#first part where i was like wow that sucked to write and i hate it but im moving along so i don't get bogged down! lol
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Steddie Upside-down AU Part 25
Part 1 Part 24
“You mean blood draws this thing?” Hopper asks. He’s finally seated at the table, no longer looming over Eddie where he sits, like he’s just picked him up for possession and taken him in for questioning. Again.
“We don’t know,” Barbara says. Nancy chimes in, “it’s just a theory.” All three of them ignore Eddie’s shouted “Yes!” As if he isn’t the only one that’s seen the thing more than once.
Hopper steeples his fingers in front of his nose, looking like he’d rather be almost anywhere else. Eddie can’t blame him. He also wants Hopper to be anywhere else.
“We’ve got a plan,” Nancy says. “To test the theory.”
Hopper sighs, closing his eyes and pinching his brows, the same way he does when he catches Eddie selling pot outside of the high school. Or at the trailer park. Or at parties. “Let’s hear it then.” He doesn’t open his eyes. Nancy starts speaking anyway.
Eddie, having been mostly absent last time, tunes in for the conversation. She wants to jerry rig the house with bear traps. Like they’re in the Looney Tunes and she’s trying to catch the road runner. Hopper doesn’t seem all that impressed. Neither does Wayne.
“No,” Wayne says.
Hopper still hasn’t opened his eyes. Maybe he was so shocked by the slap dash plan that he gave up and went to sleep.
“Excuse me?” Nancy says.
Eddie bristles at her tone, but Wayne doesn’t even twitch. “You’re kids,” he says, like that’s all there is to say.
“But, Steve –”
Joyce jumps up from where she was still huddled with her sons to tower over the table in all her five foot nothing furry to shout, “this is not yours to fix!” It works to shut them all up. “It’s not you kid’s responsibility to save another kid.”
“But, Mom,” Will says.
Eddie wants to echo the sentiment. Wants to beg. Steve saved their lives, and they’d left him. She wants them to just leave him there? Again? “I know, baby. We’ll get him.”
“Anyone called the boy’s parents?” Wayne asks, but it comes out barely as a question. He already knows the answer, even before Hopper scoffs. Everyone at this table does.
“Like anyone even knows what country they’re in,” he replies while Joyce bristles, like the thought of anyone’s child being left like that leaves her seething.
“Enough of that,” she says, waving her ends in a cutting motion in front of her. “How are we going to get that boy back?”
Will stands up and storms out of the room. Eddie’s never seen the kid be anything but polite. Eddie stands to follow the tug at his sternum telling him to keep the kid in his line of sight.
“Will?” Joyce calls, trying to follow as well until Jonathan tugs her back by her arm with a quiet murmur he can’t make out.
The house isn’t large. He can hear the silence reverberating as he follows Will. The best plan they have so far is Nancy’s game of mouse trap. If it means saving Steve, Eddie’s ready to form an alliance with the devil he knows. If it means saving Steve, he’d be willing to do worse.
“I could go back to the lab,” Hopper says, voice barely carrying down the hallway.
Will’s sitting on a bed when Eddie finds him. It’s small with a blue comforter on it, covered in little cartoon planes. There’s a poster of Jaws on the wall, D & D minis on a bookcase. This might be the coolest kid alive.
Eddie takes a seat beside him, the mattress squeaking as he huddles into it.
Will’s hand is dangling between his knees, cradling a walkie talkie. He doesn’t look over at Eddie, just keeps staring at it like it’ll crackle to life at any second.
“Whatcha got there?” Eddie asks quietly as voices raise in the other room. Eddie wonders if this is what it would’ve felt if he’d had a baby brother back when voices were always raised in his house. He wants to scoop this kid up and bolt out the window.
Will barely seems to notice the noise. He’s still just staring down. When he finally drags his eyes up, it seems like it takes effort. “I want to call Mike.”
“Okay,” Eddie says. “Who is Mike?”
Will’s eyes shift back down. “He’s my Steve.”
Well, Eddie has no idea what that means, but he can glean some things: Mike is important, and Will wants to talk to him. “So, call him.”
Will’s shoulders curl in. He cradles the walkie talkie to his chest like it’s a baby. “He thinks I’m dead.” It comes out of his mouth bitter.
Eddie reaches out, clasps his shoulder gently. “Then, I bet he’d love to hear that you’re not.”
Slow as molasses, Will raises the walkie talkie up to his mouth, holds down a button and speaks. “Mike?” he asks. “Do you copy?”
He decompresses the button. The silence trickles back in as they both now stare at the walkie talkie, waiting for something to happen. “Maybe he didn’t hear yo–” Eddie starts to say, conjuling, when a frantic, prepubescent voice crackles through the little speaker.
“Will?!” A voice asks, overlapped by another saying , “–didn’t say over, Mike!” before the fuzzy sound stops abruptly.
Will waits a second before pushing the button again, and speaking, “I’m here, over.”
“Where are you?” presumably Mike asks. “We’ll come get you!”
Will smiles, eyes brimming. “It’s okay,” he says, voice lighter than Eddie’s ever heard it. “I’m home.”
The silence lasts longer now, until a new voice filters through. “Yeah, yeah, I’m glad you’re back, Will,” attitude dripping even over the static of the line. “Now, the bad men have got us pinned down, you gotta help us.” it says, before tacking on a quick, “over.”
“Bad men?” Eddie asks, looking over at Will, hoping this is some ill-timed inner-circle game.
But Will looks confused. Panicked. “I think we should go get Chief Hopper.” Will says.
Great. Another fucking problem. Eddie regrets ever being dragged back through that goddamn hole in the tree.
Part 26
#steddie upsidedown au#steddie fic#steddie#eddie munson#steve harrington#my fic#first part where i was like wow that sucked to write and i hate it but im moving along so i don't get bogged down! lol
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Idk if u still write but id love for the reader to bite and drink vanitas blood while hes pinned down, panting, whimpering, gripping the sheets, getting hard asf… basically what jeanne did.
OMG DOWN BAD FOR VANITAS- and yes I do still write! Sorry I’ve been in Ireland with my marching band! That’s why I answered so late! We won some parades and it was so much fun, shout out to my roommates. I’m now back home though so I’m back to writing my requests!
But anyways ahem ahem, yes, ahem. I love this request-
Word count: 1234 words
(Not me being a little bit of a simp)
Vanitas x male vampire reader
!!Suggestive content but no smut!!
Synopsis: you were feeling jealous from earlier and craving some blood and Vanitas was taking too long to show up…
Thirsty vampire
You were tired. Rather drained, in fact. Vanitas and Noé had dragged you to another raggedy part of Paris to heal another curse bearer. It was a wild chase, they were quiet and stealthy, especially for a curse bearer. After hours of running back and forth, Vanitas finally managed to capture and cure them. Of course, the woman was rather touchy with your boyfriend after he helped her find her true name. You hated it. Noé had questioned if you were alright because you looked and felt very tense, which you were. Though at the time you had just said you were tired. You swore she’d tried to kiss Vanitas and yes, it made you jealous. It’s even an underestimation to say you were jealous, you were fuming. So clearly now that you’re home and Vanitas is off frolicking with Noé instead of being with you, you’re done. By that you ment pissed beyond belief.
You sat on your bed, waiting for him to show up. Just sitting, and waiting, and sitting, and waiting. You bit your lip hard enough to draw blood, tasting the metal of your own blood made you crave a drink.
Almost an hour and a half later, you still sat on the bed, unmoving. You’d sat through sun set and now it was dark outside, yet still, Vanitas was no where to be found. Every minute thst passed you grew more and more upset with him. First he let that curse bearer touch and flirt with him, and then he doesn’t even come back. When the door finally opened at midnight, your eyes were red.
“Oh, wow, it’s already rather late! I hope I didn’t keep you waiting on me and Noé too long,” Vanitas said with his usual catty, carefree voice.
“No, no, not long at all. It’s not as though I waited five hours in this room wondering why you didn’t tell me where you’d gone,” you spat, not even trying to hide the sarcasm in your words.
“And so? Its not like I have to tell you everything I’m doing, when and why. You’re just a jealous boyfriend,” Vanitas laughed annoyingly just to rub in the statement.
“Really? Fine then, I am a jealous boyfriend. I saw that curse bearer drooling over you after you cured her, and you just let her touch you and even try to kiss you. And you didn’t even come back and tell me that you were going off with Noé, nor did you invite me to come,” you began to rant.
“You looked tired,” he shrugged. At that comment you lost it. You grabbed him by the arm and dragged him closer to the bed. You pulled his coat off and undid his collar.
“Slow down, wait! What are you doing?” Vanitas gasped as you trailed your hot tounge over his neck and collarbone. He didn’t do anything to fight you though, so you continued. Finding the perfect place, you bit down. Your fangs penitrating the soft surface of his skin.
“Ah!” He moaned at the feeling. You sucked fervently at his neck, like a man dying of thirst. You pushed him down on the bed one hand gently resting on the back of his neck and the other holding you up. Your knee pushing at his clothed dick.
The motion in itself made Vanitas’ whole body jolt and him to let out a large moan.
“Oh mon dieu- mmmmh!” Vanitas was gasping for air at this point. His long nails were digging into your arms, though not enough that it hurt. You were too overwhelmed with the taste of his amazing blood to care either way. You kept sucking harder and even started to move your knee around.
“Ah! Mmm-mph! Stop— ah! Stop it!” Vanitas moaned into your neck but you couldn’t hear him, you were too focused on drinking from him. You could never get full of his blood, it was yours and only yours. You let your fangs slip out of him and licked up whatever excess blood came from the wound. Vanitas was sweating and panting on the bed sheets. You could feel how hard he was from this alone. He looked at you with his half lidded vibrent blue eyes as though he wanted you to continue. He was undressing you with his eyes.
“If you think that you can pull a stunt like this and then get the relif you crave then you are sorely mistaken. I drank from you for my pleasure and my pleasure only,” you said as you turned around to leave.
“Wait! So you’re just gonna leave then?! Thats not fair,” he said out of breath and in a more whiney tome than normal.
“Yes, I am going to leave. And don’t touch yourself while I’m gone or I’ll ignore you for a month,” you said coldly and walked out of the room. He ran after you and grabbed your arm. You stared back at him emotionlessly. His eyes were so hard to refuse. Vanitas kept eye contact with you before biting off one of his gloves and scratching his neck hard enough it bleed.
“You should probably clean that up, before I have to waste it,” he smirked. Who were you to reject that, it was such a hot display of disregard for his own personal safety. Not even just that, he was too desperate and it was making you feel desperate too. You lent in again and bit him in a new spot now, sucking again as hard as you wanted.
“Mmmmmf— mmf!” he tried to silence his moans with his hand. You let go of his neck and looked at him. You tore his hand from his mouth and instead intertwined your fingers.
“I want to hear everything I make you feel,” you said before gently and slowly unbuttoning his shirt, after it was on the floor, you violently and suddenly bit the other side of his collar. Vanitas’ hair was a mess, just like him. He was panting and moaning so loudly you were sure Noé could hear from the neighbouring room. Vanitas tries to do something, anything, but he fails to even move his hand an inch.
“Nghh- ah!” All that could be heard in the room was a light gulping and Vanitas’ occasional whimpers. When you’d finally decided you’d had your fill, you let go with a sigh. Vanitas was under you panting wildly. His pants had a wet spot, so clearly, he came in his pants.
“Oh? And all I did was bite you,” you laughed. He immediately knew what you were referring to and looked away, still panting.
“Oh shut up, you know you weren’t just biting me,” he said arrogantly, already back to his usual self.
All you did was laugh at his cute disselved state. Blue hair spread all across the bed, three different bite marks adorned his neck and collarbone, his shirt somewhere long forgotten. You trailed your cold hands up his abdomen and watched him shiver with anticipation.
“I can’t stay mad at you, Vanitas,” you whispered.
“Huh, why not? Too pretty, am I?” He said cockily. You laughed,
“Maybe.”
You continued to trail your hands up and down his milky skin.
“What are you doing, mon chérie,” Vanitas asked. You smiled,
“Nothing, just admiring your build,” You whispered. The night ended in a comfortable silence after that.
#the book of vanitas#vanitas#vanitas x reader#vanitas no carte x reader#vanitas no carte#x reader#male reader#case study of vanitas#vanitas smut#sub vanitas#vnc#vnc fanfic#fanfic
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hello, I’ve been thinking about Sokka in the finale and was wondering about your take I suppose? Or perhaps I just need to express this.
Sokka being a tactician rather than a warrior is a wonderful way to end his arc. Trusting two women who are, objectively, stronger in combat, while also being a guide & leader wow great love it.
And it’s great how he protects Toph. But I also think about how at the beginning Sokka is primed to die for Katara, and at the end he’s in the same self-sacrificial position. I don’t think this is bad writing but it kinda sucks for him lmao. His most triumphant moment is still one where it’s his job to die first.
It’s also interesting how this mirrors Zuko, who also self-sacrifices as a part of the completion of his arc. The way they’re both so willing to die is part of what makes Zukka compelling to me. But also! I wonder if Sokka would be jealous of Zuko being able to almost die for Katara.
I don’t think Sokka would think of it that way, but I can imagine his self-hate for almost letting Toph die, and then look! He wasn’t even there to die for Katara! Someone else had to do it! And maybe Zuko is a fine option if it’s not Sokka, but I don’t think its would be easy for Sokka to accept.
I don’t think he would know why he was angry, either. He’d just be mixed up with frustration and helplessness and probably concern for Zuko, too, and irritation at how stupid it was for Zuko to challenge Azula to an Agni Kai. God I hope they don’t break up over it.
okay, wow. a lot of interesting points here. i'm gonna try to respond to them in order (and number each paragraph so you can follow each point better).
1 while i would of course say that suki and toph both have unique strengths as fighters, i wouldn't discount sokka's skill either. yes, he is first and foremost a tactician who uses strategic maneuvering to win battles, and learning to prioritize his brains over his brawn is a huge facet of his arc, but crucially, he learns this first from suki, whose technique is all about strategic maneuvering against stronger opponents, and toph's fighting style is also about finding creative uses for her earthbending, instead of relying on feats of strength like the other earthbenders we see throughout the series. i would say that in this sense, toph, sokka, and suki are all quite evenly matched. they each have skills the other does not (arguably toph's skills are the most impressive, but sokka's accuracy with a boomerang and suki's little flippity flips – i.e., her abs of steel – in "the boiling rock" deserve acknowledgment).
of course, it's valuable that sokka trusts toph and suki entirely, and not solely because it reflects his implicit respect for girls as warriors (because like, we covered that at the very beginning of the series), but because it means he can overcome his control freak tendencies to delegate and trust others to be competent and succeed, which also means trusting that if they fail or choose to sacrifice themselves, it's not directly his fault (something he learns in "the boiling rock"). and of course toph and suki are probably the two people (who aren't directly related to him) he trusts, loves, and admires the most, which is what makes their team-up as a trio in the finale so lovely.
2 i actually think there's something really beautiful and poignant about the circularity of sokka's arc. as you say, it's a near-identical situation. sokka is faced down by fire nation soldiers, the only person in a position to fight back, while responsible for the safety and life of his little sister, and even though he puts up a valiant effort, he still must be saved by a third party who swoops in at the very last moment to save him before he bites it. in "the avatar returns," sokka's choice to die a martyr (in his mind) will finally fulfill his existential goal of protecting katara (which, again, in his mind, means doing for her what kya did), whereas now his existential goal is ending the war. either way, he is dying for his cause. the thing is, when aang returns to fight zuko, suddenly a new cause motivates sokka: to help the avatar. but now that the war is over, sokka's goals become less concrete. he must suddenly live past the end of his myth, which as we all know, is a perilous thing.
and as i've talked about before, i think this would motivate him to try and do everything he possibly can, because he no longer has one singular defined path, so to prove that he is worthy of existence he must now exercise control over everyone. as much as he trusts toph and suki and katara and aang and zuko (to an extent), i think his control freak tendencies would nonetheless be exacerbated by the end of the war, because instead of just imposing control on their little group to make sure they stay on schedule etc. etc., he now has the opportunity to impose control over the entire world. postwar sokka is kind of a nightmare i'm afraid.
3 i think it's important to remember that sokka doesn't really get angry, he gets guilty. unlike katara, zuko, or even aang, sokka only really gets angry if he thinks someone is incompetent and/or evil. but mostly, when he internalizes his emotions, he doesn't lash out with rage, he points that anger inwards, feels as if he is the one at fault, even if the situation was not remotely in his control. i don't think sokka would be remotely mad at zuko for what he did. he might think zuko was stupid for what he did ("couldn't katara have just run out of the way?"), but he'd also be infinitely grateful. i think sokka would be furious at zuko had the reverse happened and katara been injured in any way – oh, then he would tear zuko to pieces. but zuko risking his life for katara (although i think in zuko's mind he expected he'd be fine and that he could just redirect the lightning in midair, but he'd never admit that to anyone ever, so.) would only make sokka feel guilty that someone else had to perform his duty.
i think a big problem for sokka after the war would be that now that he has all these different paths to follow, he cannot be in every location at once (being a man means knowing where you're needed the most, but what if you're needed everywhere??? what then???), and he cannot know every single piece of information implicitly. the fact that he had to be at the airship fleet meant that he had to trust that zuko and katara would be successful in their mission. and he clearly does trust them, but i imagine there's also a part of him wracked with fear over their fates the entire time that they're split up, especially because if katara isn't okay, that means that he failed and he wasn't even there. so yeah, i think he'd feel a mix of gratitude and guilt that zuko performed his big brother duties in sokka's place. but i don't think he'd be angry at zuko.
4 sokka's self-hate for almost letting toph die is so real though. yeah "the boiling rock" teaches him to let himself rely on others and not take every single failure so personally, and suki is especially significant in that regard for how she represents someone who is sokka's peer who can rescue him but also be rescued by him. and all that, thematically speaking, is very important and lovely. but he still hates himself for not doing more. which is of course crazy, because he literally used a boomerang and threw his sword with only one working arm and a broken leg while basically hanging off a falling ledge in the sky to kill two men, but sokka is crazy, so there's no way he's satisfied upon being told that he did all he can do. his limits are his failures. and if he can't even protect his best friend, then what is he good for?
i actually think that if toph hadn't been there to ground him, he would have been less concerned with staying alive, that he only held on for so long because he wanted to keep toph alive. when sokka tells toph that "it looks like this is the end," toph, understandably, starts to cry, but sokka only really seems sad at the idea that toph is about to die. he's not crying, why would he be? this is probably how he's always imagined his own death in his wildest fantasies (yes, if katara fantasizes about revenge, sokka fantasizes about dying, you know it's true). if sokka is crucial to helping toph recognize and accept her own vulnerability, toph helps sokka stay grounded to his humanity (and obviously aang and others perform these function for both parties as well, but sokka and toph's friendship is a really beautiful, special thing). and that means that sokka is excited to be saved by suki specifically because it means that she also saved toph. but there must also be a part of sokka after the war that's thinking "in the end, zuko saved katara, suki saved toph, some giant spirit creature saved aang........ what am i even good for?" because if there's one thing sokka's brain loves to do, it's reinforce his own worthlessness.
5 "god i hope they don't break up over it" was pretty funny to me, because i honestly think that if they ever get together (and jury's still out for me on that tbh) it would take a good decade. but also i recognize that the way i "ship zukka" is different from how everyone else feels about/imagines them, so that's not really relevant here.
#would it surprise you that i do in fact think about this all the time#you guys rly love enabling me huh#asks#dejaentends#put it under the cut even though i have way longer posts i didn't add readmores to. im unpredictable im crazy idk#sokka#toph#suki#zuko#katara#katara&sokka#sokka&toph#sokkaxsuki#sokkaxzuko#(kinda)#analysis#GODDDDD..... i love.........psychoanalyzing sokka...... peeling the onion....... he has LAYERS DONKEY!!!!!
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can you do smut where all of Ethan and male readers friends catch them in the act? like they’re doing it on the couch or anything and all of their friends are just teasing and stuff, also thank you for writing my request so quick:)
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Ethan landry x male reader (NSFW)
I wasn't going to write this one so fast, but I had the brilliant idea of having it be a sequel to my previous story where Quinn walks in on them. (Here) Thought it would be funny if it happened to them twice. So I just went straight into writing this so i wouldn't forget about it!! Smut definitely isn't my strong suit so if this sucks i apologise, but i tried!
(Its kinda short and only proof read once because i hate reading over the smut I write so sorry for that!)
You lay on your back on the couch that was in Ethan and Chad's dorm. You and him decided to try to go for round two after being rudely interrupted by Quinn last time. Ethan's hands were running over your body. His hands running under your sweater and grabbing at your waist. His lips rarely leave yours, lifting up for only short gasps of air. He couldn't get over how your lips felt on his. The two times you've made out, it felt like pure heaven to him.
He moved his knee in between your legs, pushing into your groin. This caused you to moan in pleasure. You loved the feeling of his hands touching your body. They were cold, but a good cold, a feeling you've yearned for since the last time you two tried this. Your hands were resting on his chest, your grip tightening on his shirt.
He pulled away,looking into your eyes. "Can I move down?" He asked. You looked at him for a second, dumbfounded.
You slapped him. "Yes you idiot" You laughed "You don't ask, you just move down" You couldn't lie, Ethan looked so hot hovering over you. You loved the way his hair fell over his eyes as he looked down at you.
Ethan laughed before placing his lips onto yours again. He pulled at your sweater. Moving up above your head, pulling it off you. He dropped it beside the couch. He moved his lips onto your neck,sucking on the side. You moaned,readjusting yourself on the couch. He then started to move down, placing kisses all over your chest and stomach like last time. You forgot how good it felt, to have his lips taste every part of you.
He reached the waistband of your sweatpants, leaving one last kiss on your stomach. He pulled at the waistband, moving it down below your knee. This was new to both of you. Ethan looked up at the door, making sure no one walked in this time. He turned his attention back to you. He grabbed at your underwear, slowly removing. He pulled them down, watching as your cock springed free from its restraints.
He admired it for a second, this was his first time seeing another man's dick in person. He bent down, planting kisses at the base. You groaned in annoyance. "Just suck it already." You begged.
He laughed to himself, before placing his mouth around the tip. His tongue wrapped around it as he began to move down further. Your hips jolted up. You've never felt pleasure like this before. Fuck it felt good. He gagged slightly at the sudden movement,his eye's watering. You muttered an apology under your breath,your head reeling back. He began to move up and down slowly, his hand gripping around where his mouth didn't touch. You were in a state of pure sexual ecstasy now. Your mind only focusing on what Ethan was doing.
You felt Ethan stop, his mouth pulling away from you. You look up at him. "What?" He pulls the pillow out from under your head causing your head to fall down a bit. "Wow, ok rude?" He placed the pillow over your groin. Your face dropped, realising what's happening. You cursed internally once you heard the door open. You sat up reaching at your pants.
Anika's scream filled the apartment "OH MY GOD" she turned around her hands over her eyes.
You got your pants up as the others ran in. Ethan reached for your shirt. "Again?" Quinn questioned, rolling her eyes.
You heard Mindy start laughing. "ON MY FUCKING COUCH?" Chad shouted out. "You sick fucks." He added. You began to put on your shirt.
"Why would you guys do that when you knew we were coming over?" Mindy questioned you two. She threw the snacks she had brought onto the table. You turned your head to face Ethan. He looked shocked.
"You didn't tell me the movie night was being held here." You said to Ethan, a stern look on your face. Ethan stared at you blankly. Mindy started laughing again
You heard Sam running in. "What's happening?" She looked around, seeing Anika's hands still on her face. "Why did you scream?" She asked.
"These two idiots decided now would be a great time to try things out on MY GODDAMN COUCH." Chad said, staring at Ethan. You thought if looks could kill then Ethan would drop dead right now. Sam rolled her eye's. Placing a hand over her chest.
"Fuck. I thought something serious happened." She closed her eyes, taking a deep breath.
"Um I don't know about you, but this is pretty serious to me." Chad said pointing to himself.
"Oh grow up." You heard Quinn say. "Having sex is a normal thing." She added.
"It's normal to have it on your own piece of furniture." Chad looked at her. "His bare fucking ass touched my couch." Chad pointed to you. You rolled your eyes.
"Wouldn't be the worst thing to touch it." Mindy butted in,already eating the food she brought. Chad looked at Mindy. Mindy put her arms up. "What, it was a joke" She said, trying to defend herself. Mindy looked around the room. "Are we still watching the movie?"
You melted into the couch. You've never been so embarrassed in your life. You looked at Ethan, his face was red. Chad walked over. "Fine." He said, sitting in between you and Ethan. "You two aren't allowed beside each other on this couch ever again." He points between both of you. You placed a hand over your face, laughing. You promised yourself that next time you and Ethan will try it somewhere else, preferably somewhere no one would want to enter.
#scream#ethan landry x male reader#ethan landry x reader#scream x male reader#ethan landry#ethan landry x y/n#jack champion#Ethan landry smut
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Oh wow! I wasn't expecting you all to like the mcd sona so much!!! But I'm so happy you do!! Thank you to everyone for the compliments and have a garroth in return!
(I just got my laptop back so I'm relearning how to render on csp bare with me lmfao)
Also!! Some of you showed interest in me making a minecraft roleplay of my own!!!!! I'm posting about it day to day on tik tok but!! If yall want to hear about it here I'll make posts!!
So under the cut has some info on that in the mean time! To see if anyone has any intrest ^^
I do not know what to call it rn so it has the temporary name of 'Villiage Tributes' which I hate but I suck at titles lmfaoo
Character design stuff and their info is at the bottom for now I'll talk about what I know I want video formatting and general universe lore wise ^^.
Video Format:
-whole the main focus will be on the storytelling there will be some just general playing minecraft aspects! Like the getting materials and building, because I liked a small amount of those ya know! And no one includes them at all anymore. :(
-audience feedback will be a HUGE part! Mainly in things like end pairings and junk so long as it doesn't compromise the writing ^^
-while the main medium will be well-minecraft lolol, I would want to have some scenes/ Intros be done with art/animatics!!! To make up for some parts where minecraft may lack the proper ommf lmfao (like when a important character in introduced the first scene will be drawn to better show off character designs and junk!
Universe Lore:
-it will be kind of a skyrim kingdom build- where there is a major central city and leader, and a bunch of regional lords as well, maybe like a council thing? Oh?
-there are currently 3 major love interests! (For the mc) they will get individual posts but here are just the uh, biggest tropes? With them?
-Guard x Noble (come on i- how can I not?? Mcd or not it's necessary for medival fantasy come ON)
-Flirt Hopeless romantic x oblivious (it's cute trust me)
-Villian x hero (i- come on come ON)
Also!!! There's a possibly poly options!!!! (Not with the villian so sorry lads)
-this is taking place directly after a giant Civil War for the rights of Animal and Magic Folk! So the world we enter in is currently recovering and rebuilding and has gone through MASSIVE social and legal changes!
-we won't be originally starting off in a village! We will be starting in something more of a camp/ settlement? And ontop of everything we will be going through the process of getting it legally recognized as a village!!
Character designs and some info!
Mc
Yeah, I know, I never promised I wouldn't be cringe. Most of
Name: Mello
Pronouns: Any/ all
Powers: under construction
Most of the backstory is top secret for now lol.
Fun fact:
-Stims when upset by frantically tapping a finger against her palm
Love intrest 1:
(He is getting a ref remake because I did this on my phone and on a day where I just could- NOT draw for the life of me!)
So! This is getting way to long- so I will make follow up posts if yall want so!! Let me know! I'd LOVE to chat about it! There is so much work I'm doing all the time and I have so much lore
#art#oc art#digital art#mcd garroth#mcd art#mcd#aphmau mcd#minecraft diaries#minecraft#roleplay#roleplay series#minecraft series
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Hi Hali! I was looking at your wip list and wow! You have so many amazing fics coming I'm so excited! I really love your writing and your fantasy writing because you always immerse me and no one else writes fantasy and vampires the way you do lol. I noticed on there that you had mem x mem fics and I was wondering if that was going to become a thing for your writing? No hate to people who write them, but they make me uncomfortable because it assumes the boys sexuality so I might just skip those
Hi okay so I have a lot to say here and normally for ask responses that are really long, I would do a read more because I don't want to clog up my follower's dashboards but in light of the content of my response, I'm going to skip the read more because I want people who follow me to understand the way I am going to run my blog and what I will and will not tolerate, as well as a couple of things to understand about me.
First and foremost - thank you for enjoying my work. Readers are incredibly important to this website and those of us who write, so thanks for spending your time on things I've written. Additionally, thank you for taking a second to tell me that you appreciate my work.
This is where my gratitude is going to end. Please understand I know you aren't trying to be hateful, but here is why this entire ask is an issue.
I am bisexual. As in, I like other genders, including my own. I identify as queer, and that is something very new and scary to me and something I have been embracing since 2022, and struggling when coming out to people who have always known me as straight. So while you may not realize that "I like your fics but queer fics makes me uncomfortable" is internalized homophobia, it is. I will address the "assumes sexuality" in a second, but I want to reemphasize that if you read my bio, you can literally see that I'm queer and deduce that going out of your way to tell me that queer content makes you uncomfortable is incredibly hurtful to me - to the effect that writing this response has me in tears.
We are free to curate the spaces that make us comfortable. You are WELL within your right not to read mem x mem content. But please do not go out of your way to tell me you specifically aren't reading my queer content or intend not to. It makes me feel weird, it makes me feel like it's because you don't like members of the gay community (WHICH I AM A PART OF!!!), and it just... costs nothing to skip those in silence, you know?
Now onto your reasoning. Because it "assumes sexuality". This is an inherently heteronormative statement. Assuming that heterosexual relationships are the default, the norm, or the standard alienates the millions of people across the globe who are not straight. It places us in another category of "not normal", and gives people permission to treat us as less than.
When people say things like "assumes sexuality" it is literally ONLY EVER IN REGARD TO QUEER RELATIONSHIPS. The same argument has to be applied to heterosexual relationships if we're going to use this rhetoric. So we can assume they're whatever we want and it's fine but only if they're in male-female relationships?
It's cherry-picking, and it's damaging and hurtful.
I beg you to consider what bothers you about queer media, whether it is a learned behavior, and if you can unlearn it. Members of the queer community have to fight for spaces every single day, and this blog is NOT one I will allow to have taken away from me.
At the end of the day, read what you want. I have a feeling that this ask was not AT ALL meant to warrant this response or to make me feel some type of way, which is why I really want you to consider how telling people that queer media makes you uncomfortable sounds, presents, and makes those people feel.
This really fucking sucked to write and explain. Thanks.
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Slogged through V9E6, thoughts are under the cut
As always, I am worried that Jaune’s arrival means he’s going to start sucking focus away from the other characters again. Here’s hoping the writers remember he’s best used as a supporting character.
Jaune why did you grab the weird thing that looks like a clock what did you think was going to happen
Don't touch weird shit you idiot it's like rule #1
I hate the Ever After so much
So did he just sit there for years until he got DILFed? Lmao.
I'm sure this change will have long-lasting ramifications for both Jaune's characterization and the narrative as a whole.
Well, this was a wonderful, touching moment until it was immediately ruined by Weiss’s daddy kink
Like seriously who the fuck thought it was a good idea to have Jaune admit that he’d gone through a horribly traumatic experience and been incredibly lonely for what’s indicated to be literally decades based on his physical changes and then have Weiss immediately start thirsting for him like we literally see his eyes watering and then not seven seconds later Weiss is looking at him with do-me eyes
These writers genuinely have zero understanding of tone or how to set and maintain it effectively it’s amazing it's like they watched the MCU and the only lesson they took away from it was that every moment that might possibly have any kind of emotional impact needs to be undermined by a snappy quip as quickly as possible because otherwise someone might make the mistake of assuming your show is sincere about anything
Anyway girliepop’s showing her whole ass right now way to keep your fetish under wraps Weiss
Yang’s looking at her like “I know what you are”
Nice try Yang like I didn’t see you eyeing up Jaune too feast on the crumbs my fellow pan Yang truthers
Miles is genuinely never beating the “Jaune is a self-insert” allegations holy shit
Like if you want people to believe that the character you voice, who's received a disproportionate amount of narrative focus throughout the series already and has received repeated criticism for it, who's already been presented as attractive on at least one occasion, isn't a self-insert, maybe don't have one of the mains openly thirsting after him once you've written an excuse for him to be aged up so that he's both closer to your age and significantly older than she is after you've already posed for a picture with a body pillow of an underage girl from the show you write for and your coworker has posted that picture online with the caption "She's still only 16, don't get too comfortable". Like maybe consider the optics for 5 seconds. It'd be 5 seconds longer than you typically think through your writing choices, at any rate.
Wow, finally someone is engaging with the fall of Atlas, Team RWBY’s part in it, and the ramifications of both the previous things. Only took half the fucking Volume.
I actually like the pretty distinct perspectives and the conflict between Weiss and Blow. Weiss is the one who has the most reason to be attached with Atlas and Blow has the most reason to feel negatively about that Kingdom, so having them be the ones arguing here is a good choice.
Yeah, Weiss, you did fail, but it wasn’t just you. Most of the blame rests on the shoulders of Ironwood and these dumbass fucking writers.
That said, you guys didn’t exactly pass your trials with flying colors.
Good point, Ruby.
Yang is the first one to engage with Ruby’s distress again, even if she’s not exactly on the money here either in terms of her actual position on Ironwood or how to help Ruby.
I feel like this is one of the few moments of actual substance we've gotten this Volume and I really wish we'd spent more time digging into it. Unfortunately, He-Jaune, Master of the Universe, cuts it short. Not a fan of that choice unless we pick this up again at a later date.
He-Man’s a little bit of a jerk. Interesting. I kinda want to see where this goes.
He also doesn’t seem to like the Cat. He gets points for that.
He-Man, Master of the Jauniverse, does not want them going to the Tree. Given what apparently happened to the Herbalist, this implies something sinister about the Tree and Ascension.
You read my mind, Weiss.
Jaune has a very different perspective on Ascension than the Cat. On the one hand, the Cat is a denizen of the Ever After and probably knows more about how it works than Jaune does. On the other hand, Jaune is far more inherently trustworthy as a character we’ve known for 8+ Volumes, whereas the Cat is sinister as fuck. They've been creeping me out since their introduction.
Once again, Ascension is equated with death – you lose your memories, lose who you are. Whatever you used to be is gone.
Good pun, Yang.
Who the fuck is Lewis?
Oh, wonderful, Alyx had a brother. An irrelevant character had another irrelevant character to hang out with. Can we please stop expanding the cast?
Go off, Weiss (and Yang)
What the fuck did the Cat just do
I love you Weiss. There really is just no end to the Ever After’s bullshit, is there?
Where the hell are Blow and Yang?
You walked right into that one, Weiss.
Love how He-Man’s just done with everything. I am too, buddy, I am too.
Here it comes, the moment we’ve all been waiting for. Maybe we’ll get something decent out of this Volume after all.
YOU GUYS CAN LITERALLY DOUBLE JUMP WHY DOES EVERY SCENE IN THIS VOLUME THAT DOESN’T INVOLVE COMBAT INSIST ON FORGETTING THAT THE CHARACTERS HAVE MOBILITY TOOLS
I could cross that shit and I don’t even have superpowers
You have perfectly good ropes right there
Yes I get that it’s a metaphor for taking the next step in their relationship blah blah blah but the metaphor is shit
This Volume really likes presenting challenges as insurmountable when Team RWBY has regularly handled far more difficult ones it keeps breaking my willing suspension of disbelief
I'm normally pretty willing to buy into what a show is going for but I just can't do it for this Volume
Was that Summer in the reflection?
Looks like the reflections show everyone’s issues – Summer for Ruby, Penny for Jaune, Atlas for Weiss
Oh, so Alyx was a little shitter, huh? I’m sure there’s nothing negative about the choice to portray a (female) character of color this way, especially in a show known for being racist produced by a company known for being racist.
Okay yeah Jaune you probably fucked up here trying to railroad her into the book’s storyline. Somebody’s never played D&D before and it shows
Poor guy’s really hurting though, can’t blame him for feeling like a failure
I’d like the show to unpack all this but I don’t even trust it to handle Team RWBY’s issues (or even address them in a meaningful way) so we’ll see
I feel like we have to take everything Jaune says about the Cat and the Tree and the Ever After with a grain of salt, but the Cat is genuinely creepy as shit, so I feel like there’s some validity to this, at least.
So Jaune thinks the Cat fed Lewis to the Tree. Is he right? Who the fuck knows?
But it does set up some sinister implications about the Tree, the Cat, and the nature of the Ever After. If the Tree’s not an option, how does the gang get home?
I get the feeling that Jaune is at least partially wrong about how the Tree works, but what he's saying makes sense based on what he knows.
Yang you fucking dork
Anyway if Blow has a really good brain it’d be nice to see more examples of it beyond “she’s the bookworm”, I’m sure setting her own house on fire was a great demonstration of intelligence. I feel like this is another indication that I’m right when I say that RWBY would’ve really benefited from another Beacon Volume to really build the relationships between the core cast that the show tries to convince us exist.
Also, Yang is smart even if Blow makes her brain turn to mush. She seems to have figured out the trick here. She sounds so sweet and sincere when she mentions liking Blow’s ears, though I feel like this is another instance where the show isn’t taking Blow’s status as a minority seriously, what with the potential elements of fetishization here. Still, I’ll try to go with the writing’s intent here.
Honestly it probably wouldn’t even bother me if this Volume hadn’t insisted on continually comparing Blow to a cat
You did, in fact, nail it, Yang. Such a fucking dork I love her
Okay, Blow, maybe you do have a really good brain after all. Again, would’ve been nice to establish this a bit earlier, but oh well.
Yang you fucking dork lmao
Damn, Blake went hard here. Yang went with the surface-level stuff and was probably expecting the same in return and Blake just started pouring her heart out. I love the way Yang’s eyes and face just softened the moment Blake said she was an extraordinary person. Girlie was not expecting that at all.
“I like that you’ve never been intimidated by me” BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Yang she fucking flinches like a dog expecting to be beaten every time you raise your voice around her she’s the only one in your friend group who’s ever been intimidated by you even Jaune is fine around you and that boy’s afraid of his own shadow
Jk I lied the other abuse victim on your team also has negative reactions when you act aggressive
Anyway I guess we know why we got that line about Yang not being scary (even though she could be if she wants to) back in Episode 1.
Yang how are you missing with every line Blow gave up on Adam and the White Fang and that was a good thing because it let her escape his abuse hello?
Oh and she sure as hell gave up on Qrow and Ironwood when Qrow crawled into a bottle and Ironwood decided to raise Atlas, and she was literally the only person on her team who didn’t believe in Yang’s innocence when Cinder framed Yang during the Vytal Festival (guess who was ride or die for Yang in that moment? I'll give you a hint: her name starts with a W), and she ran away from her entire team when Weiss was racist for two episodes. Finding her was the whole fucking plot of the V1 finale. Like I’m not even arguing that she was wrong or unjustified for any of that but if you want her to be the one who never gives up on anyone then maybe fucking show her never giving up on anyone
Does Blake really know what matters to her, Yang? It sure as hell wasn’t Faunus rights during the Atlas Volumes.
That fucking lighting lmao
Just spit it out you idiots lets get this over with my expectations are dropping with every line
God Yang is such a fucking dork I genuinely love this for her it would’ve been so easy to make her the cocky flirty one all the time and they didn’t
For all my frustrations with this show I do genuinely like that.
I like how Yang hesitated a bit and didn’t quite commit but Blake went full-bore.
Oh my God it’s so sappy and cheesy and romantic
I can understand why people love it even if for me it crosses the line to narm like honestly this scene just feels ridiculous but that's just a personal taste thing, it feels too over-the-top for me but there's some charm to it as well
I feel a little bad for the Cat but honestly they strike me as manipulative more than anything
Every scene just gives me bad vibes
Damn, they were makin out, hands changed positions and everything
Nice little leg pop Blow
You and the fandom both, Jaune.
Kinda wonder when you figured it out though because you were not picking up on it in Volume 8 ("Ruby?" "Yeah... Ruby.")
Good to know the Bees thought confessing their feelings was more important than getting home or stopping Salem. I like both characters less every time they treat the Ever After as a vacation.
The little hand touch is cute though.
Okay, Ruby is not reacting well to the return of Crimson Rose, probably because it represents the burden of being a leader and a Huntress.
She's pushing her insecurities down again. That's gonna burst out sooner or later.
Jaune thinks Alyx traded Lewis to the Tree in order to leave. My guess is that either Jaune or Ruby tries to trade themselves to the Tree so the others can go home.
Damn, Ruby’s rejecting Crescent Rose pretty emphatically there.
Music is still forgettable I don’t think there’s been a single song that I’ve remembered a not of when it’s not actually playing for 6 whole episodes
Miles gave a solid performance here and so did whoever voices the Cat.
Okay, so, here it is: the scene we’ve all been waiting for since Volume 2 at the latest. The Bees are an item now, and it’s really obvious that it meant a lot to CRWBY. They put a lot of love into that scene, and it shows. Visually, it’s gorgeous, the voice actresses clearly put their hearts and souls into it, the music is meant to scream romance...
Unfortunately, I don’t like it. Perhaps this is just a nitpick on my end because I’m a stubborn ornery cantankerous bastard who hates being told what to do, but this confession doesn’t feel organic. It feels like they were forced into it by outside factors (the stupid fucking punderstorm that wouldn’t let them leave until they told each other their feelings. If I'd been in their place, I would've sat my stubborn Texan ass down and told that fucking weather condition that it could let me out right now or move along on its own time, but I'm staying right here until it does. Ain't no fuckin rain clouds gonna tell me what to do).
I don’t like that in and of itself, but it gets worse when you consider that both characters are A) queer and B) were only coded and not explicitly confirmed as queer within the show prior to this scene. It feels like two queer characters are being forced out of the closet, which would be bad enough on its own, but gets infinitely worse when the company behind the show named itself after a homophobic slur and then built a company culture around bullying and bigotry and the lead writer on the show has been openly biphobic and fetishized bi women in the past. Good job, morons, you managed to take a ship I’ve supported since the characters involved met in the Emerald Forest and make it feel gross to me. Between this and Blake’s jokes about Yang’s arm in Episode 2, I’m officially not a Bumbleby shipper anymore. You’ve fumbled the bag that badly. Please never hold a job in any creative industry again.
Overall rating: Horrendously Bad And Specifically Disappointing On Top Of That/10
Amazed that I can't definitively declare this a bottom three episode of the Volume because 3 of the 5 others I've watched so far were also this fucking bad. Truly an accomplishment.
Everything that wasn't Weiss's thirst for DILFs and the Bumbleby confession was okay (not amazing), but the writers fucked up so badly with the parts that sucked that they accomplished something incredible: they executed a scene I've been waiting for for ages so incompetently that I don't ship Bumbleby anymore.
#this entire volume has really been a masterclass on how not to write a story#I would be ashamed to put this on my resume if I had worked on it#rwby#bumbleby
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Games I Played In 2023 And Whether Or Not I Thought They Were Good (Part 2/4)
Yup, there's more! Lot of 'em this year.
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Trails into Reverie
Sad to say, a... nightmarishly bad finale to the Erebonia/Crossbell saga of Trails.
The one thing I'll give it is that the core combat gameplay remains super fun, and carries the experience- they're always finding new ways to expand and iterate on the battle system, and this time is no exception.
Otherwise... man, where do I start? The story is just... such a mess. They clearly intended this to be, like... the big climax to the Crossbell games, where the people fight to reclaim their independence from Erebonian occupation- but, uh, whoops, they obviated that entire conflict with the end of Cold Steel, so they pull ridiculous Ouroboros shenanigans out of their ass to recreate that conflict as if the previous resolution never happened. Feels like they developed half the game with a specific set of antagonists in mind, and then whatever hack writer they have running the show over there changed their mind about how Cold Steel would resolve and they had to bend over backwards to make up a new antagonist who just happened to be using the same occupying army and main badguy they just dealt with already.
And structure aside, it's just... wow. Just playing the hits of awful hand-wavey writing decisions, villain motivations that make no sense, anime-ass fanservice, and sucking its own dick over how cool the cast is despite most of them doing nothing and existing only as action figures for the combat. It started stupid, threatened to become halfway interesting as it set up the intrigue, and then shat the bed in the finale by revealing that absolutely none of the intrigue mattered and that the villain was like dogs and just sort of did things arbitrarily. Never hated Trails writing more than this one. What an embarrassing display.
also like half the game's runtime is padded out with level grinding in an inexplicable magic cyber-dungeon like in Sky 3rd, which keeps acting like it's going to be important to the plot but then manages to somehow not come up even a little bit at all. and it's got a gacha in it even though it's all in-game currency and there's no real money shop so why would you bother doing that? does someone at Falcom think that gachas are actually intrinsically fun and not a shitty tactic to get people addicted to gambling? what's even wrong with them???
DREDGE
This is a fun fishing game! Except you're fishing for Lovecraftian nightmares! You're a fisherman on a fishing boat and the locals will pay extra for fish that have been horribly mutated by the unholy energies of the depths, so you have to keep finding weirder and weirder fish to finance the boat upgrades you need to find weirder and weirder fish.
I'd say... it works very well in the first half, as you're upgrading your boat and being slow-rolled on the eldritch horror, and kind of falls apart towards the end. The first couple areas are full of various NPCs and sidequests and things to do, and you always have something to do with your resources...
...but later on, the game's economy gets a little lopsided and a lot of the stuff you're hauling up just wastes space in your inventory because you're past the point where it matters but the game keeps throwing it at you. Areas are also a lot more sparse and lonely, and it ends up getting kind of repetitive.
Still, it's not too long, it has some really good atmosphere, and that first stretch is really engaging and tightly designed.
Wildfrost
This is one of them roguelike deckbuilders that are all the rage lately! And it is a difficult one. Even when you're good at it, you probably don't win most runs. Enemies are strong, you only get to play one card per turn, and you have to be really careful managing the action economy to make sure you don't get hit. You are a unit on the map, a unit without that much more health than normal summons, and if you die it's game over. Enemies hit hard and have various triggered abilities that punish you for playing sloppy- you'll frequently find yourself in no-win scenarios out of nowhere because you didn't sequence your moves right.
The other crazy thing is... the final boss? When you beat it, your hero gets possessed and becomes the final boss of the next run. Find some crazy broken synergy that steamrolls the boss? Great! Good luck finding a way to beat it next time around! The final fight's difficulty starts to scale out of control, and forces you to keep one-upping your own strategy with clever tricks.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
This was released on April Fools, and... it's not that great, honestly. The title's basically clickbait- it's a murder mystery-themed party, and Sonic's not actually dead and no one thinks Sonic is actually dead. That wouldn't really be a problem (just kind of a missed opportunity), but...
I mean, this game is for babies. I guess I'm spoiled by real mystery games, but like... it's this completely linear sequence of rooms with one or two suspects to interrogate each, hiding precisely one secret that you uncover via the most dead-obvious deductions in the world. The core mystery works but doesn't really make you feel clever or anything.
It is, like... funny, though. Sorta. I mean, as funny as it can be with the totally toothless premise and a cast that's...
...I'm gonna be honest, I've never understood why people have so much love for the Sonic cast. They all feel so one-dimensional and tedious, and they're typically unmoored from any consistent world or setting that could give them something interesting to do. They have to get by on the strength of their personalities, which are a little flat since there's only so far they can push the bit in a kids' game.
The other thing that bugs me is... y'know ProZD's Danganronpa video? This game has a bad case of "BUT CAN YOU SPELL THE WORD KNIFE?", where in between every bit of deduction or progression, you have to play a completely unrelated minigame where you play as Sonic running along a course where you have to pick up X rings by the end or else restart it, which serves as a loose metaphor for the process of Thinking Really Hard. It's got a wonky isometric perspective and the levels are all both boring and difficult and it felt like a huge waste of time. And they get harder and longer over time, until you're spending longer on the bad minigame than on the actual game game.
Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend
This is a Slay the Spire clone, but it's Touhou.
...That's about all there is to say on the matter. It has a couple unique mechanics- colored manabases, "Teammate" cards that act kind of like planeswalkers, a chargeable super instead of potions... but it's Slay the Spire. You know what the deal is.
That said- I find it a lot more fun than Slay the Spire, honestly. The colored mana thing adds some depth to deckbuilding, boss relics give you unique buffs instead of debuffs, and a lot of the archetypes are crammed with explosive synergies that make it really fun to go off. Plus there's Touhou music through the whole thing, and it's generally better-produced and prettier despite being in early access. Only point where it loses to STS is the lack of a robust modding scene.
Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk
I did not finish this game! It was very bad!
I saw my cousin playing the sequel to this game on his Steam Deck at an engagement party, and I was dazzled by the screens and screens of party members and stats and mechanics all over the place, and thought- this has to be fun, right? I'll check it out- oh, hey, it's a sequel, I guess I'll play the first one.
This game is... very much an Etrian Odyssey clone, except they kinda make everything worse. You have have a ton of party members, but the thing is they don't learn active skills when they level up- there's no build choices to make, just Number Increasage. The only way to customize your skills is to assign units to covens, which have preset lists of abilities and drop randomly as loot. There's the appearance of customization, but in practice there's not a lot of options. Throw in "at any time an enemy might crit and unhealably disable one of your party members until you return to town, ruining your run", and it just feels like a slog.
The other thing is that it is completely repugnant. Like it's just deeply unpleasantly anime horny in the worst ways. The main character (sorta- you play as her mute faceless magic book, not her) is the worst. She's introduced beating a child and murdering her pets, and pretty much maintains that tenor throughout. And this is not an isolated incident! This game has some kind of fucked-up child abuse fetish- there's a significant number of child characters and all of them are physically assaulted by the nearest authority figure within seconds of being introduced. And it's not a problem, or even a theme- it's just a thing that happens all the time, practically as a gag. Also used as a funny gag: sexual assault! Wow! I couldn't stomach it!
PowerWash Simulator
This game seems like a giant shitpost- and to be clear, it absolutely is a giant shitpost- but it's shockingly cathartic and satisfying. There's just you, some levels implausibly caked in a ridiculous amount of grime, and a power-washer with various nozzles and soaps you use to hose off every inch of the place. There's something about it that just feels so nice! Objects flash and go ding when you fully clean them, there's a checklist of stuff and how clean it is, there's lots of fun little details in the levels...
...and it has a story campaign, which is very silly. You start off taking normal jobs washing normal things, but as you accrue Fame, you unlock weirder and weirder clients that wanted bigger and stranger things powerwashed. Without spoiling anything, it gets pretty wacky towards the end.
It's a fun game to play in the background when you're watching a show or listening to a podcast or something and want something mindless for your hands to do. (At least, at first. Some of the later levels are multi-hour behemoths, and it never feels good to stop in the middle.)
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I still have... fourteen more games to write about. It's like they say...... the work of a gamer.......... is never done.......................
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#game rec#powerwash simulator#dredge#wildfrost#trails into reverie#touhou lost branch of legend#gonna. not tag the ones i didn't like#because i think tumblr doesn't just search the first five tags anymore#except trails i'm pretty sure trails fans are also perpetually mad at trails
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How do you git gud at writing? 🥺🥺🥺
Uh uh you uh you you YOUYOU YOU YOUYOU YOU UHH UHH IHHH (suddenly bursts into a huge explosion. when the smoke dissipates, I am a pile of ash on the floor.)
I hate saying I’m good at writing because there’s always something to improve which is a 🤓 sentence I know but it’s TRUE OKAY. But I also know the whole “just keep working on it and you’ll improve! :D” thing is smtg that people who are looking for advice absolutely dread to hear
That IS true though. You have to keep working at your craft to improve. And when you can’t because you think it sucks or you have writer’s block or anything else, I encourage you to keep writing anyways. It’s getting past those obstacles that are crucial to seeing the improvement you wish to. But like I said, that is probably not all you wanna hear lmao
TLDR: Just keep on writing no matter what, allow yourself to be inspired, don’t be afraid to take risks, accept the fact that not everybody will like your writing, and know that, somewhere, you DO have an audience. You just have to put yourself out there to find them. Don’t give up, and you will improve the way you want to improve. I promise.
Yapping:
Now here’s where things get. Complicated. So, the arts have been a major part of my life ever since I could hold a crayon. However. Growing up, I was extremely adamant on not taking advice. at. all. Here’s some advice: DO NOT DO THAT. I got better about it around my early-mid teens, but I still occasionally struggle with it to this day. My mindset was that I wanted my writing and my art to be mine alone with no outside influence whatsoever, and while there’s nothing inherently wrong with that, it is detrimental to actually . Yk. getting good. And it’s also impossible.
I was influenced by others, which is another thing: it is okay to take inspiration from other’s writing styles. It seemed so taboo to me when I was younger because of my mindset and also oooomgggg whaaat if I’m steaalinggg!!! but you are not. Part of what makes writing and the arts in general so beautiful is that it is shared. It is also EXTREMELY helpful in figuring out what is considered ““““““good”””””””” writing. Good is in quotations because what counts as good in art is subjective. If somebody’s way of writing is “bad” to someone else, but is “good” to you and you are inspired, go for it. I would never admit this as a kid, but I’ll tell you now that my writing style is inspired by the Warrior cats series, aka most of the books I have ever read in my life. A lot of people including diehard fans think the Warriors writing is bad. Like really, really bad. And yet you’re still asking me for writing advice! :D
That’s something else that is very important to “getting good” at writing- which is accepting that you will never be good to everybody. My writing has been mocked and laughed at to my face by my family and other peers. I am POSITIVE there are people who read AJL and thought “wow that is the most DOGSHIT thing I have ever read I am literally never reading again because that was so bad it killed my passion for everything I used to love.” I used to be paralyzed with fear at the thought of people disliking my writing, but I’ve learned to accept and be content with it, and without that acceptance, I personally would not be writing today. I had not written at all in two years when I started AJL. Two. Years. All because of a bullying incident that completely killed my confidence in my skills as a writer. I was terrified to write and put that first chapter out there because I had convinced myself I was a failure and was so scared that if there WAS anything “good” left, it was now rusted because I hadn’t written in so long.
But that’s another thing: Risk. If there’s something you have to possess as a writer, it’s courage. You will likely never improve if you do not take those risks that absolutely terrify you. Finish that WIP that’s been sitting in Google docs for a year. Write that plot-twist that you are worried may be negatively accepted. Upload that fanfic you are worried people may not like. Write. Just. Write. And let people see you Write. That is so, so important. You will be met with love and adoration, criticism and hate, everything in-between. But if you don’t welcome every single part of it, the good with the bad, it will be very difficult to see the improvement you are longing for. Like I said, I’m sure there are people who hated AJL. But there are people who loved it, too. I know it’s hard to believe, but it’s both of those people who keep you going.
I didn’t have an audience when I put my writing out there the first couple of times. And although I gave up for a while, you don’t truly stop being a writer. The arts can never really leave you. I took what felt like the thousandth risk with uploading AJL, put myself out there again, and I found my audience.
Everybody is different. You might find your audience the first time, or the second time, or the third time, or the fourth time, or however many number of times, but as long as you keep on writing, despite everything that may happen as a result, you will git gud, whatever that may mean to you :)
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The boys in the band. (Corroded CoffinxReader)
A/N: so this eventually gonna probably turn into an Eddiexreader little short series but I wanted to give some of my other corroded coffin boys love to. Maybe write them looking for Eddie and everything since the Duffer brother didn’t give us much of anything and I personally don’t believe his band would just not care like that. If you see the name Jeremy it’s what I’m calling the unnamed freak since the Duffer brother didn’t bother with that either. Hope you all enjoy.
Warning: cursing/violence that’s about it.
Summary: The whole town had been in an uproar since the queen of Hawkins high Chrissy Cunningham was found dead in one Eddie the freak Munson trailer. Accusing him of being a murder and the leader of a satanist cult. Which was all bull shit. You and your friends knew that. Now with Eddie missing the town very much has put a huge target on yours and your fellow band mates backs. How far will you go to protect your boys?
You moved to the quiet town of Hawkins Indiana when you were in the 8th grade. You were one of the shyest kids in your class that was until you met a loud boy with a buzz cut and his misfit friends. You were helping prepare for Hawkins 8th grade talent show. When you heard his band practicing for it. “Wow you guys suck.” You teased when the boy with buzzcut jump off stage landing in front of you. “An you think you can do better sweetheart?” He smirked and you nodded taking his guitar and strumming a few notes. “I know I can.” You smiled up at him.
From that point forward you had become fast friends with the boys. Gareth walked you to your classes all through out middle school and high school. He knew you hated walking alone since you tend to get picked on a lot for being the quiet kid. Jeff always helped you with homework and school projects insisting you not get held back like Eddie so you could always stick with the boys. Jeremy taught you how to play D&D so you always felt included into what the boys were doing and talking about. Eddie though you were the closest to him. From the day you met he’d walk you home from school till he got his license then you always got rides. He always confined in you about his next campaign for D&D or a new song he wrote for the band to play. He let you crash on his couch when you parents we’re having an extra bad fight so you didn’t have to go home to that. You always helped him get corroded coffin gigs. You even sometimes stood in for Eddie during band practices if he couldn’t make it like today.
The whole town had been on the hunt for him. Some how Chrissy Cunningham the queen bee of Hawkins high had ended up dead in his trailer. You didn’t know how but you knew Eddie was innocent. So did other member of corroded coffin to. You need to blow off some steam and clear your head so you and the boys decide to practices some of the new songs Eddie had wrote. You once again found yourself standing in for Eddie. You were barely through the first song when you heard tires screeching and one Jason carver and few of his basketball buddies stepping out of his car.
”You’re a little early, fellas. Show’s not till next week.” Gareth stood up first. One of the thing you admire most about him was his willingness to stand up for his friends immediately. “Oh that what you call music?” One of the basketball players laughed causing you to roll your eyes. “We’re looking for Eddie Munson he in this band if that what you can even call this.” Jason spoke “what do you want with Eddie?” You finally spoke up. “That our business.” Jason snapped back looking you up and down. “Lucas what are you doing with these douchebag?” Gareth words drew your attention up to the younger boy who you recognize as a part of the hellfire club. “We’re just trying to find Eddie man.” “Well you’ve got eyes he’s not here!” Gareth said when Jason swung on him pinning him to the ground by stepping on his hand “gonna be kinda hard to play the drums with a broken hand. Where is he then?!”
You had finally had enough picking up your guitar and swing it at Jason back causing it to break and Jason to stumble back off of Gareth. “He’s not fucking here! We don’t know where the fuck he is now go!” The other basketball player act as if they were gonna grab you when you point the broken end of the guitar at them as if you’d stab them with it. “Go!” You yelled at them watching them drag Jason unconscious body back to the car and drive off.
You helped Gareth up making sure his hand was okay. “Guys we gotta find Eddie before they do.” “I’m Afraid of what they will do if they find him.” The boys all nodded in agreement with you.
A/N: sorry this didn’t get proofread it 3am and I just finished it I’ll correct any mistakes In the morning when I wake up. This is my first fic back I’m hoping to turn it into a little series. Hope you all like it let me know what you think.
#eddie munson#eddie munson x reader#jeff stranger things#corroded coffin#gareth stranger things#gareth emerson#stranger thing fanfic#stranger thing imagine
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Any G/T OCs?
Thank you anon, for this chance to finally infodump about my g/t ocs! Just a fair warning, this miiight get long, we’ll see! (I have a lot of em.. So the short answer to your question, yes I do. The long ones under the cut…)
First off, we have my sona, Munchkin :D
(It’s a rather messy sketch, sorry about that)
Munchkin’s a sizeshifting borrower from the sacred realm, destined to try hard and fail.
She’s gotten backstabbed and killed too many times to count, the only thing keeping her alive is Amble, Red, and the group of friends she made as a person wearing a sparkly box from the silent realm.
✨anon✨’s design is interesting, because she’s still mostly herself, with her tail and personality, whereas most people would get consumed, considering it’s a pretty strong mask… huh, strange.
(Just to be clear, I’m not covering all my oc’s, just a few of them, because I’d rather not have over ten thousand words on this post accidentally)
We have Charlie and Adre, from UCD, links to chapter one and two here and here (it’s earlier on in my writing phase, so I’m warning you they aren’t very good, also it’s mainly been Charlie, with only a slight mention of Adre but oh well-)
Let’s have a spoiler for chapter three, shall we?
(A big thank you to my sister @huggablecat for editing this, she’s not a bot I swear- I’m horrible at digital art so thanks to her for taking the sketch and doing something amazing with it… she’s not ever going to see this but oh well-)
Charlie is a Dreamer, which is a small avian race that hates humans for burning the Astrodaryn forest and attempting to destroy all magic, forcing them to flee to the sky. The seeds they have hanging around their neck are from the forest, it’s where their magic comes from.
The goal is to get rid of the humans, and replant the forest. Read the first two chapters for more information.
Meanwhile…
Adre is a human that is called cursed due to his eyes. His pitch black eyes with white pupils, so therefore a lot of people assume he’s magic/dangerous and he gets outcasted.
I don’t want to say too much about him, I want to keep him a surprise for the most part, but let’s just say he finds a small bird person and the authorities aren’t very happy about that…
I have more ocs for this story, but they have not appeared yet/I haven’t made drawings of them/I don’t feel like looking for drawings rn :D
MOVING ON-
Vampire person? For a fake fic title that’s so old Becky probably forgot they gave it to me? Don’t mind if I do~
This is Jamie. They’re sick of being a vampire, sick of living forever, sick of having no one to care about. Aaaaand then they meet a group of friends that will change that forever.
It’s like, small vampire appears on YouTube, group of friends find them there, make videos together, while hiding the fact that they are small + a vampire, and as they grow more and more attached, the fear only grows…
Now, I’m getting tired and I have homework to do (WHYYYYYYYY) and things to memorise for tomorrows test, which is absolutely amazing, but it means I can’t make more detailed descriptions, so I’m just gonna dump a bunch of art, please ask questions about them if you want!
Anyways, let’s get started….
(That one’s not an oc, it’s for the dystopian au but I figured I might as well put it here)
Aaaand that’s all I can find! (For now)
Hope you like these anon, and uh… for the people that I’ve made digital art for/going to make digital art for, if it seems significantly worse, it’s cause I suck at digital art.
I’m really really bad at it. Sorry.
Kindest regards, Munchkin.
(OH SHIT WAIT THE TAGLIST-)
@i-am-beckyu, @da3dm, @brick-a-doodle-do, @faeiyn-cant-write yooooo check this outtt
Oh wow the taglist is getting longer-
If you want to be tagged, just dm, comment, or ask me!
Gooooooodbye!
(that’s supposed to sound like how grian says it, okay? OKAY?)
#munchkin answers#anon my beloved ❤️#g/t#g/t community#sfw g/t#sfwgt#gt community#borrowers#gt#g/t shitpost#g/t art#g/t drawing#g/t idea#g/t thoughts#g/t writing#g/t fluff#gianttiny#giant/tiny#gt art#gt writing#sfw gt#I HAVE A TON MORE OCS I SWEAR IM JUST REALLY BUSY#THOUGH PLEASE SEND ASKS ABOUT THEM#OR GIVE ME PROMPTS/TITLES/ANYTHING#ID LOVE TO ANSWER STUFF#OKAY LOVE YALL BYEE
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PRINCE CHARMING TOO?? I see you have a type and I'm obsessed omg. Pleeeease give me some more between you two!!
I DO NOT HAVE A TYPE (*knows i have a type*)
but yeahh... 🥺 i love him so MUCH. our anniversary is actually soon! november 6th. shrek 2 is one of my all-time favorite movies, so i watch it a TON... but only recently did i realize, wow, this guy? sucks. he's terrible. i want him (partially my friend's fault for bringing it up YEARS ago and it kinda sat in the back of my mind for a while til i finally admitted it 2 years later 😔 she knows me too well smh)
and i got attached to him SO QUICKLY, partially due to my love of shrek, but also... 😔 yeah i have a type
my s/i is not like that though, she denies and denies and denies until the very end. (though so does he because he's set on fiona for a while... at least outwardly) my s/i is a lot like shrek, having grown up knowing him. she was the only human who wasn't really afraid of him. she didn't have anyone else. so she has some crass tendencies like he does, but she's really a hopeless romantic at heart. bitterly creating fairytales for herself that she knew would never come to fruition, because she doesn't really belong with other humans. all they've done was abandon her, and she never saw herself being accepted by them
and when she meets charming (she accompanied shrek, donkey, and fiona to far far away), her biases are affirmed at first. this guy is TERRIBLE... and represents everything she hates about nobility and the uppity far far away.
they're both stubborn. and that eventually works in their favor, actually. charming has never met anyone like her before, so carefree and honest. his life has been dictated by people primarily concerned with appearances; underhandedness the norm. but it isn't like that with us
and, well, a bunch of plot and forbidden love stuff happens 👉👈 we teach each other a lot. ideally, because of this, shrek the third never happens (i have such mixed feelings about that movie akjkjdskjs), and we move to a smaller place near the sunflower fields we see in the first shrek (and sunflowers are my favorite flower!). he doesn't go all out with the revenge plot
but i have an AU where it does happen and things are completely different between us 👀 probably a different origin story for us and everything (though i haven't decided on that part) i would really like to write for it one day
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Hiii can I ask you something?
haha it's fine not to answer (don't wanna impose)
But I've been following you for a while and first, I wanna say you're amazing, you really helped me going through my last semester bc I got really obsesed with lipxlip, and most of the fics were written by you and I kinda read between 2 to 4 per day to lift my spirts which really helped me to just go and go (I just saw you everywhere and I loved it to the point of just going to your profile and started reading since the oldest fics to try to not lose any)
And I sometimes read in your profile that you're also strugling (sorry if I get some English words wrong, but I wanna be the most sincere with my words by not going to the translator now) and mann I got to really hate some of the clients at your place, people suck, but you're doing your best and that's something that should be acknologed (be noticed, be understanded, be recognized as a person and not as a simple servant to serve their needs, a person with interests and fears and you know... just going through the day just like they are, like god... it's free to be empathetic to others)
I saw one of your posts where you talk about someone requesting fics or something (sorry not remeber the exact situation) but I wanna say that it's beautyful your own ideas and alternative universes and wathever was written (or could have, I still think that even those words that didn't get to be written are beautiful bc you thought of them and I hope they made you happy and made have you have fun just as it makes me happy and excited to read whatever you share with us -> your readers)
I don't want you to feel obligated to write just bc someone requested that of you, it's an activity that makes you have fun (and I think it makes you feel a lot of other things but I'm not a writer, and I respect you for that, bc feeling what the characters feel and understanding is not an easy task to acomplish, especially bc I think you portray them really well)
And bc I don't want a misunderstanding, you're amazing for who you are (whoever you are) not just bc you made the days of a stranger in the internet by writing fabulous stories, but bc you're a great person and don't ever let anyone tell you the oposite.
And haha man (I use man as a in a neutral gender), I don't think I have enough words to express myself (in English or in my native tongue) but I hope some of it gets to you, even if it's only a little.
Andd... haha sorry if I exctended too much, bc I feel like my question is too short for all this words and I sure will feel aukward later (not good with feelings and expresing myself) but can I ask how did you get started/found with lipxlip? And also yuumori?
Again, sorry if this is a weird ask, not really sure how it works but I think they're usually shorter 😅? I guess I just needed an excuse to say you all this. Again I don't wanna impose, you don't have to answer, I just hope you're fine and healthy and continue to be
Saludos. 😄
Pss: Last stage was incredible, and your last fanfic of them was also great (you've made me take notice of the little things that I didn't pay attention to, like that they really had bruises at that first concert of the MV and gave me an answer at why they were crying at their special place and that I didn't even notice at first that was their special place at first, and made me realize by your fanfics how important and big of a deal it's to share your safe place, which later develops in the safe place of yours and also that person you shared it with)
OKAY . WOW . SO
Anon I just want to preface this by saying not a whole lot makes me teary- gut wrenching fics, shows, movies, etc...many of them don't do anything for me aside from get a laugh out of me, but this comment I had to reread twice to make sure I was reading it correctly. I was just gonna fuck around on the writing part of Tumblr for the lols and I was super caught off guard. So congrats to that, you definitely made me tear up from this. It's definitely one of the sweetest things someone's ever said to me. 🥹💜
Also, thank you so much for reading my fics! Some are just silly little ideas I jotted down for the lols, and other ideas rotted my brain. I'm definitely more proud of some rather than others, but I'm glad you enjoyed them all(?) nonetheless!
For me, writing is both a form of escapism and a fun hobby that I've had since I was a little kid~ you know, in elementary we had like 20 vocab words per week and we had to either write them down + their definitions and use them in a sentence, write them all down 5 times, or write a short story including 10 of those words. You can probably see which one I went with~ but anyway, yeah, writing is really fun for me.
If it ever gets too stressful or I end up hating it, I end up abandoning the work, yet usually I can't find it in me to delete it. Sometimes I end up hating the work (multichaps, usually) only after its done but then it grows in popularity so I just kinda go "well, fuck it and fuck me, I guess?" and keep it. Other times, I go "well, this ending could have been better..." and then think of other ways I could have written it...
As for how I got into lipxlip??? I saw the thumbnail for Yume Fanfare, clicked, and it altered the course of my life. I started learning Japanese solely because of lxl, my dude. After that, though, I watched their other videos and kinda floated around a bit, and then the movie got announced and bam. I was sucked into the world of Honeyworks and they still keep an iron clad grip on me to this day...
Yuumori is an uninspiring story, really...sometimes I get trailers for anime on yt and I just so happen to get a yuumori trailer. I waited until it began airing, watched it, waited for part 2, watched it, then left it...and recently, I was vibin with a friend online and we were exchanging anime ops, and I remembered yuumori's first op and I was like. Damn this shit slaps!!! And I rewatched the show...and then they had an iron clad grip on me. So...saw trailer, watched it as it aired, forgot about it, then came back to it solely because of the opening lmaooooo.
Anyway, I hope this answered everything..??? Again, though, thank you so much for your kind words~ it meant a lot !
#I feel like im forgetting to add smthin hmmgg.....#o well#wow my response was long jdsjksahdjasda#im ngl I feel a bit shy posting all of this... hjdshs#I promise u tho anon I'm not nearly as interesting irl as I seem online im mean and antisocial asf :" I wanna retire early#become a millionaire eat hot chip and lie#anyway uhhh thanks again !????#anoask
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20 questions for fic writers
Thanks to @hullosweetpea for tagging me!
First, my AO3
How many works do you have on AO3?
186
2. What’s your total AO3 word count?
2,072,229 words (don't ask the count for fics NOT posted 😱)
3. What fandoms do you write for?
Supernatural, Stranger Things, Fargo, Stargate 'verse, Hannibal, The Blacklist, Dickensian, Angel+Buffyverse and more
4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
Alpha House 'Verse, Resonance, Best Brother Ever, CONventional Psychopathy Part 1: Primary Deviance, and Try on for Size - all SPN fics
5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?
I do, but I get into weird moods where it's hard to do it, so I'll go for a while without responding and then do a bunch to catch up.
6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
Probably Inside (SPN). It's short but gory and really not a happy ending.
7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
I tend to leave things on a good feeling but I think the one that has the most whiplash type of oh shit this is bad to oh wow we're all good is Rewritten in the Stars.
8. Do you get hate on fics?
In comments and in anon messages sent on Tumblr, but I delete immediately because I refuse to feed trolls. For the most part readers are SUPER awesome and I really appreciate them!
9. Do you write smut?
Tons!
10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?
Open Sesame Street Walker is by far the wackiest one. It's a choose your own adventure but every choice leads to insanity 😂
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Yup. I wouldn't have minded any other fic being stolen because it's all fanfic, but this person managed to grab the ONE fic I'm also writing as original fic and it's a world that's been living in my head since I was like 9 years old.
It means a lot to me, so to have someone take it and make money off it with the possibility of fucking up a future book deal sucks. Every time I get it taken down, she puts it back up a few weeks later.
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
I think there's at least one, possibly two fics translated.
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?
I wrote one crackfic, but I'd love to write more with somebody. I think it would be fun.
14. What’s your all time favorite ship?
I can't say I have a favorite. I'm too much of a multishipper to pin down one in any fandom. The closest I can get is the OT3 of Leverage, Eliot/Hardison/Parker.
15. What’s a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?
I really think I'm gonna finish all my WIPs. Might be delusional, but oh well.
16. What are your writing strengths?
Dialog. It's harder for me to put in a lot of description on surroundings because I always think it's going to be boring to the reader, which is silly.
17. What are your writing weaknesses?
Keeping it short and to the point. The only short fics I've written were crackfic.
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?
The closest I came to this is Castiel's noises in Resonance 'Verse. It's just animal noises. I don't think I'll ever attempt to actually write in another language. The most I would do is italics so it tells the reader it's spoken in another language.
19. First fandom you wrote for?
Stargate SG1
20. Favorite fic you’ve written?
It changes depending on mood, but right now it's Caging the Mongoose. It's not popular at all, but it's a Blacklist/SPN crossover and it's got all the things I love plus Dean is schizophrenic in it.
tagging (with no pressure or obligation): @actualalligator @unforth @ltleflrt @whataboutthefish @wheels-of-despair @peachonified @kallisto-k @lochnesswriter and anybody else who wants to play! Please tag me so I can see your stuff 💜
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Nerilka's Story
Can someone explain why this book exists, please?
It's fucking TINY and it took me over a month to get through, and it somehow managed to make me hate characters from Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern, which is an incredible feat, because I loved Moreta and the cast.
I liked Nerilka in Moreta. She was fine.
Being in her head was like someone rubbing a cheesegrater on my skull.
As usual, spoilers follow for a book that's been out since 1986.
I mean, Anne McCaffrey did succeed in writing a first-person book that is exactly like a person writing shit down in a diary with very little filter and with no real sense of plot, and if I wanted that, I would go read a real person's diary, because it sure as fuck couldn't be more boring than this.
The first half of the book is just Nerilka (Rill) being all like 'wah I was mean to my family and now they're dead' which, like, valid thing to be sad about. Her dad sucks, which we know from Moreta. Great, we can maybe have tension with him—wait no. Suddenly the focus then moves on to Rill's flouncy stepmother who is just a really boring charicature of a stock villain. She's pretty and brainless and lords it over Nerilka and it's flat and boring and comes across as pretty misogynistic honestly.
McCaffrey's weird bloodline shit is extra gross in this. The drudges come off as subhuman in intelligence, who must be managed and herded. (And then all the parts later on where Alessan needs to have a person of the right bloodline to marry and I'm just like.... why.) There's no magic or anything that runs through bloodlines. There's no scientific reason why nobles matter more than other people. It's just stated to matter for some reason with no back up. If the caste system was like, nuanced or something—a drudge struggles to be thought of as intelligent or something, in another Pern story even!—then I'd be more tolerant, but this seems like an unconscious bias, and therefore it irks me.
The other issue with the first half of the book is that it's a really shoddy rehash of stuff that already happened in Moreta. Yawn.
I was relieved at first when Rill finally got to Ruatha hold where hopefully she could have some characters to interact with—the telling instead of showing was by this point irritating the everloving fuck out of me. Unfortunately it's just 'here's some boring vaccine logistics' for pages. Then finally Moreta dies which introduces some conflict...
And instead of anything compelling we end up with Mega Depressed Emotional Shutdown Alessan who basically gets a complete personality wipe, because that's how grief works right? And then suddenly he's making some stupid shitty suicide bargain to Rill. "You can kill me once I put a bun in your oven, but don't worry, I won't beat you!" WOW.
WOW.
(There's no 'omg you were Lady Nerilka all along!' moment in any of the book, by the way, despite her travelling incognito. Everyone just already knew. That dialogue might have been fun! Can't have that.)
(There's also no scene where Rill and Alessan reminisce over Suriana, the one person they loved in common, because that also might be fun or have emotional resonance.)
And then Alessan is a zombie for the rest of the book. Look, yes, grief changes people, sure, but like. Maybe we can cut out realism in the TELEPATHIC DRAGON book to maybe not have a previously-likeable dude turn into 'not beating my wife is my one redeeming quality haha I have no emotions anymore.'
Like he gets four sons and doesn't emote until there's a daughter???
And Rill's like "This is fine, he has no real emotion for me except pragmatic approval, but I like being pregnant so it's a happy ending after all!"
(This book has some weird moments about pregnancy. Like the whole bit with the runner giving birth where Rill says runners are so much more advanced than humans because they don't wail and weep and curse in pain. What. What is that. Why is that. That's fucking weird, Anne! That's a weird thing to say! I love my random animal birth scenes to have an Obligatory Misogynist moment to make the narrator sound like she's Not Like Other Women, that's fucking great.)
Anyway this book fucking sucked and I'm going to pretend it never happened in order to go on enjoying Moreta.
1/10 YIKES
#nerilka's story#amber reads pern#dragonriders of pern#I need some brain bleach please#if the next book isn't better I'm gonna riot
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You should write the Merlin Byler au, I say, bc I'm a little shit like that 😘😘😘 . Imagine it, really, bc this means that, what, Nancy is Morgana? Will as Merlin, who literally never told anyone about his magic bc they all died (Lancelot doesn't count bc he died just like. Later. I have so many feelings about Lancelot ngl). Also Mike as Arthur, a pompous and arrogant prince who hates his dad but loves him but also hates him. He isn't sure how he feels about magic except that he's been told his entire life that it sucks. Also he gets insanely jealous that everyone likes his manservant more than him low-key. That's what he's jealous about, obviously, not the fact that he's in love with his servant pfft. He's a little silly smh
Then again, AUs don't have to be one-to-one, just like. Them in the universe... 🤔
Also also. I have Never watched Merlin (in full, I watched the first few eps) but I know. Everything that happened and read too many fics bout it??? Lancelot and Merlin friendship that Arthur is insanely jealous of is so funny to me wow
Man. Now I wanna read fics for Merlin again (the fic writers that kinda dragged me into the fandom deleted all of her fics rip)
OH I SEE THE VISION. I SEE THE VISION TOY!!!! UGH THAT WOULD BE SO FUN???
also i just am realizing. this would probably make el gwen because of the arthur/gwen relationship. and like i'm kinda giggling at the image of like... mike's closest friend having magic and also his girlfriend having magic. except will and el don't know the other one has magic either. magical threat comes up? and sometimes it gets dealt with, which is nice! will gets a break when el deals with it, and vice versa for el. they don't ever really question it, bless their hearts. mike definitely doesn't question it.
i feel like if i ever did do a merlin/byler kind of au, it wouldn't exactly be one to one because merlin is so niche, but just like... the concept and setting of merlin where magic is illegal and stuff, and will has to hide it from mike who's the prince, etc. etc. just all the goodness and angst that comes with the show but then adapted to fit the stranger things canon.
also hear me out: morgana!el because she gets manipulated by henry and/or brenner and truly believes what she's doing is right, but then through meeting like will and the others, she gets redeemed and helps save the day in the end? but also like. willel getting to fight with their magic before that happens would be so so so fun.
ok literally this is making me want to return to reading and writing merlin fics!!!! it's just so good!!!
(also yeah i watched part of merlin when i was like 12... and i was on tumblr when it ended and all that so i knew the plot and stuff... and then i just like fully watched it this past year, so i'm in my merlin renaissance this year lol)
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