I literally screenshoted (she’s never used ao3 and would have been really confused if I sent her the link) the whole asexuality explanation and sent it to my friend who has a hard time grasping it. Thank you
THANK YOU NONNIE, but really, the huge shoutout goes to nicky (ilu) for helping so fucking much with that section. honestly, it was very different and a complete trashfire before he fixed it for me. #coauthor tbh
he also sent me a really helpful link, which I intended to include at the time in the fic, and then I forgot because I am a dumbdumb. So have it here :D maybe your friend will also find this helpful?
Percy: I AM GOING TO PUNCH GOD IN THE FUCKING FACE!!! IF HE IS EXISTING IM GOING TO GO UP THERE AND KICK HIS SORRY ASS AND WHEN I KILL HIM NEITHER HELL NOR HEAVEN SHALL AWAIT HIM BECAUSE HE CREATED THOSE SO THEY SHALL FALL TO MY WRATH WITH HIM.
Annabeth: sorry he dropped his croissant
*Nico replied to Percy*: sounds good are you hiring? I need some extra de-depressioning I’m running low
Percy: looks like I just got myself a hitman
Nico: let’s blow this shithole like a FUCKING POPSICLE STAND
Annabeth: …
Will: …
(A conversation I had with my friend because our sanity is too far out the window to be reclaimed)
Marcus Crassus and the Roman Republic, Allen Mason Ward
also this is like (squints) this has happened before. with Pompey, specifically. intriguing, but mostly extremely funny.
additionally: a variation on the same theme, because Pompey wasn't actually around a lot in 65 BCE iirc. rules of stage and narrative always take precedence in a comic, but I'm the kind of person who likes drawing several versions of the same idea, especially if I get to draw fabric folds
if you're thinking to yourself "omg a high schooler made a bad post, I should repost it with their whole username visible so I (someone well into adulthood) can write a cool and edgy response about how dumb they are" consider:
Anonify the already anon:
Hope you’re feeling better *hugs*
GC q(s), if they aren’t too spoilerly:
Are there any members who aren’t currently together that you believe are end game?
Is sweet bby Spence like Tbear where he’ll find his person outside of the GC?
Will Matty find his own nesting partner?
Thanks for the question Anon. I had to uh, not answer it as an ask because I wanted to delete part of it.... :D because it WAS spoilery. Maybe. idk... I. D. K it for sure alluded to a pairing that I haven't confirmed in the GCU yet... but which I might confirm in the next chapter.
So, a huge part of the answer here comes down to I DON'T PLAN THIS SHIT. Like, I really really don't. If you go back and read the GC tumblr posts you can see me at the start being like "This is never ever ever going to have mattdrai in it because it is NOT a mattdrai world" and then those fuckers just fucking DID THAT TO ME
Jeff and Eric were supposed to be endgame and then REAL LIFE ERIC STAAL RUINED MY PLANS which isn't even the most homophobic thing he's ever done. So I try not to be like "this person is gonna be endgame with this person" because I just can't. They will ruin it for me, I know they will.
I'm trying to think if there are any pairings that it could be, and honestly, I don't think there are. We're getting progress on Clouder's romantic life in the next chapter though, I've written loads of that :D
I'm a huge fan of sweet baby spence kind of, sorting himself out before he looks outwards, and so is he. He is hundo P in his healing era right now and WE STAN OK. WE FUCKING STAN. BUT... there is progress for sweet baby spence (that's his name now I don't make the rules) which I will share in terms of a snippet at the end here.
Also, Matty isn't LOOKING for a nesting partner rn, because he lives with Spencer. And he likes living with Spencer and he likes that Spencer has someone to live with. It's important for both of them. If we could sit Matthew down and explain to him that romantic relationships and platonic relationships actually can function pretty much the same he'd probably realise that right now, as he is, spencer is his nesting partner and he doesn't think he's his FOREVER nesting partner, but he is for sure his right now nesting partner.
Ok, have a little snippet of our two favourite fanfic nerds chatting about writing fanfic:
Makar: But for sure if you need me to have a look over stuff, send it to me! I’m not super good at grammar and things but I can have a look.
Makar: What pairing is it?
Knighter: Oh. It’s gen.
Makar: AH AH HA HA HA HA look at me, so obsessed with shipping my teammates with each other that for a moment I lived in a world where gen fic didn’t exist.
Makar: Is it about you?
Knighter: Uh no. It’s about Sid? Which, omg feels so weird to say. Like, I’ve never spoken to him, I think he’d hate me for it.
Makar: I feel he’d mind less about gen fic than slash stuff, it’s just the slash stuff with geno that upsets him
Makar: But don’t feel bad about writing about people we know lol
Makar: I’ve literally written fic about my boyfriend railing his best friend sooooooooo
I think someone somewhere said because Hatsune Miku and dinosaurs are my 2 eternal hyperfixations I should make a Miku dino... DinoMiku? Hadrosune Miku? anyway it turned out suprizingly cute while also being the weirdest thing ive ever drawn
Bonus: Lore (originally I was just gunna draw the headphones but I got carried away)
Every so often I see... interesting takes about Zemo that leave me questioning if we... all saw the same stuff.
Like, you know he commanded a death squad before his fam even died, right? This man is not a good dude. Sure, maybe it was in the name of his country but also... his country was a shit show and he said as much.
So I am absolutely perplexed by the number of "he wouldn't do x" and "why does everyone make him so toxic" kinds of things. He actively waterboarded Vasily Karpov like one of the first times we saw him. He was put in the RAFT because he is a fucking terrorist.
This feels like another one of those things I guess that reminds me of Hannibal. Him being polite doesn't make him any less of a cannibal. You can be both polite and a bad person.