that I'm not happy with and generally figuring out my density problem because if anything, after putting it in-game it felt too dense.

Because yes, somehow I got it in game.

WITH. PHYSICS.

This may have driven me absolutely up the wall between having to learn blender from scratch then what the heck real time hair is and how that works etc. etc. but ... god, seeing her move back from the mirror and just feeling that instant catharsis of 'IT'S HER!' made it so. Damn. Worth it.

It looks too thick - this might be because I chucked in the 'doubled' feature Wolvenkit comes with because I hadn't spent any time doing backfaces. But it also might be because it's black? That's going to need investigating.

The physics need a lot of work too, I did a pretty rushed weight painting job last night on a merged version of the mesh because I was worried whether it was even viable and I'd already dumped an insane amount of hours into this between trying to salvage the old hair and building a new one (with some more bells and whistles. Mainly - curly). That wasn't without it's issues -

This almost fucking cracked me, given this was one of the issues I was experiencing before trying to fix an existing mesh mod. Turns out I was just being dumb and forgetting to export the armature, which I'd thought I wasn't supposed to do after having blender throw a bunch of errors on other hair attempts. I gave it a try after one last shot and boom. Worked. (I dunno what those errors were about man but now I know armature? very important).

Will I release this hair? no damn clue, depends on if I can get it to a level I feel is 'releasable'. I already know what I'm calling it though - Venatrix her side-handle I've decided on.

I look forward to adapting it into maybe a comb-back version, as well as a tied up version, so I can show off both her undercut + have the option of NOT hiding every damn tatt I've obsessed over placing on her neck haha.

In other news -

My much-needed wacom tablet replacement arrived (as well as other things I was looking forward to 👀) meaning my Wacom Cintiq, workhorse of ten years can finally enjoy her retirement. Her controls were getting funky, she had a few dead pixels but man. I'm convinced they won't make them like her ever again. Either way she's done unfortunately - upgrading my monitor to 2k made this painfully obvious. I don't think it's even running in full HD, it's that old. And with Phantom Liberty coming out this year? I'm probably going to need a new videocard and DVI compatibility isn't really a thing anymore.

So for future I think I'll just stick to the basic tablet set up, invest in screens. Also now I FINALLY know what her hair is gonna look like and with the tablet here, I can get back to work on the tattoo bodysuit.

Anyways, that's it for now! (Jesus Christ did you really read all of this? If you did you're a fucking trooper). Sorry for the extended ramble but MAN I did a lot, I needed to yell.

Till next time Chooms! Thanks again @theviridianbunny for the tag~ <3

Oh shit wait, have the blender renders before I forget because hahah I figured out how to do that too lol -

#cyberpunk 2077 #cyberpunk 2077 modding #my mods #wip wednesday #cyberpunk 2077 mods #kerytalk #god I am sorry this is a fucking essay but I had a lot to talk about I guess #one can do a lot in a week with nothing but the power of autistic hyperfocus and the love for one's OC blorbo ok

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jamiesfootball · 1 month

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🥐🌵🍓🍬🎱 -> any or all for your enrichment!!

All of this got long so under the cut to save people from scrolling it goes-

🥐 ⇢ name one internet reference that will always make you laugh

Not a reference (I don't think. I'll be real, I don't think I understand this question) but I sure do like that twink on tiktok what does the cooking

🌵 ⇢ share the link to a playlist you love

Please enjoy this nostalgia playlist of songs that have made me go 'how do I remember the fucking words to this' which I have appropriately named after a Celine Dion song.

There are two Celine Dion songs.

Toni Braxton is on it. So are The Cranberries.

The only two dudes to make the list are Boyz II Men and that guy from Sixpence None the Richer

🍬 ⇢ post an unpopular opinion about a popular fandom character

Questions about unpopular fandom opinions always throw me for a loop. I'll go with saying that season 1 Jamie has more emotional maturity than people give him credit for, especially in regards to him and Keeley's breakup.

🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction?

After spending most of my life daydreaming elaborate scenarios, I tried to write some of them down when I was like twelve.

They sucked so I went back to drawing fanart, which I was getting pretty good at.

Then when I was 15 I started writing some of them down again. They were pretty good, but wildly disconnected from canon in many cases. I would write down bits, discuss them with friends (who were writers writing things), and then go back to doing other things (mostly art). I still have some of those somewhere, I think.

Then when I was 20, an art major, I started to realize that fuck man, I sure do need something to do that isn't more fucking art. At that point, I had a pretty good idea for writing voice and structure, as I'd been voraciously reading fic for a decade. I wrote some things. It was fun. I went back to doing art.

Then in 2015 a friend and I went and saw this movie, The Man From UNCLE, and it was really really good. Between the two of us, she was more of the writer, but as we spun up a whole sequel/story together she asked if I wanted to write any of it. I said yes. She would write the first draft and I would fill out other scenes, and both of us would workshop and storyboard and bits we got stuck on. Occasionally I would add in entire sections of scenes to flesh things out.

2016, same friend and I start doing another co-writing thing but this time for The Musketeers (BBC show). This time there was a difference- instead of friend writing scenes and me adding bits, there would be entire scenes I'd write and then she'd come back in and edit/add bits.

Then some real life stuff happened and I stopped writing.

Then I briefly got into batman and wrote some stuff there, but never finished or published it.

Then I briefly got into OFMD and wrote some stuff there, but never finished or published it.

Then last year I got into Ted Lasso because of some amazing fic and in the lead up to season 3 airing I was like 'I sort of....want to write something?' And I wrote some stuff. Then, emboldened by everyone else posting things I figured- hey! What if I actually wrote something, finished it, and published it!

So to answer your question: I've always been here, but in a very real way my answer is 'last year.'

🎱 ⇢ post your AO3 total stats

Most of it is pre-Ted Lasso and doesn't feel like it should count since I wasn't doing the bulk of the work, so here is the adjusted to just Ted Lasso stats:

Fic Total - 6

User Subscriptions - 49

Kudos - 669

Comment threads - 78

Bookmarks - 146

Subscriptions - 170

Word Count - 30,040

Hits - 6,074

#ask game #ask box is always open #sorry this got long

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ave1dragon · 5 months

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Better Pyrrhia au

While flying from the Nightwing island with Morrowseer for the "test", Starflight, Fatespeaker, and the other prophecy backups lose sight of Morrowseer and are magically transported to a different pyrrhian future where the dragonet prophecy was never created. So now they have to go find the dragonets of destiny and convince them to stop the war while learning about this new Pyrrhia.

Details about the au (I edited this a little bit to add new stuff):

Foeslayer and Arctic never met at all, as Prudence never took Foeslayer with her, so the Icewings still have their animus powers and the Nightwings have none at all.

The scrolls keep better track of the animi, like they did in Darkstalker's time, so there wasn't like a 2000 year gap, but they haven't been updated during the great war. The Icewings have Queen Glacier, the Seawings have Turtle and technically Orca but no one knows, and the Sandwings have Boa.

Albatross still commited the Seawing massacre, so everyone is scared of that. Fathom and Indigo ran away together eventually.

Queen Glacier is the only known animus dragon to most of Pyrrhia, and she used her gift before the war. Turtle was hatched after the war, so he's a secret to most dragons, Orca still never told anyone, Anemone was never an animus, as Turtle didn't feel the need to enchant her, and Boa pretty much had the same life.

Clearsight never went to Pantala, so Hivewings don't exist, but there is interaction between Pyrrhia and Pantala, but more of a trade interaction, so the Pantalans still have their old language and culture, cause I thought that would be fun to explore.

Pantala dragons have their old language, although some learn to speak dragon and some Pyrrhians learn to speak Pantalan. Pantalan dragons don't have queens or a distinct separation of tribes.

The Rainwings are pacifists because of the letter in the guide, so they keep most of their traits as in the main books, but Queen Grandeur was the only one on the throne the whole time, so the Rainwing royal family is still around and the Rainwings keep track of the eggs and dragons. Basically only the real problems about the Rainwings are gone.

The Rainwings aren't in the war. The Sandwing sisters asked, but Grandeur scared them away.

Since the Nightwings aren't scaring Pyrrhia out of the Rainforest, many dragons come into the Rainforest Kingdom to escape from the war, so the Rainwings have set up another village, like the Nightwing village in the books proper, and know more about the rest of Pyrrhia. They are still pretty isolated.

Since Darkstalker never existed, the Nightwings live in the Pyrrhian Night Kingdom. They are officially allied with Blister.

The Night Kingdom has dragons from different tribes, like Possibility does, since they were known as the "open to all tribes" tribe like in Darkstalker's time.

Pantala is also home to many different Pyrrhian dragons escaping the war. There is a map to how to get to the other continant.

Darkstalker never made the Scroll, so Chameleon never got the scroll. There is no Cirrus or Pyrite. Tourmaline is still alive and does have Prince Cliff, who is the same age he is in the books. He is still Peril and Sky's father, but as himself, so they are now half-Rainwing and have ear ruffs that change color.

The Skywings stopped killing the Firescales and fireless dragons, although they don't trust animi still, so Peril and Sky were raised by Kestrel and Chameleon. Osprey is their adopted grandfather now.

Sky's name is Ember now, because he was named by Skywings and that was his name in the first draft. Wren is his pet scavanger he found and named Bird, kind of like how Flower's real name is Rose. I actually kind of like the name Sky, so Sky is his nickname because that's what Wren would call him before she fully learned Dragon and it just stuck. Wren can say dragon words, but all the dragons think she's just copying them. She's more like the scavengers in the first arc, not a lot of focus.

Ember was raised in the Wingery with the other Skywing dragonets. Since he can't breathe fire, he's very strong physically. Peril isn't feared and has Skywing friends, but she couldn't go into the wingery because of her firescales and her room is similar to the one in the first book. Peril still isn't great at fighting without her scales.

Ember has some of his personality, but he's not a vegetarian and is more tough because of the Sky Kingdom. Peril has a similar personality to her one in book one.

Chameleon is no longer evil and is a good dad. Kestrel is much less awful. Peril is closer to her dad, and Ember to his mom.

Orca never challenged her mother to the throne, so she never made the death statue, so Coral's daughters are still alive and she has significantly less sons.

The alternate dragonets of destiny get more development. I don't have a problem with the original characterization, because they were side characters there to show us how well the originals got along, but I think it would be fun to learn more about them.

Fatespeaker's parents live at the Talons of Peace, like the other alternate dragons, so she gets to meet them.

Starflight just now gained the thrice born moon Nightwing powers, so he can read minds and see the future. His vision is so strong he can look into the future himself instead of the visions coming to him.

Fatespeaker now has a Future seeing power, but it is weaker and the visions need to come to her. She can't read minds.

Clay is pretty much the same, but he kept the personality from his book instead of changing into "hungry". He is the Bigwings to his sibs, Reed, Sora, Pheasant, Marsh, Crane, and Umber.

Tsunami now has a few more sisters, Orca, three other older sisters. Two from her hatching, and Anemone. And less brothers: Two from Orca's hatching, Fin, Turtle, Octopus, and Cerulean.

Glory is happier and less grouchy, thanks to Suntime and a lack of abuse. She is more like Kinkajou, but less energetic.

Farsight is still alive, Fierceteeth's dad really did die, so she remarried Mastermind. Mastermind doesn't experiment on other dragons, but everyone else is the same.

Sunny is now named Beetle, and is tougher, since her mother never took over the Scorpion den. She did become friends with Qibli, who still lives with his mom.

The Skywing egg was never destroyed. It had twin dragonets, Dusk and Dawn, but they aren't firescales or fireless.

Moonwatcher lives with both her parents: Secretkeeper and Morrowseer. She is still an only child.

Morrowseer is really a future seer. He is the Queen's main seer.

Hailstorm was never captured by the Skywings.

Turtle doesn't have low self esteem, because he never failed to save his sisters.

Qibli lives with his mom, as Thorn never took over the Scorpion Den, since it's mentioned in the books the only reason she did that is to find Sunny. He is friends with Beetle (Sunny), and they met after the coconut incident.

#wings of fire #wof au #wings of fire au #wof

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em-writes-stuff-sometimes · 29 days

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7/8/9 for the fic writer asks! (if you haven't already!)

HELLO NAT! Thank you for playing the gaaaaaaaame!

7. How do you handle writer's block or creative stagnation?

Honestly, this is a good question. For a good while, I didn’t handle it at all. Or perhaps that’s part of it—recognising when you’re in a rut and realising when you need to step away from the pressure of writing and do something else. I like to do other fandom related things; bookbinding has become fun as all heck, and I enjoy answering asks on Tumblr etc. Sometimes it’s nice to engage in the fandom in a way that doesn’t compel you to create, which is always so fun but can sometimes cycle over into anxiety. Especially when you feel you’re ‘falling behind schedule’! There is no schedule but the one you self-impose. People will be waiting for when you return. Of course, I also enjoy watching seksy edits or scenes from the show to get back in the zone. There is very little that cannot be fixed by a viewing session!

8. Do you have any rituals or habits that help you get in the zone?

Piggybacking straight off that last one, there! I watch clips of important scenes on YouTube (i.e. the brothel scene, the beach scene, the wedding scene, general Daemon hotness) to ‘get in the zone’ for writing. It really helps me re-immerse myself in the world, kind of like revision! But the reward is far greater, haha. Since most of my writing is in the same universe currently, I tend to reread parts of my own work to try and pump myself up as well as reorient myself and recall what I’d been developing over the course of the narrative thus far.

9. Have you ever collaborated with someone else on a fic?

I DID make an attempt once with a pal, though it was short-lived because my schedule is really way too hectic for consistent co-writing. I like to send in requests, though. Also, there’s currently a draft sitting in my Discord server of an unnamed OC essentially banging all the Greens to death as an alternative to Daemon’s Blood and Cheese plot. Instead of sending two dudes to murder the kids, he sends a chick to assassinate the key members. How she does it is none of his business, I suppose, lol. That draft has been worked on by a bunch of different people; I believe I wrote the initial Daemon assignment scene and the one where OC bangs Larys to death. It’s INCREDIBLY crackficcy. I hope it’s released one day. Besides this, my involvement in other fics tends to be mostly beta-work and High Valyrian assistance. I’ve stuck my hands into a fair few writers’ pies thus far; editing is my passion, lol. I tend to get through it quick because a) it’s not my writing and I find it easier to search out inconsistencies in work I didn’t do, and b) I’m an editing maniac.

Thank you for the questions, boo!

#ask games #nat makes my heart go splat

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what was your inspiration to create your main oc? (pass the question on)

or for any character you want to tell us about, really =)

Aaaah this is such a perfect ask! Thank so much for thinking of me... now here I come to make you regret you thought of me 😅 Unnecessarily long history of Brian under the cut ❤️

In 2012 after finishing a couple of short stories my friend at the time encouraged me to write a novel. It was never finished and went through multiple drafts which were all discarted but it did give birth to two of my oldest ocs: Brian & Fawn. At the time their names were Fallon & Teyrnon tho but's lets not get hung up on my never ending pet peeve of renaming ocs to make their names fit their personalities better - in my demented brain that is. 😂

The unfinished novel was about druids and fallen kindgoms and big evil and were it not absolutely filled with tropes and bad grammar I'm sure it would give G.R.R. Martin a run for his money, lol (no it would not, it sucked 😂) But it did give basic outlines to who Brian will become - a big blond lower class overachiever who pretends he is dumber than he really is & has a doomed romance with his best friend.

In 2015 I started a simblr (this simblr in fact 🥳) to tell a vampire detective story. I'm pretty sure nobody remembers it (it also sucked btw) but both Fawn & Brian had cameos in it under their original names. They were still druids post their kingdom's final fall helping humans in a urband fantasy setting... don't @ me I told you it sucked 🤷‍♀️ All the way up to my disgraceful abandonment of this blog Fawn & Bri had little cameos in my witch story, faerie story... all the stories.

In 2019 I think I made a new blog because I started hating everything I ever touched - a state of affairs that continues to this day I guess. 😂 On the new blog I posted mostly short snippets of draft #89746453 of Fawn & Brian's story (at this point their names were Teyrnon & Fawn I think...) Mostly tho I was fleshing out Fawn's cousin Shadow (Niall). The greatest regret of my life is that I deleted that blog and only have a couple pics left & none of the snippets 😭

Following that I left simblr for a few years attempting to write on and off. A few short stories came out of that (plus an abandoned writing blog) and I noticed all of those stories were basically Brian & Fawn AUs because either I'm that uncreative or these two just live rent free in my head and I stopped fighting. In November 2021 I returned to simblr with Light Trap - the last of those stories I wrote & Brian so much... editing... of Brian. I would've stuck to it too if I wasn't a lazy arse who couldn't find a baseball bat poses & poses of a ghost flying out of a mirror 🤷‍♀️

And here we are today. Brian is still blond, blue eyed poor as shite (20 simoleons guys send help) has recently earned the overachiever trait & the difficult relationship with his mother which drove him to the overachiever trait in the first place and is in love with his best friend. He has starred in over 40 short stories & novelas in the last 10 years (all found in Fawn's druid fanfic notebook because metafiction *drops mic*) and this year he will get that puppy which I keep promising everyone (and is also an easter egg for my demented brain to the dog he used to have at the very beginning who followed him around everywhere Dogmeat style & helped him fight evil or whatever).

Now don't tell me you don't regret me getting this ask, ahahahaah 😂

#I'm really so sorry for this #I just wanted to gush about brian #also hoped this will drive me to write again???#but no #just gush about brian #shoul've called him brain rot instead #😂

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congrats on finishing a wip!! Whats ur secret!!!! lmao

This isn't my first WIP I've finished, so that helped me a bit. (There's a reason I don't talk about my Vampire WIP anymore, it's done, just sitting archived for me to go in and edit it, and do a new draft of it)

Knowing my limits, taking breaks, and shelving when I start to get frustrated. If I find myself dreading the writing process, it's time to take a break and focus on something else.

I also shelved other WIPs to focus on one, otherwise I wouldn't finish anything. Too many projects meant my mind is split onto too many things, and HEMLOCKS was already established with a few interested beta's that weren't on Tumblr or any writing server - just a couple of friends I could trust with the document and liking the synopsis.

I also had Lyric's voice stuck in my head until I wrote her story and re-wrote it until I was mostly satisfied with it. I also did writ a lot of it when I was feeling low or in a bad state of mind, so some of it was just mostly vent works, drawing from my own past or a late partner's past (minus the "parent killed the other parent" part of it all), especially something that Lyric talks about that I and my late partner personally went through at different times.

It was also just reminding myself that there's no rush to finish it, perfection is never going to be achieved so I may as well just do it and write what I want to write and see in a story. It helped me that it is actually an entirely different genre than what I normally write, so I actually had to test myself and see where my limits actually lied.

Also, I didn't talk about it too much on social media so I didn't feel like I had to write a WHAM line every time or feel like I had to create, create, create and make every sentence and line meaningful and deep. It felt pretentious more than normal.

I also stopped complaining. I stopped complaining about the writing process, how I didn't know what to say or what to call it or what to do or how much I hated it, hate that, and jokes of "why can't it write itself" jokes. I stopped insulting it. It didn't feel good, I didn't feel good, it just made me hate what I was doing more, so I just decided to stop complaining about it, and started sharing what I was proud of with a select few friends.

If you speak negatively about your stuff, why should anyone else like it? Why should anyone else read it? "This story sucks and I hate writing it" vs "Some scenes are giving me trouble and I'm getting a little annoyed" are two incredibly different statements, one puts most readers off and the other is relatable. Like on A03, "I suck at summaries" won't net you shit. "This story probably sucks" won't do anything. And you'll also eventually start to believe that - what then? If you hate what you're writing it, why are you writing it?

Was it frustrating sometimes? Did I run into writers block? Yes, so I shelved it and came back to it later when I had some more inspiration. I wrote it in Google Docs entirely and would link my friends to get live responses, I wrote at home and not at work because if I wrote at work, I'd associate it with work.

If I wanted to stop writing it, I did. HEMLOCKS got put aside for awhile for fanfiction because I found not working with my own OCs for awhile genuinely helped me.

I stopped editing as I went. The best advice I ever received was, edit later, write now. Worry about mistakes and perfection later and then accept that perfection isn't possible, and that's okay!

I start writing it when I was awake and stopped when I was tired, I took breaks, I ate when I needed to, drank water when I needed to, etc. None of that, "I won't eat or drink or do anything until I write 5K words today!" Absolutely the fuck not, and I still see shit like that in writing spaces. TAKE CARE OF YOUR BODY, your brain needs that shit to WORK. A healthy body DOES equal a healthy mind, drinking some water does wonders, so does going for a short walk or focusing on something else. You need to listen to your bodies signals :/

...And I honestly stopped participating in NANO. Camp or Novembers. I honestly didn't like it, didn't like the pressure - it stopped feeling fun after awhile and started to feel like work. And I stopped talking about it altogether, except with a few friends who are close to my heart and may be the only ones to ever read it. Likely if I am asked if someone can read it, I will say no.

Lastly, I stopped posting on here. Like, I absolutely love writeblr, I've met some great people on here but - I found not posting in writing communities helped me a lot. Notes had become a big thing and I was too fixated on it, and then I realized that if it was wrecking my mental health, it's time to leave. I hate sanitizing things or writing for the masses, I like to write what I like and often times, that's WLW and not MLM. And sometimes even not romance and more something like HEMLOCKS. And I found that I was posting more about my WIPs than actually writing them or feeling motivated to write them.

I have plenty more, especially when it comes to HEMLOCKS but that's between me and the two people that know why I was working on it and what was happening like two nights ago that made me finish it.

SO this is Novel Number Two that is finished for me and I feel like I've only been able to talk about it with like three people. I am incredibly proud of myself.

#writing advice #ymmv #don't listen to people who have NY Times Top Writer on their twitter profiles #their advice is usually bad #except neil gaiman #always listen to him

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a-case-of-the-ace · 2 months

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Fic writer interview :D

Thank you @eoinmcgonigal for the tag!!

Welp let's see how this goes. I've been doing the writing thing for a little over two years, I think? Time has flown and I have done... little.

How many works do you have on AO3? 21.

2. What’s your total AO3 word count? 57,611. None of which have reached over the 12,000 mark.

3. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? Something, Old, New, Broken and Blue at number 1, followed by Something Precious, a Bold Beginning, My Soul Says Ouch and Match Made in Vain. The top 3 are for Stranger Things, and the 4th and 5th are for Mafia: Definitive Edition. I reckon the top ones are at the top mainly because they're a bigger fandom.

4. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? I do, I'm always so happy when I get them, but I worry I sound like a broken record. there's only so many ways to thank someone for reading and commenting, even though I'm overjoyed every time it happens.

5. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending? Possibly Ready for Table for Doctor Who's The Two Doctors, since that doesn't end in a good spot for the main character, but the canon story has a good ending, so you know it's going to be ok. Probably Bon Appetit, for Mafia: DE, since it's a dark yandere cannabilism fic.

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending? That's a tough one, most of mine have happy endings. Possibly My Soul Says Ouch, since the characters spend so long pining over each other before getting together? Also my only polyam fic, (or at least where it's not just implied) so 50% extra love?

7. Do you write crossovers? I haven't, none have really occurred to me. I don't usually read them either, but if it's done well, I'll read it.

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic? Not hate per se, but I did have one commenter who didn't like some things, and told me I could change things, and didn't need to stick to the canon. I quite liked my choices, though, and so did other kinder commenters. I do the fic for me, first and foremost.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Not in anything I've posted, but I'm currently writing a Galavant fic that has some, for angst reasons. I did have a tad in A Bold Beginning, but I danced around the subject so much that I don't think it counts. I'm ace, which I don't think helps much, I'm basing most of it off of what I've read.

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I'm aware of.

11. Have you ever had a fic translated? Nope. Wouldn't mind if someone did though.

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Nope.

13. What’s your all-time favourite ship? Mega tough one. Good Omens got me into it, but I haven't read much of them. Stobotnik, since I only watched the films for them? Two/Jamie? I read a lot of Johnlock, but that was ages ago. Geraskier? I think I just binge a ship and return to it if I really liked it. Depends if the ship's small or big, I guess.

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will? I had a mermaid!Tommy au I tried to get going for a long while, but kept getting stuck on logistics. An omegaverse mafia fic, an angsty guilt fic, and even a fic for Forever (TV show from 2014). Plus a bunch of ideas that hit while I was writing something else, and I'd lost the fixation by the time I finished. There's still a few sticky notes with ideas in my phone, from inspo at work. I think I get a lot more ideas than I manage to write :(

15. What are your writing strengths? Beginnings. I love nothing more than going "Bang! Here's what's happening." Otherwise, I dunno what my strengths might be. Writing in full sentences for the first draft?

16. What are your writing weaknesses? Hanging on to the motivation to finish a fic. Not using a variation of the phrase "All they could do was hope." Nearly put that in thrice in three chapters by mistake, I'm sure it's getting old. Motivation for sure though, I miss the days when I was writing tropey one-shots, at least they were one and done.

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic? I haven't really had a need to do it, and would worry about formatting if I did. Closest I've had to this was a heavily accented character, but I didn't really know how to write an accent and so I didn't write it in. Not sure if I'd do it that way again, but it made it easier.

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for? Mafia: Definitive Edition. Wrote my first fic in one of my last year 12 math classes. Also the fandom that made me switch from looking at tumblr on Pinterest to actually being on tumblr. There wasn't enough content, so I had to go searching, and then make my own.

19. What’s a fandom/ship you haven’t written for yet but want to? Really want to throw my hat into the ring on Wez/The Golden Youth, from Mad Max 2, but the only ideas I have for them are really long. Other ones I've considered writing include Forever, Red Dwarf, Sportarobbie from Lazytown, Johnny/Reg from SAS Rogue Heroes and Jude/Cardan from The Cruel Prince.

20. What’s your favourite fic you’ve written? I'm really liking the Galavant fic I'm writing at the moment, mainly because it's shamelessly self-indulgent. Probably one of my Mafia fics, Chosen by the Life, Choking on my Love or Bring Me Home. It's been a while since I've read my own stuff, this has been a real trip down memory lane.

Desperately trying to remember people who write so I can tag them... I'm so bad at names, if I miss you I'm sorry. And I may not know you at all well so I apologise if you find this weird.

@feline-ranger @iiep-wop @lilies-in-a-vase @somethingaboutamagpie @ihni

#tag game

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angst-in-space · 6 months

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october '23 writing progress

words written: 7.9k

most words written in a day: 1.2k

least words written in a day: 0

current yearly total: 142.8k

projects worked on:

ya sci-fi book revisions

misc other projects (planning adult sci-fi wip, taking beta notes, etc.)

works published in october:

none

october goals:

finish book rewrites….i mean it this time i swear

update one of my multichap fics?

maybe work on other fics if i have time/energy (but it’s doubtful lol)

november goals:

write as much as i can for nanowrimo (at least try to get to 50k?)

actually enjoy writing again? :')

FINISH MY YA SCI-FI BOOK REWRITES I STFG

work on outlining/zero drafting adult sci-fi wip

finish writing edit letter for friend

work on fics??

update one of my multichap fics??

notes:

i'm gonna be real besties... i'm at sort of a Writing Low right now. i did not meet any of my october goals or even come close. i only worked on my book rewrites on 4 days out of the entire month and i think my rewrites totaled to like... less than 2k. everything else i wrote this month was pretty much just taking miscellaneous notes because i could not bring myself to write/edit. i just haven't been feeling great about my work so it's been hard. but i was also traveling (i went to seattle which was AWESOME!!) and i feel like i needed the break and to step back for a bit, so hopefully that's helped me to clear my head.

i'm (sort of?) participating in nanowrimo—but this time around, i'm telling myself my main goal is just to enjoy writing again. i feel like i've had a hard time feeling excited about writing recently, and i just wanna feel that spark of joy again.

so! one thing i'll be doing this month is outlining (and maybe sorta zero drafting) a shiny new wip which i'm very excited about!! and i'm hoping i can work on some fic too, since i haven't done that in like 2+ months *sobs*

otherwise, i DO actually want to finish my ya sci-fi book rewrites for realsies this time. i had kinda hit a wall with it.... not so much that i'm stuck on what needs to happen, rather that i just ran out of steam i think and got hit really hard with self-doubt and feeling like my book isn't good lol. but, i'm getting into the last big act and there are a lot of scenes i'm excited to add/rewrite, so i'm hoping that'll help propel me towards the end of this draft (PLEASE????).

#brigidposts #writing updates #monthly writing updates 2023 #text

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air--so--sweet · 6 months

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So, I already edited and added to this one before and it took two hours and then tumblr glitched and saved none that and instead posted my original messy draft and I didn't realise for several hours and was very annoyed which is why this is coming now rather than sooner.

I've decided to save my full David and Syd analysis until after watching season three, so this is just my stray observations post while watching the last three episodes of season 2.

- If David hadn't been off fucking Future Syd maybe he could have prevented the delusion spreading through Division 3 and maybe Ptonomy could have survived. Also, I know they were limited timewise, and I know they haven't really known what to do with Ptonomy since season 1, but couldn't we get at least one shot of his friends mourning him?! If not David and Syd, at least Melanie? Wasn't it implied they worked together a significant amount of time at Summerland? I know his consciousness is being kept alive in a computer or whatever, but they didn't know that at the time!

- I want to know how Clark and Syd's 'girl talk' moment came to be. Do they meet for tea regularly? Talk about their love lives and exes? I'm not sure how I feel about Clark's story about the boy in the army he loved who kept jumping out of planes to get away from him. I feel like it might have been better to get something more real in that moment than bizarre (especially when we know he had a husband and son that he lost due to his obsession with David). I read a review that treated the army boy story as serious and emotional but like... he parachuted away from him, and then one day his parachute didn't open?! It's just occurred to me thst I might be taking this too literally like the autistic stereotype I am but honestly in a show like Legion that's the sort of thing that would be intended to be taken literally and not as a metaphor so I don't even know anymore...

- Literal or not I did not miss the parallel of Syd jumping out of a plane and parachuting down to get to David. Honestly, parachuting into the desert and immediately kicking your boyfriend in the shins is such a power move.

- In general it feels like the show doesn't know what to do with Clark, and I worry that he'll meet a similar fate to Ptonomy as a result. Hopefully not!

- Admiral Fukuyama was created to keep the secrets safe from the telepaths...now he works with them? I liked seeing some of how he came to be, but it honestly it left me more confused. Also, if all he has is the metalwork around his head, I don't really get why he wears a basket...its probably just a meaningless visual I'm reading too much into... I love the visuals of Legion a lot, but I do feel like sometimes 'this would look cool/weird/strange' is the only reasoning behind things and it doesn't always land with me.

- So this absolutely should have gone in my TUA comparison post, but I remembered writing it, got confused, and thought I'd already posted it rather than stuck it in a stray observations draft...whoops. David choosing to not tell anyone his plan as Farouk would read their mind and instead manipulating them all as an alternative - it's the first time David, as David has acted based on his own thoughts and feelings and I'm questioning if he's doing the right thing. I couldn't help but think of Five Hargreeves line to Viktor in The Umbrella Academy, 'You know what they call a superhero who acts alone and doesn't listen to anybody? A villain.' (Having now reached the end of the season I wasn't wrong)

- Farouk previously talked about David's white father taking over and telling his people what to do (sidenote: who are Farouk's people? I thought he might mean mutants, but the white part of the line then doesn't make sense. It's unclear if Farouk is Moroccan like the comics or Iranian, since he speaks Farsi, but in this universe, did Professor X colonise Morocco/Iran?!?) He also talks about white people being cast as the heroes when speaking with Future Syd, and he's got a point, but the show needs to commit if it truly wants to address this. Yes exoticism has been used as short hand for villainous in the past, yes the writers of Legion didn't create or name Amahl Farouk, they're just (loosely) adapting the comics, and yes David does reveal himself to be a villain rather than a hero. But like...Farouk is still also a villain? So yeah, your blonde blue-eyed white man might be a monster, but that doesn't erase all the things Farouk has done (including helping turn David into a monster). Also, him being free at the end is down to his manipulations and control of others, right? Because the whole of Division 3 isn't so stupid as to let him walk free, right?!?

- 'You're the song they play outside a hostage crisis to keep criminals from thinking clearly.' This is just a great line I wanted to highlight. Syd could have just called Lenny a distraction but went with this beauty instead.

-The show that talked about delusion and moral panic then tries to blame technology for helping create narcissists and not seeing others as real people. It feels like that stupid 2014 video that claimed using our phones meant we'd miss out on meeting the love of our life because we won't ask her for directions. It's such nonsense. I've seen people who watched it when it aired say that technology is just a framing device for discussing narcissism and not meant to be seen as the blame, but if that's the case, sorry, they did a shit job because it absolutely feels like its proselytising about the evils of tech. It feels so incredibly out touch and tactless, and I wish they cut it, especially as the John Hamm narrative segments had reached a natural conclusion just the episode before. Having enjoyed the segments until now, it's disappointing that this is what they were building to.

-I think they were aiming for 'the desolate' or 'desolation' but 'Le désolé' just means 'the sorry' I checked with a French friend to make sure, and they confirmed it. You can use désolé to mean desolate, but only if there's a noun in front of it so this doesn't work.

- I'm not sure if the two David in David's mind are meant to be alters or like a devil and angel on his shoulder (really hope it's the latter because DID has been demonised enough and I don't trust the show to not be another Split honestly) but as someone who watches with subtitles I got the fun insight that their names are apparently Divad and Dvd.

- I've seen some people say Legion is set in the '60s/70s but we're never given a year, right? Considering it's a parallel universe I thought it was just another present day low/no tech AU like The Umbrella Academy or Manic. Especially as a lot if the tech we see feels more steampunk than 1960s . I get why a reviewer called the depiction of an MRI scan in season 1 anachronistic now, since MRI was only invented in 1977 (sidenote: as a student radiographer I will still never get over that scene. I was so ready to just accept it as a made up experimental scan and then they said the words MRI and I had to pause it, I was laughing so hard because it's sooo bad)

- I watched two whole seasons of this show and thought Melanie was played by Kim Cattral, but she isn't, she's played by Jean Smart! TWO SEASONS. I hadn't heard of Jean Smart before now, but honestly her and Kim Cattral are twins.

#legion #legion season 2 #david haller #amahl farouk #stray observations #the umbrella academy #but only a brief mention #can someone get me a gif of Syd parchuting out of the sky to kick David in the shins please?

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the-fandom-nerds · 9 months

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Hey friends :)

So ao3 is down, which is tragic. I have all the older drafts for my fics saved, but the newer, fully edited version lie on the ao3 site to (hopefully) be recovered at a later date. In these trying times, would anyone be interested if I posted my sander sides fics on the hellsite?

I tend to write a lot of logince, but a newer fic I'm working on has prinxiety. One that I haven't even finished the first chapter for has mociet among other things.

Leave me notes! Even if not, I'll probably post em anyway. Yall can become my beta readers for the fic I haven't done a lot for lol

The Prince and The Dragon Witch:

Roman paced tirelessly in the small tower room he was placed in only yesterday. In his mind, he contemplated the events that brought him here. None of it made sense.

Of course, Roman felt like his sudden placement was justified. He had pushed his father to this point. How many times did his father lecture him? How many times was he told not to leave the castle? And how many times did Roman do it anyway?

He was told he’d regret it one day, that one day Roman’s misbehavior would finally catch up to him. He knew one more disappearance, one more impulsive escape would be all it took for his father to snap. Yet, it still didn't feel real. This time, Roman royally fucked up. He was being sent away, and no amount of pleading or convincing would change that.

And now, he was here. Thousands of miles from the region of his kingdom, alone. (Main ships is logince and moxiety, but it's implied LAMP near the end)

Switched

Roman and Virgil accidentally switch roles after spending too much time together. Chaos ensues.

Roman doesn't know how to be anxiety. All he knows is freak out and cry. Virgil doesn't know how to be creativity. All he knows is be gay, do crimes. (Prinxiety, mociet if you squint)

The Prince and The Frog

Prince Janus is engaged to Prince Virgil Knight. Despite enjoying Virgils company, Janus can't help but feel overwhelmed with the engagement, and he feels he is stuck. His brothers, Prince Roman and Prince Remus, try to help in their own special way.

Incidentally, problems worsen as Prince Roman seemingly makes enemies with Prince Logan Knight, Prince Virgil's younger brother. And worse so, as Prince Remus is meddling with wedding plans as he tries to get Virgil's attention.

Janus's only solitude is a secret part of the castle gardens, where he finds himself sharing his troubles to the grass snakes and tiny frog that resides in the pond. (Was primarily supposed to be mociet but accidentally became logince as a primary focus whoops. This one has barely 2 chapters written)

#sander sides #sanders sides #fanfics #ao3 #logince #beta reader

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purefandomonium · 1 year

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Connection (Snippet)

This is... Hmmm... I don't fucking know. I was bored, didn't feel motivated to work on any of my usual projects, and this shit has been eating up the back of my mind for weeks now. So I figured I'd scratch the itch and write something because why not? It's a snippet from a maybe two-parter I'm writing for fun. Or it might become something more depending on how I feel when it's finished. Right now, it's not very fleshed out and is essentially just going to stay a rough draft. I refuse to let myself put any more effort into this by editing it and crap 😅 Essentially, it's my mostly blank oc gets her hands on the titular Glitchy Red cartridge and decides to put her novice coding skills to work to try and befriend everyone's favorite angsty glitch. If anyone's interested for more info feel free to ask, and I guess let me know what you think? Idk, I've just been trying to get out my rut lately. Writing below the cut.

She frowned at the screen as the high-pitched ringing from the last note of the background music played out continuously, every other sprite but the player’s a garbled mess of random tiles and text. This exact thing had happened a thousand times before, but recently the game itself seemed to be getting frustrated with her constant attempts of playing. She knew now that this was no hack. There was something more there.

She felt bad for whatever entity was stuck in this thing, as the more she attempted to figure things out the more the state of the game worsened and the angrier this ‘Red’ seemed to get. If she could just tell him she was trying to help, maybe he’d stop crashing the game so much. But how could she talk to something who couldn’t hear?

She realized something then. Turning the game off with zero warning, she set it aside. She left it there, untouched, for a week straight while she got other stuff ready. When she finally came back to it, it loaded up like normal. At least, the normal she was used to. Things were bound to be wrong in a game as broken as this one and, sure enough, when the world loaded in there were a few inconsistencies with the sprites and music.

But none of that mattered with what she was about to do. Finding a large, open area to walk in where she’d be undisturbed by any in-game events, she began moving the player around in specific patterns.

Nothing happened. There was no interaction from the game itself. It continued on like it was supposed to while the little sprite walked about like a lunatic.

But it also didn’t freeze or crash. So she kept on. Then:

RED: What are you doing?

The text box interrupted her little patterns and she hadn’t gotten the point across, so she cleared it and kept up.

RED: Will you stop this?

The text appeared so slowly and she made a note to fix that if given the opportunity. The pacing continued.

RED: Are you stupid?

She groaned and rolled her eyes. Ok. So maybe whatever this was, wasn’t as smart as she thought. She stopped everything and just moved up, left then right, then back to where she’d come up at, then down, then the same thing several paces away from the imaginary ‘top.’

An empty text box appeared before clearing itself. Then more.

RED: …

RED: …Are you trying to tell me something?

She’d been fully prepared to make an up and down ‘yes’ gesture in the area but the game allowed her a choice instead. Finally, some progress.

RED: …I see…

The box disappeared without any prompting from her and she took that as a sign to continue, albeit much slower. She drew an ‘I’ again, only for Red to confirm he got it. She was going to tell him ‘it’s me again,’ referring to herself as the same person who’d been playing the last few weeks, but decided against it. He, it, whatever this was didn’t seem to know she was the same person who’d been tearing apart the little pixel world for sometime now. If he did, he’d surely be more pissed than this and she didn’t want to risk putting herself back at square one.

Besides, she felt bad for all the damage she’d been causing.

Painstakingly drawing one letter at a time, with Red verifying them, she finally got a message across.

RED: …“I’m sorry”…?

RED: You’re sorry? For what?

RED: You…

RED: You’re the same one from before, aren’t you?

She answered ‘yes’ a bit more hesitantly this time, fully expecting the game to shut itself down. Only it didn’t. The next set of text seemed to appear even slower than usual.

RED: …No one… No one’s ever apologized before… They just exploit the glitches and move on once they get bored.

He was silent again for so long, she thought the game finally froze.

RED: You’re the first person to ever try talking to me.

It seemed he wasn’t sure how to follow up on that either if his silence was anything to go by.

She spelled out, ‘that’s sad.’ What else can you say to that? After he confirmed that yes, he was indeed miserable, she tried a different approach. She asked him who he was.

RED: Red.

She let out a tired sigh and went right back to spelling. ‘Are you stuck?’

RED: I’ve been like this for a very long time. Trapped here and made to do things I have no desire to do. Live the same old story over and over and over again.

RED: I don’t know what’s worse. The monotony of it all, or all you players making things worse for “fun.”

RED: Since you’re actually listening to me, do me a favor.

RED: Destroy this cartridge.

RED: Smash it, burn it, I don’t care. Just rid me of this miserable existence. I’m tried of all this. I’ve been replaced and forgotten, there’s no more need for me to exist.

Ok. A bit melodramatic, but she couldn’t blame him. It sounded like he was trapped in virtual hell. Being stuck in a metaphorical box and being manipulated like a puppet while the world fell apart around you did sound pretty awful. And it wasn’t like she hadn’t made things worse with her own fiddling. Still, computers were her strong point. And sentient programming or not, she knew she could find a way to get him out of there. Or at least make things a little better.

Killing him just didn’t feel right. Maybe he wasn’t ‘alive’ in the traditional sense, but if he was aware enough to realize he was stuck in an old video game and had the ability to be so moody, then he wasn’t just some messed up bit of code.

RED: …You’re still here.

Ah. Right. He was probably waiting for the world to go dark again. Permanently. As if she could bring herself to do that.

She moved the character up and down.

RED: Did you listen to a single thing I said? Get rid of me.

What if…? What if she could transfer him somewhere else? This thing had a truly laughable amount of RAM and ROM. And if she could get him onto an actual computer, they could at least have a normal conversation.

She eyed the setup she created in the corner and figured now was as good a time as any to try and make some progress. Ignoring Red’s cries for death, she wandered over to the computer and rummaged around in the box of cables and junk she kept on hand at all times.

#glitchy red #my oc #my writing #pokepasta #connection

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six-costume-refs · 2 years

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Have you seen Six’s recent performance on the Today Show? It looks like Keri has the proper Seymour boots now (not the ones she had during her debut) and Sam isn’t wearing her flats anymore, could it just be because of them being on the Today Show or have they changed their boots recently? Also, could that hint that Keri’s not leaving the show anytime soon (whether that be on Broadway or possibly the Boleyn Tour)?

Hey! First of all this got stuck in my drafts for a while and Keri Rene Fuller has seemingly left the show since. However, I think there’s still some helpful info here and am still going to leave most of what I said in answer to your question about Keri, but just a heads up for anyone reading this

So both Sam Pauly and Adrianna Hicks started out in the show with heeled boots. Due to injuries they switched to flat boots, and have been wearing those pretty consistently since. They both wore heeled boots for the Today Show performance.

Keri Rene Fuller has actually had three pairs of boots:

Left: her flat debut boots Center: a different flat pair that she was wearing later in the run Right: Heeled boots. The only time I can confirm that she wore these are on the Today Show. She may have started wearing the heeled boots in performances a few days before Abby Mueller’s return, but it's hard to know with the fairly low quality photos and minimal megasixes we get now. My guess is she never wore them in a show.

Adrianna, Sam, and Keri were just wearing heeled because it's a public performance for the Today Show. Two major components of that: a) Six usually has any queens who might typically wear flats wear heeled boots for promos. Wearing them for a performance of one song or a photoshoot is much easier on the queens' feet then wearing them for 8-9 shows a week, and it just makes things way more uniform! The Broadway cast has done that for most public performances in recent months; most recently they also did so for the Visit London performance a week after the Today Show performance b) It's also Tony's season, and Six is really going after that costume design award! It's one of their most likely bets for a win so they'll really focus on it in the next month. We'll likely see a lot of promo in that features their costumes, and for public performances like that that they'll definitely prioritize the uniformity of everyone in their heeled boots as much as possible.

There's something notable about Keri's heeled boots, though: they actually might be alt style. They look similar to Seymour, yes, but they have a number of key differences that are out of the ordinary for Seymour boots:

1. Quick disclaimer on this one that due to lighting and photo editing it can be hard to say with certainty, but Keri's boots (left) seem to have two of the three crystal colors typically used for the monotone Broadway alt boots rather than the three crystal colors used for principal Seymour (right). 2. Keri's boots have two straps, while the standard design used in US productions only have one. This may seem negligible, but they’ve really standardized these strap designs for Aragon Tour and Broadway. 3. Seymour is also the only boot pattern that none of the other alts are currently using: Nicole Kyoung-Mi Lambert has Aragon/Howard, Keirsten Hodgens has Cleves, Courtney Mack has Boleyn, and Mallory Maedke has Parr (all talked about with photos in that post linked in #1) They're visually small differences, but notable ones. I also want to address that while it might seem like this could just be a design change for Seymour, the Aragon Tour boots have been made since Keri’s and don’t have these changes.

This could definitely indicate that Keri is meant to have multiple covers. If Keri had been meant to stay as alternate Seymour with no other covers (regardless of whether or not she became principal Seymour down the road), it would make the most sense for her to have the standard US Seymour boot design: the usual crystal colors and the usual one wide strap. These seem more like monotone, semi-generic alt boots modeled after a primary cover, just like the other Broadway alts.

Like I said I wrote this back when we though Keri would be staying on, but I still think this is notable. I always try to note boot design changes, for starters, but it also could be an indicator that Keri may have been meant to be an alt with multiple covers at some point (I have a theory about this but I want to wait and see if we get any future evidence). I do expect that she’ll return in the future as a principal Seymour, but I’m also wondering if they could have set her up to return as an alt. Super curious where things go in the next few months, so we’ll just have to wait and see.

#six the musical #keri rene fuller #six broadway #six boots #samantha pauly #adrianna hicks #flat boots #jane seymour six #six musical

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