#rav rambles

[mymultifandomhell]

i know they're in love i know that they literally kissed stede has said the words out loud yet when djenkins makes an instagram post with a song that has the lyrics 'this guy's in love with you' i'm sitting here going i can't believe it they're in love and he's posting about it??!?!? 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

#ive never felt more surprise pikachu like #ofmd #our flag means death #rav rambles #david jenkins #gentlebeard #me.

[a-little-bit-of-ravioli]

20 questions for fic writers

Tagged by @the-real-azalea-scroggs! Had to wait until I was of my phone because doing these is a nightmare on mobile lmao

1. How many works do you have on A03?

18 as of a few days ago!

2. What's your total A03 word count?

157,937! Which is. Only a fraction of the word count in my Docs folder. Be prepared.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

I mainly write for The Legend of Zelda; specifically Linked Universe! In fact, that's all that's posted on my Ao3 currently, since my fall into that fandom began with me uploading there! Pre-Ao3 I wrote for Black Cat (Anime/Manga), Megaman NT Warrior, various Pokémon things, Assassin's Creed, Yugioh, Final Fantasy XIV and Octopath Traveler! Some of these I still write privately, but I haven't gotten around to re-posting any.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Whistling on Deaf Ears - My longest fic on Ao3, focusing on Wild and Twilight's friendship and how good intentions can lead to disaster.

Iconoclasm - Warriors deals with the room full of portraits in Cia's palace. The Chain also deals with it, but with a bit more fire.

Deserving - Twilight finally tells Rusl that he was the wolf in the village during TP, but that also means dealing with some heavier topics. Colin half overhears them and forms his own conclusions.

Something Greater - The start of the "Hyrule can see magical auras" series! In this one we deal with Legend and his many rings.

Ocean Magic - Mermaid Legend and Zora Time have a race and then fight one of the Big Octos from WW! Fun times.

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Every single one!! I love comments, they give me an excuse to ramble about my fic more!! I am always down to ramble about every single insignificant detail of any line and/or section. If you ever want more background info about one of my fics, look to the comments!

So please, I adore comments, I treat them like treasures, not responding to them would be a CRIME.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

There's no contest; Inevitable, my (so far) only MCD fic.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Hmmm, that's hard to quantify. I usually try to end fics on a hopeful note regardless. I'd say possibly either Deserving, where Twilight reconnects with his family, or Shimmering Blue, Striking White, where Time meets the Fierce Deity settled down on Satori Mountain and they both get closure.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Thankfully, no! I've been blessed with mostly amazing and patient readers, even when my upload schedule isn't the best.

9. Do you write smut?

No, not really. I've attempted it, but I'm too asexual for it lol

10. Do you write crossovers?

Very, very rarely. Mostly privately, and only very specific ones. Only a single one has had an actual plot, so far (more on that one in question 15!).

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Nope!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Also a nope! I tend to write for smaller fandoms, where these things don't tend to happen a lot!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I have! But it's been a while. Over a decade, in fact! I tried to find the fic to link it here, but it was on the German fanfic website fanfiktion.de, and my friend who posted it back then must have deactivated her account, because it's nowhere to be seen (I still have the Word file though!). It was a Multi-Crossover that started as an RP in a forum, and we took turns turning the RP into prose one chapter each. "If a Hero Turns to Dark" was its title. We were edgy teenagers.

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

Hissssss. Bad question. Shoo. They are all equally important!!

But it's probably TenRose from Doctor Who.

15. What's the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

One of the very few crossovers I've ever worked on; a crossover fic between Assassin's Creed and Doctor Who, that I have mapped out in both chronological and timeline order, and yes, those are different. I only ever wrote about a quarter of it, since my primary audience of it disappeared when we graduated. I doubt I'll ever pick it back up properly, and if I do it'll probably go through heavy rewrites first since it's so old. Finishing it is a nice thought, but realistically, after 9 years it'll never be high priority enough for it to actually happen.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue, especially arguments, and emotional impact. I've been told I do really well making characters feel alive and believable! Also I like to believe I'm decent at setting a scene and giving it the vibe I want it to have!

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I struggle with dialogue tags when nothing much is happening besides the talking. I always feel it's too bland, and fall back on the same phrases. My scene transitions could use some work too.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I've done this with Japanese phrases, because I was a massive weeb. Usually I followed them up with their own translations, though; I'm not the biggest fan of footnote translations, unless they are properly linked to. Simple dialogue tags are my favourite way of indicating a language switch.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Black Cat the Manga/Anime! It's a series about an assassin turned bounty hunter trying to live a life separate from his murdery past, but getting dragged back into things by still wanting to avenge his best friend's death. The series has a special place in my heart and my bookshelf, it left an imprint on 13-year-old me that will never leave.

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

Probably Jailbreak, uncharacteristically enough! It's one of the only fics I never got stuck in once. Writing it was a great feeling from start to finish. I love writing all of my fics, but that was a special few days.

Tagging @ahrva @nowhere-to-go-but-down @silvercaptain24 and @aeghina! And anyone who wants to do it, really, go wild

#rav rambles #rav writes #ask game #linked universe #thank you Aza I rambled a lot lmao #rambling is cathartic sometimes #I had a good time!

[ravyncursing]

now that twitter's dead, we need a new homie time quotes thread. aka, shit icarus says and makes the three of us question his sanity.

icarus: (trying to figure out where to go when we meet up in october) me: those were certainly all ideas.

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icarus: you can put your dogs (toes) in the river ulla: stop saying toes.....

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icarus: the german town... you know ulla: you need to be more specific icarus: you know, the german town with the german houses

#rav rambles #shit my friends say #i love icarus but ....

[ravioxhilda]

New self portrait, may be doing a Meet the Artist on my other socials soon so stay tuned

#rav rambles #my art

[blighted-lights]

im ngl, the biggest appeal the tf1 trailer has for me rn isn't even the main cast. it's airachnid and the rest of decepticon high command that isn't megatron. like im soooo here for the cons. i cannot WAIT to see what this movie gives us.

can't wait to draw new designs too >:)

#blight rambles #transformers #maccadam #maccadams #transformers one #tf1 #tf one #tfone #transformers one trailer #tf one trailer #airachnid #guess i'll tag the others? #soundwave #shockwave #starscream #ravage i need you to pop out of soundwave's chest at least once. or even be a seperate entity of soundwave completely. but i NEED to see rav

[transmascnaotoshirogane]

ravio: im a coward legend: and i took that personally

“Rav, if you say you’re a coward again, I might actually castrate you.”Legend sighed heavily, currently laying on the floor with a very unimpressed look on his face. He’d been contentedly listening to the idle chatter between his travel companions and his idiot…er, well. Just his idiot, he supposes. Anyways, he’d been listening to them chat, and Ravio had said those four awful words again. “I’m actually a coward,” Legend hates when Ravio belittles himself like that. Truly hates it. “That’s so mean, Mr. Hero,”Ravio crossed his arms with a huff, barely turning to regard the hero. Who is still on the floor. He should probably get up. Nah. Instead, Legend just huffed at him. “Then stop saying it.” “But it—” “I will go and get a knife right fucking now if you’re about to say what I think you are.” Ravio fell silent. Legend likes to think he won that argument, or at least this portion of it. When it comes to the topic of Ravio’s, in Legend’s opinion, non-existent cowardice, the argument is always broken up into multiple sections. It’s just the way it goes. Honestly, it’s just part of Legend’s routine now. He hates this part of the daily routine, though. He doesn’t think Ravio is a coward, and it bugs him that Ravio sees himself that way.

#the rainbow twinks #rainbow ramblings #the rainbows linked universe tag #linked universe #lu #linked universe legend #lu legend #linked universe ravio #lu ravio #ravioli #legend doesnt like rav calling himself a coward in this essay i will--- #four!

[voidravenarts]

Taliesin: runs up to slit the throat of the Bandit Chief I was fighting

Me and Ravylaen:

#haaalp #i wasn't prepared #taliesin please have mercy on me and Rav #skyrim taliesin #altmer #void rambles

[gaylactic-fire]

I feel like a lot of art I put genuine effort into nowadays just gets shoved away

#fires posts #ramblings #vent #negative #Ik art is not number. Ik being proud of my creations (which I am) is more important #But I cannot tell you how much it hurts when a real passion project gets as much notes as some random doodle #That's half the reason I quit that goofy rav//io blog. Bc it was depressing me! #I feel like people only care about my art if it makes them laugh #which is understandable. and I know I often put effort into my jokey stuff #but just once I wish something that wasn't a doodle and has no punchline got some love #thank you mutuals and blog regulars who always rb my stuff. You guys r the only thing keeping me going I swear

[okami-zero]

OC Name Meanings

I appreciate the tag, @kittynomsdeplume! xD

Rules: Google and post the meaning of your OC’s name (if you made their name up or they go by a nickname, post an explanation of how it came to you)! bonus if you can find something for their last name too.

I believe I shall tag... @elveny, @vasheden, @greyias, @traveleorzea, @autumnslance, @kunstpause, @sasslett, @clockworkdragonffxiv, @karoiseka, @yzeltia and anyone else who see this and wants to join in!

Okay, so one thing to note about most of my OCs, is their names generally just pop out of the random mess of alphabet soup constantly simmering in some corner of my brain. Not ALL of them (for example, Akagi's family name), but most. Or are inspired/pulled from other places. I will go with my big three main MMO fellas, and my two 100% original OCs. Also, have a cut cause I, uh, got carried away. ^_^; (And I am sorry this took so long. >.<)

Zedd Overkill/Zed'rika Ov'redis- Okay, this guy. My half-echani smuggler in SWTOR, who is based on the original I made ages ago (and who is the descendant of the SWTOR one, after some revisions/additions/etc.) The OG is Zedd Overkill, inspired by my favorite Power Rangers villain (Lord Zedd), the head agent from MiB (Zed, as in the letter) and with inspiration from Hackers (Crash Override), a dash (heh, pun) of Dash Rendar from Shadows of the Empire and a maybe just a hint of Han solo. The name popped into my head after watching Hackers and was trying to think up a cool email during computer class (back when Hotmail was still Hotmail xD). The name was repurposed with a smuggler character I made with a friend when we were just making up neat Star Wars OCs for a maybe story we were writing. Story never got finished, but Zedd stuck around. "Overkill" is more a nickname now, as his preferred method of rapid problem-solving involves liberal applications of thermal detonators. x3 Rav Masahiro & Marshall O'Donnell - These two are my second oldest persistent OCs after good ol' Zedd. There is technically one that is older (in fact, old enough that he used Zedd's moniker for a while, back when folding an OC to fit any AU was my MO), but he's kind of only half-baked, for the most part. Rav and Marshall are next in line, and are, by and large much more polished. The story they were to be set in was very grand in scale and scope, considering it was kind of a series of AUs where things in various realities were being fucked with, and they are two of a team of six who are sent out to deal with such things. If this sounds like a certain popular video game franchise from a prominent Japanese publisher, you'd be right in there being some similarities, I guess, but they predate it by about a year. Well, technically Rav predates it, Marshall didn't crystallize until about a year or so later. Powersets are very shounen-ish, I guess? Little bit of henshin and other stuff thrown in for flavor (and things have been tweaked and appended over time). Anyway, Rav's name comes from a reworking of my own name, as he is kind of my self-insert-ish guy. His last name comes from my at-the-time rampant obsession with Japanese culture (yes, yes, I'll say it, I was a weeb. The interest remains, though tempered by time, experience and education). I thought his last name meant something else, as Googling in those early days was... a crap shoot. And the fact that Masahiro is a given name in Japanese hasn't deterred me, as embarrassing as it might be, it just... is a thing now. xD (The other half-baked OC I mentioned has a similar nomenclature goof). Marshall's name kind of just, popped out of the ether, but it flows well and it fits. She does let people close to her shorten it to "Shall" (sounds like shawl). Do NOT call her "Marsh", "Marshie" or "Marsha" or she'll deck you. Like, lay you out flat with one punch. Moving on!

Xanotos Delkai - My Warrior tank in WoW. Another lad who went through some changes. xD So my first character in WoW was a human hunter back in the...alpha or beta, whenever it was they were originally playable before getting nixed. His name was Thanatos, inspired by the character of the same name from a Sega CD fighting game Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side. He was a typical Grim Reaper-y Death (as Thanatos was the personification of death in Greek mythology, and a psychopomp, I believe). I liked the name. However, the character was nuked after the alpha or beta or whatnot. So, when I remade the character for the full version, I rolled up a Warrior and named him Xanatos/Xanotos (depending on the server), or Xano. Now, I have remade and moved this character many times over the years. Delkai became his surname at some point, and when worgen came out, he was race-changed to worgen, and his backstory was shifted and fleshed out further. Fun fact: the Gargoyles TV series was the farthest thing from my mind when I made this toon, and was for many years. It wasn't until... just before or around Legion, I think? that I realized I had named him the same (if spelled differently) as Evil 90s Will Riker. xD

Akagi Obinata - And now we get to my most recent and most prevalent MMO OC, Akagi. Paladin, Tankfriend, tol dragon/lizard man. So, sadly, this boy is the third I have given a Japanese-style name to, and borked the order of, because Akagi is a freaking surname. >.< Now, I am aware that Hingashi (he was born and raised in/around Kugane) is only kind of Etheirys-Japan, but... I am just...moving on! The inspiration for his given name is one Akagi Shunsuke (or Shunsuke Akagi, in Western fashion) from the anime Dai-Guard. It is an absolutely insane super robot show and I love it, and I see a lot of myself in one of the protagonists (the aforementioned Akagi Shunsuke). So, in honor of a favorite character, I chose that. Forgetting, or blindly ignoring the fact that just because everyone in the show (save for his one relative we see) refers to him as Akagi because it is a cultural thing, and not because it is his given name. >.< What's done is done, however. His surname, thankfully, is one from a list of suggested surnames from the raen au ra lore I could find. It means "blades on waist", and I figured that there were samurai in his family line far enough back that that was the name they took. Akagi, by the way, is if I am not mistaken, "red castle", and well, he IS red. And the Paladin LB3 is a freaking castle WALL, so... it fits in a retroactive kind of way. xD (I was not thinking of his coloring, nor was I aware of what the LB3 looked like when I made him. ^_^; )

And that is it! Do I have more OCs? Yes! But they are all kind of self-contained to different things, and their names are more of a kind of mental slot machine than these goobers (plus the one xD). Hopefully I didn't ramble TOO too much, but I get excited about my homemade blorbos, y'know how it is. Thanks for reading!

#okami rambles #boy how okami rambles here xD #okami's OCs #FFXIV #WoW #SWTOR #WoW Warrior #SWTOR Smuggler #FFXIV PLD #Xanoto Delkai #Zedd Overkill #Akagi Obinata #Rav Masahiro #Marshall O'Donnell #A worgen a raen and three humans walk into a bar... xD #OC names

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

me every time i see a corvid: ohhhhh hiii did you know that my spouse is like you. did you know that i love them. and you. you are gorgeous. black bidieeee <3

#ravs my beloved <3 #corvids just remind me of you #saw one on a field today was immediately like HI YES HELLO I LOVE YOU AND I ALSO LOVE MY SPOUSE DID YOU KNOW THEYRE A RAVEN #a biscuit's rambles #feeling a bit like a golden retriever lmao

[mymultifandomhell]

happy one year since my dash was 90% the exact same gif set of these two random guys kissing and i was like yeah i’m probably gonna have to watch that pirate show eventually

#and now im in an Era #ofmd #rav rambles #our flag means death #gentlebeard #me. #text

[a-little-bit-of-ravioli]

i'm trying very hard to put most of my DW reblogs onto my spam-sideblog but I apologise in advance for the few that WILL come through, I am PHYSICALLY UNWELL and OBSESSED anyway back to our regularly scheduled insanities

#doctor who #rav rambles

[ravyncursing]

hanging with the homies this past weekend really reminded me how much i missed forum roleplay. specifically with the homie group.

been kinda feeling like i don’t hav much of a hobby anymore and miss the feeling of banging out a thread in no time flat.

#rav rambles #feelin nostalgic up in here

[ravioxhilda]

I was alived today.

#rav rambles #my art

[blighted-lights]

do you ship ravage and drift? you draw them a lot and they're always so touchy lol

nah. they're really touchy amicas, tho. probably because im always touchy with my friends and it just kinda rubs off on my art. ravage is my Me character so i do end up giving him traits i have. one of those is being touchy with people he cares about 🤷‍♂️. he's especially touchy with drift as when they were grouped together in the dead end (which is where they met in my brain), ravage spent a lot of hours curled up in drift's car alt with laserbeak and buzzsaw for shelter. that touchy aspect never really left their dynamic.

and besides,

drift/deadlock's candle has always been lit for someone else.

(plus an extra doodle of them)

#ask: anon #tf art #transformers #more than meets the eye #transformers art #maccadams #maccadam #blight rambles #drift | deadlock #drift #ravage #tf ravage #transformers ravage #mtmte #transformwrs idw #not gonna go all out on tags here #my art #good rule of thumb for me is that unless it is specifically tagged as ship then its not ship #not much of a transformers romance person in general #like there are exceptions and i DO enjoy tf ships. i am actively encouraging ppl to ask about em/about my opinions on ur otps #but my rav and drift are amicas #very TOUCHY amicas. i draw them touching a lot bc i think theyd be pretty physically affectionate with one another #they hug. they cuddle. drift carries ravage occasionally. they speak through hand simply just to feel the contact. ravage puts all his #weight on drift on bad pain days. drift does the same for him. its a big part of their dynamic. its the Trust that comes with that touch #theyre sparkbonded to each other as amicas too. like these two cant really get closer. but its not a romantic dynamic 🤷‍♂️ #i cant stop you from seeing it that way and. im not gonna try lol. but anon asked so i figured id answer and talk a bit more about em #idk rambling in the tags

[magical-girl-04]

Yknow I've never actually interacted with metalheads who aren't like family but I have a pretty strong feeling the gatekeepers would hate me cuz I started with babymetal and have gone down a similar route of music lol

#metal #metalhead #babymetal #well actually i technically started with nightwish but i just listened to one album #n it wasnt till i found babymetal thaf i started actually liste ing to more metal music lol #like im out here listening to band-maid aldious lovebites marys blood brats ect #and my insta has somehow taken that to show me reals of metalheads joking about the gatekeepers #meanwhile my sib got really into metalica cuz of strangerthings and has since gone down a similarish route but mostly rock over metal #dad did take us both to see machine head live tho they were pretty fun #a dude drank a beer out his boot #rav speaks #can you tell im just rambling at this point lol #ill stop now and get back to essay work 😭