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cleavetheclover · 3 days
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I understand people have concerns about Clove's identity being steamrolled, but I also feel like it's a Very Weird critique to say they should've been more androgynous to 'fix' that
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cleavetheclover · 4 days
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If your plot feels flat, STUDY it! Your story might be lacking...
Stakes - What would happen if the protagonist failed? Would it really be such a bad thing if it happened?
Thematic relevance - Do the events of the story speak to a greater emotional or moral message? Is the conflict resolved in a way that befits the theme?
Urgency - How much time does the protagonist have to complete their goal? Are there multiple factors complicating the situation?
Drive - What motivates the protagonist? Are they an active player in the story, or are they repeatedly getting pushed around by external forces? Could you swap them out for a different character with no impact on the plot? On the flip side, do the other characters have sensible motivations of their own?
Yield - Is there foreshadowing? Do the protagonist's choices have unforeseen consequences down the road? Do they use knowledge or clues from the beginning, to help them in the end? Do they learn things about the other characters that weren't immediately obvious?
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cleavetheclover · 4 days
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the ppl making tierlists abt which agents would and wouldn't respect cloves gender and preferred pronouns are fucking weirdos. respecting someone's gender isn't a personality trait or quirk or hobby it's a basic human respect and decency. esp in a place as diverse as the protocol with so many diff countries of origin and languages and skin colors and sexualities why tf would their diversity and respect for one another stop at gender.
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cleavetheclover · 11 days
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Any Nighttime in Las Vegas spoilers/hints/tidbits to keep us fed? 👀
Nighttime in Las Vegas - author notes on future updates!!
Okay first of all, thank you for the ask!! I am extremely honored by your investment in the fic 🥰
Note: I am not sure how heavy you wanted the spoilers to be when you submitted the ask, so I kept it on the more vague side. I hope this satisfies what you were looking for!
This work is my most ambitious to date and has been an inspiring and invigorating challenge. The effort I have put into this work has been enourmous, and I am incredibly grateful for all the attention the work has gotten. Thank you!! 🎉💕
More info below cut! Non-spoiler (chapter 5) updates first, then Major Spoilers (chapters 6, 7, and 8) next.
Chapter 5 (most recently uploaded chapter):
- Chapter 5 (specifically scenes 11/Medbay and 12/Brimstone’s Office) currently being re-written. I thought that scene 11 was pretty sloppily written and there was a lot of key info that didn’t get properly communicated, and the changes are intended to communicate the plot line with better storytelling/use of characters and dialogue. The major changes in scene 11 are complete and I am doing minor fixes to scene 12 to keep the story consistent.
- To elaborate on the above, scenes 11 and 12 establish that: 1) Omen was rescued per his Distress Call, and Cypher was not. 2) Omen needed to be revived, and is still injured. 3) Fade has been sent on a Search and Rescue mission for Cypher. 4) in discussion with Sage and Brimstone, it is discovered that the mission Cypher and Omen were on was not approved, and that the documents Omen has access to are not in the database and likely forged. 5) Killjoy performs an assessment showing that there have been no external threats / sources of tampering that could be responsible for this incident. 6) Sage and Brimstone bring up Cypher’s history of secret missions, defying orders, and otherwise sketchy business. 7) Omen insists that he was not aware of this history, and asks to compare his own mission history to that of the database to see what else he has been unknowingly doing. He finds three other missions of suspicious origin.
Chapter 6 (in the works):
- Chapter 6 will begin with Cypher’s return. Brimstone interrogates him about his actions and motivations and Cypher attempts to gaslight gatekeep girlboss his way out of guilt, but it backfires and only makes him look worse.
- He does not tell the entire truth about himself, but he specifies that Omen is innocent. Omen is thus cleared of all charges of treason.
- Omen, having discovered that Cypher has lied to him about their joint missions, is furious. He has conflicting loyalties— one to the Protocol, his home, his entire livelihood; and to Cypher, his mission partner, his protector and protected, and his good friend. To have one betray the other is world-shattering.
- Cypher is placed under arrest at HQ. His duties are distributed among the other Agents including Sova, Fade, and Killjoy.
- Omen overhears a conversation where Cypher is begging Fade to let him go with her to Las Vegas, stating that she knows what happens to him there and he can’t let the same happen to her. Fade brushes him off and says her Radiant abilities will ensure her safety.
- Omen visits Cypher in jail to confront him. An argument ensues.
- At the end of the argument, Cypher tells Omen to bring the Box to Viper. He thinks she can help.
Chapter 7 (not drafted):
- chapter 7 deals with the fallout between Cypher and Omen.
- Cypher is in jail, but as you might imagine, he tries to break out. He manages to escape Headquarters without setting off any alarms, because well, he built them himself and can take them apart just as easily.
- By happenstance, Omen sees him escape through the portal at headquarters but is unable to stop him. He follows Cypher through the portal.
- Cypher reveals some information about his past, i.e. everything he didn’t say during his interrogation.
- When Omen realized that he can’t convince Cypher to come back to the Protocol on his own, he shoots him neatly in the head and princess-carries his body back to the Medbay.
Chapter 8
- cypher realizes he is stuck in HQ jail again. Screaming crying throwing up (RIP babygirl but he did it to himself)
- Omen takes the box to viper. He tells her outright not to lie, he’s already had enough of Cypher’s bullshit.
- Sabine tells him what she knows.
More notes:
I am doing my best to publish chapters that are well-planned and well-refined. Unfortunately, having ADHD + fretting over details 24/7 means I am not a very speedy writer, and I apologize for the long waits between chapters.
The document I have in my computer is much more extensive and includes dialogue and additional scenes, but I’d classify those as major spoilers and didn’t include them here. I also have plot points planned out for the rest of the fic, but those are major spoilers in addition to being undecided/malleable so I didn’t want to set them in stone here.
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cleavetheclover · 11 days
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VERY IMPORTANT ANALISYS FOR GAYMERS
A while back i felt a lil annoyed that the hit game Valorant with quite the money pool diddn't have a gay agent and so i put my self in the field, by trying to find the gayest agent. Have fun.
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I made earlier this year for the R platform but, here the vibes are better
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cleavetheclover · 13 days
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Nighttime in Las Vegas chapter 5 sketches because brainrot
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cleavetheclover · 13 days
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Nighttime in Las Vegas chapter 5 sketches because brainrot
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cleavetheclover · 14 days
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I’m half Chinese and (long story short) wasn’t taught to speak Mandarin by my mom but I went to school for it from kindergarten through high school. In college, I’ve taken some American Sign Language (ASL)
I don’t go non-verbal much— that generally only happens when I get extremely overwhelmed/overstimulated, and I avoid situations that could put me in such positions where I can
But I do like to talk to myself in Chinese sometimes, often for fun and as a mental exercise. There are moments where I find myself defaulting to it, but I’ve never figured out why or when (outside of going to my grandparents’ house)
However, I think that in your case, maybe Arabic is a comfort thing? If you grew up hearing it, maybe it implicitly reminds you of home and/or of safety, which is very comforting when you’re nonverbal
It could also be helpful in redirecting your attention away from The Bad Thing and to something else. If you’re like me, your second language requires some amount of effort to use correctly, and so using Arabic when you’re nonverbal might be resetting your brain a little which offers some sort of placating feeling?
Idk, but those are some passing thoughts I had when I saw your post on my dash
Anyone else who's autistic and multilingual find it easier to talk in one language when you're semi verbal?
I couldn't talk in English today but Arabic was fine, for some reason, even though I am not fluent in Arabic I just grew up hearing it. I'm wondering about why that is/ why that could be. Is it something to do with the sound difference between Arabic and English? Something to do with my emotional attachment to Arabic? Something else entirely?
I'm so curious about this I want a scientific explanation. I want someone to explain to me why it is the way it is because I am so so curious
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cleavetheclover · 17 days
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cleavetheclover · 27 days
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Goddamn. Okay
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cleavetheclover · 30 days
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Cypher and Omen as literary foils my beloved
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In particular, humorous cypher and omen being done with his shit (omen is secretly entertained)
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cleavetheclover · 1 month
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The amount of time I put into drawing those chess pieces was objectively HORRIFIC
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cleavetheclover · 1 month
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Something silly to wind down
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cleavetheclover · 2 months
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cleavetheclover · 2 months
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Happy Chinese new year!
新年快乐,恭喜发财 🤩
Here’s to another year of absolutely sucking ass in Valorant….
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