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Welcome!

This is your official-unofficial source for all things SVSSS fanon-debunking! As a veteran reader of MXTX's least popular novel and someone with a PhD in SVSSS literature, I have taken on the arduous task of separating fact from fiction... or well, specifically, canon from fanon.

《 Disclaimer: The purpose of this blog is textual analysis, not to tell people what fanon or canon material to use or not to use in their fanworks, or to make moral judgments on the way people interpret the text. Please see my faq and psa tags for more about my views on the matter. 》

There is a significant affliction within this fandom, where fanon ideas are assumed to be canonical facts-- to the point where sometimes fanon will even end up on the official SVSSS wiki 😱😱😱!!!

I've met quite a lot of people who are surprised to find out that something they think is canon is actually fanon, and even a few that are the other way around, so I've decided to start this blog to help people sort it out!

My credentials and qualifications are as follows:

PhD in SVSSS literature (awarded to me by a disgruntled SJ apologist).

A good minimum of 50-75% of available brain-space devoted to SVSSS at all times

Consummate knowledge of minute lore details

Near-memorization of a good portion of the novel, with the added ability to find any quote within 10 minutes of searching (in both EN and CN)

Author of a fic that is currently over 300k words long and counting, which was originally written out of spite for fanon portrayals of certain characters and themes

The ability to write 5k+ rants about any given topic in the space of an afternoon

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How this blog works:

You, dear reader, send in a suspected fanon topic to my askbox. Or perhaps it's something you suspect to be canon, but would like confirmation on.

I will then write a post on this topic (on no set schedule, I go as the wind takes me~), first applying a rating (more details below), then adding further information as needed. Topics with either support or rebuttal in canon will have quoted evidence presented, those without either of those things will simply have a brief explanation.

I will also add some analysis or potential interpretations and readings but I will do my best not to add my pure opinions to these posts-- this blog is about textual evidence! So, do not reblog my posts to argue with me based on your headcanons! If you want to argue against one of my posts, provide a quoted source from the novel!

Otherwise, I will most likely block you :>

Any hateful content or attempts to start fandom wank on my posts or in my inbox will get deleted and blocked. Anyone who provides textual evidence that changes my rating or analysis will be very much appreciated and receive the Golden Cucumber Award.

At the end of the day, this blog is entirely about canonical textual analysis and has no bearing whatsoever on what people want to headcanon or use in their fics. It's fandom. Do Whatever You Want Forever. Who am I to say you can't use a certain headcanon?

Just please treat headcanons as headcanons. No matter how deeply-entrenched into fanon they may be, they're still not canon and shouldn't be treated as such.

If you're of the mind that you'll still do whatever you want without regards for canon, then you're probably not the intended audience for this blog. If you're someone who wants to clarify whether a popular idea has a basis in canon or not, then read on to learn more about the rating system and see already-discussed topics!

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Rating System

WHAT DO I CONSIDER CANON? (please read before commenting)

Each exposed fanon or canon will receive a rating and analysis. The ratings are interpreted as follows:

CANON - This fact is directly or indirectly supported by the text! If you want to stay true to canon, this should be treated as fact.

FANON - SUPPORTED - Though the text doesn't directly state this is true, it is a very likely interpretation based on various factors including historical precedent and cultural norms, genre tropes, and the occam's razor principle.

FANON - NEUTRAL - The text neither confirms or denies this. It may be true or it may be false, and the matter is entirely up for interpretation. Many fanon will likely fall into this category, and whether you adopt it or not won't affect how true to canon your interpretations are.

FANON - UNSUPPORTED - While the text may not be directly against this headcanon, it is still an unlikely interpretation based on various factors including historical precedent and cultural norms, genre tropes, and the occam's razor principle.

FANON - CONFLICTING - The text goes directly against this interpretation, and there are quotes that prove it to be incorrect. If you wish to stay true to canon, it's best not to include this idea.

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Awards:

I will give out three awards on this blog for those who assist me in keeping fanon and canon separate!

The Bronze Cucumber Award will be given to anyone who reblogs my post and adds significant additional context in support of/explaining my analysis. This may be textual context or "support" context (cultural norms/historical precedence/genre tropes/etc.). Since this fandom likes to analyze, I will only be giving out this award to those who specifically add details and ideas that are not rooted in my original analysis (such as, a quote from a completely different part of the book, or a linguistic explanation that provides context), rather than those who simply expand on what I already wrote.

The Silver Cucumber Award will be given to those who reblog one of my analysis posts with a source telling the origin of a particular fanon idea. This is wonderful for archival purposes-- just as it's good to see where canon ideas come from, it can also be helpful to know where a fanon idea originated, in order to have proper context. Only the first responder to provide a fanon origin will receive the award (so that this blog doesn't get too clogged up).

The Golden Cucumber Award will be given to those who reblog one of my posts with a debunking of my analysis-- as long as they provide directly-quoted evidence that disproves my points. This evidence should be based on the text of the novel itself, and I should be able to look it up in my own copy. I will be more selective with giving out golden cucumbers to reblogs that debunk on the basis of "support" elements (cultural norms/historical precedence/genre tropes, etc.) because many of those topics can be somewhat subjective.

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Previously-Tackled Concepts

(See below the cut for a full list)

CANON

CQMS Twelve Peaks' have Color-Coded Uniforms

Shen Yuan has a Younger Sister

Mobei-jun has Blue Eyes

Shen Yuan is a Monster Nerd

Airplane was a Child of Divorced Parents

Ning Yingying is Younger than Luo Binghe

FANON - SUPPORTED

Shen Jiu Only Goes to Brothels to Sleep, Not to Have Sex

Mobei-jun and Shang Qinghua Eventually Get Married

FANON - NEUTRAL

Shen Qingqiu is Banned from Xian Shu Peak

Shen Qingqiu Wears a Cinnabar Mark on his Forehead

Shen Yuan Wore Glasses in his Previous Life

FANON - UNSUPPORTED

Shen Yuan was Chronically/Terminally Ill in his First Life

Shen Yuan was a Socially Awkward, Introverted Shut-In By Nature

Luo Binghe has Curly Hair

Aphrodisiac-Producing Plants are an Ever-Present Danger in the World of PIDW

FANON - CONFLICTING

Ming Fan was Head Disciple of Qing Jing Peak

Luo Binghe Received Both Scars from the Abyss Scene

Qiu Haitang has More than One Older Brother

Shen Qingqiu has Green Eyes

All Demons Naturally have Forehead Marks

Luo Binghe has a "Stereotypically Masculine" Appearance

Xuan Su is a Large, Broad, Imposing-Looking Sword

Shen Yuan's Original Body Closely Resembled Shen Qingqiu's

Luo Binghe and Shen Qingqiu were Meant to End Up Together in the Original Draft of PIDW

CANON EXAMINED

Shen Yuan's PIDW-Reading Timeline

Cang Qiong Mountain Sect Hierarchy (tag)

The Pre-Canon Timeline and Character Ages

#svsss #scum villain self saving system #svsss fanon #svsss meta #pinned

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midnightbears · 2 months

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✿ tell 'em how the crowds went wild! tell 'em how i hope they shine!

⎯ in which you look back on how grateful you are for the opportunity bestowed upon you. aka: you joined the opla's cast!

#STARRING. iñaki godoy, mackenyu, jacob romero, taz skylar, emily rudd ft. fem!reader [elle fanning 4 faceclaim but u can imagine y/n anyway u wish!].

#TAGS. sfw, kind of context, a bit of smau but its tiny. mentions of covid just in case it's triggering?

#NOTE. pardon my rusty writing but i really wanted to get this out!!! i added an oc from one piece for the sake of the story but she's barely mentioned so uuuh yuh! timeline may be wrong but i work with what i'm given please bear with me. let me know if you would like more fics of this y/n??? ALSO IGNORE THE WATERMARKS ON THE PHOTOS I NEEDED TO MAKE THEM NEATER

In the past, if someone were to come up to you and tell you that you’d be a part of the One Piece Live Action main cast in the future, you would’ve probably laughed in their faces despite your wishful thinking.

At that time, you were content with your work, doing short theatre plays with companies or gaining minor roles in musicals. Everything changed when you landed the role for the one-woman show Fleabag for a limited time on London’s West End after the leading actress underwent emergency surgery for an appendectomy. You only acted as the sex-obsessed mess of a woman for about three weeks, but it was enough time for people to notice you, to really see you.

You believed your career had reached its pinnacle when you were cast as Katherine Howard in Six: The Musical in London. Your name had become somehow well-known in the musical theatre world, and you had a small but dedicated fan base who liked uploading edits of you being a dork during the Megasix on YouTube and TikTok.

Months later, you were bound to play as Fantine for Les Miserables when COVID abruptly struck, and you were dismayed that your job was ripped from you so abruptly. Your best friend, the sweetest person on earth, insisted on you moving in with her in fear that you’d be evicted from your apartment.

Months passed, and you eventually found a small way to help your friend pay rent by offering singing and acting lessons online to musical-aspiring teenagers. Since you had gained many followers from your earlier work on social media, it didn’t surprise you when the classes became sold out.

Your friend also convinced you to create a YouTube channel for you to upload videos of yourself (sometimes joined by her) where you watched and commented shitty movies, followed DIY tutorials just for the fun of it, performed covers of your favorite songs, and just generally vlogged your life (along with reactions to Taylor Swift’s (From The Vault) songs).

At first, you thought it was pretty stupid, but you were delightfully proved wrong when your videos harbored over 200k-300k views on a bad day, so you found no reason to stop as COVID-19 continued, growing to gain a little over five hundred thousand followers. Your reactions were often used for TikTok audios or clips, so you found your popularity growing and evolving during that year.

You believed yourself to be a general, simple woman. People liked you because you were elegant and levelheaded, although you could sometimes be chaotic. You also had a subtle sense of humor that many found charming. But mostly, you grew a steady fan base because your videos and presence comforted countless young adults and teenagers.

You were an optimist and a reassuring one, so during the times when COVID was so prominent, people sought refuge from the monstrosities of the world in your videos, where you seemed to connect with them even though you were on the other side of the screen.

However, everything changed somewhere in 2020-2021. That evening, your best friend got home from work with excitement practically oozing out of her every pore. You and your best friend were avid anime watchers and manga readers, so you couldn’t help the face you made when she told you that One Piece was getting a live-action.

Although you were skeptical, your friend practically insisted you send an audition tape. You grimaced at that. It was well-known that live anime actions were almost always corny and cringeworthy compared to the original work, and people never liked them. You had learned that much from Death Note and a couple of others. However, your best friend convinced you with this argument:

“If it’s that bad, then at least you’ll gain more followers out of the memes that people will make, and if it’s good, you’ll still get famous anyway!”

Eventually, you sent a video of you performing one of the lengthy monologues from Fleabag to your agency and simply hoped for the best. Your friend was practically rooting for you to get the role of Anastasia, one of the first integrants of the Straw Hat crew, joining before Sanji and after Usopp. You adored her as she greatly reminded you of your late mother, although you would be happy with any role.

Somewhere in November 2021, you remember a lot of screaming and crying. When you try to look back on it, all you remember is the happiness you felt when you received confirmation of the role of Anastasia. You were practically over the moon, and you and your friend celebrated inside your small apartment. You were entirely alone, just two drunk girls dancing and cheering, until one of the neighbors knocked on the ceiling with a broom.

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yourusername actually lost for words and filled to the brim with gratitude...... i cannot express how excited i am to play my girl anastasia and bring her to life. from the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone who has supported me. your faith in me means everything. congrats to iñaki, emily, jacob, mackenyu and taz, thank you to onepiecenetflix, thank you to my best friend for convincing me to audition for the role, and thank you, oda sensei, for putting anastasia's heart in my hands. love u all <3

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November 10, 2021

y/nsfanclub.02, AAAAAAAA SO EXCITED FOR THIS I ACTUALLY CANT BELIEVE IT

⤷ starl6ighwnb, LIKE FR IM GNAWING AT THE BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE THIS IS INSANE

user8392y3r927y, HELLO YOUR GRACE ANASTASIA

inakigo, Congrats!!!!!!!!

taz_skylar, 🔥🔥🔥

The One Piece fan base dearly loved the character of Anastasia, a well-mannered, bubbly, upbeat, fashion-loving duchess who always spoke in a Transatlantic accent but also had a quick wit and a bit of a sweet tooth. Anastasia’s dream was to become the most dangerous pirate to ever grace the seas and prove everyone who doubted her wrong.

Of course, with a big character came a big responsibility.

Sometimes, insecurity nearly got the better of you. You had to fill huge shoes, and there were many people to convince and impress. However, your love for this project was bigger than the gnawing uncertainty on the back of your neck, so you continued strongly until the end of Season One, finding comfort in your cast mates and the countless people who counted on you and, most importantly, believed in you.

Oda handpicked you, and that argument alone was enough to shoot any insecurities away.

Well, needless to say, people loved you!

Critics acclaimed your portrayal of the character, as well as the commendable chemistry you shared with the rest of the cast. The fans found it incredibly funny that your character was the complete opposite of how you actually acted in real life, and you often found yourself blissfully immersed in the fan base's love and praise.

Your channel and social media suddenly grew tenfold. Although you had stopped uploading videos every week due to the recording of season one, your followers were more than happy to wait for your return, and as one would expect, they were thrilled to have you back once you did upload a vlog explaining everything.

Over the course of the six months, you had been recording from time to time for a YouTube video in the set. Previously, you had asked the producers for permission to record some behind-the-scenes for your channel and your usual interactions with the rest of the cast with your personal Sony camera, as you felt it would be a nice way to bring the fans and the cast closer.

The producers gave the okay on the condition that you would wait until the first season aired on Netflix. You happily agreed and carefully began recording some scenes of your dressers and hairdressers as they prepared you, a few shots of your instructor showing you how you were supposed to use the guns that Anastasia employed... simple things.

Back in the day, you were still getting acquainted with the other cast members, and you didn't want to seem rude by forcibly making them appear on your videos, so you waited for a few weeks until you could properly call yourself companions. Then, you invited them to appear in the videos.

Iñaki, Taz, and Jacob liked to take advantage of the little free time they had between scenes they didn't appear in to innocently steal your camera and use it to their heart's content. One day, you got home only to find the memory card was completely full. It was an extensive video of them walking around the set, with Taz recording while Kiki and Jacob pointed out random stuff to the people who lived inside your camera, as Jacob liked to call them.

Mackenyu, being more reserved and introverted, mostly liked to act as a cameraman for you as you showed the props you used and other things, often making comments or turning the camera around whenever you referred to something.

Meanwhile, Emily had a natural knack for being in front of the camera. Whenever you asked her to join in, she effortlessly slipped into the co-host role, bantering with you and adding her own insights into the behind-the-scenes world of the show.

With the first season out of the way, you took the time to carefully pick what videos you wanted to use in the final tape, and it took you a little over a month and a half to properly edit it and turn it into a wonderful thirty-minute-long behind-the-scenes. You even sent it to the producers and your co-stars in case there was a scene they wanted deleted. Fortunately, they all gave you the okay.

You teased the video a bit on your Instagram before uploading it a few days later, and the support it received was out of this world. It gained over two million views and hundreds of thousands of likes.

You were kind of expecting this. While some BTS had already been uploaded on YouTube, yours was different because you were showing it from your perspective. The fans loved every second of it, and even started asking for a second or third part. You even saw new videos on YouTube of recompilations from your video with the titles being silly things like The One Piece Cast Being Chaotic for Seven Minutes.

At that moment, your life felt so full. You were getting contacted by industries who wanted you to appear on their videos and their stages, thousands of fans who loved you, and a feeling so peculiar that this would be eternal.

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yourusername missing my wig and my gang hours ☹️

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November 10, 2023

morganlogoff, love love love you💗💗💗

curlikaqy, NO ONE KNOWS I'M YOUR BIGGEST FAN

emilyrudd, GIRL I WANT TO SEE YOU COME BACK TO AMERICA

bookofjacob, missing your camera hours💔

#one piece #one piece live action #one piece la #opla #one piece x reader #one piece x you #one piece live action x reader #one piece live action x you #iñaki godoy #emily rudd #jacob romero gibson #jacob romero #taz skylar #mackenyu #one piece x y/n #opla x reader #opla x you #midnightbears

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babyyweebbitch · 2 years

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Situations

these are also gonna be long so get some snacks 💃🏾🕺🏽💃🏾🕺🏽

trigger warning : kidnapping , injury , fem!reader , arguing , crying , OOC wesker and Heisenberg

Leon K.

leon has been a single father since you could remember, he’s been able to somehow juggle being your father and his job at the same time. usually whenever he’s working he leaves you his card so you can order food if you don’t feel like cooking or basically do anything that doesn’t cost him over $10k, so you’re pretty good on your own but he still worries about you and calls alot. probably almost every hour to so just to make sure you’re still alive.

leon was on his way home from a mission and this day you haven’t answered his calls, the first few times he called he assumed you fell asleep. wasn’t near your phone or something that didn’t cause him to panic. so he called you again to ask you if you wanted anything from the store but when you didn’t answer for the 5th time he started to panic even more. so he completely ditched the store and speeded home to get you. when he started to get closer and closer to the penthouse you both lived at he panicked a lot more seeing the window broken in your room. after parking and practically running upstairs he didn’t take the elevator he just ran.

he saw the door was wide open and as he entered the place was trashed and looked shot up. he noticed your phone was sitting on the kitchen counter with a note next to it

the note read: Mr Kennedy, we have your daughter and we want money. call (number) to negotiate. and maybe we’ll let you talk to her. who knows we look forward to hearing from you — i know she would love to talk to you

leon’s blood was fucking boiling right now, he thought the bad guys weren’t gonna go so low as to bring his child into this, his only reason for living and coming back home every mission. he didn’t hesitate to call the number and waited for someone to pick up…. which they did

“you motherfuckers! where is my daughter!?”

“oh Mr Kennedy, didn’t expect you to call so soon. we just got to the building”

“that wasn’t my fucking question asshole! where is she!?”

“she’s right here, but first the money…. let’s talk about that first. agree on $100k and maybe we’ll think about giving her back” in the back was you screaming and crying which made leon think the worse

“i’ll give you all the money in my safe which is her college fund — about $300k…. please let me speak to her”

“ah! $300k for college? must be a good school….. deal — meet us at that abandoned warehouse by outside the city, you can’t miss it … take all the time you need”

“wait! let me talk—“ and they hung up… the last sound he heard was you yelling ‘Daddy help me!!’ he placed his phone down before punching the counter and silently thinking to himself what he was going to do…. he wanted to bust in there and shoot them all but they could kill you the moment he shot someone — or he could give your collage fund away and just start from scratch again

after a long time of thinking he finally left and made his way to the warehouse with a full duffel bag. he walked up to the doors and kicked them open with the bag and gun in hand

“see this is how we’re gonna do this now” he said, scanning the room for you and seeing you tied up in the middle of two men, almost everyone had their guns drawn to him after he made a surprise entrance “we’re gonna do this nice and smoothly, you give her to me and i give you the money at the same time, got it?”

everyone stood there for a few seconds and looked at each other like they were debating it before the leader finally agreed

“okay, seems fair….” he said before grabbing you and walking closer to leon

“untie her first…. the bag isn’t tied so she shouldn’t be either”

the leader stood there for a second before he finally untied you and then pushed you to leon, after you were close to leon he threw the bag at the man’s feet

“dad…!” you said, your voice almost gone from screaming and crying almost all day, he picked you and and slowly backed out of the warehouse as everyone gathered around to look at the bag

“shhh…. don’t worry it’s okay i gotcha” he said as he carried you to the car and grabbed a remote form the dashboard after you were all buckled in and secured

“wait a second…. this isn’t all money, its—“

BOOM! an explosion happened as leon pressed the button on the remote — after he went to see if he killed all of them he closed the doors slowly, got into the car with you and started to drive away

“what did you do?!” you asked as he drove away, you looked out the window to see the warehouse was starting to catch on fire and more explosions started happening from the chemicals and whatever the fuck they had in there

“gave them a nice surprise — are you okay?” he asked you with a straight face almost like he didn’t just kill 15 people

“well, aside from being kidnapped, being beaten up and stuff — i’m alive” you said in a joking tone thinking it was funny but he didn’t laugh

“they beat you up?” he asked in a worried tone, he’s still so shocked how you could joke about something like this but you’ve always been this way, even after the last time you almost died being dragged into one of his missions on accident

“yeah, but i’m good! i am your daughter after all! also did you really give them my college fund?” you asked all seriously

“i had to put some on the top of the bombs to make it look like i gave them money — sorry hun…”

“you should have given them all of it! i don’t wanna go to college!”

now he was shocked — flabbergasted may i say “you don’t wanna go to college anymore?”

“hell no! i changed my mind. i could just join the BSAA or something” you said the BSAA comment as a joke

“the BSAA? how about we just think about it first…”

“i’m gonna do it! i’m gonna do it!” you started laughing — so did he. you were always able to turn a dark situation into a bright funny one… he loved that about you

(damn this was long 🗿)

Chris R.

so chris is also a single father, your mother left a few months after you were born and this was hard on chris, not just because she left, because he was very busy and depressed at the time so dealing with his job, depression and fatherhood was horrible on him but he somehow managed to do it for 16 years.

one day you were home alone while chris was out getting groceries for the house and getting you something. you asked him so many times if he wanted you to come but he said no because he had a surprise for you and he didn’t want you to see it while he was getting it. so you were just home alone in your apartment waiting for him to come back.

you decided you wanted a snack from the cabinet and chris has always told you not to climb onto the counter to get something from the top shelf, he worried that you would fall and break something or even die from hitting your head on something, but you obviously don’t listen and do it anyway. you never believed him because you’ve never fallen when doing this

well today was the day he was going to be proven right — while you were getting your snack your cat had jumped on something which caused it to fall and break on the wood floor which then caused you to slip and fall and land right on your hand a weird way causing one of your fingers to break, you being a Redfield and immune to pain somehow you snapped it back into place and went to go clean up what your cat broke then you tended to you finger in the bathroom

you heard the front door open while you were doing your finger, you panicked and slammed the bathroom door with your injured hand and then

“OW FUCK! holy shit — what the hell, why did that hurt!?” came from the bathroom

chris placed all the bags down on the counter and went to the bathroom door, gently knocking on it to see what you were yelling about

“Y/N…? you okay in there? did something happen? can i come in?” he asked which made you stress tf out wondering if he was gonna come into the bathroom

“no! i’m okay! i’m good — never been better! i’ll come out in a second!” you said as you put a splint on your finger, you guys have a lot of splints because chris likes to break his fingers, dont know how but he does or that one time you broke your finger at work SOMEHOW 🗿 chris being suspicious but respectful believed what you said and went to out everything away

you sighed out of relief and fixed the splint so it wouldn’t move a lot while you’re doing something. after a few minutes of coming up with a lie on how you actually broke your finger you went out to the living room and sat down like nothing happened which chris didn’t buy

“sweetie can you come here….?” he said from the kitchen knowing something was up. you got up and went to him with a smile on your face and your hands behind your back

“yeah — what’s up?” you knew that he knew that you did something he said not to do — he’s just trying to figure it out

“why were you cursing in the bathroom? and you said ‘why did that hurt’ or something like that? what hurts?” he questioned, arms crossed, leaning hip on the counter and looking you dead in the eyes like he was staring into your soul or some

“so — what had happened was i….. was….. i was trying to uhhhh…..” you had a lie in your head all ready and everything — and you forgot it “so basically”

“the truth, Y/N”

“okay, so i broke my finger —“ you said holding up your hand with the splint on it. out of all the things he was expecting you to say…… this wasn’t it

“you what?! how the hell did you do that?!” he grabbed your hand to look at your finger. man’s was in papa bear mode now

“…uhh so i was a little hungry right? and i saw some chips on the top shelf so i climbed onto the counter but then—“ you snatched up your cat who just climbed onto the counter to see what was happening and held her out to your father “Willow over here broke something, that scared me and i fell off and broke my finger. so technically! it’s her fault” you said holding the cat out, the cat having not a single thought behind her eyes. cats head is empty right now….

chris laughed as he pet the cats head “so you did something even though i said not to?” you nodded and held Willow close to you, she purred and plopped her head onto your forearm.

“am i in trouble…?”

“no, but this teaches you not to climb on counters right? because what if you fell and hit your head? i wasnt here to help you” he said with concern on his face

“i know…. i’m staying far away from counters now” you joked before waddling over to the couch and placed willow down, chris laughed and he grabbed a small teddy bear from a bag he hid from your view

“looks like you don’t want this then, you have willow” he held the bear, it was the teddy bear you’ve been wanting for so long but you just never got it. you saw the bear and ran to snatch it from him almost ripping his arm off too…

“you got it?! thank you!” you said as you hugged him, you basically forgot you broke your finger

“you’re welcome — maybe it’ll help your broken finger”

“pshh! give it a few days and i’ll be fine!”

it’s scary how much like him you are but you are a Redfield after all…

Jake M.

jake is your older brother and he’s been watching over you since your mother died. you both lived in a medium sized house that was left by your mother and it was the house you both grew up in. jake was in the garage working on his bike since it needed some cleaning and mechanic work on it , he didn’t want you in there just because he wanted to save you from getting dirty or hurt or it somehow blowing up (that’s a joke lmao)

you were outside playing with your dog you rescued while he was on his mission with Sherry and he let you keep it since he knew the connection you both had but the dog hated him for some reason so they don’t have the best relationship. you were walking to get the stick the dog had dropped before getting water inside but you stepped into a hole in the ground which caused your ankle to crack abnormally loud, you started crying and holding your leg after you managed to get your ankle out, your dog ran out after he heard you crying and started whimpering along with you

“jake…. get jake for me…..” you told him and he ran to find your brother which didn’t take too long since Jake was getting mad at his bike for some reason. the dog started barking and running around by the door which confused jake

“what?” he asked, the dog went to go nudge jake in the direction of the door thinking the dog actually started to like him all of a dog so he got up and let the dog walk in front of him as he followed behind. the dog led him to you who was silently crying on the grass holding you leg. jake thought the worse and ran to see what happened

“hey! whoa, the fuck happened?!” he asked with obvious panic in his voice

“my ankle….” was all you were able to get out through your cries.

“did you break it, sprain it or do you not know?”

“i don’t know, it cracked really loud and it hurts so bad!”

he thought of what to do and realised he doesn’t have a car to drive you to a hospital so he picked you up and walked into the house, he placed you on your bed in your room and took a look at your ankle. he’s always been really good at telling the difference between a sprain and a broken bone somehow so he was able to figure it out

“you sprained your ankle… imma go to the store and get you some stuff for it” he said as he stood up, your dog was standing by the door worried as hell and whimpering, the moment jake stood up your dog jumped on the bed next to you and cuddled you to make you feel better.

jake thinking that the dog finally liked him now he went to pet him and that only caused the dog to growl at him

“oh so it’s still ‘fuck you’ i see….” he said all offended and you laughed at his reaction

“i don’t think he likes you, Jake”

“ya think?” he responded hella fast, which only made you laugh more. it made Jake happy to see you laugh so he let it slide even though he’s gonna have a conversation with the dog when he comes back

Albert W.

albert had adopted you when you were just a toddler, he found you in the middle of a burnt down house, your parents and siblings were all dead and you were the only survivor so he decided to make you his child, ever since adopting you he became softer, only around you though — god help anyone who sees his soft side….

albert has asked you a few times if you wanted to become like him power wise, and you’ve always said no because you don’t want power or strength since you don’t really plan on using it really… but this time he asked you got mad and kinda snapped at him…

“Y/N, are you sure you don’t want to have the abilities i have? you’ll be able to be stronger and faster than any person ever! it’ll be a b—“

“dad please, stop asking me that same thing over and over again! i’ve said no every single time, i don’t want your powers so leave it alone!” you said in an angry tone, you didn’t even mean for it to come out like it did, you just were so fed up with him asking the same time every other week since you turned 17. after a few seconds of silence he finally spoke

“Y/N Wesker…. you are my daughter — i want what is best for you and this is the best thing for you, dear. i want you to be happy”

“you’re not even my real dad! you don’t know what’s best for me, if you did you wouldn’t keep trying to convince me to become like you! if you want me to be happy stop asking that stupid freaking question! god!” and with that you stomped out the room to go to yours and he kinda just stood there you just said that to him…. ‘you’re not even my real dad’ hurt him a lot and he never thought he’d be able to be hurt like that ever, he thought of you as his blood and he thought you thought the same of him

once you got to your room to calm down you sighed and looked out the window

“i can’t believe you just said that…. you idiot” you said to yourself in the reflection of the window you felt really bad that you said that to him the way that you said that and the reason you said that. yeah the question was annoying but you hurting his feelings wasn’t right

after you were done crying because of what you just said to your father you went to go look for him in the mansion, tears were still in your eyes because you thought he hated you now and didn’t wanna see you anymore, you saw light in his office and you decided to knock on the door before entering

“come in….” he said calmly before you opened the door slowly and sniffled a bit while looking down. he turned to look at you

“i…im sorry for what i said — i didn’t mean it, i think you are my real dad it’s just came out of nowhere and—“ you were cut off by him hugging you tightly which only made you cry more

“no my dear — i am sorry…. i’m the one who has pushed you over the edge to say something so hurtful…. this should be a lesson for the both of us, think before we speak and don’t push each other”

you both silently agreed as you hugged for a few more seconds then let go of each other. after you stopped crying you both continued on with the night just being around each other and doing stuff.

never tell anyone he was actually nice, he’d put you up for adoption

Karl H.

karl had adopted you when you were a few months old so you’ve always thought he was your father and that your mother just left…. because that’s what he’s told you all your life… he didn’t want you knowing you were adopted because deep down he felt you were his biological daughter and you finding out 20 years later that your adopted would be hard as hell on you so he just lied

one day you were home alone while karl was at a family meeting with the lords and you saw his notebook was open in his room. you knew you shouldn’t look at it but you did anyway. you read the most recent pages where Karl was talking about you and how you were adopted, where he found you and asking himself if he should tell you. you were obviously shocked finding out that you weren’t actually biologically his and that your family left you in the middle of the village to freeze to death

after reading the last few pages you heard him open the front door, sounding happy as ever

“sweets! i’m home!” he called out for you, placing his hammer down. you got up and walked out the room, notebook in hand. you stood feet away from him with tears in your eyes

“sweets…? what’s wrong….?” he said his tone a bit sadder after he saw the notebook in your hand. you threw the notebook at his feet and started crying even more after that question

“you know exactly what’s wrong! i’m adopted?!” you asked, he tried to move closer to you hands out trying to calm you down, but you moved away from him

“no! get away from me and leave me alone for a bit…. i need to talk to Aunt Alcina because what the fuck, 20 years?! 20 fucking years you kept this from me?!” you cried as you left the house, he didn’t even try to stop you because he thought you hated his guts now. he knew you were going to find out one day weather it be Alcinas or dukes big mouths telling you or like this, he kinda just stood there staring at the book you had thrown at him and sighed

you were crying the entire way to the castle and eventually ran into Alcina who was concerned as to why you were crying, she cared about you a lot, more than she did Karl. you went to her whenever you had a problem of any kind and this was a big problem

“Y/N honey? why are you crying? did something happen?” she asked as she guided you to her room and sat you down on her massive mattress right next to her, Daniela and Cassandra were in the room as well because they sensed you were crying

“i’m adopted….. I read his notebook where he was talking about it and it said he adopted me�� you told her, crying even more and going to hug Daniela as you did. Alcina rubbed your back as you cried and she sighed

“i know…. we all knew — he didn’t want to tell you because he knew how much it would hurt you. i was going to tell you for years but i couldn’t find it in my heart to hurt you so i kept my mouth shut” she started… “but you have to know that he didn’t tell you for this long because he didn’t want you to hate him — as much as i hate my little brother i have to give him credit for this. you are his daughter and he and your father… blood or not my dear, that man won’t shut up about you…. you are the best thing that’s ever happened to him i’ve never seen him happier”

you started to slowly calm down as she spoke, she’s right — your parents left you to die when you were a few months old, and he was the only one who actually took care of you — he didn’t have to but he wanted too and now you felt bad for yelling at him. after you were calm you got up and went back to your home where you last saw Karl, once you opened the door you saw him sitting on the couch holding the notebook

“dad! i’m sorry!” you said, standing there scared he didn’t wanna see you after you walked out on him, he turned back to see you and his expression changed from whatever the hell it was before to sadness, he stood up and walked over to you gently grabbing your hand and looking you in the eye, you couldn’t look at him you felt so bad

“no i’m sorry — i never should have lied to you your entire life i…. i just…. i just didnt want to lose the only person i actually genuinely care about — you are my world and i would give up everything and then some just for you….” he said, he meant every word he said , like Alcina said you’re his daughter and he is your father, blood doesn’t mean shit it’s who you consider as family in your life “do you still hate me…?” he asked almost in a mumble

“hate you? no! i could never hate you! i would never hate you even if you broke my legs — you’re my best friend for life and nothing is gonna change that” you hugged him and cried after that, part of you felt so bad for yelling at him like that earlier

after you both had a long talk about everything you had dinner and put everything that happened that day behind you and stayed happy with your dad — he’s glad you don’t hate him, he has no idea how he could live without you

look at me go! two writings in a week 💃🏾🕺🏽💃🏾🕺🏽 i rushed Heisenbergs because i’m very tired 🗿

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aita-blorbos · 7 months

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Am I The Asshole for not telling my QPP that I (sort of) came back from the dead?

My Queer Platonic Partner (4595 M), who I'll call F, and I (~300k M) got together in the late eleventh century, and we've basically been married since the sixteenth century. (Not legally, obviously, but we lived together and pooled our finances and all that.)

While doing some spy work in France during WWII (on behalf of the Allies) I got another future vision showing me getting killed by this cult of weird supernatural obsessed rich people, and I could tell it would happen sometime in the next year or so. Now, there are ways to shift small details of the stuff I see in my future visions, but I'm pretty sure trying to change anything too major would break the fabric of spacetime, if you could even manage to make a change in the first place, so I accepted pretty quickly that my demise was inevitable and started making preparations (writing a will, etc.)

Obviously after all this time I know F pretty well, and he tends to struggle dealing with grief; most of his friends are other immortals and he only really interacts with mortals professionally. I also know there would be absolutely no way he would just accept the fact that my death is inevitable, and would end up spending the next however-long-I-had-left trying to find a solution and would probably really beat himself up about it when he failed.

On top of that, telling other people too much about my visions tends to lead to bad stuff happening (like an immortal cult leader/dictator from my home dimension, who we'll call C, massacring 60+ planets, attempting to take over Earth multiple times, and basically turning his kid into a living weapon), so I don't tend to tell people about them, a boundary which F knows about and usually respects.

So basically, I didn't tell F what I saw. I got kidnapped, he tried to rescue me but was a bit too late, I bled out after getting stabbed by a magic sword, etc., etc. Now, when people of my species die, we get reincarnated. We're reborn in an entirely new body, and with our memories suppressed, we grow into entirely new people with entirely new experiences. You keep your magic powers and basically stop aging around 20, but that's about it. It's a bit different for humans for slightly complicated deific political reasons, I think? F knows this because I told him about it at some point.

After I died, the wife (? F) of one of F's old friends showed up and told me she was Death and that C was gonna try to invade Earth again at some point in the future and my help would be needed, so she was willing to let me sort of... stick around in my reincarnation (now 78 NB)'s brain. So obviously I agreed.

My reincarnation, E, was born somewhere in the US shortly after I died. For context, F and I previously lived in the UK. I hung back for most of E's childhood because I wanted to let them live their own life, but I did help them out a few times with bullies and shitty teachers and stuff. (They're queer and neurodivergent and grew up in the 50s, so they didn't exactly have the best childhood).

There wasn't exactly a whole lot I could do to contact F when E was younger, and even when they got older, there still wasn't much I could do without fucking up their life, so basically I spent several decades only showing up when E was asleep or everyone involved was super high, so even E didn't know I existed.

Sometime around the early 80s E started getting into superhero stuff, which isn't really my cup of tea, so I ended up sorta taking a nap for a few decades. I woke up in the mid 2010s to find out that F and E had apparently become friends? Again, I don't want to mess up either of their lives, and it seemed to me like F had moved on, so I continued hiding.

Recently, C started trying to invade earth again, so I started sneaking out at night to try to stop them with the help of R (18 NB/M?), the literal only other person who knew I existed. (He accidentally ran into me getting a late night snack while breaking into E's house for prank reasons. It's a long story.) We ended up running into some other people, including F's dad (4622 F), so eventually a total of like, 4 people knew about my existence. None of them knew I was me, as in F's dead ex QPP/E's past life. Fortunately, I was able to convince everyone not to tell E or F about me.

Fast forward to a couple months ago, C launched a full scale attack on the city where basically everyone involved in this mess lives. I won't go into too many details, but during the attack E ended up getting hit with a "sleeping spell" which basically just knocked them out, leaving me in control of the body by default. My fighting style is pretty different than E's, so F recognized me almost immediately.

We ended up getting into a pretty big argument about me not telling him I was still around, during which I ended up finding out that after I died he basically lost all faith in humanity and tried to destroy the world a couple times, and he basically admitted he still wasn't over my death, but he was also really pissed at me for not telling him that I was still around. I tried to explain but F still insisted I should have told him. We're both fairly stubborn and quick to anger, so the argument ended up getting a bit out of hand, and now we aren't talking to one another. I understand why he's angry, but I still feel like I didn't have any other choice.

Am I The Asshole?

(Side Note: E is now aware I exist and is trying to act as a mediator. They understand my reasoning for not outright telling them, and had a pretty good laugh over all the signs of my existence that they missed, but F is still pissed on their behalf about me not telling them.)

#aita #am i the asshole #unreality

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boozye · 1 year

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I'm concerned that Nightbringer is going to become unplayable for F2P because of the Joker cards. Unless you can grind for the pieces, your UR+ cards are stuck at level 70 and you need 2,500 Raven to buy enough for a skill-up (purchased over three months) . UR cards are slightly easier to come by, but the game has given me more UR+ than UR cards.

I hear you, anon. I too have noticed some more insidious ways this game preys on spenders. Mainly that UR+ Joker mechanic you just mentioned, how much less generous the gacha is in general (from personal experiece), and that there are no boost days in events.

But I do keep hope for it:

- Energy drinks are MUCH easier to acquire

- Event prize URs are leagues easier to get than in the OG (at just 200k instead of 300k)

- You get a copy of said UR right away by finishing challenges.

- UR jokers beng relatively easy to get.

Regarding UR+ this is how I see it:

- I won't be spending Raven on UR+ jokers, or any jokers for that matter. I still think Raven is best alloted towards Vouchers. And whether it's true ot not, it is what I feel like doing. I want to enjoy the game and get to summon once in a while. lol

- There being a guaranteed way to get UR+ cards along with multiple copies. You are not gonna like it, specially if you are impatient, but it's true. The shards in hard mode will take years but it is free at least.

And, for what is worth, I don't think we are in a hurry to buff up the stronghest of the strong cards to max level, the game is still pretty new. URs are good enough to get you through and probably will be for a long time.

Who knows, there might be some changes implemented, or special event/anniversary bonuses that give out UR+ jokers in the future.

#opossum nightbringer

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exilethegame · 2 years

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Writing Update (06/13/2022)

Hello everyone! This was another super productive week-- I managed to write over 40k words which means Chapter 5 is currently 86k words. I feel the need to stress that a lot of that was writing variations of a scene based on what order you do them and in general there’s just a lot of choices, so a lot of it was just rewriting what was already there but... different... a lot of times.

The funny part of all of this is that one of the scenes is now 56k words. What scene, you may ask? The one that I added last minute as a transition scene. It was originally going to be ~5k words at max, but then I had a bunch of ideas about what else could be fit into it, and it’s safe to say things got out of hand.

The good news is that scene is also the first scene I’ve fully finished in Chapter 5! 1/3 scenes regarding Part One have been finished, and I imagine when the entire section is done, it’ll probably be around 90 - 95k words. I’m going to try and go back and finish them this week, but I think for the most part I’m going to move on to Part Two.

To be honest, I have no idea how long Part Two will be. But if it ends up being as long as Part One, then I can very much see this chapter pushing 300k words. It was meant to be a joke last post, but maybe I subconsciously knew I would have no self-control and make all the scenes bigger than originally intended. Honestly, we’ll just have to wait and see-- a lot of the scenes in Part Two and Part Three revolve around just talking to people, and as any writer knows, how much is said really depends on how much the characters want to say (not what I want them to say).

Anyway, that’s all for this week! May the following week be just as productive :)

#writing update #honestly at this point it's in fate's hands b/c i have no idea

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britcision · 1 year

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Listen. Could Dead and Loving It be a fraction of the length and maybe finished by now if I only focused on Danny and Jason?

Possibly

Would it be a better story?

Probably, from several perspectives

But it absolutely would not be the same story, and nor would it be the story I want to tell

Because I am hopelessly addicted to ensemble casts, and I don’t want the boys to exist in a vacuum. I want Jason to run off with his siblings and with Danny’s friends, and I want Danny to fuck with the bats

I want them to touch all the parts of each others lives that existed before they met, and will still continue to exist after even if things change forever between them

I want all the background characters to interact with each other, have their own inner worlds and their own motivations, and yeah, this absolutely means this is not an efficient telling of a slow burn romance

Because the story isn’t the slow burn romance

The story is these two people, and the world they live in, the story is the way Duke and Cass both see Jason differently than Dick and Tim ever could and that matters, and that none of them are wrong

The story is Danny finally telling people who will listen about the Anti-Ecto Acts, and all the fucked up things the GIW do, and being able to ask for help and have that be okay

The story is messy and complicated and will have so many rises and falls, so many pivotal moments that are drama and combat and so many that are just two people talking to each other and finally seeing eye to eye

The story is the way that Jason’s relationships with his family can finally mend, now that he has someone who can get him the help he’s needed

The story is the way that Danny can come to terms with the responsibilities of being a king, the constant question of agency and power and what he’s worth if he’s only Danny and not the Ghost King

The story is Clockwork fucking with the pair of them because he specifically thinks it’s funny (he’s right)

And yeah, there’s a slow burn romance in there. There’s also a coming of age tale, and a story about healing and reconciling and moving forward knowing you cannot change the past, but you can do better

Unless fucking Clockwork decides you can change the past because yeah then it’s fine to just go do that I guess

I was kinda considering breaking the story out into multiple chunks because holy fuck is 100k an intimidating chunk of words, but I’m not gonna

It’s all one story, and you will be my hapless victims as we get to fucking 300k or wherever this beast ends because we are not here for efficient story telling and motion of the plot

We’re here for the connections, the characters, the meaningless bullshit that would absolutely be cut in anything anyone ever wanted to sell, cuz I am not selling this

Imma write every fucking scene I wish I got from books, TV, movies, podcasts, actual plays, every fucking time I scream at the characters to just fucking talk to each other because messy is good too

Messy is okay

Stories don’t need to be marketable to be worth telling, and this one’s gonna be too long and intimidating for some people and that’s okay

But I fuckin’ rolled in from Critical Role which averages around 500 hours of content per campaign and a cast of 7 plus Matt’s NPCs

And I STILL want more goddamn character moments from all of them so I haven’t found a size yet that I can’t manage

I love reading focused stories that I can get through fast, and fuck, look at the rest of my AO3; I will fucking never diss a one shot, or a short story, or a piece that really focuses in on one or two characters

Delicious, I love them, my bread and butter

It’s just not what this mess is gonna be, and that’s okay too

Gods be fucking willing we will not have another six chapters that take place over the course of three hours, but we’ll just have to see how that shakes out cuz I’m being possessed by a seemingly infinite number of plot bunnies and my own tendency for “hey it’d be funny if”

And oh boy has it been funny every time

#danny fenton dead and loving it #i swear i can do short stories #i’m just not #also yeah 300k if we’re lucky based on my outlines so far #some of this will go faster but we’ll see #totally was gonna let tim just google amity park with tucker’s advice in mind but then #then my brain went ‘hey how funny would it be if danny just forgot they can’t contact amity’#‘and tim couldn’t find a way around needing the amity park ip’#so now we get a bunch more frustrated bat sibs #and i regret nothing #fucking adding like 5k to the story but it’s 5k of CRIME #and my sweet beloved darling harley #i did actually read all her comics up to 2018 #only dc character i go for but i am considering some red hood #mostly to see how upset comic store owners get when i ask for my 6’ of babygirl #no business for them if they got that toxic masculinity i only shop where cat maid hood rules #which fucking cannot be found online i’m heartbroken

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veradragonjedi · 2 months

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85, 20 and 30 for the weird asks pls (:

20. Preferred place to write (i.e., in a notebook, on your laptop, sketchpad, post-it-notes, etc.)?

Ngl, when I first read this, I thought it meant where — physically! I was gonna say, my back garden, in the forest, on the swing at the park, somewhere outside when it's warm.

Anyway, I've written all my 300k words (including unposted works) of fanfic on my phone! In my notes app- because the laptop that I was supposed to receive exploded (hyperbole...). But it serves me well :)) I have a Samsung/Android so I get to italicise, embolden, undo/redo, colour words, it's not so bad!!!

30. Places that you find sacred?

I am not religious, but if there's a way to be intensely spiritual without being religious at all, it's me. Personally:

The 400 year old tree at the centre of the forest, with a swing hanging from it — the amount of people having grown up with that tree, swinging for generations, writing there stories there like I'm doing now!

The graveyard surrounding the church near my house, purely for aesthetic reasons. I also know the guy that cleans the graves, and I think that's an important role in society. Caring for the dead and appreciating them is a huge deal in so many cultures — why not Western??

Mariana trench — we don't need to go down there to know this.

The horizon line, the one that nobody can reach because the closer you get the further it moves.

85. Fairy tales or mythology?

OOOOOOO mythology probably. I obsessed over dragons for ten to twelve years of my life, and they're still a huge part of my life. I had that dragonology book that signalled that I was neurodivergent definitely... I loved Greek and Roman mythology for a very long time, and loved figuring out how they were so different but so similar. Viking mythology was a favourite for a while, and I collected poems and stories. The latest chapter of my largest fanfic — BBB — is called Odyssey! It still lives with me.

#my fave was pegasus because i was a horse girl but now i kinda obsess over the story of narcissus #anyway #vee answers #helloooo sheveeekkk i doo love youuu :) :) :)

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chaiandsage · 8 months

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After you finish writing Trust life, do you have an idea of what you’ll write next? Or are you not gonna write anything after Trust life?

Or do you have an amazing, brilliant and extraordinary idea that you wish to keep secret?

Oh god, how funny would it be if I just dropped that entire 300k fic and then disappeared forever? Lol

But honestly, while I do wish to keep most of them secret until I actually end up posting them, I really do have SO many ideas! **spoilers if you aren’t fully caught up on Trust Life yet** There’s still so many extra scenes I wanna write for Trust Life once it’s over. Stuff like what all the ghost-players’ reactions were to Scott and Tango’s confessions, how Jimmy might have reacted if he hadn’t chosen to go to the void… stuff like that! I’m thinking about just making a series and adding in some bonus stuff for the fic. But in addition to all that, I have a good handful of shorter fics that I’ve been wanting to get around to writing as well. Some are still flower ranchers related ofc, but many are also centered around other ships that I also love. As for long fics, I do have at least one idea for a plot that I also wanted to write at some point that kind of does the same thing that Trust Life does in involving both the people of Hermitcraft and Empires. But in all honesty, I’m probably gonna need a decently long break after writing Trust Life before I even begin to think about getting started on ANOTHER long fic 😅

But yeah, I do have SO many ideas and I very much intend to continue writing for this fandom. Thank you for asking!

#asks #trust life

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providing-leverage · 5 months

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Fic in Review 2023

This looks fun, thanks to @writer-and-thrasher for the tag

Total Number of Completed Stories: 16, which is great because my goal was 12 (one a month, which didn't happen, but oh well)

Total Word Count: 77,440! Again, I had a goal and surpassed it (getting to 300k on my account) and it feels really good.

Fandoms Written In: So much Ted Lasso, which I discovered after Sunflowers came out and was trending. I saw canon gay characters and went sign me up even if I don't normally like comedy stuff. I'm super glad I did because I've not written so much for a fandom so fast since my Shadowhunters hyperfixation years ago. Other than those 12, I did some PJO, Supernatural, and Batman, and Teen Wolf.

Looking back did you expect to write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d expect: so much less! Ted Lasso brainworms truly won this year

What’s your own favorite story of the year, personally?: I'm super proud of myself for finishing Past and Present Now Embrace, one of my few non Ted Lasso fics. Bianca was a very interesting character and the Percy Jackson universe it a great sandbox to play in.

Did you take any writing risks this year?: I think my trend towards gen stuff, because obviously romantic stuff gets more hits a lot of the time so I've trained myself to sprinkle it in even when it doesn't really need to be there. But with Ted Lasso I really felt like I could embrace the platonic stuff and when I did write romance it was because I wanted to.

Do you have any fanfic goals for the New Year?: I want to write a multichapter, and I'm hoping that multichapter will be either Stranger Ranger or Guard Your Heart. I've also been watching to rework the second and third parts of SSA Sam Singer.

Best story of the year: personally I'm really proud of the Fundamentals of Love and Lying, which is so self indulgent

Most popular story of the year: Get It Off Your Chest for sure, and I think that's all to do with the blurb I used in the summary

Most personal story of the year: Oh for sure it's a rather touching notion which is also probably the one I wrote the quickest. An aroace character figuring out who they are, feeling outside of so many social interactions because they lack romantic and sexual attraction? Pure projection. Also The A Team because yay autism.

Funniest story of the year: While the summary for Get it Off Your Chest is funny, Colin's reasons for picking up lesbians is deeply sad so I can't really say that. Eliza's exasperation with Jamie in Flowers for Dani is pretty funny though.

Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Fundamentals took a lot of work but it's also a rarepair I invented the tag for and narrated by a character that is basically an OC, so I understand why it's not everyone's cup of tea.

Most fun story to write: Holy Novelty Socks Batman is pure fluffy crack and made me smile a lot

Story with the sexiest moment: none of them really. Fundamentals and some of the other TL fics have some sex allusion though.

Sweetest story of the year: I'll say Shake It Out, a teen wolf fic from early this year that I'd completely forgotten about. What's sweeter than breaking into your school at night for a date?

“Holy crap that’s wrong even for you!” story: dito on not doing scandalous, but for angst then maybe this fic where I give Dani my caffeine sickness

Hardest story to write: Past and Present Now Embrace, for sure took the longest, with me working on it for over a year. I wanted to get it up before the Sun and the Star came out but that didn't happen.

Biggest disappointment: Not any published fic in particular but I have a lot of drafts I wish had been able to see the light of day this year

Biggest surprise: the community I feel like I've found this year, especially within Ted Lasso. Doing these tag games, trading asks and ideas with other writers, is something I've never gotten to do before and I feel so lucky and grateful for my mutuals.

Speaking of... @orbitalpirate @mearpsdyke @manwholovescabins sorry if any of you have already been tagged

#wow okay this took a while #was very fun though #ted lasso #percy jackson #supernatural #teen wolf #fic in review 2023 #elliot writes

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ultfreakme · 6 months

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Who are your favorite romantic relationship's couples in books/ manga/ anime/movies/tv series (can be canon or non-canon)? Feel free if you want to write the reasons or not of why you love them...

Sorry if you've answered this question before......Thanks....

Hi Anon!! Hope you're doing well! OOOOH this is a tough one, I have so many ships I enjoy, I think I change pairings and find new ones every few months. But if I had to pick........

AkaFuri (Akashi x Furihata from Kuroko No Basuke): I've shipped them the longest, I'm pretty sure my writing got better through writing and researching for fics of the ship. I also transitioned from traditional to digital drawing through drawing this ship, so yay it's them! I love them because Furihata was someone Akashi and everyone underestimated but Furihata defied everyone's expectations, conquered his fears and managed to stand up against him. Kuroko and the Seirin basketball team changed Akashi's opinions and made him see everyone as equals, but Furihata sorta kickstarted that.

ItaJun (Itadori x Junpei from Jujutsu Kaisen): I actually shipped them back when JJK was first airing! So that's three years with them dear god. I made a post about them but to summarize, I love the potential they had & loved how they clicked together!

Zukka (Zuko x Sokka from Avatar The Last Airbender): This one's relatively new but they got me obsessed enough to write a 300k word for for them and made me go on an unstoppable and frankly unhealthy drawing spree for months (I have a callous on my hand...unsure if it's because of just them but they definitely didn't help). I love their dynamic, they play off each other well, make up for each other's weaknesses and their interactions are always funny to watch. They're very cute to me.

JonJay/JayJon (Jon Kent x Jay Nakamura from DC Comics): A CANON COUPLE!!! They're very adorable and I enjoyed watching the way they helped each other get to their goals in their introduction comic as a couple(Superman Son of Kal El). Watching Superman be bi and have an Asian bf was just, very inspiring. The way Jon's heroism and ideals are defined by Jay's ideals is so cool.

I have a lot more which I can put as honorable mentions: Korrasami (The Legend of Korra), SatoSugu(Jujutsu Kaisen), Stucky (the Captain America Trilogy was awesome and the only part I like from the MCU), KiriBaku(I think I'm pretty much over them now unless I get back into BNHA), Calliette(bring back First Kill please please PLEASE), XiCheng(Jiang Cheng x Lan Xichen from MDZS), BingQiu & MoShang (both from Scum Villain Self-Saving system).

These are the ones I remember. There's probably some crucial formative ship for me that I'm missing but rn I think this is it.

My qualifications for being obsessed with a ship are:

HAS to be gay

They should be complementary in some way

The franchise they come from needs to have a plot that isn't their relationship, but their relationship, or just the character's motivation is sorta woven into the overarching theme of the story. Example; In AkaFuri, Furihata is instrumental in defeating Akashi and his team because Furihata isn't there to exactly take down Akashi. He CAN'T. But if he works with everyone else on his team, he stands a chance and can make a difference. The ultimate theme of KNB is that we should value friendship, teammates and should lift each other up rather than view the world as enemies to defeat. Korra and Asami are seemingly polar opposite with Korra being a representative of spirits while Asami is a representative of human technological advancement. TLOK is about harmony between these two aspects of the world, and Korrasami's relationship is a representation of that. I think pretty much all my ships can work like that (Jiang Cheng is too cynical, never lets anyone close and is prone to conflict, Lan Xichen is too trusting and too complicit, never wanting conflict and therefore not really confronting anything and BOTH of these flaws of theirs are to their detriment, etc etc).

I think I like ships which I can use to examine the themes of the main story, and see how the union of two people could influence the meaning of the canon.

And, I'll be honest, it's also about how aesthetic they are together and how good the smut potential is. It's shipping in the end, and I can write thousand-word meta essays but also be going gaga over their smut lmao.

Hope this was an adequate reply!! Also please don't apologize, I hadn't answered this before I think? haha i keep forgetting what i write.

#riki asks #shipping

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sovvannight · 5 months

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My Year in Writing, 2023

And this is another situation where I wish I could pull up last year's post to use as a pattern, but I can't because my writing blog got deleted, so I'm feeling a little lost.

But I can at least see the graphs I made last year in my writing progress tracking spreadsheet, so that give me a bit of a hint as to what I would normally post here.

I wrote 183,465 words on 2023. It's my third year in a row of increases (thank you, Julie and the Phantoms!) and my first year over 150k, which was my goal for the year. I'm at 856,124 words since 2017.

I'm also super excited about winning NaNo for the first time since 2017. November was my most productive month, followed by February, when I spent most of the month working on Baby, This Rain Changes Everything, which I guess I was just excited about because I had a lot of 1k+ days.

Part of the 44k increase from 2022-2023 was due to NaNo, but I also increased my average daily word count for non-NaNo months from 291.8 to 387.5. And I do write every day--December 31 was day 2,395 of my write-ever-day streak.

What I Wrote

Other than 2% of my words for the year for Garfield, a Teen Wolf Movie fix-it fic, everything else was for Julie and the Phantoms: 81% on various scenes for Electric Boogaloo, 12% for Baby, This Rain Changes Everything, and 5% on two different AU fics that I may convert to original fiction instead.

Plans for 2024

So, the saying goes something like, "Write a million words, throw them away, now you're ready to be a writer." I didn't realize it until I was writing this up, but I'm going to hit a million words next year.

And I have to admit, in the last few months, I've started to think about writing and publishing original fiction. And that's partly because the JatP fandom is dying--I'd think the drop in kudos was because I suck, but I've seen declining kudos for new fic by big name fans, too, so it's not just me. No judgement on the fandom, it's just the nature of things. I've left a couple of fandoms myself because of a new hyperfixation. But at the same time, I had this AU idea in the spring, and thought to myself, are you really going to write a whole novel-length fic for 20 kudos?

I think I'd rather earn a couple hundred bucks instead, which seems like about what I would net if I self-pub. And I'm poor, so any little bit helps. Plus, I don't know, I just feel ready. It's partly because I read some pretty bad books this year, and it's like, OK, this got published, and in one case it got optioned and made into a TV show, and I feel like I can do better.

So, my plan for 2024 is:

Write the last ~9 scenes for Electric Boogaloo.

Write season 3, AKA the Electric Boogaloo sequel. Boogaloo is probably going to reach somewhere around 300k total, but I'm aiming for something more like 150k-200k for the sequel.

Finish the two Arrow fics I still can't give up on, even though I haven't worked on them in years. One just needs another 2k, and the other maybe 15k.

Transition to original fiction, taking the idea I had for a JatP boy band AU and "filing off the serial numbers" as I go. (Or something else--who knows what I'll be most interested next fall!)

In terms of word count goals:

I want to hit 50,000 for NaNo in November. For April and July Camp NaNos, I want to write 1,000 a day, so 30k and 31k.

I want to take it somewhat easy in the three months after NaNo events, so May, August, and December - 600/day, or 18,600 words/month.

For the other six months out of the year, I'm going to try doing "NaNoWriWeek" or 1,667 words/day for the first week of the month and then 600/day for the rest of the month, which will get me around 25k per month.

All of this totals up to about 300,000 words.

#my writing

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xplrvibes · 3 months

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part two. Ive decided to make comments as i watch big bulks so i don’t forget what i’m thinking.

1. the more sam and colby talk abt cody and satori… the more i believe them. like maybe im just a chameleon to opinion but they genuinely seem to believe in c&s and i wasn’t there, i haven’t experienced any of this so i think i’m back to ‘hey maybe it wasn’t all bs and this might be real’. I also firmly do not believe cody was cracking joints bc how? they felt it in the floor, heard it in the walls.. doesn’t make sense. also if the house ever goes up again they need to put an offer down. i get what sam was saying and it not being practical (properly value 300k but asking for 1.4m? that’s steep). it’d be a great investment tho.

2. with sam and colbys luck, one of them would get the most undeniable evidence of the paranormal (someone levitating, thrown a distance, possessed…) and people would still be like ‘fake!’ Lol Also gram (?) just mentioned a similar experiment to what we were discussing the other day! except he said take random people and not tell them which is haunted, we were saying put snc in a place and not tell them its haunted and then see what happens. they liked that idea so who knows… they might lol

3. i will always be so fascinated and proud of colby for how he handled and continues to be so transparent about his cancer journey. i say journey bc it will continue to be apart of his life for years to come, whether through medical appointments, anniversary anxieties, or just talking about it. mad props to him, mad props.

4. i just got a series of flashes in my mind of black and white photos of snc respectively announcing engagements to their partners and births of their children and it made me smile. one day, boys. one day that’ll be your future, your “purpose”.

done.

- aussie anon

always nice to listen to podcasts where everyone knows each other well, its less interviewy and more just a convo with friends caught on camera.

Also I hope their merch is still in stores next time i’m in the usa bc i would definitely grab a hoodie. just don’t wanna pay the insane conversion rate and shipping costs. i priced it, a hoodie + shipping works out to be $149aud. sorry boys… can’t do it 😂

1, I believe that they believe in Cody and Satori. I've never called snc's credibility into question with that whole mess, and it kind of annoys me that others do - not cause I think they are above reproach or something, but because people love to say "oh snc never bothered to even try to debunk these guys, so they must be in on it." Like, WHAT? They literally flew back across the country weeks later to try and debunk it cause they knew full well that there were a lot of ways out and around this. When the controversy started, they reached out to C&S and asked if they could run more tests and C&S said no. SNC, having done all of that, came out still believing them while also fully acknowledging that they could be faking - not much else they can do besides that right there, so why they are still coming under fire about it when C&S are the "frauds" is beyond me.

Literally, do y'all want them to kidnap these two people, tie them up, remove their shoes, and force them to do this barefoot? Do you want them to release this additional footage they have that C&S did not give them permission to release that they could probably get sued over (since releasing it would be done without consent) and possibly blacklisted from the entire paranormal community, just so reddit can have their fucking jollies? Like...?? Go after C&S and let snc continue to have their beliefs on the whole thing, since they did everything they felt they could to disprove this before making their decision on where they stood on the issue.

Sorry for the rant, that whole situation just annoys me.

As far as them almost buying the house - that made me laugh, cause we joked about the possibility of them doing that on here back when the house went up for sale. So knowing it almost happened is not only funny, but also explains some vague shit they said back in the day about possibly owning a haunted house lol.

2, You know, Sam's exuberant insistence that he wants to have some horrible thing happen to him so that he could have the experience and finally know for 100% that the paranormal is real is exactly the problem with Sam, and I've been calling that out for years. The fact that he can so casually say it out loud made me both feel vindicated and perturbed by him and his hubris (here's a good example of his hubris again lol).

But yea, I hope they take the idea and run with it!

3, I thought it was interesting to hear him be honest about the fact that this whole situation with the cancer is hitting him harder now than it did while he was in the thick of it. That is trauma. That is shock and adrenaline wearing off, and hindsight creeping in. I think it's important to be able to come out and say, "Yea, not all of this is a positive, and some of this will stick with you for years." Colby tries his damndest (to a fault sometimes) to always come across as a glass all the way full and overflowing kind of guy, or a stoic soldier who doesn't complain and keeps his head up, but then he's also very open about his emotional state, and vaguely alludes to his deep mental health struggles from time to time and I just think there's a well of really dark emotion buried deep, deep inside of him that would be healthier for him and everyone to let out every once in a while.

Anyway, that was a side tangent to the main point, which is that it is very impressive that he continues to put himself out there and speak so candidly about such a stigmatized topic.

Although, I don't think he grasps what the word "celibate" means, but he tried and that's what counts lol

4, I think it's high comedy that these two act like they've never given thought to their kids growing up together when they literally were just joking about this on xplrclub a few months ago. These two have brains like sieves lol.

Also, the looks on their faces when the host said "you should have girlfriends that are friends with each other" like yea, they are working on that right now, as a matter of fact.

And I think they'll be in Zumiez for a long time, so you should be good!!

#asks #aussie anon #snc video review

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