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The Symbolism of Velvet’s Comb
In Tales of Berseria, Laphicet copies one of Arthur's book to exchange it for a comb to give to Velvet. Additionally, Arthur also gives Velvet Celica's comb as a gift in the Tales of Berseria novella, A Witch's Tale: A World Full of Daemons.
If you studied Japanese it's probably not a good idea to give a comb to someone as a gift. The reason for that is due to the fact it's a homonym of suffer and die.
Comb in Japanese is 櫛 (くし) or kushi in romanization which is a homonym for
苦死
苦 (く) [ku] - pain, suffer, anguish
死 (し) [shi] - death
Throughout the narrative, the comb served as memory of Velvet deceased brother Laphicet, as well as her late sister Celica (in the novella). However, it could also be a foreshadowing of Velvet’s grim future from the time she was given the comb. Towards the end of the game, that comb breaking could possibly represent moving on from that grief or breaking away from her continuous suffering.
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5 for the fic asks, good loser of course
5. What do you wish someone would ask you about [good loser]? Answer it now!
i just want someone to talk to me about that fic, and find out if they noticed some of the things i put into it? i put a lot of care into it, a lot of little details and choices. i did detailed outlining, so when i got reasonably far in, i was able to go back and revise my outline to try to make threads of continuity that built over the story. and i just want to talk about them, haha.
a sampling of just some of the concepts and subcurrents i put into this fic:
seventeen bending the rules
Four hours. It isn’t that long. Seventeen breaks Gohan’s watch during their basketball match, and Gohan keeps forgetting to get a new one.
“‘Four hours.’ You’re so full of shit,” Eighteen says.
17 was not ever truly sticking to the deal he made. gohan broke his watch. he frequently experienced dissociation, which means he couldn't keep a strong internal measure of time. worse, they frequently met indoors, so gohan was deprived of a major advantage (his skill in measuring time by the movement of the sun). 17 played with the time limit to test if gohan would notice and speak up about it.
18 knew, and she was furious about it. the whole situation was already triggering to her, and 18 (eng dub) likes people keeping their word. so 17 testing the boundaries there upset her.
he also at one point was like "i mean, you CAN still kill people. we can just hide that it's us. like a jack the ripper kind of thing." 17 never did (gohan was amusing enough for as long as the fight lasted) but he didn't have problems messing with the rules. to him, it was very funny that gohan was so devoted to keeping his part of the deal.
eighteen's problem with the deal
“I’ll sweeten the game. You like protecting these humans, right? I’ll promise not to kill anyone for a few days.” / Eighteen is suddenly right beside her partner. “What. You’re kidding.”
Eighteen’s lip curled. “You don’t even fight back.”
“You’re not even any fun like this. I don’t get what he’s thinking. And you’re so pathetic, you just let him do it.”
“You’re pathetic. This is happening because of you.”
“Stop! You're my brother. You’re not supposed to be like those men!”
i hope this one became clear by the end, but gohan was never able to have access to this information (by the time it came out, he was tipping into a dissociative rage), so i couldn't make it explicit.
i tried as best as i could to show that 18 was triggered because she had (in her forgotten prior life) dealt with threats of sexual abuse. that's why she didn't get truly mad until 17 offered not to kill humans (making it coercive). but because her brother is the only person she really has in the world, she turned around and decided to blame gohan for 'letting' it happen. all her anger and disgust towards gohan was displaced horror at 17 for becoming the kind of perpetrator who had, in memories she can't fully recall, hurt her.
bulma and consent
“Huh,” Bulma says. “So, can I look?” / He can’t resist a small grin. “Would anything stop you?”
Gohan is the oldest of only two part-human, part-Saiyan hybrids in the world. Data on his health and development, Bulma told him the first time she tried to get him to have a physical, could be a guide for Trunks’s future. If there are any risks or predispositions arising from their unique heritage, better to find it in Gohan so they’d have advanced warning for Trunks. / Well. He couldn’t say no when she put it like that.
She catches him for haircuts, sometimes. He’ll be by to help with one errand or another, and she’ll complain about the disaster of a hairstyle he’s created for himself. Then she’ll make him sit down and let her work.
“Please, Bulma,” Gohan says. “Don’t read it. Not until—unless Trunks is the only one left to fight. Let me have that.” / Her lips part for a question. Her brows shadow her eyes. If she asks, he can’t refuse, not with the weight he is asking her to take on for him. / Bulma withdraws her thumb. The folder closes. / “Okay,” she says. “Okay, Gohan. I promise.”
bulma functions as both mirror and contrast for 17. through gohan's interactions with bulma, we see how gohan has given up bodily autonomy in a lot of places in his life, not just through combat and agreeing to 17's game. he lets bulma give him physicals he doesn't really want and agrees to haircuts because she wants them. (you see a similar incident in when gohan doesn't want to be given fabric for free, but lets it happen because the shopkeeper insists, before slipping the money over anyway.)
this is a symptom of the way gohan has had a lot of his sense of ownership of his body and well-being eroded. it's not really his body. it's a body, and he's in it, and he uses it to serve others. that is what he has been taught since he was a child. this is how he can be "good." it is why refusing 17's deal is unacceptable to gohan. gohan doesn't believe he has a right to feel comfortable and safe in his body if, by sacrificing that comfort and safety, he can protect someone else.
so the interactions with bulma draw that parallel out. but the difference is that when the chips are down, bulma does take "no" for an answer. when gohan does advocate for himself—when he asserts the desire to not have what happened to him disclosed until he's ready for it—bulma listens.
imagery/motifs
there are a couple images/motifs that repeat in the story
muscle/sinew/blood/bone
gohan's internal narration evokes these at several points, most significantly in the opening passage about being good at losing. The quartet of words reduces gohan's body to an assemblage of parts. instead of his body being him, his body is an abstract tool that he uses to serve others. he often evokes those three images when he is trying to remind himself that it's just a body, so it's fine if he sacrifices it for others. the most particular use of it is the end of chapter four:
Later, staring up at a cracked mirrorball that no longer spins, Gohan tries to imagine what it would feel like to have your body and mind taken apart and remade to someone else’s design. To be normal one day, and something else the next, and to never be able to go back.
He feels only the sinew and muscle stretched across his own bones, the blood running through them to the rhythm of his still-beating heart. All this body’s familiar aches.
here, gohan gets close to but fails to recognize that what happened to 17 also happened to him. his body and mind were taken apart and remade. he was normal one day, and something else the next, and he could never go back. the quartet of words, which have already been used to evoke how gohan uses his body as a tool, are meant to answer the question without gohan knowing he's answering it.
super saiyan/ki words vs android/energy words
toriyama handed me this one on a platter.
super saiyan is consistently evoked with fire, which is both a danger and protection against the cold. using fire for super saiyan is supposed to set up the 'lightning' imagery of gohan getting close to but never quite hitting ssj2. it also combines with evoking the oozaru/great ape, which gohan does at several points for himself and trunks. the great ape is specifically an evocation of saiyan culture, which gohan is disconnected from and cannot pass down to trunks. these both tie into the description of ki as being like a flame—they're all images around vibrancy and life.
the androids have blue eyes and no detectable ki. gohan refers to himself as using ki blasts, but he talks about the androids as using energy blasts. their eyes are always cold, and their bodies are always evoking an absence of heat. it is what makes the actual heat of their bodies so jarring to gohan: it's heat where his spiritual senses tell him there shouldn't be. it also lets their coldness juxtapose the flame that gohan was given by the people he loved (the anger from their deaths) that he then gives to trunks.
it stands as a final contrast to bulma's eyes, which are also blue, but they're a depth (the ocean) instead of a cold, cruel absence.
there are some other motifs that show up, but those are the big ticket ones!
gohan's use of language
harsh vs ornate language
Gohan clenches his fists until he feels blood. /vs/ Gohan stands in shattered concrete, still wreathed in the rage that Vegeta once believed would be the salvation of his people.
Faster than Gohan can react, Seventeen is in Gohan’s face and has his arm in hand. In a flare of gold, Gohan yanks out of Seventeen’s grip and away from him. /vs/ Super Saiyan catches on the rising wave of his ki and sears right through him, the beacon-bright apotheosis of a dead race.
gohan has read a lot of fancy books in his life, but most of the prose doesn't show that. in a lot of the scenes, especially the ones with the androids, gohan uses a lot of really direct, blunt language in his narration. but then these little flourishes of formality and poetry slip out.
i was interested in how gohan uses "ore" in future timeline but not in main timeline. i thought it would be interesting to understand it as gohan emulating the mannerisms of his dead heroes (most of the z-warriors are "ore" users) to try to keep them alive by embodying them. he's also just worn down, so even his internal narration is pretty worn down and to-the-point. but he still has this appreciation for life and beauty, and it comes out of him, especially for things he finds sacred (nature, the gift of super saiyan).
2. blunt, truncated vs flowing speech
“I don’t know,” Gohan says. “Maybe. I don’t keep track.” & “I’m not going to talk about this.” /vs/ “It’s good to be informed, Bulma. Weren’t you the one who said you wanted to see Frieza before he blew the planet up?”
similarly, gohan talks very differently to the androids vs anyone else. gohan's quite blunt, aggressive, and truncated with the androids. this is not his most natural speech pattern. when he talks to bulma, trunks, or even just other non-androids, he uses longer and more flowing sentences, because he is more at ease and in himself.
3. sparse sensory awareness in urban spaces/combat situations vs embodied sensory experience in natural spaces
He stays lying back on the sticky fake leather of the abandoned booth, muted lights above him and his cut up shirt on the ground at his side. /vs/ Then, Gohan inhales the wasteland winds, cool and clean and familiar. Then, his eyes set on the sapphire horizon and his bruised skin takes warmth from the morning sun. Birds call out for each other, for warning, for the pleasure of the song, and a wolf joins its howls to the chorus.
similarly, he is significantly more at ease and in his own body in the natural world vs the urban world. 17 and gohan both have "territories" in this fic: 17 will be a park ranger in another life, but growing up, he was a delinquent city boy. cities are his domain. gohan is a country boy and feels most at home in nature.
when gohan is with 17 and in urban spaces, gohan picks up on fewer sensory elements. he's less present in his body except as something to fight with and has much less appreciation for any beauty in the world around him. his sensory experience is pared down to whatever he has to take in to handle the active threat; any other details are extraneous distractions that could get him killed.
but when gohan is in nature, in his home territory, he allows in more sensory details. nature is where he feels most comfortable and at home, and it's a source of rejuvenation and strength for him, so he pays significantly more attention to what's happening in it. it's part of what makes chapter 4 so unique: it's the only time he meets 17 on his home turf.
the ghost quartet
while all the dead z fighters are "the sacred dead" to gohan, people whose deaths have an almost religious significance in his understanding of himself and his role in the world, gohan has four major ghosts that he evokes: piccolo, vegeta, krillin, and goku. each of them has a specific function.
gohan needs ghosts. gohan is someone very driven by his value system, and his value is very relational. he wants to be a good son, a good friend, a good student—in another timeline, a good brother, husband, father. being good in relation to others is extremely important to him. it's why he's so respectful to the elder he meets on the bus, and it's why he makes a point of bowing to 18 as his sparring partner, even though he doesn't respect her as a person. this is what keeps him in integrity with himself.
but in this timeline, most of the people he wants to be good in relation to are dead. all of the people he models himself after for heroism and bravery are gone. so he summons them up as ghosts, and all of them work differently.
piccolo: mentorship
Gohan recites a litany of dead friends, doesn’t let his fighting stance falter. Piccolo would never tolerate a lapse.
Piccolo would have never put up with him walking into enemy territory outmatched and uncertain without even having a contingency.
He puts his hands back in ready position, just like Piccolo taught him, to catch or deflect any strike.
Piccolo would have snapped at Gohan for the defiance, or maybe hit him with his eye lasers. Not that it ever stopped Gohan.
piccolo, as gohan's only active teacher (he learned from others but not directly in this timeline), is the person gohan calls on when reminding himself how he's supposed to act in a fight. piccolo tells him not to lower his guard, to stay strong and watch his back. gohan also evokes piccolo when he is trying to understand how he should act as a mentor to trunks. he evokes piccolo's memory to help himself stay sharp and so he can try to emulate the practicality and intelligence that piccolo modelled.
But it’s food. He shouldn’t be a spoiled brat about food.
Spoiled brat. You can still fight. Get up.
gohan also uses piccolo against himself subconsciously. without being aware of it, gohan uses piccolo calling him a "spoiled brat" to shame himself into doing things he doesn't want to.
2. krillin: compassion
He bends down to their level and smiles like his father and Krillin used to smile at him, like how Gohan used to wish all adults would.
Just hold on, Gohan, Krillin said to him. We can make it through this.
Placing his palms together, Gohan bows like Krillin taught him to on that long trip to Namek.
in this timeline, gohan has fought beside krillin more than anyone else. in both the saiyan and namek sagas, krillin looked out for gohan, including following him into every fight, even though krillin didn't want to join the battle. krillin never let gohan be alone and always showed courage in the face of horror.
gohan summons krillin's ghost much more rarely than vegeta and piccolo because while gohan uses vegeta and piccolo to scold himself into doing what he has to, krillin is a voice of compassion. when you are in a terrible situation and you can't leave, compassion can be agonizing, because it invites you to become in touch with your feelings. that means you have to feel the pain you're experiencing instead of shoving it aside.
but compassion also gives you the courage to keep going. and krillin's compassion is a virtue that gohan wants to show to others. it is a major value he holds onto.
3. vegeta: understanding
Ties are a weakness, Vegeta once told him, and Gohan should better guard himself against the danger they pose in battle. Gohan had disagreed with him then, vehemently. He still does, in most ways. / But these days, Gohan thinks he understands what Vegeta meant.
You’re too soft. How many times did Vegeta tell him that? Give your enemies even a hint of what they might use against you, and they will see you pay for it.
Once, Vegeta scolded him for not seeking outlets. You are Saiyan. Your blood needs battle as your stomach needs food.
Vegeta would call him pathetic right now. The idea is a comfort he takes with him as he cuts his thoughts adrift.
vegeta is a particularly strange case, because vegeta is someone gohan has fought beside, but he's also someone gohan has fought against. at several points, gohan evokes vegeta's ghost to argue with it: vegeta's ideology is something he can oppose to affirm his own values to himself.
but gohan is also experiencing a very strange kind of understanding of vegeta. early on, gohan calls up the memory of watching vegeta be tortured by frieza. gohan witnessed that, and he saw how frieza talked to vegeta. of all the ghosts gohan calls on, vegeta is the only one who understands what it’s like to be kept alive on the faux-affectionate whims of a monster you want so badly to beat—and you keep telling yourself you will, you keep saying you'll end it one day—but you are badly outclassed by them.
so even as vegeta is someone to argue against, vegeta is also the only person gohan can bear to think about in his deepest moments of shame. when gohan is sitting in the horror of the night club, the worst of the assaults, the one where 17 pushed the point so far that gohan could no longer pretend to himself that he was a contender and had to sit in the truth of being a victim—gohan could not bear to think of piccolo or krillin or goku. it would feel too shameful to imagine them seeing him like that.
but vegeta? vegeta knows what it's like. gohan doesn't experience shame when it comes to vegeta. he wants, so badly, for piccolo and goku and krillin to think well of him, but it's fine if vegeta sees his most shameful parts. so at that lowest moment, when he imagines vegeta calling him pathetic, he takes strength from it. one of his ghosts knows how this feels. and gohan has always seen the best in people, so he can imagine vegeta calling him pathetic when he lies down and gives up as proof that vegeta believes he is capable of keeping the fight going.
4. goku: the unreachable
“I think you’re taller than your dad now.” / “Not likely. My father was a giant.”
Three more days with his father would have meant everything.
And his father would have kept his word. Even if it was to a monster.
Then his father promised he would handle the rest.
His father walked him home.
It’s alright. He is Piccolo’s student. He is his father’s son.
Super Saiyan burns through him with a reckless heat that Piccolo would never have tolerated, that Krillin would have warned him about, Vegeta alone would have understood—and his father?—but it doesn’t matter: an android is a well of gravity, and not even Saiyan rage can escape its pull.
They killed them, and they don’t care, never have, and Gohan knows the real reason he’s the last one standing—it’d be boring, if they had no one left to play with—if he were stronger, he could have ended it, like his father would have, but there's only him left—
Gohan breathes like he saw Piccolo breathe. Like he used to put himself to sleep matching his breathing to the rise and fall of his father’s chest.
goku is the most sacred of all the sacred dead. he is three types of unreachability:
first, he is the unreachable ideal. gohan wears goku's clothing to try to take on his heroism. he repeatedly evokes goku's model of heroism, strength, and compassion as something he must strive towards. gohan strives to equal goku, but feels he falls short.
second, he is lost safety. as long as gohan's father was there, gohan knew he'd be safe. he is the safety of home and childhood, and he's the safety of a hero coming to save the day. in moments when gohan lets his guard down, he yearns for the safety he used to feel when goku was there.
finally, he is an inaccessible understanding. because goku is an unreachable ideal, there are things about his father he doesn't know. this gap leaves an ache.
Gohan stops, and he knows he does, knows it’s weak and open, that he should hide it—always the coward freezing when he needs to act—he just thought he could keep private at least that—
Gohan is a coward and a spoiled brat, and this is the best he has ever done protecting them.
What are you, a coward? Are you going to let all those people die for nothing? Get up!
but goku, like piccolo, also left a wound. in a moment of extreme desperation, goku called his son a coward to provoke him into fighting. he told him that if he didn't fight, it meant that everyone died for nothing.
like "spoiled brat," gohan calls up that wound from his father to shame himself into pushing through.
so yeah! those are a few things i put into the story. i could talk also about gohan as a bad teacher (he is doing his best, but he is modelling himself after piccolo, so he does things like starting trunks off with far too much time to try to meditate) or how gohan and 17 both enabled each other to not look at the assault for what it is (they both want to see him as a "contender," 17 because he doesn't understand what he's doing, gohan because he doesn't want to see himself as a victim), or probably lots of other things. i just... put a lot into this, and i love talking about it and seeing what people saw themselves! i tried to make it a story that would reward careful rereading.
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Nancy’s Twin (Stranger things Fanfic)
Description: Mickey Wheeler. The youngest twin of Nancy for 20 minutes. Just because they're twins, doesn't mean anything to Mickey. Nancy is pretty and popular. Mickey is decent and the "Do not **** with me" gal plus a total geek like her baby brother Mike who cannot beat her in arcades. Of course she loves her little brother Mike, which is why she's involve in this situation.
Warning: cursing and violence. If anything else let me know.
ENJOY. Let me know if there's errors or punctuation errors.
Author: Here’s Chapter 1 :3
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Chapter one: The Start of it All
November 6, 1983, Hawkins, Indiana.
Years past since the Jaws movie for Mickey, and not once has she past the opportunity to watch more horror movies. During those years, she would give her Dad a chance to watch horror movies as long as she takes her the times he goes during when he's done from work. Of course he said no that she's too young to watch them, but a little deal was made with a 8 year old girl and her 37 year old Dad.
"Daddy if you let me watch the horror movies you go to with addition of snacks, I won't tell mom you went to see Jaws." Mickey keeping the professional stance with her notebook hugged to her chest.
"How do I know she'll believe you honey?" Ted was just ready to leave the house.
"I can recite the entire movie to her step by step."
"Ok I can take you, but no snacks."
"Did I mention that I know you're the one that took Mom's 20$ that she was gonna use for our candy bags on Christmas to buy yourself a 10 pack of beer?"
That's how the deal started. Every certain days, Ted would use his breaks during his work to pick up Mickey from school and go see movies.
Movies like Deep Red, Race with the Devil, Rocky horror picture show, legend of the werewolf, terror of Frankenstein, Jaws 2, don't hang up, and assault! Jack the Ripper.
Her favorites started listing like crazy.
Carrie, King Kong, The clown Murders, Halloween (she's really into Micheal Myers), Alien, Tourist Trap (It did scare her a little), Dracula, Friday the 13th, The shining, Evil Dead, Poltergeist, and Creep-show.
Of course she still watched other movies like Rocky, Freak Friday, Star Wars, The rescuers, Pete's Dragon, Cinderella, Grease , Lord of the rings, Battle star Galactica, Star Trek, Muppet Movie, Lupin III, Indiana Jones, Annie, The dark crystal and Pop eye.
You can say she found ways to watch movies almost every day. She would save up her money from the amount of toy cars she sells to kids in her school including secretly selling money worth of candies from Halloween to buy herself movie tapes to rewatch.
Until the years gone by and she just stopped the deal with her Dad. Ted didn't know why, but she just acted quiet for almost a whole year. He didn't make it a big deal and decided to just let it be.
Mickey stopped having physical touches with her family after she was 10. No hugs, no shoulder pats, no surprises, no grabbing her face to kiss it. No touching.
On her 11th birthday, Ted gave her a cassette tape player that she can hear music in. Of course Nancy just wanted new dolls and dresses, but all Mickey wanted was the opposite. She would never want to wear a dress again.
Now 8 years of complete hell was coming and going for Mickey. In her room listening to The Poppy Family as she reads a spider man comic while laying on her bed wearing a graffiti t shirt.
"I can't help crying"
Honestly, Mickey can relate to that one sentence.
"You are my whole , babe"
"My heart and soul, babe"
Distracted from the song, she just tosses the comic to the floor and keeps listening to the song instead. Even at the age of 16, she's curious to how people find such a perfect partner. After watching The Goodbye Girl, Mickey never really sees herself falling in love with a man. Of course she got a huge crush on certain guys from movies, but in an actual relationship, hell no.
After everything that's happened in those 8 years, Mickey would never in her life settle with the boys in Hawkins.
A slight open of her door snaps her back to reality. She removes her headphones and lifts her self up to see it's Dustin, one of her brother's friends.
"You need something Dustin?"
"Actually I wanted to ask if you wanted this last slice of pizza? It's sausage and pepperoni." He says with his adorable childlike smile.
Mickey gets off her head and walks to him. Looking down at the pizza, it's pretty good to eat, so she takes it and thanks him.
"For this free pizza, I shall honor you one of the great trades of them all good sir."
Dustin is already excited.
"What would that trade shall be, oh Lady of the Village Halla?"
Mickey goes to a box under her bed, takes something out of it, and gives it to him.
"8 dollars in cash." She said with a smile.
"Holy shit!! You serious?!"
"It's also a thank you for buying me some big league gum and skittles. Spend wisely my freind."
He smiles and starts to leave, while she goes to eat the pizza, which is pretty good for a free slice.
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"There's something wrong with your sister."
Mike looks at Dustin with confusion. When it comes to having two sisters, it's a little hard to know which one any person is talking about depending how you describe them. Mickey and Nancy always have something wrong with them, but simple things.
Like when Dustin asked what's wrong with Mickey of why she allows her brother and his friends hug her but not anyone else, or the time when he asked what's wrong with Nancy with why her and Mickey don't get along.
"What are you taking about?" Mike asked.
"Nancy has a stick up her butt."
Now he knows which sister he's talking about.
Lucas adds, " Yeah. It's because she's been dating that douchebag, Steve Harrington." While preparing to ride his bike back home.
"She's turning into a real jerk Mike." Dustin getting on his bike.
"She's always been a real jerk." Mike clarifies.
Dustin disagrees. "She used to be cool. Remember when she dressed up as an elf for our Elder Tree campaign."
"That was four years ago!!"
"Just sayin!!" Before he could leave, he turns to Mike.
"If there was a chance I can date your sister, can I date her?"
Mike raises his brow with a "wtf" look.
"Which one?"
"Obviously the badass one. Mickey."
"Oh my god no Dustin, I mean she is a badass but I'm not allowing you to date her."
"She likes me!!"
"As a brother, and you're too young for her plus it's a Hell no!!"
"4 years Mike!! 4 years!!"
"You can't blame him Mike." Lucas says with a side smile.
"Bye!!"
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"Nancy don't even lie about stealing my damn lip balm, either give it back or I'm taking one of your pants as my own."
Nancy holds Barbara on the phone again and looks at her with an impatient look on her face.
"Why do even have one? You hate makeup."
Mickey raises her brow.
"For your information, the lip balm keeps my hot blood lips from drying like a mummy while makeup is just an enhancement for certain girls to wear to impress their target."
"Their target?"
"Yeah. Boys, boys with bikes, boys with cool cars, boys with CuTe hair, boys that are nice, and boys who you just feel In LoVe."
Mickey mocking the words "cute" and "love".
"Is this about me dating Steve? He's nice and is really cute, and his hair is cute too. Sounds like someone is just jealous that I have a boyfriend."
Mickey just laughs.
"HAH!! First of all I was just telling you to give me back my lip balm, and second of all, I don't see any reason to be jealous over a guy that probably doesn't even use actual hairspray for his hair."
She looks around for the lip balm until she sees it on a table close to the door. As she grabs it, she looks back to Nancy.
"Does Mom and Dad even know you have a boyfriend?"
Nancy eyes widen a bit, which means to Mickey that it's a no. Why is she not surprised? Nancy tries to counter a comeback.
"Do they even know you have a monster truck without their knowledge?" She smiles.
"I'm making money out of that badass truck, thank you so much for reminding me." As she leaves, she hears Nancy mutter "druggie" before she continues on the phone with her freind. As Mickey closes the door, she mutters "Princess" before she opens her door and closes it to lay back down on her bed.
It is getting late so she'll have to sleep. That means she'll have to wish graduation comes quick. She changes into a simple oversize Christine movie shirt and heads to bed.
"Please just for once let tomorrow be okay." She whispers before closing her eyes. The entire room only lighten by a nightlight of a candle that makes the whole room smell like roses.
Let tomorrow be okay? If only Mickey Wheeler knew.
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Hope y’all love it!!! I’m copying and pasting these chapters to tumblr since they’re from my WattPad story originally. How do you guys like Mickey? Is she likeable? Just asking!! I'll be sure to post Chapter 2
Also the song used is called Which way you going Billy by The Poppy Family
#stranger things x oc#stranger things fanfiction#stranger things#stranger things OC#writing posts#my writing#Mickey Wheeler#Nancy Wheeler#Mike wheeler#dustin henderson#lucas sinclair#will byers#ted wheeler#karen wheeler#Hawkins
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for those confused why im being annoying about my writing:
one: imposter syndrome fucking sucks
two: it is a warning
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writing about violence and sex and drugs and mental insanity in my cute little green notebook and putting cute little stars all over the pages
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Prompt: share a section of dialogue that we like from our own work! It can be funny, sad, ridiculous, mysterious, plot-centric or just characters shooting the breeze…anything! And it can be from a WIP or a posted fic! It can be short or long! Let’s celebrate our beloveds having a chat.
Tagged by @outpastthebrakers 💛💛💛
This is a dialogue snippet from my Titanic WIP, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow. This is from chapter 4 which isn't published yet, but if you want to read there's 3 chapters up so far!
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The landscape's eerie beauty, combined with his overwhelming exhaustion of body and spirit, create the sensation of being inside an inescapable dream.
Rostron’s voice is unbearably somber when he speaks. "We've made four or five circuits of the wreckage now, looking for any signs of life. And I choose my words carefully when I ask, do you believe there is any hope for finding more survivors?”
Charles immediately shakes his head, his stomach twisting as he is forced to dash the valiant Captain's hopes. “No, Sir. Such cold water... it hits you like a thousand knives being driven into your body. Immediately steals all the breath from your lungs. I’m afraid I must say that there is no hope any man could still be alive after all this time.”
Rostron nods, one hand clutching his cap to his chest as he runs the other through his graying hair. “Right. Of course. It…was a vain hope. I see that I allowed that hope to overpower the little sense I have left."
Charles turns toward him. “If I may speak freely, Sir?” he asks.
Rostron lets out a small yet hearty laugh. “Mr. Lightoller, I would expect no less of you. After all that you have endured, and the courageous actions you have taken in service to your crew. Not to mention that your propensity to speak openly is well known on the Atlantic run.”
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Tagging: @andiwriteordie @hunter-sylvester @itsfreakingbats and anyone else who wants to do it!
#writing#writing snippets#writing dialogue#dialogue tags#writing games#writing posts#fanfic#fanfiction#titanic ship#titanic 1997#titanic fandom#charles lightoller#thekingandthejester
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I really love Freeler as a polyship because I could totally see all three of them married. I could see all three of them living as a domestic poly throuple and it working out super well. All three of them lived very lonely lives until they found each other and you could write a very beautiful three way love story with that concept.
I could also see it working where Fry and Bender are dating, Fry and Leela are dating, but Leela and Bender aren’t involved. And Bender and Leela are maybe involved with other people on the side. Bender straight up isn’t mono and Leela wanted her relationship with Fry to be on and off while she was still uncertain. This dynamic would be super in character for them as well.
And yeah I do think poly marriage would be legal in the year 3000 (Supreme Court did legalize it I guess). I could see them getting married as long as it took place after robosexuality was legalized. ^__^
#futurama#freeler#someday i’ll write freeler#i think it has so much potential#just like frender#writing posts
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commission prices!! (wip poll)
soo... commissions may actually be open sooner than i thought :) maybe even by the end of april! :D but!! i know a lot of people were on the fence about commission prices, so i wanted to do a bit of a poll before i submitted anything proper! :) so far i have!!
drabbles! [ 1k words. ] ; sfw is 5$, nsfw is 10$
ficlet! [ 3k words. ] ; sfw is 20$, nsfw is 25$
short story! [ 5k words. ]; sfw is 35$, nsfw is 40$
novelette! [ 10k words. ] ; sfw is 65$, nsfw is 70$
so! my question is!!
please feel free to answer honestly!! and! if you think these prices should be adjusted, lemme know how!! :D obviously, i hope to do this so other people will hopefully be interested in receiving a custom work, so i would love to receive price criticism from the individuals i hope to write for!! <3 :)
#ghost bc#ghost#ghost band#ao3#ghost fanfiction#writing commissions#ao3 commissions#commissions#commission poll#commission post#writing posts#the band ghost#ao3 fanfic#nameless ghouls#nameless ghoulettes#ghost band fanfiction#fanfiction commissions#x reader commissions#:'D#tumblr poll#tumblr polls#my polls#writing polls
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If you think my birthday still stop me from writing angst. You are wrong.
That’s writer’s block’s job and it is working, kind of.
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Okay FINE i'm gonna edit n post the prologue to my aemond fic after i eat 🙄
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sometimes you just gotta rotate fic ideas in your brain. like a rotisserie chicken. that way they can get nice and crispy :)
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Moana or Kamoana?
I always wondered why did the English Version change Moana's name to Kamoana?
What does Kamoana mean?
Moana in Hawaiian as well as other polynesian languages translates to "ocean". Ka [ along with Ke ] is used at the beginning translates to "the" which is an article in the Hawaiian language. Any word that starts with Ka or Ke basically means "the ___" hence Kamoana literary means "The Ocean".
It shouldn't change the meaning of the name but Moana would still be more popular in use. There are "Ka" Hawaiian names that are more common like Kaleo and Kainoa.
Why did they use Ka after Moana?
Moana is the heiress of her mother Mahina who is priestess of the Water Empyrean Amenochi. The usage of "Ka" could relate to Kamoana being in a role equivalent to royalty. For instance in Hawaii there was royalty such as Kaʻiulani, Kamehameha, Kalākaua or Kalani. [ note: it's not limited to Ka for Hawaiian royalty although it was more frequent there was also Liliʻuokalani and Lunalilo as well ]
Ka could also be a reference to the word Kahuna. Kahuna is a "a general name applied to such persons as have a trade, an art, or who practice some profession" (Lorrin Andrews Hawaiian Dictionary 1865).
"Kahuna...suggests more of the professional relation of the priest to the community " (J.S. Emerson). In the context of Berseria, Mahina's role as Kahuna can apply as being a Kahunapule [ which means priest ] or a Kahuna pule wahine [ or priestess ] or a Kahuna po'o [ high priest ] according to Ulukau dictionary.
Does "Ka" fit for Moana?
Although Moana is more common to use, Kamoana can work because it still does retain the meaning of her name. It can also work as having a connection to royalty or being equivalent to royalty. From what I've learned it would have been fitting if the english version had made usage of the articles with Mahina's name rather than Moana's name, at least in the context of referencing it to being a Kahuna.
References:
https://www.huna.org/html/kahuna.html
https://ulukau.org/?l=en
#tales of berseria#tob#mahina#kamoana#moana#tales of#tales of series#berry brambles#writing posts#im no pro im just a student that likes researching every now and then#it was a fun discussion i had with a friend who studied in hawaii for 4 years!!#but i enjoyed writing this and im super excited sharing my observations!!
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when i refer to my current writing process, i'm referring to the outlining process discussed here, which i developed on "good loser." i have used it for fics since: "per ardua" uses it, and then i'm using it for the fics i'm currently working on ("in cauda venenum," which is a sequel to "per ardua," and "bad winners," which is the android b-side to "good loser"...also technically "new game plus," which is the idea of a fic if 17 had agreed to be deprogrammed, is in the earliest stages of this) .
i really, really like it. i didn't outline before, so finding a way to do outlines that felt right to me was so helpful. a few benefits from this process:
time availability: i used to have to write scenes all in one go, and if i was interrupted it was agony to get back in. this lets me pick away at a story whenever i can, which is great when i have to deal with a lot of interruptions and don't always have time. it also means i can pause a story and pick it back up later if i need to.
structural weaknesses: i've often felt like my climax/denouements don't get enough breathing space. this lets me identify and repair those problems.
pattern-building: because i have the end before i start writing prose, i can go back and build patterns, ideas, etc. into the story. this makes the whole thing more coherent.
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Three Fics Tag game
Rules: Recommend us three of YOUR fics, one that is the "most popular," and two that are "hidden gems."
Thanks for the tag, @bacchicly!!!
(all links to Ao3)
Most popular: Going by hits on Ao3, it's the Texts. It's Moreid, my first and only smut, and was so fun to write. It's largely just texts between the two.
Hidden Gem One: My gen fic Shape of You is probably my favourite. I get that since romance isn't the focus, it may slip under the radar, but Emily/Spencer friendship is a joy to write when the stars align and let me write it. Realised after writing out the plan it's similar to the movie
Hidden Gem Two: Curses and Maledictions and All That - Moralvez polyam fic. There aren't enough of them, but I do love it. I also love writing Penelope/Derek frienship
For the second hidden gem, I was thinking about a fic and I was looking for it in Ao3 but I haven't fkn posted any of it yet (but it is oh so niche)
I'm tagging @pretty-boys-book-club, @insomnaticwilmon, and @writer-in-theory but there's no pressure!
#this was really fun#Thank you!#Crimpy got tagged#I want to interact more but I'm also fkn awkward so if anyone wants to opt in or out of tagging games with me PLS tell me thank you#Writing posts
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Yeah I just typed out a shitty chapter but you know what? This story is at 30 chapters already. I can have a filler/shitty chapter if I want. And if you complain about it? You go and spend as much time as I have writing something. And then you’ll understand
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We should have known I'd start writing when I taught myself how to code purely to tell stories...
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