#//reposting bc old one was already technically wrong

[duskofendflame]

ooc; TOA Anniversary Munday!

Celebrating TOA and the people who contribute to make our group what it is.

Repost, don't reblog. Only fill in what you feel comfortable sharing!

Happy anniversary, TOA! Here's to many more years spent together.

tagging: you! :D

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Name: Vergil (Also go by Envy but I want to get used to the fun and totally nonbinary name of Vergil)

Pronouns: she/he/they

Birthday (no year): November 14th

Where are you from? What is your time zone? Iowa, Central time zone babyyyyy

Roleplay experience: About the one year I've spent in TOA teehee

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Got any pets? I have a cat named Blue :D

Favorite time of year: Autumn

Some interests and things you like: Wouldn't you like to know weather boy? (Don't ask about my interests I will never shut up)

Some funfacts & trivia about you: What if a guy was just a little autism boy with a fucked up gender :p

What non-Fire Emblem games do you play? Resident Evil, Xenoblade, Devil May Cry, etc. (I couldn't think of anymore but I know there's more)

Favorite Pokemon type & Pokemon: Dragon! Appletun :softsmile: and also Quagsire, because I love him

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How did you get into Fire Emblem? A friend of mine introduced it to me in 6th grade and like any autistic child I immediately got completely obssessed

What Fire Emblem games have you played? Played myself is just Awakening, Fates, Warriors (pensive), Three Houses, Three Hopes (Never finished), and Engage :D. I just started Blazing Blade (finished Lyn mode, played first chapter of Eliwood mode. This will probably be wrong by tomorrow. I have to see my babygirl.)

First Fire Emblem game: Fates

Favorite Fire Emblem game: Fates (crying). (Could become Blazing once I finish)

Any Fire Emblem crushes? Camilla, because she was my lesbian Awakening. Though pretty much any woman will get me :flushed: Ursula most recently.

If you’ve played the following games, who was your first S support? - Awakening: Chrom - Fates: Jakob- Three Houses: Claude I think - Engage: Alfred (Male Alear)

Favorite Fire Emblem class: Kinshi Knight (birb :))

If you were a Fire Emblem character, what would be your class? Either a Malig Knight or a Kinshi Knight. WEEEEEEEE

If you were a Three Houses character, what would be your affiliation? Black Eagles

If you were an Engage character, which Emblem would you Engage with? Corrin :3

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How did you find TOA? I stalked the twitter for like a year before I finally decided to give it a shot after seeing a wanted list :)

Current TOA muses: Kurthnaga and Corrin (M). Secret third (wouldn't you like to know weather boy?)

Who was your first TOA muse? If you don’t have them anymore, could you see yourself picking them up again? Velouria, maybe if under the right circumstances. It would take a lot to bring her back though.

Have you had any other TOA muses? Morgan (F), Izana, Zephia, Cadros. Anankos (don't look at me)

Do you think you have a type of character you gravitate towards? Dragon and/or inhuman in some sort of way. Or mage boys/girls. Teens with issues as well. What if a guy was emotionally constipated at 15.

What do you believe you enjoy writing the most? Uh. I don't know :pensive:

Favorite TOA-related memory: Kurthnaga/Valter dollhouse married :3

Got any delusions that didn’t see the light of day in TOA that you’d like to share? Points at my unused Yukimura blog. And the Ursula blog I made yesterday that will never get used because I know nothing about elibe FLKSLKJDSJLK

[lovewireds]

been meaning to post my designs for these little guys forever. insane splatoon rambling under cut to explain design choices and lore related things ... read my autism boy

btw this is a repost from our art side blog this was written and drawn like months ago <- minorly rewrote some things tho

thx splatoon users drfreeman & drcoolatta for fueling my splatvrai autism brainrot ... i hate u /J

GORDON

idk how to explain this but Theoretical Physicist is inkling coded . maybe its cuz splatoon species social hierarchy

Native ink color is Orange, but he has Dark Brown tentacle roots.

Uses custom weapons to attach in place of his prosthetic; It works best with Splatlings but can be adjusted to attach other weapons.

If the thing above didn't make it obvious, he's a Splatling main. He switches out depending on his mood though.

sighhhhh technically an Agent... stares at the ceiling...Main character...

His arm loss is like pretty much the same as in-canon but it's with the octarian army shrugs. don't ask me why he doesn't just regenerate it cuz hes a squid thats for me to know and you to find out. (get partially sanitized loser)

Born & Raised in Inkopolis pre-splashtags; He wasn't informed of the switch to Splashtags being expected when participating in most activities around Inkadia.

TOMMY

I forgot why i made him an inkling why did i do that. I think it was bc i didnt wanna make them all octolings but i was wrong srry we all make mistakes /hj I ALREADY REDREW HIM ONCE IM NTO DOING IT AGAINNN

Native ink color is orange-brown.

His hat has an eye guard for sensory reasons; He covers up as much of his skin as possible because he doesn't like the feeling of foreign ink on him.

He isn't a specific weapon main, he just uses any long-range weapon to minimize the possibility of getting ink on himself. If he has enough guarding, he prefers to use N-ZAP '89.

Makes his own gear for sensory reasons as well :) It's legal when ur dad's the G-Man.

Exclusively plays in Turf Wars, Anarchy Battles, etc with friends. He hates playing with people he doesn't know.

Born in Splatsville !! He feels like a Splatsville resident. His occupation is resident I cannot imagine him doing Anything

His dad is that creepy curtain in one of flounder heights windows /j

BENR(E)Y

Octoling bc I wanted him to be sanitized :) Other than the visual part of being sanitized, I thought him being clinically dead fits /hj also lore reasons below

Pre-sanitization, his native ink color was blue.

Great Turf War veteran; He didn't do anything in the war itself, he was just enlisted lol. He was primarily security for the Octarian Domes in the years after the war. Yes, that also means he is over 100 years old.

"Raised" (debatably) in Octo Canyon.

E-liter main (4-star Base + 5-star Scope) and avid squidbagger. He also uses any heavyweight weapons (dynamo, tenta, etc)

Absolutely hates working at Grizzco, he only does Turf Wars and Anarchy Battles. He only works at Grizzco during Big Runs. The type of guy that does X battles.

Professional Anarchy / Ranked / X Battler btw. That's literally 90% of what he does.

Got on Gordon's azz over him not having a Splashtag; i wonder what that parallels.

BUBBY

Genuinely don't have a lot to say about his design. He gives off Splatoon 2 Octoling vibes (showoff /hj) also i wanted to make his hair wispy like it should be.

Native ink color is a light blue-gray gradient.

The drawing doesn't give it credit but I swear those are glasses not goggles .. they're opaque-colored slanted oval glasses !! ^_^ u can interpret them as spiked or just eyelashes, both are right.

oh also the text under bubby says "Is Best" in some splatoon font we downloaded awhile ago . i think it was ripped from splatnet

Blaster main. I don't know how to explain this one but it feels right.

helps with the practical Map props (ie ink rails) and with some weapon gear manufacturing ^_^ tech guy

COOMER

Was going to make him an Octoling for the convenience of making his hair curly but i didn't want to make all of them octolings + i think his personality generally fits Inklings more.

Native ink color is an off white gradient.

Slosher main cuz he likes moving his arms. this makes sense to me. Also is a fan of Splatlings and other Shooters.

i felt ill trying to design coomer without making his eyes two lines with eyelids

War Veteran...Stole some octarian tech and got fucked up super limbs. Cyber Inkling stealing from octos !! [inkadia crowd goes wild] /j

anyways outside of the war™ he's a data researcher. just generally. he does shit with splatfests and eggstra work.

If you splashed him with ink he would stand unmoving. He would not shake it off.

DARNOLD

Ok i'll be honest the Octoling choice is primarily bc Octolings have the afro style & inklings have no textured hair styles (i didnt have the energy to design smth that could work) . His personality fits octoling too though :3

Native ink color is red-orange.

The fucked up guy that makes those drink effects people never use ( i use them ... )

He doesn't participate in Turf Wars or Anarchy Battles, but he works some gigs at Grizzco for extra cash every once in awhile !

the type of guy that goes after flyfish cuz no one else will . god bles !!!

not a lot to say about his design & his place in inkadia , it kinda speak for itself . he just wants to get by and make his drinks in peace . #autism ... he is pretty much exactly the same as his canon self

[d-a-b-s]

Cablepool Fic Recs

There’s a few old fic rec posts floating around, so I’m going to try and give some love to the lesser known stories and some personal comic!verse favs 

Anything by Manic_intent! Plus, they recently reposted most of their works!

My two fav's from the collection above: What Is, Is- A role reversal where Wade is the one coming from the future. Also has some great Domino moments, which is the cherry on top!

Tangled Up In Blue- Where Nate is the crazy merc and Wade's the wanna-be savior so it’s a good time. 

Fractal- Nate Grey/Deadpool So, not technically Cablepool, but still a great story. Nate Grey is sorta Cable's clone?? It's a very confusing timeline for the Summers fam, but this is a fun story with some Cable jealousy at the end.

Motormouth- Wade gets cursed and he can't stop talking. The premise of this is GREAT and so well executed!! 

In Praise of Existence- One my fav short fics, so cute and happy and sweet :,)

You Could Have Just Asked- Wade's bored on Providence so Nate sets up a job for him. Nate is great in this and I love the back and forth between them!

Bluemen- That tumblr, tropey 5 times +1 flower prompt, so you already know it’s gonna be great!

Agrimony- I have a thing for flower fics I guess

Anything by Rallamajoop is great! These are my four favs:

Something Red and Something Blue- Nate proposes!!! What can go wrong? (that’s rehtorical.) 

Inked- Nate wakes up w a tat lmaooo 

Summers'son- A Teen!AU that has everything you could ever want- including multiple endings. It's like a choose your own adventure, but you win every time! 

Wade's typical, ordinary, probably-totally-normal day- Wade has amnesia but it's a quick, fun adventure

You Ought To Give Me Wedding Rings- Nate's black mamba fantasy (it's a thing in the comics that shows your deepest, darkest desire and Wade’s was giving Nate a back massage on a beach). 

Salads and Scrambled Eggs- AHHHH If you can't already tell, I'm a sucker for domesticity 

Lookin For Some Happiness- Wade's healing factor stops working and Nate's there to help him :,)

Human Lawyer!AU: Motion Practice- There are a bunch of pairings in this verse (90% of which idk so don’t let the word count freak you out bc most verses aren’t cablepool), So below are links to the Nate/Wade specific stories. This author is a phenomenal writer and even though most of the main fic has Wade dating someone else, the story is so good I found myself not minding. There's a lot of buildup to Cablepool being endgame and the interactions with Hope leave me a puddle on the floor. 10/10

--------Pre-main story--------------Main story-------------

Post-main story w established relationship:

Christmas shopping---First day of school---Vacation---One Shot---Angsty fic 

Amnesia fill- Set after Nate kicks Wade off Providence. It’s a fix-it fic and the explanation for altering canon’s angst makes me happy bc continuity can really suck.

Wait, You're What Now?!- Anything with Scott Summers (Nate's dad) is gold FR

A Fine And Proper Upbringing- Nate gets turned into a baby lmaooo

When You Kissed Me- 5 times they kissed (warning the end will make you sad but it's the kind of angst that comes w canon cablepool anyway)

#weathervane- Where the cablepool shippers are the citizens of Providence, the text chats are hilarious

The Merc Who's A Mute-  We all know one of Deadpool's biggest assets is his ability to jabber in any situation. He uses it as a tactic to confuse (and annoy), as a way to ensure opponents underestimate his abilities, to mask his insecurities through jokes and long-winded speech patterns, and, lbr, to provide comedic entertain to the readers/viewers. This fic explores what Deadpool would be like if he couldn't hide behind his words and I adore this concept. Ik this is a wip, but the premise is SO intriguing I have to recommend it. 10/10

Hope-Centric Stories (Nate’s adopted daughter, it’s a whole thing)

Sugar & Spice & Everything Nice-

A super cute story of Nate and Wade being Dad's to Hope including some time travel. This is technically a wip BUT it doesn't end on a cliffhanger and things are resolved so I very much recommend reading

Everything Nice part 7- The master post doesn't link to this part and instead redirects to part 6. 

Part 9- Also not included in the master post. 

Styrofoam Pumpkins- Part of Manic_Intent's Cablepool reposting collection! Wade takes care of Hope in the future when she gets separated from Nate and WOW I love it. 

Homeward Bound- Wade and Hope adjust to Nate's second death (Nate dies a lot but seems to pop back up in spite of it. Can anyone stay dead in Marvel??)

... Makes Perfect- Domestic fluff basically

In Winter Fell Rain- Nate and Hope slide through time. Some of the language is a little outdated and not PC despite being a fairly recent fic, but it's so adorable that I still recommend it. Plus there's 2 parts!

Smut (and a lil plot)

It Tickles His Fancy- They tickle each other and it's fucking adorable ok

Dick Pics- Everything about this, damn son

Feeling Small- This is so cute I wanna cry, I love when fics explore Wade's insecurity with his appearance. 

Crazy For Your Touch- Wade's skin is sensitive. idk I just like fics where Wade is taken care of bc he never is in the comics

Helping Hands- The whole premise of this KILLS me

A Little Frantic- Wade gets hit with a drug. Not sure how I feel about the consent here bc it's blurred possible uncomfy, but the last 2 chapters are caring cablepool interactions! DP/Everyone, established open-relationship for Nate/Wade.

Porn Mode- Subby Wade!

Practicing Self-Restraint- Wade owns a lot of panties

Sexy Shenanigans- I love any fic that involves annoying Scott or putting him in uncomfortable situations, esp bc he doesn't like DP hahaha

Procrastination Nation- Comic!Wade is very insecure and I like seeing him try to get over that

Valentine's Day- I'm here for the fluff and cuteness :)

End of The Line- Nate not understanding the concept of phone sex is GREAT (but the racist joke about how Japanese ppl speak English in this fic is not)

[wily-one24]

I hope there's not a question limit per ask lol... Paint it Black: 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 14 and 15 (or as many of those as you feel like answering lol)

Okay, two things.

A. Of *course* there’s no ask limit. I am an attention whore and will talk all day if you encourage me. Ask away!!

B. WTF tumblr? When I reposted that, it was a paragraph basically saying “ask about my fic!”, but now there are NUMBERED QUESTIONS? What? Where was the second half of that post when I came across it in my dash? 

ANSWERS

3. What’s your favourite line of narration?

Oh geez. How the hell am I going to answer that? I have favourite lines per chapter, I have favourite lines per scene! Each part I’m reading at any given moment happens to be my favourite. Every time I reread it, I find something new... and... maybe I suck for saying this... but I think “you’re a fucking genius”, then I get all sad, because I think that was probably one of the last great things I’ll write. I’ve been going downhill ever since... but anyways, to seriously answer your question, I’ll give a few examples... 

 - That face off scene between Regina and Snow, where Snow claims her father was a good man and Regina answers “To you!”, the entire scene is charged and emotional and brings up so much shit between them that was never explored in canon. 

- The flashback of Emma’s tenth birthday (technically collectively, all of the flashbacks, really. They’re angsty as fuck, but so formative in their characterisation that sometimes I forget they’re not actually canon). I have this habit of tearing Emma down to her bare bones and then trying to build her up again. I actually do this with most of my main female characters, and I do apologise for that Buffy, Kaylee, Veronica, Emma, and Alex. You all deserve so much better than me. 

- The scene where Regina is alone in the castle and revisits the old chamber of Leopold’s. It’s hard to read but that is some weird little cathartic release right there. There is some great imagery that I don’t think many people allow Regina when it comes to her healing. Everybody tends to go the “being married to Leopold was a BAD THING” route, without ever really exploring the day to day soul destroying aspect of it. The reality of being the King’s prisoner wife. But giving her the ability and strength to revisit it, so she can finally acknowledge to herself how damaging it was, to close herself off from it both literally and figuratively, and then to be self aware enough to compare that situation to the one she has Emma in. That is empowerment. 

- The parallel scenes of Emma and Henry at the start and the end of the fic. The first being when Henry is so adamant to rescue Emma and curse everyone again just to take them back... and the last where you can see how much indoctrinated he is into the fairy tale land, how much he is drifting from “our world” being the real one, to the fairy tale land being his reality, and how his morality has shifted... but then... he also brings it back by getting vulnerable and shows his concern not just for Emma but for Regina... which also shows great advancement from the child like black/white morality of good vs evil he begins with to an acceptance of a more adult grey-area morality, his willingness to examine the facts and the truth to make up his mind. 

All the minor characters... Nancy (sweet, voiced Nancy), and Miss Edith (poor Miss Edith), Rachel, all the little characters that had such minor parts, but had such great effects in the lives of our main characters. 

Oooh, writing Rumple was fun. I got to write him as nobody really does. As that creepy reptilian imp from the first few flashbacks in S1. Before they really woobified him. The hysteric giggling, maniacal creature who smelled the air and exuded pure malice. It was really enjoyable writing him like that. 

Well, this went terribly off topic... anyway, yes, flashback scenes and confrontation scenes, be they between Snow and Regina, Emma and Regina, Regina and Maleficent, Emma and Snow, Emma and Henry... it’s in emotion that the true power of the fic lives. 

4. What’s your favourite line of dialogue?

oh, this is harder than the first. It would take me ages to reread this fic (and now I most likely am, thanks) to really go through it and cherry pick my favourites. But, if a line has happened to truly hit home and resonate with you as a reader, it most likely did the same for me. I remember quite a few times writing this fic, thinking “holy fuck!” and knowing, just knowing, that it was definitely the line to write. 

5. What part was the hardest to write?

The first two chapters. Up until the pivotal moment where Regina heals Emma, those were difficult to write and definitely difficult to read. I’ve had many readers tell me they were about to give up, bc it was too much torture porn to enjoy, but that moment specifically was a turning point for them because it built up the trust that I could and would reign Regina in beyond the point of no forgiveness or return. 

11. What do you like best about this fic?

I liked writing it. 

It took me to some pretty intense places. Fic writing, for me, has always been a form of therapy. I work through to some pretty intense fucking emotions through the angst of it all. Like, no, I have never been magically transported to a fairy tale land, collared, enslaved, and held against my will for the sake of my family and community’s lives... but if you look deeper in my life at the time, I had just been through a pretty horrific pregnancy that nearly killed me, my spouse and I separated, and I was left ill, recovering, and a single mother of a toddler and infant. I felt like I was being ripped apart from all angles, forced into a live of servitude for the betterment of everyone around me at the cost of myself. Even, though, like Emma, I didn’t blame them, it was still a period of mourning and loss.

I didn’t realise it at the time. This revelation happened years later when rereading the fic and trying to see where all the emotions had been coming from. It happens a lot with some of my more intense, dramatic, and (strangely enough) most popular fics. I don’t always see the correlation to my life at the time, but if I look back I can generally trace the rationality behind what my muse was trying to work through. 

12. What do you like least about this fic?

The polarisation. The controversy. That fucking chapter fucking four. I still cannot reread that chapter without having to take a step back and breathe. That scene has some good imagery, but even now sometimes I just skip it. It’s not worth the shakes or unease or... ugh, just thinking about it upsets me. 

I made a mistake in the tagging and I learned from it, but holy fuck was I attacked at the time and used as a sacrifical cow to the radfems. It was, honestly, surprising to me. Not only the reaction, but the harshness of it, all the accusation and personal attacks aimed at me.  

I mean, I knew the fic was always going to be confronting to some. It dealt with some pretty hard issues and subject matter. I had warned for all the violence and non/dub con. But... I didn’t expect or prepare for the backlash in including a male, even if the male used was... just used... and never actually amounted to anything more than a tool for Regina to control/bind/further entrench Emma to her own will in one scene. 

I, very naively, went into it thinking “surprise!”, and that an almost canon past pairing that was heavily explored in the actual show would not be controversial in the least. More fool me, I suppose. I definitely went back to re-tag it, I apologised. I am not sure what else I could have done, but to this day this fic is held up as an example of queer baiting and everything wrong with false lesbianism. And it is definitely used as an example by biphobic people as to why bisexual women cannot be trusted as we’re all “really straight women at heart”.

To be fair, I never explicitly labelled the fic as “lesbian”. I begin all my fics (no matter how AU or ‘out there’) from a canon stand point. Meaning, everything that happened in the show up to that point counts. Which includes every prior relationship both Emma and Regina had been in up to the Season One finale. Which, surprise, were with men!! 

14. Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?

I don’t know if there’s anything they should ‘learn’, but I definitely hope readers realise that this is in NO WAY AN EXAMPLE OF A HEALTHY BDSM RELATIONSHIP. It is not meant to be a guide, a ‘how to’, or a ‘goal’. This is an incredibly fucked up way for two already fucked up characters, to find some kind of semblance of existence in a world/s stacked up against them from the very start. I didn’t think I needed to state that out loud, but apparently I had to. Many times.  

If not that... then definitely I hope perhaps some of the writing made people think about the characters more in depth, or differently, that it gave the reader a new way of thinking about the show and the storylines/characters in it.  

15. What did you learn from writing this fic?

Tagging. Tagging fucking matters. Tag properly. Like, just do it. 

In all seriousness, though... I think I learned a lot about my own trauma. 

I also think my writing developed throughout the fic. There is a definite shift from the first two chapters... you can definitely see where it became less of a short one off smutty fic set up and more of an in depth angsty character exploration of the soul kinda thing. 

I learned about set up and development and bringing in stray bits of plot development later in the story to tie up loose ends.