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Hi! I'm a huge fan of Tiger Tiger, and I've been following it since about page 30. I'm really fascinated by Luck, but I'm curious — is Luck she/her or they/them? Or something else? I've seen conflicting clues over the years, and I'm mega curious about what kinda representation is there.
I use she/they of Luck, and characters in the comic have referred to Luck as she/he!
it’s also something I’m really looking forward for characters to discuss in the comic itself huahuheuha
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So who's your favorite She-Ra character? (Mine is Catra 😻) Favorite moments? Anything you wanna rant about? I eat that shit up.
first question answered here (mine is Catra too!!!), second question answered here, aaaaand lemme think. anything i wanna rant about
OH yes I wanna mention how absolutely BLESSED I felt by the fact that all my ships became either canon or strongly implied canon, I became VERY invested especially in Catradora, Entrapdak and Scorfuma, so I felt like I’d been touched by divine forces when not only did all of the characters involved survive, the first ship became explicitly canonized and the two second ones were very clearly set up to happen sometime in the future, it was amazing
especially with Scorfuma because their development happened relatively late in the series and wasn’t initially plot relevant, so I started shipping them after they’d had like ... 1 small positive conversation and then suddenly their relationship became plot important and I was like hELL YEA
since the beginning of the show, I wanted Scorpia to get a gf who would love and appreciate her, and boy did she!!!! it was such a great direction for her development to go, and so uplifting to watch!
I haven’t been much of a shipper since my teens, but this show reignited a need within me to see cartoon characters hold hands and giv little kis, and for that I am thankful
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hi!!! i've been reading this comic since it was first released back in september and it totally makes my sunday nights! I always look forward to it and almost always read new episodes within minutes of them being released. it's such a great story and your art style is very beautiful (i love that i've seen it get even better as the months passed) and I adore all the characters, particularly Theuden. I'm really excited to see what happens next, and this new villain looks really exciting! :D
omg! :))) thank you so much! im so happy you enjoy it, i cant wait to show you even more! season 2 is already shaping up to be BUCKWILD!
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y'all you've done it again with this good omens fic. i'm hooked. i literally....i stg you have a muse living in your head and i'm dead mad about it. good mad, but absolutely infuriated. i loved every second of it, and you've done a marvelous job encapsulating the tone and style of the book.
djdjjdfhv I think it’s less of a Muse and more of a Yelling Goblin but thank you!! I’m glad you like it (it’s nice to see I can appease at least One patiently waiting old SLAOS fan with a newer fic lol).
A lot of my writing style has been influenced by how much Terry Pratchet (and to a lesser but still important extent Neil Gaiman) I read as a child, so it’s been super cool to be able to dive back into their styles and try and embody them while also utilizing my own style. Terry Pratchet and Neil Gaiman both have a playful wordiness and penchant for long tangents I’ve always really loved.
#thank!! you!!#and thank you for sticking with my writing even when i stopped writing for voltron lol#sweet things#Of the Dead and the Wicked talk#hm we need an abbreviation thats catchy like slaos....uh....otDatW?#it doesnt have the same ring to it does it#nothing will ever be quite as catchy as slaos was lol#asks#markedpatches#questions for Nik
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What was Jeremiah like as a kid? Same with his siblings. (Also, what are the names of the characters who are played by Pocahontas, John Rolfe, and Belle?)
Jeremiah was good boy!! The best boy! So polite! So smart! Never misbehaved! Pure cinnamon roll!! (*w*) (BELOW: Jeremiah, 4)
His siblings’ names are Celine and Byron, and I have been calling his fiancé Laura-Louise lately. ;)
Jeremiah is actually a villain villain in most of the alternative versions of himself. No more good boy!! D,X
Celine tends to either be dead, not present, or morally grey. (TT__TT) And god knows what the heck Byron is up to most of the time. :P
My TB tag!
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Good luck on your book! I'm writing one too, and since I started school in the middle of August I've gotten about two and a half chapters done. (My outline is also pretty...flimsy lol. Like I have no idea what the ending is and every scene I thought I had planned completely changes once I've written it so I have no control here). It's really awesome that you're getting there though. I can't wait to read it some day!
!!!!! Thank you! That sounds great!! Yeah I started school at the same time, I’ve written bits and pieces but kind of struggled to actually write until this month. That was the problem I had, too. What I did instead was just figure out the major stuff I needed for the story to flow (like, the ending, the midpoint, etc. or at least the general direction the story seemed to be going in + character shit) and then I write out the actual scene and outline chapter-by-chapter as I go. I know a couple of decent youtube videos about similar subjects too if you ever want? (Sorry I’m just an absolute nerd for story structure and mechanics and shit. Because even if I’m not a die-hard plot person I’m in love with the process and language of storytelling as much as the stories themselves.)
Can’t wait to read your stuff too if you decide to put it out!!
#markedpatches#lmao sorry i can go on about writing stuff#ask anyone who talks to me on a daily basis#but i'm excited for you!!!#good luck right back!!
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so would someone use asere the same way someone uses bro? Like, "what's up, asere" or something like that? Also, would you put hermana or hermano in front of your siblings names when talking about them to someone outside your family?
We do use asere like that, but I don’t think it sounds right in front of “What’s up” in English. I’m just so used to hearing “Que bola, asere?” and in Miami, even gringos know what it means because it’s such a standard greeting. Other than that, I think it’s pretty interchangeable with “bro.” I think it sounds most natural if you use it as a break in an English sentence. For example, “Asere. Listen.”
And we refer to siblings as mi hermana Jessica or tu hermano Matt. If you don’t put mi/tu/su in front of it, it sounds like you’re talking about a nun/priest.
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Tag, I’m It!
HAHA WHOOPS I was tagged in this ages ago and totally forgot to do it so here we go. I was tagged by the ever fantastic @bibilittlebutterfly
Name: AJ
Nickname: My sister calls me jellybean and my friend calls me Jewels when he likes to piss me off.
Gender: lol idfk I’m comfortable with any pronouns?
Star Sign: taurus
Height: 5 foot 7
Sexual Orientation: Either pan or bi idfk honestly
Hogwarts House: Okay see here’s the thing, I actually don’t know. I’ve taken about six-eight tests and they came out about even between Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. And honestly I love them both I can’t decide. I guess I’ll go with Hufflepuff since that was my first house and once you’re sorted you can’t go back. Also all my merch is Hufflepuff.
Favorite Color: Yellow. Specifically gold.
Favorite Animal: It’s between elephants and red-eyed tree frogs.
Time Right Now: 1:51 am (that’s not even late for me *sigh*)
Cat or Dog Person: Cats for sure. I adore dogs, but the kind of adore where I like going to other people’s houses and playing with their dogs and then going home to my easy-to-take-care-of cat because I am Lazy.
Favorite Fictional Character: *sweats* It depends on when you ask me. Right now? Probably Lance from Voltron.
Number of Blankets I Sleep With: One. Big ol comforter. No matter the temperature.
Favorite Singer/Band: I’ve loved many bands in my day but Fall Out Boy will always trump them all.
Dream Trip: SPAIN. All I want out of life is to go to Spain.
Dream Job: I want to be an author, but I also kinda want to be an interpreter for sign language. As far as my dream though that’s definitely author.
When Blog Was Created: Oh fuck me I don’t know. Recently. I have a much older one that’s basically identical on another account but it’s a side blog and I wanted it to be my main blog so here I am. Whooooops.
Current Number of Followers: Twelve. But I had over a hundred on the other one. That was hard to let go.
Why Did You Make This tumblr: Do you want me to say it again? Cause I don’t feel like it.
Why Did You Pick Your URL: *deep breath* Okay, so I have two OCs named Marcus and Jay. Marcus calls Jay Patch as a nickname because he wears an eyepatch. And they’re super fucking gay for each other so I made markedpatches the username because I love them. It used to be windymarkedpatches because I had another character whose nickname was Windy but then when I added ANOTHER character whose nickname was Teacup (Marcus is a whore for nicknames, he thinks he’s funny. Also I wrote that when I was 15) and markedpatcheswindyteacups became the new URL and honestly that was long and convoluted (like this explanation) and Teagan eventually was cut so it became markedwindypatches but eventually I was like ‘nah fuck it’ and cut it even shorter to maximize the gay.
Once again I ain’t gonna tag anybody so if this looks fun for you you can say I tagged you, I’ll totally vouch for you.
#me#i'm trying to procrastinate my homework#blessed be this post#it's also why i spent about five-ten minutes making all the questions bold#Proper Title Capitalization Is My Kink
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OKAY now that I got a sec I also found - "He’s always read in stories that when people die they look at peace, like they’re sleeping, but Lance can’t find anything peaceful about this." in 3 and of course "Lance Alexander Rafael McClain is born in the middle of a summer storm, thunder cracking and rain slamming onto the roof of an old ramshackle house that had seen more than its fair share of children" I've also always been very attached to "He grows up learning the art of femininity." both in 1
HI SORRY I DIDN’T GET TO THESE SOONER FINALS ARE ACTIVELY MURDERING ME BUT THESE ARE GREAT SUGGESTIONS THANK YOU
#i'm def including 'never love never' bc that is The Classic#and these are some Extremely good options as well#thank u for ur help it is deeply appreciated#also rereading it and getting emotional is a Mood that's why i got other people to do it lol#bc i knew if i went back through it i'd be like 'why the fuck havent i gotten on top of finishing this i love this story'#SLAOS talk#markedpatches#asks#questions for Nik
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"So he takes the memory of what it means to be Loraine’s little Loo-Loo, and buries it with his old clothes." aaaand "She’s odd edges and quick thoughts and quiet precision against a backdrop of people who live in a world of empty beaches and dirt-dusted pathways, running away to the city in search of a nameless something she could just taste on the tip of her tongue." Chapter 4
Oh!! Those are good lines!! Thank you for the suggestions.
#honestly i have no idea if i wrote that chapter while i was at Uni#but hey i updates SLAOS while i was there so i guess it counts lol#and those are good lines. which is a miracle given i wrote them#thank u for ur help bless you#SLAOS talk#markedpatches#asks#questions for Nik
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ack!! i missed it!!! happy birthday!!!!
Thank you!!!!!
#i mean i did my friend party yesterday and my parents came up to celebrate today so technically today's like#my Extended birthday#so you didn't Really miss it lol#but regardless thank you!!#markedpatches#asks#questions for Nik
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Hi! I noticed you said your character designs were outdated now and I was wondering if you'd elaborate? I'm just really curious about them haha. Also, that got me wondering - if you'd known that Frey was going to be a girl when you began the Crossover series, which character would you have chosen to represent her? Or would you have still gone with Jim?
The edits were made in 2017 and were based on concept art, but the official designs were finalized now in 2018 so there are bound to be differences. And since you are so sweet I’m gonna share this piece of art so that y’all can see the sense of the characters’ final designs. (^_^)
Art by Sandflakedraws, 2018
NOTE: Please excuse the low quality and overlay. This drawing is part of a Kickstarter reward which is why I cannot share a clean/HD version. A colored version is available on TB’s Patreon, but it will pop up on the Tumblr blog later this year. :)
As for the crossover’s casting: Hmmm… I’m not quite sure. There aren’t that many teenage girls in animated movies that fit the criteria (resembles Anya and Sinbad, has a lot of screen time, fitting poses/expressions, etc). One solution could have been if I had made her younger and gone with Jane. Or I could have made her older and used Kayley. Or I could still have used Jim and insisted that he was a girl. Frey is pretty androgynous to begin with so it could have worked.
PS: She may not look like it, but Frey loooves pretty dresses, beauty and feminine things in general. If her lifestyle/social status had been different then she would be embracing all of these things to her hearts content.
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4) favorite character you’ve written
Uhhhh. Hm. Hard choice.
I’ll scratch out characters from my original work to make it easier lol.
Probably Mavis or Remnant? Though in very different ways. Mavis was a character I spontaneously fell in love with as she evolved as I wrote SLAOS, and slowly became one of my favorite voices in the story. Remnant was one of the most thought out pieces of Not As Simple -- I slaved over their design, their voice...their initial scenes were pretty much the only ones in that story I’ve ever completely rewritten. I wanted so much to get them right.
6) something you would go back and change in your writing that it’s too late/complicated to change now
Hm. I’d probably go back and rework the first few chapters of SLAOS to be more in line with the current direction of the story, and to give Loraine a more active role. She was never intended to be just the “fridged” character of the story at all, and I’d have loved to give her an expanded role while she was still alive to make that clear. She is the heart of SLAOS.
I’d also probably revise certain sections of Act 1 of Not As Simple. Make it a bit longer and more in-depth. The sections talking about Integrity’s abuse in particular I look back on and frown, as they’re rather blunt and crude, and not the more nuanced approach I’d probably try to take with writing about child abuse now. Though I try to give myself a little wiggle room given it was three years ago, and I can definitely see my improvement in the progression of the story.
16) are there any characters who haunt you?
Loraine lol. SLAOS was initially intended to be a much shorter project when I started it, which is a large part of why Loraine dies so early in the story. It wasn’t meant to be that early at all. Now that it’s grown this much, and has that much further to go, I look back on her and go “damn. I really wasted you didn’t I?”
18) were there any works you read that affected you so much that it influenced your writing style? what were they?
A Nail Through A Star is a huge one, I won’t lie, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone no matter their familiarity level with the source piece (Warning though. It’s not a nice fic). And this is going back many years, but I can’t deny Que Sera, Sera had a resounding influence on me as a young writer. It very much influenced how I approached Not As Simple several years later in terms of timeline bullshit.
In terms of not fanfic lol...Jurassic Park, definitely, and The Hunger Games, which is what got me interested in writing in present tense back in the day. As a very young child, Percy Jackson and The Companions Quartet very much influenced my early forays into writing.
Right now, though? Definitely Kelly Link’s work. Particularly her “Get In Trouble” short story collection. She gave me the spark for the magical realism short story writing renaissance I was enjoying over the summer.
22) are there any subjects that make you uncomfortable to write?
Uhhh...Abuse doesn’t make me uncomfortable to write about, since I’ve obviously dove into it in several fics, but I am cautious about approaching it. It can be such a sensitive topic, and unless I’m writing based on something related to my own personal experiences (which, for example, is pretty impossible when writing about child abuse for me), I like to think it out and make sure I’m not being overly crude or offensive.
Writing sex scenes is definitely something I haven’t wrapped my head around yet lol. I’ve discussed sex scenes for Three Crowns in brief with Katie, but in terms of actually sitting down and writing one for one of my stories, I kind of start to sweat. Not my area, really.
25) copy/paste a few sentences or a short paragraph that you’re particularly proud of
Ooooh...I think I’ll have some fun with this one, esp since I was talking about writing chronologically vs. nonchronologically in the last ask.
Here’s a bit from one of my favorite scenes in SLAOS, so much so that I wrote part of it already, despite it being more than a few chapters off:
#ask meme#thank you!!#sorry i took so long as you can see i took my time with this one lol#markedpatches#asks#questions for Nik
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He chokes out a pained laugh, glancing up at the edge of his sister’s face resting against the rock ground, a mess of displaced dark hair covering the rest of it. “L-Loraine. Loraine! Wake up, we made it!” We made it, we’re alive, thrums in his chest, heart racing. Lance is pretty sure it’s not supposed to be beating that fast, but he’ll take fast over not beating at all any day. He blinks when Loraine doesn’t respond, shifting a hand to gently shake her shoulder. “Loraine?” Nothing.
Fanfic DVD Commentary:
Now THIS. This is a scene I can talk about.
This is one of the first scenes I had “laid out” for SLAOS. I write almost exclusively chronologically, as I generally find it forces the narrative and writing style to be more consistence & concise, but I also often have Specifically Thought Out Scenes I’m working towards. This is one of them.
Loraine and Lance’s relationship, and Loraine’s death, was pretty much the main original building block for the story of SLAOS -- a lot that became significant after that (Mavis’s relationship to Lance, Ritzie & Yuu’s existence, Hunk’s complicated home situation), was a spontaneous addition while I was writing. The very first “draft” of SLAOS, in fact, was only planned to be six chapters long! This was supposed to be the midway point through the story! (Hence why Loraine’s death seems to come so early in the narrative now, it originally wasn’t ‘early’, it was quite a ways into the story).
In this scene, in particular, I was mainly dealing with trying to bring a sense of foreboding, something the reader has likely become aware of that Lance -- a literal child in one of the most traumatizing situations of his life -- has not yet. I wanted what would be most graphic and horrifying in this situation not to be the physical state of Loraine’s body or the moment of her death, but the aftermath, the emotional trauma & breakdown that Lance experiences the moment he realizes what’s happened. This was the second death I’d ever written -- the first being, ironically, the loss of another sister to a brother in Not As Simple -- and I was specifically looking to experiment by doing the opposite of what I’d done there: rather than a violent, explicit death the narrator was forced to watch and endure, one that had been building as an eventuality for a significant period of time, I wanted Loraine’s death to be quick, unexpected, unnecessary. A bright, wonderful life flickering and stamped out in a moment of truly senseless tragedy. One that her family would never be able to find a source to “blame” for it.
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Did you know they make Pluto a planet again?
Thank you so much for sending me this, really, I’m so happy people remember how much I love space enough to mention this to me (especially since I was very confused as to why there was a message in my inbox)…
….but they didn’t.
There’s a couple of posts going around about the current argument surrounding Pluto’s potential reclassification (an argument that’s actually been on and off since 2014 I believe), but nothing is official. Pluto is still a dwarf planet, as far as I can tell (I did some extra research just to be sure), though there is disagreement surrounding that. Which has been covered a lot lately. Misleadingly so in terms of headlines.
But when the time does come, best believe I will be Screeching. A lot. Most definitely.
Still, thank you
#markedpatches#space#i was sad too#but yeah from what i've seen the linked articles are only talking about the surrounding debate#if you look into it more pluto is still officially classified as a dwarf planet#sadly
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