#i've seen this done a few times with art made for specific fics and it always breaks my heart a little for the writer

[chubs-deuce]

Hello!!! Love love LOVE your Charlastor and Hazbin artwork; your art is amazing!!

I have a feww questions if you’re comfortable with answering them (no worries if not) :D

I love hearing people’s music recommendations, so I was wondering if you listen to music whilst you draw and if there’s any songs in particular that make you think of the characters and/or the ship?

Also, I get a bit nervous posting about Charlastor because of some of the hate it gets in the fandom and because some of my irl classmates who follow me don’t like the ship (and don’t know I like it), so I was wondering what your general mindset is when you post your art online, but also what your mindset is like when posting Charlastor art, knowing what the fandom can be like?

Finallyy, I wanted to ask if you’ve read Under My Skin by whamagram on AO3 and if you have, what are your thoughts on it? It’s a mature slowburn Radiobelle fic and only has a few chapters out so far, but it’s updated pretty regularly and has become my new favourite at the moment! I highly highly recommend it because it’s super well-written, really witty, and really understands the characters. It’s all about Charlie nursing Alastor back to health after the final battle in season 1 and it’s just so well done!!

Again, just want to say that I really really love your work and thank you for sharing it! I especially love how you draw expressions and the way you draw characters and their emotions feels so real. Seeing your illustrations inspires me to keep practicing with my own art!

Omg thank you so much for this lovely ask?!!

I'd be more than happy to answer all of these actually! :D

I am, in fact, the kind of person who looooves finding songs that fit certain characters or ships and make whole playlists over time if I find enough of them, so here's some that made me think of Charlastor (links are all spotify):

- Glass Piano, by Kathleen

- Daisy Bell, and specifically this scuffed computer sung version bc it hits better

- bored like me, by dodie

- Ended with the Night, by Caravan Palace

- I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire, by The Ink Spots

- I Can't Decide, by Scissor Sisters

I have yet to really find more songs specific to the characters as individuals tho lol

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As for your next question...

This isn't my first rodeo in the unpopular non-canon het presenting ship club, so there's a few things I like to remind myself of when I feel that people pleaser anxiety sneaking up on me:

1)

if people truly wanted to avoid content of the ship, they'd block the tags. Maybe kindly ask your friend to block the charlastor and radiobelle tags bc you want to post about them? This way they're not forced to see what they dislike and you get to have your harmless fun. If they're opposed to this, question why. It's not your job to curate *their* online experience, they do have all the necessary tools at their disposal.

2)

I consider the source material like a toy box. You can play with the dolls in it like the packaging intended for you to, but there's no rules dictating that you can't play *your* way if that's more fun to you.

Canon is in my eyes the preferred suggestion, but not the law - don't we all just smush the heads of dolls together making kissy noises in our minds at the end of the day?

A lot of people sadly treat shipping like it's a battle for author validation, when in reality it was always just a way to playing with hypotheticals and exploring the world and characters canon offered us in new and interesting ways... I hate the attitude some people have about canonicity. Imo, as long as you're not acting like your non-canon ship should be canon and shit on other ships in the process, you're not doing any harm.

Now... Canon sexualities and having contrary headcanons are a tricky road to travel because there's so much emotional investment in the canon representation of often overlooked or mishandled minority groups, and this is the biggest anti argument I've seen get thrown around, since Charlastor as a ship not only splits up the canon lesbian pairing, but also alters Alastor's canon sexuality to make the ship work.

What's important here is that you handle it respectfully - i.e. don't be a dick and go around acting like your preferred ideas are better and should be canon or whatever. Attitude is important, respect canon for what it is and embrace the fact that your ship is not. It's not a detriment! It just means we have to make all of our own content lol.

I personally headcanon Alastor as demisexual/demiromantic not only because it still fits under the aspec umbrella, but also because I myself am both of those things and enjoy messing with the characters and narrative using a dynamic I have a lot of personal experience with! It's fun to hit someone as haughty and stubbornly emotionally detached as Alastor with a flurry of unexpected, unwanted feelings and struggling to navigate them.

Do I want that to be canon? Absolutely not! I'm just having fun with my imaginative toys in my own corner of the internet lol.

Also for the record, I think Chaggie is cute and they should absolutely stay together, I just don't find them interesting enough to explore further in the realm of fanfiction and art :'D

Ultimately I'm a strong believer of "I can post whatever I want forever", if anyone has an issue with it and the given tools at their disposal aren't enough to deal with it, they're free to unfollow and/or block me! I don't need anyone's approval to have harmless fun with my artistic and writing skills where I don't bother anyone, and that's imo always what should be at the core of creating just about anything.

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OH ALSO I KNOW THAT FIC AND IT'S SOO GOOODDDD I DROP EVERYTHING TO GO READ IT WHENEVER A NEW CHAPTER DROPS

I try my best to leave comments under it wherever I can too bc it genuinely scratches like every itch I have about this ship so well-

The comedy is on point, the dialogue feels so solidly in-character and the pacing and the overall concept just work perfectly!!

10/10 concur as a great recommendation lol

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QWQ again, thank you so much for taking the time to type out this lovely ask, I really do appreciate it and the compliments also absolutely made my day!!

I hope you keep having as much fun with this ship as I am, take care!! <3

#chubs answers #charlastor #radiobelle #long post

[dukeoftheblackstar]

got any plo koon fic recs? looking for some new stuff that's good. one shots and long fics welcome! I'll take anything i can get

Shamelessly promoting my own:

Dom!Plo ask by yours truly, submitted by the lovely @mild-disorganization

Some tired dad!Plo headcanons maybe?

And for some that I have read and adored:

Plo Koon Masterlist by @my-head-is-an-animal (Mixed)

Thigh Kink with Plo by @saradika (NSFW)

Not a fic, but hella spice by @saradika (SFW & NSFW)

Friendship - Plo Koon & Wolffe by @wild-karrde (SFW)

PloKit Art (their entire blog) by @uiro-mgmg1 (NSFW - mostly art)

SFW & NSFW Alphabets for Plo by @samspenandsword

My favorite ♥:

Sovereign (PloKit, idk if you're into it, but I am) by @tits-fisto (NSFW but very wholesome)

The Tiniest Councilor by Quiet_Shadow (SFW)

Name and Soul by @decepticonsensual (SFW)

Haven't read but is on queue when I have the mood and will power to actually read and not thirst for our Kel Dor Emperor ♥

of claws and tusks by my bestiecakes ♥ @saengak <- Apparently, it's hella angsty and I reserve the angst for weekend when I'm not out here thirsting for this King.

in deditionem by my bestiecakes ♥ @saengak <- I've seen them write ♥, it makes me squeeeeeeee ♥

Helium by @cynderiaopus who also made my current bomb AF pfp of Plo steepling ♥

Other materials and interesting read:

@exosorcery has very interesting comics and posts about Kel Dors in general. Here's one specific of Plo Koon:

A few faves from them:

@veny-many for their AUs and Plo Koon & Wolfpack Art (also includes others) <- Presenting you the bebbis ♥

My faves:

The entire post AU 66 where Plo lives is a quintessential to any post AU 66 imho because I'm heavily invested in this and I'm about to cry because I need to organize my bookmarks (and update this) so I can give you the proper start to fin link.

I'd post more from @veny-many and @exosorcery, but if you spend a good 10 minutes scrolling, you'll be there forever. Quality art content!

You may also want to check World building and ConLang Kel Dor study, apart from their OC x Plo Koon art. Big thanks for this neat document by @plokoonsdisapprovingeyebrows

[[ @plokoonsdisapprovingeyebrows I hope it's okay to share. If not, I can take it down ♥ ]]

So far just these at the top of my head. Thank you for the Plo-related ask :D! I enjoyed sifting through my bookmarks ♥

Don't forget to give love and reblog, comment, follow these amazing people who do so much for the Plo Koon, Dorin, Kel Dor tags ♥

#♝ #dukeoftheblackstar answers #♝-answers #plo koon #plo koon directory #plo koon resource #plo koon references #plo koon recommendations #ρℓσ∂υ¢н #duch recommends #masterlists #fics #fic #art #plo koon x reader #plo koon/reader #plo koon x oc #plo koon/oc #plo koon art #plokoon #plo koon fic

[lexa-griffins]

It's always bothered me that I see people saying "always reblog" on gifsets or drawings but ignoring someone who just created a brand-new piece.

The same goes for writing. I see people say I just re-read this for the 4th time but won't take the time to read something someone recently wrote. People are actively killing fandoms while saying I don't understand why nobody posts anymore.

While I 100% get there being fics/art/gifsets that are iconic in certain fandoms but the truth is that people will not allow the space for anything new to be made recognized.

One of the things I have realized that happens a lot now is people just don't go to the tags. They don't. They wait for the people on their dash to reblog stuff. And what does that usually mean? That in fandoms with a few blogs everyone follows, those blogs basically dictate what makes it big or not in the fandom because it'll only be reblogged and shared if they reblog it. Now, I am by no means saying bigger blogs need to reblog anything they don't want just for the sake of it. What I mean is people don't go look for any fanart and fanfic that is newly released and even if they do, they will a lot of times wait for it to be "approved" by the bigger blogs before reblogging it.

You can also see this when it comes to fic recommendations. Its always the same 20 fics being recommended, usually all from the height of the fandom and the newer ones are always from the most popular blogs. People seem scared to read new stuff and give new authors a chance. Because they want new fics but they want new fics from a very specific group of people.

And then! Then it's the people who don't reblog, don't comment, don't say anything that will go "update?".

And I am going to be really honest here: if its fanart/fanfic you enjoy and that was just posted with little notes and your queue is months long..... just add it to the queue but still reblog it right away anyways. Especially if you dont plan on adding any tags/commentary. Just reblog it that moment. The fact I've had people ask me directly for fanart and then just leave a like without me knowing if its in the queue or they just decided their need to look at what I drew for them is done and no need for further action.

People have been asking you guys to reblog stuff. That not doing so is killing people's desire to share their art because things go forgotten 3 hours after its posted, if that long. Ficlets, doodles, all of those deserve to be shared. If you only reblog things that have been "approved" and fully polished or they aren't worth you sharing them, then you are co tributing to killing fandoms, you're telling the new writer and the new fanartist in the fandom "come back to me when you are a pro and maybe I'll consider you worth a reblog."

Go to the tags, and go look for fics without recommendations. Reblog traditional art and doodles. Im not saying reblog things you straight up dont enjoy. But while fandom is a personalized experience, dont let it be come to a point only what is considered worthy of being seen comes across your dash. Because you'll miss art and fics and gifsets and meta posts that you might enjoy that the people you follow simply didn't.

#letter opened #i am mostly in the clexa fandom so i can only talk more about it #and my own experience #and it becomes clear some of you enjoy my content but for any reason #thinking its cringe and people will think youre weird #you just wont share #because i see you guys reblogging more 'tamed' acceptable fics and fanart #but only like my stuff without reblogging #and if its pity likes: its okay you dont gotta do it #ignoreme.jpg #because this is more me ranting than anything else

[themisfitthrone]

Blanket Permissions: what they are and why should you should add one

I am stealing from this very helpful twitter thread by my favorite podficcer @flowerparrish and joining the crusade.

The website in the last tweet is truly incredible. https://www.fpslist.org/ is a database that, as stated above, links to permission statements of various fan creators. If you're someone interested in creating podfics or fan art of written works, knowing who allows these transformative works ahead of time gives you a leg up.

But what exactly is a blanket statement?

Blanket or policy statements about a creator's fanworks are often found in the user profile of their ao3 page/social media account, at an "about" or FAQ page of their website or in a pinned post on twitter/tumblr/journal/etc.

Okay, but why should I include them on my ao3/tumblr/twitter/fanfic.net/etc.? you might ask.

Well, for one, if you're open to receiving these lovely little gifts (pod fics, fan arts)... It makes it so much easier for you to receive them! Instead of folks having to constantly ask for the permission, they can make something to show their appreciation for you and your work!

Okay but I want more information.

Great! Here's a few resources for you!

This lovely resource on Fanlore covers what blanket statements are, the various types of works you might like to specifically allow, and more!

This resource on Fanlore specifically dives into blanket permissions for podfics

@spiritthatdenies made a helpful post here about this already, but I am just continuing the crusade because I know I've never seen it on my dash!

What I like about that last resource is that the OP delves into some reasons that it's easier to include these statements. It takes away some of the anxiety and is more time-effective.

And remember! You don't have to say yes to everything. I have seen a whole range of blanket permissions since starting my (so far) brief journey into podficcing. I have seen statements that:

Specifically state that locked fics cannot be used

Specifically state that locked fics must be requested

Ask to always be given a link to the work after it is done

Specifically state that certain fandoms cannot be used/must be requested

Specifically ask that you do not re-pod anything already podded

So, seriously, your blanket statement can be anything!

Okay, so I added the blanket statement. But how will people know?

Well the best way is by submitting to the FPS archive I linked! Here is the page that has details on just how to do that. You can insert a link into the Google Sheet above, or register on the site and use the My Authors page.

Plus, there's a super wonderful extension I have downloaded that allows you to specifically view who has blanket permissions on ao3! It highlights those authors for you.

I will often check a creator's profile just to see if maybe they have a blanket permission but just aren't on the archive yet. It is rarely the case but I am hopeful nonetheless!

A final little resource, this one specifically for folks creating podfics, but that I think might ease the minds of folks worried about their works not being properly linked to: This browser extension is a podfic posting helper. Basically, it does all of the heavy lifting for you. It adds all the tags, content warnings, ships, you name it. It makes sure you have filled out the transformative works section correctly. It ensures that everything is exactly the way you need to it be (and you can customize it as well).

So... hopefully that covers it! I'm personally tagging just... a lot of fandoms here in hopes this reaches enough corners of the internet and gets reblogged enough that folks begin to add more blanket permission statements!

If you'd like a simple statement to post, feel free to copy this one down:

I give blanket permission for anyone to podfic, remix, or otherwise create derivative works of my fics! All I ask is that you link back to my work as the inspiration. If you would like to additionally link me to the finished work, especially if it is not posted to ao3, please send it along.

That one is the one I have on my ao3!

#blanket permissions #podfic #our flag means death #all for the game #teen wolf #harry potter #what we do in the shadows #star wars #star trek #mcu #dcu #dc comics #marvel comics #the locked tomb #the tarot sequence #heartstopper #my hero academia #stranger things #atla #critical role #the adventure zone #first kill #buffy the vampire slayer #good omens #lord of the rings #the hobbit #percy jackson #the hunger games #the sandman #green creek

[novantinuum]

24, 40, 52?

Thanks for sending some in! :D

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Ask meme

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24) Worst writing advice anyone ever gave you?

Hmm... any betas and friends I've shown WIPs to always gave good input, so the worst writing advice I've heard is just stuff I've come across online.

Specifically, said "advice" is the idea that sentence fragments should be entirely forbidden in fiction. I disagree with this, because I feel that a well placed and intentional sentence fragment can really push the mood of a story. I especially think fragments work well when writing a character who is caught in a very turbulent state of mind.

40) If someone were to make fanart of your work, what fic or scene would you hope to see?

Ohohohoh see this is always kinda a funny question for me, since I regularly draw fanart for my fics myself- and thus a lot of the "wham" moments I think of are things I have sketches already done for and stuff.

To this day, though, I always love seeing fanart for Crack the Paragon- I've gotten a few for that fic over the years, and it's fun to see my slight AU Steven design in other art styles, with the diamond eyes and flipped gem and all.

I'm also always happy to see fanart for my little sister OC Aryll, with that whole Breath of the Wild fic verse. I cherish every lil drawing and doodle I get or commission of her <3

52) Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Yes, I try my best to respond to all of them! I've found that responding to comments and letting readers know I've seen their words and appreciate them leads to a higher level of audience retention. Most authors don't like the feeling of writing into a vacuum, and I think commenters are the same, really. They took time out of their busy days to write a message to me, so I think it's very worth responding <3

I'm not perfect at it, there's some comments that slip through the cracks at times, but an Attempt is Made ahah

#ask meme #jen rambles

[mickmundy]

Hello dutchie! I've re-read your fics multiple times now and now I want to write my own! I have to ask: do you have any writing tips or advice about fanfic in general? I enjoy your pacing but I have no clue how you manage to update every week. Cheers!

OH MY GOD EEEEE ;___; IM SO HAPPY TO HEAR THAT MY FRIEND!! AND HIII ^_^ that's so awesome im so proud of you!!! hmm idk if i'm really a great person to get advice from, this is just stuff that works for me personally and my hectic irl schedule so just take it with a grain of salt!! ;-; <3 BUT i will gladly talk about it HEHE!! i'll actually just make an entire post about my writing process at some point because making long posts forces me to reflect and i'm overdue for a Self Reflection on how i write so! if/when i do that i'll link it back on this post heh ^_^ BUT ANYWAY!

i have a few Personal Rules about posting/writing fic that i must never break... and this is...:

feel free to break up your (longer) fic into parts. this prevents SO much burnout and gives you time to breathe between writing! if you're in it for the long haul like me, it's easy to get overwhelmed and feel like you're on a Crunch, which is never good! :'(

so i don't technically write a new chapter every week and post it on friday; i've had malus, for example, complete for a few months now! and so now it just "posts on a queue" where i just upload the next chapter every week! so for example, if malus is 21 chapters, at 1 chapter a week, that gives me 21 weeks (about 5 months) to write my next fic. that's a lot of time!

always finish the fic before you post it. this seems super unrealistic At First but i love the "arc/seasons/parts" style of posting, especially if it's long fics. nobody's saying you have to finish a 293849283498234 chapter fic in one day LOL but if you find that you're overwhelmed at the idea of writing Long Fics, then don't write one! write shorter parts that Combine and Create a long fic! :-) see what i mean? this is also an effective way to show time passing in your fic instead of just "~*~ two years later ~*~"-type of disclaimers.

chapters shouldn't be more than like... 3 google doc pages and paragraphs should be broken up. i like keeping my fic chapters short-ish so that they're easily digestible and force readers to Linger on the parts that i want them to. giant walls of text can sometimes put Huge Moments in your fics at the risk of getting lost!

let yourself sit on it for at least 2 days before you post it. do not read your own fic during the "sitting on it" time. let yourself back away from it and invite your mind to think about other things!! i've caught a LOT of my own mistakes or inconsistencies this way!

much easier said than done, but try not to let yourself get wrapped up in "the numbers" of posting (views, kudos, etc). obviously our goal as creatives is to get our work seen, but please remember to value yourself and your art above the numbers game! ;-; it literally took me a year (as of january lol) of constantly promoting my fics on twt (and later on here once i made an acct) before i found all of the amazing readers i have now! ^u^ and i wouldn't trade them for the world. i'd happily take 10 readers who comment and talk to me like a person over 100 hits/kudos or whatever!

that being said, don't be afraid to promote your fics. i felt annoying and stupid promoing mine but i'm ultimately so glad i did

there are probably others but i think these are my biggest ones (other than delving into like. tf2-specific "guides" i have for myself but i won't bore you with those). as far as tips for outlining or planning, i just have a channel in my gf and i's server dedicated to my fic that i post random snippet's i've written and want to include, random one-word concepts, like literally any time my brain has a Fic Related Thought i slap it in there. i'm also a huge fan of Linear/Traditional outlining too and do that with my more Complicated/Larger concepts that i want to execute in my fics so that i can stay consistent! :-)

ILYYY BEST OF LUCK ON YOUR FIC WRITING ENDEAVORS MY FRIEND! ^u^

#dutchfoolery #asks #anonymous #^v^

[showrunnerihardlyknowher]

can I ask what you miss about 2019? i didn't join until last year...what was it like?

Long rant beneath

The community was just so much bigger than what it was now. There were so many creators pumping out stories and artwork left and right, everything was fresh and original, hell even with Sanders Sides running amok everything was a new concept because you could mix and matched like 8 personalities in any setting you wanted. Fearplay was a lot more popular, too. Everyone made something and everyone reblogged something

But now it's just...stale. It's the same five creators over and over again because everyone else either left on their own or were squeezed out of the community. Everything needed to be fluffy and wholesome, only soft hearted male giants or epic, badass giantesses. Fics can only be 1% angst and 99% comfort, and all of those things are just not my style.

"Well if you don't like it, create your own work" I did and I love Star Wars rip off so much, but pretty quickly once everyone else started leaving I was bled dry because I was one of the few fearplay authors left. If you want constant engagement, you have to post damn near daily, which I normally don't have the luxury of doing seeing as I work full time and write at least 10K

Not to mention the community itself is so clique-y, which I've said before. It's not those same 5 creators fault that they got so popular and everyone only flocks to them, they're just trying to make something that brings them and their friends joy, but I'm so tired of seeing the same fic/art 8 times a day on my dash. Especially when they're character types I already don't care for. And if you're not friends with those creators? Forget having your work seen outside of your mutuals, it's almost like you need those creator's stamp of approval saying "Yep, this is a good post because I like it!"

And I'll be honest, I used g/t as a way to cope with my sexual assaults and baby loss. I liked being able to create dark fics with big, oppressive forces and tiny, helpless victims as a way to vent through both POVs. I liked being in control of the concept of overpowering. And now it's like...that's not allowed. You get messages or comments telling you certain tropes are fucked, or gosh these characters are swell but this would be 10000% better if it was uwu pure sugar fluff. No, I want it to be fucked up, I want to explore darker themes. "But g/t needs to be sfw because it's a comfort!!" Yes. It's my comfort as well, you don't get to gatekeep how I make my OCs act.

Also, being an author in the fandom these days is just harder than it used to be. No one wants to sit down and read a fic, they just want to see the pretty visualizes your or someone else made instead. Before, fics FLOODED the g/t tag and it was as magically as Matilda going to the library for the first time. So many stories at your fingertips! Now it's 90% art, which is fine! Art is beautiful! I've made art myself and I've had lovely followers make art for me which I am incredibly thankful for. But it's like that shortened attention span, you know? Why sit down a read a 20K fic when I can just look at art of the crux scene in 10 seconds and get the whole vibe? You're shit out of luck if you're not a popular artist to begin with.

I could really go on and list specific blogs and the shit they've done, but that's not fair of me to do. It's not intentionally their fault. That's just how the pieces happened to fall I guess. And really right now, I'm eight times more emotional than normal because my hormones are rampaging and slagging me with baby blues. Like I said, g/t used to be my coping mech for this type of thing, but with how the fandom is now, it's just not working like it used to and is making my mood feel even worse because of it.

I may end up taking a hiatus in the very near future, I may even end up retiring this blog altogether because I don't see the point in keeping up with a fandom that doesn't make me happy anymore. I'll sleep on it of course before I make any hasty decisions, I might bounce back in a couple days once my uterus stops making me depressed, but we'll have to see.

Hey, if you made it this far into my rant, please remember to reblog stories from small creators that you like. Please remember to give newbies in the g/t tag a chance instead of waiting for your fav content creator to give the all clear and declare the new work a hit, especially since they're all their own clique and hardly seem to reblog outside of each other anyways (like a little popular club whirlwind). If you want new and fresh content, then you gotta help expand the new and fresh content, otherwise authors aren't going to be as inclined to continue to develop it.

It's been a trip, y'all. Have fun out there

#ask #anon #g/t

[breadboylovin]

NEW POST FOR MY 95060 PLAYLIST!!! complete with explanations of every song choice under the cut because i love explaining my own creative decisions for some reason (PLEASE DO NOT FEEL COMPELLED TO READ ALL OF IT IF YOU DONT WANT TO ITS VERY LONG LOL). i may add a few songs here and there later on, or more likely rearrange what i've already put in slightly, but for now i consider it done.

alright now heres a look into my twisted mind

PART 1: TEMPTATION

Franz Ferdinand - Michael: It's a song about seducing someone named Michael. What more can I ask for (serious explanation is that it’s also very homosexually charged like you just have to listen to it… also feels taunting in a way where it’s like ‘oooooh you want me so bad’ and he’s RIGHT Michael DOES want him so bad). Also credit to this post for letting me know this song existed and inspiring me to make this playlist in the first place :-3

Mystery Skulls - Paralyzed: Just another song about how Michael is awestruck by David and feels compelled to follow him for whatever reason (the reason is that he wants him so bad)

TAEMIN - WANT: This is one of three Taemin songs on here because I think if David survived until present day he would fucking LOVE Taemin. Anyways this is a song about knowing you’re hot shit and everyone wants you and I think after seducing Michael through fucking?? Fatal motorcycle races and evil noodle mind tricks??? David deserves to feel that

Glass Animals - Gooey: OHGHGHGHFH THIS SONG… the vibes are impeccable on this one, Dave Bayley’s alluring voice feels like a slight remix of what David is going for and the way it feels like the singer is trying to convince the listener of something (even though it’s purposely vague) just FEELS like David with Michael. The line “I can’t take this place, I can’t take this place/I just need to go where I can get some space” especially fits when imagining how Michael is new to Santa Carla and may want a place to belong that David and the boys are happy to provide

TAEMIN - Impressionable: I see this as the moment that Michael downs the bottle of “wine”, where this song is David’s internal monologue reveling in how easy it was to charm Michael and get him to join. I always thought this sounded like a taunting villain song so it just fits. Also it’s like ridiculously horny which is a plus

PART 2: THE RELATIONSHIP ITSELF

MGMT - Me and Michael: In my head this is directly after Michael drinks the “wine”, and if it were an actual song in the movie, it’d play instead of Cry Little Sister in that scene. I already made art related to this but I really just love the juxtaposition between something that Michael will later see as horrible (becoming a half-vampire) and David seeing it as a perfect slow-dance moment. Also “Me and Michael, it’s not a question now” because the blood drinking has now linked them together… mmmmm. Credit to this post again for making me find this song!!

ALI - DESPERADO: This one is less about David and Michael specifically and more about how the night in the cave went down for everyone there, starting with a soft slowness as they ate and then descending into chaos as Michael downs the wine and they celebrate a new addition to the pack. The bacchanal energy is off the charts

Dorian Electra - Man to Man: This song is just one that I attribute to all of the boys because I think they do a lot of homoerotic sparring. Also the part of the movie where Michael punches David in the face and David just goes >:-3 back at him

Chase Atlantic - Friends: I don't know what it is about this one but it just Hits… The chorus kinda sounds like David and the boys trying to convince Michael to stay with them instead of coming back to human society after drinking the blood, in the same sort of taunting manner that they had when David (presumably?) made Michael hallucinate the bike lights and sounds outside of his house

Taking Back Sunday - You're So Last Summer: THIS SONG IS JUST REALLY GOOD. I don't know what it is about this one either… I guess the “Maybe I should hate you for this/Never really did ever quite get that far” part could represent the first glimpse of Michael’s more conflicted feelings about David. Also the second half of verse 2 not only fucks so hard but could also be indicative of Michael’s repressed gay feelings, lying to himself about how he wanted to be around David because he’s cool or whatever but he actually just has the hots for him and would let him do anything if he asked to

MGMT - Little Dark Age: Mostly here just for vibes. Have y’all seen that one edit set to this song? Yeah

The Neighborhood - Prey: I feel like this song captures the general unease that Michael feels right before he sees the boys kill for the first time, knowing that he’s probably turning into a vampire and something horrible is happening… especially with “Something is wrong, I feel like prey” just generally describing what it must feel like to be a human among vampires (though he’s not fully human anymore at this point)

PART 3: REALIZATION + FIGHTING BACK

TAEMIN - Criminal: YET ANOTHER TAEMIN SONG!!!! It’s all about realizing you're with someone who’s like, an evil manipulative villain and genuinely bad for you but you can’t escape just yet because you’re kinda into it. I don't think David is THAT bad of a guy, but Michael could be like “I need to get out of this situation because this man is a vampire but I feel attracted to him and it’s hard to really get away”. Also the line “My hands holding yours that stabbed me are not clean either” just HITS cus Michael hates David’s vampirism but HE’S a half-vampire now so it’s not like he’s innocent either. This is just a really good 95060 song AND a good song in general, listen to it even if you don't normally like K-pop cus it slaps

Glass Animals - Wyrd: This would be the moment where Michael snaps out of it and just starts running away, but to no avail, because he’s still a half-vampire (“You can’t run so you must hide” meaning that he can’t outrun his new monstrous nature, the best he can do is hide it until it eats him alive). Meanwhile David laments over how this is a stupid decision from his perspective (“So, my friend, our time is done/You and I could’ve had so much”)

Moonface - Minotaur Forgiving Theseus: This is a very veeeeery bitter song from Michael’s perspective about David being a vampire… with the “You’re just a hitman” repetition referencing how David. Y’know. Eats people. And the “I heard you're coming for me now” references both how David first approached him and the impending confrontation

The Neighborhood - The Beach: This song goes from the bitterness of the previous one to a pseudo-acceptance of the end of their brief friendship and what’s inevitably going to happen next. However, I think the bridge of the song illustrates the little bit of Michael that doesn’t want this to happen, that wants this relationship to somehow work out because he cares about David even if he is a vampire (unfortunately he ends up repressing this because he feels a duty to kill David now)

Gorillaz - Rhinestone Eyes: This is mostly in here because of the music video, the buildup to a battle just echoes in my head whenever I hear this song now. In the context of this playlist it makes me imagine David looking up at the Emerson’s house from the hotel (and Michael doing the opposite) knowing that something’s about to happen and it’s going to be horrible

Glass Animals - JDNT: This entire song feels like the climax of the movie. Verse 1 feels like the Emersons and Frogs getting ready to attack the cave (“I’m all armored up”) with “I feel that final poke” being when Marko gets staked, and the chorus right after is a tinge of regret that Michael feels once the plan starts to take shape. Verse 2 is the other boys waking up to see that Marko is dead + them dying themselves (“Where my funny friends gone?”) and the bridge is Michael and David’s fight before Michael finally gores David on the antlers. The outro of “You can’t breathe without me” VERY much feels like David taunting Michael from beyond the grave, knowing how much Michael loved him and how horrible what he’s just done is

PART 4: GRIEF

The Brazen Youth - Burn Slowly/I Love You: Ooooooghghgh the conflicted feelings about their relationship is STRONG in this one… The “Burn Slowly” part being him trying to convince himself that he did the right thing by killing David while the “I Love You” part is him realizing that he really did love David and it fucking hurts

Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us: MAN. MAN… Everything past “I can’t explain the state that I'm in” is just so… it’s Michael realizing what he had even more and just how much it hurts that he’s lost it. He knows he was in love now and it fucking hurts SO MUCH!!!!!

Sufjan Stevens - The Only Thing: [head in my fucking hands] Michael moping around Santa Carla because it feels empty without David. All the “should I tear my eyes out now?/Should I tear my heart out now?” parts oh my GOOOOOOOOD sufjan stevens i'm going to slap you on the head.

Paramore - Tell Me How: THIS SONG HURTS SO MUCH ITS SO. It’s another one about conflicting feelings so theoretically it should be earlier in the story but I always envision something very morbid when listening to this (and have now written a fic about it so check that out)… Michael going back to the hotel where he put David’s body and musing to no one, asking how he’s supposed to feel now, the “And always coming to your defenses” where Michael keeps defending David and their relationship to his family who all think David was a horrible monster… this song fucking hurts. Also I unintentionally drew a parallel between JDNT’s “You can’t breathe without me” and this song’s “Do I suffocate or let go?” and now that I’ve realized that it hurts even more. Fuck this song

#the lost boys #michael emerson #the lost boys david #95060 #michael x david #david x michael #text #Spotify #i have thought sooooo hard about this playlist fr and theres so many individual lyrics and bits that i want to make art for #if i had all the time in the world i would #but. for now. enjoy :-3

[bookwyrminspiration]

WAIT. I'm late to the party but I just remembered all those anons were sending in "why I send you asks" and their reasons and I actually really want to participate, so I hope you will accept late applications?

The reason I send you so many asks is because you've just...built such a nice feeling that anything can be discussed, and it's never too niche or cringy or boring, and that's really relieving and amazing.

I'm sure you (along with many others) have realized by now, but I suffer from....really bad anxiety, both social anxiety and just in general, and it very often gets in the way of my life. Because of this and past experiences, I'm always very scared and hesitant to talk about my interests and my thoughts on anything.

But every time I've sent you an ask, even if it was, in retrospect, probably really annoying to read through the one hundred "sorry"s and "my bad"s, you've always been nothing but kind and interested in my ideas, and that was just...so surprising. Because I never really knew anyone who was willing to talk about anything, and it was just...really amazing to meet someone who was! Especially because I love and am interested in so many different things and kind of need someone to bounce ideas at. And it was really cool to see someone that was unashamed of their own interests and thoughts, but didn't make others feel bad for having different ideas.

Every time I send you an ask, you always have something interesting to say back. Something I hadn't thought of or considered, or a query that would make me rethink my own theories, or just a very well-thought-out answer to a question. I remember sending in tons of asks about the wings AU before it was released, and writing those was probably the highlight of my day, because I knew you'd take them and run with the ideas, and do your best to match my energy, and I was really grateful for that. And you were always willing to dig deeper, to think "but what if there was more?" and that's just...incredible! I don't have any other word for it!

I love sending you asks because you don't dismiss an idea or deem it as stupid, and you're just...such a kind and wonderful person that can make even the most obscure subject infinitely more interesting than before, and you never fail to make me consider things again, to expand my thoughts and views, and I'm really grateful for that.

So, because it should definitely be said by now, thank you!

And, well, that's why I love sending you asks :]

- pyro

there is no timeline so there's no way to be late! and I'm answering this a few days after you sent this, so if you believe yourself to be late then we can both be late together :D. you are fully welcome to participate if you want to (which you said you did)! it was mostly just a random question I had because i'm just as analytical with myself as I am with keeper, and knowing how other perceive and think of me is helpful for that--and I was curious about how i'd aquired so many asks so quickly, and then you all just turned it into complimenting quil hours for some reason !! (but on to your ask before I get even more distracted)

(note from a quil who has answered all of this: got very long so that's why there's a readmore! i love you /p)

this means so much to me--specifically your use of "built" because I do try pretty hard to maintain a positive atmosphere and welcome everyone in and treat everyone with the same attention. it didn't just fall into place, i try to be encouraging to everyone and support all the amazing work--art, writing, ideas, etc--I see from people. (note: i've been wanting to do a thing where I ask for fic/art/other recommendations from others (can be friends or their own) so i can go through and reblog a bunch of them with comments and the like, I just want to get through more of my asks before I start something like that). But you're right--nothing is too niche! there's so many details in the story it's impossible for one person to notice anything, so people bringing up the obscure and their own thoughts makes the story richer and more fleshed out for everyone else! and i think it's really cool to just see what other people focus on (like I said, my analysis isn't limited to characters, but I'm not like dissecting you all to understand each of you in a creepy way or anything. I just like to get a better sense of someone so I can respond in a way more tailored to them when we interact)

anxiety can really suck, so as someone who also has anxiety i am giving you a comforting hug if you'd like one. it genuinely impacts everything you do and think about, rewriting how you experience life. a single, inconsequential experience to someone else can literally change major aspects of how we think, which makes interactions so scary sometimes. i remember things people said years ago and still base my actions around them, but those people have absolutely no recollection of ever saying it, but just the fear of having done something wrong once permanently altered my thinking. (this is not to make this about me, I'm just trying to show I understand by sharing an experience of my own).

reading through all your "i'm sorry"s and "my bad"s wasn't annoying and never will be. you have never had anything to apologize for, and I know that sometimes you feel you need to enter a conversation and first apologize for being there, but I'm thrilled to have you here and always love seeing you in my inbox. I don't know how to articulate this properly, but I'm going to try. i saw your apologies and your apprehension as...a puzzle? that's absolutely not the right word but I can't think of the right one so please let me explain (I don't mean to imply you're like something to be solved or a problem in any way. words can be difficult and I'm trying to describe something very intangible rn, so I hope this doesn't sound bad). I didn't see it as annoying (you're never annoying), I saw it like it was something to work through, and while it's not my job or anything to help other's with their personal problems, it was like if I could just provide one space where I could encourage you (not just you, but anyone) as a friend to try shifting your language and start thinking of yourself more positively, then I wanted to give that.

because I am interested in your ideas! and I want to be kind and welcoming to you! but I also want you to be kind to yourself, so any impact I've had to give anyone a safer, less scary space is really cool. I don't know if that made sense, but I'm not trying to talk down to you or anything or be like I'm this high and mighty figure harboring lost souls or something, just that connection is important and I like being there for people. kinda worried that sounded bad because it feels worded strange but I'm trying to reciprocate and say i appreciate you and am happy to talk about anything!

i love bouncing ideas back and forth and you are more than welcome to say anything and everything you're thinking about. talking to you is always an absolutely joy and I get so excited when you send me an ask and when you're reading my response, because it often feels like this like...buzz? like we're just vibing on this frequency and it makes it so much fun to throw ideas back and forth and just listen to each other talk. i am very glad to have surprised you and met you! I don't know a lot of people like myself either, so having someone like you interact with me and just go all out on these little things and what we personally like about different parts of the so much fun. a lot of the other people I know irl feel like they just scratch the surface, they say things just to get credit for it and to appear like they know what they're talking about while ignoring all these other things that have such an impact, so it's amazing to have found someone else who looks at everything and anything like I do. my brain really is "a little bit of everything all of the time" so knowing you have so many different interests too is really cool. i am giving you an internet high five and pretending you aren't so far away.

I spent so much of my life being quiet when I had so many thoughts, so now that I have this kind of outlet I just! want to say everything I can! i want to look at everything from every perspective possible! the world is a huge collection of things tied together and I love following the strings to find the connected pieces! but I think that's a way of approaching the world not a lot of people share (I could be wrong), so it's really cool to hear you think my thought process is interesting!! my brain is practically composed entirely of questions. any subject at any time of the day and nearly all of my thoughts are just wanting to know more and trying to understand things, so having that opportunity to ask further questions and just learn things (about what other's thing, how things work, etc) is so much fun. you might've seen me ask some questions of other's in a few of the asks I answer, but those barely scratch the surface of just how many I have. my handle is in_quil_sitive (inquisitve) on nearly every social media platform (except for this one) for a reason.

I remember some of your asks from before the wings au was published, too. those were absolutely incredible, and I got a rush of excitement every time I saw you sent another. those were the the highlight of my week, too!! your enthusiasm and excitement for something I hadn't even posted yet gave me so much motivation to continue and you helped me think through so many future ideas and consider things from new perspectives. i know i specifically wrote that you inspired one chapter in the notes, but you've had an impact on every single chapter of this story/ it wouldn't be what it is without you, and I mean that with complete sincerity. you were the one who made me think "what if there was more" so I could make this au even better and work towards something bigger. I just have so many thoughts about everything all of the time, I can't go more than a few minutes without being distracted by a different train of thought, but knowing there was someone who would want to hear all the weird, disjointed ideas i'd strung together and composed into a more cohesive format was so cool. there's just so much to think about!!

I probably sound repetitive at this point but I love answering your asks because you're so receptive to the way i say things and it's like you're actually listening and want to hear what I specifically have to say, not just the general ideas. you want to know my unique, personalized opinions and perspectives and don't just dismiss them when they're not what you expect to hear or aren't generic. you're incredibly kind, too, I hope you know. I love the description of how I can "make even the most obscure subject infinitely more interesting than before." that is such a meaningful compliment to me. I just keep thinking about this line over and over again and it just...it really means a lot. because you're saying it's me that interests you and not just what I talk about. I could talk about anything and you'd still want to interact with me and that's so fucking nice. I hope you know the same goes for you. we can challenge each other's thinking together and make things even deeper and more complex before together <33.

thank you for being here and being my friend, pyro. talking to you is always one of the highlights of my day and gives me a very positive feeling that I carry around for a while. I do this thing sometimes where I film myself to later observe my behaviors in the middle of intense emotions to understand myself better (back to that whole analysis thing again), but it's not just negative things, it's also when I'm really excited or pleased with something and jumping around and stimming and all that, and some of those are from when I interact with you. that might sound a little weird but I mean it positively, as in talking with you makes me ecstatic.

I have said. so many things. so I will stop (for now). but I really appreciate having you in my life <33

#this response is 1757 words long i-- #i have written shorter essays for my college classes #pyro this better convince you that i care about you #you're one of my favorite people #just in general #i really value our friendship #and hope none of this sounded weird #i tried to articulate it but some of the concepts didn't want to become words #so please know this is meant to be loving and supportive of you #in all aspects #i wrote so much and still didn't say everything I wanted to #you should be asleep when I answer this so hopefully this is something nice to wake up to #still don't feel i've articulated myself fully #but I have tried #worried about that puzzle part but I'm trying to say I want this to be like a safe space of kinds #where I can support you and encourage you to stop apologizing when you don't need to #and do that without judging you #ah anxious about that #if you cannot tell I don't want to mess this up and am worried I will #hnnnng #if I said something weird please let me know so i can fix it #quil's queries #pyrokinetic-loser #nonsie love #long post

[that-wildwolf]

Okay. I have some Stuff™ to say and I have no idea how long it's going to be or if it's going to be coherent because I'm just thinking out loud here so just bear with me.

I wanted to talk about fanfiction.

Specifically, I wanted to talk about what fanfiction is perceived like by someone who writes it but doesn't read and by someone who reads it but doesn't write.

A few days ago, I had the pleasure to go out with one of my best friends from high school. Covid restrictions are almost lifted, coffeeshops are recovering, the academic year hasn't started yet but kids are in school - the perfect opportunity to hang out with someone I hadn't seen for a long time.

We hit it off great—as we always do. You know how with some people, no matter how much time passes, you can just meet up like you just saw each other yesterday? That's the type of relationship we have. Which is funny because we're both rather reserved people. The quiet kid type? Probably part of the reason both of us enjoy the medium of fanfiction.

Fanfic is great. You can read whenever and wherever you want, as long as you're connected to the internet. And you can just as easily share stories you know people will want to read. It's great.

I've been writing fanfiction for the majority of my life, ever since I was a kid. There's just something freeing about the ability to express yourself artistically while still celebrating something you love, be it a movie, book, or video game or whatever. It's also satisfying to fill in the gaps, to create more content of what wasn't explored enough in canon. That relationship that you didn't get to see being domestic in their day to day life, or how that one character had originally become evil. If you've got an active imagination, writing fanfic is just a natural extension of consuming media. This wasn't said by the creators so it will be said by me. Maybe other people will enjoy it, too.

And when they do enjoy it, it feels absolutely wonderful. You can connect to other people from all around the world who have the same interests as you. They like what you've created. It's celebration of your work, which is celebration of another work that you both enjoy. It's not always easy to write fanfic, but in many ways it is very rewarding. Every nice comment I get makes my heart soar. It feels like being recognized, like being appreciated - not for your work or grades or, I don't know, something more pedestrian. No. It's being appreciated for something that is, essentially, at it's very core, a form of art. It's art! You made it! And people are saying how well you've done! They love it.

It's a great dopamine boost. I'm saying dopamine and not serotonin - you never really know for sure when or if you'll get another comment on your fic or if it'll be a nice one. This is a double edged sword; if you have self-esteem issues, if you're dependant on external validation... It can be easy to completely tie your worth to the feedback you receive on your fanfics.

Feedback, which isn't always necessarily a good reflection of the impact your work has had on others.

And this is where my second point comes into play. The readers.

So I was talking to my friend and we were talking about fanfic. Now, I don't know how things are in the West, but here, fanfiction still considered a somewhat taboo or "cringey" subject. I don't hide that I write fanfic because I'm proud of my work, but I'm often ridiculed by my peers because of it—even if it is just lighthearted teasing. My friend told me at least ten times that I'm the only person she can freely discuss this stuff with, and I got the impression that it means a lot to her.

No wonder it does. The fanfic you read or write is a very intimate thing - it's what you enjoy most, the most self-indulgent media you can consume; because the diversity of fanfics out there means everyone is bound to find something that's exactly tailored to their personal interests. It's the closest art to your soul as far as media consumption goes. No one reads fanfic unless they specifically search for that fanfic. You have to know what you want to read before you start reading - something that doesn't happen with published books.

My friend doesn't write fanfic, but she does read it. She reads a lot of it. And, me being the only person she feels comfortable discussing this with, we quickly drifted to the subject of fanfiction. We discussed various tropes and AUs and even though I was coming from almost exclusively a writer's perspective and she was coming from exclusively a reader's, we had a blast. We got so caught up in the conversation I didn't even notice we'd made it downtown; we'd been walking for a long time. Walking and talking about fanfic.

A few years ago I finally managed to convince her to start leaving comments on fanfics. She hadn't been doing it before for whatever reason... I suppose fanfic readers often take fanfic for granted, but this is my own speculation.

I don't read fanfic much. When I do, it's usually something my mutuals wrote. Writing fanfic takes up so much of my internet time that I simply don't have the time to read it.

Either way, we were talking about fanfic. About how fanfic is better than published books. Well, I wasn't actually saying this part, but I did listen to it very eagerly, because you know what? Even though we're in completely different fandoms and enjoy different things, my friend had some great points.

This is what I've learned a fanfic reader thinks of fanfiction.

Fanfic is often better than published books as long as it's well-written. Stories with off-putting bad grammar give good fanfics a bad rep.

Fanfic is immediately more engaging than other media because even if it's an AU completely removed from canon, you already care about the characters from the very beginning. You don't have to grow to like them because you already have an emotionalconnection to them.

Fanfic gives more than published books. My friend said that she doesn't read stories shorter than 30K words and generally avoids unfinished fics. The latter I understood without any explanation, even though I crave feedback on my ongoing fanfics. She mentioned that fanfic writers can be really underappreciated because a lot of fanfic is actually as long as actual published novels. (I found that tumblr post that has all the Harry Potter and LOTR books broken down by word count in order to compare fanfic length and showed it to her. She insisted that I send her a screenshot for future reference.)

She also said that she doesn't read or even like one-shots. Now, as someone who writes a lot of those, I couldn't not take it personally. I probed a little, genuinely confused about this. She said it's because they're too short: she barely has the time to start getting into the story when it ends. Personally, I think she's missing the point of one-shots, but maybe I'm wrong. Hell, who knows.

She likes AUs most, especially soulmate AUs, and generally doesn't read fanfic unless it's romance. I don't know if this holds true to all of even most fanfic readers, but I just thought I'd include this information, since I rarely get to gather this kind of data.

I asked her how she feels about tags, expecting an answer along the lines of "overtagging is annoying and you should only include the vital information" but instead I heard that properly tagged fanfics are gold and that more specific tags are really helpful too. I also asked about a dilemma I've been struggling with; whether to tag a pairing that only gets together at the end of the story and tagging it would be technically a spoiler. She said to hell with it and tag it. She said people who ship the pairing might not find the story otherwise - that is once again connected to her conviction that people don't read fanfics that aren't romance.

Well, here it is. A very long, very chaotic ramble about fanfic, with no structure or plan; I don't even know how else to wrap it up other than by saying "here it is". Either way I thought I'd share this here because I've been having some thoughts on this and especially because I rarely get to see the other point of view and I thought it'd be nice to show it to others, whether readers or writers.

And one last thing. Whether you read fanfic or write fanfic, regardless of if you do the other too, I thank you so much. I love fanfiction! Either way you're a part of this community and I'm really happy you're here! Fanfic is my honest to god favourite medium. I love expressing myself through characters and fandoms I love, and it warms my heart to know that millions of other people do, too. Stay safe out there <3

And since this is a post about fanfic, a link to my AO3 because like I said I crave attention.

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[moongoddesskiana]

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#4

@penandinkprincess you opened up a can of worms by actively being curious about the Yennefer and Jaskier are pen pals idea

Should have a read more but I'm on mobile so I can't

So Jaskier (because honestly he'd only let like maybe 4 people actually call him Julian and he makes them use it sparingly, I read in a fic that the people in his town called him Dandelion and I love that idea) is 14, he doesn't consider himself a child anymore he isn't allowed to be. (I am on team his parents, one or both were physically and/or mentally abusive or one of each) Jaskier's father is favored by their country's king and they decide to hire a mage to bless the crops of Lettenhove, enter Yennefer.

Yennefer just wanted to get her job done and get paid because she had other things to get to and was very busy at the moment. Yen is just minding her business when a child enters the study she is working in, not a young child but a child nonetheless. Jaskier was very curious about the mage who came very pretty, scary and looked kind of friend shaped, and very very powerful from the bits he overheard. Jaskier hadn't known she was in that specific study and had come in there for a specific book but why look a gift horse in the mouth, maybe he could ask her somethings.

At first Yennefer wanted him gone so she could focus, but he actually asked good questions that most didn't think to ask. Mid ramble he'd cut himself off and apologized for taking up her time and fled the study, just when she was getting interested. She basically shrugged and went back to work but like classier than normal people. This went on for the first week she was there, she was there for 2 and a half weeks total, until she overheard either him singing or him being abused. Either way her interest in the strange curious child increased and she started to subtly keep him there and keep their conversations going. Everything came to a head when she found him badly injured, she had seen him be very clumsy on his own when he thought no one was looking but that was clearly an injury made by someone else. Jaskier tried to put it off as "it's not that bad, I've had worse." and Yen is pissed but first she has to help this child get patched up, she tried to minimize the scarring but there was still a small scar left on his hip that held a hint of her chaos.

(Also immortal not fully human Jaskier in this because plot of this idea, ages normally until he's like 20 than it stops unless certain things happen, I'm not grinning all evil like what are you talking about)

Yennefer can't really do anything without proof especially because Jaskier's father was favored, but she could watch over him during the rest of her time there and teach him a few small things like sending things places with magic, only small things with no magic though. Yen was the first and only person to ever listen to the first song Jaskier ever wrote himself, his music was already frowned upon enough without it having been written by him and wasn't something he thought anyone would like. After Yennefer hears it and actually tears up a small bit (it was about heartbreak and looking for the small happy things and deeply personal) he wants to keep it to himself and her because she understood his song and she was the only person who would have listened to it in the first place.

Both of them are sad when she has to go but they have to pretend to not really know each other, otherwise people would ask questions. They promise to write each other letters and to send them via mini portal. Yennefer is heartbroken when she hears he tried to run away only to receive broken bones instead of freedom. He is almost 16 when he manages to escape and enters Oxenfurt under a fake name, but he has not yet named himself Jaskier. Jaskier refuses to tell her the bard name he has chosen, with basically a you'll see in dramatic letter exchange.

Yennefer has to stop answering his letters for some reason not yet thought and he has one of those "oh no what if they secretly hate me" thoughts and stops writing to her. It is very important to mention that the only things he dipped into his family's money were education fees and ink and paper to write to Yen. This includes food and other basic needs smh.

Then enters Geralt if Rivia, you know how that story goes, aside from Jaskier occasionally writing Yen letters but never letting her know he's traveling with a Witcher now of course. The whole Djinn thing starts out the same until Jaskier is tucked in bed his shirt is loose and she sees Jaskier's scar, she waits until Geralt leave to brush her hand against it and feel for lingering chaos. Upon waking Jaskier is greater by a very angry Yennefer who wants him to get some self preservation or any kind of not running into danger instinct. She mother hens him then is like make a wish or I swear to the gods I will make you regret it. Yennefer scares him and he decides to flee, because he does have some self preservation instinct Yen. He has full confidence in Yen's abilities and is kind of afraid if the consequences of someone interrupting making it go wrong and spews the lines from canon because he was automatically like "ah can't let Geralt know that I know her, and this is in character for me to do more than anything." He does actually get worried for them, continuing on following canon loosely, and sees them together and is like "hot but like no please that is MY Witcher and that is my amazing friend whom should 100% NOT be involved with each other."

Yennefer and Jaskier decide to start writing letters again and agree to not the Geralt know they are friends, partly because it's fun and partly because that's what they do in front of others.

When Yennefer says "The crows feet are new." It's out of concern, Jaskier should not be aging at all currently and very few things should make that happen. She genuinely enjoyed her relationship with Geralt though she didn't like the hurt that Jaskier sometimes gave off when he thought she wasn't looking. She left the mountain pissed off but upon seeing the state of Jaskier afterwards she was furious. That was HER emotional support bard, how dare you! It also became clear what was aging him like a human, heartbreak, which pissed her off even more. After a month Jaskier was like look we both need alone time and time to do our own things. He also wanted to play his heartbreak songs which seemed to make her angry so he didn't play them in front of her. And so they made their way to the rest of everything so far

(I say this having not watched most of the show, not having read any books or played any games, so take this as you will)

Bonus Round:

14 year old Jaskier telling Yen about the Witcher he met when he was 8 and how "most people thought he was scary but really he was friend shaped Yen! Just like you!"

Yen realization striking her "this child has no self preservation instincts and seems to try and befriend anyone who could easily kill him, he is not allowed to go near anyone like that again or I'm gonna have a heart attack"

Yen years later "WHAT DID I SAY, DON'T MESS WITH PEOPLE WHO COULD KILL YOU IN A SECOND!"

63 notes • Posted 2021-11-19 16:17:30 GMT

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Three times Talia Al Ghul nearly became Jason Todd's Mom and how she finally became his mom

I don't know why this idea came to me but I love it.

So just a week before Jason's 8th birthday Talia tries to leave the league for a short amount of time like in a is this really what I want kind of way. Talia meets Catherine Todd who takes her in and feeds her, Talia thinks her husband is horrible and to keep her low profile but still get him away from Catherine and Jason (who activates some kind of maternal instinct in her) she calls in a tip that sends him to jail. Over the course of a month Talia and Catherine fall in love, Talia calls Catherine her heart and Jason is her dear one. Talia almost lives in domestic bliss when one day while shopping for groceries the league finds her, she leaves a note saying she'll be back for them and that she loves them both.

4 years pass with her under the league's watchful eye, Damian's birth and missions. She escapes the league's eyes to find out that Catherine is dead, and she searches almost desperately for Jason who gets adopted by Bruce about 4 days after she arrives in Gotham.

She spends multiple years trying to get into Bruce's good graces, showing up at a lot of parties for civilians, to get Bruce to let her and Jason meet. Bruce was so close to giving in when Jason dies.

2 and a half years pass and a league member finds a catatonic Jason and brings him to Nanda Parbat. Talia tries everything she can to get him better, Ra's says he's going to send Jason away meaning Jason will most likely be killed and she puts him in the Lazarus Pits. She then escapes the league with both of her sons. Well I'm not sure about the last sentence but both of them are her sons and she will fiercely protect them.

Edit: Talia's most precious photos are of her and her sons at the zoo happy, and a photo of her, Catherine and Jason eating ice cream at the park.

90 notes • Posted 2021-07-30 09:16:29 GMT

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Okay Talia pretending to care about Jason so he will do what the league asks cause his file says wants a mother figure and accidentally adopting him in her mind and that ending with her, Jason and Damian fleeing from the league cause she saw Jason nearly get murdered by the league and left for dead from treatable injuries.

Talia: A useful tool for the League, defiant but can be trained and tamed. All I need to do is pretend to soften around him. Calculated times of false vulnerability, a few well placed 'my son's should do the trick.

Talia, 6 months later in her head while on a mission seeing pretty daggers and lots of books from a dead target's house: Damian will like the daggers and I'm sure Jason will want something new to read, of course I'll check the quality of what I give them only the best for my sons. I should maybe some local spices as well Jason does enjoy cooking and Damian seems to enjoy the different foods. It would be nice to have a small family meal with my sons. *realizes she actually views Jason as her own now* oh this wasn't supposed to happen, time to make/update contingency plans.

First time Talia says my son and means it is after Jason returns badly injured from trying to protect a child which was most definitely NOT a part of his mission (something she's lectured him about before and confronts him about immediately every time, except this time she was looking at her son who was badly injured and not a person she was training who came back a little extra bloody but barely injured)

Taila: Rest my son, you'll need your energy in the morning. *runs her fingers through his hair and kisses his forehead*

Just Talia accidentally adopting Jason and loving and protecting Jason and Damian despite their protests that they can handle things (if she grew up normally she'd be a helicopter parent who fussed over a paper cut, the injuries she frets over in my mind are bad injuries but she tries to keep people focused on her in fights, her and Jason if she absolutely had to fight with someone and it was only the three of them). Damian had adopted Jason before he knew Jason's name because Damian used to go into Jason's room and read to Jason before he was sent off for training and before Jason was put in the pit. When Talia introduced him as his brother (before she actually loved him as her own) Damian was like no duh in his head as well as 'yes! this is my brother! and look he can function normally if a bit emotionally now!'

The first time Jason calls Talia mom was after she mentally adopted him and she teared up a little because he was half asleep and called her mom and asked about 'his little bat' (one of his nicknames for Damian) so he clearly knew it was her and he did think of her as his mom. Jason eventually realizes that Talia likes being called Mom (I was gonna use momma or ma but I feel like mom as a late teen would flow better for them both, so now Catherine Todd is Mama, Sheila is she-who-shall-not-be-named and Talia is Mom aka sometimes good mom, evil mom and morally ambiguous mom) and uses it a lot but if he needs to butter Talia up for something the words 'mom I love you' potentially mixed with 'can I please' or more often 'look I'm sorry for [insert thing done], can you please not be too mad'

Just Good Mom!Talia with her two sons Jason and Damian

If anyone has any fic recommendations please send me links possibly with a summary

138 notes • Posted 2021-06-02 09:57:30 GMT

#1

Okay so concept

Robin!Jason's first time on the Watchtower, it hasn't fully settled in his brain that Bruce has adopted him and that this is now his life.

Jason: *casually pickpockets Green Arrow when passing him in the hallway and pocketing Arrow's money*

Batman: Robin give Green Arrow back his money

Jason: It's not like he'll miss it or need it Arrow is rich

Bruce: *a very tired dad who can't use names since not everyone knows his identity* Robin, lad, you're rich now too remember

Jason: *shocked Pikachu face*

1036 notes • Posted 2021-08-18 06:12:16 GMT

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Your recent reblog made me realise how mistreated artists are. I've seen many people simply reposting arts and not complying with the wishes of the artist. Far too many people just find a pretty picture on the Internet and either illegally use it or claim as their own. As an artist myself, I know how much effort goes into each piece. Especially digital art because I've seen many people saying that it's not real art. Far too many people don't care and they won't stop reposting no matter what.

Hi Nonny!

Firstly, I want to thank you for messaging me because I actually feel really strongly about this topic and I have a lot to say about it so. 

I’m going to sound old and crotchety when I say this (and I’m 28, which I know for a fact IS old and crotchety to some of ya’ll), but when I read about how badly the internet has damaged the music industry, the anime industry, the publishing industry or the movie industry, it always makes me think about fandom. Internet and social media have done us dirty too in a lot of ways.

The same exact arguments for why the movie, anime and other industries are struggling so much at present can be made for fandom creators. Too many advances and changes in too short a period of time. The fandom landscape changed so much in so few years that we are still dealing with the fallout. 

Fanzines, as just ONE example, date back to the 30s, but they are something of a rarity now in their original form and one big reason for that is the internet’s impact on the availability of content. The internet has encouraged the consumer culture we’ve developed, where it’s easy to right click and save a picture and save a fic as a pdf to your kindle without ever acknowledging the creators.

I’ve been lurking around internet forums since 2004/2005, though I first got involved properly in fandom in 2007 and I want to make it very clear that reposting and the general mistreatment of content creators is not new. When I first skirted on the edges of the Naruto fandom, reposts of fanart to catchy tunes on YT was a very big part of the fandom community in ways the Vine repost culture kind of is now. 

And obviously in retrospect, I personally didn’t know a thing about reposting at the time. I wasn’t the one uploading them, so I don’t even know if the artists gave permission (though…I doubt it). 

But reposters often claim one of three of the above as a reason that they should not be judged for their actions when the reality is that they didn’t know and should learn better.

The judgement for reposting doesn’t come from a place of being angry at ignorance. It’s from the unwillingness to learn. From deliberation and the actions of individuals refusing to not only read disclaimers but to ask questions of those who would be only too happy to answer their questions.

And I’ll be honest, it’s CRUCIAL that fandoms (not only Mysme) learn better.

It’s crucial that we as a generation move on from this.

I’ve been on tumblr specifically since 2011 and I’ve watched so many fandoms come and go. A significant weight for a fandom’s lifespan rests on the shoulders of content creators and when those same content creators are disrespected in a multitude of different ways, exactly why should we (I am including myself, by the way, as a writer) stick around?

If the fanbase reposts art often enough without credits, questions commission prices all while begging for free art etc etc, doesn’t it make sense to leave?

This is a problem that goes beyond Mysme Fandom. It stretches as far as Pixiv, where Japanese speaking artists place English disclaimers for Western fans asking that they do not steal, having had their galleries picked clean.

I’m not going into the BS writers face because that’s a whole other topic tbh

Content creators work for free and are usually not professionals. All they ask is respect. It is an enormous disrespect to take something of theirs and claim it as your own. Reposters lose the right to victimhood when they are inherently in the wrong. A lot of times I see people confronting reposters and it makes me uncomfortable, since the reposter flips the blame on the artist so quickly that it verges on gaslighting, which is-by the way- an abuse tactic.

Time for a game of reposter bingo:

“It’s online, it’s your fault!”

“I just wanted to have fun!”

“I just wanted to give X artist exposure!”

I think every fandom forgets that its content creators are fans too. They create from a place of love, but they share because they want their work to be seen and they are not in the least bit obligated to do so.

Sourcing that art properly is an obligation though and it is not difficult. 

I will also argue that it is our obligation to educate reposting etiquette in the same manner that we do tag etiquette. There is something very wrong with the shape of a fandom where every artist I know has had their work stolen at least once and has to literally beg and plead in the face of people who -by and large- ignore them. I want to say that it should go unsaid that stealing art is wrong and people should not NEED to be taught otherwise, but it is becoming so ingrained in fandom dna that at this point it feels I’m being condescending by saying otherwise.

Here are some sourcing tools:

Google Reverse Image Search

SauceNao

IQDB

These do not count as sources:

-Pinterest

-WeHeartit

-CREDIT TO THE ARTIST

Here is a tool to disable right click

It’s important that we move past this and get our collective shit together, because this is not only a fandom exclusive problem, but it is for damn sure one that arrived with social media and it’s impacted everyone in a lot of unforeseen, harmful ways. 

If we fandom bloggers don’t protect one another and learn from our mistakes, then who is to stop the bigger corporations from taking advantage of us.

Elly out

#Anonymous