#made up this for a fic I need to finish

[ariel-s-awesome]

Every night, after Lord Hater gets snuggled in with Captain Tim, Commander Peepers reads him picture books from the Hater Empire Propaganda Collection.

They're all totally, completely nonfiction and written by Commander Peepers himself.

#wander over yonder #woy #lord hater #commander peeepers #woy hater #woy peepers #woy death glare #made up this for a fic I need to finish #btw YES this means Peepers is TECHNICALLY a children's book author #btw btw Peepers isn't a good creative writer #nobody wants these #even without taking their feelings for Hater conquering them into account #they force teachers to read them to kids as part of the mandatory curriculum #Hater's the series' only fan #also in the curriculum for older kids: bla #blatantly untrue history books about their rise to power #and every edition contradicts the others as Hater keeps ordering changes #ESPECIALLY about the details of Hater arising as an ancient evil #people are more likely to call bull over Peepers saying he was popular in his hometown though #actual original content

[strawberry-jan]

got carried away with a warm-up doodle because I was thinking too hard about minekata, as one does

#crime boys #my art #can't believe ishin made me like him #did you know that hijikata wrote a bunch of poetry #some of it was about plum blossoms #this may or may not be relevant to the currently-running fic B) #I meant to illustrate the 2(!) new chapters I have up but you know how it goes #I need to get back into drawing I miss colouring things :') #also can't believe it's been nearly 2 years since I finished ishin and i still have absolutely terminal brainrot about it

[neptunesenceladus]

Wanted to do a list of some of my favourite fics across fandoms so here it is! En Enceladus’s favs (as of April 2024). This was actually going to just be my most recent ones but i ended up going through all the recs in my bookmarks, so, these are sorted into fandom to make it easier for you.

DC Fics:

Tractors by @lieu42

DC firstly lieu42 is cool af, so note that down. If you in a mood for time travel and Tim Drake having a crisis then this is definitely for you. I love it so much I bound a physical copy. actually just read everything by him, you will not regret it.

New Wave by @yellowocaballero

DC What if Steph was the first Robin? You should know I love Steph and this is probably the fic that cemented that, I really love how she is portrayed and the 90s skater aesthetic. this fic and tractors are probably my top two recs so go read them now please and thank you

Frequency by @cryptocism

DC, Teen I truly don't know how to sum this up. Basically Thaddeus Thawn "disappears" so CRAYDL activates clones of him. It's so so good and only got one more chapter until it is complete! Also the song November by Sparkbird fits one of the characters (Six) so so well.

Zugzwang by Hinn_Raven

DC, Teen Steph is dead so why is the new talon that Cass is seeing around strangely familiar?

The Juniper Suite by @shhhenanigans

DC, Teen, M, and E (currently 4 parts, first is T and last is E) Genuanly can't describe this one. It's jayroy, with this twisted fairytale body horror theme. so big warnings for body horror, I really love how the author writes all of it and plays with tense and imagery.

Time (to protect you) by Blueseabird2

DC, Teen Dick Grayson and Constantine go back in time to try and save everyone. It's mostly cute batfamily fanon with angst, it was my first DC fic I read (with the exception of Dark Matter) so has a special place in my heart (also the reason I have read so much Hellblazer)

Marvel/MCU Fics:

Pigeon and Crow by @deniigi

Marvel, Teen Peter Parker and Johnny Storm become friends. Deniigi always has beautiful writing and this is no exception. Personally love the wordplay.

Peter Parker's Tapeworm by Ginevra_Benci

MCU, Teen Firstly, the tapeworm is a metaphor. This one is what if the spell at the end of nwh failed and even Peter forgot he was Spider-man. Its really good, especially how the memory loss and displacement is written.

The Lost and Forgotten by @litcraz

MCU, Teen believe it or not, this one was written before nwh, litcraz just fully predicted it. Peter has to make a very bad deal and everyone forgets he exists, but he keeps ending up back in the Avengers path.

Star Wars Fics:

hope has bloody knuckles by @independent-variables

SW, Teen Legally required to star the SW section of this with two independent-variables fic, their writing is so much to me (I literally binged all 4 pages of their star wars fics on ao3). This one is about after the Clone Wars, Davijaan moves to Pantora with Cody to heal after the war. He reunites with a civilian he met once and slowly falls in love. Examines person hood, healing, love, and siblings. (oh and the authors settings in Pantora are inspired by Alaska and are so freaking beautiful)

sing back to the red bird, soldier by @independent-variables

SW, Teen I was hard-pressed to make a choice of just one more from this author, but since I can't list all of them here is another favourite. It's about Rex discovering what it means to be free, and have a choice beyond brainwashing, and then offering freedom to all his brothers. It uses elements of Tatooine slave culture by @fialleril, which is all just so beautiful, so definitely check out them as well!

Dielectric Breakdown by @jessepinwheel

SW, Teen Quite likely the first clone wars fic I read? I love a good mystery and this fic has that with a very fulfilling ending. Obi-Wan kills the Chancellor and goes into hiding toward the end of the war. Five years later he's presumed dead but Cody doesn't believe that and wants to know why he betrayed everyone.

Message Traffic by @skitzofreak

SW, G and Teen This is a must read for anyone. It's all written as correspondence, transcripts, and droid logs, as a post rogue one fix-it. It's actually amazing how much the story makes you invested while you are very clearly behind a fourth wall. I adore it so much.

floating, sinking by shuofthewind

SW, not-rated another everyone survives rogue one fix-it. I just really love rogue one and seeing all the characters get more. Also the perspective switches are really really good.

False Dichotomy by nsmorig (@far-sector)

SW, M One that was recommended to me (by independent-variables). Its dark and has body horror so I loved it. The way Cody is written from both his own perspective and others is in such a way that you can really understand who he is. Truly one of the Cody fics. There is also a sequel that's a wip and is also amazing (I'm still thinking about it).

Bucket of Bolts by @independent-variables

SW, G haha, I lied. have another inderpendent-variables fic. This one looks at Ahsoka and Rex in-between the end of tcw and start of rebels. I love them and whatever it is they have going on.

All Their Tomorrows by @breakfastteatime

SW: Jedi Fallen Order, Teen Horror!!! The Mantis crew find an abandoned ship floating in space and its super creepy and leads them to investigating a dark faction of force sensitives.

Six extras from assorted fandoms:

Talk Me Home by @comebacknow

The Maze Runner, Mature I love tmr so much, never not thinking about it. This beautiful work covers the six months in-between the end of the scorch trials (movie) and the death cure (movie). I've read it multiple times, it expands on both the characters and world building so much.

the scar i can't reverse (the more it heals, the worse it hurts) by EverythingButTheKitchenSink (ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding)

The Maze Runner, Mature I've been following this fic since it was only a couple chapters, its really brilliant. Lots of time travel shit and trauma and seeing Thomas through everyone else's eyes. I would also recommend going through a few of this authors other works as well if you enjoy!

Once & Future by spqr

The Witcher, Mature If you haven't read anything by spqr, congrats, you're missing out. This one is a kind of sleeping beauty au, where Geralt is a statue and Jaskier accidentally wakes him up. They then have to go on a quest to save everyone Geralt holds dear.

Silver and Copper by Heronfem

The Witcher, Mature I love this cause, horror. It gets pretty dark, please mind the tags is horror is not your forte. Jaskier is cursed so a witcher is hired to save him.

Vanishing Act by nockout

Harry Potter, Mature This is probably the only time I'll recommend a harry potter fic, but it's truly worth it. This is a noir detectivy thing that starts by being spread over two different points in time that slowly meet. I have no clue how the author keeps all the plotlines together cause, wow. It also follows an original character which I really love. I'm a few chapters behind that latest update so am feeling like a reread is in order.

can we be seventeen? by acennabeth

PJO, Teen ending with some fluff. This is just percabeth getting a break from everything and being teenagers for an evening. it's so special to me

#i wrote this instead of studying btw #worth it #now i have a list of fics i need to reread #please note that i mostly read stuff that makes me feel severe emotions #so majority of these have likely made me cry at least once #this also dod take me a couple hours to make #but i feel like i might do it more often #because i've found heaps i want to reread #there are a lot of star wars fics here because that's my current obsession #and i want to save the dc fics for if i ever finish writing up my big dc fic rec list #plus i've gotten really into the dc comics at the moment so struggle with how ooc many dc fic is #fandom read the source material challenge (or at least if you are gonna discuss canon) #anyway tell me what you think of these!! #cause i love them! #dc fic recs #star wars fic recs #marvel fic recs #dc #star wars #marvel #mcu #witcher #tmr #oh and if you find any mistakes in this (such as links not working) please lmk

[veilkeeper]

when roz walked into the crèche, they were confidently githyanki - they could wear the mask and mingle with those of faerûn, but they were gith first, and arriving at the crèche was like coming home. nevermind the bones of the temple it sat in, the orange suns on the wall and the marble hands reaching for the touch of dawn. none of it mattered, because below there was home.

and in those walls, there was a promise. once purified, they would find the simplicity of the life they had before they ever woke up on a ghaik ship, where all they had to do was look to a jhe'stil and do as commanded. no more scrambling for answers, no more being the terrifying exception to the rule. they would simply be themself again, safe among their people, secure in a role predefined.

but then the zaith'isk does not purify, and doubts they had pushed down for so long bubble back to the surface. one of the youths recognized them as an outsider from the way that they walked - "less directed," he said, and roz had to bite their tongue and keep from flinching. they ask questions and the ghustil echoes what lae'zel had said a half-dozen times or more since meeting; how could they not know these things? they should have paid more attention to their teachers. could they have ever hoped to belong, when they carried their years away from their people as some carried brands?

a single egg sits in a carefully curated pond, the last to hatch, and roz wonders if culling it is worth losing someone like ko'kuu if it means never giving rise to someone like them.

the inquisitor offers them simplicity. a command they are to follow and they are so grateful to be able to obey, and from their loyalty vlaakith springs forth in all her glory. they drop to their knees. they were never one to worship, they never could focus on anything so abstract as a god, but she looks down at them with golden eyes and sees them. they have killed people for so much less than ascension, and if they can please their Queen, then they will be worth something. they will have to have been worth something.

a voice they know all too well beckons them into a cave inside the prism, a confrontation to be had alone.

she stands on the edge of a sea of stars and she tells them their queen has a secret, and they want to believe they are being lied to but they don't think they are. it wouldn't matter, even so - vlaakith demands the death of the visitor, and roz must obey. ascension. belonging. all they needed to do was remain loyal and deliver a single blow.

the visitor offers them the sword they need to carry out their task, an act of trust entirely unearned. but whoever this stranger is, they wear her face, and seeing it now after gazing upon their queen, they wonder if gods and queens can even compare. mauna had seen them as a broken, beaten child and loved them. used them, of course, but that was part of the loving, wasn't it? they were made to be used, born to be a sword wielded by another, and mauna had been so sweet in the wielding.

they fall to their knees. grasping at the earth below, they scramble for purchase as the sky seems to explode out in every direction, too big, too abstract. gods, queens, crèches, temples, it all felt too big. for so long, they had only ever needed her. why did they leave? why couldn't they ever just do what they were told? why couldn't they be happy?

they leave the prism feeling like something had been ripped from them. or perhaps everything had been ripped from them, leaving a formless husk behind. once again, they have been reduced to nothing - roz'zith of nowhere, now named hshar'lak, a moment of disobedience destroying everything they thought they had.

but perhaps if they survive, they could find mauna. she knew how to sculpt them from nothing, and they knew better now. they would know to appreciate her this time, to do what they were told. they would only need to prove to her that they could still be useful to her. and after? it would all be so simple.

they push through the doors of the morninglord's temple and into the soft light cresting down on the ruins, bloodied but reborn. they have no people to return to, now. but they might have a person, if she will have them.

#what if i made you all look at this. what then. #can you tell the creche got me fucked up about them #i would like to say for the record when i made roz's backstory i didnt know that this was how this stuff played out #so playing this section was like being punched in the face repeatedly #no one ASKED for 800 words of roz meta but this is what youre getting #esp since i promised myself i wasnt going to try to write fic before id finished at least *a* playthrough #roz #roz pt #bg3 #EDITED TO ADD: post underdark they dont need mauna anymore <3 #growth <3 #im not going to edit the text of the post because that would be against the spirit of the documentation im doing but i wanted to add this

[noctualagenaria]

baizhluc masterpost :D

this is Everything baizhu x diluc ive created :>

( last one was a collab i did with @leowopard, who did the lineart/sketch and all i did was color :> )

( was asked to tag @thew1tness so here's ur tag :D )

#memes to be added ! #ive made a TOOONN of text post memes bc of the daily account i used to run #i wanna go back to running it but ive fallen out with the other admin and alas i cannot log in right now so orz #but ill rb with the ones i made bc it was a Lot and i adore them all despite some of them being out of character #most of these arts before the go for it diluc image were made before baizhus release so sdfdsfs we didnt have much to go off of #and now i have more fic ideas than art ideas but i am doing baizhluc art still !! jus not finishing or posting it as much orz orz orz orz #jesters court #does that art tag even work anymore i dunno sdfsdf #it didnt pop up for me as i was typing it so orz #baizhluc.png #i also have more picmixes ill rb after the memes #i have a ship kid with them too that i considered posting here but alas i wanted just the two of them First then the ship kid can be #in another rb or smth i dunno sjhgdfs anyways #this is gonna be my new pinned post now bc i need everyone to see how Insane and truly TRULY deranged i am

[thatgirlonstage]

Thinking through the logical conclusions of lore that the source material has clearly not thought that deeply about can be annoying or depressing in the sense of seeing exactly how deep the plot holes go but so long as it doesn’t inherently break the suspension of disbelief or ruin your enjoyment of the overall story it can be really fun to figure out what you can use to plug the holes. Like that’s just free real estate now baby. If the lore implies X but the story wound up at Z, then you can make the journey through Y be whatever you want it to be

#writing #this is about a lot of shows but unfortunately in this specific moment it’s about #elena of avalor #now that [static noise] has a completed draft I need to finish the bed you made #it’s just like half a chapter that I ended up having to rewrite bc the first version of it ceased to work once I finished the fic #but i want to get it finished and up so I’m looking back over my draft #and just. I have. so many Thoughts #I’m v pleased with how I handled the jaquins #low key I want. to write another spin off. #(I have already written two spin offs of this fic that I haven’t even finished posting) #specifically addressing: hey where the fuck is Esteban’s spirit guide. What Is The Deal #this show DEFINITELY didn’t think through ‘everyone has a spirit guide’ lmao #i think it would kind of fuck if Shuriki uhhhhh killed his spirit guide #ANYWAY #so many apologies in advance to my subscribers when that nonsense starts appearing in your inboxes again #i have a problem #the problem is that Esteban Flores is a traumatized little stress ball and I want to shake him around like he’s in a snow globe #SORRY WE’RE AT TAKING THE DISNEY JUNIOR SHOW WAY TOO SERIOUSLY ON MAIN HOURS AGAIN #THIS JUST. THIS IS JUST GONNA HAPPEN AT LEAST UNTIL I GET THIS FIC AND ALL ITS SIDE STORIES OUT OF MY SYSTEM

[hecatesbroom]

that unfortunate occasion when you're kind of sick and you want to write, but words don't work

#i can think of a story and then the moment i want to write it down my brain just goes nope. not doing that lol enjoy sitting around #it's my last day off work too oof #really wanted to edit a fic today #or maybe write some angst for blanche that i've been thinking of ever since @the-eclectic-wonderer made a blanche post #(thanks for that if you're reading this lmao i have NOT stopped thinking about her!!) #OR edit *another* fic i've been putting off finishing #too bad i guess :') #also very random but somehow i've been beginning to feel like joining twitter again. for precisely this reason #(the reason being the recent need to share every other thought that pops up in my head lmao) #alys.txt

[theokusgallery]

Since you have a lot of opinions about Sunflower fics, do you have any recommendations :p? I do generally agree with you about the derth of good works on them - kind of hoping for something I've maybe slept on.

Okay, I'll try,

First of all — I want everyone, and I mean everyone to read Coda for a Crestfallen Caitiff by MercuriallyApathetic, who also wrote The Strange Summer of Sunny Whatshisface (still one of my favorite longfics to this day but a lot more lighthearted). Coda is a masterpiece, it makes me insane, it is criminally underrated, I want to inhale its essence, and when I first read it it gave me a panic attack and a mental breakdown that lasted three straight days (/pos). Definitely read the tags and prepare yourself mentally but JESUS CHRIST I need everyone to read it. Please. You will regret it for a few hours but it is... an experience. To me at least. And to the two people I recommended it to who gave me feedback.

Then there's sunflower seeds in the rearview mirror by @andrewwtca which remains probably my favorite multichapter OMORI fic of all time (you might spot my essay-comments in the later chapters, I love this fic so much. I didn't end up writing one for the last chapter but man did it hit me hard). Very intriguing with a captivating style and an unreliable narrator mechanic that I am absolutely in love with. Everything by that author is excellent.

We have, of course, literally everything by BetweenDisorders. Arsenic is partly inspired by one of their fics ! (you know the one.) Their characterization of both Sunny and Basil (but especially Basil, because I'm gay) makes me froth at the mouth. Their style is very recognizable and honestly one of the best I've ever seen. But more generally, they have really original and intriguing ideas (like communication, in which Basil and Sunny are two computers... Did I mention how I'm a sucker for original/unique plots and premises enough yet) and everything they do is something you've never seen before. It's amazing.

Note to Self: Don't Be Gay in Faraway Town by witheredahlia is also very, very good. It's a lot lighter, but it still made my gay little heart ache, because I'm a sucker for misunderstandings done correctly (fight me).

Detective Sunny by Det_Sun is genuinely one of the most creative, fascinating OMORI fics I've seen, and also way too underrated. It's an excellent read, and there's a bunch of ideas in it that you know go deeper than what is shown, and it makes my brain go at the speed of lights. Many many thoughts about this one. (Side note: I fucking love it when there's unexplored ideas in fics. Makes my brain go brrr. Not everything has to be shown and when I see hints of "behind the scene" thoughts and character background that isn't discussed much but still implied, my brain becomes a feral animal. I don't know if that makes sense...)

#im recommending fics that can be morally be read by/recommended to everyone because i know my demographic #but i literally just went through my bookmarks and ooh'ed and ahh'ed at every other fic so i linked them lol. #i'm not linking 'the telltale of a recovering megalomaniac' by shootingstarlightt because im trying to link underrated things #but it's also very good. #there's also Drying on the Steps by DeepFriedBasil but i can't recommend it because i haven't finished reading it !! #but it's so intriguing and unique and you can spot me in the comments of the first few chapters trying to make sense of it all. #I didn't link Culinary Conversations for the same reason (I have yet to catch up on it unfortunately) but it's MAGICAL it's INCREDIBLE #I NEED MORE FICS THAT WRITE STRANGER LIKE THIS. PLEASE. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE #on the topic of characterization: Sunny & Mari Edition™ we also have Mari Doesn't Die At The End by CoreyWW #and The Very Best by nullmeh. both are very very good. #Deep Down We're Still The Same Kids by witheredahlia is also great from what I remember but I... don't remember much #there's some fics in my bookmarks i just... don't remember. oops. #...i hope this post isn't too long. i'm leaving some stuff in the tags because linking them in the post would've made it 3ft long #and also because when i give fic recs I feel like I have to arguments it and for some of those I don't really know what to say except Good #please read Coda for a Crestfallen Caitiff. please. #rant #omori #ask #ephemeralspirit-blog #fic recs #most if not all of these are sunflower btw ! i basically only read sunflower. #sorry to my fellow ze[...]ae lovers btw. i'd recommend them but. again. i know my demographic #arsenic #<- i tag every single mention of him for someone who had it blocked sorry

[pyrriax]

hi tumblr im pyrr pyrriax and im in my trimonthly artist arc, lord help me and all the projects that are currently sitting in my drafts while i am lured in by the siren song of drawing

#haunted ecosystem #this is not helping with how much my hands hurt on a daily basis this is why i type and dont handwrite/draw very much. #im lured in regardless and i really need to find an artform that doesnt Hurt but for now. digital art <3 #like theres a difference between my dumb doodles (quick easy not much different from regular computer usage) and actual art #but im an artist at heart i spent sooooo long being an artist and thinking i was shit at writing. that is wrong! im actually kinda good #im rambling in tags today because i have been not social (my partner is in genshin hell and my beloved is. somewhere.) #okay but on another note i reread the first. couple chapters of wtds this morning? the pacing is a little weird and the tense is fucked #but its actually a lot better than i thought it was? you can tell i was fleshing everybody out in my head and i totally forgot about how #i described the watcher [who i am STILL redacting the name of until we get there] and just. ough. pandora being very logical #and then jumping to the latest chapter and fucking sobbing because i forgot about how it went and just. pandora and his. #whatever the fuck is wrong with him. #i have gotta start recommending people read that again. its surprisingly friendly without context because of how i approached it #that fic has taught me so many things its actually a little comical. it also made me relearn how to make and write ocs so thats fun #once i finish that main fic (and i WILL i am actually planning to sign up for a thing. im finishing it i swear.) i finally get to show off #more of the world and characters ive crafted. showing backstories and what-ifs and all these oneshots ive been keeping close to my chest #for like absolutely ages because i dont want any spoilers on my tumblr #and. im finishing that fic in pseudo-memoriam of somebody who deleted their accounts everywhere. still miss you dane! #ok this has completely gone off topic ily tumblr im going back to drawing and i might make a new pfp #it'll still be lavius but it'll be fray lavius since i think about him a lot and i like his color palette.

[asleepinawell]

this little quest chain was one of my favorites in ew because of the perspective it gave into the ancients, a very different one from what little we get from emet and hermes. there’s pretty ample proof that their society was not in any way perfect and was actually really deeply flawed to the core, but this is a look at people, individuals, and ones outside of the main bunch we talk to

put in a read more to spare your dashes

they go to speed up the aether dispersal of some creations (animals) that were killed and they call the deaths distressing and want to find a way to pay respects to the fallen and bring peace to their souls. at the wol’s suggestion they gather flowers for the dead. and they say what amounts to a prayer over the bodies. it’s so very very different from how hermes believes everyone feels and how hythlodaeus spoke of ‘returning to the star’ being beautiful (though even hythlodaeus said a brief prayer for the first boss in ktisis hyberboreia)

and yes, they still talk about life and death in terms of ‘purpose’ and this is no way refutes the callousness towards other lives we’ve seen some of the ancients display in elpis, but my personal take is that it shows that some of them at least understood on some level that there were important things missing in their culture that they needed. even if they didn’t fully grasp why, they were searching for these missing pieces. in this case, a way to process grief and acknowledge the worth of a life, even a non-human life. and they also actively ask for the new ideas the wol presents and talk about incorporating them into their lives and duties

there’s also a ton of little side quests in elpis that involve one person asking you to find or check on another person, or to carry a message to them. there’s so many people who care about each other and are just absolutely godawful at expressing it in person and need the poor wol to act as an intermediary (this happens in present day as well but it was just every 5 seconds in elpis)

there’s one striking one where one person asks you to bring a second person a message about how that second person’s concept was approved and succeeding (I forget the exact details) in the hopes that it would dissuade them from returning to the star. it didn’t dissuade them and the first person accepted that pretty calmly, but the thought was there. there was this hope that they could keep someone they cared about around longer even if the argument they tried to use to persuade them came back to that grim ideology about ‘purpose’. they lacked the framework to think about it another way, but they still tried

it’s definitely a stark contrast from the shade amaurotines we saw in shb (assuming for the sake of argument that they were accurate depictions and not biased by emet which is a big assumption), especially the ones who turned the topic of ‘should we save the lives of others on the planet or just focus on ourselves’ into a casual debate topic as a pastime. there are really terrible ways of thinking about the world that have been ingrained into the population presumably from birth. that’s not something that can easily be changed. but it could be changed. the potential was there

at a societal level the ancient world was terrible in so many ways, and ultimately doomed if it couldn’t change, but at an individual level the people had so much potential and at least some of them were trying their best to make sense of the things their society denied them and adapt their lives

my personal takeaway from all this (which is just a headcanon aka an opinion and i’m not trying to sell as canon), was that if their society could have been changed then the ancients had the potential to have produced people who could have faced meteion. i’m leaving aside the questions of the timeframe and zodiark tempering everyone because that’s not my point. my point is that the ancients weren’t inherently unable to be who was needed to save their world. the density of their aether making them unable to interact with dynamis is highly symbolic of the flaws of their society, of course, but that shouldn’t have stopped them from talking to meteion, from showing compassion and understanding and hope in the face of despair

i’m not trying to take any jabs about any characters’ decisions in the story because the actual situation they were in was extremely complicated (like hey zodiark tempering people!) and that would also miss my point. mostly i’m just saying this makes the fate of their people even more depressing. they were an entire race of people who had all the potential that the sundered humans do despite being stuck in a shit society that happened to be shit in the exact way that made dealing with meteion and the final days a seemingly insurmountable task. their near-immortality and creation powers made it even harder for them to really understand the problem, but not impossible. they had the raw potential and lacked the tools to use it to save themselves. it’s just really damned sad

#hello i just finished up elpis in my replay and i am big sad about it #panda gives us more time with some of their world but i don't wanna go into panda spoilers in this post #ffxiv #ffxivmp #mp #i mean emet is such an obvious example of this too #though in the complicated way that he was predisposed to not quite fit in and it made him cling even harder to the fallacy #i remember thinking that a big difference between emet and herms is emet had emotional support in the form of azem and hyth #but there's that short story that showed hermes had people who tried to support him #he just isolated himself #like cranky socially awkward introvert emet still managed to find the friendship he needed #which was great until he lost it and couldn't cope and doubled down on clinging desperately to all the wrong things #i would never excuse emet for what he became but god i feel awful for the man he once was #(still want to bully him tho) #this entire post is also the thesis for my fic series lol #like what if some of the ancients (hyth in hades) were shown the flaws in their world in a way they couldn't refute #and given a chance and the time needed to change #the reason i made the assumption wrt the shade amaurotines is because i thought of them as a game device #being used to show the player about amaurot and its culture #rather than a statement about emet

[demigod-of-the-agni]

“The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”

unofficial cover art for my Frankenstein-inspired Spider-Man fic

#omg mcu peter parker artwork?????? made by me?????????? shocking #i was struck with The Vibes tonight (24hr headache and muscles cramps and uncooperative body) #also hello New Art Style Number 54!!! #losing it. my dumb ass couldn't do line-free art for years and SUDDENLY WE'VE GONE LINEART-FREE IN A MATTER OF HOURS #also halftones my beloved #you can really tell i half-assed the anatomy. i was trying to draw those muscles and bones from memory but alas #the ribs are really fucked up lmao. also the manubrium. it's fucking massive. literally screaming #pectoralis major and deltoids and sternocleidomastoids aren't actually that bad... it's just that i gave up on giving them texture lol #oh god i forgot the hoodie strings 😭 my boy i'm so sorry!!! pretend he has hoodie strings. i am not bothered to go back and add them #god. ugh. i should realllllyyyy finish writing the current chapter. i miss you mary shelley appreciation fic #i need to entertain myself with my own fics to get myself to write lmao #peter parker #spider man #spiderman #spider man fanart #mcu peter parker #ben reilly #<- tagging him solely for the shits and giggles >:))) #artoftheagni #myart

[simcardiac-arrested]

Go go go cutscene cutscene cutscene!!!

been thinking about one of my favorite undertale fics lately, it’s like. the best undertale fic to me if not the best fic on ao3 period. i liek it so much. it’s the scientist series by talkingsoup and i will Never stop talking about like i Know i have mentioned it before but i am physically incapable of shutting up about it. it’s so good. i once tried to get my best friend to read it even though she doesn’t know english but i tried to convince her to read it with google translate (it didn’t last long but it was worth the effort). it’s So Good. i discovered it in like 2018 or 2019 and have reread it at least two times since it’s just like AUEHGGHHH. gaster’s downfall and then him haunting the narrative … the exploration of sans’ backstory …… the characterizations ………. it’s all very well written and also very dark and traumatic. They make Shit happen to these characters. but it gets better. i think ? i have never finished the series because iirc it only finished around a year ago and i haven’t reread it since. but i am Thinking about it. it’ll probably take me months because 1. i have to come to terms with the fact that one of my favorite stories will be Finished(tm) 2. i have to hype myself up to reread it because it’s a very long series with like 400k words or something AND the second installment is verrrry dark and heavy considering it explores the whole reset bullshit and flowey is putting sans through 29263937 meatgrinders

#so yeah. i need to finally finish reading it sometime but i dont know if i’m strong enough #but i like it so much. very good story. definitely recommend if u are interested in undertale and the skelebros specifically #but also you should absolutely heed the warnings and i’m so serious when i say it’s super dark. Lots of bad shit happens #i thiiiink it gets better though? like i’m pretty sure the series has a happy ending. so that’s good. probably #also another one of my favorite undertale fic series is And Whither Then I Cannot Say which is also skelebros centered but mostly #frisk centered (love u frisk) and the plot of it is about the undertale aus. which i at first was . scared of #because if you were a ut fan in 2016 like i was then you definitely have some sort of trauma from all the au shit. i really found the fic #mostly by chance. but i was bored so i said Fuck it and then i read it. and it was super good ?!?!?!?!? #it has an interesting plot and complicated characters and interesting character dynamics #it also made me laugh several times even though i don’t often react that strongly to fics #but yeah i havent reread it or caught up on it in. a long while. which i should do #umm. someday. someday …. #cramswering #undertale fic ramble for today

[theinfinitedivides]

second My Dearest related post today but Only Skin from Ys and Divers from the eponymous album 🤝🏼 Ryang Eum longing for a man who will never love them in exactly the way they deserve

#tv: my dearest #my dearest #mbc my dearest #namgoong min #nam goong min #kim yoon woo #joanna newsom #kdrama #local gay watches My Dearest (and is subsequently f*cked up).txt #local gay watches k-dramas.txt #ok to be fair this is greatly condensing the absolute SCOPE of those two sings bc that sh*t is dissertation level #Only Skin is a seventeen minute long masterpiece that requires several dissertations #but truly i was thinking about the whole thing of Divers where she says 'and never will i wed / i'll hunt the pearl of death to the bottom #of my life / and ever hold my breath / till i may be the diver's wife' and Ryang Eum saying he'd die with Jang Hyun #if he had to. and he wouldn't mind #'the diver is my love and i am his / (if i am not deceived)' but he is!!!!! he is deceived!!!!! he is his love but not in the way he wants #Only Skin's 'and the cities we passed were a flickering wasteland / but his hand / in my hand / made them hale and harmless' #Jang Hyun with his hand in Ryang Eum's hand both at the enemy camp and when he saved him. are you seeing this #sick and twisted but anyway this is once again your daily PSA to get tf into Joanna Newsom if you haven't already #excuse me while i go back to writing that fic ffs i need to finish it

[yardsards]

you've heard of being "touch starved", now get ready for "touch hangry"

#eliot posts #touch starved #i was rereading through some of my old fics and #the plot of one is basically a character being touch hangry #i'd say i get touch hangry but not really. i don't actually get angry about it but i DO get a strong urge to playfight #anyway my consensus upon rereading my fics is: #all three of my infinity train fics are actually pretty good #'from things that accidentally touch' is prolly the best one? #but i'm actually liking 'you can run away with me anytime you want' a lot rn bc i really dig the qpr vibes i established there #i was dissatisfied with 'and the moon's never seen me before' when i wrote it but i actually really like it now. made me smile. #i don't really like either of my toh fics very much #i like the concept of 'interlacing' and AM gonna finish it up but i hate how i wrote most of it #'the beach episode' has some good bits but i dislike a lot of it. it was the first thing i'd written in YEARS and it shows #kinda hate that it's my most popular fic cuz it's my least favourite #but people enjoying it so much did encourage me to practice writing some more i think? #i don't regret writing it. i think i needed the practice and writing my first fic since like eighth grade was nice #sidenote i WISH eighth grade eliot didn't delete their fic out of shame. i wanna read it. #anyway i think i wanna post the last chapter of tbe eventually. i think it's half written somewhere #it's my least fav fic and a bunch of my headcanons got disproven but i think it deserves to be finished #i have a couple readers who still wanna see the ending despite it being years and it just being a slice of life fic so no cliffhangers #('from things that accidentally touch' is my touch hangry fic) #that fic originally had my highest kudos to hits ratio but now it has the lowest ratio of any of my single chapter fics #and i know it is because people have been rereading it since then for comfort and that makes me really happy

[sharkneto]

How long do you think it should take between chapter uploads on Ao3?

As long as the author needs

#if i have a whole long fic written out i like to have something come out ~once a week #people don't have to wait too long between chapters and i get a steady drip of Validation lol #but thats not always the case - life happens. things have to be written and sometimes they dont cooperate #so that week is sometimes two sometimes a month sometimes three #and sometimes its a year or more for people #it's nice when fast chapters happen but fanfic writers are doing this for free and sometimes things just get in the way #pro tip? if youre missing a fic and it hasnt updated in a while and youre craving new content? #comment on it. #not a ''loved this when's the next chapter comin?'' comment #but write something you liked from the chapter - a moment some dialogue the feelings some part made you feel #if an author is struggling to finish something that little reminder that people like it and *why* can be *huge* #as time stretches on and interactions slow to a trickle it's really easy to get disheartened about finishing #''no one is reading it anyway its been so long I'm not good at writing anymore i dont remember what i was doing with this'' #so give your favorite authors some specific love and that might just kick things into gear #idc if its been a month or three years - i almost guarantee the author will still get your love even if its been years #and you don't know what their life is like - maybe that comment is just what they need to sit down and finish it up #sharkneto speaks #ask response #ficblogging

[valiantvillain]

The more Larian ignores Wyll, the more I feel the need to compensate by writing fanfic of him and Bei being disgustingly adorable.

#if larian won't show this pixel man love then i will #seriously i love this game and the little cute kiss animation updates #but come the fuck on #why ignore your own creation like this? #you can add all these little details and even new cinematics but can't bother to add stuff for wyll to bridge the content gap? #i swear i will finish that smut fic i'm currently working on with him and bei before the month is out #i love all the companions and love interests equally #but i constantly feel like i need to hype wyll up in particular because he's so neglected by the team that made him #like this ain't a good look larian