I’m the chairman of the tortured faggots department or whatever it was that taylor swift said

WolfWren featuring real comments from the fandom. It's okay to have different opinions on fiction, but maybe let's all remember there are actual real life people having to read this shit daily

I need more Boat Boys content in my life

A man can only watch Joels DL so many times before it gets concerning

hi just wanted 2 say a big ol thank you to the locked tomb community <33333 i love chatting with yall so much thanks for bringing light and love and gravitas to my life

Someone's a little in love with Joey, me thinks. I can understand.

me before tsh: i don't know i dont rlly like sequels bc the characters from the og story are barely ever in the spin-offs and i never like the new characters :/

me after tsh: talented brilliant incredible amazing show stopping spectacular--

finally got this thing out after nearly a month hell yeah the agent job is open to all squids and octos and. other fish,

Man.

I need a fucking postit note on my forehead saying 'interact at your own risk' cause like. I fucking suck at talking to people wow.

a stroke of genius

I need you all to know that if we are ever plotting or have ships I literally always want to talk about them,

We need to start gatekeeping taylor swift so bad I’m serious

definitely curious about 2 for Wren

2. What was your original concept for this character? How did playing them change that concept?

RoughROUGH draft Wren was a little more mysterious. They were going to be in disguise a lot, except during performances, with maybe some Oracle archetype thrown in later for flair. They were going to have a much less contentious relationship with Sheyln and Gods - because of vibes, they were also going to cry gold and glow a lot more.

I pivoted towards Wren being more of a wide-eyed and naive, but well-meaning kid that was just all impulse, no thoughts in the updated rough draft. They were also going to be spreading themselves thin helping out at the circus because they were afraid that if they weren't useful, they'd be thrown out (originally they were going to be thrown from the monastery and then ran into trouble with the noble that had been hassling them, so…callback trauma!). To an extent, they still are kind of naive and impulsive, but more in the way of someone exploring the bigger, brighter world for the first time. For example: One of the party members, Chadrum, is a braggart and loves to tell tall tales of his heroism, which Wren ATE up (he was kind of reminiscent of how her mom would talk about her adventures), but once they started living the adventure and seeing the reality next to the "tales of heroism" they have started asking more discerning questions and not trusting information at face value. Wren is also WAY more logical than I had banked on at first. I thought I was gonna hit the ground running with a character that was pure of heart and dumb of ass, but NOooOOOOooo. Wren had to develop logic! Still pure of heart, but damn, Wren has logic'd their way through some stuff way better than I ever expected!

Something that has never changed is Wren's alignment. Which, on their sheet, is "Neutral Impressionable".

:>

bodyguard au (teaser?)

i've been working very hard on this unbound au with my partner in crime mage, which i lovingly dub "bodyguard au"! and i've finally developed everything enough to make a semi-stable relationship chart for everything!

in a nutshell (ao3 tag style), bodyguard au is:

main cast: fern, jax (wren), fresia, though most people directly connected to fern will appear. fern and jax take turns as the pov character!

main relationships: jax/fern, fresia&fern

angst with varying degrees of fluff

horrible mutual pining, but with a twist?

yes, the twist is jax's fake identity, wren

friends to enemies to friends again and finally lovers with the slowest burn to ever exist

fern gets fucked up. jax doesn't know he's fucked up. fresia's past is fucked up. everyone is kinda fucked up.

...how did you fuck up this college au so badly that it literally became (checks notes) an underground spy-esque syndicate au?

as for the plot? oh boy.

fern starts afresh in fallshore city, away from the syndicate his father headed until his death and its mission to bring down cube corp. sure, it's something aros was passionate about enough to build a whole underground syndicate dedicated to that mission, but after being kept safe from the underground world all his life, fern wants to breathe some colour into his life: and that's when he meets wren. wren is… nothing like fern. he's a bubbly social butterfly with a daily workout routine and the smarts to ace his classes. he knows borrian history back to front, can recite every galarian city in alphabetical order in under a minute, and reads historical documents from hisui as a hobby. yet, as fern teases him for never having tried a kalosian croissant and watching crappy unovan action movies and only playing old kantonian fighting games, he realises that he's become best friends with wren. and when fern realises he wants to be more than best friends with wren is when jax, wearing the mask of an all-too-perfect boy named wren, realises his mission to protect fern is harder than it sounds. and i mean, being the son of the founder of a syndicate with a mission to take down a multi-million-dollar company that's been going to extremes to cover up their unethical scientific experimentation sure puts a target on fern's back! but more importantly, jax can't ignore how much it hurts him to keep wearing wren as a mask when he cares for fern far more than he should, too. so what happens when jax fails? when fern is thrown back into the syndicate he'd wanted no part in against his will? when fern learns that wren — his best friend, and the boy he's in love with — had never been real from the beginning?

right. where was i? relationship chart? this was what i wanted to show off from the beginning?

anyway!!! we hope you all enjoy bodyguard au!!!!!

True Slug's Kiss sounds absolutely hilarious XD please i need to know more

Hehehe thank you for asking! This is a silly little AU that's been floating around in the back of my head for years that I finally finished a few days ago. It involves on one of my favorite creatures: the banana slug! Snippet under the cut :D

“I believe he’s been turned into a giant version of something called a banana slug,” Yennefer told him over wine that evening, after having concluded her research. “They live mainly in the wet forests by the coast to the north. Normally, they’re only about six inches long.”

“That’s still unsettlingly large for a slug.”

Yennefer shrugged. “Anyway, it was probably caused by an old magic item he happened across in the ruins, one that had broken over the years to curse anyone who came near it.”

“Do you think you can undo it?”

“I can’t undo it directly. It’s too old. But I do know the cure.”

“What is it?” 

“It’s old, just as the magic is. It’s hardly used nowadays, but it’s effective.”

“Get to the point,” said Jaskier. He thought she looked like she was enjoying this far too much. It was suspicious.

“It’s true love’s kiss.”

From this ask game!

Been watching The Way Home with my sister and mentally lamenting how straight it is the whole time, because why at this stage in life should I have to watch Chyler Leigh have to play a straight woman? And some fucking how when they finally gave us the level of queer content I had been craving I immediately went "for fucks sake."

And it's insane because I was kinda shipping the characters (the mc Kat and her long lost brother's fiance Susanna). Susanna is a boss as bitch and Kat... Kat has heart and is played by Chyler Leigh (I have problems with Kat that most come down to how the writers have her making the same self realisation over and over instead of letting her learn, but anyways). They are driven and they love fiercely, and they play off each other So Fucking Well in a way that is much more deeply interesting than the 2 male love interests Kat has. I mean shit I do still ship them. There is so much juicy stuff to complicate their relationship it's fun trying to think how they'd either resolve it or burn the world down.

It's just the show did it wrong.

It felt inserted.

They got less (sub)textual build up than Korrasami got back when they were dodging censors in America pre marriage equality kids TV. Then the timing was so weird but like there wasn't really a better time than just after they had rescued Kat's brother aka Susanna's fiance and were hiding out in a basement low-key giving their goodbyes because Kat can't take Susanna home with her.

It had this air around it like "oh we're not really gonna be coming back here much after this season so we'll just drop in the fact that Susanna has no interest in men and have them almost kiss because then we'll finally tick that box for main cast queer rep, and oh wouldn't ya know it we're coming up on the end of season 2, sure would be a shame if we didn't get a season 3 to explore this revelation."

Don't get me wrong Chyler Leigh and Watson Rose absolutely have the chemistry for it to have been a powerful scene. It's just the writing wasn't there to back it up.

What is so fucking annoying about it is that this can be construed lowkey as an equality win.

Finally a TV show has reached the point where putting two attractive women who had a common goal on a screen next to each other meant Romance instead of it needing to be two attractive people of opposite genders.

AND We finally have just barely enough media rep for this to read as sucky compared to other options. Yay!