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thermoskind · 1 year

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tag 9 people you want to get to know better!

kindly tagged by @ourflagmeansgayrights

three ships: of all time? that's tough!

wrightworth (ace attorney) - the lawyer husbands got me early and got me good. like phoenix was on some elle woods shit running off to law school to chase his ~childhood friend~ only it actually worked for him. i doubt capcom will do more than hint at how married they are, but i'll eat up every crumb they give me.

bubbline (adventure time) - what 'what was missing' aired and marceline sings about wanting to mend the rift between her and bubblegum? and then it's revealed that bubblegum wears a band shirt marceline gave her as pajamas?? this changed my brain chemistry and i still have that shirt lol.

gentlebeard (our flag means death) - the gay pirates have devoured my brain, i went in blind and caught up after episode 8, and i lost an entire night of sleep with the chain on repeat in my head. this character dynamic is such a targeted attack against me.

(honourable mentions to rosemary (homestuck) and jonmartin (the magnus archives) it was so hard to choose three ships and i'm so fond of these ones too)

first ever ship:

zelink (legend of zelda: ocarina of time) - lol idk 10 year old me thought they were cute and they're the reason i first ventured out into fanfiction.net and read a lot of script-style fics where all the characters lived together at hyrule castle and the author argued with them in the notes.

last song:

*deeply sighs* smooth flow by neil cicierega - look, i am a clown, and i wanted to listen to clown music and rotate my blorbos in my head at the same time on my way home from work, so yeah, the last song i listened to was a santana/enya mashup that i dream of someday using in an ofmd edit once we have more seasons.

last film:

glass onion - really enjoyed it, i've had a crush on janelle monae for more than a decade and i had no idea she'd be the blanc girl in this movie, what a pleasant surprise.

currently reading:

calvin and hobbs anthologies - my dad left a few at my place last time he was over. reading a few pages each morning while i eat breakfast has been really lovely.

currently watching:

the owl house - episode 2 of season 3 just came out, but i have to wait until my sister's over to watch it. SOON!

currently consuming:

jalepeño & cheddar doritos - i've got my snacking chopsticks and everything,

currently craving:

season 2 of our flag means death - i'll take any crumb, blease just gimme something!

tagging:

i'm very bad at this and don't want to be a bother, but i thought this was fun so here goes: @xoxoemynn , @asneakyfox, @roseinmyhand, @givefangapuppy, @blackbeardsemophase, @effervescentluminescence, @totallyboatless, @douwatahima, and @thebadgersknackers . no pressure of course.

#personal #tag game

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masschase · 5 months

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you can answer now or later but i’d be interested to hear you rank all the games

Getting drunk, want to ask me anything?

Ok I'm not there yet, I've had 3.5 shots now and I only feel a little tipsy but I'm wary bc my mum made this stuff and gave it to me last year so the % is a mystery. It may suddenly hit me while writing.

Anyway, oh my god so really like this is so hard because I know I'm not supposed to like 4 but you all know I do 😆 but also I find it really hard to rank games? To me it's hard enough to rank which of all the games/series I like I like best(fwiw I mostly rotate around Borderlands, Binding of Isaac, The Sims if it counts and obviously SR but there are definitely others that are my favourites on some days) and then SR I see as a whole in a way because of the way I've written it! Not a cop-out I swear like genuinely ranking is something I really struggle with and then I wonder if that's weird?

I guess how much I enjoy just hopping on them and fucking about them it's like 4, 1&3 joint, 2(probably jusr bc I've not played it much), gooh. And then I say this and I'm like what do I actually do on sr4 on my switch at the moment? Usually dress Casey up, take screenshots, leave. Anyway if I was looking at how well written they are I'd probably concede to 1&2, 3, 4, GOOH bc like 1 and 2 are linked for me like here's the thing. (Also I'm sorry but GOOH is something where I've used some plot points but a lot have been removed from my hc over time but I really didn't play that much of it. I liked that there were musical numbers though and giving me the new planet ending ofc bc thats been handy. But acrually... what would I have come up with without that ending but still following 4? I'm super curious)

Anyway back to 1&2. There's some stuff the creators knew in 1, right? That isn't *in* 1 but they knew it? Right? I've said before my favourite story arc just in terms of writing is just the whole arc between Playa and Julius. Idk nowadays I wish there was more like that in the later games. I wish the narrative weaved throughout a lot better. When I was first playing though I wasn't as concerned, like I always said I wanted games with an interesting storyline but I wasn't too bothered with amazingly written.

Also at the same time I like weaving a story around what we are given. Obviously I was intent on writing a romance. But I do sometimes think about writing the whole thing, in my canon adjacent manner. Start to finish. I see these games all spanning a matter of months so there is a lot that goes on that we don't see. But then again I lose confidence in writing it bc I lose confidence in my own oc. It doesn't help that I characterise her differently on tumblr than my fanfic because I started off just wanting to do silly cartoons. Like I never thought art as such, I thought... accompany my writing with a visual, you know? I thought if I started with some little moments I could work up to telling the more serious and/or romantic shit later I guess? Shout out to my friends I rp with for helping me get back to that more tangible real person Casey bc I obviously do love her. In her own way. Even if I don't want to. Kind of like SR4.

Anyway to get back to thr point I was going to say, this will not surprise anyone but I haven't sunk a lot of time into the games. I finished 4 years ago and restarted on switch bc I traded in my 360 version ajd lost my XB1 version. I finished 1 years ago and I don't have it anymore because I used to work in a game shop and could borrow most pre-owned games for a month, i should re-buy it digitally. I semi-finished 3 and then went back and finished it this year. And I haven-T actually finished 2, although I've watched it all which I know is not the same. 🥲 so yeah. I'm a fail fan. My brain wants to create and create and create things for this series (ok maybe not in the last few weeks but its still been on my mind. Like a lot) but I'm genuinely sorry if they're lacking in substance sometimes because of all of this.

I was going to replay them all in order this summer but I didn't. I have maybe an hour or so a day when I can actually play whereas I can write or draw or rp with smol people around or on the bus to/from work. When I worked in the game shop that really sucked out my passion for games. I know it sounds silly bc I was selling them not playing them but it did do that. I think it was mostly just having a full time job that did it and some of it being gaming was coincidal. But hey at least I played SR1 for free right? 😆

BTW I constantly think about if I went the route of having my SR1 Playa I made be the actual Playa, maybe sr2 Boss too and then Casey take over later and be the original age I guess I would've seen for her? Idk that would have been interesting. Don't think I don't love working it all into one too though! You know I have such a soft spot for baby Casey 😭 in fact of the in-game you've seen her the most. I mean think about it, most of my content is post-sr4 not during. Actually a lot of it is gap filling in general. It's something I like, obviously.

Just to go back to like... the shifting hcs thing. It's not super evident but a lot has changed since I wrote my fanfic. I'm not going to go crazy main universe, I'll save that for AUs. But there are a few things I've tweaked in the back of my mind because I've let go of canon a little. I used to be glued to canon, now we're in an intricate little dance. Anyway this is long enough already. I sort of answered. It may seem like a spineless dodging the point way. But I've said on numerous occasions my hcs change regularly, and the same is true here tbh. Its very mood dependant, what I want to play.

But if nothing else interesting comes from this I AM PURCHASING SR1. POSSIBLY RIGHT NOW. IT'S BEEN YEARS. I WANT TO PLAY IT AGAIN. :D

BTW I'm sure a little while ago I noticed Dex says "aight" but his subtitles say "alright" whereas Troy says "alright" but his subtitles say "aight"? Like if it was just one of them fair could just be the difference between writing and speaking but I think they're flipped? Anyone know what I'm on about?

#think i'll buy it now and play it tomorrow #shall i make an approximation of casey on it?#we shall see #saints row #thanks for the ask!#still don't feel particularly drunk just hungry #I'll fix anything that needs fixing tomorrow :)

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chipped-chimera · 8 months

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You haven't finished Cyberpunk yet?! I thought you had! ... You know what? Keep up the good work. I hadn't been that upset at an ending since Mass Effect 3. (And from what I've heard (also haven't finished yet) BG3's ending is at least Mostly Happy.)

LOL YEAH I HAVEN'T. It's a talent. The worst kind. Like I could only describe this as my weird toxic (probably neurodivergent) gamer trait but:

If I am really enjoying a game, like 'oh this is going to change me fundamentally and become one of my long-term hyperfixations in rotation' my brain is just 'I don't want this to end'. And then I just ... suddenly stop. I don't know how it works (but I'm guessing it aligns with my fun audhd combo where I will exhaust something of its dopemine output then go latch onto something else) but it's like my brain is 'saving it for later'. Usually by distracting me with something else. It's rarely intentional but I am definitely forcing myself to finish BG3 because I have Phantom Liberty coming up (and I want to actually finish a game this time).

The other thing I tend to do is if I'm playing a game with multiple endings, when I hit the 'point of no return' I usually look up the endings in the vaugest broad strokes terms, so I can make sure the end I'm gunning for 'makes sense' to me and my playstyle thus far. I exclusively blame the game Catherine for this - I don't think I've ever been so aggressively angry at an ending in my life (I can't remember the specifics but I think I was, idk, 1-2 points or decisions? off the ending which I felt made MORE sense to me - so basically I learned, while the game thinks it knows what ending makes sense it might not always make sense TO ME when it comes down to it).

I could probably could have an extensive 'I studied game design you know' yell about how multi-ending pathways are laid out, but I'll tl;dr that and just say - sometimes I'll straight up miss an ending pathway because I thought the game wanted me to go in a specific direction or the option wasn't obvious.

So I'm not 100% anti spoilers ever but I am a 'I know the ending-ish but not how you get there' - that's what I avoid.

ANYWAY

Glad to hear BG3's ending is not going to clock me over the head. Thankfully I got the 'good' (good-ish?) ending in ME3, but only thanks to a. playing way past when it was relevant so I could b. know the endings in advance and prepare.

Yeah I guess I am a really weird gamer. >.>

#kerytalk #replies #amorphusturtle #yeah I know the fact I am modding a game I HAVE NOT FINISHED is also weird idk man #my brain does what she wants I'm rarely in control of it #that's the audhd #like one minute I will have one brain cell for one particular thing #next minute I've been doing something else for two weeks and forgotten about it #they'll come back in a rotation just ugh makes me real bad in fandom spaces I think sometimes :V #hence 'gaming blog' and nothing solid because that's the only solid throughline

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citrinesparkles · 11 months

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citrine!! currently sending you a belated congratulations on your graduation! that's so exciting and such a huge accomplishment!!

and yeah the weather has brought me a lot of melancholy and nostalgia. there's been lots of mourning for my teenage years and a yearning for large bodies of water!!

i feel like such a fraud for not having watched the new little women adaptation--but i just haven't gotten around to it!! everyone always recommends it but now it feels like an assignment and my brain keeps procrastinating it... but now after hearing how emotional it made you maybe i'll finally sit down and just watch it.

have you ever watched the movie stuck in love? i feel like that's something that you'd enjoy a lot!!

because my mood has felt really stuck as of late, i feel like my music habits have been very cyclical. i've been listening to a lot of mitski which feels like a staple for the genre, turnover (specifically "take my head" and "cutting my fingers off"), faye webster, and panic! at the disco but ONLY a fever you can't sweat out

-austen anon ♡

thank you so much, honey <3

GOD. MOOD. oh i miss the water every day!!! every day. i grew up in an area with lots and lots of water and there is nothing better for a moody day- or a happy day, tbh.

if you do watch little women, i hope you enjoy it!! i really did have a blast. (i will say tho, i am Not known for having good taste in movies. me enjoying something is not an indication of quality i assure you HJSFKHDSKJ)

i have not! :0 i will add it to my-watch list, which is. extremely long and ever-growing, smh.

MITSKIIII <3 my beloved. she's so talented omg. i hadn't heard of turnover before, but i love both of those tracks!!! definitely will be adding them to my rotation <3

faye webster is also relatively new to me- i'd only ever heard "right side of my neck"! will definitely be digging through more of her discography now, thank you for the recommendation :)

ah, a fever you can't sweat out. anthems of youth <3

they're a little slow, but you might like i only wanna talk to you by the maine, and while you were sleeping by annahstasia and raveena.

a slightly more upbeat song (that just soothes me right down to my bones!) that i think might appeal to you would be fascination by tamino!

anyway i hope you're feeling a little brighter, sweetheart- sending lots of good vibes your way <3

#citrine responds #mailbox #austen anon #me whenever anyone speaks to me: hey listen to this song-#its how i show affection i cannot help this

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residentdormouse · 2 years

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Some questions from an oc bingo participater! 1. What about The Stand inspired you so much to make an oc? 2. Do you have an oc for Doctor Who? If not, would you make one? 3. What is a song you listen to a lot while writing? 4. Is there a fandom you haven't made an oc for that you want to? 5. Tell me anything you want about your story/ies!

💖💖 Thank you for the Questions!! 💖💖

1.) What about the Stand inspired you so much to make an OC?

If I'm hitting a hyperfixation, its because I found a connection to one of the characters in the story. In this case, the way Kinnear played Glen Bateman - I think it was perfect, and I never expected it to hit like it did. I read the book before, watched the old miniseries, it was fun, but didn't stick with me long. I just assumed I was going to enjoy this new series too and move on. Nope. And if you told me I was going to get hung up on it; I would have put smart money on Alexander Skarsgård being the driving force. Wrong again. So yeah, Kinnear's version of Bateman for sure. A constant supply of cheeky wit - intelligent - good heart - (and listen, the vaping still kills me in the best way 😂) - I'm sold.

I was always a fandom consumer, and with all other fandoms, there was an over abundance of content. This fixation hit, and I was scrounging the tags, looking for anybody to talk to. AO3 was pretty bare (with nothing for Glen as a main focus), and there's only a handful of active members (who are all FANTASTIC, but its a small group). So I was forced to create if I wanted to see the content that I was specifically looking for. I guess in a way its a blessing cause I found I really love writing, and if I wouldn't have been pushed to do so, I wouldn't be here now.

2.) Do you have an OC for Doctor Who?

I do not (yet). I only started writing fanfiction with this story about 6 months ago. I've lived mentally in fandoms, but never really was an active participant. Dr. Who is one of my staple fandoms though (as I look at the TARDIS chilling on my desk). I like using the concepts of the fandom more than inserting into the stories though. The idea of being able to receive the distress calls like it can, and pulling them when and where they are needed most. The quick thinking to solve most things - brains over brawn with a heavy dose of compassion... I'm here for it. (I say like I didn't study fight choreography too). I like watching a good mental game though, and they are damn good at it.

3.) What is a song you listen to a lot while writing?

I have more songs in rotation on Spotify than I could list here 😂. You can go to any point in my story, and I can tell you the exact song I was vibing to when it was plotted out; guaranteed there's one for every moment. I usually listen to music while I'm formulating ideas though. The actual bulk writing - I need quiet so I can hear the voices in my head (that sounds bad when I type it - I'm not crazy I swear - I think I'm not crazy). I'll put music back on when I'm editing as well.

Wow - digression though... I have Spotify lists for main characters - but main story songs:

Spiral - Godsmack (story idea - but more of a Flagg song) / Vertigo - Alice Merton (for Hayden) / Two of the Lucky Ones - the Droge and Summers Blend* (for Hayden/Glen) *This song was recommended to me for the Stand in general from @impuretale

Specific Character playlists I have links to on AO3 notes as well (@two-steps-behind sent me a lot of Lloyd songs, and I would recommend their Lloyd playlist as well - it's fantastic). For me: Barns Courtney pops up a lot. grandson gives me Lloyd vibes, and 8 Graves gives me Harold vibes. I could rant here for awhile...

4.) Is there a fandom you haven't made an OC for that you want to?

Oh man, I have many inserts I could have written but never did (again, I could go to AO3 and read to my heart's content for most - I had to create to give Glen some AO3 love). So, any of my favorite characters could have a story in my head with an OC. Or I could whip one up quick. Gun to my head: If I had to pick a different fandom and write for that now - Tyrion Lannister (from Game of Thrones/Song of Ice and Fire) is my next all time favorite character, and I would love to write for him too. Klaus Hargreeves also has a soft spot in my heart (since Umbrella Academy is my Tumblr theme 😂) Connor from Detroit: Become Human. Aww man - I need to stop now...

5.) Tell me anything you want about your story/ies!

I never expected to write, but I absolutely loved doing it. Because this was mostly cannon storyline it was pretty easy to stay on track - structure was already created. I'm working on expanding this story now in a second book, and its weird to think that there are these characters now that I'm just dropping in a whole new sandbox with no parameters. I'm excited to try it, creating a whole separate plot and world, but its kind of intimidating. Guess we'll see how it goes.

#thank you for the questions!#oc bingo 2022 #oc fanfiction #im sorry this was a super long rant #i dont know when to stop sometimes #i could talk about these characters for hours

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