#onionjuggler

[alibonbonn]

I love the implication that Patroclus just has a soft spot for anything with immortal blood and goes all heart eyes

They're his special horses and Achilles his special person 🥺 💕

#ali babble #onionjuggler #asks

[songofsaraneth]

I'm so proud of you for getting your evoove (evil groove) back

#replies #ramblings #onionjuggler #boops

[swaps55]

🍭why did you start writing? 💌share something with us about an up-and-coming work (WIP) that has you excited!

🍭why did you start writing?

It sounds a little hokey to say I don’t ever recall starting because I have been telling stories my entire life, but I more or less have been. My first ‘fanfic’ was a fabulously illustrated story I wrote as a kid in which I sent the Black Stallion to space, because I loved the Black Stallion and I loved space, and I wanted both things in the same story.

I wrote random stories in middle school. I remember one of them was, for reasons I couldn’t begin to tell you, a story about the Revolution of 1910, and I thought it was meticulously researched because I read the article about it in the encyclopedia (yes, this was pre-internet). I wrote Star Trek fanfic in high school without knowing that’s what it was. I even showed it to my English teacher, who was also a huge nerd, and she got so excited she offered to help me with it. She was my first beta reader.

I’ve always had stories I wanted to tell, and I’ve always written them down.  

💌share something with us about an up-and-coming work (WIP) that has you excited!

Mezzo is the next Opus fic, and I’m going to start brainstorming in earnest as soon as I have my Spec Recs story finished so…soon, heh. I am excited about many things when it comes to Mezzo, but unsurprisingly, Horizon is sitting in the top spot.

Y’all, it’s going to be awful.

SO AWFUL.

In ways that are inevitable. That mission is going to be a trainwreck of everything going wrong in the worst possible ways, everyone reacting in ways that are perfectly reasonable or understandable but make everything worse. People who only see one part of the whole and responding to that piece, and everyone has a different piece. But the reader will see the whole and be helpless to do anything about it.

And it’s going to be AWFUL.

I cannot WAIT.

(Assuming I can pull it off…)

#swaps replies #onionjuggler #mememe #meme replies #how writing is written #thank you!!

[findusinaweek]

My friends convinced me to play AC Odyssey and I have finally met Brasidas

YES?! WHAT DO YOU THINK?! ARE YOU ENJOYING IT?!?!?!

#dude i am flipping out on my break i am trying not to scream #I am trying not to genuinely be loud because ahhHHHHHH #ibdj sjebw8dvd #Brasidas!!! #onionjuggler #I am so happy!!

[princefitzchivalryfarseer]

Where do you live that you don't get storms?

oh - I’m in England - we do get storms now and then, mostly in autumn and winter, but most of them aren’t like bad enough to pose widespread danger to human life. We do get weather warnings for ���danger to human life” but that’s if you’re doing something stupid or a tree falls on you. For that post I guess I was comparing to places like Florida that have a tornado season which is wild to me. (That being said, one of the main effects of global warming on the UK is more storms and far worse flooding that usual in recent years, I don’t want to gloss over that)

What are storms like where you live?

#Asks #Onionjuggler #oh! Baejax! Hi!!! Truly only just realised it was you lol

[urrone]

I once came home from a weekend away to find the oven on. I was not the one responsible for that, though

oooooooooooooooooooof that's a rough one. The very first night I spent alone in my very first apartment I slept with the oven on all night (accident, not bc it was cold or anything) and the front door completely unlocked. The oven thing prompted my workplace to give me a toaster oven for Christmas that year but joke's on them, I hardly ever used it.

#onionjuggler #merrin replies

[loquaciousquark]

How about "favorite" for the wip meme

Not a single "favorite" in the fic? Not one? Impossible, shocking! (How actually, did that happen?)

Instead, have one of eight "favor"s:

Fenris glanced between them. There was a similarity of color, of expression in the mouth, but Hawke’s strong features much favored her father instead, and she carried little of Leandra’s light elegance. Her voice was low; her nose was long; she was careless with her jokes, and apologized when she had done harm.

She loved her people. He was certain of that, at least.

#quark replies #onionjuggler #wip meme

[gloriesunsung]

12 and 36

I somehow missed this yesterday! Sorry

12. Misfit Toys | Pusha T & Mako I declare war On anybody standing in the way of what I dream for

36. If You Have My Voodoo Doll, Give Me a Hug | Loveless When you tell me what you really mean You fill my lungs with gasoline Breathing in, burning you out

#ask game #spotify wrapped #ask qs get as #onionjuggler

[ziskandra]

tbf your icon is doing a lot of the work but 🐯

sdjksjd YEAH to be fair, Meredith is very intimidating 😂 How Intimidating Am I?

#i however am not #i am just vibing #asha answers #onionjuggler

[oodlyenough]

How about 1, 10, and 15 for the end of year writer asks?

What’s something new that you tried in a fic this year? How did it turn out and would you do it again?

Oh jeeze did I try anything new ... LOL. I mean writing Ace Attorney fic in itself was new 🤔 But I wrote short, character-focused one-shots, which is in line for me.

Oh you know what, think it's the first time I started writing and publishing fic before I knew all the relevant canon lmaooo ... not an approach I like doing but I didn't want to play 10 games before I wrote a one-shot about the first one, y'know. I guess, technically, I did this with Borderlands by writing fic for TFTBl without playing the main series ... but it still felt different cause the characters I was writing about, at the time, were only in the game I played, vs writing aa1 Narumitsu fic knowing they're in like ninety other games lmao. I had to get out of my head and just go for it.

10. What fic made you feel the happiest to work on?

Probably Room Service which simultaneously felt so niche and so obvious to me, like total self-indulgence but in a way where I was surprised to see no one else had already indulged similarly. And I got to dust off some London knowledge for jokes while also blithely ignoring things like "google tells me UK hotels don't usually have minibar fridges" because Ace Attorney takes place in some insane geopolitical alternate universe and I can do what I want.

15. Rec a fic you wrote or posted in 2023

I'll go with my least-loved No Man's Land, a missing scene with Phoenix and Franziska from 3-5, just cause I was thrilled to see them spend time together and enjoyed writing them a lot. Worsties in law.

Ty for the questions!!

#onionjuggler #you've got questions we've got answers #fic stuff

[queso-magnifico]

@onionjuggler told me about WIP Wednesdays so I'm gonna do that for my knitting and crocheting!

This is one of the most complicated patterns I've done and it's really fun. I've had to redo lots of things but I learned how to fix mistakes without tearing the whole row out! I have no idea if this is going to fit or not.

Oh, and I also got to break out the yarn ball winder I got as a present and it's a little annoying to use but it's SO NICE knitting from the yarn balls.

Pattern: Honeycomb Aran by Gayle Bunn

Yarn: Valley Yarns - Northampton

#knitting #im determined to find #knitblr #cables and cables and more cables #but i can do cables without a cable needle because I'm so cool

[swaps55]

18!

Send me a #1-101, and I will either tell you what fic the corresponding Spotify Wrapped song inspired, or write a ficlet that is inspired by the song.

Boy did you ask the right one.

#18 is a cover of Ho Hey, by BURNS. It's a really beautiful, wistful cover, and the person it makes me think of is actually Muriel Aslany.

I have a very specific arc in mind for her that will go all the way through the end of the reaper war, which is when this little ficlet takes place. This contains rather significant spoilers for Opus, but given how much road there is to travel between now and then, to hell with it. For context, the only time Aslany sees Sam between their parting on the 'Yang and the end of the war is on Horizon. It does not go well.

~

So show me family All the blood that I will bleed I don't know where I belong I don't know where I went wrong

The sun is out when they arrive, waning in the late afternoon, giving hints of gold to the new green sprouting on the trees. It's a much different look than in the winter, when those endless fields of trees were nothing but dead sticks covered in ashy snow, and Aslany had to focus all her attention on whether or not the tracks belonged to wildlife or reaper shock troops.

She never wanted to see this godforsaken place again.

Pendergrass bounds out of the skycar when it comes to a stop on the gravel drive near the steps of the front porch, as oblivious to the hell they went through here together as she is about just about anything. Aslany’s betting it’ll get to her some other way some other time; Pendergrass is oil to water – able to repel anything you throw at her until the water finds a seam and tries to drown her.   

But it’s all right. Aslany will be there when it happens to keep her afloat.

Some people will just be in your life forever, Lora Alenko had told her during the worst of it, on one of those miserable days they'd spent in the barn all huddled together for warmth without a fire. She’d nodded towards Pendergrass when she’d said it.

Lot of things are supposed to last forever but don’t. Wasn’t long before Mrs. Alenko had learned that, too.

But, as Aslany catches sight of the figure seated on the porch swing waiting for them, she can't help but hope maybe there’s some truth to it.

She gets out of the skycar slowly, eyes on her feet as she pulls her bag out and shrugs it over her shoulder. Pendergrass’ voice floats back over the breeze, talking a mile a minute. Alenko chuckles, and it’s a laugh Aslany hasn’t heard since the ‘Yang. Her chest tightens, fingers clenching around the strap of the shoulder bag.

She can’t do this.

She’s not like Alenko, who had the chance to bury the hatchet sticking out of his back after Horizon, or Pendergrass, who never cut anyone in the first place.

But she trudges toward her squad anyway, because while she may not have always been a good soldier, she’s never shirked her duty.

The conversation dies when she comes to a halt near the bottom of the steps. Pendergrass and Alenko both turn their heads to look at her, but she isn’t paying attention to them. She’s watching the figure on the porch swing.

He doesn’t look good.

Too thin through his cheekbones, and he sits like he doesn’t have the energy to do it without help. A thin spider web of scarring runs across one cheek, like someone smashed a pane of glass. At the sight of Aslany he sits a little straighter, but it takes effort.

She braces herself for that rail gun stare he wears for everyone but the ones he calls family. It would hurt less to take a bullet.

But there’s no rail gun. There’s just…Shepard. Gazing at her like he’s not daring to hope, because hope is for fools and he’s tired of being one.

The knot in her chest gets tight enough it forces a sound out of her.

Next thing she knows, her bag is in the dirt and she’s running up the stairs. To hell with what is or isn’t supposed to last forever. Shepard never played by the rules anyway.

Aslany flings her arms around Shepard’s neck. He traps her to his chest and holds her tight, eyes closed, exhaling like something just broke inside him.

“You came for us,” she mumbles without lifting her head.

He hugs her tighter. “I made a promise.”

#swaps replies #onionjuggler #my fic #'shoot it again sam' shepard #muriel aslany #i have a metric fuckton of feelings about this moment #the first and only time aslany ever hugs anyone

[findusinaweek]

Prayer plants are called prayer plants because they tend to put their leaves upward at night, which some people thought looked like hands praying. And then when the sun is out, they put them back down to get maximum sun. I've never looked up why they do this, but some plants just like to move a lot

I have never heard of this! This adds a whole new level of interest!

#asks #onionjuggler #thank you!!!!!!

[magic-space-games]

On Repeat tag

Rules: Shuffle your repeat playlist 10 times and tag 10 people.

Thanks @resplendentlytrite for the tag!

(I don't have Spotify, so I just made a playlist in my media player of songs I frequently put on repeat and shuffled it.)

In Too Deep - Sum 41

Lay it All on Me - Rudimental ft. Ed Sheeran

Blue - Livv.

fashion week - blackbear (it's different remix)

The Moment that It Stops - The Narrative

Orchard - The Honey Trees

I'm Gonna Tell My Therapist on You - Pinkshift

Iku - Sian & Rhodz & Keyboard Kid & Fusq

Skyhorn - Patricia Taxxon <- (Link to the song on her bandcamp. Just as a warning, the song starts out pretty loud.)

Feeling Good - Avicii feat. Audra Mae (I sing this one on the way to work most days. It's the version used in the second season of Sense8.)

Tagging: @dreaminginstasis @disasterdrvid @emsails @catcactusoww @battleaxeproficiency @poodlepalace @getetteroo @onionjuggler @uncleasriel @flishlish (No pressure to do the tag yourself, I use tag games like this as an opportunity for show-and-tell. :P)

#long post #tag game #Youtube

[urrone]

13, 14, and 15 for end of the year asks!

From this list

13. How was your birthday this year?

It wasn't great but it wasn't awful. My sister and older brother planned a birthday gathering at my parents place and then my sister tried to reschedule it without talking to anyone about it because she wanted to have a baby shower for her third baby last minute. When it didn't work out for anyone else to move it, she literally said "well I'm sorry to miss!" I was also covered in an eczema outbreak. But I had yummy fajitas with my brother and his fam, my parents, and a friend of mine who is currently living on my parents' ranch and it was a very lovely evening anyway. Then later in August I went to visit my bestie in Michigan and that was also a fun birthday celebration. :)

14. Favorite book you read this year?

This year I discovered the works of T. Kingfisher and have read so much of her back log, but of those I think my favorite is probably the first one still, Paladin's Grace, if only because it was my introduction and therefore sticks out the most. None of them have missed though, I love her mix of silly and serious.

15. What’s a bad habit you picked up this year?

I can't think of a new bad habit I picked up, I've just perpetuated bad habits I already had, and the worst of those is whatever you call it when you stop thinking about a thing so aggressively that it's like it ceases to exist until the consequences of not having dealt with it rears its ugly head.

#onionjuggler #meme #merrin replies #thanks for asking!

[loquaciousquark]

I follow a reddit about dogs that like getting tucked in. Saw this one and thought of you.

to see this as a tucked quark!

#quark rambles #quark replies #onionjuggler #ha!