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Advanced Writing Techniques: The Importance of Questions in Stories with a Sample Presentation
In this story, wearing my writer, reader, and curator hats, I introduce a powerful technique and show how I do it for my impactful stories, making them helpful and memorable for my readers. Writers, editors, and content curators may also use this template
I offer a unique template to writers and content curators and powerful questions to readers to stories that answer them in detail. Purpose of the Story Many new writers ask me how to improve the quality of their content and how to enhance the readability and visibility of their content which can attract more readers and generate more income for freelance writers. I wrote over 100 guiding…
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i think thats supposed to be about sex things but Not One Of Those, this is the fourth, fifth? couple youve given a lil baby and i think you maybe love lil babys
i too, give the Characters lil babys, because i love them
as well as the myriad of Situations it puts the blorbos in
fourth or fifth publicly/in recent memory, i've been doing it for Years in art i haven't posted akfdhdjhd
i do just really love putting them in Situations you're right
#ramble#nobody really asks 'hey juno why do you keep doing this' but the fact that people know it'll happen comes up a Lot lmao#the short answer: it's fun to write#the long answer (and to why it's usually seahorse dads)#as a queer person and especially a transmasc person when it comes to family stuff you feel kind of. invisible?#like everything surrounding having children is So cishet focused to the point where it never registered as an option for me#at least not until i was an adult#and on the other side of it. being in fandom in the 2010s as a baby trans boy there was just NOTHING#and what there WAS was always fetishised#like CONSTANTLY i cannot stress enough how that's all it was#and that's fine genuinely i don't judge. but sometimes you just want to see yourself Existing in a way that isn't someone's kink?#and i've never wanted it to come across that way in my art and i hope it doesn't bc it's never been about that for me#it's just sort of like. if i keep doing this it might normalise it for someone somewhere#and if they see it in real life (which does happen ALL the time) they'll be less inclined to think it's weird#and queer family rep is way better than it used to be but there's just not enough of it#idk i just like to draw a world where queer families just exist and nobody asks questions if that makes sense#the Situations are also fun
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Hiii! I hope this ask doesn’t come off as rude or pushy but I just have some questions about your opinion on Rick Riordan since I’m new the space of author critiquing.
I guess I’ll add I’m pretty young and a bit sensitive when it comes to things I like, so I automatically assumed since you post so much PJO content you liked his writing. But based on some of your posts, was I wrong? Again, I don’t want to sound pushy, I’m just new to being critical and honest when it comes to authors I like and would like to know your opinion on Rick Riordan specifically. Is he a bad writer? I just got wrath of the triple goddess and I’m not sure if I want to read it based on some of your posts.
Entirely focusing on writing itself and not the content within: I like Rick's old writing. His style when writing first series is dramatically different from his newer material, which I feel has significantly dropped in quality. A lot of the newer stuff feels very unpolished and gratuitous (towards the audience for marketing purposes, not his own interests) and he has a serious bathos problem that stunts the majority of the humor and sincerity that once existed in the franchise - and often severely gets in the way of a lot of attempts at inclusion and representation, to its detriment. Not to mention how condescending it feels towards the reader/presumed audience. It's also very clear he's trying to riff off of his previous success, including directly lifting previous sections and minorly rewriting them to try and achieve the same effect (not in a call-back manner, but just copying his own work).
I won't say his old writing is like, my 100% favorite or the end-all-be-all of literature. I have plenty of authors whose writing is more something that I think is structurally admirable. But Rick's original series writing is good! It became a pop culture staple for a reason! But the quality has dipped so severely as the series progress that it's hard to ignore and it's becoming increasingly difficult to enjoy the books for me because of this. Particularly very recent books like TSATS to me are so excessively full of simple structural errors and similar that it's baffling to me how it even got published or how we got here.
I think out of his post-first series writing, his works I've enjoyed the most are MCGA and Demigods of Olympus - particularly leaning towards the latter. It's simple but very enjoyable to me. TKC to me is mostly fine and enjoyable, and HoO is Just Okay. TOA is tolerable. TSATS and the marketing trilogy though are kind of unbearable for me.
I do love the franchise as a whole and it means a lot to me, which is exactly why I feel so strongly about the drop-off in quality recently. It feels like an insult to something I love and know can be better and has been better in the past - not from a personal perspective, but from as much of an unbiased perspective I can give as someone who has studied writing. So if he's a "bad writer" in general is kind of up to discretion i suppose.
#pjo#riordanverse#rick riordan#rr crit#ask#straightasaaro#unfortunately it's difficult for me to articulate a lot of specifics#i literally have a condition that makes it difficult for me to articulate concepts/description :( which is very ironic for how much i yap#so forgive me for not being able to describe it better#its curious how he's shifted writing styles cause it definitely feels like he's shifting it because of presumed audience#but the presumed audience hasn't actually changed? his target demographic is exactly the same#there's just been a shift in how he views that target demographic#and a shift in his intent with how he's writing#which is interesting and i personally suspect that's due to him being further removed from being a teacher#and because his kids are adults now so he no longer has a direct connection to his audience#so his perception of his audience is getting skewed further from before#audience in question being middle grade readers#which is actually why i like to point people towards animorphs because i think part of it is also a cultural shift at least in publishing#towards a popular ''style'' in writing in general but also attitudes towards middle grade publishing in particular#versus that like 90s-2000s publishing style you see with Animorphs and PJATO#cause animorphs is technically is aimed for younger middle grade! so leaning a bit younger than PJO's target demographic!#and that makes sense! the animorphs books are really short and written in simple language! but they handle the writing so differently!#particularly pacing and themes. its all very interesting.
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Hello, could I have transfem Signora x fem!reader smut? Any scenario is fine, just need dom Signora railing me 😩
{☆} characters la signora {☆} notes drabble, fem reader, sub reader, dom la signora, transfem la signora {☆} warnings 18+ content, restraints, temperature play, face fucking, degradation, pet play
There's a moment of silence that lingers for far too long, the cold nipping at your exposed skin until you feel shivers wrack your body. You squirm instinctively, seeking out the fading warmth of the thick furs laid out beneath you, yet finding nothing but the cold that chills you to your bones. You can't even see, your eyes covered by black fabric, silk tying your arms together behind your back.
It's almost torturous waiting like this. Your knees sink further into the fur as you lean your weight forward slightly, exhaling a shaky breath. You begin to wonder if Signora left you there– maybe you'd annoyed her earlier and she was punishing you. You hoped not. She wasn't known for being lenient when it came to punishments.
But the brush of her fingers along your jawline squashed that fear, your breath hitching as her thumb glided over your throat, the heat of her skin making you shudder. The contrast of the cold room, of your freezing body, to the unnatural heat that simmers beneath her skin is immense– your knees would have definitely buckled if you hadn't been kneeling already.
"Did you think I'd left you here all alone? You're shaking like a dog." The soft, biting lilt was nothing more than a murmur, but for you it was impossible not to hear the pleased tone beneath the roughness of her voice. Your heart leaps into your throat when her fingers trace back up along your jawline, lifting your head and tilting it back just enough to be uncomfortable.
You open your mouth to speak, but your words are silenced by her thumb slipping past your lips instead– you don't fight back, even though the sudden intrusion catches you off guard enough you almost bite her finger instead. You almost consider doing it anyway, but she's so rarely in a good mood it feels rude to spoil it.
"Pets don't speak until they're told," She chides, pressing down on your tongue slightly and laughing at the way you almost choke in surprise. "And I don't remember giving you permission."
You can only manage a garbled whine in response, your face burning in embarrassment– but it's quickly silenced by the click of her tongue and the creak of the old chair you know sits by the fireplace, her thumb sliding out between your lips to drag you closer. Close enough to feel the rush of heat across your skin as your cheek is pressed against her thigh, her hands resting on the back of your head. You can't see it, but you sure can imagine the smug smile that must be tugging at her lips right about now.
"Let's see about fixing your little disobedient streak, darling." She murmurs, digging her nails into your scalp and tugging you even closer, the furs beneath you doing little to prevent the ache in your knees from kneeling. But you don't complain– you know what she wants, and you want it too. "Open."
Like the dog she seems so fond of treating you as, you listen– you're not as surprised this time when her fingers fill your mouth, forcing it open even further until you can feel the saliva collecting and dribbling down your chin. She doesn't seem to mind, even laughing at how pitiful you probably look, drooling all over her fingers.
But Signora is a hard woman to satisfy, and this will hardly do anything other then work her up enough to really break you in. You can just barely hear the rustle of fabric over your heartbeat, gloved hands tugging you closer and forcing you to press right up against the edge of the chair. It's almost uncomfortable, the way the chair presses against your chest, but she always has you teetering on that fine edge.
"Perhaps you can be trained after all." Signora's voice is like a balm, the heat of her body driving away the cold and urging you impossibly closer, until you feel her hand guide you down just as her fingers slip out of your mouth again– right up until you feel her cock against your cheek. "Show me that you can be obedient, mutt, and maybe I'll let you sit on my lap."
You know she's just dangling a treat just out of reach, but you can't help but reach for it anyway.
Your tongue drags across the underside of her cock, so slow you can hear the hiss that rattles in her chest halfway between pleasure and impatience. You take your time anyway, lingering until you reach the tip and press a kiss against it. You almost wish you could see her face, but she's never been fond of expressing anything outwardly when you can see it– just the idea of her brows furrowed, of her face flush and her lip caught between her teeth..it's enough.
It's not hard to imagine it anyway when the heat grows hotter, nearly turning the room into an oven before she catches herself. You aren't stupid enough to mention it, but your smile must be enough, because a low growl makes you shiver– so you drag your tongue from the base to the tip again, revel in the way it throbs beneath your tongue. For a moment you almost have something like control, your saliva dripping down her aching cock as you lap at it like a mutt.
But you're both growing impatient– the sharp click of her nails against the chairs arms makes you shudder, urging you to lift yourself up just enough to wrap your lips around the head with a muffled groan. You consider dragging it out just a moment longer, just to see if you can get her to whine, but she knows you better then you do– before you can even blink, her hand shoves you down. You, predictably, gag. Your throat burns from the stretch, but it's not unpleasant, eased by the pleasured hiss that tumbles from her lips. Signora at least has the mercy to let you get used to it for a moment before she drags you back up, the emptiness in your throat making you whine before she's shoving her cock back down your throat. Your eyes sting with unshed tears, your own sounds of pleasure muffled and garbled as she does it again– and again.
"Finally quiet, mutt?" She laughs, but it's strained– her voice quivers slightly as she fucks your throat like your nothing but a toy to her, drool dribbling down your chin and tears staining the blindfold. "If I knew it was this easy to shut you up, I'd have done it a long time ago."
You so badly want to do something, but with your hands tied behind your back and her fucking your face so rough, so fast, you can barely even think..there's not much you can do but let her, your cunt clenching around nothing. You really hope she wasn't lying about that reward, for once. You're practically dripping on her floor while she uses you, just barely able to squeeze your thighs together for a fraction of friction.
It only serves to make you more desperate, though.
"Fuck– or maybe you're too stupid to know better. You'd just let any pretty woman with a cock use you," Her breathing was getting heavier, more strained, but her grip on your hair didn't relent. Neither did the harsh thrust of her hips, her cock constantly hammering into your throat until you felt dizzy. "You're lucky I'm even willing to train a mutt like you."
Your mind starts to feel fuzzy, the words blending together until she digs her nails into your scalp and forces you down again– and keeps you there. You nearly gag again when you feel her shudder, her cock throbbing in your mouth as her cum spills down your throat, your hands straining against the silk binding them together. Your eyes roll into the back of your head, nostrils flaring and your body tensing– you don't even realize you'd briefly lost consciousness until your find yourself on her lap, rather then on your knees, her hands brushing the strands of hair stuck to your face with sweat out of your eyes.
It's the most gentle she's been all night– and likely as gently as she will be tonight. You lean into her touch anyway, groaning softly and shuddering at the taste of her on your tongue mixed with her cock throbbing against your thigh.
"I'm not done yet, darling. Did you think I'd let you get away with a little light training?" She laughs, cupping your jaw and pressing a kiss that's far too gentle to your cheek, the warmth of her body almost suffocating– but you welcome it, like you always do.
So you nod, smiling drowsily and spreading your legs like a good pet should.
#asks#anon#genshin impact smut#genshin smut#genshin x reader#genshin impact x reader#minors dni#writing tag#la signora x reader#signora x reader#la signora smut#signora smut#does it count as pet play if she just thinks shes Better Then You#signora has an ego and shes going to weaponize it#give her an inch and shes putting a collar on you (please)#but also some of yall clocking my favs too easily PLEASE.....#i am a simple lesbian i see pretty women w questionable morals i get on my knees and bark#somehow signora is softer then arle though lbr. signora is like 50/50 soft vs rough okay#other times shes going 2 fuck ur brains out hope u learn real quick how to tell her mood that day#signora being a gentle lover is so personal to me though likeeee okay.........#she can be sweet when she wants to you just gotta get thru the 500 layers of trauma and Anger first#smth smth not letting herself love ppl who burn too easily or smth idk im just here to get railed#anyway does she need another dog. i can bark. i can do tricks.#passes out
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what if hans found out about henry and bartosch and was very hans about it (x) 🤔
#basically hans asks the who was better in bed question. you can imagine how that goes :|#hansry#kingdom come deliverance 2#kcd2#kcd#my writing
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“Do you mind if I play some music?” Robin asked, shuffling through her PDA.
“What is music?” Al-An asked.
Robin had to stop and think about that one. “It’s… a form of expression,” she answered, setting the PDA aside.
“Expression?”
“Communication. Art,” Robin clarified. “Music is a combination of sounds using rhythm or harmony or melody or words, or some combination of those, which attempts to communicate complex or elusive ideas and emotions.”
“Is this not already a function of your system of language?”
“Well, yes, but music isn’t nearly so precise, and there’s an aesthetic component to it as well.”
“If it is not precise, why utilize it?”
Robin frowned. “The value of music isn’t in its utility. Music is often very beautiful, though not always. Usually music is just… more visceral than language. We experience it on an emotional level.”
“It is instinctual?”
Robin opened her mouth, then shut it again. Oh. Al-An wanted an explanation from a biological standpoint. “There is evidence of a biological basis for music. There have been arguments that it was an adaptive trait for our ancestors–a means of social cohesion when living in large groups, to convey and regulate emotions. It’s a kind of communication that’s thought to be older than language. Some research suggests that language evolved from music.”
“I would be interested to hear an example.”
Robin shrugged and scrolled through her PDA’s menu system to put on one of her favorite songs. It was a mostly instrumental piece, but it had choral accompaniment. She always felt like it conveyed triumph in adversity and a kind of breathless elation, the joy of success. It made her feel like she was flying. She closed her eyes and listened. There was one part of the song that never failed to give her chills.
“I believe I understand,” Al-An commented once the song faded to silence. “It has an impact on your pulse and breathing. It makes you move differently. This response could come from a kind of synesthesia endemic to your species, connoting combinations of sound frequencies with specific emotions in your brain’s emotional centers.”
Robin fidgeted with her PDA as she thought about that. He had apparently been observing her reaction as much as he had been listening to the music. “You’re probably not wrong, but the experience isn’t universal. The emotional responses people have to specific pieces of music depend on the kind of music they’ve been exposed to in the past, especially during their developmental years. It’s like language in that respect: a learned social behavior. Also, musicality isn’t limited to just humans. Plenty of other animals enjoy, and even make music. For example, there are many species of bird native to Earth that produce complex melodies as part of their calls.”
“My people have encountered species with complex vocal calls before. We have determined that those calls often elicit an emotional response in other members of the species.”
Robin nodded. “Exactly. Humans are not unique in that respect.”
“So music is the vocal call of humans?”
Robin hesitated. “We don’t really think about it like that, but you wouldn’t exactly be wrong to interpret it that way. Music can serve some of the same evolutionary functions as animal calls. Though, while humans are incredible vocal mimics, we use instruments as well as our voices to make music. These days though, music is mostly viewed as entertainment.” Robin paused before asking, “Does your species have a call? Even if you don’t use it anymore, I’d be interested to know more about the evolutionary origins of your species.”
There was quiet as Al-An gave the question some thought. “No, we do not have a vocal call,” he finally said. “We did not evolve a biological means of creating complex vocalizations. However, before we evolved telepathy, our ancestors first expressed emotions through bioluminescence.”
Robin’s eyes widened. “I would like to see that. That sounds amazing. Do you still have bioluminescence? Do you make visual displays with it as an art form?”
“Yes, we have kept the bioluminescence, but while we can control it to a small degree, it is largely an involuntary part of what you would likely call our limbic system.”
“Ah, so more like body language.”
“That is accurate.”
There was a long moment of quiet between them as Robin thought about what Al-An had said. “Didn’t you describe the network as a kind of harmony of strings?”
“Ah. Yes, but in a metaphorical sense. I had not realized your species utilized harmonies.”
“But you understand the concept of harmony? That’s a musical concept.”
“It is a known phenomenon. My people find the mathematics of sympathetic resonance to be aesthetically pleasing.”
Robin blinked. They found the mathematics to be aesthetically pleasing, but they held no opinion on the actual sound? She supposed that explained why he didn’t really understand music. Or perhaps they did have their own music, but it was unrecognizable in comparison to what she had played. “But why use that metaphor?”
“It is…” Al-An made an inarticulate, frustrated noise. “Trying to describe the sensation of the network to you is trying to describe a sensory experience you have never had using a communication method that is imprecise and inadequate for the task. Your language does not contain a word for the sensation because no human has experienced it. The best I can do is use one of your own senses as metaphor. It is like describing your tactile ability to detect vibrations as similar to your ability to sense temperature. They may be somewhat similar, and serve similar functions, but are by no means the same.”
“Ah, so the network doesn’t sound like literal strings.”
“No, it does not sound like anything at all. But as a metaphor for the network, the concept of harmony is appealing. Each individual has their own frequency, and when grouped properly, interactions may produce resonance. Your sense of hearing also works better as a metaphor than any other sense you possess, because humans communicate primarily through hearing.”
Robin chewed her lip, thinking. The picture he painted of his species was very alien: they didn’t produce complex sounds, and communicated through telepathy and bioluminescence. It sounded fascinating, but she didn’t want their differences to become a wall between them. “Will you still be able to communicate with me once you get your own body?”
“You need not worry.” Al-An’s usual monotone carried a softness Robin was not used to hearing. He was getting better at picking up on her emotions. “Even if I could not calibrate my telepathy to a frequency you are able to receive, I would still be able to produce sounds in your range of hearing through my cybernetic components.”
Robin smiled. “Want to hear more music?” she asked, changing the subject.
“Yes,” Al-An replied with a kind of eagerness that made Robin’s smile widen. “Please, proceed.”
#Subnautica#Subnautica Below Zero#SBZ#Al-An#Robin Ayou#subnautica architects#worldbuilding#fanfiction#writing snippet#my writing#long post#yelling into the void#woe! headcanons be upon ye!#one of the things that bothered me about the dialogue in below zero was how robin didn't really act like a biologist most of the time#or display the kind of scientific curiosity that most scientists have#like yeah she's grieving but so is al-an and he shows plenty of curiosity#if I was robin you would not be able to get me to shut up#I would ask so many questions#so I rewrote the jukebox dialogue to better reflect how I think their dynamic should look#(also robin should be able to have music on her pda because I definitely have music on my phone)#now I'm not a biologist#but I do know how to read scientific papers#my search history is now full of stuff like 'the evolutionary origin of music'#this is part of a larger wip#interact with me and I'll write more snippets#not completely happy with the explanation for why al-an understands what harmony is but doesn't understand music#I feel like it needs some expansion#not sure I can do that without going more into the physics of resonance
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yknow i see a whole bunch of my lego moots having rp/ask blogs and i think ‘oh hey what if i do that too!!’ but i dunno ! i’m scared ! terrified even !!
#if i ever did though it’d absolutely be an emmet one#i’ve got chris pratt’s voice hammered into my brain#that or maybe perhaps sermaps my lost and found emmy (maybe the penis crew?? maybe maybe???)#i’m just a lil scared about rp stuff .. what if i write like poop….. i don’t want to be poop ….#also i’m insanely unreliable with keeping up ask blogs but maybe !! im older now so maybe im more better#atleast i wouldn’t expect myself to do a drawing for each question answered … hopefulllyyyy7yyuyuyyyyu#the voices beckon at me ‘draw a whole comic for this ask!’ ‘do it again!’ ‘once more mortal!!’ how am i suppose to cope#ask blogs and rping are so fun but i’ve never done it properly on tumblr#just bwhbdhw#simple school thoughts while i sit at the computer …#i’m tired;;
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#delete later#hi long time no social media other than hopping for 2 minutes. i don't talk about my personal life nor will i ever#but i'll say things are getting better :) anyway...#apologies in advance but i'm gonna be more annoying about my frimomen is miku's dad hc in the future when i'm more active again#I didn't delve into the hc enough.... thought about some things here and there though#like is he her biological dad? who knows but what she does know is that he's the dad that raised her and that's what matters#frimomen being ahs' mascot means he's the ahs agency president in my hcs#and frimo existing (one year) before miku means he's been running it longer than she's been a vocaloid#I like to think he was more than willing to endorse her musical career through his agency. however as much as she appreciated his offer#she wanted to follow her dreams through her own efforts and ofc he was more than happy to be her support whenever she needed it#and so she travels from tokyo (irl ahs hq) to hokkaido (irl cfm hq). yes she is a tokyo girl (in reference to saki fujita's birthplace)#because of her busy schedule she can only visit him once a year on new years (christmas and ny if she's granted extra vacation)#she rarely ever talks about her dad (vice versa) so them being related is not a common fact amongst other synths#she'd only ever mention it in passing “my dad has that shirt” and the others don't think too much about it#Rin/Len joining the cv group after Miku thought it'd be rude to delve into her personal life whenever she spoke abt him#(when they haven't gotten close to her yet)#and it got to the point where they just didn't bother to question it at all#so when she'd talk about her father they'd reply with “oh really?” or smth to that extent#not that they are disinterested but it became part of their consciousness not to ask about it#Luka's the disinterested one#after joining ahs Teto thought how Frimomen eerily reminds her of someone especially when he smiles (he and miku look similar when smiling)#and it took a while until she found out who it was that is his daughter#listen I know I said in the future in my first tag but listen-#the grip this hc has on me is no joke#I'm writing this half asleep so apologies for any grammar mistakes#I just wanted to put it out somewhere 😭#waffula talks
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How do y'all think yasammy would react if they got the opportunity to see their first kiss now as adults?
#sammy gutierrez#yasmina fadoula#yasammy#camp cretaceous#chaos theory#i would love to ask this question to kausar and raini themselves cuz they are the ones who i think would give the most idk legit answer#or like#they do know these characters better than anyone else anyway#except for the writes possibly#idk man#but I'm just curious gkfkdid#i personally think they would be like “Awwwwww Look how small we were!”#....#'kay that's more how i would react#but mehhhhfjdjehjejd
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Looking up full neck anatomy for ✨️extremely normal reasons✨️
#was making jokes about how fuckable cookies are#and the phrase 'SMC's head comes off. You think I wouldn't get creative with that?'#and then I started actually Thinking#and now I have the start of the weirdest shadowvanilla fic#is it woundfucking if there's no blood or pain? asking for a friend#better question is should I sit down and actually write the thing or does this live in my head forever#feels important to note that I am extremely asexual
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Could you talk MORE about ideas and thoughts of Kon and Jemahl becoming friends? What about their individual characters that makes you love them?
Yeah!!! I absolutely can keep talking about them!!!
My love of Kon started decades ago when I was a young child taken to Six Flags by my grandparents, I was too terrified to ride the Superman ride but the giant Super Family character signs around the ride enchanted me, especially the extremely cool looking Superboy. Years later when I actually read Reign of the Supermen I was like "yeah this kid rules" but also realized that John Henry was the most perfect man ever. Superboy as a clone of a dead man trying to find the role he was "supposed" to have while also discovering who he was resonated with me for. reasons. He's a good mix of relatable personally, and reminding me of some of my students- kids who want to do good but struggle with a lack of context or support. John Henry being one of his few early places of support is but one reason why he is so perfect. Anyway, then I started reading Superboy (94). I think the idea of using superhero to explore child celebrity exploitation is a good one but the execution is all over the place, so my favorite parts of the run really are the Cadmus focused segments and my top arc is always Hypertime. I love alt versions of the same character. Yes, yes, look into the mirror and confront those parts of yourself!!! I also love how Kon just does not give up, not in a fight, and not in believing in others. This is partially because he's so much like Superman because he wants to be, and partially because he's two years old. Both reasons are great.
Desiring to read more of John Henry, I then started reading Steel (94), which is, well, a comic about a Black superhero in the nineties whos execution is also a bit over the place. I think it's absolutely worth a read, but... Now, Jemahl is introduced as a 14 year old boy who's getting involved in a gang and obviously his uncle is unhappy with that. His family keeps telling him why it's a bad idea, but to no avail. Now, Jemahl isn't as relatable to me personally, but I am a Jemahl Defense Team Member. Not everyone in the Irons family is exactly the genius engineer that perfect man John Henry is, but they're all smart. Smart enough to figure out Steel's identity even when John Henry had been faking his death for five years at that point.
So, Jemahl is a smart kid who's father was killed* by a gang despite not being involved with anything*, and then his uncle and the family's main financial support was also killed* despite being wholly separated from any criminal activity*, and for the last five years has watched his mother support his great-grandparents, himself, his little sister, and younger foster siblings all on her own. Because they don't have any other family, because everyone else was killed for his grandparents being civil rights activities. So, when Jemahl's family keeps telling him to stay away from that sort of things because it'll be more dangerous... Why would he believe them? Sure, they say it, but all the evidence points to the fact that staying away just means you don't see when it's coming and have no backup when danger and death and bullets comes for you anyway, like it did his father and uncle. Jemahl loves his family and wants to help them. Jemahl is also a Black fourteen year old who is denied agency and opportunity for both his race and his age, which must be incredibly frustrating. Yeah, I really cannot blame him for not immediately jumping to obeying every thing his uncle said when he came back, because you know, this uncle has been falsely playing dead for five years. I know John Henry's a perfect man, but Jemahl's got no reason to! Especially not when more people start dying! If only John Henry returned for a time and could rebuild a relationship with his nephew by offering understanding of his motivations and actual support to act in a better way to reach his goal of protecting people and not feeling powerless. Alas, soon Steel got a new writing team and John and Natasha leave DC and Jemahl is sent away to witness protection program with his mother and great-grandfather and basically never seen again except one issue where Natasha visits for Christmas and it is... Not great. I don't know if him being forgotten at that point is a mercy because at least it means they didn't do anything worse with him, but... Anyway in 2015 DC was reshuffling the timeline again and for a brief, beautiful two issues we saw a world where John Henry took both Natasha and Jemahl with him to Metropolis when he left DC, and taught them how to repair his armor so they could feel like they were a part of helping defend others without putting them in danger themselves. Uh and then they built their own suits and immediately jumped to being heroes themselves because of course they did. Wow! It's like Jemahl flourishes when given the right tools to be the caring and protective guy he is! (This is a little weird though because these issues make him younger than Natasha instead) Tragically after the reshuffling, Jemahl Irons never existed. But they said the same thing about Kon and hey look who came back anyway!
So that's why I love those two guys individually. But I also think they could play off each other in a lot of fun ways:
As John Henry's nephew who has complicated feelings but ultimately respects and admires his uncle, especially when given the chance to follow in his shoes, and as the first kid John really got to help in this way. I mean, Kon knew John before he knew Kal. His idea of Superman is tinted by Steel's advice. I think Kon reminded John of his niblings at first, and so there's some good friendship there. (Much like how I enjoy Kon and Natasha being friends).
People have immediate assumptions when they see Kon and when they see Jemahl, in very different ways. Are they jealous of the other, or are they glad it's not what the other deals with because they at least feel familial understanding for their own problems?
When Match was introduced, the Agenda was intending on making and selling hundreds of Superboy clones to use as weapons, Kon was like, "uh??? Slavery??? Bad?!?!?" And I imagine Jemahl would have opinions on this whole thing as well. In fact, Jemahl would have opinions about a lot of things in the SB run, because part of it is Kon being a few months old at the start and having no context for anything like, you know, the colonization of Hawai'i, and part of it is because Kon's a white boy written for white boys. Not only would Jemahl have opinions, he would love to share them and educate Kon, and only somewhat because he'd get to feel like the smart one for once. (Curse of being only a mildly genius kid in a very genius family ig)
Actually they both do have shades of really needing to feel needed and become depressed, albeit in different directions, when they don't. Also, abandonment issues... So much. I'm sure that's something that would get better with their friendship. Or not. Could go either way, highly dependent on timeline lol
I think they could just also hang out. Like, I think they'd enjoy each other's company because it would come with much fewer expectations compared to basically anyone else in their home/hero communities. They can listen to music together, or play with TTK, or say things about girls that they will absolutely wish they had not said once they are no longer aged 14-16. If this is a post-rebirth friendship after they both get powergirl'd, they can hang out and either talk about the world they miss or Absolutely Not Talk About It and just soak in not being alone, at least in this way.
*yeah his dad and uncle weren't really killed and yeah they were involved but that was secret shhh this is as far as Jemahl knows
#ah i have been writing this answer for. a while. i need to go to sleep now oops#but i love them!!!#Jemahl and Kon being friends (a la the convergence timeline where things go better for Jem) happens in my earth 891 au#which is where i put nice things i deserve like jem and nat and kon playing video games together and cloisteel and karakori and-#but i think 'jemahl + kon' will refer to that kind of young them friendship for me#and 'jamal + kon' will refer to a post rebirth adult friendship by two guys forgotten by a world that mistreated them#jem and kon are goofball teen heroes debating the steelworks vending machines while trying to beat the other to a fire rescue#jamal is lying on the floor as kon muses about how no one knows about krypto the earth dog now and tells kon he wishes he had a giant hammer#to hit him with if he has to hear about any more super pets again. (kon keeps going since clearly jamal wasn't listening. earth dog.)#jem and kon will bare their teeth to defend the other from the press questions#jamal will ask kon if he's ever hated a dead baby before and kon will say no unless he himself counts as a dead four year old#jem and kon gossip about how good or bad or easily ttkable the other teen hero tech is#kon tells jamal about his fake gemworld adopted daughter and jamal tells him he's not sure sometimes if he was older or younger than his nat#that's the vibes i think....#pocket talks to people#mars rnr#yeah we'll keep charater tagging why not#kon el#Jemahl irons#also#john henry irons#since he's kinda a linchpin here#ooooh i spent way too long answering this I'm gonna pass out now#may i dream of blorbos
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Can you clarify what you mean by you " don't support " lgbt+ in your bio please? It's worded rather awkwardly, as you say you believe everyone deserves respect and kindness as well. This is a genuine question/request.
Oh, hi anon! Sure, im always up for explaining everything that isn't clear. Im aware that my wording pretty much sucks but that's what you get when you've been antisocial for years and when English is your fluent language lol XD
Ok so, first lemme explain that part of not supporting LGBT:
Yes, i don't support it. By that I mean that i am NOT part of that community, so im NOT gay or lesbian or anything like that. Im simply straight and when it comes to sexuality, i keep that very simple. Simply straight without any complications. I don't even complicate with the pronouns and gender, so im a girl/female, pronouns she/her, sexulity straight, which means that when it comes to romantic attraction, im into men. When it comes to seeing LGBT content, i just find that weird, no offense. I don't like m/m and f/f ships, they're just disturbing for me so i don't like any ships of such kind. I understand that some people enjoy such content, but I just don't. It looks weird and it makes me feel uncomfortable. No offense of course, i just don't like it, that's all.
Im always am trying to keep that simple and I hope im doing it well.
Now for that "everyone deserves kindness" part:
Exactly as it sounds like :). Im a high believer that every single living organism on this world should be treated with respect and kindness, no matter who they are, what they are, what they like or dislike, gender, age, height, race, sexuality, religion etc. So with that, im always trying to be respectful and kind to everyone on Tumblr, no matter how different we may be.
Now the part that probably confused you because of my wording:
"If I'm a high believer of such thing, then how do I not support LGBT?"
From what I understood, this was what you were saying, and im sorry I did write that rather awkwardly in my intro post.
Basically, I'm not a part of that community, i said that. But, i respect everyone. Which means: "Oh wait, you're gay? Oh well, i don't mind! We can still be friends!". What I'm trying to say is that, just because im not part of that community doesn't mean ill hate you or block you or be disrespectful towards you or judge you or such. No. I will NOT do that. I don't care what's your sexuality, really. Love who you love and I won't judge it, that's your decision. By saying that i don't support it, i mean that i will not be making such content and that im not part of it. But if you are, completely fine! I don't mind! I know that I can't change your mind and i won't be even trying! Just because our opinions on sexuality are different doesn't mean that we can't be friends. I, sincerely, am fine with being friends with anyone. Im open to anybody and id like to be friends with everybody who wants the same. Im really not judgemental and picky when it comes to friends. Im aware that some people might not share my opinion when it comes to this, but I really don't care who you are when it comes to being friends. Ill be kind to you, you're gonna be kind to me and that's it. That's all that matters.
So to wrap this up: Im not a part of LGBT, but if you are, im completely fine with that! I will not show you any disrespect or unkindness. I will still be nice and kind to you. We can still be friends, i really don't mind. Everyone deserves respect and kindness, so even if we don't share the same aspect on sexuality, even if you're gay, lesbian or anything like that im still gonna be polite and kind, because everyone deserves respect and kindness, no matter what.
Side note: if you're lesbian, please don't flirt with me, pretty please. It makes me uncomfortable since like i just said, im straight. So if anyone who's reading this happens to be a lesbian, we can be friends, but don't flirt with me. Pretty please. We can be friends, but don't expect that ill support your flirting or romantic attraction towards me. I will not. Don't do it. Please.
That is all i have to say! I hope this clarified everything that wasn't clear! Im sorry that my intro was worded awkwardly and that it caused confusion, but I hope this solved it. Thank you so much for asking ❣️
#fresco answers#thanks anon!#thanks for the question#thanks for the ask!#i can't believe i just wrote an asf long essay about my sexuality omg#ppl usually avoid doing it while im here like “oh yeah. sure. why not idm”#y'all have no idea how long this took to write#seriously tho around an hour#but i hope this clarified everything#i love explaining things#i always try to keep my life simple so yeah#im straight which means that romantically i think that men are better for me#it also counts for fictional characters#i don't crush on female characters#i love men#aka Vio-#XDDDD HAHAHAHHA#ok i had to im sorry XDDDD#seriously tho Vio is Vio and im sorry but I love him so fucking much im starting to get worried over it haha
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please say the fic you're writing is koskela/hietanen 🥺 I ship it so hard but there are so few fics for it
(I will also be excited about any other pairing if the answer is no lmao)
I'm literally choking up to have received this ask THANK YOU FOR ASKING YES !! YES !! YES !! It's a little Koskela/Hietanen fix-it sort of thing, maybe 5k or so when finished, which I'm writing to mend my broken heart 🥹 it is proving a bit of a task though because half the time I think about either of these two I start crying HAHHAHAH I LOVE THEM SO MUCH 😭😭😭
#you really have no idea how THRILLED I AM THAT YOU ASKED !!!#literally jumped out of my skin when i saw the notification#turned around and screamed to my husband about it#my husband whom i had not yet divulged even which characters i was writing for#because i was gatekeeping it#because i'm trying to pressure him into rereading the book RIGHT NOW so i don't have to be alone in this misery (that i love)#my husband who i then proceeded to ask SOME questions from in order to write BETTER and MORE#FOR YOU#DEAR ANON#FOR YOU !!!#i am writing it in finnish though which is something i haven't done in thirteen years or so omg#and i've been thinking about translating it afterwards#or like as an in-depth round of edits#because in addition to being the kind of asshole who pressures her husband into sharing in her misery#i'm also willing to employ all the potential cards in my deck to also lure any and all of my english-speaking friends into this trap#spreading the good word of väinö linna like a good little missionary#oh no#a wild bout of inspiration appears ! in the form of dingo lyrics ! when i'm supposed to be working !#hate it when i have a job to do on what seems to be a good writing day#anyway#thank you once more for sending this ask 💘#ask#anon#tuntematon sotilas
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I have another assignment due this coming Monday, but I have little to no motivation to start thanks to this specific lecturer's hard on for AI💀
#this man has been a journalist since apartheid - so longer than I've been alive#but he insists that AI can write an article better than he can#SIR THE AI IS USING YOU AND YOUR PEERS ARTICLES WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT#he's STILL a journalist to this day! and yet !?#he wants us to use AI so bad for this assignment and I simply cannot#the shit is so straight forward - and the fic I'm writing already passes the wordcount for all 3 short essays#the questions are not difficult to understand so WHAT WOULD IT EVEN BE FOR?#I'm not gonna use it but right now I'm stewing#there's nothing that says I'm gonna lose marks if I don't use it so there#but god the way he dick rides AI will never not piss me off#this shit couldn't even properly count the lines of the poem I had to make it generate#I gave it a set amount of lines then asked it how many lines it had#but as soon as I asked it to number each one suddenly there's more lines than the amount it JUST said it had-#nobody can convince me that anything about generative ai is intelligent#this shit couldn't COUNT I had to guide it like I would a toddler#toddler's aren't meant to be doing assignments#so why must I use it for a journalism assignment-#okay I'm gonna shut up now#chichi.txt
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Going to be really brave and say something I am terrified to and will probably delete:
There is NO way as many of y'all don't use AI as I see reblogging all of these posts
#to be clear I am against all AI “art” and “music” because that's purely stolen shit and it's not art by definition#but looking up random questions or asking to correct my grammar or write something better#who gives a shit#I do see how it's harmful for kids in school and I do hope it's restricted on school computers#but for adults using it here and there for random questions or to revise work or help with a question#i am not convinced that this whole website poopoos the idea and doesn't use it#i just don't buy it#tbf y'all admit it but it comes off as major superiority complex#I also think people forget how it's helping a lot in medical advancements and other areas#i also do get how it can take jobs and i do sympathize#i am a big believer in everything in moderation i dont agree in ai getting any bigger than it is now in fact i think it already is too much#i just dont believe it#delete later#for my safety#rae’s rambles
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hi. I just read your entire comic in one go and I’ve gotta say I am in love with it. as a trans guy with hair that looks so much like Steve’s and who loves werewolves, I had to physically restrain myself from squealing out loud upon realizing he was trans, because I am currently living in a room with five other people in a small community in rural Alaska and didn’t want to explain to them the joys of seeing yourself in a character and then realizing “oh shit they’re trans like me”. I hope you are doing well, and may the gods of creativity and carpal tunnel bless you with much fruit in your artistic endeavors.
how could I ever show how deeply messages like this touch me... I never know what to say, I want so badly to have the proper words to show you how grateful I am
This is why I write. so that people get to feel like this, and I could never reflect that properly with just my words... But I want you to know that.
I hope to make something that is worthy of your love, and I hope every day that my work is sufficient to show I love you. so I'm relieved that it's succeeding and you feel seen.
Thank you for sharing this with me, I love you
#seriously like... I ;_;#I have like 70 messages in my inbox..#some are old questions I forgot to answer#some are more cane questions I havent deleted yet lol#but most of it is people saying they love my work#and I don't.#I don't know how to say how much it means to me#I truly feel I can not say it well enough to be what you deserve#and so instead I want to make my story good enough that you all can see it#that you can see I love you and that I am grateful for you#that I am grateful you exist and that I am blessed you are here#and that the world is better for having you in it#and so while I do not respond#I write#and I hope that you can feel it#when my words can not say it#I love you I love you I love you#every day you are here I love you#I can not say thank you but I can give you a story that is the best I can do#and say I made it for you#and I hope it is sufficient#and then people tell me things like this#and I know it is#and thus the cycle begins anew lol#asks#anon#kind words#words to save#to save
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