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i've been putting off writing this, but i can't exactly not, so... i'll try and make this brief.
in short: i've had an epiphany.
(tl;dr at bottom)
i've been writing/brainstorming this fic since november/december last year, and since then, my ideas and understandings of the show and it's characters have evolved. and with them, my plans and understandings for iwf.
i want to be clear: this is not me saying i'm done with iwf, or going on some long hiatus. in fact, it's more the opposite.
having graduated, with summer in full swing, and feeling more sure than ever about where i want to take this fic (as well as remaining fully invested in this fandom), i plan to do more writing than ever before B)
that said: something needs to change.
this fic has been, and continues to be, my baby (besides my ever-growing, yet rarely spoken of, tmnt iteration) for most of the time i've been active in this fandom.
i've long struggled with motivation for big writing projects, but i am resolved to keep with this one because i have a story worth telling. will it be worth reading? who's to say!! (i hope so /gen)
but, as you might've noticed, my more recent updates (especially around the end of arc I) were... bad. maybe not bad-bad, but still bad from a 'technical writing/story' perspective. i struggled a lot with them, and i think that really shows.
i've was trying to figure out why its come to be this way while pushing forward by forcing myself to write, but that didn't work. it wasn't until this week, tuesday, when realization struck me (while watching a video essay, lol).
it made me realize a big part of what was making me unhappy was something i already knew, an issue underlying the fic (and my writing style) as a whole.
with this in mind, i can't keep going forward in the way i had planned.
i'm not gonna go back and change arc I. while the problem is there, especially in the later chapters, i'm early enough on that i can turn things around and (hopefully) root out the problem(s) without any major changes to what i've written/set up so far.
but to do this, i need time.
i know i know i just took a 2-3 week long break, but to pull this off, i need time to prepare and rewrite. i'm halfway through revisions for the arc II outline, and i'll need to heavily revise/rewrite several chapters, plus write some new stuff (since i'm axing the next couple i had planned/written out... rip.)
if all goes well, it shouldn't take longer than two weeks. best case scenario, i get it done in one. we'll see.
until then, i humbly ask for your patience.
as a note:
i could go deep into my inspirations for this fic, where i wanted to go originally, what's changed since then, and especially what brought me to my realization (plus the specifics of said realization) but i said i would try to make this brief, and here we are, [insert amount of words] later.
are you really surprised, though? (/lh)
[if you would like to see me talk more about that (i would absolutely always be down, i love talking about myself /j /lh), feel free to shoot me an ask. in fact, i would beg on my hands and knees, if i were not a silly guy who lives on your computer (/j)]
(tl;dr -- i am not done writing iwf. however, i had a realization that led to me reevaluating my writing and determining that i need to rewrite/revise my arc II outline, and edit/revise/completely rewrite the next several chapters.
this means i am planning to take another week or so off (i am sosososo sorry) to iron everything out and get ahead.
this whole post was me trying to explain the reasoning behind this decision, with an underlying sense of desperate patheticism to match (/j /lh).)
to conclude, i want to say thank you so much for your support, silent or otherwise, from all who have read and (hopefully) enjoyed this fic thus far. i genuinely couldn't do it without you (yes, sun, this includes you /lh.)
especially to my frequent commenters, who i promise i do see and appreciate. you guys are the real mvps <3
i have some really big plans for iwf, and i hope you'll stick around to see them come to fruition (:<
#rottmnt iwf#iwf#it was futile#updates#writing updates#rottmnt it was futile#“i'll try to make this brief”#literally a line later: page break#thats how you know it's not actually “brief” lmao#it's fine; you can find the tl;dr at the bottom#(that i added after i realized nobody wanted to wade through lines and lines of text waxing poetic about my thoughts or whatever /lh)#but i mean if you've stuck with me for this long... you might be used to that (sorry about that haha)#all i'm gonna say else is this: i struggle with perfectionism i will admit#but i know i KNOW i can do better#plus if i just leave some of these problems to fester#they might become really big and apparent in the future#so i'd rather avoid that if possible#remind me to link this later so people know what's up haha /nsrs
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Assisting Acquaintance Acquired.
[First] Prev <–-> Next
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wen ning#wei wuxian#Ignore how Wen Ning's hair looks here because I messed it up. Let's pretend he just sported a different hair style for a brief moment.#I am not exactly great at consistency but I am trying very hard to work on that (immediately messes up again).#Absolutely *love* how Wen Ning clearly remembers and admires WWX...who does *not* recognize him.#This is the best day for Wen Ning and it means *nothing* to WWX. A painful one-sided crush made worse.#It is bittersweet to realize that we care about someone more than they care about us. Sometime we pour love into a relationship-#-with someone who just can't reciprocate. It isn't always a conscious things either. Some people just aren't aware we care.#And painfully - so painfully - You can't make them aware. No act of kindness or gift or self sacrifice will make someone care about you.#You can martyr yourself for someone and they will continue on unchanged.#I think a lot about the parallels between WN and LWJ. Not foils - just reflections. A theme repeated.#People who give so much of themselves to someone who doesn't have the capacity to give any part of themself away.#I will die on the hill of 'Wen Ning would be the love triangle romance if that trope wasn't being avoided'.#And to be honest - thank the stars above that is the case. I do not know any good love triangles in media.#We are skipping some of the sad Jiang Cheng content because I really want to finish season 2 before May.#Sorry JC emo moment lovers...I'll deliver another time.
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Mr. Darcy Proposal #1: It is an honour and a privilege to be loved by me.
Mr. Darcy Proposal #2: It is an honour and a privilege to be loved by you.
The sexiest pronoun change in the English language.
#let me explain how lucky you are that I am unaccountably obsessed with you#pride and prejudice#mr. darcy#the first proposal is so bad#the second proposal is swoon worthy#tell me no and I'll leave you alone is the hottest sentence a man can utter#elizabeth bennet#jane austen#she knows how to make them sexy#Trying to keep my post brief so I just talk more in the tags
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really wish people would realize that every single character endings in t8 isnt canon
#yes even the ones thats seems “likely”. yes even the ones you like. yes even if some seems to be connected.#THEYRE *ALL* WHAT-IFS. THE “CANON” STORY IS STORY MODE. EVERYTHING ELSE IS FLUFF#AND ITS A GOOD THING‼️‼️‼️#anyway jun's ending was bittersweet and might be my second favorite. no its still not canon.#her *special* episode where she explains what happened to her pre-t3 IS CANON. her *character* episode aka the arcade mode IS NOT.#its a self-contained little story with an intro. a couple fights. and a cool cutscene ending. just like every other character episodes#this is so obvious to me but i keep seeing people not making the distinction#*yes* as cute as it would be to imagine freshly-beaten kaz sleeping in that tent. no jun just woke up she doesnt have a full camping set up#and the g corp blanket at the end of her ending is meant to signify that maybe her happy dream had some truth to it since kaz left it to her#and i have a whole essay about jun's role in the (canon) story mode but i'll try to be brief. its like 1am#tagging later
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What is your favourite thing about Billie Lurk?
(Answers are obvious possibly but i love when people talk about her👍)
thanks for the ask!! YEAH ME TOO I love when people talk about Billie! I can't say I have a favourite thing specifically, but I can explain why she's my fav. apologies for not taking this qn literally, but -
short answer: she’s really cool
& you can stop reading there, or, for the maybe 2 mutuals who might have time to read this my thoughts on her as a character, her meta, and her character as raw potential...
long answer:
i considered making this entire thing a gush so you could read a gush about Billie. but, part of what draws me to her is that she’s not always well written, and in fandom she’s underrated for a literal protagonist.
since you ask...
billie is a cool character
when I played Dh2 (hadn't played Dh1), I was excited to see a black woman with disabilities who was captaining a massive ship by herself. wow.
then I discovered Billie’s backstory with Deirdre, the way she responded to that, then having to survive while living on the run, and her bisexuality. as well as her history with daud & delilah. fascinating!
she’s an outsider who has so much to lose, and knows what it's like to lose everything - having lost everything not once but three times - but nevertheless speaks truth to power. she's so brave! she went and helped Emily & Corvo and she must have known they might kill her! plus, she’s smart, she’s funny, she gets shit done, she’s gorgeous.
but... the meta
mild critique of fandom & arkane incoming.
skip this bit if you want - you've been warned twice now - jump to tired Hayao Miyazaki and read from there if you'd like my thoughts on writing her.
i thought Death of the Outsider was going to be amazing and then... well. *sad trombone* i've written about that before so i won't keep banging on. i figured others must be disappointed too, so I joined a few fandom spaces in hopes of finding camaraderie.
most people with complaints about DotO didn’t like how the Outsider and Daud were handled. which is valid & I agree. but it seemed like most paid no attention to Billie; when people talk about her it’s with respect to Daud, as opposed to in her own right. you could argue for fandom misogyny because people don’t talk about adult Emily Kaldwin that much either, but in Billie's case, it’s misogynoir (compare & contrast with the popularity of thomas, particularly the popularity of thomas portrayed as a white man for no particular reason that i've been able to discern - i keep asking around, is it in the books???).
i think this is a LOT better now than it used to be, which is fantastic. or perhaps i have found the correct echo-chamber? ha.
ultimately, The Fandom is a fraction of the entire picture, and not even the important bit since The Fandom is not who these games are made for. you can't make money relying on only your hardcore fans even if all of them spent a fortune on merch, this is true for any AAA game.
while it's true that Billie is underrated from a fandom perspective - but Billie as an underwritten protagonist is squarely Arkane’s fault.
it was reasonable when she was a side character - the lack of info in Dh2 makes perfect sense (if anything there was more lore in Dh2 which is kind of wild)-
- but as a protagonist in Death of the Outsider?
.... there’s lousy writing, and there’s whatever is going on with Billie Lurk, a black woman who mostly exists as a foil or saviour for light-skinned characters. In her own game there’s barely any of her own lore except where it's relevant to saving two dudes.
lore hints at, but barely touches on what race means in the Dh universe (xenophobia is stronger in Dh1; separate essay i guess), but Arkane has patted themselves on the back for portraying non-white characters, which feels like the same thing as the aesthetic of diversity we're seeing in advertising currently because it’s in marketing trend guides. it's self-congratulatory and it's a missed opportunity for deeper storytelling.
you can see an example of diversity at its most shallow in the way that Billie’s written: there’s little engagement with her as an entire person with history & wants & preferences, and the world she walks through in that game feels like it has nothing to do with her. you could make a case for alienation as a theme, but then, how do you handle the titular premise of 'Dishonored' without ever letting Billie make changes in an environment without a chaos system? it's disappointing from that angle too.
in my opinion, whatever it's worth, it was an accident Arkane created such an awesome character - they needed someone to betray daud. congrats billie.
all this said, it makes her an underdog as far as characters to enjoy & create art & stories for. it's nice to find so many like-minded, switched on people! <3
billie's character potential
she’s got a wealth of unexplored lore, being deeply intertwined with both Karnaca & Dunwall’s fates & criminal underbellies, as well as her connections to the witches & whalers, and three Empresses.
she’s lived a few distinct lifetimes and in the games we get to meet her at two peaks (KoD & DotO) & a low (Dh2 as Meagan).
her voice is very distinct, her dry & often dark humour is entertaining & fun to write. her perspective is really interesting - she’s had the widest variety of void-powers of anyone canonically, and she’s also lived through the highest highs and lowest lows.
she's got everything going for her :) i couldn't really pick a fav thing!
#i assume my followers are cool enough to let me give a brief measured critique on fandom trends and DotO#thanks for the anon question!! what fun!#i love billie lurk <333#jumped on the opportunity to rant n rave#what part of billie isn't my fav! (im a guy who likes the bad stuff too. mmm interesting meta)#trying to be not unfair or mean- i'm not targeting anyone but rather trends. and it's ok to be disappointed with something you love#fuck it. make it part of the appeal! her writing sucks! plenty of room for me & other creators!#its easier for me to indulge my billie brainworms when it sorta feels like she's not getting as much love as she deserves#you know? i want stories where her history is explored and her agency is important so i guess i'll roll up my sleeves#tumblr is a terrible place for this sort of critique IMO- lots of nuanceless empathy-free guilt-trip-ish rhetoric#so i hope i avoided that. but not so much that i seem forgiving.#that said i'm not tagging this one with fandom tags! no thank you.#i am blaming arkane yes. but that is also not without games industry context#i could complain about amateurish writing but that also never happens in a vacuum. industry problem(s) for sure.#people love to blame writers for things#and yeah a couple really fucking good writers can push a boulder uphill#but its usually a company problem#hire lots of diverse people in your company. give them authority and respect and reasonable workloads. and no crunch.#ah fuck this is a separate essay in tags. again#THIS WAS A SIMPLE QUESTION#*clutches head in hands*#uh if you're still reading at this point im SO sorry and thank you and i love you
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the overturning of the law of daynos was kind of overshadowed by the complete clusterfuck (positive) that was book 3's ending, but can we back it up a second. they overturned the law of daynos. they didn't even really believe in overturning it, they just needed it to work one specific personal thing out. but that has massive ramifications. they showed up, decimated the current vané social structure and then left. can you imagine all the problems they left behind my god
#a chorus of dragons#mutuals I was gonna try to explain the law of daynos to you in the tags but I don't know if I have the space. i'll try to be brief#(it's imperfect the vané are complicated okay I'm fudging a few things)#law of daynos basically says once you die you are no longer legally responsible for the actions of your past life.#even once your soul gets transfered to a new body (VERY common. like everyone does it. its like faux immortality)#so any responsibilities agreements (like marriages) are void#but they overturned this law in book 3#meaning that now like their entire population's past lives are suddenly legally considered alive and valid#marriages are valid again. debts you owed are valid again. etc#because in this world dying is very different. and you can die and still be the same person#therefore death actually /shouldn't/ automatically invalidate marriages debts responsibilities etc#and the main characters didn't actually really beleive in overturning the law#they just needed to reinstate this one person to the throne via overturning it#so they did that. and completely fucked SO many lives in the process#and we simply. never see the consequences#the main characters have too much else going on that this clusterfuck doesn't come close to making the cut#but I keep thinking about it...
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Astarion and Karlach are perfect foils showing how trauma from having autonomy ripped from you, your body forcibly changed, and then used as a pawn serving a master can present wildly different, but still with that same under layer of RAGE.
#bat rambles#i'll touch back on this#but these are the two who express rage so purely#like neither of them hold it back and the narrative validates their rage towards their abusers#i am also just feeling a lot of karlach feels with having your body not only permanently altered#but in a way that guarantees death#like the horror of feeling that heat building for 10 years#just knowing#you either stay in this bloodbath and evenurally become one of the many slaughterd in a war waged by creatures who wull never even#see the battle field#or you can escape#enjoy a brief respite#she never thought she would see anything outside of Avernus again#but she kept trying to escape#and now that she has it she just wants to enjoy all aspects of life before hers ends#and like astarion is plucked out of his personal hell knowing if he plays his cards right#he'll have an eternity to catch up on what he lost in 200 years#karlach is having to make up her 10 years of hell in as short a time possible#bat muses#karlach#astarion#bg3
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Four warm-up Silvers
Blog update below the cut 👉👈
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A bunch of changes irl were pretty hard to deal with, the most relevant here being the fact that I'm not really into sonic anymore. This was sort of my first real case of brainrot so I really didn't want it to go, but it looks like this is the reality for me. I'm really glad I took the leap to try and join the fandom here though, it was a source of so much joy and it motivated me to improve my art so much. I never imagined I'd get to talk to so many cool people and there are many I wished I could've talked to more :')
Plan going forward is not too different from how the blog's been for the past few months, everything will stay up but blog will be dead unless I happen to have some sonic-related art I want to post once in a blue moon. I'm still drawing, and now that hedgehogs are the easiest thing for me to draw, it turns out they make good warm-ups :)
Thank you so much to the friends I've made along the way, thank you for all the likes, reblogs, comments and follows that fueled me, and stay awesome sonic fandom!
#myart#I'm sorry I disappear for months and this is what I return with :')))#this still makes me feel awful but I think it's best to formally get this off my chest#I feel so new to all this falling out of fandoms is probably really normal but... :')#I have 1 more art thing and then I'll try to put this behind me for now#thanks for your understanding#and thank you for all the support during my brief stint! ❤️
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uhhh like this post for a starter set immediately post-TK quitting the 126. i'll write it, i'm around right this second, let's go!
if you are completely new to the 'let-the-17yo-go' thought i will warn you it's 6000 words at this stage of just me thinking v hard about tk living his life in the aftermath of choosing to let a kid go
#also you don't gotta know tk already he can just be annoyed and reckless/put-the-cup-down-too-hard/bump-into-people bc he is single minded#about getting Home and trying to figure out what to do Next#PS it is a very brief quitting he's going back he's just blowing things up first don't worry ab it#ALSO IF YOUR MUSE is a part of the 126 and u wanna tell me how they Respond to this/the news he's gonna be suspended/the news he's quitting#like If Your Muse Would Already Be Making Moves/Doing Something/Reaching Out/Etc#absolutely feel free to tell me what's going on for them and i'll incorporate it!!!!!#or you can write a starter and i will absolutely respond to it!!!!!!!!#i'm so (vibrates) on this idea man
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burnout is supposed to end at some point, I have read this. However, how do you know when it has ended and you should gradually force yourself through more activities to get used to living a life again, and when doing that will send you Directly back to an even worse ring of hell. Is there like a guidebook or
#in some ways it sucks i've never had one massive breakdown just like small ones that didn't really justify lying in bed for a month#like when i say i'm doing that i'm also usually doing bare minimum reading eating exercise#in addition to lying in bed and scrolling for 5 billion hours#i'm still making plans and attempting to get better it's just at a glacial pace#it's not working i'm not feeling better i still feel like if i find a job or try to make a decision i'll probably break in a million pieces#then any time i try to work harder the rebound of that hits me even worse#every job i feel like i can deal with less and less masking. until one day i just won't be able to hold down one for more than 2 months#i kept trying every strategy i knew and it just wouldn't keep me from having to go to my car and scream sometimes#feels like walking over coals trying to apply for internships rn but schoolwork is the only task i like some of the time#need the internship to graduate if i don't graduate i'll just be stuck doing things i hate even more#ik you shouldn't apply to grad school just to go but if i can put off dealing with living a life outside of academia for even 1 year longer#worth the mountains of debt#like even if i drop out and everything goes horribly that's a year i didn't spend saying thank you have a nice day#god. i'm going back to thinking abt lesbian necromancers now. wow that brief look into my mental state sucked
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Uni lecture is making me think about my future for a minute and auuuggghhhh the agonies
#personal#taking a brief break from it bc the feeling hasnt quite overwhelmed me yet but i dont think I'm going to be okay by the end of it!#its asking me to consider what my strengths are. what kind of role I'd like to have in the industry when i graduate#these are questions that i SHOULD certainly have answers to but they kind of just make me not wanna be alive yk? bc i have no answers#I'm not really good at much. like the things I'm best at I'm still completely unexceptional#what are my strengths? don't have any. next question#what job do i want to have in the industry? well that requires an answer to the first question doesn't it#not to mention it requires me to think about graduating and having a job and I've simply never imagined myself getting that far#and i can only give this so much of my attention span bc I'm also thinking about how hard i failed my modules from last semester#my best grade this year has been a c#one of them is a marginal fail meaning i do the reassessment this year (i think)#the other is a hard f. what does that mean? do i resit the entire course next year? maybe#and i can't look it up just yet bc i need to make it through the lecture bc I'm really far behind this other module already#and it's only week 3 and i have a presentation tomorrow#and if i stop watching it im not convinced I'll bring myself to start watching again!#so instead i was just sitting here trying not to get overwhelmed by all of the things i should be thinking about!!!#that's why I'm making the post tbh. just to organise my thoughts and get it out of my system and give myself time to breathe#and my phone keeps buzzing while i type and if it does that one more time i will launch us both out of the window I'm so fucking done#semester has barely begun and im so fucking overwhelmed already#I've joked about being the token nt mutual before but honestly the past few years I've just been getting gradually more convinced I'm not#this can't be how everyone else is experiencing life. surely#like dude I'm so out of fucking touch w the concept of being a human#so in summary: augh the agonies
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Hey✨! (First will just say you by all means don’t have to answer this! Representation and interpretation of ai characters is something I’m really interested in so just wanna hear some of ur thoughts if your up for it!)
I’m curious as to whether you have though about how ‘human’ interpretations of Hera are and whether the want to represent her but the lack of understanding on how being an ai would feel (for obvious reasons of, we are not ai) effects how much people portray her as ‘human’ to try and understand how she works (drawing her with eyes that look at screens and hands that fiddle buttons to work the Hephaestus, making outcomes where she can get physical affection, something we consider staple to our relationships because humans need physical affection where an ai might actually not ect)
Also!! Just wanna disclaim I do not mean interpretative ai characters in more human ways is bad at all and all the interpretations are incredible, I’m just interested in how ones own humanity may affect that interpretation. Have a good day!
okay, this ask is so old by now; i’m sorry if you don’t even see my answer. but i wanted to make sure i could link you to some version of this post first, so... if you're mostly interested in my perspective on 'human' interpretations of hera and how i think that fits into her canon perspective/self-image/portrayal, then. your answer is (hopefully) in there.
i'm going to try to be brief and not rehash everything i said in that post, hence... why i'm linking the post... but i think the question of whether hera would express a desire for physical interaction or affection is kind of. already answered by the show itself, in that she canonically does experience physical loneliness in the way she perceives herself 'away' from the rest of the crew in memoria. like, if it's a question of AI Characters in General, then i absolutely agree that it's unfair to assume they would necessarily have the same desires or priorities, but... i don't know how much that particular discussion is really relevant to hera.
something else i didn't bring up directly in that post, but i think is worth considering: wolf 359 uses plenty of audio tricks to suggest inhuman or nonlinear perspectives at other points in the show, but it doesn't make much of an effort to ever apply those from hera's perspective. if anything, hera comes across as more human from her own perspective because of the added physicality in her self-perception and the lack of filters on her voice (and the addition of filters on everyone else's, further equalizing them and suggesting physical distance rather than a different state of being entirely.) that doesn't change that the reality of her situation is more complicated, but it's an intentional choice in what it communicates about hera as an individual, and in what it says re: how hera fits into the show's broader theme of asserting and recognizing humanity in people who have been dehumanized.
i think there's also just a question of practicality when it comes to fanart, like... hera can be an equal presence in an audio format in a way that she couldn't be in a visual one, so if you want to represent the feeling of a scene rather than Literally How It Would Look, you have to make some choices there. like with my personal design for hera, i ask people to draw her with that kind of blue hologram look, but i don't think that's either. literally how she looks, or how she sees herself. it's just a design choice that i feel will make her more recognizable.
i definitely don't expect everyone to come to all of the same conclusions that i do, but i think... based on the way all of this information is presented in canon, i think we can get a pretty good sense of how hera sees herself. i think it's important, at least, to acknowledge that she does have that internal self-image, that it matters to her, and that however she might feel things throughout the station due to the ways she's connected to it, the station itself doesn't represent a physical sense of self for her. again, she does express a desire for physicality and she experiences physical loneliness. so, while i can't definitively say why any individual artist might choose to, i do think that representing hera in a more 'human' way is a reasonable extension of her canon portrayal.
at the very least, i hope this answer + the linked post make it clear that this is something i've put a lot of thought into, and that i'm not making these claims lightly or out of an assumption of human physicality as the default. and i want to say, i totally get why a lot of people who feel not-quite or other-than human tend to get very attached to AI/robot/etc. characters, like. i am one of those people! and given the track record of a lot of sci-fi, i know how frustrating it is when it feels like Being Human is treated as something necessarily aspirational, or as if it's interchangeable with Being A Person. that's why it's important to me to be clear that i'm talking about hera's specific circumstances, her own self expression, and that i'm only talking about hera.
#wolf 359#w359#hera wolf 359#asks#i'm so sorry again for how long this took me#i hope you see this and i hope it's. a satisfying answer at least#even if you aren't on the same page as i am#there's no way i'll ever be able to express everything i feel about this particular topic#but it is very important to me for some very complicated reasons#and i hope that consideration is clear.#also i'm sorry i'm always like 'i'll try to be brief' and then i write six paragraphs#also. of course i think you're right that it's inevitable that Being Human like. obviously that is an inherent bias in all stories#but i think there's a distinction when a story is /trying/ to portray an experience that isn't human#vs. whether it is a story fundamentally about humanity and human experiences#if that makes sense.
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Rating: General Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: M/M
Fandom: Promare (2019)
Relationship: Lio Fotia/Galo Thymos
Characters: Lio Fotia Galo Thymos Meis (Promare) Gueira (Promare)
Additional Tags: Sick Fic Cuddling Snow Implied/Referenced Child Abuse Implied/Referenced Child Peril (nothing blatant but both of them have Been Through Things) Background Gueira/Meis (Promare) Established Relationship Living Together Autistic Galo Thymos Infodumping as a Love Language implied past food insecurity Galo is a Good Roommate
Summary: It's the first time Promepolis is expecting snow since before the first Great World Blaze!... And Galo and Lio wake up too sick to enjoy it. They'll just have to make do inside.
For Promare Holidays 2022. Day 8: Cuddling/Day 10: Fireplace (with bonus appearances of First Snow, Cold/Freezing, and Hot Chocolate)
#writing with Regalli#my fic#promare#galolio#Promare Holidays 2022#from a certain point of view this is late for Days 8 and 10#but from a certain point of view it's a few minutes EARLY (where I am anyway) for Day 13#... Yeah I'll tell myself that.#honestly I should just tag any Promare fic that features Galo 'Autistic Galo Thymos'#it's one of those things where I don't actually have to read into things to say this#I just make no effort whatsoever to obscure the fact that I'm an autistic person writing a character who is just. Look.#HE INFODUMPED IN A FIGHT. TO THE PEOPLE HE THOUGHT WERE TRYING TO KILL HIM. WITH A SLIDESHOW.#but anyway it's more obvious when I'm writing from his POV#also features a brief appearance of me BLATANTLY projecting my own disability on Gueira#based off occasional fanon that might have been based off a remark somewhere but I've never seen it cited? that he might be disabled#whatever it's free real estate I can give him hypermobility#as a treat. For me.
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@bxtsence said: ( humor )
(childhood memories - open)
humor - a joke from my muse's childhood
Salvatore grins, flashing his fangs. "You want a joke?" he drawls. "Well, I got one." He holds his hands up, clawed fingers gesturing for emphasis as he speaks.
"Ya' ever hear what the politician said when he had to make a decision?" A deliberate pause. "'I'll double-cross that bridge when I get to it!'" The joke has Salvatore snickering to himself, clearly delighted.
#❝ i'll talk your ear off‚ kid ❞ 「 answered 」#❝ take it from old sally two shoes‚ kid ❞ 「 in character 」#bxtsence#//trying my hand at icons with sal's just-for-fun faceclaim#//not sure how i feel about this tbh but y'know what! not the worst i suppose#//still not planning to use them regularly b/c for me personally using them doesn't add enough to the experience#//to justify the stress of making a bunch of em#//but. sometimes. just for fun.#//time to be a nerd real quick#//salvatore is misquoting a quote often attributed to oscar levant#//oscar levant being a famous musician; talk show host; actor; and comedian from salvatore's childhood#//sal's a bit too young to remember much from levant's heyday#//but here sal is referencing a quote from oscar levant's autobiography published in the 1960s#//love doing very brief history research just for sally
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we fell asleep for a while but it means now we're awake before sunrise and the sky is clear so it's a beautiful deep blue, and everything feels very still and quiet.
everyone's asleep and it's almost silent except I can hear the house creaking a little bit and there are very faint sounds of traffic in the distance.
I remember at one point towards the end of June when we'd been having panic attacks all the time, we had one night where we felt a bit better and around sunrise we ended up feeling really peaceful in a specific way, and it almost feels like that again
#personal#thoughts#🍬 post#it's weird to think it's been 6 months since everything that happened in June#I'd only existed for 4 months at that point and I'd just become the host a month earlier#if you'd asked me back then what I thought I'd be doing in December I'd have just had a breakdown on the spot#but if you asked me now what I think I'll be doing next June I'd say hopefully coping decently with the anniversaries of what happened#and maybe being a little bit more prepared for heatwaves and stuff than I was this year#apparently me being calm and relaxed for once means you all get to see me being sappy about making progress with stuff#but I'm sure that's an improvement over all the vent posts lately adghgfhk#idk maybe I'll feel like shit again later but I'm once again trying to get my brain to pay attention to the small nice things around me#a little bit of peace is still a good thing even if it's brief
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this paper is too godDAMN LONG
#page 38 and i still have another analysis to go through#and then the comparison#and then the conclusion#too much of it darling too much!#my contextualizing disability studies section is too long i think#so whenever i go back and edit (after i finish the whole draft) i'll definitely try to trim there#maybe i could even scrap that section and redistribute the necessary info throughout the rest of the paper#hmm...#fellow english majors: help me learn to be brief#i have too much to say and take too long to say it#amy rambles#if i do end up applying to conferences with this paper i bet it'll be like. '8 pages' requirement or something#im so screwed god bless#lmao i must make for a funny sight. got on my n95 with kfp music playing as i write about the depiction of blindness in two 1840s plays
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