#i'll answer asks or write more later

[anarchy-and-piglins]

Missing peerpressureduo hours so I've been thinking about a Fae AU where claiming a human is a fae rite of passage. You must claim one when you come of age, or you'll be kicked out of your court. And fae usually do not survive long without a court to live in - nor are other courts likely to take you in after being kicked out of your own.

Fae!Ranboo is extremely anxious about this. He's not very good at any other fae-related things so he's already the lowest rank he could possibly be. But if he succeeds in claiming a human, at least he'll get to live. It'll be a pitiful existence, but still. When he's old enough, he sets out into the human realm with desperation in his heart and a singular goal in mind: to steal a name. Any name.

Enter Technoblade.

Ranboo claims Techno, mostly because Ranboo is such a pathetic wet cat of a man that Techno can't help but feel awkwardly bad for him, and he ends up lowering his guard. And maybe Ranboo is a little more tricky than Techno gave him credit for too.

Techno is - understandably - pretty pissed when he finds out. But he can't do anything about it because Ranboo's deal was incredibly thorough and Techno is now bonded to not do anything against Ranboo's will. This includes hurting Ranboo or refusing to go with him/trying to run away. So basically Ranboo just has ownership of the angriest, most snarky human in existence.

They go back to court where Ranboo is not only allowed to stay, he's boosted to one of the highest possible ranks. As it turns out, Techno is a human of great renown in the fae world, not only because he's a great warrior and dangerous tactician, but also because he's the only human who ever got claimed by a fae before and weaseled his way out of it.

(The fae in question was Skeppy. And he's still very salty about being reverse-tricked by a human.)

So what Ranboo has done is super impressive. And he's accepted as one of the highest members of fae court.

Further on the story would include stuff like: Fae politics that are very tricky and dangerous because other fae would love to get rid of Ranboo and yoink Techno, Techno slowly warming up to Ranboo and friendship and him helping in the politics because he doesn't want to be yoinked by somebody else, AND Skeppy showing up and charging for joined custody over Techno and the court has to humor him because this is kind of a never-before-seen situation. Quackity is the lawyer in fae court.

(Also like, dark!ranboo and maybe dark!sbi/dark!other character vibes because it's me. I'm going to make the fae protective/possessive over their human <3)

#ranboo #technoblade #thoughts #there's a bit more but it's all rolling around in the brain #i'll answer asks or write more later #if only i could come up with a name

[kenobihater]

of all the star wars movies, which of them do y'all 1) enjoy the most 2) consider the best quality and 3) think you've rewatched the most. add your answers in the reblogs or replies, i'm genuinely curious how much of an overlap there is within everyone's three answers. mine don't overlap at all! they're revenge of the sith, empire strikes back, and the force awakens :^)

#len speaks #star wars #revenge of the sith #empire strikes back #the force awakens #not tagging more films than that bc i cant b bothered. incoming tag ramble ahead bc i have sw brainrot rn and im making it everyones prob❤️ #i rlly struggled 2 remember if id watched tfa or aotc more. i went w/ tfa bc it was formative to me as a teen and ive seen it probably 6ish #times? whereas aotc was the first sw movie i remember (specifically the scene of obiwan serving c*nt in the bar lmao) but i've only seen it #for sure 4.5 and maybe 5.5 times. the .5 is from when i got bored after obi-wan's scene ended and ran off to go play in the mud or smthn 😭 #i'm sure tfa will eventually get surpassed in number of rewatches by aotc and rots bc i don't fw the direction of the ST but that's my #current ballpark estimate of my total number of rewatches #as an adult tho if i just wanna watch a star war i'll go with aotc bc it's fun and ends semihappily and i can turn my brain off for the #spinny lightsabers. it's great background noise or for if you're sick or whatever. rots on the other hand? i won't talk through that unless #i'm quoting it with my brother and i am LOCKED IN 100% entirely entranced by it all #i almost picked rogue one for the best quality answer but i think the character writing is weaker and the facial cgi is creepy. esb beats #it by a hair imho bc of that. the vader hallway scene goes hard tho!!! #also i'm not covering shows or games or books or anything else in this post - simply the films. might ask abt shows later but that might #also give me hives bc so many of the shows suck ass and i don't rlly want ppl extolling the virtues of t.bb in my notes 💀 #and yes i do think one's enjoyment and one's opinion of quality are two things that often overlap. but sometimes you just like something #bad and that's awesome. like rots is the best of the prequels by a large margin and i adore the opening and characters and many of the #scenes but that doesn't mean it's the best star wars has to offer ykwim? it's my specialest most favoritest sw movie but that doesn't blind #me to the dialogue lmfaooo

[osaemu]

hey siri how do i get interested in jjk again

#sabs posts! #scratches head #i wanna write and i can write but #jjk is lowkey kind of boring me #it's just the same old everything #i have zero interest in the fandom and the characters now #and when i write for them i think i've stopped caring about characterization #which used to be more important to me #plus all the toxicity of the jjk fandom is a big turn off #idk i'm just not feeling it #and a lot of my mutuals are either on hiatus or archived #so ...... yeah. #i'll answer asks later #also feel free to send non-jjk requests #i'll try to do them :)

[fidgetspringer-art]

Every lineart lover's dream

#wip #my art #so many little details #apologies for the repeat WIP but my shoulder is fucked atm so progress is slow #This is the armour design for an order called the Shimmer Shields in my homebrew setting #I'll write more about them later but the basics is that in a city as nurturing of magic users as Novo-Mellior is #there was a need for a way to keep those magic users in check since your average city guard wasn't the best suited to handle rogue casters #and so the Shimmer Shields were created and trained in all the intricacies of magic without being actual casters #Also I know it's a long shot but if anyone happens to have any questions about my silly little setting do feel free to send an ask #no better way to worldbuild than by having to answer questions about it #and if applicable i might do a little sketch to go with it c:

[fidgetspringer]

- Marten & Nohren -

#digital art #illustration #art #cowboys #original characters #my art #thought I might as well slap some colour on this now since i'll be away this week #i've got so many ideas floating around my head for story stuff I want to draw for these two #i've been writing them for almost a year now and i have a bunch of different AUs i'm excited to make designs for #the outlaws AU is one of my favourites though #excited to see how their designs change as i get more confident with drawing people #i'm not gonna info dump about them too much i think. I'll probably just let the story unfold trough the illustrations etc #cause idk if anyone's interested in the story stuff. i'm happy to answer if anyone asks stuff though #but the short version is that they grew up in the same town but didn't really get to know each other until later #Marten has a bad accident that leaves him bedridden for over a year while his father hides his condition out of shame #so Nohren takes a job as a hand at their ranch and figures out which room they're keeping Marten locked in #they become good friends and Nohren visits him in secret for almost two years while helping Marten regain some mobility #they take up the outlaw life after Nohren is seen with another man in town and decides he's better off getting out of dodge #Marten is torn about leaving the ranch behind but he comes along eventually #that's the very basic gist of it #they good kiddos #Marten #Nohren #Outlaws AU

[zhongrin]

it's a long weekend for me this week, but my schedule is p a c k e d hsldjflksjdf wish me luck 🍀

#rin rambles #gonna hang out with a friend i haven't seen in months (the friendship of working adults are wild sometimes hskdljflsd) #first guzheng lesson!!!! sosososo excited for this one oughhhhh expect me to gush about it later ehehe #also i should be having that date but.... idk.... i'm too shy to contact him first hsldjfksd imma just wait until he contacts me first 🙈🤐 #also will have to do several chores and errands. but i hope i'll have time to answer asks/code/write/draw more bc i am feeling creative!! 📈

[oflights]

Drarry fashion sense head canons?

ohhh this is such a good one, let me think!!

okay disclaimer is that i think i struggle with describing clothes/often have to go back and add descriptions of them in when i write, but i do like to think about what they'd like to wear!!

i feel like the books vs movies vs shitty word-building makes this both complicated but also like less constrictive. canon is so spotty about magical vs muggle dressing conventions (why are weasley jumpers such a thing if wizards/witches wear robes all the time?? i've assumed it's a generational thing but like, molly knits the jumpers so ?? whatever) so i've tried to sort this out in my head a bit: adult magical folks in adult society generally wear robes out and about; harry's generation is less stringent about it/generally more knowledgable about muggle clothes, but it's still the most popular fashion.

so i pretty much always headcanon draco in robes unless he has a specific reason to be in the muggle world, and then he'll change. he'll wear simple clothes not really meant to be shown off under the robes, unless it's cold and he layers. my brain likes to dress draco in blue a lot, and i tend to picture/describe him as a cool winter, which gives a broad blue spectrum to pick from, plus a lot of jewel tones and bright, cool colors.

his clothes usually have a lot of distinctive, fussy details: fine buttons, embroidery, quality tailoring, belts, a set of winter outerwear that matches, etc. they're the kinds of details that normally go right over harry's head except when it's draco 😌

because harry is definitely more basic when it comes to fashion. he does really like buying his own clothes, relishing getting to choose what to wear about years of castoffs, but never being allowed to choose things means he never really developed taste, so sometimes he gets overwhelmed by choices. he also doesn't like to follow fashion conventions; robes still sometimes feel like a costume to him and he definitely tends towards mugglewear by default, but will wear robes in deference to draco. sometimes he'll wear robes open over muggle clothes as a compromise.

his color palette (clear winter, as i tend to describe him, with warm skin tone, bright eyes, black hair and high contrast between features) is actually similar to draco's, which i imagine draco having a lot of fun with. jewel tones are good on him, too, plus icy colors. draco loves dressing harry way more than harry loves dressing himself, and harry feels so loved and cared for whenever he wears something draco picked out for him.

send me drarry tropes and i’ll respond with five related headcanons!!

#asks #teledild0nix #drarry headcanons #ask meme #oflights headcanons #lmao why is this one so long #me: i'm so bad at describing clothes #also me: writes the longest one yet #also i need to go have dinner now but i'll answer more of these later tonight!! 😊

[violetsareblue-selfships]

good morning!! <3

#more penacony for today :3 #again i tend to take doing the story pretty slowly #plus i try to get as much exploration done at the same time so i don't have to go back later #but anyways #it should be fun #i've been having a lot of fun with the anniversary board game thingy too :3 #other than that... #i saw that post about writing wedding vows for you & your f/o #and since i've been wanting to do something for my scara wedding (which i was wanting to be tomorrow (3/30)) might try that #then i could write a fic to go for the first anniversary next year #bc i'm still kinda struggling to write when i want to #but maybe vows would be easier since they'd be shorter/more contained #oh! also i have those asks to answer so hopefully I'll get those done #anyways #i hope today/tonight is a good one! <3 #morning rambles

[sassenach082]

Really love your whole story! And I love how we can see like small funny conversations after reading each chapter. I gotta know how you plan this all out. Do you plan it all out from the get-go, how much of an actual outline do you have for all of this? I'd really love to hear about your process!

Also good luck with chapter 18, I can feel that it is being a bitch to work with, carry on soldier🫡

Oh boy nonnie! If only I knew how to explain this in a way that doesn't make me sound like I'm completely and entirely out of my mind.

I'll try and explain it in a somewhat coherent fashion!

I have a doc that I use where I organize by chapter more or less what I want to do. It doesn't usually end up being that in the final draft but it helps me to get where I need to go by putting in the key scenes that link the narrative together.

A while ago I took a creative writing class and the teacher said something that stuck with me. "If you get stuck, just put in brackets of what you want to happen and keep going. Come back later!"

This ended up being really helpful! I don't do brackets but I'll put in something like this: / and then something cool happens with these characters regarding xyz! OR this character says:

this character says:

this character does this:

/ and I just keep going with whatever the scene is. It helps a lot! I also will frequently go back and re-read my own stuff while checking my outline, and my brain kind of makes connections of extra scenes I can add. Sometimes I get a wild hair and just go "oh this would be perfect" but I don't know how to write it or what I want to say, so I'll put in the placeholder to remind me even if I'm not ready to write it at the time.

This of course leads to an outline that is a hot-freaking-mess, but it works for me. I have an outline doc and I kind of just highlight as I go. Sometimes scenes I wanted don't fit in that chapter (I tend to have REALLY LONG chapters) so I'll just keep it where it is and go back and add it in later, or I'll move it into the box for the next chapter.

When I'm writing I tend to focus on one character at a time, since I do third person POVs mostly. So on chapters where it's two character POVs alternating, I usually do one character first and then check my outline to go back and plug in the rest of the stuff for the other character. It can get confusing/frustrating at times, and sometimes I go completely off my rails and do something entirely different (thanks brain) but knowing a general outline of what I'm doing really helps. Once I have a general outline I can go in and write the scenes as I get inspired to write them. I'm very much not a start at the beginning author considering I wrote this entire beast with the final scene completed first which I've had written almost a year now.

I hope that was coherent enough to understand! My google drive is a hot mess of documents called Untitled with numbers after them and then drabbles and a whole bunch of other stuff. Currently the i'll ride au outline doc is 15+ pages and has the series loosely mapped out with bullet points of what I want to happen.

My poor beta is the best for putting up with me!

#sassy answers asks #this is long and me blabbing about my brain so I cut myself off with a keep reading #my writing process is kind of a hot mess? but it works i guess #when i'm planning its more stream of consciousness so i write it how the characters would talk? #if that makes sense #sometimes i'll put in lines that are good zingers #(this is fun for tom especially he's so sassy) #and sometimes it's just block text of me just writing basically a summary #and i go back and flesh it out later #i found it helps because i sometimes get stuck on what they're saying or doing but if i just keep typing exactly what i'm thinking #it helps me stay in the zone and not get frustrated #or stuck #those little blurbs at the end are often lifted directly from my first draft when i'm just writing a scene i want to see & its all dialogue #so i guess this is a VERY long response #to saying i write dialogue first #and often go back and plug everything else in later #usually the actions of what they're doing go last since that fleshes it all the way out #i also have strong visualization skills too #so i'll like picture it in my head like it's a movie?? #so i'm like a director and a writer at the same time #i don't know how to make that make sense #apparently some people literally can't visualize and it makes me sound crazy when i describe movies in my head #but i've been a swimmer for years and in long sets i'd just like... play the first harry potter movie in my brain #which is... a weird cool fact about me i guess but ANYWAY

[ask-the-squidbeak-splatoon]

What's that mark on retired 3.5's face? Is it a scar? If so how'd they get it?

#splatoon #squidbeak splatoon #ask #captain 3 #r!agent 3.5 #i got around to drawing the answer instead of using words #i just hope it looks better and more eye pleasing- ;w; #this is just an experiment. since if i were to draw. then it would take more time- #but i hope you guys like it- #i'll probably ask later if people prefer the writing or the drawing-

[skrillien]

hey, remember the cringecore au?

#cringecore au #it's still getting written! #i have to go eat and show up for my practical #but later tonight i'm going to go do stuff for my ask blog (by this i mean i have exactly one ask to answer) #and i'll prob write some more cringecore and introduce some new sillies

[nebulouscoffee]

Thinking about Her... (my Dax fic I haven't updated since last July which I really need to bring back from the war)

#I have about 30k more words written!! but later last year I just came down with a terminal case of The Shies that never really went away #another thing is part of me only wants to post ch3 after I'm completely finished with ch5 (the ending) #but also I low key think I've written myself into a metaphysical corner lmao it's ezri's zhian'tara and JADZIA IS HOSTING JADZIA AND #WHATEVER I WRITE ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH TO DO THAT JUSTICE IT'S TOO PSYCHOLOGICALLY COMPLEX FOR MY DUMB ASS TO RECKON WITH!! #(<- that's the excuse I keep telling myself but really it's just The Shies lol) #honestly it's really funny I'll be like ''well the central questions are 'what exactly constitutes a soul' and 'who are we when we #cannot be the sum of our memories' and 'are two people who share the same memories as distinct as any two people or nah' #and I just feel like I haven't come up with satisfying enough answers by the end yknow!'' *bonks myself on the head* #GIRL WHAT??? philosophers have been asking these questions since the dawn of time and still haven't arrived at satisfying answers; how or #when or WHY exactly do you hope to do so in your star trek fanfiction??? lmao?? #my fics

[whatdoyoumeanitsnotcanon]

In the polycule that is MohVarNished (why'd I even think of this name? It's so horrible):

Imagine that the Tarnished is watching in a mixture of pain and pleasure as Mohg so beautifully, so viciously fucks Varré. And oh, by the blood, is he breathtaking, needy whines and cries of Mohg's name falling from his lips amidst the sound of slapping skin and his body is flushed and covered in a thin sheen of sweat.

Their loves are beautiful in their passion and it's so deliciously painful, the heat that pools down below. The Tarnished can't touch themselves or else they'd be denied the same pleasure Varré is currently in the throes of. After what seems like an eternity, their lover wails, and his pearly essence spills between him and Mohg.

But alas, the torture is far from over...

...For their lord isn't sated, not yet, not until Varré succumbs once more, and so he continues, his overstimulated lover clutching his robes for dear life, voice hoarse with pleasure.

And so the Tarnished bites their lips and squeezes their thighs together, ready to fall into temptation amidst passioned pleas...

#poly palooza. #mohvarnished for the win. #nsfw. #why'd I even make this name up. #I have a dinner I must attend as part of my writing working group. #I'll be back later on so leave more poly palooza madness for me if you'd like. #In the meantime I leave you with this. #I've really been on and off and got more headcanon asks I have to answer. Sorry guys!

[waitingonavision]

Ask box is always open! You’re also welcome to send questions, stuff, etc., about rats in general and about my potatoes, Pippa (left) and Juli (right):

*Their cage is not this barren... I just moved stuff in order to take photos unencumbered 😅

#(ff to check these tags for more photos and rat things) #my photos #RATS #i'll get to writing and answering other asks later~ #if brain stays awake

[gamebunny-advance]

So if 1010 and sayu swap managers, what’s sayu like under Neon J’s management?

Tbh, my manager swap AU is more about how the battle mechanics are reskinned, so Sayu doesn't actually change that much in it ^^;

In this AU, she becomes a part of a quintet with the other mermaids from Doki Doki Mermaid Club.

I imagine that they're probably all based on a different anime girl trope, the same way Sayu is modeled on the generic shoujo protagonist.

Other than that, I never really developed her side of the AU, OTL.

#nsr #sayu #thanks for the ask! I'll answer your other one at a later time #i actually originally wrote a lot more but tumblr ate my post while i was editing it #and i really don't want to go through all that again #not that there's much else to say #i really didn't develop her side that much because all of the designs are pretty much already made. #there was nothing of interest for me to draw for her side so i never thought about it as much as i did XIO #sayu doesn't need to change to work her into a group dynamic #and even then as a fictional entity her relationship with said group largely doesn't matter because it's fictional in-universe #at that point i'd just be writing what i think DDMC would be like #which doesn't need the context of this AU to write about #and tbh i'm not especially interested in that XP

[silverskye13]

different anon. it does for some people but not everyone. (also, some people may find the feature annoying in certain cases because the length it decides is Too Long is kiinda arbitrary and peoople have differnent lines.)

So in the spirit of Under-The-Cutting, I guess.

First thing of address, I guess: I can't control if people turn off the auto Tumblr readmore function. If it doesn't work for you, you can't control that either. But I find it a bit unfair that someone might, hypothetically, turn off the useful tool for cutting back on longposts on your dashboard, and then come into my inbox and be passive-aggressive about me not doing the function for them on my side of the equation. If that's the circumstances that kicked all this off, it's a bit... ahm... self-centered. I personally have it turned on, less because I want to filter long written posts [I like reading the fics posted on Tumblr] but because I like to filter long image posts, and those generally don't get censored under a readmore.

For that matter I also can't control someone's scrolling speed. I get what the second anon is trying to say: maybe only censor posts of a certain size. The issue here is what I think is long isn't the same as what someone else does. For me personally, I think long is a written work that tops out around 10k words. I'd get annoyed scrolling through that on my dashboard. The fic I posted yesterday was a rare 5k-ish. Most fics I've posted here in the past are around 2-3k, but I've posted an 8k fic here before with no resistance. Something I'm learning from this is other people think 2-3k is fine enough to scroll through, but 5k is a lot. So... noting that for the future.

So I personally don't like censoring my posts under the readmore function for a couple or reasons:

It cuts back on engagement, noticeably. It's the side-effect of social media that you want instant gratification as quickly as possible. When someone is given the choice to either click a button and sit on a post for awhile, or continuing to scroll through their dashboard for something quicker to engage with, normally they'll pick the second option. That's how social media was made, and while the Tumblr platform subverts this a little by it's nature, it still buy-and-large holds true.

Read mores, as far as I'm aware, can only be added on desktop. The snippets that make it to Tumblr, barring when I archive them for myself on a separate document, are all written on mobile. If they aren't completely mobile, they're at least started/drafted there and then moved to desktop later - but I want to say 9/10 of these are written and posted completely from my phone. And they're going to lean even more into that, since for various reasons, it's currently easier and more reliable for me to write on my phone. I won't be able to continue writing fics here if I have to wait until I have access to my laptop every time before posting them. Which leads me to my incredibly me-only dilemma:

Writing these quickly and posting them rough to Tumblr is the only reason these quick fics get written in the first place. I started posting written work to Tumblr because I was tired of abandoning so many ideas in the shuffle between "Is this good enough for AO3?" and "Is this good enough to be written at all?" But if I have to re-add roadblocks that make posting here more trouble than it's worth, I know myself, I will end up not posting fics here anymore. I'm sure it sounds silly. It sounds silly to me. But it's less of a "readmores make me not want to write" and more of the mental gymnastics of: Is this fic long enough to need a readmore -> If it does need a readmore, when will I have the time to add it -> Do I post it now and edit it in later? Probably not, because I won't remember to add it later -> Since I waited to post it, do i even remember hours later that I had a fic I wanted to post -> Would it have been easier to post this on AO3, even though it doesn't meet my standard of craft of AO3 fics? -> Why am I bothering to do this when I have so many other things I'd rather spend my time on? If you've ever done that thing where you got nothing done on a free day because you had (1) thing you had to do in the afternoon, and all your mental faculties were taken up going "No I can't do X, I have to do that thing in 4 hours!" That's kind of the odd cascade the whole readmore thing is doing for me right now.

My thoughts on this currently is I have 2 compromises and 1 definitely-not-a-compromise. And the one not-a-compromise is I ignore all this ever happened, and continue doing what I have been doing. I don't want to do that because I like to be accommodating? I'm very community focused. I like building an atmosphere that's welcoming when it comes to the blog. But that might also be what I resort to just because, as I said above, if this turns into more trouble on my end than I think it's worth, I'll just stop posting fics here, and I don't want to do that. Which leads me to--

Compromise 1: I stop posting fics here. It's not really a compromise, but it's easy. Ish. Eh. Not really. Tagging everything on AO3 is a pain in the butt for something quick and dumb you wrote up because you thought it'd be fun. But being able to post a link to a fic like with my LongFics is a think I could just fall back on. I think it also means I'll probably stop writing this stuff though, because I'll get bogged down in things like trying to edit them, or link them together cohesively when they're out of chronological order [Like the Hels/Wels fics, which currently are all over the place in their timeline, and will continue to be so probably]. Regardless it's an option.

Compromise 2: We can go back to the old standby which is me tagging anything longer than 3 paragraphs as "long post" and then if anyone doesn't want it popping up on their dash, they can filter the tag. I also don't like this option because it blocks even more than a readmore does. But it's quick and easy for me, and maintains the integrity of "I wanted to post this to Tumblr and not worry about it anymore."

This is all stuff for me to stew on. I don't expect people to weigh in on these options, though you're welcome to if you think you have some good input for it. But that's about where I'm at right now.

#spazzcat barks #delete later #answering asks #the readmore debacle #well that's exhausted me for the night #i was going to draw but now I think I just want to sleep #Anyway I hope no one takes this as me like? Threatening them? #I'm not trying to say 'arghh you've made me upset no more writing for you' #i just know myself and i know my personal hangups when it comes to productivity #and as soon as something requires marginally more hoops to jump through i drop it #i became inactive on DeviantArt because it was easier to post art on Tumblr and write a few tags #than to slog through the filtering system for posts DA had #Same thing with FurAffinity the short time I was on that site #And AO3 is really high on the threshold of 'this is more trouble than it's worth' to me #which is why very few of these quick fics have been archived onto AO3 #but if this turns into a thing where it's harder to post fics on tumblr than not -- i'll do like I did with DA and FA and stop posting #its a storied trend and i dislike it :'D