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m1ckeyb3rry · 6 months

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SitH thoughts under the cut for the roughly two people that have read that story:

- why is Y/N so shippable with EVERY character EXCEPT FOR COLT (literally the main love interest)

- like the conversation with reiner on the bridge??? so romantic and for what…wdym you wished you knew each other in a world where you weren’t both terrible people. wdym you’ll meet each other in another life some time. WDYM YOU’LL FIND HER IN THAT NEXT LIFE HUH REINER 🤨🤨🤨🤨

- her and hadrian have a narrative reason to be shipped so ig i can’t complain about that but i still can’t get over the impact that he has had on everyone reading the story. bro was there for 1.5 chapters max and he’s still on everyone’s minds even now. those pseudo-italian genetics are strong i suppose

- i have actually tried to figure out why it is that friedrich seems like more of a love interest than colt at times though (besides me being the BIGGEST victim of second lead syndrome) and i think i’ve finally got it!!

- the story is essentially Y/N’s life story, and while it was inspired out of a love for colt, the story more so focuses on the effects of things like war on a person (in this case Y/N), and how “cool girl boss beating up and killing people and getting no trauma from it” is a trope that just doesn’t make sense. so Y/N was created first and foremost to be a way to depict these impacts and to be a character that does questionable things and is faced with real consequences for them instead of just being hailed as a hero

- meanwhile colt is a character i’ve borrowed from isayama, so i can’t do much about his base characterization (although i’ve certainly pushed the limits on that), but i was the person to make friedrich, and as his writer, i can say that he was quite literally created just to love Y/N. of course he does other things and has other relationships and (hopefully) seems like a character that has more to him than just ‘being in love with Y/N’, but that doesn’t change the fact that at his core, being in love with Y/N is his narrative purpose, just like showing Y/N the other sides of war is hadrian’s. this is especially hard for me to navigate when writing because i have to show that while also trying to make sure that he doesn’t take over the story (which is after all a colt fic).

- i would say that in the beginning, her and colt were closer due to their more compatible personalities, but her during (and post) war personality is much more in line with friedrich’s just because he’s a lot more cynical and blunt. i’m somewhat limited by the canon in terms of how things like athyae affect colt because he does have a generally kind and almost naive?? personality in the small crumbs we get of him in the show, so i have to balance that with also making sure that everything he goes through does have an effect on who he is as a person the way it does on friedrich and Y/N

- this story is going to be so sad in the end. like it’s already probably my least happy work just because of the grim stuff that it covers, but i would like to reemphasize that Y/N’s life…is not that great. i think she’s my most tragic Y/N because everything that happened to her was brought about by a choice she made — to be a warrior candidate, which is not something she was forced to do. the L/Ns were decently well off, her parents loved her, and she was generally happy if not bored with her life pre-candidacy. but then she made that one fatal mistake and now she’s become what she is and she can never really leave and it leads to a general life of pain anguish and suffering (although i will say that my best friend heard my plans for the ending and said that it was relatively happy compared to what i normally write, so take that as you will)

- i forgot how self-aware the characters are at some points. there’s this one scene where friedrich and colt literally make fun of how many guys like Y/N (because at the end of the day she’s still Y/N duh ofc she’s beautiful everyone likes her) and it’s so unserious…even despite how heavy the fic can get there is some levity here and there which i forgot about tbh. but the story will literally go from Y/N having a crisis about something to friedrich and colt saying some bs like “i really admire [him] for not being one of the many men to instantly fall in love with you” “true seems like he really had remarkable self-restraint” “what a commendable fellow”

- i love marek and i am very sorry for what i put him through but would i do it again?? yes. also he and Y/N are rlly cute together

- at this point i’ve gotten so attached to these characters that i could genuinely write fics about them. like fanfics about a literal fanfic. fanfiception.

- atm i think writing one of those otome isekai stories (they are my guilty pleasure) with Y/N from this fic specifically would be so fucking funny and honestly i might do it just for personal enjoyment but idk if i would ever post it because it would be such a derivative work that anyone going into it expecting an aot fic would be angry and disappointed because the only aot character in it would be colt and idek if Y/N would end up with him in such an au

- okay most of these were about Y/N’s relationships with every character BESIDES colt but her and colt honestly are really sweet together

- he cares about her so much and honestly there are many times where i’ll be writing and i’m like “nah colt deserves better” because he is SO patient with her it’s insane

- on a similar note i think it’s crazy how we’re almost at 150k words and there’s been ONE kiss (which barely even counts because it WASN’T WITH COLT)

- but at the same time the lack of romance is kind of on purpose because Y/N is NOT in a mental state to be in a relationship atm and i hate that whole trope of ‘getting a romantic partner and getting over your trauma immediately’ as that’s just not realistic. colt and friedrich are there to love and support Y/N but all three of them know that the way they are currently is not conducive to being with someone long term. there’s a lot of trauma there that needs to be resolved and spoiler alert it will not be for a very very long time

- there’s so many interesting dynamics that Y/N will have with future characters that i’m excited to write but they’re all like 200k-300k words away which is killinggg me

- ship in the harbor will definitely be my longest story and i’ve changed a lot both as a writer and a person since beginning it, so it’s super special to me. thank you so much to everyone who reads it and comes up with theories about it and falls in love with its characters — i know it’s such a niche fic and it’s been rough at times and i’m so spotty with updating it, but i really do love this little version of the warrior candidacy program and what was going on in marley while the scouts were busy doing their own thing. here’s to many more chapters (but hopefully not too many more years) of me stealing what i want from isayama and filling in the rest as i please, so that this entire mess of a story comes together into something that’s somewhat comprehensible and makes at least one person cry

#ship in the harbor #m’s thoughts

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queenofspeed · 3 months

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#crane wives #the crane wives #foxlore #the fool in her wedding gown #safe ship harbored #cayote stories

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dilfpassing · 1 month

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"Minsc," Astarion growled, his voice dripping with disdain, "Do you seriously mean to tell me that you came down to the Underdark with not a single health potion on you?"

Minsc smiled. "Why would Minsc need to bring a health potion when he is so strong, my friend?"

#my art #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldur's gate #astarion #astarion ancunin #minsc #minsc of rashemen #minscstarion #i swear to god i will create an audience for this stupid ass ship if it kills me #i dont think theyd ever harbor romantic feelings but spawn astarion would climb that man like a tree #do you see my vision #please

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sarahivess · 1 year

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Will’s tragic “unrequited” love for Mike is very funny apparently. Unless it’s not unrequited at all. 🫢

#byler #finn wolfhard #finn wolfhard ships byler #everyone ships byler #noah schnapp #caleb mclaughlin #gaten matazarro #david harbor #winona ryder #eduardo franco #charlie heaton

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pjs-everyday · 6 months

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he said he’s never had boba before 😭

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fallenrain40 · 7 months

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aroace flag colorpicked from the crane wives album "Safe Ship, Harbored"

this one was the hardest so far- but it still works >:3

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coniferkrow5 · 6 months

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Let’s just say I know what my Spotify Wrapped is going to look like this year

#the crane wives #music #rock music #i’m obsessed #fool in her wedding gown #coyote stories #foxlore #safe ship harbored

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mof-rot · 23 days

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So uh I made The Crane Wives mood boards???

#idk i was bored #and I’m going to the concert #I’m struggling to find the perfect concert fit <3 #mof aesthetics #moodboard #the crane wives #foxlore #coyote stories #the fool in her wedding gown #safe ship harbored #the well #pintrest #aesthetic #music moodboard #music

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loud-whistling-yes · 2 months

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Hello crane wives nation

I spent an embarrassing amount of time on this ✌️ (bonus pic under cut for next project :))

#the crane wives #cross stitch #safe ship harbored #this is gonna be an iron on patch but i ran out of the paper lol #will posts photos once its on my jacket #whoop #my art

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ishgard · 3 months

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prayers - pt 1

"Hey, Oschon... Wherever this ship is going, can it be..." Her words trail off, as lost and adrift as she is. Her head swims with fever, and the pain in her body abandons her one moment, only to seize her fiercely when she comes close to falling unconscious.

'Better'. Can wherever this ship is going be somewhere better? The words are a tiny whisper in her heart. A hope she can't bring herself to speak. Surely there is no such place.

#mine #ahru hiraeth #oschon #safe harbor #ship: wanderers embrace #set: prayers

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lonestarbattleship · 3 months

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View of the forecastle of USS NEVADA (BB-36), showing bomb damage forward of No. 1 turret.

Photographed on January 15, 1942.

Digital Archives of Hawai'i: PPFUR-2-17-005

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m1ckeyb3rry · 1 month

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oh my GOD i miss friedrich visser sm

#he’s tall…he’s devoted…he’s handsome…he’s funny #what would SitH be without him #m’s thoughts #ship in the harbor

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hmooncreates · 1 month

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EXTENDED - The Fool Who Got Married

The Year is 1848...

...and gold has been struck in California. Your husband has decided now would be the time to catch his fortune, and he wants you to come with him. Of course. you agree, you love him after all.

...and your family member's husband is on the hunt for gold. What's she going to do? Say no? This could be the key to their better life. You have to let her go.

The Extended Edition...

...allows you to play one of five different types of characters.

The game is about historical female hardship and how women stay connected even when they become members of their husbands family before their own.

The game and story is told through writing letters. This is a two- or more- player game where each person plays a female familial archetype. Someone has to be the bride leaving her family, but there are four options for the other player(s).

The Four Options:

Mother, Sister, Aunt, and Mother-in-Law

Gameplay

This game is played by using music as the storytelling and mechanical device. To play you will need a way to send letters to each other, access to the albums, and something to write with.

Let The Music Lead You.

Music You Will Need Access To: The Crane Wives discography and Through the Deep, Dark Valley by The Oh Hellos.

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