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rustedhearts · 29 days

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rolly's roller-wheels blurb commission guidelines

✶ explanation

✶ fulfilled blurbs!

hello! thank you for your interest in a commissioned blurb! ⭐️ to make this easier for myself and you, i thought i'd create some general guidelines we can all refer to if needed.

so here's how it works:

pick your character

✶ boxer steve

✶ college steve

✶ nascar steve

✶ 70s steve

✶ pastor steve

✶ troubled steve

✶ roommate steve

✶ general steve harrington (not tied to an au)

✶ gator tillman

✶ eddie munson (special edition lol)

✶ author's choice (where i surprise you!)

i'm willing to write for any character/version of a character i have written before (including one-shots)!

i will not write sequels to one-shots. only blurbs from the character of said one-shot. (for example: i could write you a blurb about everytime steve, but won't write it as if it were a continuation of the story.)

2. attach your donation with a quick synopsis/prompt

feel free to include as many details as you would like, but please do not include names/hyper-specific characterizations. but if you want steve to have a cheerio's addiction and reader to own 5 ferrets—i'm down! even songs you want your blurb based on are welcome!

synopsis/prompt can be sent via ko-fi or telegram

things I'm willing to write:

✶ fluff

✶ angst

✶ hurt/comfort

✶ smut

✶ author's choice (where i surprise you! but feel free to express what you don't want)

things i am not willing to write:

✶ kink (just baseline, anything i haven't written about before on this blog)

✶ any of the former steves from my old blog

3. pricing

✶ $5 min

✶ the more you pay, the longer your blurb!

✶ all donations matter, please do not feel pressured. your interest in helping means so much.

4. word count

✶ no min! (but enough for a story!)

✶ 1,500 word max

feel free to express if you want a short/long blurb, but you don't need to specify an exact word-count! just an estimate is fine.

5. disclaimers

✶ i'm in my final month of college and working, so these won't have a super quick turnaround. however, i will try and get them posted at a reasonable pace!

✶ if you're unsure of something, feel free to message me (telegram/direct)! questions about content/guidelines are always welcome.

✶ please do not feel bad if you cannot participate. reblogging to spread the word is just as lovely!

for quick referral:

✶ the library

✶ the steve collection

for donations!

✶ ko-fi

thank you again for your interest, and thank you all for supporting me! ⭐️ love you!

xoxo,

roller girl

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troxlerfx · 1 month

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hello!! i am troxler (trox if you're nasty) and you might know me from my xwitter @ broadcastrelay or my old experimental art blog @hand-in-hand-again .

commissions are currently closed & i will update here & on xwitter if that changes!!

i do have discord if you'd like to chat, you can DM me for my username. i'm vision impaired & it's a little easier for me than tumblr DMs (scalable font. properly mapped keyboard that allows me to hit the right keys occasionally. you know 👁️)

i am sometimes slow to respond to messages, but i don't expect you to be available all the time either--i answer things when i have a moment, & i assume others do too ✌️ i have the temperament of a displaced 11th century anchorite, am simply not adapted to the tone & pace of centralized social media.

i also unfortunately cannot voice call or screen share because i am a millennial (just kidding, it's because my phone is almost 9 years old)

learn a bit more about me under the cut ✂️

i was dropped into this simulation in the early 80s, i'm a disabled artist (vision impaired - [ask me about my atrophied optic nerves] - & have some other Issues so i use a cane) & my wife and i host two black cats, roughly 35% of a mannequin, and a whole lot of dolls.

all my art is trad/physical media (haven't figured out a way to make digital art accessible yet. maybe someday!! i like to sculpt in epoxy, plastilene, polymer & stone clay, i like to mold & cast in resin, make & customize various types of dolls, & build puppets; i do custom framed work, mixed media & textile stuff like sewing & embroidery; i paint in oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache & water soluble graphite & i love ink, markers, crayons & whatever cheap & weird stuff i can get my hands on.

i have a particular affection for props, prop replicas & hypothetical in-universe items, & i like things that are handsome, durable & believable. i'm versatile & innovative, & i'm at my happiest when i'm exploring technical processes. i have quite a bit of knowledge about techniques & materials. i love a challenge!! currently all my sewing is done by hand, i have trouble controlling pedal-operated machines.

my favorite thing is horror coated in a fine layer of nostalgia & sprinkled with history. that seems highly specific, but you'd be surprised how many things fit the criteria. i tend to fixate on characters & concepts & do a lot of art about it - a habit i developed while i was re-teaching myself to draw after the changes to my eyesight. my output is largely therapeutic. sometimes people like it. maybe you will too!!

i have a more reblog-heavy sideblog, @heartshapedsignal , where i can place aesthetics, rb art that i like, Cronenbergpost & generally toss up more intense horror things & keep this one somewhat more tidy + personal-art-oriented. follow if you please; although it's unlikely i'll ever post anything too explicit, 🔞 just to be safe!!

that's all for now!! 👁️‍🗨️📺

#trox talks

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blueindigo17 · 1 month

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hi writeblr!! it's nice to meet you!!

I’ve had this blog for years but never posted anything bc to be honest I was a little afraid of tumblr when I first joined, but recently I decided that since I like talking about my wips so much to my friends/family irl, why not blog about them? I also want to find some writing mutuals, since I like hearing about people’s stories just as much as I like telling them about mine. Feel free to interact, follow, message, etc. I love making friends :D

About me <3

My name is Allie, but I go by Blue or BlueIndigo online. Feel free to use any of those :)

My pronouns are she/her

I’m 19, which also happens to be my favorite number :)

I have five wips, 96 characters (about half of which with a birthday I celebrate like it were my own), and yet very few words actually written (some words plotted though. look at me go!)

I'm kinda in between fandoms at the moment, however I want to start watching Criminal Minds bc I've never seen it and I have a feeling I'm gonna get sucked into the fandom immediately lol

I am a MASSIVE swiftie (favorite album is 1989 TV), and I listen to a lot of 5SOS, Olivia Rodrigo, Conan Gray, and Harry Styles

I love reading !! My favorite author is Taylor Jenkins Reid & favorite books are Malibu Rising, Carrie Soto Is Back, and Daisy Jones & The Six.

I play ukulele, and I've written a handful of songs for one of my wips (more on that later)

I use these emoticons :) :D <3 in practically every sentence

I have a thing where my wip titles have to make good acronyms or I don’t use them. idk why either.

I love talking about my WIPs to the point of annoyance.

Speaking of talking, #blueindigo says things for non-wip related stuff <3

I like to write…

Realistic fiction

Contemporary fiction

Young adult/new adult

Coming of age

Romance

LGBTQ+ characters

Found family

pretty much just people being people :)

More about my wips below !!

My WIPs

Never Have We Ever (NHWE)

Tags: #wip: never have we ever #wip: NHWE

Summary: Liz has the best friends a girl could ask for. Harley, Mikey, and Natasha have been her people since elementary school, and Trevor and Amanda since middle school. Their whole lives, things have been pretty much the same. Same kids in their classes every year. Same streets between the same houses. Same, same, same. At the end of her freshman year of high school, just about when Liz is wondering how much same she could possibly handle, she catches Trevor’s eye as he laughs at someone’s joke, and something deep inside her lights up. Something she doesn’t know what to do with. Something she can't push back down once it comes barreling up to the surface. So much for same. After that, things can’t stop changing. And not just in her own life—her friend group starts pulling apart at the seams. Harley begins withdrawing from everyone with no explanation. Mikey gets in bigger trouble with his dad than ever. Natasha only has a year before she has to move off to college. Amanda accidentally reveals a secret no one was ever meant to know. At least Trevor seems to have gotten off easy. In this collection of short stories, Liz has to wonder if the change of pace she thought she wanted is worth it. Sometimes it’s hard to be brave, and she’s never been the most open to change, but unfortunately, that does not stop it from happening. The only question is: what is she going to do about it?

Genres: short stories, realistic fiction, young adult, coming of age, contemporary Themes: found family, first crushes, dealing with change, growing up, maintaining friendships Characters: Liz Stanton 🩵, Harley Wilson 💚, Mikey Miller 💛, Natasha Knightley 💜, Trevor Marshall ❤️, Amanda Hamilton 🩷

NHWE is my oldest WIP, started on December 16, 2019. It’s been on ice lately, since the plot has gone through so many changes that I haven’t known what to do with it in a while, but one of my goals with posting about it is to warm myself back up to it. I think writing that summary was a good place to start. Wish me luck :D

The Together List (TTL)

Tags: #wip: the together list #wip: TTL

Summary: Audrey is in her first month of college. Within three weeks, she’s moved out of her childhood bedroom and into a room with a window that seems to open on its own and a door that creaks loud enough to wake up the whole floor, she’s stumbled into a friend group that seemed to pull itself together like drawstrings, and she’s gotten a job at an adorable independent milkshake shop with her roommate and one of her new friends. What more could she possibly ask for? The world, it seems. Audrey has a list ten miles long of all the little things she wants college to be. One night, she starts listing them out loud. Her friends—Logan, Lennon, McKinley, Aspen, and Levi—chime in with their own after a moment, and before anyone knows it it’s been three hours and they haven’t stopped. They aren’t even sure whose idea it is, but they start writing it down. Every box on this ridiculously decorated list will be checked off by the end of the year, they swear. Someone makes an Instagram account as a joke, but by the first post it’s become as serious an endeavor as they’ve ever had. They wouldn’t call themselves local celebrities, but they certainly wouldn’t correct you if you did. The thing about fame at this age, even at small amounts, is that it's bound to go to someone's head...

Genres: realistic fiction, young adult fiction, new adult fiction, coming of age, LGBTQ+ fiction Themes: LGBTQ+, friendships, fame, college, becoming an adult, relationships Characters: Audrey Marshall 💙, Logan Levine 🧡, Lennon Adler 💛, McKinley March 💜, Aspen Brady ❤️, Levi Jackson 💚

TTL was created on August 18, 2021. I saw a post on Pinterest of someone's summer bucket list and that sounded like such a fun thing to do with friends that I had to write about it. Two and a half-ish years later, TTL has also gone through many changes, so I'm sort of trying to refresh it now. I'm very excited to see where it takes me!

(Fun fact: the main character, Audrey, is the older sister of Trevor from NHWE!)

The Violet Sisters Club (TVSC)

Tags: #wip: the violet sisters club #wip: TVSC

Summary: The Violet Sisters Club, a world famous all-female pop rock band, is facing a very public lawsuit from a former hotheaded manager over their most recent album. Following the conclusion of their case, lead singer Naomi Tyler, drummer Inez Wilde, guitarist Chrissy Cameron, and bassist Francesca Sheridan escape to the luxurious Overlook Estate, a privately owned rental property on an island off the southern coast of California. Here, they can spend the summer out of the public eye, writing songs they don’t need to worry about releasing and letting the public wonder what they’re up to as they let the tension out of their muscles. With a property twice the size of Alcatraz Island and a beach twice as long, the Overlook offers the band a respite from the go, go, go of touring, the privacy invasion of paparazzi, and the exhaustion of being micromanaged every minute of every day. Four pools, seven hot tubs, the aforementioned private beach, a high tech recording studio (just in case), a few golf carts just to get around the property and a Jeep to get to town. It’s unimaginably expensive, it’s incomprehensibly big, and it’s everything they need. But this escape may not be the relaxing California beach paradise they imagined. Soon, it becomes hard to hide how much the stress of fame was eating away at each of them—emotions run high, patiences run thin, days run long, nights run longer, and the strength of the band is questioned as the girls’ insecurities and anxieties bubble to the surface after a lifetime in the spotlight.

Genres: realistic fiction, contemporary fiction, literary fiction Themes: fame, music, romance, found family, secrets, breakups Characters: Naomi Tyler (lead singer, songwriter) 💜, Inez Wilde (drummer, vocalist, songwriter) 🩷, Chrissy Cameron (guitarist, vocalist, songwriter) 💙, Francesca Sheridan (bassist, vocalist, songwriter) 💚

TVSC was created on February 5, 2023, but the characters have been around almost as long as TTL. Initially, I created the Violet Sisters Club as a fictional band that would exist within The Together List, but at some point I couldn't get the idea of a TVSC-focused novel out of my head. I'm glad I never tried, because some of my favorite ideas I've ever had have gone into TVSC. If I could have one wish, it would be for all of TVSC's songs to be real so I could listen to them without having to write them first.

Now That We Don’t Talk (NTWDT)

Tags: #wip: now that we don’t talk #wip: NTWDT

Summary: There are two important things to know about Hazel Henry and Saiah Bradford. One: They kinda-sorta hate each other after they broke up last year at prom. (The same prom that ended with the school almost burning down and Hazel's twin brother's best friend going to the hospital. Bad memories all around.) Two: Someone on the planning committee for their senior class trip must be out to get them, because when they arrive at the hotel, they find out they’ve been assigned to the same room. This should have been impossible; Saiah requested to be paired with her best friend, Tory, who's going to have some explaining to do later, and Hazel would bet her life on the fact that she requested a room alone. Now, for the next two weeks, they’re both stuck in the same narrow room with its little square bathroom and practically-nonexistent closet. The air conditioner turns on at random times, they seem to be paired together for every single scheduled activity, and perhaps worst of all—their friends all seem to find this situation absolutely hilarious. But it’s just two weeks, right? It’ll be over before they know it, and soon they can both go back to pretending their relationship—and each other—never existed. Right? Right? Happy senior year to them.

Genres: realistic fiction, young adult fiction, contemporary fiction, LGBTQ+ fiction, romance Themes: reconciliation, romance, friendship, forgiveness, guilt, regrets, family, growing up Characters: Hazel Henry 🩷, Nick Henry 💙, Saiah Bradford 💚, Tory Whitehouse 💛

NTWDT was created on October 18, 2023. Hilariously, I came up with the plot after making Hazel and Saiah in the Sims, and I literally couldn't stop thinking about them whenever I wasn't playing. As I do with every character I create, I became obsessed with them, and now here we are. And in case you're wondering, yes, I named it after the Taylor Swift song lol.

Trouble In Paradise (TIP)

Tags: #wip: trouble in paradise #wip: TIP

Summary: Sixteen years ago, Joe Alexander and Ben King drove across the US in the pursuit of Joe's true love. Today, Joe is preparing to move out of his and his ex-wife's house and drive across the country once more, joined by his daughter, Bryce, and his best friend/his daughter's biological father, Ben. It's all familiar—the long stretches of empty fields, collapsing onto a cheap hotel bed for the night, never being able to decide where to stop for food—and yet, Joe has no idea what he's in for. This is a story of two cross-country road trips, and the lives that one woman is able to ruin in between. Joe Alexander and Ben King have both lost their entire worlds to Lilly Alexander. But the ones they’ve gained after her might be—in some weird, unconventional way—a little better.

Genres: realistic fiction, contemporary fiction, adult fiction, literary fiction Themes: reconciliation, moving on, guilt, parenting, cheating, manipulation, mental illness, sexual abuse Characters: Joe Alexander, Ben King, Bryce Alexander, Lilly Alexander

TIP is technically my newest WIP, since I came up with the full plot just last month (February 13, 2024). I've had the vague idea of it for just over a year, but I didn't quite know what to do with it until recently. It's definitely more mature with its topics than my other wips (as you might be able to tell by the themes), but I really like the concept and I've had a lot of fun plotting it so far, even if it's a little out of my comfort zone.

(Fun fact: the original title way back when the characters didn't even have last names was High Infidelity, after the Taylor Swift song, since I thought it was so thematically appropriate.)

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OKAY I'm pretty sure I have officially run out of things to say. If you made it all the way here, thank you so much for reading! Like I said earlier, feel free to interact any way you like :D

This post is sort of a masterpost for all my wips, but I'm also considering doing posts for each wip separately so I can go into more detail. That'll be later though.

Thanks again for reading, and have a good day/night !!

―BlueIndigo <3

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absolutebl · 2 years

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10 Favorite Complex Characters in BL

This post sparked by @solitaryandwandering ‘s question here.

Essentially they wanted to know some of my favorite fully realized (deep) characters rather than one dimensional archetypes. This is a challenge in BL. Especially for fans like me who are often attracted to characters with the least screen time, because we can make them whatever we want with our imaginations.

But this is about portrayal of complex, thoughtful, well rounded characters. The least artificial, tropey, and archetypal. I started this blog to track the later, not the former. Because the former is all too often in the gritty, sad, dark, heavily queer narratives. But I will take up the challenge and confine myself to picking leads only.

1. Nosue

Actually the first character who came to mind when asked this question. I have talked about Old Fashion Cupcake at length and I ADORE Togawa, but Nosue is a much more complicated character. He is outgoing, popular, and a blatant flirt, but closed off and lonely. He knows he is in trouble, and he knows he did it to himself, but can’t figure out how to get out of his life state or malaise. He is profoundly self aware and instinctively empathic, while being entirely unable to understand how anyone actually feels about him. He can see his own flaws but not anyone else’s. He has capacity to love but doesn't trust himself to do so, and cannot recognize affection when it surrounds him. This character could only be at this point in his life journey, no younger character or actor could ever have carried off this role with all its contrasts and nuance. He is the opposite of one dimensional. He’s almost 4th dimensional, where he occupies time and space on this plane of existence is an integral part of his identity.

2. Ae

Crazy to put a Mame character on this list but I defy you to dislike Ae from Love By Chance. He was probubly my first great love in the arena of complex characters in BL. He comes off as deceptively simple at first, and then we keep learning things about him - his demi nature contrasted to his tough defensive personality. His instant and unprecedented affection and need to care for the lost hurt extremely shy rich gay boy is both very weird and totally understandable. We know his character: sarcastic, brash, grumpy, and street smart but also loyal and casually affectionate. Pete permits Ae to showcase his best and softest nature, without any risk of hurt or damage. (Although Ae can, of course, damage Pete with his ignorance.) Watching Ae figure out himself, and what his strange sudden need to look after Pete is all about (love rather than friendship) is such a joyful ride. For all his rough exterior we know Ae will make it through his own confusion into solid affection, there is no other way his character would allow them to be. Ae is very solid in himself as a person, even if he has some shock realizing that personhood is queer. The fact that Perth acted this complex of a part when his was 16 is mind boggling. What Mame did to Ae’s character in LBC2 is unforgivable.

3. JiWoo

To My Star 1 & 2. I didn’t like the 2nd installment, but that doesn’t mean I didn't understand it or his character’s behavior, because it was set up so well in the first. (I just didn’t enjoy the pacing or structure of season 2.)

Korea doesn’t normally specialize in complex characters for their BL. In fact, they tend to go for the most archetypal, which is fine with me. I mean Semantic Error is top of my list and those 2 couldn’t be more basic archetypes. Okay, so why does Korea do this? Well partly because Korea doesn't have enough screen time to build backstory, and also because of their “queer bubble” perspective we never get depth of character from home life, parents, or coming out sequences.

JiWoo is the opposite. We learn (eventually) all about him but that isn’t even particularly necessary. JiWoo has walls, tall thick well-established walls, but it is very clear those walls are from being hurt by the world. Slowly we learn bits of why, but what makes JiWoo deep and complicated, is that despite his walls we can still see him falling in love. And who does he pick? The most inappropriate person for someone scared of being hurt: a capricious, outgoing, sunshine, famous actor. And a man. It’s like JiWoo’s own heart wants to give hem more reasons to build more walls. Every time JiWoo allows himself the luxury of that despite-himself-charmed sudden bright smile, our hearts break for him. Because it cost him, and will cost him, so much to be happy. Because of what he has allowed the world to do to him, and his own natural reactions to it. JiWoo doesn’t want to be loved because he is terrified of loving someone back, because he knows how much of himself he is willing to give up when he does that. And who, in all honestly, hasn’t been there?

4. Yuzuru

Seven Days. I know, I KNOW. Look, I realize his is a character type that Japan explores often. But that doesn’t make him any less interesting or complex. Yuzuru is beautiful but also very bold, brash, blunt, uncompromising, and stubborn, and he won’t change himself for any reason. This blatant mercurial individualism in a culture that finds such behavior confusing at best and worth crushing at worst, enables Yuzuru’s classic tsundere behavior beautifully. Yuzuru shows us how deep characterization can be activated to bolster one of the genre’s most enduring archetypes, and that’s really fun to watch. Yuzuru is not just “tsundere with good reason,” (which is all we can usually hope for) he’s tsundere with INTENT. His love for Sereyo springs from his conflict with society, because for the first time someone likes him not despite his uncompromising personality, but because of it.

5. Amber

DNA Says Love You. The ultimate complicated character who could have been profoundly miss-handled with one tiny misstep. But this performance got handed off to an actor who made the character incandescent instead. Amber is extremely scared and keeps his identity and past intentionally hidden from us and the other characters, which easily could have felt manipulative or frustrating for audiences. Instead, we feel that this is for very good reason, so much so that the twist isn’t a twist anymore. Instead of hiding and lying without fault, instead of being a wet blanket without reason, Amber hurts to lie but does it because he wants one taste of what could have been. He doesn't expect anything more. He expects to be shunned. And he is gentle and kind and sweet about it, because that is who he is as a person, even as he struggles to protect himself and his new friends from the truth. It was deft handling of questionable content, and we don’t get adroitness from Taiwan often. Because of the way Amber is portrayed the character seems more deep and complex. This is one of those where the actor brought much more to the role than the role provided, and it’s rather remarkable to watch.

6. Thun

He’s Coming to Me. Imagine growing up as a kid who can see ghosts, but being mature enough from the start not to tell anyone about it. Then imagine falling in love with the ghost of your mother’s ex-boyfriend. Oh the drama of it all! Ohm is in peak form for this role, and his performance is outstanding. Thun is a very lovable character, brash and open, but treasuring this intense secret, while being devoted to uncovering other people’s truths. Thun is able to stand up to authority in a way that is beaten out of most men of his age and social status. His relationship to his mother, to his friends, and to his lover is varied and nuanced, and that gives him, the cheerful himbo character, so much more nuance too, because he is so clearly defined by all the tendrils and threads that anchor him to reality, vital when one lives partly stuck in the afterlife.

7. Shun

His the movie. Another character type that Japan loves, the introvert, and another execution where it is given reason and intent. Shun always had it in him to withdraw in order to protect himself from the world, but after Nagisa left him, he withdrew from the world entirely. His is about the world trying to reclaim him. The tiny country retirement village who adopted him while he wasn’t looking. Add to that Nagisa, and his daughter, coming back. What we watch is Shun’s quiet struggle to accept all three, despite the hurt that opening himself back up to relationships (family, fatherhood, lover) carries with it. He is a wonderfully complex character.

8. Pete

The Kiss series and Dark Blue Kiss. Tay’s portrayal of Pete is consistent even across a conflicted timeline and some weird narrative choices. By the time DBK rolls around we know exactly who Pete is. In any other hands this kind of drawn-out tsundere seme would have been very one dimensional. But Pete is complicated for your standard himbo bisexual character. He’s conflicted about his responsibilities as a son but proud to have the support of such a kind father, frustrated about not being open but not intersted in being famous. His love is devoted, but he is a capricious person. He isn’t very academically smart but he has a high emotional IQ, he reads people well. He is quick to anger but also quick to forgive. He is fiercely loyal even to his ex-boyfriend, but also willfully obtuse. For a character who, in Thailand’s hands, should have been one note, Pete is as consuming and as sweeping as the intro music to DBK, and just like that music a bit overdramatic. But I love this drama queen clown.

9. Mork

My Ride’s Mork is kinda like the Ae of the next generation. He’s more lively and cheerful, less of a grump, but he does represent for the lower class. Struggling with money, work, family, and romance, he falls deeply in love with a doctor even though he thinks he hasn’t anything to offer. Mork’s struggles around bisexual identity play second fiddle to the fact that Tawan is already in love with someone else and socially so far above him that Mork consigns himself to friendship. He knows how to love though, and he does it deeply and from the sidelines, as a support network and as a friend to Tawan. And he would have willingly stayed there, had Tawan had a happy relationship. It’s really great to see pining executed from start to finish, as in: Mork isn’t a “pining since childhood” trope. We see him meet and like Tawan as a friend, fall in love with him, and then have to take a back seat and wait for his love to be returned. Mork has a developed depth of character because of this, and we are never angry with him for this behavior. We know exactly why he does it, and we too are willing to wait. A Thai pulp that not only requires patience (they all do) but teaches it? That’s some great characterization.

Also, SINGLE DIMPLE. (Look, these characters may be deep, but I’m not.)

10. Noh

Love Sick. Another very young actor handed an extremely complicated role and pulling it off with aplomb. Noh is awkward and popular, sweet and tough, kind and loving, and really profoundly unwilling to hurt. Watching him slowly fall in love with Phun, and Phun’s casual rich-kid entitled hot/cold affection, is heart wrenching. Watching Noh tackle Yuri’s demanding attentions while not wanting to cause her pain, even though he is deeply in love with someone else, hurts us, and both of them. Love Sick is a great coming of age narrative. It handles all the ramifications of queerness that a kid of that age might deal with but with in a dexterous and deeply private way. Plus Noh’s LINES. The words Captain gets to say are some of the greatest ever scripted in BL.

“It is a terrible thing not knowing where the line is between us.”

Could there be any better way of putting the conflict over moving from friends to lovers? From heterosexual to something more? The fear of not knowing if you should move towards romance when friendship is put at risk. COME ON. Noh is a remarkable character.

Honorable mention:

Hasimoto

My Love Mix Up. Trust Japan to take the character that any other country would have turned into evil femme fetale and make her the heroine of this narrative. She’s a spectacular character, she handles her own crush and other people’s with humor and aplomb. She is fiercely defensive of her friends, tiny but mighty. One she decides to love someone, she does it with every fiber of her being, even though she can get very shy. We don’t know a ton about her, because she is a support role, but that didn’t stop me from enjoying all the layers that are revealed about her during the course of this narrative. One of my favorite things about this show was watching her and Aoki’s friendship grow and evolve, more so even than Aoki and Ida’s romance.

White & Black

Gun’s execution of the twins in Not Me. I doubted he could do it. He did it. Each one was complicated and different and so was their relationship. All the cheering, it was IMPRESSIVE.

Some others I considered but did not make the list for various reasons:

Tutor in Why R U?

Dean in Until We Meet Again

Pick in Puppy Honey

Vald in Like in the Movies

SiWon in Blueming

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captaincravatthecapricious · 3 months

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20 questions for fic writers

Thanks @bluejayblueskies for the tag!

1. How many works do you have on Ao3?

58!

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count?

463,287

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Malevolent! But I do have a tma long fic going on that I am still working on and updating regularly.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

After the Circus (tma)

Can't Get Up (tma)

Broken Ribs (tma)

Things You Said When You Were Scared (tma)

Cold as the Rain that Falls in December (Malevolent)

5. Do you respond to comments?

Yes! Comments mean a ton to me so I try to respond to them!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Oh man either Things You Said Through Your Teeth (tma, a little study on Martin grieving everyone throughout the seasons, ending with him pushing Jon away) OR I Don't Want to be So Sober So (Malevolent, that ended up with Arthur possibly drinking himself to death. I mean you could chose to believe that John got him back home. I don't think I've actually decided, even when I wrote it).

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I mean... all the rest of them, probably. I write happy endings. Angst with happy endings. Maybe the Jumanji fic? The first one ends up pretty happy.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not that I know of? Am I popular enough to get hate?

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Nope.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

GODS, okay so this isn't published. Hell it's in an old NOTEBOOK, but once I wrote a crossover between Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog and Bones.

Of the things published, I do have a tma Jumanji au, but I wouldn't call that a crossover.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I don't think so?

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I know of.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I was going to, once upon a time, but it fell through. That was a very long time ago.

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

I'm not sure. I like queerplatonic ships over anything else. I really like playing around with the inbetween relationships of Jon and Tim (tma) and Arthur and Parker and John (Malevolent). But I'm not sure if I really write or ship any of them romantically. I like the messy inbetweens. And being aro ace, I kind of explore the plasticity of relationships through that lens.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I'm pretty methodical with things so I don't have a lot of projects left undone. I would like to write a third chapter for my oneshot fic called Coffee. And I would like to fix up the second chapter enough that I can actually post it.

In a wider sense. I have so much more I want to do in the Parker Lives AU, but I have no idea what I'll be able to do with time/work/mental health constraints. I'm certainly not done with the AU. But will it ever be truly finished?

16. What are your writing strengths?

rambling. Endlessly. Which is also a weakness. But I sure can do whump and stream of consciousness.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I haven't the foggiest idea how video games work and I am writing a video game au.

In a more serious sense. I have a lot of trouble with pacing. I fill everything up with my rambling and I have no idea if I am getting the original point across or if it's gotten lost along the way. It also tends to make it hard to stick in important details in a longer form work. I get too busy with tangents.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I don't think I know other languages well enough.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Ice Age 3, Dawn of the Dinosaurs. And it was written in marker in a plastic spiral bound notebook. And it will never see the light of day.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

For tma, probably If That's What it is

For Malevolent... I'm not sure. I love of Cold as the Rain (and that might be my top pick overall) but I am also really proud of myself for finishing Phosphenes and Pasts. I guess my readers will have to be the judge of that once I finish posting it!

Tagging @genderfluid-druid @thisstableground @cannibalthoughts @cappurrccino @sokkas-first-fangirl @breannasfluff @acewithapaintbrush @late-to-the-magnus-archives

#malevolent #tma #jasp facts #capt speaks #long post #tag game #THIS WAS FUN #I am also procrastinating

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trinkerichi · 1 year

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TEKVENTURES! I wanna ramble about Tekventures.

if you remember them you qualify for a veterans discount

So they were Sgt.Frog ocs that my best friend SARAZA and I made on flipnote for edgy amvs and comics. I wanna say I wassss 13? give or take. But these little guys were my EVERYTHING. We thought of a billion stories about them. Then I got sick of drawing frogs eventually and wanted to make them more of an original thing. Our first sketches were of anthro goats, but over time with my style changes, an the fact that I hate spending more than 2 seconds drawing anything, they no longer resemble any specific animal and turned into fuzzy nondescript species of alien thing. ANYWAY I wanted to make them into a "real comic series" when i was 17. That's when I started the chapters that are still up on tumblr n webtoons! and a few other sites probably that I forgot about.

I've been harsh on it in the past but honestly I still love it to bits. What's there is a solid little comic and i still think it's adorable!

The only thing is, that's judging it based on what's there. It's a basis for a cute episodic thing with low stakes! Like the early mlp fim episodes or the new care bears cartoon. But that's NOT what it was planned for in the long term. Oh no, I was so ambitious. I had at LEAST 50 episodes planned which would weave together into this massive arc that would introduce other space teams, wayward space travelers with secret pasts connecting to the main cast, sad backstories for everyone, ALL of the family members of the main cast, a villian team with like... 'anti-versions' of the main cast, and a dramatically foreshadowed final confrontation with robot clones that want to destroy their planet. OH AND ROBIN too! Besides all that, they ALSO have multiple side story episodes about crashing to earth and befriending a human girl named Robin who has to keep them secret.

That might have been um. a lot.

But when you start writing a story with your best friend when you're 13 you most likely have NO CONCEPT of "too much". Who am I kidding I STILL have trouble pacing myself. But when you come up with a story it's hard not to think it's just GOLD! And that you've gotta keep it no matter what! Because that stuff is fun!

I went full force into the comic in my senior year of highschool and eventually I finished the first chapter! It took me a year. And then I looked at my plans for the other 49 episodes and thought "maybe I need to rework some things.."

I rebooted the comic once, tried making smaller stories, all that, but I wasn't quite feeling the same drive anymore. I realized I was comparing my work to high budget tv shows with like. a full team of writers and artists. and studio funding. and greenlit seasons and all that. And it was making me feel TERRIBLE about my art!

So I quit comics! I started hating comics! I hated how long they took and how restricted I felt (with my own expectations) and I lost my confidence in finishing projects because I was so sad about giving up on my big magnum opus. and I just kinda gave up and started only doing fandom art for a couple years. I did a jyushimatsu ask blog and kept it up for ages! And then a new season of Osomatsu came out and I realized when comparing it that I was basically writing an oc at this point. And that I CAN commit to long term projects if i dont get self conscious about it!

I still didnt wanna jump into comics again. But I thought of some new characters that I was becoming attached to. the very very beginnings of what could turn into a new idea.

I thought "well i still love cartoons about space! even if im not making tekventures anymore maybe i could do another space story. a really tiny one."

so i started making an rpgmaker game! and it started taking forever. so in the meantime i made a really rough doodle comic about how the characters first met. as a little side story thing.

and THAT was the key. I had to stop thinking about it like i was making a big cool tv show and starting my career and all that. its just a fun thing, off the cuff, not overthinking it, just for fun and personal expression.

so im still going with it! and its GREAT! Rocket chip has 12 planned chapters, and I'll be halfway done by the end of the year.

But BOY did it take me forever to learn that.

#trinket rambles

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gintokiu · 9 months

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Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love ❤

love love love getting Tumblr messages, especially if they come from Rena! thank you so much for thinking to tag me and get me back on this ye olde blog. I will do my best to answer since most of my favorites are unfinished and waiting for me to have time to complete them asdfgh anyway, starting from the bottom:

5. Unfinished, unposted work: Worth the Wait

This one is fun because it's something I'm currently working on and I am soo obsessed with it; it's an AU of a fantasy game that I've put way too many hours into recently. I think that the overall premise of the story is something akin to finding things in places that you wouldn't expect them to be, which I always love when it comes to Gintoki and Hijikata, because that's kind of like, their thing? It's set right now to be three or four chapters long and ahh I can't wait for it to be done. I hope, like usual, that the AU doesn't shy people away because they might not know about it/played the game. :') I can't help I only like writing AUs I'm sorry adsfgh

4. Fahrenheit

This story has such humble beginnings and such a warm place in my heart. It was actually the first ginhiji fic I ever wrote and oh god, it was fucking horrible. Rewrote it when I matured more as a writer and am hoping that I figure out where exactly I want this one to end because it's a bit of a toss-up. Right now, I am simply enjoying writing all the modern-day fluff and antics (and sex) until the plot decides to cement itself properly in my brain.

3. Hirudinea

The big one, the one that my brain refuses to write even though I have the plot all there waiting for me to write it. The powerpoint for this story is crazy. I'm looking forward to one day getting to tie this one up with a nice little bow and give it the proper love it deserves, but I want to finish other things first. Forcing myself to write things only ever ends in me hating them and I refuse for that to be the case with this story because there is so much love for it in me and seemingly in the community <3

2. Ninety-Nine and The Flight, the Fall, and the Forsaking of a Crow

There are two for this spot because I can't make up my mind. The Flight is another one with very humble beginnings. I wrote this, god, six or so years ago originally? Rewrote it when I started posting my work and fell in love with the new rendition of it so much. I'm such a sucker for transformations and gaining new understandings of the world, which is exactly what Gintoki gets to go through, which is why it means so much to me. The pacing is there, the emotion is there. Truly one of my favorites of mine that remind myself that I can write sometimes, LOL.

Ninety-nine I love because it is so easy to write. It's the child that never backtalks, never gets in trouble-- it's just golden. The plot for this is fleshed out all the way to the end and the powerpoint is thirty slides longer than Hirudinea's at a whopping 91 slides. It's a beast. I have end chapters completely written, just waiting for the rest of it to catch up. While definitely not my most popular piece, it's the one that I love to work on the most and I hope I can give it the ending that it deserves :') ahhh there's so much I want to say but can't so I'll just leave it here and talk about it later when it gets closer to being complete.

Things That Happen During the In-Between

Certainly did not expect this work to get the recognition that it did when it was posted. When I tell y'all that I hated this story for the longest time because I reread the same scenes fifteen, twenty times over, edited each one at least three or four times super in-depth to the point where it became beyond predictable in my mind. So then I post this, and people are all like "I cried!" I'm like HUH what do you mean you cried? this work sucks?? So then I waited like a month, reread it, and understood that yeah, okay, I actually didn't do that bad of a job with this one. My personal favorite aspect of this story is the characterization, because there are so many parts where I can read through it and say with confidence that that's a very "them" thing to say/do. (I also just love and adore the second movie, it's such a good film and I'm glad that I was able to do it some justice with this story.)

this was such a treat to do, once more thank you @renamusing for tagging me <3 I'll send a few out to some authors who I think are active on my tumblr so if you get one then consider it a little forehead kiss mwha

#ginhijigin #ginhiji #alex talks #im going to be more active on here hopefully #my works

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umichenginabroad · 3 months

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Madrid Week 0: Stealing Grocery Bags (Goals & Reflections)

¡Hola a todos!

My name is Niko, and I’ll be blogging this semester from now until June for the CEA IPE program at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, or UC3M.

Some quick background about me: I’m a current junior studying aerospace engineering at Michigan; I’m minoring in computer science and the international minor for engineers. I beatbox in an a cappella group, I love to rollerblade, meditate, and make pottery, & I’m a huge Bad Bunny fan (top 2% of listeners worldwide, not to flex).

My goal for writing this blog is twofold: one, to share my experiences in Madrid (and Europe when I travel around) with you all. I’ll be writing about sights I’ve seen, activities I’ve done, situations I’ve gotten myself into, and what they all made me feel. For all the prospective study-abroaders reading this, I hope you gain some insight into what studying and living in Madrid is like — and please feel free to send me an email at [email protected] with any questions. For all of my friends and family reading, I hope you enjoy staying somewhat up to date with my life while I’m away, and please don’t hesitate to reach out — I would be happy to get a more in depth account about anything I post. Also, don’t hesitate to reach out with suggestions of what you might want me to blog about. I’m open to all ideas!

My second goal: dive deeper into how all of these experiences are affecting me, and figure out how I can learn and grow from all of them. I find that when I journal about something, it helps me sort through my thoughts and feelings surrounding it. This allows me to figure out how I can use these experiences to inform my actions in the future and move closer towards being the person that I want to be. This blog might serve as a pseudo journal for me; I’m gonna try to write a short focused piece on one experience each week and see what I can get out of it.

So, as I boarded the plane to Madrid (having gone through a crisis of deciding which bag I was going to bring as my personal item just hours before [I am a chronic over packer, but I will improve this semester mark my words] ), I was feeling a mix of excitement, nervousness, and uncertainty.

It’s now day 2 of being in Madrid, and after going through the trouble of losing a bag in transit (which has since been delivered back to my apartment thanks to our awesome doorman Mario), I quickly started to experience culture shock, naturally. Most notably so far: feeling extremely embarrassed when I accidentally tried to steal a bag at the grocery store — you have to pay for bags in Madrid, and I took an extra right in front of the cashier. She wasn’t so happy.

Although I’ve been to Spain once before for a week with my Spanish class in 8th grade, things are all very unfamiliar — the pace of life, my surroundings, the people, the way you recycle, the language (although I’m happy that the 52 hours listening to Bad Bunny have served me well, I’ve found that I’m able to communicate with locals pretty fluently), among many other things. During this period of culture shock, I’m gonna try my best to pull from the biggest lesson I learned studying abroad in Buenos Aires (an amazing city, btw, highly recommend) the summer after my freshman year — lean into these uncomfortable situations. Adapting to Argentinian culture helped me learn that these situations are never a matter of life or death. Overcoming my ego and “putting myself out there” got me into some of the most incredible, memorable experiences that I’ll carry with me for the rest of my life.

So, I’m gonna do exactly that this time around, and I know that feeling more comfortable is only a matter of time. I’m excited for all of the people that I will meet, places I will see (most pumped to return to La Sagrada Familia, stay tuned for that), experiences I will become a part of, and I’m excited to continue writing this blog!

Un beso,

Niko Economos

Aerospace Engineering

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Madrid, Spain

P.S. Don't forget to check the ALT/Image descriptions for a little more insight into what these photos are, especially if I don't talk about them in the main body :)

#UmichEnginAbroad #IPEUC3M #NikoEconomos #IPEWinter24 #Spain

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jsab-crisis · 1 year

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Hey there

I only found this blog recently and I love it, the story line and the artwork along with it, it's a shame you had to discontinue the comic because I enjoyed it.

There are not many JSAB blogs that I like I'll say, but there's been a decrease in them as the hype went away, I found this in my recommended section after I was going through some hard times myself.

After Afrothunder left the community to fix her mental health problems (she was quite the inspiration and helped me through my darkest hours at one point) there wasn't anything left here in this community a side from a couple of blogs here and there I wanted to start my own blog.

But I ran into a major downfall almost immediately, how do you get people to look at your stuff, I know there are a lot of blogs that don't get noticed and run down to nothing but how did you do it or when did people start noticing your work?

I'm not asking for the sake of followers but for other people who are scared to ask this or have a blog of their own like me.

I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it!

I'm still making JSaB art and I've started making a new JSaB AU centered comic (working on chapter 2 atm. 10 pages, fully colored, background + 6 characters) if that's something you wanna see (on my artblog, @zimcard-artblog ) . I haven't made some crisis-au stuff in awhile due to being busy but I'll get back to sharing more lore and other stuff like short comics and whatnot.

Also, yeah, JSaB has been up for awhile. 2 years or so? Man, back in the early days, there were so many early starting comics that were amazing. I honestly miss it back then and wished I was more active like I am right now. Ya' know, the community is still kicking- especially in different social media platforms from my knowledge. I, personally, do NOT suggest Amino. Safe yourself the trouble and back away from it.

Oh! Afrothunder is back from my knowledge but she is doing it in her own pace for the sake of her mental health, it's a genuine shame to hear how someone so talented and kind is being treated so poorly by a bunch of impatient, immature, and even heartless people over her work. This has happened to a lot of people who make popular comics online, often on their own pace, which they tend to run into a bunch of people who are very disrespectful of their personal lives. I've talked to Afrothunder Waaaaaaay back, made an ask collab once with her regarding Blixer and Cyan in this blog. We don't talk now but I like to think of her as an old friend because she was super nice and welcoming back then when we first started talking on the server, it was super neat. Wishing her the best and hope she's doing well right now <:]

> How did you do it or When did people start noticing your blog?

I think it's a matter of getting recognized enough so you can promote any projects you're working on. I started drawing fanart for JSaB the moment I finished watching the playthroughs, it eventually garnered an audience who are into the same media I was in which I gained new followers.

So, basically; get recognized. Tagging your stuff of said media you're basing your post about makes it easier for people to find it. Share some art, doodles, concepts, whatever you have and what you want to share with the people. Eventually you'll notice the numbers rising.

It usually went on like that for me until I end up having an idea- like, "Oh, I have an AU! I wanna share that AU and make a comic out of it!" And so I started sharing small concepts regarding the AU.

Sketches, doodles, designs, short comics, and explanations. It was like an early beta of the project I was working on and when it got enough people interested; That's when you kickstart the final piece that goes "Hey, I made a comic! Check it out!"

If you're doing it on tumblr, really advise to make another blog as a sort of archive for said comic because it makes it easier for people to find the comic and read back to it whenever they want to. Accessibility is key.

This actually applies for making askblogs as well or any sort of extra blog for something specific.

Then, with all of that, you go on your own pace. It's a hard start but you'll be able to go with your own flow, take your time, and remember to prioritize YOURSELF first before other things. If you receive any sort of hate or just weird messages, just delete them on the spot because you are responsible for your own inbox.

That's my two cents on it, hope this helps! If there's anything specific you wanna know. Just ask :3

#Mun speaks #Ask

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whatthehelliswrongwithme · 2 years

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Voltron Part 50

*rolls onto this blog on skates with a coffee in hand*

So like ... it sure has been a while since the last part. Are we going to acknowledge that? No!

Thoughts on Season 8! Time to finish this thing! :

People told me, that it would be a dumpster fire

But I didn't expect it to this degree

Seriously what was this shit?!?!!

Why did they kill off Allura?

How did they manage to do Allurance, but also fuck it up to this degree?

Space Witch's entire character changed. Wheres my "results over ethic"-bitch?

They tried really hard to build suspense. But it didn't work. Like at all

Were we supposed to feel sorry for Zarkon? After he has been shown to be a massive asshole on various occasions?

I know that it's probably just my inner shipper speaking, but why didn't Keith and Shiro interact during this season? Like at all. They were BFFs during all the season before. They had a whole mentor- thing going on? And now we just get blue- balled?

They had this whole story with space witch creating those Evangelion robots, and Team Voltron going to Pandora (tech planet, associated with Pidge) only to find it destroyed. And the suspense and threat kept building up. And then they just put two happy slice-of-life episodes in the middle of it

Pacing? I don't know her

I was a little weirded out by Lotor kinda being a corpse and fusing(?) with his mother

At least he wasn't alive again. Hated that asshole since he killed Furry. ( Justice for Narti 2022)

Killing off Allura just felt unnecessary

The writers simply needed to have A Great Sacrifice for the finale and decided to kill her off

[Was it to appease the Klance Shippers? IDK]

The "great" queer representation. Shiro's first boyfriend got killed off the episode after his introduction ( R.I.P. 4Eyes)

And his husband literally had 2 lines. Was introduced only in the last season. The closest to interacting with Shiro, was standing in the same room as him. AND he literally was so unimportant that my nickname for him was "Some Other Guy" !!!

The entire season was much less focused on the characters and more focused on the story and space witch. Which could have been fine, if it had been a good story

Before going through each character, I usually tell my favourite episode of the season. But like I don't really have any

If I had to pick one it would be "despite terrible timing, Team Voltron goes to have a fun time at a carnival. meanwhile allura fucking dies"

Shiro continued being a cheerleader after he was literally the most competent character in the earlier seasons. He simply was a by-stander with a few more important lines, when compared to other side characters

It felt like Keith missed the entire last season of character-developement? If my memory serves right, he felt edgier then the last few seasons. And just like, why??? Didn't he have like an entire small arc with both his mom and Hunk, that always being a lone-wolf can easily get him into avoidable trouble?!?

And what happened to our entire "Found Family"-dynamic established in season 1 through 6????

Lance got completely screwed over. The segment of him asking everyone for advice with Allura was cute. When they got together he kinda fell out of relevance. And then in the end, Allura just fucking died. And he turned Altean somehow. Which is fun, considering he now lives much longer and is therefore doomed to be a tour-guide forever and eventually watch his friends and family die. After his entire thing has been " i love my family so much and don't want to see any harm come to them"

Hunk has always just been there for fat-jokes. Any and all depth he got, was immediately thrown away the next season. Hunk deserved better. And I'm still asking myself, why he became a cook; after it has been stated numerous times that his true passion is fixing things???

Pidge had no real goal as a character after finding her family. She was just kinda there. Made a sassy joke a couple of times. And that's it. That has been her entire involment in this series after like season 5

Allura has been shown to be a better leader in a couple of episodes, than Keith ever was. She was so competent and badass and had some anger-issues. And then she just died. For literally nothing! Nothing!

The Side Characters were just completely irrelevant. But Shoutout anyways to Sailor Moon, Furry, Big Gal, colouful Ty Lee, Furry, Stone Cold Bitch, Secretary Lady, Furry, Krolia, the Random Ass Children and Furry

Sheith wasn't present in this season. Like to such a degree that the characters had to act OOC. Because normally these moments just came so naturally

Allurance became canon! And the retconned in the most extreme way there is. They killed this ship off

Klance had this one moment in episode 1, which was kinda weird considering that Lance was asking for advice with Allura. (And my conspiracy-theory that she died to appease the Klancers remains)

Lotura had a moment I guess? Maybe they can be a couple now in "fucked up space- afterlife"

Plance. I can and will continue to find Plance- moments where most people don't. Because the ship is simply cute

Hunelle was kinda represented. Considering that Sailor Moon became a cook alongside Hunk. Yay?

Hunay is basically canon. Come on. They are in love. She moved an entire fucking Planet for him

Shurtis. Honestly, who ships this? They kissed for 3 seconds. Victory for the gays? Yay us?

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As you may be aware, One character hasn't been mentioned so far. It's because he desevers his own segment:

Moustache man!

Coran!

I love you!

After initially disliking him the first season, he grew to be my favourite character

He deserves the title "Team Dad" much more than Shiro. What has the fandom been thinking

And he also got done so dirty by this season

First of all, we all agree that he's basically been Allura's replacement-dad this entire time, right?

And then this fucking Bitch claims that she has no family left, when she confessed to Lance!

Meanwhile Lance asked for Coran's permission to date her. And he did the whole dad-thing! He gave him the "Shotgun Dad Talk"!

He is Allura's dad now!

And then, and then! He didn't even get to say goodbye to Allura when she died!

This was literally the saddest thing about this season! Not Space Witch's backstory. Not Allurance being torn apart. But the fucking fact, that Coran never got to truly say goodbye to her!

I love Coran and he deserved so, so much better.

#JusticeForMoustacheMan2022

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And to wrap up this entire trainwreck up in a neat little bow: I just wanna say that it has been incredibly fun to write these. I've gotten to know many new people and had fun memories with y'all! It always blows me away, how many people liked these and think I'm funny.

It's been a great journey♡

Thanks for all the support♡

It's been fun♡

Love y'all♡

Go, be great♡

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genby-enby · 2 years

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Chicken

Written for @femslash-friday-prompts‘ 5/21 prompt.

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@genby-writes (My writing blog where I only reblog my latest writing.)

I woke that morning to find Lady Selene had already left the room. Her bed was neatly made; the sheets cool to the touch. I fought down my initial panic by reminding myself she was unlikely to come to harm here.

We were visiting a town so small they didn't even have an inn. Instead, the mayor and her husband had welcomed us into their home for the duration of our stay. Lady Selene had most likely made her way to the dining room and hadn't wanted to wake me.

Grumbling to myself about unnecessary courtesies, I dressed before making my way to the dining room. Lady Selene was nowhere to be found, but the mayor's husband was enjoying a mug of tea at the table. He told me he thought my lady had taken her breakfast in the back garden. I thanked him and made my way outside.

I heard quiet laughter as soon as I opened the backdoor. Following the sound, I found my lady near the chicken coop. The mayor's son, Mathieu, sat next to her. He pointed to one of the chickens – a beautiful, speckled hen – in the yard and seemed to be instructing Lady Selene.

"Let her come to you, your ladyship," he said as I approached. "She loves to be pet but she'll spook if you try to grab her."

Lady Selene sat with her skirts (a lovely teal color that day) pooled around her. She had a determined look about her – not dissimilar to the way she held herself while working on difficult paperwork. I stood back a few paces, not wanting to interrupt.

With a bit of coaxing, the hen stepped within Lady Selene's reach. She held out a delicate hand to pet over the hen's feathers. The hen preened under the attention.

"We call her Mistress," Mathieu told her. "She's the one who keeps the others in line."

Mistress, having decided Lady Selene was an acceptable presence, hopped into her lap. She made herself comfortable and Lady Selene soon resumed her petting.

"Enjoying yourself, my lady?" I called as I continued my approach.

Mathieu jumped and spun around, clearly startled. Lady Selene startled as well but hardly flinched. It was unlikely Mathieu had noticed considering Mistress hadn't been disturbed at all. My lady looked over her shoulder at me with a bemused smile.

"Very much so," she answered, glibly. "I've never seen chickens up close and Mathieu was kind enough to teach me about them."

I glanced over to find Mathieu stiff as a board. He seemed to think he was in some sort of trouble. Amused, I offered him a reassuring smile.

"Thank you for assisting Lady Selene." I gave him a shallow bow. "She can be quite the handful."

Lady Selene scoffed lightly, taking no offense to my teasing.

"It was no trouble at all," Mathieu stammered. "In fact, it was my pleasure."

My smile grew at his sincerity. He was cute with a boyish charm to him. I hoped he'd never outgrow that charm.

I crouched next to my lady to take a seat between them. When I reached out to scratch under Mistress's chin, Mathieu finally relaxed.

"What do you think of them, my lady?" I asked.

She smiled fondly at Mistress. "They're quite cute."

A loud squawk drew our attention to the other chickens in the yard. Two hens had found something in the dirt and were play fighting over it. They exchanged a few harmless pecks before one strutted off, having decided the whole affair was beneath her. The hen's head bobbed with each step and Lady Selene stifled a giggle.

"They're rather silly, too," she added.

"You should see them when they're broody," Mathieu piped up. "Just last spring, Mistress went around stealing eggs from the other hens for her own nest. When the chicks hatched and her brood ended, we found she'd also pulled an egg-shaped rock into her nest."

Lady Selene laughed, her face lighting up. Mistress looked up at her with what I thought must have been offense.

"We don't mean to tease," she assured the hen. "Though, you have to admit, it is a funny story."

Mistress hopped off Lady Selene's lap as if she’d been insulted. She shook out her feathers and strutted away.

"You've gone and done it now, my lady," I teased.

She huffed, brushing feathers off of her skirts. I stood and offered her a hand to help her to her feet.

Accepting, she said, "A lady of her position should be able to take some harmless teasing."

I grinned.

Once Lady Selene was on her feet, Mathieu scrambled to follow our lead. We began to make our way back to the house.

"Please remind me to write to the groundskeeper, Brigid," Lady Selene said. "I'd like to request a chicken coop for the estate."

"Of course, my lady. Caught your fancy, have they?" I asked, knowing the answer.

"There's an endearing quality to them," she admitted. It was clear to me she'd fallen in love with the creatures.

"I'll see that it's done."

Taking hold of Lady Selene's arm, I halted our progress before we reached the house.

"Mathieu, please go ahead of us and have a fresh pot of tea made." My request was a politely phrased order and Mathieu, thankfully, took it as such despite my lack of authority over him. He made a hasty retreat.

As soon as the door closed, Lady Selene took my hand in hers. Her expression softened.

"I'm sorry I worried you, Brigid. You were up quite late last night. I didn't want to disturb your rest."

"Waking up to you is hardly a disturbance." The words were out of my mouth before I realized what I was saying. I blushed furiously but refused to take it back.

Lady Selene smiled, lifting a hand to my red hot cheek.

"I'll keep that in mind," she said.

I nodded, looking around for a change in subject. My eyes landed on a small, white feather caught in Lady Selene's dark hair. I plucked it and held it up for her inspection. She gaped for a moment before laughing.

"I must look a right mess after playing with those chickens."

I caught her hand before she could start combing her fingers through her hair to look for more. She flustered, hating the idea of being disheveled for even a moment longer. Bowing my head, I brushed a kiss across her knuckles.

"That was the only one, my lady," I assured her. "No need to worry."

Lady Selene relaxed.

"Of course not. I need not ever worry when I'm with you."

Glancing up, I was caught by her beatific smile. I knew I must have looked like a lovestruck fool as I gazed back at her, but there was nothing I could have done about it. My lady, Selene, was often more lovely than I could bear.

I turned, afraid of what I might do if we were alone for even another instant. "We better get back before the tea gets cold."

Lady Selene went along with my gentle tugging, smiling all the while.

#genby writes #at my lady's service #wlw romance #femslash friday #i am incredibly tired and it is technically saturday for me but it's still friday in california so i'm counting this as on time

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gamerwoo · 4 months

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Hi, I’m the anon who write the long ask. I see you liked my long ask last time so I just want you to know that I am that anon again 😁 I can just go by this emoji (🍁) from now on so I don’t have to introduce myself over and over again. If that’s okay?

It’s been a long time that I could check your blog so I see a lot happened. I hope you’re good and had a great christmas.

So coming to the stories 👀👀

Age-restricted first always.

I liked that we did see the first interactions of the friend groups with each other not the later time. It was sweet and chaotic at the same time 😂

Also, the part about talking about whether these feelings are love or infatuation... It's a conversation you can only have with people who really understand you and/or try to understand you. I was very happy that the main character resolved this by talking to the people around her rather than trying to solve it by herself while drowning in thoughts.

And the later the first time. From talking to each other about their concerns, to their conversations and thoughts in between were in line with their characters.

Thats all I can say. Waiting for the last parts of the story and any possible oneshots👀👀 ( no pressure tho I know everything and everyone has their own pace)

Also I just want to confess that I am in love with Minho in this story. This tsundere personality. I can literally see the mimics that he can make.

March Sadness

Firstly thank you for the answers on my latest ask.

Moving to last part. Does the end means we can get another march sadness again?? I’m in. Cause it would be a pure fun and chaos all of them knowing and trying to make each other lose.

Have a wonderful day. Bye~

hiiiii!!! welcome back!!!! just so you know, that emoji is taken! i have a list of what anon emojis are already in use here if you'd like to pick a new one (there's only a few that are taken rn)

my christmas was good, i hope your holiday was good as well!!

you don't understand how excited i was to have the friend groups all together because i knew it would be so awkward at first bc all of reader's friends know who hyunjin and his friends are lmao. but yes, reader is growing and is trying to sort things out with other people instead of on her own. navigating being in love for the first time is scary so it's good to have good friends around who can help and won't just meddle, y'know? and all of the friends want the best for hyunjin and reader <3 also that smut scene is probably the most fun i've had writing smut in a looooooong time. it's usually such a chore but idk focusing on their feelings rather than the actual smut part really helped lmao

don't worry, there will be age-restricted oneshots. i already have a few in mind but obvs will take requests for them when requests open back up

as for march sadness, i did leave the end open to a possible season 2 lmao i thought it might be funny having everyone in on it this time so then it's even more embarrassing when they lose. idk what i'd have on the line though to motivate them to stay out of trouble

thank you for the ask btw!! i do like the long ones as it gives me a lot to read and think about, so i'm glad you take the time to ask question and share your thoughts, it means a lot to me!!! 💛💛

#anonymous

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chriswaddell · 5 months

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BLOG 7 - November 27, 2023: “BRIDGE”

This could, perhaps, be the most important note I’ve written.

Suicide isn’t what I thought it was. I hope people start to understand it more. Understand that it’s not some crazy person who’ve reached their wit’s end and has nowhere else to turn… so they decide to end it. Hell, even suicide prevention specialists tell you to reach out and talk to someone. But in my recent experience, my only experience ever with these types of issues, that’s not what’s going on.

Is this a suicide letter? One that I hope someone might find years after I’ve left the earth? I don’t know. But I do know how I feel and how I would like to better help people understand the non-end-of-the-world sense of this feeling.

If I were to take my own life today, I wonder what people would think? Thoughts about how unhappy I was or if my mental state was in what they deem a “positive place.” Maybe more selfish thoughts from them… “what did I do wrong?” “How could I have done something different?” Or the selfish thought that my suicide is somehow selfish itself. I mean, if we’re not entitled to leave the world how we choose, what freedoms do we really have?

My own death isn’t caused by anybody, it’s because I’m tired. Pay attention to that word, because it’s easy to make your own assumptions about what “tired” could mean. I’m not depressed, at least I don’t think I am. I’m not sure what that would feel like. I’m not tired of someone’s shit not have I been pushed in a direction of thought. No, instead, I’m just tired. Tired of fighting one day after another to make ends meet. Tired of consistently thinking about those departed. Tired of worrying about what everyone thinks about me. I’m tired of trying so hard every day to be positive and one backwards comment from someone can have me in my head for days.

Suicide isn’t a cheap or easy way out. I miss my grandma, my dad, Logan and Milo. I’ll never see them again, but I can imagine someone thinking “oh, but he did this, so I guess he won’t miss me.” That’s fair, except I won’t have to deal with it. Is that cheap or easy? Maybe. But maybe I feel like I’m owed some gratitude. The gratitude of people letting go of something I would do for myself and only myself.

People will be quick to assume that any problem I have can be simply fixed and shouldn’t have led to what could or would be inevitable. My washer doesn’t work, I’m broke and the bills continue to pile up, I live a life where I believe the only way anybody likes me is if I’m doing for them, I’m losing my memory at a rapid pace and it scares the hell out of me. I worry about losing my mom, who I often feel is the only person who doesn’t expect anything out of me.

Sometimes I think the only reason I keep going now, doing this thing we call “living,” is to try to help those I love. And honestly, the list of people I feel love for is shorter than it ever has been. I want to be there for my mom as she ages and can’t take care of herself. I want to be there for Canaan and help them anyway I can to achieve their ultimate goals of making it in the film industry. I want to be there for my friends to continue to give them a platform to live out their dreams and possibly make a big splash in the wrestling industry. I want to run this wrestling company to continue to afford an opportunity to people who otherwise wouldn’t get one. I want to never put my dogs in a position to have to wonder where I went.

So, my life now is like a bridge. These feelings I have and have had… are they potholes in my journey across troubled waters or am I reaching my destination and these feelings are the land I sink my feet into permanently?

Don’t worry, I’ll continue this in part 2 sometime down my road. 🖤

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bokuaosubs · 9 months

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Nice to meet you, I am Ito Yuzu. (Ito Yuzu 1st blog)

Everyone, it’s nice to meet you!

Thank you for taking a look at my blog (՞ ܸ.ˬ.ܸ՞)”

Part of the group Boku ga Mitakatta Aozora, Chiba-born and 21-years-old. I am Ito Yuzu!

At last!

We’ve finally started our blogs~!

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Firstly, I would like to introduce myself!

⚪ Date of birth:

11th of August, 2001.

I’m born on a pretty obscure holiday, Yama no Hi [Mountain Day]!

⚪ Blood type:

Type AB.

⚪ Height:

170cm.

I am often told that I am taller than people might’ve thought, whenever I come close to them!

⚪ Personality:

My pace.

I’m pretty dazed, and I’m slow when it comes to things like walking or eating. I like going out by myself and can go anywhere on my own, and I partake in activities such as shopping, watching movies or doing karaoke!

⚪ Special skills:

Volleyball and calligraphy.

I played volleyball while in junior and senior high school, and I stood in the position of center! [a player who is positioned between the two sets of players, near the middle of the court, responsible for passing the ball to their teammates and blocking opponents from getting past them]

⚪ Things that I like:

Clothes and cosmetics.

I have loved clothes ever since I was a child and I am now studying fashion at university. In the final screening, I showed up wearing a jacket I had made in class!

I also like looking into new and trendy cosmetics, and recently, I’ve really been enjoying talking about such things with hair and make-up artists!

I also like watching anime!

Recently I’ve been watching Oshi no Ko!

But I watch quite a lot of anime while skimming through it, so I have trouble remembering the names of the characters、、、

⚪ Favourite food:

Fruit and sushi!

I like all kinds of fruit, I eat it everyday!

When it comes to sushi, I always order engawa and salmon!

Whenever I go out to eat by myself, I’m always on the lookout for sushi restaurants!

⚪ My boom [things that have become a habit/trendy to her in particular]

I collect postcards,

I keep a household account book,

I also use apps meant to help with studying English.

Firstly, I like going to museums and exhibitions centered around certain people or characters, and I often buy postcards on my way home!

On the other hand, I forgot to cancel the free trial for the English study app I tried, and I ended up paying for an entire year’s worth.

I wasn’t going to continue practicing, but otherwise, it would have been a waste, so now I use it everyday、、、、（ ; ; ）

⚪ Favourite colour:

Blue.

I’m happy because our group’s colour is blue, too!

⚪ Favourite season:

Summer.

I like it because so many events that I like take place then, you get to see fireworks and take part in festivals ☺

⚪ Favourite type of music:

J-POP!

I mostly listen to idol songs, pretty much, so I always sing such songs when doing karaoke!

I also like Japanese rock music and have been to a few festivals!

⚪ My charmpoint:

My small hands!

While I am on the taller side, my hands are rather small!

[Through this,] Did you get to know me, at least a little bit~??

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Finally, I’ll tell you why I decided to take this audition!

Three years ago, I fell in love with idols and, the more I supported them, the more I felt a strong desire to stand on the same stage as them.

However, at the time, I was around 19-years-old and I thought I was too old to become an idol.

In my third year of university, I auditioned for an idol group I liked.

I was lucky enough to be able to audition for a group I was fond of, but in the end, I was rejected.

After that, I gave up on the dream of becoming an idol and I started job-hunting.

At the end of last year, however, I was able to see my favourite idols live for the first time at a festival, and I was so moved by the fact that the people I had always loved were right in front of me. I found myself wishing I could have stood on stage and performed like them, so much so, that I couldn’t stop crying during the overture and the first few songs.

At that moment, I realized how certain I was that I wanted to become an idol.

Later on, I found out that an audition for an official rival was going to be held, and I knew I would regret not taking part, so I joined the audition.

Given how I have been supported by my idols during difficult times,

I also want to be someone who can support many people’s hearts and minds.

And, I really want to do my best from now on, so that people will think ‘I’m glad I’m supporting you!’. I will do my best to be worthy of hearing those words.

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Here’s a photo of myself, before I became part of BokuAo!

I’m not very good at saying the things I want to say, but I’m going to try my best to communicate my feelings well, through my [written] words!

Thank you for reading all the way to the end! I would be happy if you could support me from now on ( ∩¨∩ )♡

I’ll be seeing you soon~ \( ¨̮ )/

Ito Yuzu

[TL by: yuzuiro]

#blogs #1st blog #ito yuzu #tl by yuzuiro

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