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randomfoggytiger · 5 months

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"Let people send you an emoji of their choice and you’ll reply with telling them your favorite fic that they have written"

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Hit me with your best shot. The ego has landed.

Thank you for dropping in~. And hope this gives your ego a boost. ;)))

Okay, this will be long, too; so, I'm going to include a "below the cut" section-- how the tables have turned.

Specific Fics

Picking my tip-top from my collection of your links, I have to select BATB as well as X-Files-- can't leave it behind.

Light Don't Sleep: Gorgeous. I know I'm prejudiced as a S8 viewer (though it's a love-hate relationship, but still...) and I know your canon ends at Requiem; but WOW, wow wow wow. I love every aspect of this piece: slowly coming back together, Mulder warming to his new role, opening up about some abduction memories as well as his grandparents and the nightlight, "I'll be here" and then ditching to the living room and turning on his thinking music, just... just so many things. I adore it, have reread it, will continue to reread it into infinity.

Anchored/Anchored: Gorgeous piece of work. This moment between them is beautifully done: not overly saccharine or morose, weighted and realistic and true. It's so good I'm going to do a reread after I finish this ask. ;)))

Quonochontaug/tumblr: One of my favorite niches is Mulder (and Scully) spending time at Teena's house-- and this is the toppest of tiers. His memories and the resolution and the waitress... it tugs at my heartstrings in a "cleanse away the bitter" way.

The Sticking Place and The Possibility of Being: I won't even attempt to separate these two because they are inseparable. These stories are incredible to me, not only because you write the characters to a T and build a railroad on top of the tracks S3 laid down, but also because-- for lack of a better word-- I got to see you in your work. Having read hundreds, thousands of fics, it became a point of interest to shave away the fandom and get to the voice of the author. I read your x-files fics first (and I treasure them, of course); but it wasn't until I started reading The Sticking Place that I realized THIS is amplifyme-- it clicked together all your turns of phrases and your MSR angles and the twists and turns you took in your x-files fics. I can't describe it any other way than when I turn back the clock and read some of my older (offline) fandom work: you click into that world, that place. You belong there. And no wonder-- that was your fandom before The X-Files even existed. It's a piece of you I'm honored to have seen.

Singular Moments that Stand Out in My Mind

Whenever I think of your work, these moments immediately pop up:

Mulder and Scully dancing under the lights until she's triggered in an abduction flashback.

Mulder laminating and keeping Scully's DOD number.

Scully and Mulder celebrating New Years on a stakeout, S8 not included~.

Mulder telling Scully he hid her cure in his Jersey Devil scar.

Post Redux II Scully being the glue that keeps Mulder from shattering about Samantha.

Maggie made Mulder pie and Scully is almost jealous about it.

Vincent confronting the shooter in The Sticking Place, Father and the community hailing Vincent a hero (to his anguish), and Cullen thinking differently.

Diana and Father's conversations, Vincent and Father's conversations: there are too many masterful moments to name one.

Your descriptions of Vincent's rich internal world mapping onto the world Below and Above.

And I'm not joking when I mean the below:

Every. single. thing. about Light Don't Sleep (but particularly the details mentioned above, as well as the head-to-toe cradling, and these lines: "I believe you," he said. "I just want to know that everything is going to be all right. I need to know that."/She pulled his hand up and kissed the knuckles. "It'll be as right as we can make it. And I think we've got a very good start." She held his hand to her cheek and blinked against the tears gathering in her eyes. His vulnerability could rip her heart out faster than anything else. She felt his chest swell against her back as he took in a deep breath./"Ah, Scully," he murmured, his voice thick with emotion. "We got our miracle, didn't we?")

Every. single. thing. about The Possibility of Being: this is one of those fics that is perfect for a reread; and, if one doesn't have the time, then for imperative, selective rereading. I shall be doing both countless times.

A Farewell

Again, thanks for dropping in! And I hope this satisfied~. :DDDD

#asks #amplifyme #ask game #fics #txf #BATB #Beauty and the Beast 1987 #xfiles #x-files #the x files #xf fanfics #this was fun to write #appreciate the opportunity to give back to fic writers

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deeranddragons · 6 months

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For the art ask: 4, 14, 17!

4. What defines your artistic style?

I feel like my art style has changed a lot, especially over the past year- I’ve been experimenting a lot with face shapes and shading and stylizing things. One thing I’ve been unable to shake is my commitment to (arguably) unnecessary detail. Ifeel like Abel’s armour is a prime example of this 🫣

And of course, something that I’ve been doing for basically as long as I’ve been drawing seriously is adding a little cowlick to the back of peoples heads. It’s how I start drawing basically every hairstyle!

14. What do you like drawing the most?

This is a callout post for myself, but I just love drawing characters with narrow faces and at least partially shaved heads. A lot of it is familiarity- the main ocs I draw (Kal, Korin, Kent) all started off as self inserts that turned into their own people with WILDLY different personalities, but they still look a lot like me, as a relic from that past. Sometimes I think of changing their designs bc it feels like it’s confusing, and also it’s a little strange having someone wearing your face doing terrible things for the sake of the Plot, and/or kissing other characters, but the ability to use my own face as reference is too appealing to let go. I’m attached to their designs now!

17. What would you absolutely refuse to draw?

I feel like there’s two answers to this question: there’s a number of things I wouldn’t let people pay me to draw, just because I’m not confident enough in my ability to do it justice. Complicated mechas, vehicles, and any hyperrealistic portraits fall under this.

That being said, if I was just doing it for fun, and wanted to draw something badly enough, I am filled with enough hubris to at least attempt just about anything. I’m straight up teaching myself how to paint metal, which wants me to throw my tablet through a window, so that I can do Abel better justice when I draw him! I spend a lot of time making my life more difficult for the sake of Artistic Vision. Art school really cultivated that attitude, because it forced me to draw a lot of things I never had before, so trying new things doesn’t seem so insurmountable anymore- and it gave me a great foundation of skills that makes it way easier to approach new or difficult subjects.

Ask game here!

#deer chatters #not art #the last question was especially interesting to think about #ask game

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