#my dash needs more goblin emperor content

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get to know a simmer

*This glitched when I published originally, having only half my answers...Sorry...

I was tagged by the brilliant @lilamausmaus, whose style is so cool, creative, and immediately recognizable. Her sims and edits are kickass. And I love finding Nero (in any form) on my dash.

show your wallpaper: I am still using this one.

last song you listened to: Sin Fang, Sóley and Örvar Smárason: Citrus Light

currently reading: The Girl in the Tower, by Katherine Arden.

last movie: Ruroni Kenshin: The Final (he's a serious contender for pretty men with swords)

last show: Person of Interest

craving: More sleep

what are you wearing right now: jeans and a long-sleeve shirt

how tall are you: 1.78 cm (5'9?)

piercings: Yes

tattoos: No. I have commitment issues.

glasses/contacts: Yes. I need glasses. I'm like Velma Dinkley, otherwise.

last thing you ate: gluten-free cheese crackers= the taste of sadness

favourite colour: Deep/cobalt blue

current obsession: Too many- I have so many random interests.

any pets: Cat and dog

favourite fictional character: I have several, from books, movies, games...But Maia Drazhar from Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor has my heart; he is such a kind and decent person, despite everything he's endured.

last place you traveled: San Diego, California. But I am traveling next week across the world for a month...Which reminds me I should probably post some hiatus thingie...I won't be inactive, but there won't be any new sims-related content for a bit.

I am tagging: @izayoichan, @m0n0lithical, @damseljamsel, @alinelie, @simarcana, @greighish, @agena87, and @akitasimblr. As always: feel free to ignore. And if you want to do this, consider yourself tagged.

#tag game #lilamausmaus

[hermitknut]

So I made some Goblin Emperor memes...

[ID: a series of pictures. The first is of a man, labelled “Maia”, holding hands with an annoyed woman, labelled “The entire Untheileneise Court”; he is looking away from her to eye up another woman, labelled “Being nice to servants”. 

The second is of a man in an office, labelled “Csevet”, with a caption that reads “If you could not bother the emperor with every tiny thing that would be great”

The third is of a cartoon man labelled “Maia” with his hand outstretched towards a butterfly, which is labelled “Anyone who is remotely pleasant to him”. Along the base of the picture, it says “Is this a friend forever?”

The fourth is of Boromir from The Lord of the Rings, captioned as saying “The Emperor does not simply dress himself”.

The fifth is a sequence of two images; in the first, a man labelled as “Setheris” has just shot a man labelled “his own relationship with Maia”, and in the second the man labelled as “Setheris” is now looking at the camera and the caption says “Why would the Emperor do this to me”

The sixth is an image of Rosa from Brooklyn 99, holding a puppy. Rosa is labelled as “Cala, Beshelar, Csevet”, and the words underneath her say “I’ve only known Maia for a day and a half, but if anything happened to him, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself.”

The seventh and final image is of Regina George from Mean Girls, captioned “Edrehasivar stop trying to make the bridge happen. It’s not going to happen.” End ID]

#memes #the goblin emperor #goblin emperor #katherine addison #I need more content for this on my dash #it's such a fantastic book #whatever 1boo 1boo

[chibisquirt]

I have been asking people questions from these every time I see them on my dash because it's fun, so forgive me if I asked you any of these in a previous round.... FIC MEME: 10 (Is there a fandom you read fic from but don’t write in?), 30 (What inspires you to write?), 51(Rant or Gush about one thing you love or hate in the world of fanfiction! Go!)

I reblog these things pretty often, but you know, I almost never get many questions about them?  This time, though, I’ve gotten THREE asks, which I think is record!  *happy dances*

@the-flightoficarus asked for 51 as well, after first sending: 

1. 10. 19. 22. 31. 37. 41. 42. 44. 46. for the ask game!!! 

So!

1 What was the first fandom you got involved in?

That depends on how you define “fandom”.  The first thing I was a fan of was probably... Power Rangers?  Maybe?  And I also really liked Valdemar and Witch World around the same time?  But I didn’t “get involved” with other fans, even passively, until Gundam Wing, I would say.  Although--for years I’ve said that FAKE was the first fanfic I ever wrote, but in retrospect I think it was actually Valdemar.  I think there was a huge-ass Valdemar fanfic I blocked out in there, but I never published or shared it, so it kind of doesn’t count.  Harry Potter was the first fandom where I produced content, including reviews.

10 Is there a fandom you read fic from but don’t write in?  

Leverage, because I’m terrible with the cons.  Also Goblin Emperor, because the linguistics scare me.  And the very specific ship-fandom of Where In The World, which may or may not be the real ship name but if I find it, I’ll read it (which is sort of thematically appropriate).

19   Is there a ship which you wished you could get behind, but you just don’t feel them?  

Rhodey/Tony.  It *should* work, it makes *sense*, but... I just don’t go there!  *baffled shrug*

22   Is there anything you regret writing?

I regret... actually, no.  I almost said, “I regret spending 120,000 words on my SBB considering no one actually read it,” but a) that’s just me being salty and b) it’s not true.  That fic exorcised some fuckin’ demons for me, and I’m glad I wrote it.  Especially that scene in chapter... four or five, don’t remember which, but the one that’s just incredibly painful?  That shit is based on my (failed, failed, failed) marriage, I needed to write that.

Actually, I take it back, there is something I regret writing:  after my ex-husband and my penultimate breakup, I started a text file on my computer titled “Why I Miss Dean” and just went off in it.  I probably should not have done that.

But the things I should be “ashamed” of?  The cheesy teenager fic, the shit I never finished in the DC fandom, the fanfiction-of-fanfiction that is my first posted work on AO3?  No, fuck that, I don’t regret any of that shit.  I needed it. 

30  What inspires you to write?

Stories.  There’s usually one scene in particular that makes me giddy with joy to imagine it, and I find myself writing so that I can have that one scene.  In the a/b/o multiship thing, it’s the after credits scene that I’m still working my way towards.  In Stars Fading, it was the reveal scene, when the identity porn curtains were pulled back.  In the Trashy McSupertrash, it’s a trope parody scene that makes me giggle endlessly to myself.  That sort of thing.

31  What’s the nicest thing someone has ever said about your writing?

@judearaya‘s comment on You Would Be In Clover:

I....cannot. My darling Bubbles. First thank you for being my porn buddy :D Second. I finished this last night and just...had to sit with it. I literally could think of nothing but it, it stayed with me so intensely.

You really wrote an emotional, difficult, lovely masterpiece here. The reader becomes so helplessly immersed in their world, in how complex and aching and challenging each of their lives are. I think that the way you portrayed Gwen and Bucky's relationship, how they loved each other, really beautifully. I love that you didn't shy away from how hard it was for them to love each other despite knowing that they were in such a difficult position. Particularly Bucky -- he broke my heart. He really did. Because throughout I just knew, if he could have, he would have given her anything for her happiness, and knowing there was this *thing* he couldn't just tore me up in the way you wrote it.

Sam is...amazing. He's Sam. I don't even know how to touch that one.

That last scene -- there was so much to love, but one thing was the way in which everyone had a very real place with the other, but how with Sam there, Gwen and Bucky were able to connect in a way they'd been struggling for years -- expressing their love for each other through physical intimacy that wasn't marred (I can't think of the right word) by everything else.

Thank you for writing this.

I legitimately teared up.  It still wrecks me.  It tells me that every single thing I set out to do with this fic, I accomplished. 

37  First person or third person - what do you write in and why?

Third, and there actually is a reason.  

Basically, when it’s first person, the conceit is that this is a story someone (the narrator) is telling you; when it’s third, it’s a story that happened.  A lot of the things that happen in the stories I’m interested in writing seem to me to be too personal to be told, especially to the anonymous audience.

41  List and link to 5 fanfics you are currently reading:

I’m not currently reading five fics.  *hangs head*  I’ve had a tough time reading fic in general lately; difficulty concentrating, plus I’ve kinda been sucked into the Dragon Age vortex again, plus plus whenever I go to read I get the guilty reminder that I should be writing my original fic, instead.  So basically, I’m currently reading one fic, because it just posted a chapter tonight and it is magical, and other than that I’m mostly leaving it alone.  

42  List and link to 5 fanfiction authors who are amazing:

Nothing too shocking here...

Copperbadge

Dira Sudis

Chad

Nonymos

Sineala

44  What ship do you feel needs more attention?

Hm...  Maybe Sam/Steve?  Not that there isn’t fic there, but not enough, considering the INSTANT chemistry they had in the film.  Oh!  Also IN CHARACTER Steve/Nat!  (Because they are Bros, and if that doesn’t come through in the fic, then why are you writing them?)  And the related ship of StuckyNat--very rare, but when it works, it hella works.

46  If someone was to read one of your fanfics, which fic would you recommend to them and why?

Oh, the long one!  Definitely.  But if they didn’t have the stomach for all that...  Either Nalattris or Best Served With A Twist.  Both are post-CW fics, both have Steve and Tony reconciling their relationship by the end, both are short and gen.  

My most popular fics are both soulmate fics, and you can find them by sorting-by-kudoi.  My hottest fic, anecdotally, seems to be the crossover with Marvel Noir (you don’t have to know Marvel Noir to enjoy it) (and people sure do seem to enjoy it!).  

51  Rant or Gush about one thing you love or hate in the world of fanfiction! Go!

I really hate to rant--there’s enough of that on this website--so I guess I’ll gush, instead:  I love the creativity of it; I love the welcome of fandom.  I love the gentle, excitable way fans welcome other fans.  I love the drive underlying fandom to do better, always, although that’s rarely put into words, and what we’re doing better is as changeable as my underwear.  (Pretty changeable by this point, I’ve been wearing this pair all day.)  

I love that I could show up, a broken husk of a woman stinging on every surface, write terrible, fic-of-a-fic stuff, and get feedback on it that was loving and enthusiastic and not disparaging.  I love that disparaging feedback in general is a taboo.  ( @subversivecynic and @drakkenzero, who have met my family, will instantly understand why that’s exciting to me.)  

I love that, by and large, no one sporks anything anymore.  It had its place, and it’s done, and now we make other mistakes.  I LOVE that.

Thanks for asking!  :D

#asparrowsfall