Do you have any recs of Jily authors? Looking into reading works from others and hopefully writing more Jily fics.

The one you wrote about James finding Lily is so good, love it when you write angst and always look forward to your updates and posts.

You rock!

Hi there anon! First of all thank you so much for your lovely words! ☺️ Glad to know people appreciate the angst, because I have no intention of stopping 😌

Now as for recs, oh boy do I have recs! I know a list went around awhile ago, but I can't for the life of me find it 😅 I'll point first and foremost to my end of 2023 fic rec list here for starters, but will also shout out some of my favorites here! I'd also definitely recommend looking up authors your like on ao3 and checking out their bookmarks to find new fics and authors! Definitely a good tried and true method, especially since not everyone has a tumblr!

Some authors I'd rec are: @clare-with-no-i @thequibblah @emeralddoeadeer @alittlebitofeverything23 @sunshinemarauder @cascader @ghostofbambifanfiction @suzyq31 @charmsandtealeaves @annabtg @athenasparrow @jamesunderwater @nodirectionhome-ao3 @theesteemedladydebourgh @isahorcrux @possessingtheproperspirit @mppmaraudergirl @uncertainwallflower @startanewdream @tinyluminaryzombie @annasghosts @nought-shall-go-ill @firefeufuego @wearingaberetinparis @chdarling @oyprongs @jilyism @jfleamont and even with this big list I KNOW I'm leaving some people out, so if anyone wants to chime in, please do!

Hope to see you around, anon, and can't wait to read what you have in store!

brunet argentinian

i am blond and british and not a brunet or an argentinian

Is it too late to send in an ask for the WIP game? I'm interested in Illusionist!

Not too late at all!

I don't actually have any of Illusionist written yet, but I have a file set up for it with all the scribbles of my ideas and conversations with people I've bounced off for it.

But it's all about someone who's devil fruit allows them to cast illusions - audio and visual. At first they're using them as a performer and it's all fairly innocuous stuff.

They end up joining the Kid pirates after running into trouble in their town and from there they start developing their powers more while also finding themself involved with their captain – which leads to some tension with Killer.

It all gets a bit balls to the wall when they awaken their fruit and it turns out they can do a lot more than just create some projected visual/audio illusions but I don't want to get too much into it and give everything away :D

WIP Game

LOVE machete's prey animal ass eyes he looks like hes terrified a hwak us going to carry him off

Would it be hard to turn that bouncy ball pull apart animation into something like a poke ball?

not only would it not be hard, check THIS out

Is there any frog species you have a grudge against?

Meet Gephyromantis (Phylacomantis) pseudoasper

Peak calling activity? Between 3 and 4 am 😡

Its preferred perch? The canvas of my tent 🙃

The decibels of its call? Jet-engine levels 🫨

The sound? Fuckin' Star Wars lasers.

Hey Buck can you tell me a joke?

i know you won't translate "sense during speech" to norwegian........

I wanna be fucked. I wanna be fucked so throughly that my thighs still shake after we’re done. I wanna be fucked so badly I ache in the morning. I wanna be cleaned up with their tongue and forced to orgasm again even when I whine that I can’t. I wanna be manhandled and thrown around the room like I’m a doll but still lovingly praised and degraded through all of it. I wanna have bruises and bites all over my body. I want my voice to be horse. I wanna be fucked.

I mean, you're obviously President Barack Obama, right?

well obviously

also can everyone stop stealing my shoelaces now >:(

/j

I'm totally in support of the writers in theory but I'm trying to understand more of what you're fighting for because I've seen some people on twitter claim writers make more money a week than most of us make in a month so I'm trying to understand what the issue is. Also if that info is accurate. This is a genuine question. Not trying to have a "gotcha moment". I really want to hear from a writer.

people have always had wild misconceptions about how much a writer earns because of their lack of understanding of how the industry actually works. there's so many posts about how "you guys make 5k a week. what more do you want?!" yeah...let's do some math on that.

5k a week for 14 weeks (and that's a long room. a lot of rooms these days are 8-10 weeks. those are the dreaded mini-rooms we're trying to kill) is $70,000. for roughly three months of work. you'd think we're cooking with gas...BUT HOLD UP. that's gross! let's see everything that has to come out of that check:

10% to our agent

10% to our manager

5% to our entertainment attorney

5% to our business manager (not everyone has one but a lot of us do. i do, so that's literally 30% immediately off the top of every check)

most of these breakdowns ive seen downplay taxes severely. someone made one that says writers pay 5% in taxes and i would like to ask them "in what universe?". that doesn't even cover state taxes. the way taxes work in the industry is really complicated, but the short of it is most of us have companies for tax reasons so we aren't taxed like people on w2s/1099. if we did we'd be even more fucked. basically every production hires a writer's company instead of the writer as an individual. so they engage our companies for our services and then at the end of the year we (the company) pay taxes as corporations or llcs (depending on what the writer chose to go with). my company is registered as a "corporation" so let's go with those rates. california's corporate rate is 9% and the federal corporate tax rate is 21%. there's other expenses with running a business like fees and other shit so my business managers/accountants/bookkeepers have recommended i save between 35-40% of everything i make for when tax season comes.

you see where the math is at already??? 25-30% in commissions and then 35-40% in taxes. on the lower end you're at THE VERY LEAST looking at 60% of that check gone. 70% worst case scenario. suddenly those $70,000 people claim we make are actually down to $28,000 as the take home pay. and that's if you're only losing 60%. it goes down to $21,000 if it's 70%.

lets pretend you worked a long 14 week room (that's the longest room ive ever worked btw) and let's also be generous and say you only have 60% in expenses so the take home is $28,000. average rent in los angeles is around $2,800-$3,000. if you're paying $2,800 in rent that means you need AT LEAST $4,000 a month to have a semi decent life since you need to also cover groceries, gas, medical expenses, toiletries, phone, internet, utilities, rental and car insurances, car payments, student loan payments, etc etc etc. and again, this is los angeles. everything is more expensive so you're living BARE BONES on 4k. and these are numbers as a single person. im not even taking having children into account. so those $28,000 you take home might cover your life for 6-7 months. 3 of which you're in the room working. the reality is that once that room ends, you might not work in a room again for 6-9-12 months (i have friends whose last jobs were over 18 months ago) and you now only have about 3 months left of savings to hold you over. we have to make that money stretch while we do all the endless free development we do for studios and until we get our next paying job. so...3 months left of enough money to cover your expenses -> possible 9 months of not having a job. this is how writers end up on food stamps or applying to work at target.

this is why we're fighting for better rates and better residuals. residuals were a thing writers used to rely on to get them through the unemployment periods. residual checks have gone down from 20k to $0.03 cents. im not joking.

they've decimated our regular pay and then destroyed residuals. we have nothing left. so don't believe it when they tell you writers are being greedy. writers are simply fighting to be able to make a middle class living. we're not asking them to become poor for our sake. we're asking for raises that amount to 2% of their profit. TWO PERCENT. this is a fight for writing even being a career in five years instead of something you do on the side while you work retail to pay your bills. if you think shows are bad now imagine when your writer has to do it as a hobby because they need a real job to pay their bills and support a family. (which none of us can currently afford to have btw)

support writers. stop being bootlickers for billion dollar corporations. stop caring about fictional people more than you care about the real people that write them. if we don't win this fight it truly is game over. the industry as you know it is gone.

FMK

Will

James

Harry

First of all, who ARE YOU and why would you DO THIS TO ME? I need you to know the existential crisis you’ve thrown me into by having to choose between men who would unthinkingly lay down their lives for their women. I’m making myself SICK.

Marry Will, fuck James, kill Harry.

(I almost willingly misinterpreted the James as James Norrington but I’ll play by your rules, Anon)

Not marrying James is probably a bold statement for a primarily Jily blog but I stand by it. I am a 90s girl and the effect Will Turner had on me can not go understated.

youre argentinian

can someone make a funny footer image that says something like "this user is british"

Kidlet please?

Absolutely~

I'll start with - I honestly still have no idea what this one will be called, and in all fairness I'm not 100% sure where it'll go but naturally the hint of the idea bug hit me and so I started writing a lil something without entirely knowing where it's gonna end.

When I first had the idea, I thought it might just be a HeatxReader fic, and I think it will probably start with him - but I can already feel that it won't stay that way for long. I imagine this will probably be ReaderxBig Four to be honest.

Anyhow - I kind of wanted to write an Isekai fic but with a twist. So in this you have a reader who got whisked off to One Piece but somehow lost at least part of their memory in the process. They have a photographic memory otherwise which causes some chuckles given they can remember so many things so well but genuinely have no clue where they are or how they got there.

They do, however, remember some things? So Reader recognises Kid and Killer, which surprises no one, but when they know who Heat is despite him not having a bounty at this point, everyone is a little suspicious. Reader's also very confused because a part of them is like "Kid has both arms?"

It's a little confusing all around for them but since Reader manages to reproduce a map that got destroyed when Reader accidentally crashed a meeting Kid was having... he decides they're worth keeping around.

WIP Game

What is your favorite work of Vasco / Machete / Both? Or in general, your favorite piece you've made?

It's hard to pick favorites, but from this past year/current ongoing era, I really like these in particular:

can you make vanilla extract

yeah ok. dont go overboard with it