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WIP: Sion Relic-Purse V - revenge of the birds
Apparently it's time for me to start another incredibly punishing knitting project and break out the crochet thread. I picked Sion V, as I haven't done this pattern yet and the birdies are DARLING. The extant is supposed to be frankly garishly colored, beige and blue birdies alternated with red and green birdies, and purple and white interstitial bands.
“Each band is composed of identical shields, with a small star at the bottom of the space between each two shields. The bands of shields are staggered by a lateral half-drop; each carries a bird. The bands alternate: one band of beige with the shields outlined and decorated in blue, one band of red with shields in green; all bands counter-changed with stripes across the middle of the shields in which the colors are reversed. The bands of shields are separated by a narrow saw-tooth design in violet and white.”
-Richard Rutt, on Sion V
I chose to change some of the colors for the preferences of the modern-day recipient while still maintaining the spirit of the wildly colored original. I swapped the beige for more white, the red for a different shade of green, and the violet for a lovely maroon. I did all this color swapping and planning in GIMP 2.8, comparing an approximation of the extant's coloration and different combinations of the colors I'd like to use. All in all I'm delighted with the way the colors are coming out.
Considering this is my third sion bag and it's been more than 3 years since my first, I'm not surprised that my tension is a lot more consistent and resulting in a lovely texture on the front of the design. I've only bothered tacking down floats on stretches of 9 or more, which only occur at 2 points in the pattern. I'd love to see a picture of the inside of the extant, to know if the artisan tacked ANY floats down, or relied on their own consistency of stitching. Is the bag lined? I have so many questions and have struggled finding answers.
I originally cast on August 15, 2023, on 2.00mm needles and 10 crochet thread. My original plan was with 18 repeats, as the extant seems to have that many. However, 18 repeats of an 18 stitch large pattern resulted in 324 stitches, a number that I struggled to keep on the needles and seemed overall unwieldy after knitting 15 rows. I then tried 15 repeats (270), which was similarly unwieldy. I settled on 12 repeats at 216 stitches (or 54 on each needle), having knit and ripped out more than 2000 stitches in the search for the Right Count.
Somewhere along the way, I seem to have knit two stitches together between the bottom of the first stripe of blue shields and the top of the first stripe of green shields. After much searching, no culprit showed, so I've included a sneaky m1L near the BOR jog. Fixing dumb mistakes is period, look at the Pourpoint of Charles de Blois.
I also finally made a needle cozy for my 8 inch us0s, since they dont fit in the cozy i use for my 6 inch sock needles. No more stitches slipping and dropping!!!
You may notice my birdies face the opposite direction of those on the shields. I encourage you not to notice this fact. One thing this project has proven to me is that even when I think i understand the geometry involved in a knitting project, I am bound to make mistakes.
When I finish this, I think I'd like to submit it for competition unlined to show off the floats, then I'd like to line it before giving it to the recipient for use. I don't want anybody worried about messing up the bag by using it.
#sca#arts & sciences#a&s#society for creative anachronism#historical knitting#knitting#colorwork knitting#wip#thank you for tolerating my rambly WIP post
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In honor of me reaching 1K followers, I've decided to make a sleepover! But it's going to be a bunch of days because of my electricity and the whole unstableness of it all. So starting today till the 10th of October.
Activities:
💌About me: ask me questions about me or my wip. Just get to know me and my writing. though this might be mega boring.
🎵song fics: send me a song and I'll write a small drabble about it
📖trope talk: give me a troupe and I'll talk about it and make a little drabble about it.
🎯games: fmk, this or that, would you rather. just your typical sleepover games.
Stuff I'll be writing during this sleepover:
Finally, give you guys another chapter of And they are roommates.
Write the second part of Operation, aka the coffee date, and maybe a bonus to it.
Post the spencer fic I have in my drafts that I haven't been able to finish.
Rules:
I'm blocking you if you write any hate or be slightly rude. No if, and, or but.
just be patient with me when it comes to writing. As I've stated, my electricity has been unstable lately. almost every 2-3 days, there's a blackout.
I would tag everyone that has helped me out with this, but there's only two that have been here from the almost beginning, @buckycuddlebuddy and @stargazingcarol , who both tolerate my ramblings and spamming. thank you so much for tolerating me and my bs 🥺
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Suffer. :)
🌀Post the fic summary for a fic you haven't written/published yet. It can be hypothetical or something you really plan on releasing...
❄️Share a snippet from a WIP of your choosing.
🌤️Share your favorite piece of dialogue from your WIP.
🌧️Share something angsty from your WIP.
🌈 Share something soft/fluffy from your WIP.
💧Share something romantic/hot from your WIP, or just something sweet if it's gen.
🌩️ Share something funny/cracky from your WIP.
☔Is there a fic concept you have that you'd like to just explain and share because you're not sure you'll ever write it? If so, what is it?
🌪️Sum up a WIP with a few fic tropes/Ao3 tags.
Hello to you too, Eil, thank you for the ask!
I do be suffering
You're getting multiple fandoms since you've listen to me ramble about so many of them lmao. Take a guess at which is which lol
🌀Post the fic summary for a fic you haven't written/published yet. It can be hypothetical or something you really plan on releasing...
Katya has rewritten the same paper four times already. Derwin nearly passed out into a plate of eggs. Amber is on her fifth energy drink of the morning. And Raine… they just want their crew to actually sleep for more than two hours.
❄️Share a snippet from a WIP of your choosing.
“I have a high pain tolerance.” Lilith pointed a sharpened claw at her niece, “You, Eda-Spawn, do not. You, much like your mother, refuse to take care of yourself properly because you don’t like to inconvenience those around you.”
Luz rolled her eyes giving a very teenage defeated huff and opted for turning her face into the cushions to ignore the rest of the conversation.
“HEY!” Eda’s offended shout carried down from upstairs.
🌤️Share your favorite piece of dialogue from your WIP.
"No."
Daisy gaped at her like a fish.
"But, Mom-"
"I said no, Daisy," Jiaying sighed.
"But-"
"No."
Daisy paused, taking an interest in the floor and slumping her shoulders in defeat for a total of seven seconds before looking elsewhere.
"Kora-"
"Daisy, don't you dare."
"...GORDON!"
"NO!"
🌧️Share something angsty from your WIP.
Eda stared.
Her dad was on the ground.
Bleeding.
He was bleeding.
One hand over his eye where she had…
There was a sharp intake of air and Lilith was suddenly in front of her, blocking her view of their dad.
And too close for Eda to hurt her.
🌈 Share something soft/fluffy from your WIP.
“Was there ever a name in mind for him?” Jones wasn’t sure why he asked.
Judy and Brad shared a look before Judy let out a soft laugh.
“We were going to name him Fred,” Brad explained.
“After you,” Judy clarified.
💧Share something romantic/hot from your WIP, or just something sweet if it's gen.
i HAD TO GO SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING ROMANTIC BECAUSE I NEVER WRITE ROMANCE LMFAOOO
"Eda?" Raine glanced at her as they were flying beside her trying not to get blasted by the coven guards shooting at them.
"Rainestorm," Eda acknowledged, quickly swerving to the right to avoid getting hit.
"Wedding. Wedding tomorrow."
"Agreed."
Lilith let out an incredulous groan and ignored the blasts of magic flying past her, "You're telling me twenty years and this is how it happens."
🌩️ Share something funny/cracky from your WIP.
“Mother, stop trying to bribe my roommate with your knitting-”
☔Is there a fic concept you have that you'd like to just explain and share because you're not sure you'll ever write it? If so, what is it?
Might write it or may not but this concept of going through doors in your mind and like sorta going through the seven levels of purgatory. Idk how to describe it. But like it's messy. Sorry if that doesn't make any sense.
🌪️Sum up a WIP with a few fic tropes/Ao3 tags.
I wrote this instead of sleeping, alternative universe, no beta we die like Daisy's sanity
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Honestly, I’m super grateful when you and other authors speak up and showcase the negative and sometimes batshit crazy stuff that seems to go on in this community, it really opens my (and probably many other people’s!) eyes to stuff that otherwise, I would have no idea about! I tend to keep to myself online and had little interest in the CoG forums, which means I missed out on a lot of the chaos that went on and remained rather oblivious until I stumbled across the magical world of ✨ tumblr ✨ haha.. 😬
Sorry for rambling in your inbox 😅 idk I guess I’m just trying to say that calling stuff out and having conversations about it and such is super valuable and I’m really glad you and other people are doing that!
hahaha, thank you. i do try my best to not just make constant posts about these things, like it's not fun for me either, but yeah i think it's important for people the know what's going on, and especially when it comes to issues with cog/hg since they're a big company that makes a lot of money off of authors & readers.
i know it can get exhausting seeing this stuff & i'm sure if you're following a lot of authors you're probably seeing it a lot since we're all talking about it but... it's something that may potentially affect a lot of current wip authors. while i'm certain this will turn out to just be jason's opinion & not actually reflect cog's business plans it's still disappointing and frustrating to see, and it still plants that seed of doubt in the back of your mind. and... again.... cog already has a pretty bad track record with a lot of people, too, so for some this could be the final straw that breaks the camel's back, so you're seeing that break right now & people are going to be upset.
and beyond just this one instance, there are a Lot of issues in the IF community and for me, personally, it's important to let readers & even other authors know where i stand on some of these issues and what i will not tolerate in my space.
#and also genuinely sometimes i'm only human and i get a little bitchy :/#sorry about it#and thank you!!#ask#silveristired
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I know it's like -checks calendar- March!?!? But I think it's time, at last for
✨MID'S GOALS AND PROJECTS FOR THE BEGINNING OF 2022✨ which I've postponed posting earlier due to my Master's thesis
First and foremost, hey!! hi!! How's everyone been? Sorry for the radio silence but doing my thesis' presentation did leave me in a near catatonic state, so this past month has been heavily about recovery and trying to not to fry my few working braincells in doing everything all the time.
✨I finally decided to open a Ko-fi!✨ And while I have no current goals set there, every cent donated to me will currently go to paying my PhD this September, which will happen regardless but having a small supporting mattress would greatly help and ease my worries regarding work/study/life (this last bit is where I get time to write and unwind) balance.
Regarding current projects I am still very much writing stuff for Arcane and have, at the moment, four WIPs on the works and on different stages some of which should see the light along this month. This includes:
A medium length fic (24k), Academy era, pure smut. Currently going through the editing process.
A short(-ish) fic. Modern AU. Revolving more heavily around a certain platonic relationship that I wish had been explored more thoroughly in the show (place your bets in the comments below, jk jk, unless?)
A medium length fic, Divorce era, which serves as a more moody and character study-ish counterpart to item one on this list.
A long fic, certain indie videogame AU
I don't want to go into more detail unless asked because I am not immune to that one internet phenomenon which basically consists of telling everyone about something you are really excited to do and then losing motivation and nor carrying through, and also have a lot of anxiety.
Finally, regarding more personal goals, last year one of them was to learn to enjoy the editing process, and SURPRISINGLY IT'S GOING INCREDIBLY WELL. Another big goal was to get the courage to finally open a Ko-fi page, and while it's been accomplished this past week I am going to count it as a win.
For this year the two big ones are to try and write more if current historical events and my mental health allow me to and to finally take the step and open a writing Twitter, as I'm already very active over there but my account is no place to post any writing (if we are mutuals be not afraid to ask me for it if you are ready to tolerate a lot of rambling in Spanish and navigating my new hyperfixations along with me over there).
And that's it!! As always, thanks a lot for the following, support and just general love you've all shown towards me and my works. To ease those of you who followed for Dragon Age's worries, I am still going to be posting for DA in the future, I don't easily leave a fandom, but I am also a person who has like five fandoms on rotation on their brain every single day, so I gotta ride the wave of the one which is making me create.
Thanks a lot for reading!! Take lots of care and as always, drop by my inbox to chat or ask stuff if you feel like it!!
Mid🧡
#midrants#goals and projects#will this be the year I manage to remember to do another one of these at the end of the year?#I VERY MUCH DOUBT IT#anywho thanks for all the support lovelies#<33
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Can I ask how your writing process is like? What inspires you? And is there any writers or books you like? I absolutely love your writing so much (❁´◡`❁)
I’m so glad you’re enjoying my odd little stories! Though perhaps little is not the right word, as they always end up longer than I planned… 😅
My writing process is essentially:
When a story gets it’s claws in my brain, I can barely function with anything else until I can pin down a rough idea of it. Sometimes, the concept doesn’t retain the fire of excitement much longer than that, which is fine - those fragments go into one of several fragment recycling files for a rainy day.
When the story keeps whispering more fragments after pinning down the sketch, I noodle those in text messages to myself or my long-suffering friends, and if I get actual fragments of dialogue? I use the roughest of abbreviated script formats to catch as much as I can, and when the storm of fragments subsides enough to string coherent sentences together, I outline.
These outlines are not formal in any respect, and rarely contain complete sentences, unless Fuck. is a sentence. My entire goal with an outline is to string fragments and impressions into a more or less plausible order and see if there is a beginning, middle, and end in there somewhere, or if assembling the heap tells me what an ending might look like. If I can’t find a moment that feels like a resolution point, the outline goes to the fragment bin.
If I do, however, see a way to get the characters out of the tree after having chased them into it and thrown rocks at them for however many Plot Events, my friends proceed to roll newspapers and fetch water bottles I add it to the WIP list with a working title, and attempt to get back to whatever project is supposed to have priority work on it when I can.
Inspiration for the beginnings of things, as you might guess, is pretty much never a problem for me, in art or writing or craft. There are always more interesting battles to pick than there are hours in the day. The trouble for me is finding inspiration to fill in the [get there] and [says something clever] placeholders. My best tools for filling the well of possibility are usually manual tasks with low analytical brain requirements: driving and showering are classics, but for me a lot of fiber arts also fit this bill. When I’m able to go walking, that’s also good for me. If I turn to other media for ideas, it’s about 50/50 seeking something that’s a comforting, Familiar narrative and world to trick my brain into resting, or whether I seek something with a mood/setting that’s similar to my current writing problems.
Favorite authors and books is a wonderful question, and also very hard to answer.
A short list of favorite authors would have to include several common classics (Edgar Allen Poe, Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Marcus Aurelius, Dostoevsky, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde…) and some modern Greats (Sir Terry Pratchett, Andre Norton, Guy Gavriel Kay, Marguerite Henry, Robert E. Howard, Seanan McGuire, Patrick Rothfuss, N.K. Jemisin, Cherie Priest, Ursula Vernon…) and likewise too many outstanding fic writers to list them all (but if you read on Ao3 and haven’t read Nebulyx, DrSteggy, Unpretty, Westmoor, Ruffboi, Appleheart, BetterBeMeta, Cyada, Khiroptera, Xxenjoy, Inber, ShanaStoryteller, Imaginary_Golux, or Tirsynni, you’re in for a treat.)
Thank you again for dropping by, and for tolerating my very long rambling post! I’m so glad you’ve enjoyed the stories, and I look forward to finishing more of them for you! 💖
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Hey.. Can you recommend any good Curious Archer fics? 😅
Hey there! Thanks for the ask! Sorry it’s taken me a bit of time to answer, I was overthinking it as per usual.
I’m actually in the midst of going through the Alice/Robin tag on Ao3 atm, from oldest to newest, with the full intention of hopefully doing a fic rec list once I’m done (although I started doing so more than a year ago and have since forgotten some of the ones I’ve read and haven’t bookmarked any of them (oops), so goodness knows how well that ideas gonna go XD). Anyway, I’m rambling. I’ll try my best anyhow.
I guess it also depends on what you like to read, whether you read wips, what other ships you’re willing to read or tolerate for the sake of CA, that kind of thing. Here’s some of my favourites:
‘From One Curse to Another’ and ‘The Double Curse of the Poisoned Heart’ by @enixamyram [Both Very Angsty]
‘take me away to someplace real’ by @tardismeup [Royalty AU, Mutual Pining, Friends to Lovers]
‘Life Through a Palette of Greys’ by TinyGhostWriter [Soulmate AU]
‘Home of Memories’ by @westerngayfairytales [2nd Person]
‘Looking for the Key to (Set Me Free)’ by @lizardwriter [High School AU, Incomplete Multichap]
‘(Love Will See Us Through These) Dark Days’ by @spartanguard [Hunger Games AU, Also has CS as a big focus]
(Hopefully all of those blogs are correct, otherwise there might be a few confused bloggers XD)
@enixamyram, @boldlyshamelessfun (here) and @justanoutlawfic (here) are quite prolific writers in the fandom.
There’s also my own Ao3 here. There’s a fair bit of fluff there, but I’m branching out into things like Hurt/Comfort and Angst depending on my mood. My pride and joy atm is my pregnancy fic Happy Accidents, and I’m hoping to upload Chapter 8 soon, cause I’m super close to finishing it!
My memory isn’t great though, so I know there’s several I’m missing, and I could go into detail about several more (whether they’re wips, what genres they are, what tropes are in it, what other ships are included) as well as patterns I’ve noticed (proposal fics are everywhere, understandably so), but I think I’ll wait and do a much bigger post when I’m as caught up as I can be.
Hopefully that’s answered your question at least partially. If anybody else has any recommendations of fics or writers feel free to add them!
Happy fic hunting!
#curious archer#alice jones#robin mills#mad archer#ouat#once upon a time#curious archer fanfiction#alice x robin
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Happy Birthday, Unshakeable!
Exactly one year ago I made a shitpost on tumblr that turned into an idea that turned into a 350-page novel. Today I’m nearly done with my third draft and amazingly, I’m still really, really into it.
I want to thank every single one of my friends on here who have been amazingly tolerant of my rambling and far more interested in a trashy romance about an Austrian countess and a Hungarian musician than I ever expected anyone to be. Seriously, what the hell. Who gave you the right to be so fabulous?
In honor of my WIP’s birthday I am going to be posting a variety of Silly Things today including memes, excerpts, and other stuff. Pls enjoy! They will be tagged “happy birthday unshakeable.”
Also here is a tag list of people who have been particularly amazing and supportive and who you should definitely follow if you aren’t already.
@makalaure-kanafinwe, @1967-3791, @ella-writes-words, @galsinspace, @aelenko, @guulabjamuns, @teriwrites, @fudgemallowconcoctions, @givenchywrites, @sprigofbasil, @acrimoneous, @luciatraskwrites, @booksnotbookies, @halleiswriting, and MANY MANY MORE
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A Year In Review: 2018 Edition
I don’t normally make my own posts here, nor are they ever personal (I say as though I make posts at all), but since the year is very close to being over—in fact, as I’m writing this it’s 11:02 PM on December 31st—I wanted to look back at where I’ve been and where I still have to go; review the year, basically.
2018 was one hell of a bumpy year for me, though bumpy isn’t inherently bad. I met some amazing friends (you’ll all be mentioned later on) and at the same time lost and almost lost some amazing ones, whether it was to them moving away or my own mistakes. I got involved in so many new things I’d never done before: I got fully involved in theatre, I got kind of maybe in shape, I started caring about my health, I met so many new people both irl and online, I asked my (now ex but still best friend) girlfriend out for the first time it was honestly so new to me and coming out of my shell was an experience I needed.
As the year progressed and school wrapped up, though, I started to wane a bit. Anyone who knows me knows that summer wasn’t great mental health, especially since I was cooped up inside all day doing absolutely nothing but watching YouTube and playing way too much Crusader Kings, and everyone I interacted with felt the effects. I wasn’t nearly as accountable for my own health as I should have been, and I ended up hurting the same amazing people I’d met that year. Truth be told, I’ve still not fully recovered from those mistakes, and though I know no one holds it against me, they’re still some of my biggest regrets. Even now I’m still making them, but each time I make one, it’s less severe than the last time, and each time progressively less and less bad, so I’m improving, though not as fast as I want to, and unfortunately that speed won’t be achieved until I finally start CBT.
Speaking of that, this year wasn’t totally awful on the mental health front, though, considering I both went to a gender therapist to speak about advancements in my transition and was properly diagnosed with anxiety and depression and probably autism, and I can finally start treatment for them. When I do, my own efforts won’t be in vain, and I’ll hopefully have a leg up on whatever treatment I start. I just hope it comes soon, though, because seasonal depression can actually kiss my ass and no, Pennsylvania, 11 days is NOT a suitable amount of time for a break.
Anyways, now on to the real gushy stuff where I @ my friends and acquaintances and tell them how much I lurvvvv them. So, starting off with who I met first:
@thefunrepository/Camille/pash: When you let me join your discord server, I met some of the best people and best friends I’ve ever had, and for that, I’m eternally grateful. Even though you’ve now left that server, when you were there, you tolerated so much of my incessant rambling and @ing and my overall teenage boy-i-ness, but you never made me feel excluded, and I loved every second of it. Thank you so much for even tolerating me, because when I joined and was even just talking to you, that was what I needed most. (P.S.: here’s a New Years resolution for you: FINISH A WIP thanks bye I love you)
@xinnic: my fellow Irish Catholic fam, you’ve been nothing but supportive of me and my work from day one, and I can’t count how many nights over the pretty-shitty summer I spent cooling down by rambling to you about my gay trash kids and my gay trash WIP. Likewise, I’ve never gotten tired of your ramblings about your gay trash kids and your gay trash WIP, and your rambles have singlehandedly made me weak for Roísín in 1000 different ways. You’ve always been there when I needed to talk or reference something, and when you bring your meme game, it’s top tier. I remember almost crying when you started the binder squad, and though it’s no longer around, I still appreciate it. Thank you so much for caring and just being you.
@lilquill: man, oh man do we have a weird relationship. I honestly kind of thought you were annoying at first and no that’s not unique to you but I also warmed up to you really quickly. Your energy levels are unmatched and no matter how tired I am, your ability to somehow shout over text fixes that. You’ve spearheaded so many weird and memorable moments for the hell server, including the readings that led us to our voice reveals, to the ACOTRASH find and replace kerfuffle, and so many other things. Besides that, you’ve been a great friend, always pushing me to do better and be better and calling me out when necessary; I may not show it the best, but I appreciate all of it, and I probably wouldn’t be who I am right now without you. You’re also one of the bravest and most outspoken people I know, with the whole whiteblr deal only proving how willing you are to speak out against bullshit and bigotry. Thank you so much for your undying support of me and of everyone else, and I only hope to be as badass as you someday.
@gingerly-writing: ok please don’t be upset that yours is slightly shorter than everyone else’s but I wasn’t around you as much SO. You’re an insanely talented writer and memeing at you as well as sharing my writing has been so fun. I annoy you so much but you still manage to tolerate me and honestly that’s insanely commendable. I want to see you succeed in all of your projects this year and the next and the next and so on, as well as continue giving amazing advice; when you told me I was really good at characterisation, it was the first time I’d ever gotten proper writing advice, and I’ll cherish it always. Thank you for being a pal and dealing with mine (and someone else’s who we’ll mention later) shenanigans.
@olympusrox123: Sian, you fucking Aussie meme, I love you so much and you won’t get this until later because you’re on a goddamn plane but oh well. You’re insanely funny and smart, and you’ve made me laugh so many times I can’t keep count. When you took part in the name change shenanigans on discord, that was when I knew you were A Top Tier Meme and someone I could send only my freshest. Apart from that, you’re so sweet and have always been interested in what I have to say; plus, I love screaming at you about whatever and whenever and that time we read the Sherlock fic? Godly. Anyways, I just want to say that I heckin love you and that I hope you stay just as you are. Thank you for being you.
@ardentlythieving: oh man oh man oh man my ultimate meme buddy. My compadre. Second member of the three Memesketeers. The shit we’ve gotten up to together is amazing and I’ve loved every second of it. From the day we met we’ve been basically inseparable members, despite your penchant for backstabbing and betraying my meme plans due to your chaotic neutral nature, and every memey thing we’ve done together and every in joke we’ve made has been one of the most memorable meme moments of my life. You’ve always been there when I wanted or needed to just let loose my chaotic energy, and the fact that you just sort of adopted me into both your meme house and your internet family in general has made me so happy. I’ve loved playing SWTOR with you and talking about Thrawn with you and sending you the worst shit I can find, and I wouldn’t trade a second of it. Thank you for being your memey-ass self, and if I don’t get even better memes this year I’m flying to your hell-sheep-rock-land to fight you.
@thornheartcat: we’re waaaaay too fucking similar for our own good. To our taste in video games and anime (max weebage) to our experiences with ASD, I’ve found so many ways to relate to you, which has made talking to you so fun. And that’s another thing: you’re older than me by a lot, but you’ve never treated me any differently, which has meant so much to me. You’ve always put me on equal ground with you and the rest of your friends, and have tolerated my fuckery since day 1, even if you do have some questionable choices in media you enjoy. The long and short of it is, you’re hella rad and hella nerdy, and I love nerding out with you. Thank you for seeing past my age and treating me just like anyone else.
@catcatamelia: chaotic Aussie lesbian says what??? Amelia you’re fucking great and so talented and so creative, and you’re so much fun to be around. I love playing shitty and good video games with you, as well as just talking and memeing back and forth and watching you draw; you’re so amazingly multitalented and interesting that I never get bored around you. I wish that we could hang out via the interwebs more, but bullshit scheduling is bullshit scheduling and whatcha gonna do. You’ve also always been there to comfort me because, like so many of my amazing friends, we share so many issues and commonalities that you always know just what to say. Thank you for never being afraid to open up and just be your wild self. Please never change.
@sea-reader: I left you for last because I have the most to say to you. Our relationship has been up and down in the almost one year we’ve known each other, and it’s mostly due to me. Since we started talking on discord, I’ve always loved listening to you talk about whatever; you always bring your own energy and passion to it, and even if it’s about stuff I don’t know a whole ton about, I’m never bored listening to you talk about it. You’re funny, and smart, and talented, and I’m so glad to have met you in the first place. You were a major factor in helping me out of my shell; there wasn’t a day that went by in the first half of this year where I didn’t mention you in some capacity to someone I knew because you’d said something hilarious or really smart or had brought some new idea I’d never thought of to the table or just done something. Was it the most healthy thing in the world? No, and looking back on it we started getting unhealthy even before The Thing That I’m Not Going To Mention In Public, but we’re continuing to grow and improve even to this day, and for that I’m forever thankful. You could have easily shut me out after that incident, but you didn’t; you gave me a second chance that I’ve rarely ever gotten, and I’m so, so glad. I know we likely won’t ever be as close as we once were, nor will we be able to talk like we once did, but that’s okay, because it doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be us, and it has to be healthy, and that’s enough for me. I love you more than I can say, just like everyone else, and I can only hope 2019 brings the best for the both of us. Thank you for being a friend, Lori, because our relationship, the good and the bad, was part of what I needed and got from all of the people I interacted with and met this year. Happy New Year, you dork.
If I missed anyone, please forgive me; it’s now 7 minutes to 2019, and I’m rushing. Tl;dr; Happy New Years, everyone. Be a little better, because you can be, even if you don’t think so.
-Geoff.
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valentine fandom ask meme: homestuck for all the odd ones and rvb for all the even ones
oH GOD okay let's see how this goes***Spoiler Alert*** by the way1. Your favourite non-canon ship? I don't particularly have one, though to be clear Homestuck has a hell of a lot of ships. I like pairing people up with Sollux tho, if only because I support Sollux getting lots of love.2. Is there a ship you didn’t like at first but ultimately started shipping? Tuckington and Lolix. both are things my friend who got me into RvB ships hardcore, but when I first encountered all the relevant characters I couldn't see them in the pairs. Tuckington I saw once they actually started interacting, in S11 or so; Lolix, after having seen their episodes in S14, although I shipped them as exes before then - like, I watched them and agreed that they'd had something but it fell apart before we met them.3. What is the rarest rare pair (that you ship)? I'm not really a rarepair kind of child but I do like Sollux/Dirk and Sollux/John, because programming and hands, respectively4. Name a popular ship you don’t get the appeal of. probably Chex I just really strongly believe that moving on is the best damn idea Church ever had5. What is your most fluffy + happy ship? fun question, because a lot of my ships could be fluffy or angst depending on what you look at. short answer: Davekat.6. What is your most angsty ship? FELIX/TUCKER OKAY HOLY SHIT MAJOR SPOILER ALERT FOR THE CHORUS TRILOGY BUT just picture when they're in Armonia and Wash is presumed dead and Tucker is having to come to terms with losing someone he hadn't realized he loved so much and also coming to terms with his love AND HIS SEXUALITY on top of that and Felix just slides on in because he's a slimy bastard who isn't above getting off on other people's emotional pain and/or just generally being an emotional sadist but also tactically brilliant and fucking Tucker while he's broken and I currently have an in-progress fic that is literally this and entitled "Felix Tucker emotional abuse" on my computer (ABUSE in my binder)7. A non-canon ship that should be canon? again, Homestuck has quite a romantically promiscuous canon. I think most of my really serious ships are canon??? but it's also been a while since I last acquainted myself with HS so I'm not sure. I do like Sollux/Karkat in basically any quadrant tho and I don't think they canonically did any quadrant stuffz or at least not all of them8. Your oldest ship; the one you’ve shipped for the longest time? Grimmons. still ship it. GRIF LITERALLY CONTAINS PARTS OF SIMMONS IF THATS NOT POTENTIAL FOR A ROMANTIC CRISIS FIC THEN IDK WHAT IS9. What ship represents the kind of relationship you’d love to have? Davekat as presented in canon, all soft squishy feels under a shell of crunchy banter and sarcasm; that, or Rosemary, which I read this fic once that mentioned them being a universal constant? like, there wasn't a single timeline where they didn't get together, and that makes me really happy. I also really like how Nepeta and Equius are complete polar opposites and both really fucking weird but don't care10. Is there a ship that makes your skin crawl? Churboose the way most people portray it. Caboose has the mental capacity of a child; I don't know if it's canon or not, but I am firmly of the belief that he is not entirely capable of distinguishing between romantic and platonic love, if at all, and sex isn't even a thing that he acknowledges. I can get behind the idea of Church accidentally and bizarrely and inexplicably falling in love with Caboose in a purely emotional sense, and Caboose loves everyone on all the teams in his own way, except the ones his family (because that's what they are, his family) genuinely hates, and those he does his best to fuck up something fierce. but don't pretend that Caboose and Church having sex would be anything but creepy as fuck and completely out of character. Also, the Director/Tex, because vicarious relationships, and Felix/Tucker but that one's a good skin-crawly one if done right (which it will be when I do it).11. What is a character you can only imagine in one particular ship? Calliope I can only see with Roxy, but damn do I ever see it.12. What is your favourite canon ship? if we're going with the cutthroat definition of canon, there aren't any, so going with the practical definition, Grimmons, because I'm not saying the secretly-married jokes are true, but I am saying they're extremely well-founded, even if one or both of them needs to pull his head out of his ass and notice.13. Name a ship that deserved more content. I feel like Vriska/Terezi, especially Game Over timeline Vriska/Terezi, deserved more, but I definitely needed more Terezi/John, because John learning firsthand about kismesissitude is a beautiful image.14. Is there a ship you feel gets undeserved hate in fandom? no??? the RvB fandom tends to agree that most of the characters have banged or at least that they could, so I haven't actually seen, like, *any* ship hate.15. What is the first ship you had? Davekat, which I shipped before getting into Homestuck, for which I blame the friend who got me into it in the first place.16. Is there a ship that made you realise something about yourself? uhm. all of them made me realize that I have a thing for temporarily inflicting emotional pain on characters, if that counts???17. Is there a type of ship you always go for? this goes for everything: banter. banter banter banter. example ships outside of these two specified fandoms: Bond/Q (Craig era), Romeo/Mercutio (yes, Romeo and Juliet), Rosencrantz/Guildenstern (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, specifically), Kate/Petruchio (yes I'm Shakespeare trash get over it), Skye/Jeffrey (The Penderwicks), wow I ship a lot of things I hadn't realized I shipped.18. Is there a ship the writers have ruined for you? no. unless you count the emotional abuse that is Ohio shooting Sherry and thereby ruining any chance they could've had, which nearly made me cry19. Is there a ship the fandom has ruined for you? not unless you count that tumblr post about Gamzee's relationships all being meticulously calculated and executed to do the most damage ruining my ability to enjoy pale Gamkar due to my new perception of Gamzee20. Have you ever created fan created content for a ship? hell ye. I have an AO3 but refuse to attach it to my tumblr. currently I've only got one RvB work and it's a really minor ship of mine, but I've got like four Tuckington, one Lolix, and that Felix/Tucker emotional abuse on the go.21. Favourite thing you’ve ever created for a ship? see previous comment re: not sharing my AO3, but my Snowman/Spades Slick WIP makes me really happy and I've got some damn good Davekat22. Is there a ship you’ll never admit you have? nope. not for anything I don't think. I'll even admit to shipping Annie and Teddy from the Magic Tree House books, and Dink and Ruth Rose from the A-Z Mysteries. I have always been a trashbaby and never given half a fuck.23. Have you ever started shipping a ship because of the fans? see previous comments re: Davekat. there was at least one more but I can't remember right now.24. What is one scene you want to see happen for all your ships? meeting in a bar, for the first time or after a long time or whatever. there are so many damn ways a bar meeting could go that it satisfies so many of my ships, and in RvB, all of them.25. Is there a ship you wish you didn’t know existed? all forms of Stridercest, particularly since I can actually tolerate Dirk/Dave. also Kurloz/Mituna because Kurloz is a confirmed creepy abusive fucker and Mituna is my precious pandamaged child26. Name a ship that ended like you wanted it to. Church/Tex, actually, if you disregard my temporary disappointment at Tex being female. the end of S9 gave them the best possible ending.27. Name a ship that deserved better in the end. Dirk/Jake but I can't complain too much because at least the abusive relationship ended28. Is there a character you have several ships for? Tucker's a slut, so yeah, but also I'm a big believer in breakups being a good and healthy part of life, so I ship relationships in the past tense. example: I support York and Carolina being together, and also thoroughly support Kimball finally getting Carolina to open up and fall in love again.29. What is the ship you ignore 98% of canon for? that's not really a thing I do, so. there isn't one.30. Is there a ship you like but you dislike the fandom? if we mean the fandom stuff for the particular ship, yeah, Churboose and Lolix in particular but I generally hate when people miss the point of what makes characters themselves in order to just make fanfic or whatever of their ship. in more general terms, I read the Maze Runner a while ago in order to be able to watch the movie for the sake of Thomas Brodie-Sangster (which I decided not to actually do because it's a really bad book), and I fucking hated the book, it's a really fucking shitty book, but Newt and Thomas all the fucking way man. (I think it was the nickname that really got me; nobody else calls him Tommy, and Newt doesn't give anyone else a nickname as far as I can remember, and also I'm really pissed that they cut the kiss scene from the movie because I might've suffered through it just for that)HOOOOOO BOY thank you anon that was way more fun than sleeping. also I'm having so much trouble figuring out who you are because most of my people I know are in one fandom or the other but not both, and the other people I can think of I can't imagine sending me an ask like this. aaaaa it's a mystery thank you for the excuse to ramble
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2, 8, 10, 13, 31, 34, please (tho I know that's a lot, lol, sorry)
Oh no, an excuse to talk about myself. Well, anon, if you insist. (Thank you for giving me an excuse to ramble about myself.)
2. if you could change anything about yourself, what would it be?
I wish I was less lazy and more disciplined. The fact that I get anything done is a fucking miracle. (Having depression and the crushing demands of late capitalism certainly don't help, but I could also be doing more for myself.)
8. what color do you think goes best with your personality?
A therapist once told me that red was my "power color" so I'm gonna go with that. I'm an Aries and I've got a ton of Mars/other fire elements in my various horoscopes, plus I've got kind of a fiery personality. Maybe a darker red, like a wine color, because I am also very into lounging and not doing shit.
10. what do you wish you hated, but actually like?
THIS FUCKING MANGA. (J/k. Sort of. I don't know anymore.)
You know what I actually wish I hated? Dairy products. I'm moderately lactose intolerant and I cannot quit cheese, and I will keep eating it and getting sick because dairy is delicious and I am weak. (I've managed to quit milk completely, if only because it makes me violently ill. I can tolerate cheese to an extent.)
13. talk about an au or story you came up with
I'm currently writing a novel, but I want to talk about the novel I came up with while writing the novel. So the romantic lead in my current WIP is based on a specific actor, which led me to think about how absolutely fucking mortified I'd be if my book ever got published and got big enough that I'd have any reason to meet this guy. So that led me to the idea of, what happens when an actor meets his biggest fan and she absolutely does not want to meet him?
I'm still writing down ideas and getting to know the characters, but so far it involves Shay, a woman who's grieving the loss of her mother after a long battle with cancer and the estrangement of her siblings due to hurt feelings about their mom's will. (Their father passed when they were all young.) Shay decides to get involved in her town's drama festival that summer to give her something to do and to try to get her back in the swing of socializing again, since she spent the past few years taking care of her mother during her illness.
Shay is excited to take a step into a new life until she finds out that the drama festival's big get this year is Nicholas Byrd, a character actor who's extremely talented and has had a steady career, but has never really had his big breakthrough. Shay just happens to be one of his biggest fans; she runs his fansite along with one other friend. In fact, her only friends are the people she met online through fandom, and they all help work on this site and its associated social media. She decided years ago that she was not going to try to meet Nick because even though she's infatuated with him, she's terrified of making a fool of herself in front of him and she doesn't want to find out that he's an asshole in real life. She recognizes that his work imprinted on her in a stressful and vulnerable time in her life and tries to indulge her obsession in a healthy way, but her work with the drama festival, her growing friendship with Nick, and the tension it's causing among her fandom friend group is turning her life upside down.
It's a romance so they're going to fall in love, obvs. Nick is going through an existential crisis because he feels torn between his love of acting and his desire for recognition for his work, because he busts his ass and is genuinely talented, but ends up getting killed off in half the roles he takes or is overshadowed by bigger names. He took this drama festival gig because it seemed like something simple and easy to get him back to his love of the craft of acting, but the longer he stays, the more he finds himself making excuses to hang around Shay. (There's also a subplot about how he's a huge animal lover and thinks her dog is the cutest thing in the world.)
I'm excited to work on this story because I really want to dig into the idea of parasocial relationships, healthy and unhealthy expressions of fandom, and how we form connections with others. Shay's closest friend turns out to be a toxic fan who gets upset and possessive as she gets closer to Nick, and Nick has had his own run-ins with this fan in the past. I'm also excited to dig into Shay's feelings of isolation and grief and trying to reemerge into the world, which I'm only now realizing is a parallel for the end of the pandemic.
I'm like 70% done the massive first draft of my novel so hopefully I'll get to write this story sometime next year!
31. how easy is it for you to be honest?
Pretty easy! If anything, I overshare or tell the full truth instead of doing the tactful white lie thing. (I have since gotten better at that; sometimes it is just better socially to be nice rather than brutally honest.)
34. what food do you binge on when you’re lazy?
I am blessed to live in a neighborhood with a large Mexican population and amazing food. I will shove nachos into my face at the drop of a hat, though lately I've been crushing quesabirria and consomme from the taqueria around the corner (see above re: me being weak for cheese).
If you’d like to ask me more questions, here’s the post!
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