#thanks for the question anon

[skyenish]

If Azul and Jade swapped personalities, does that make Jade the sad eel man now?

He’s a very sad eel man now 😔

#thanks for the question anon #if you have any more questions please ask away! it always fun to answer them :) #sad eel man 😔 #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland personality swap au #twstpsau #twst #jade leech #he’s thinking about mushrooms probably #answered asks #noahsart #doodles #twst doodles #twst crack #crack post #shitpost #twst shitpost

[whinlatter]

I’m living vicariously through you, how does it feel to have a fic that’s popular and has people thinking about it and wanting to know more?

hi anon! thank you for this. the short answer is that i feel extremely honoured and very lucky and a bit overwhelmed that people have read and responded so thoughtfully and generously to beasts so far in its life as a fic. but i also know that fic popularity is nebulous, highly relative, and extremely fickle, and suspect that thinking about it for too long will make my work (or anyone else's) worse, so try not to deep it that much else i start to panic about it or stop being able to see my own work clearly enough!

the long(er) answer - all the boring cliches are true about fic popularity's wretched toxic slipperiness. i am extremely aware that i have mutuals with vastly more popular and impressive fics than mine. i know that that comes with costs as well as benefits. i'm very aware, too, that different ships/fandoms get different volumes of audiences for lots of different complex reasons which rarely have anything to do with their inherent worthiness. most of all, i know that fic popularity and circulation is flukey af. some of the best fics i’ve read this year - stories that will live in my head for years - are so criminally underserved in the usual metrics of ao3 popularity, the dreaded hits and kudos departments, in ways that i don't think i'll ever really understand. i think it would be not just self-destructive and harmful to the quality of my work going forward, but also a real disservice to other creators and authors, were i to start thinking the popularity of something i wrote was an inherent reflection of its quality. (i hope that, if you're asking this because you're a writer and your work hasn't found the audience you want for it yet, that you don't think that the reverse is true: that if your fic is less 'popular' by dubious metrics and measurements of engagement and response then that means it is either bad or not worth producing and means less to you as a result).

you also asked about people thinking about my fic and wanting to know more about what's to come. i think of that as something different from popularity. i'm not exaggerating when i say writing this fic has been one of the most creatively energising and rewarding experiences of my life, especially as a counterpoint to my much more solitary and hard-going professional writing responsibilities, and one of the most brilliant parts of it has been what other people have made of my work. it absolutely blows my mind every day that people care about my fic. a dumb little story idea that i think about on the bus and on the tube and on my little trots and post online sometimes lives in someone else's head? and they wonder about it and care what happens next in it and take time to tell me that? mad. freaks my nut to this day.

truthfully i don't think i'll ever forget how generous people have been in their responses to beasts, in terms of the time they've spent thinking about it and understanding what i'm trying (in my haphazard wobbly way) to do and speculating about what might come next and telling me that my choice to have a go at writing this story meant something to them in some small way. there's a lot of trust that goes into following a WIP: i know this as a reader, the blah feeling of waiting at intervals for work to come out with a kind of dread and anticipation about what might happen next to these versions of characters that usually mean a great deal to the audience at hand. like - mate, i have invested my time and energy caring about this! pls do not squander it! as a writer, that is a scary thought to know your readers have, and, if you spend too long on it, it becomes paralysing. but the thought of people finding something meaningful in something you made is singularly good and such an honour, so i just try to focus on that one.

#beasts #thanks for the question anon #i don't know if this is a good response or not #but yeah basically if you have read beasts and enjoyed it #and especially if you told me somehow that you enjoyed it #then you made a yuck year into a much much less yuck year and i will never ever forget that #sincere on main??? #couldn't be me

[eggplant-crusader]

Hi hi! I apologize for the bother, but I was wondering if you might be able to provide some Wednesday insight for me, if that's not too much to ask.

I'm trying to fit a lot of pieces together in my head when it comes to writing a potential PJO au for the show and I've been struggling on which students belong where. This is specifically asking about Wednesday Addams, since she's very elusive for me and I can never really pin down a voice for her that fits in a way that I think is true to character.

I didn't want to place her in Hades cabin--mainly because it feels too expected, and would diminish the full impact of Wednesday's intimidating nature. Like "Of course Wednesday is intimidating, she's Hades' child." Much too easy for my liking

I think she would work better as an oracle; she wouldn't be a demigod, but she'd be a central part of their society either way. Morticia having been the previous oracle, passing that title on to Wednesday, highlighting her mother issues a bit more.

But I also felt that making her an oracle would have followed a little too closely to the show's canon, which I haven't really loved a whole lot.

Those are the two options I'm contemplating at the moment, but as someone who has only watched Wednesday through your and Barb's fics, I feel I could be greatly mischaraterizing aspects of Wednesday in a way I haven't considered. So, any insight or you feel you are in the space to provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you 🫶🏼

My first thought when my brain connected "Wednesday Addams" and "PJO" was Hecate.

That said, I think the Hades and oracle iptions make a lot of sense. The oracle one has the benefit that she gets to keep both her parents, who are great characters in their own right.

Another option is making Morticia a minor greco-roman deity. I Mean, she has the name for it. And it makes her relationship with her husband even better imo, I also love the idea of Wednesday being literally the only demigod ever with a functional family.

Finally, there's Apollo. Apollo is the god of prophecy, which goes well with Wednesday's premonitions without making her Oracle, and the whole Sun thing is the complete opposite of Wednesday, so it can be played that way, Wednesday being a misfit in her cabin, going against what's expected of her as a daughter of Apollo. You can also do the same with Enid, give her a darker god who fits her, like Ares or Hecate, and have it clash with her sunny personality. Funny, now that I think about it, both Enid and Wednesday fit with Hecate but for different reasons. Enid could also be one of Artemis' huntresses, which could add Drama (Artemis would be the obvious choice for her divine parent if she had kids).

I suppose it depends on what kind of story you want.

Oracle and god-Morticia work best if you want to keep closer to canon by keeping the Addams family intact.

Hades and Hecate are a good choice if you want to make her a witch, basically.

Apollo I think is the one that has the most room to play with, especially if you pair it with Hecate!Enid, but this option is the more AU one of the lot, it requires you to focus much more on the pjo side since part of what makes it interesting is Wednesday's clashing with her divine heritage

Other assorted thoughts:

Bianca is an interesting one. A Siren is already a Greek mythology monster, and probably one with divine blood. I think it would be more interesting playing with that than making her daughter of Poseidon. I also feel like she's got Nike in there but it would require not making her water themed. Or if you're thinking of including Camp Jupiter in your story, I think she'd fit in better in there, perhaps as daughter of Mars or even Jupiter. But again, that's if you want to get rid of her siren-ness. Also if you make Wednesday a child of Hades, you HAVE to make Bianca a child of one of the big three, it's the rules, and water theme aside she has BIG Jupiter or even Zeus vibes the more I think about it.

Eugene, son of Demeter. Easy.

Yoko: again, Hecate. I like Hecate, alright? And she has connections to certain vampire-ish monsters. But ALSO, ALSO, Dionysius! The blood ans wine parallels, the partying, the passion, there's a lot of fun that can be had here, exoring Dionysius' darker side.

Divina: unlike Bianca, I see her more entrenched in her water theme, perhaps as the daughter of a minor deity or as a monster.

#my asks #i should be sleeping but this is too much fun I'll stop now #thanks for the question anon

[dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram]

The idea that people are responsible for the oppression of the state is an incredibly regressive one - that actively corrodes solidarity and increases state power. /

I understand that you were asked specifically for your thoughts on the particular twitter thread that anon shared, and that thread didn't make the point I'd like to share, but I do think it's a related, if maybe more nuanced point. I understand (and agree) that people aren't responsible for the oppression of the state, even if they oppose state repression in annoying dickhead ways. But I think there's a difference between holding someone responsible for the oppression of the state, and holding someone responsible for failing to engage with and listen to a marginalized community and then taking an action that, even if done with the best of intentions, harms that community (even if that harm comes in the form of increased state oppression). And i think that's especially true when the person is an outsider and not a part of the community in question (the white British man in Malaysia of it all doesn't help, nor does the fact that in his speech at the show he conflated being religious with being bigoted). It's my biggest problem with Matty Healy's brand of public politics, that he doesn't seem to actually listen to communities he's supposedly advocating for (especially when those communities are communities of color), and I think that failure to listen and respect does more harm to solidarity than people criticizing him on the internet.

I've thought about this anon for quite a few days - and I don't think there's a meaningful distinction - and that what you suggest is still holding people responsible for state repression. I'll explain why and then talk about some other random thoughts.

The first is that it's not possible to engage and listen with a community. A community is not a single entity talking with one voice. I was once involved in a solidarity campaign in Wellington, where there were two families of people from the place we were organising in solidarity with. They hated each other - they disagreed about everything. Sometimes it's a useful fiction that it's possible to engage with and listen to a community (in practice what that means is engaging and listening to formal and informal structures within the community or listening to individuals - or both). But it's also incredibly flattening and doesn't allow space for reality or complexity.

It would be possible for an act to have listened to queer Malaysians and still kiss on stage. Of course there's a wide range of views on queer politics in Malaysia - why wouldn't there be? (There's always been a wide range of views on queer politics everywhere else).

I think to make the idea that you're putting forward make sense, then you would have to be much more specific about what obligations people have. In this particular case (and I suspect more generally) it would very soon become clear that people could still fulfill those obligations and make out on stage.

And you are still blaming people for state repression. You're still saying that people are responsible for the actions of the state. And my politics involves holding an incredibly hard line that they're not.

*******

Another problem with this framing is that it's based on a reading of Matty's intentions that there's very little evidence for. This all hinges on an intention to advocate on behalf of another group of people. I don't think that's how he presented it. If I was asked to summarise, from what Matty said, why him and Ross made out - I'd say it was because Matty Healy was angry.

What if Ross and Matty kissed because Matty was angry - not as an act of solidarity?

*******

I also think the wider context is important. I think some of the criticisms only introduce the power dynamics of the situation when Matty Healy and Ross MacDonald kiss and disrupt the situation - even though those power dynamics always existed.

The reason that the promoter had brought them to Malaysia to play this festival was because they were a western band. They were there because of the long history of empire. They were there because of the global power dynamics. The promoter was trying to make money from that dynamic. To say that this only matters, because they were disruptive - is to I think normalise everything else that was going on.

I am influenced here, by my oft stated belief that artists only have an obligation to avoid playing in a country with a terrible government, if there has been a specific call for a boycott by an organised resistance movement.

BI'm not comfortable saying that it's OK to go and make money in a country with homophobic laws, unless you make a political statement. Or even worse - as long as you don't make out with people.

*******

The other thing I think about a lot is the context I'm writing in - as part of the One Direction fandom. We've watched Harry wave rainbow flags around the world. He's raised a rainbow flag in a country where male homosexuality was illegal. He's raised trans flags in states where terrifying attacks were made on Trans people. I don't think there's any reason to think that he ever talked to anyone locally. In the 8 years I've been here nobody has ever suggested that he should. And I really struggle to come up with a good reason why they would be different.

And I just can't emphasise enough how much I think that saying it's OK to wave a rainbow flag, but not for two men to make out, is not queer politics that I can get on board with.

*******

As is maybe clear from what I've said so far - I've realised that one of the reasons I've been uneasy with the response to what Ross and Matty did is that it fundamentally involves policing the fact that two men have kissed on stage. And I think it's impossible to do that without it being a homophobic act.

I think a discussion that I could engage with would question the political meaning of Ross and Matty making out, not the legitimacy of Ross and Matty making out.

Because a pretty fundamental belief of mine is that men who consent get to make out with each other for pretty much any reason at all, no reasons, bad reasons, and anyone who questions the legitimacy of two men making out is building a more homophobic world.

#Thanks for the question anon #as you can see it really allowed me to figure out why I was thinking what i was thinking #and I'd welcome more of your thoughts #(also you say Matty Healy's brand of public politics - and I'm not sure I would identify this as his brand of public politics #but living in the UK for a while #has given me a different set of reference points for Matty Healy's political statements #than maybe the internet discusses #so I'd be interested in knowing what else that he's done makes you think that is his brand)

[directedbytremaine]

What’s your ranking of the Jackass guys? From favorite to not so much. And maybe the Cky crew?

my fave is forever and always gonna be dunn! closely followed by pontius cause i love that fuckin freak. johnny is also very high up in the ranking cause he used to be my god. i would drool over that man every day when i was thirteen (still do now but that's just my role as a woman in society). also have much love for mr england and ehren because it actually makes me cry the way the rest of the jackass guys used to bully them both. ehren more so than dave but i feel like they both used to get shit. also dave proudced one of the most iconic skits of jackass. like no one forgot about him shitting in a hardware store show toilet. no one.

i don't have many least faves! actually idk if i have least faves at all. i guess if i were to pick one that pisses me off the most it'd be bam but that's just because he's bam. and he's far from my least fave cause i harbour a deep amount of sympathy for him but he does just keep...being annoying. also, may be a super duper, potentially life threatening, unpopular opinion, but i never found dico that funny. i won't elaborate. please don't burn me at the stake.

special mentions which come just below my top five are: raab, steve-o, phil margera (he counts and he's lovely.shut up.) and STEPHANIE!!!!!!! hearts for stephanie hodge

#✉︎! mail #jackass #thanks for the question anon #i love blabbering on so much appreciated #bam margera #johnny knoxville #ryan dunn #dave england #danger ehren #chris pontius #brandon dicamillo #raab himself #phil margera #stephanie hodge #cky

[animepopheart]

Hi, Twwk! I know you're a big (original) Trigun anime fan, so I was curious about if you think Trigun Stampede will ever be able to redeem itself and be liked by fans of the original anime. I had watched episode 1 of Stampede and felt a little lost (of course it's been years since the last time I watched the original), and it felt a little empty compared to other series I was watching at the time, so I didn't watch another episode. It wasn't long before I saw the many complaints from fellow otaku about Stampede, and I saw that you dropped at the time as well. Anyway, I was just curious about if you think it can redeem itself at thus point and become beloved or if it really was just a flop. I'll say that I'm not extremely familiar with all the backstory of Trigun, cause I think I couldn't follow the second half of the original at the age I watched it, but I've always loved the characters. It's said to see a series get the FMAB and Fruits Basket 2019 treatment and it fail so terribly at kindling the original feelings within existing fans and bringing new fans in to the "stampede". Thanks for your input, if you read this and want to answer! God bless!

Thanks for reaching out! Indeed, I was disappointed as were a lot of fans. And I definitely went in with an open mind and tried to enjoy the series on its own merits rather than compare it too much to the original, but I really just didn't like the series.

However, I've heard good things about it from about the point I had dropped it (though I think from viewers who weren't fans of the original Trigun). There was also a cliffhanger ending that was kinda spoiled for me but which also has me interested. I'm likely to give the series one more shot when I have time in preparation for the second cours.

#thanks for the question anon #God bless you as well! #trigun #trigun stampede

[wisteriagoesvroom]

If you woke up as Charles Leclerc for one day, what would be 3 things you would do during that day?

i would *gunshot* *alarm siren* *bbc news music* *alien language transmission* *nirvana songs plays* *cat yowling* *clowncar music* *1,000 fireworks go off* *humongous ocean wave*

now if i were to answer this in a god-honouring way: drive my fiat 500 really fast, prank text pierre, and sign a contract for a new team just to see the chaos that would ensue the next day

#asks #thanks for the question anon

[jennyandvastraflint]

How long is Vastras lifespan?

The typical lifespan of Silurians is between 200 and 250 years! (According to "Scales of Injustice") Some lived up to 300 years ("Cold Blood")

Personally I feel Vastra would fall on the lower end of that, especially considering the changed climate from Silurian times to Victorian England. Pretty sure it's impacted her in some way... (Although according to the BBC audio drama Redacted, she's still very much alive in 2022... Consider it canon if you like XD Doctor Who canon is a lot of pick and choose)

As a side note, with knowing very little about Silurian development, I have the educated guess that Vastra is still quite young when she enters hibernation and subsequently wakes up 65 million years later... Do with that what you will XD

Thanks for the ask, anon! Hope you have a nice dayyy!

#thanks for the question anon #doctor who #madame vastra #silurian

[peppertaemint]

what are your thoughts on bad decisions? I kinda thought it was okay and i mostly like jimin and jungkook's parts (maybe i'm biased). I honestly felt like tae and jin's parts were quite unnoticeable (?) which could have been the production or maybe they just didn't fit the song as well i'm not sure. to add onto that though I actually think that they only really shine in more specific styles/genres like for jin songs like yours/epiphany, while jungkook and jimin are a little bit better at adapting to the song kind of? Although maybe i'm completely off since I don't know much about singing

Hi Anon!

The song itself I like; it's probably the only BTS collab I like other than Suga/Psy. It's just a well-crafted song with a nice disco beat. I do agree however that Jin and Tae were not overly noticeable; I did hear Tae well near the end, tho. I think it's difficult to hammer in 4 different vocalists along with your main guy (Blanco) and the rapper (Snoop). "BTS genre" does this well because their producers are used to leveraging 7 different voices and equalizing things. I think other producers are little more pragmatic and are going to end up highlighting 1 or 2 people out of the 4 or more people they're using. For me, Jimin came through the best and clearest.

I love both Jin and Tae's voices, and I don't think it's a case of Jimin and Jungkook being better at adapting. I think it comes down to how the producer uses them. Epiphany is a great song. I just think, in general, BTS' producers don't use either of their voices well and tend to make all the vocalists sing in registers so high they don't fit either of Jin or Tae's voices well. They don't get the best out of Jungkook either. People used to call him "blandy" as an insult, and it's funny because I find his covers full of so much more emotion than what comes through in BTS songs, but that's just my personal opinion.

I might be in the minority saying I think the MV for Bad Decisions works, though the "Bad Decision" made is a little tenuous. There's some satire about fandom there that doesn't feel ill-intended to me. Snoop's part of the track feels like the weakest Snoop has ever been, which is a disappointment but I'd be lying if I said I thought he'd be able to go hard on a BTS track. His style and BTS' are living in two different worlds, lol. Still, I like the track, and it may stand the test of time.

#bts bad decisions review #bts bad decisions #ask #bts ask #thanks for the question anon

[mondscheinprinzessin]

Is the joonas/aleksi thing you're writing maybe a sequel to the dress fic? 👀

Aleksi’s appearance alone was once again enough to arouse him. He wasn’t completely sure if it was the same dress as at the party, the fit the same and the pattern similar, but it made Joonas wonder if he really did have more than one of these and for what.

I hope this is a good enough answer👀

#answered #yeah can't get that picture out of my head anymore #hope I can speedwrite the middle part #thanks for the question anon

[onewingedxngel]

Do you have ships for YOU sephiroth??

(I.... I am so sorry, but I'm assuming there was a typo here with the 'your' missing an R? I'm assuming the question is if I have ships for my Sephiroth? Like the one I write on the blog? Sorry if I'm wrong!)

But yes, I do. I have a Puppet!Cloud ship and a Kefka one with fellow RPers, both of which are very toxic since they involve post-Nibelheim Sephiroth and a healthy relationship with him is borderline impossible (I very much go by the mindset of 'nothing is impossible', but this comes close)

I don't ship that much on this blog, largely because he's quite hard to romance.

(I'm also terrible at writing romance in general, maybe that's why I'm yet to have any healthy ships here. I can write violence, emotional turmoil, tragedy, but ~soft fluffy romance~ is not something I’m particularly seasoned at writing)

(Okay maybe I’m not that bad, my first proper fanfiction was a monster love story so it’s not like I’m entirely clueless... but granted, it ended in horrible tragedy and that’s kind of what kept me going, that inevitable tragic end.)

(Okay this got off topic, I’ll stop before this becomes a big essay).

#Anonymous #ask #(ooc) #thanks for the question anon

[dxmnsvoid]

Do you have any sorts of hobbies you craft things for? Even if it's unrelated to a hobby, what's something you're most proud of making?

ill be honest i havent done much of anything in years , just dont have the energy or motivation for much anymore . if anything , sometimes i still try to give drawing a chance but it never lasts too long . i used to really enjoy doing origami though and i still have some of the parrots i made (id definitely still enjoy doing it if i had the energy to start) . cant remember much else right now tho :')

#thanks for the question anon #dxv; random #dxv; inbox

[animepopheart]

i apologize for this question if it maybe racist but is wasian white and asian?

Yep! It’s the most recent, slang way to describe a person with mixed white and Asian heritage. I didn’t really even know this, but I guess it blew up because of TikTok? That’s usual way, right? 😆

#definitely not racist #thanks for the question anon #asuka

[some-alt-or-other]

Remember when someone randomly asked if I liked the rain a few days ago? That was really funny I loved that

#self.txt #thanks for the question anon

[neewtmas]

what is your favourite thing you've written and why? to make the decision easier you can give one for each george and lockwood 🤭

i love all of your stuff btw!!!!

ohh how fun!! first of all, thank you so much!

for George, it's definitely Nightmares (Part 1 and 2). I love it because it was such a cute request already but I feel like it came exactly at the right time because I managed to get that much out of it!! It's one that I regularly come back to and read because I love it so much :)) one of my best works imo

For Lockwood it would be A Bouquet of Tulips. I love that I used a reader that's not an agent for once, and I love Lucy and George in it. Also it's from Lockwood's pov and it's just so so sweet :)

#thanks for the question anon #anon #ask #nice people

[magicshopaholic]

I saw your post about the Top Gun fic and I wanted to let you know that I absolutely loved Maverick so I’m down to read it literally the moment you post it 😅 There was something else you mentioned though which is that OC fics are quite uncommon in the fandom. I’m just curious - what made you choose to write OCs and not Y/N? No judgement at all, I absolutely love your universe 😍

yay! I looooooved that movie too and the members just fell into place so brilliantly that I had to write it. Glad I'll have one reader for sure, haha.

It's a fair question. At the risk of sounding ancient, I grew up in an era of fanfiction where OCs were the norm, both in fictional as well as irl universes; I honestly hadn't heard of Y/N fanfic until I entered the BTS fandom. A huge part of the fun in fanfic In Those Days™ were the OCs in every story; what they looked like, where they were from, etc. along with FCs and other visual aids.

I think it's absolutely wonderful that the fanfiction community is becoming more inclusive; as a POC, it's always prickled me a bit that most OCs were white by default so I see how the Y/N format is a good way to make it as neutral as possible. I read Y/N fanfic all the time; pretty much every fic I've ever rec'd or reviewed or read on here is Y/N and they're great - so I completely see the value of the Y/N route.

Having said that, as a writer, I love creating OCs with distinct names, backgrounds, voices, families, personalities, ambitions, pasts and futures. It's easily one of my favourite bits about writing, and it just doesn't work for me - in the Idolverse case, for example - to refer to all seven OCs as "Y/N" in my mind. The fact that Tae calls her Lara while everyone else calls her Dilara or Komyshan, or how Hoseok switches between Chaeyoung and Chae, or how Kaya is not Korean and what that might mean for her and Namjoon - these are important aspects of each character and consequent dynamics that need to be specified in my stories.

I don't think either is "better" or preferable than the other; it all comes down to the style each writer is comfortable with and what readers like to consume. Hope I answered your question!

#thanks for the question anon #notes🍷