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everybuddiewantssome · 11 days ago

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Get to know your mutuals!

Tagged by @ballroomeddie ty ty

1. You get $100 to go thrift shopping, what are you buying and why?

Honestly at this very minute I want some fun summer dresses. But I'm also a trinket gal. Nothing specific jumping in my head but I thrive off hand me down/second hand clothes

2. What's a song you could listen to dozens of times in a row and never get bored

Revolution by authority zero has been my top spotify song 2 years running and honestly. Still goes so hard I haven't got tired of it yet

3. What's a decade you really like music from?

I'm a 2000s kid through and through give me those 2002 radio hits. 90s also very welcome.

4. What's your dream hair?

I like what I had before I cut it (not to say I regret cutting it but 🤷‍♀️) but I also miss braiding it which is really hard with how thick my hair is until it gets longer than I've been keeping it the last couple years. But when I look back to when it was really long I wonder why on earth I did that. Anyway. Longish. Smoother.

5. What's a chore you actually like doing that surprises people?

Very random but sink cleaning has always kinda been my thing. I'll do the whole bathroom (I spent two years as a janitor I didnt get much choice). Clean up that mirror shiny and new. That's where I thrive. Do not give me a vacuum I'll cry (not really I just hate vacuuming)

6. Do you fidget? How or with what?

Lol yes. So much. I can not sit still ever I don't have anything I just. Fidget a lot

7. Tell me about a current hyperfixation of yours.

We all know I'm neck deep in 911 but let's talk about some baseball games. Been having a great time watching my two faves battle this week but I might cry if any of these injuries lead to extended time off. Also been keeping my eye on the rockies trying to dig themselves out of hell. They're not gonna succeed (sorry guys I sincerely hope they don't break the worst season ever record that was just broken last year by the humble white sox) but it's nice to see them string games together. 2021 frosty is back (thinking about baseball consistently and considering rewatching smallville)

8. What's your favourite animated movie or tv series?

I've never really been much for animated in adulthood tbh. Was a huge tinkerbell kid though along with many other classic kid shows and cartoons

9. If you were forced to lose one of your five senses, which one would you choose?

I'm going to go with smell on this one, it's always a bit of an automatic answer because my mom lost hers in her 30s and so I already have a sense of how that would be through her

10. What makes you feel put together? What makes you feel like you have your life in order? You know, that thing that makes you go yeah no, I got this?

Girl I don't got this. But I'm working on it. I like having a decent schedule. It doesnt have to be tight and can always be open to change and interruption but I thrive on a solid routine

Bonus question: for star wars fans, who is your favourite Jedi and why?

Sorry but I'm not hazarding an answer to this question I'm not your audience 🤷‍♀️

Tagging @lam-ila @aintgonnatakethis @sga-owns-my-soul @petecrowarmstrong @wolfboywarmachines and @ilkkawhat and literally anybody else go wild

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tommyssupercoolblog · 1 year ago

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HERE ARE 55 FANFIC IDEAS/PROMPTS (some detailed, some not) that i wrote down in google docs to make septicinnit fics for but never did actually made full fics of; some are short one sentence ideas and others are full plots!!!

I posted these because there was a time period where we were super hyperfixated on writing together (almost like a d&d roleplay but you're yourselves and also it's just text) as like our main bonding hobby and wrote down way too many fucking ideas- we don't rlly write like that anymore (we do other stuff when we hangout or have dates) and so most of these have been sitting in our google docs for a long time and i felt bad abt wasting them. now though!!! they won't rot away in the secret depths of google docs!!!

soulmates switch bodies, (through TIME) on a specific birthday. So, when tmy turns (age), he switches bodies with a s3án of the SAME age. Neither of them will remember the experience after, so it's their job to leave clues or enlist friends to help them track their Soulmate down. tmy's friends gather the night before his birthday and vow to figure out who his soulmate is and help him find them. (Past!s3án is very confused about all the things that have changed (tech, gay marriage being legal) and also very awkward because he's still an anxious bean.) (can you tell we wrote this one after a Your Name rewatch)

2. THEY MAKE A LONG FURBY TOGETHER!!!!! They both help design, scrap, sew and put it together by hand, and they decide on a name together, and it ends up becoming their sort of child and now they’re gay parents of a long furby (maybe they aren’t together when they decide to make it but they end up bonding over the furby and it helps them get together in a way??)

3. Coffee Shop AU where s3án is the owner and barista at T0p 0f Th3 M0rn1ng C0ff3e, which in the fic is an actual physical coffee shop. tmy becomes his first regular customer and also flirts with him over the counter a lot.

4. The five times tmy tries to hit on s3án and fails miserably (except shhh no he doesn't), and the one time he’s actually successful.

5. Sickfic again (I wrote one already) but it’s established relationship and S3án'S one who gets sick this time. Tmy is very determined to take good care of him, help walk him around the house when/if he needs it, make him soup, etc. Maybe he tries to cook but is kind of bad at it and S3án eats it anyway. Maybe tmy brushes his hair out of his face to check his temperature,,, hhhh fluff

6. tmy and s3án going to the movies and having a good time. That's it. That's the prompt.

7. s3án teaches tmy about The Wheel Of The Year and a bunch of celtic pagan traditions and stories (and some catholic ones, of course, bc he grew up in that too) and tmy EATS THAT SHIT UP bc anything remotely s3án-related is precious to him

8. Tmy finds out that there's services where you can just. Pay to go on a date with some guy (or other person), like a rental-boyfriend type thing. He’s like, “Yeah. I can go on a date with some guy to try it (being gay) out. Why not?” and while you can make requests, he decides, “fuck it, why browse the catalouge and make myself more anxious, I’ll just have them send some random guy”. Turns out, s3án works there part-time. Also turns out, he gets selected to go be tmy’s date. Oops.

9. ICE SKATING ICE SKATING ICE SKATING ICE SKATING BARKBARKBARK

10. tmy pretending to purr every time s3án shows him affection to be annoying

11. They keep fucking flirting on stream and everyone is so annoyed because they will NOT stop hitting on each other and playing it up and it’s like. “Get a fucking room ohh my god,,,”

12. S3án goes to a party with his friends and uses an ouija board, but this accidentally lets tmy into the human realm where he follows him home and haunts him!!!! Does silly shit like moving magnets on the fridge to spell penis or drinking all the milk or going just solid enough to throw a pillow at him and then becoming un-physical again so he can’t retaliate. (the pranks and haunting are actually just bc he thinks S3án is cute tho. And S3án ends up warming up to it.)

13. s3án is TRYING to make cookies but tmy keeps attempting to steal batter from the bowl, and it escalates into a food fight for the history books (ofc they have to clean up after)

14. MAKING 👏 PLAYLISTS👏 FOR 👏 EACH 👏 OTHER 👏👏

15. tmy’s anxiety gets out of hand and he starts overworking himself. s3án’s been there (I mean, he used to upload every day for christ’s sake) and so he does his best to help.

16. s3án is crushing on tmy and gets pretty upset about tmy flirting with…. every guy ever on twitter (and also on stream) but tries to hide it. tmy realizes he's jealous/pining and confronts him about his feelings.

17. Animal Hybrid Au where tmy's like. A Feral cat (or smthn like that. Maybe a vulture instead?) and keeps bringing s3án (human or more domestic animal) dead things and at first s3án’s very put off by it but he warms up to it over time

18. tmy wants to do a storytime vlog of his first kiss but realizes he's technically never kissed anyone on the lips, so tries to convince s3án to kiss him (on camera) for the clout.

19. s3án gets into an argument with someone who's saying mean shit about tmy, and they turn to insulting s3án instead (maybe even making threats). It is at this point that tmy conveniently stumbles upon the conversation and immediately tries to THROW HANDS

20. tmy going to a party, having a hangover, and then s3án caring for him and helping him get better.

21. s3án helping tmy when he wants to try painting his nails for the first time <<<3

22. tmy tries to be flirty/romantic to s3án in Irish bc. He’s irish. But conveniently forgets that even IN ireland everyone speaks english because the language is basically dead. s3án is. Confused. And only gets like half of the words

23. tmy being emberassed abt how he hordes things and s3án showing tmy his own little weird quirks so he feels better

24. They’re both autistic and adhd - tmy has internalized ableism like younger s3án did and s3án helps him slowly realize it’s ok that he needs extra help and stuff for things.

25. Another autism one- tmy helping s3án through a sensory overload!!!

26. ANOTHER another autism one- s3án slowly piecing together some of why tmy does stuff he does, like learning he likes routines and sameness and figuring out he genuine;y cant tell when someone is annoyed with him (cough cough… mr b34st hates me video…) and helps him out, supports him, just accommodates him and tries to explain to other ppl when they don’t get it. Also sees himself in some of these things to a lesser extent and ends up figuring out they’re both autistic as hell

27. They start flirting and calling each other their boyfriends as a bit and then uh oh! It's not a bit anymore !!!! because they’re literally cuddling wearing each others clothes and everyone just reads it as actually being gay and because the jokes aren’t really jokes anymore the flirting is beginning to hit different

28. (Based on the Time Source!tmy had a beard for like. A bit) s3án hyping tmy up when he grows a beard bc tmy's so happy with it and s3án wants to support his weird fashion choice

29. Snowed in :0000 ??!!!!! SNOWED IN???? And eventually the heater breaks and they have to huddle for warmth????

30. Since tmy can sing and play piano, he decides to give s3án a little private concert to subtly (or well, not that subtly) reveal his feelings and. It’s very cute

31. s3án kisses tmy at a con when they think no one's looking, but the next morning it's all over the internet. s3án is definitely terrified but tmy is feeling even worse, so he comforts him and they take care of each other, staying in the hotel to wait for things to blow over and trying not to go outside

32. Fic where tmy speaks a fluent second language, and a mutual friend of him and s3án speaks the same language- unknown to tmy. This friend hears tmy confess in this language and now has to cover for him, KNOWING he has a crush on s3án. This gets worse when they are out shopping and s3án, talking in korean w a cashier who speaks it, shyly admits to the cashier that he’s buying something for a crush, ALSO NOT KNOWING that this friend speaks THAT LANGUAGE TOO, before handing it over to tmy as a gift a few minutes after they leave. So NOW they have to live with the knowledge that both of these fuckers like each other, but they also don't wanna be a fucking snitch. Comedy.

33. s3án and tmy are chilling when Uh Oh, Religious Trauma!!!! tmy cuddles him and comforts him until he feels better. Major angst and hurt/comfort

34. one of them goes on some sort of podcast and when the hosts mention the other he almost immediately accidentally leaks that they're together lol

35. tmy’s drawing, and for background noise, starts listening to music he knows s3án likes to try and feel closer to him.

36. s3án and tmy TRY to watch a Generic Seasonal Movie ™ (Christmas or Halloween) On Netflix to try and get into the spirit, but they’re too hyperactive to pay attention and so they give up halfway through and go out to get fast food.

37. They're talking to a third party when s3án slips in conversation and calls tmy “his” tmy. tmy is ELATED

38. AQUARIUM DATE *foams at mouth*

39. tmy gets kinda nervous that no one takes him seriously bc of how extra™️ and loud and hyper he is and also because he likes pretty childish stuff and s3án helps out and it's pog

40. :00 showering together /nsx

41. Soulmate AU where the first time your soulmate kisses you (anywhere), it leaves colors on your skin for a bit

42. Obligatory beach episode; s3án is shirtless and tmy is GAY or vice versa

43. s3án helping tmy through a thunderstorm (bc those are scary as FUCK)

44. S3án trying to teach tmy how to play 3ld3n R1ng or D4rk S0uls and tmy is...bad at it

45. Delirious giggly all nighter softness. Maybe w snacks??? They’re so eepy and sleepy,,,,, they’re so uwu,,,,,

46. Meeting!! tmy’s!!! Parents!!! s3án already met them at tmy’s show but now he’s meeting them as tmy’s BOYFRIEND and he’s lowkey nervous as hell

47. s3án realizes he likes tmy, and because he’s a hopeless romantic he starts listening to embarrassingly cutesy generic love songs about it. That's it that's the prompt I just think it's funny to imagine Jck S3ptic Eye, heavy metal fan, listening to 3d Sh3eran or even kpop like Twic3 or some other cutesy kpop group LMAOOOOO. His headphones unplug on accident or some shit and it's T4yl0r Sw1ft’s “You Belong With Me” and he's cripplingly embarrassed. like. It's so funny to me.

48. tmy1nn1t starts sleeping with a jcks3pt1c3ye stuffed animal (like the t0tm coffee one) and tries to keep it a secret because he's emberassed, but he goes over to s3án's house and s3án forgets to his his own tmy1NN1T stuffed animal, which tmy sees very obviously in his bed next to his pillow when he comes over.

49. In which people's hearts/feelings can manifest physically if they ignore and repress them enough, so tmy gets stuck trying to wrangle another, tinier little nonverbal chibi tmy (like three to four inches tall) that is extremely obvious abt his feelings for s3án and VERY intent about getting his attention. One day, s3án comes over and tmy locks the smaller tmy in a drawer, but this mini tmy manages to escape, hitching a ride in s3án’s bag so he can be with him and follow him around. When tmy realizes what's happened, he's HORRIFIED and tries to figure out where s3án's going/been to try and get the his heart back before s3án figures it out, and of course at the same time s3án ends up slowly realizing he has a little hitchhiker and taking care of him. He thinks the little tmy is very cute and is endeared by him, and also figures out he has a crush because tiny tmy is the opposite of subtle and very obvious on purpose (kissing him where he can reach and stuff, begging for attention by whining like a puppy and making happy little noises when it is RECEIVED) By the time tmy catches up with him his little self is like. Hugging s3án’s hand/finger all affectionate and squeaking happily while s3án, petting the little guy, looks up to the actual tmy and is like. “i assume this is yours lol?”

50. S3án realizing he likes tmmy and then being really shy around him after and kind of caught off guard/embarrassed by it. That being said he cannot get it together and stop acting like a nervous little kid w a crush, he’s so shy and flustered and it's so painfully obvious how he feels that he’s kicking himself. Thankfully Tmy is immune to social cues so it’s only obvious to literally everyone else. Tmy is harem protagonist levels of dense to the point s3án would think it was on purpose if he didn’t know him well enough to know he is just Like That- and he only puts it together when he is told DIRECTLY and CLEARLY that s3án likes him, where upon he is super starstruck and confused (really??? For real??? U like me??? ME???? omg???) like it hasn’t been on a billboard in bold letters for months. (this is a very autistic prompt. Autism wins)

51. Classic “truth or dare kiss and whoopsies i liked it too much” but the twist?? It’s drunk and on a livestream so they have to have the internal panic afterwords live and mask it despite being too drunk to do it well at all

52. Secret admirer trope,,,,, woah,,,,,,

53. You get a specific task you have to complete to reveal who your soulmate is. Tmy's task is to fold a thousand paper cranes. He enlists s3án for help, they hang out and bond and have a fun time, and S3án is his soulmate yippee!!! (S3án couldn't complete his own task when he got it for whatever reason, so he is also surprised)

54. DOUBLE LIFE AU. DOUBLE LIFE AU. LOOK ME DEAD IN THE FUCKING EYES. DOUBLE LIFE AU

55. S3án is a shapeshifter/changeling and Tmmy is a bard type magic user who finds out about this mysterious shapeshifter a few towns over and is VERY intrigued and then he meets him and he's not only a shapeshifter but also this silly loud guy who's honestly very weird and pretty and tmy is like. "I am going to seduce this funky little magic creature if it litterally fucking kills me".

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feisaru · 2 years ago

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I have 2 questions: - What got you into Inazuma Eleven and into shipping SaruFei and -What is your MBTI?

I like those two asks a lot! I've been waiting for someone to ask me about it for ages. Thank you!

First, about my MBTI. I am one pretty solid INTJ, I have a tendency to lean towards ENTJ in certain aspects tho. (As a little trivia on the side: I'm interested in MBTI and so have been researching functions etc. for quite some time now)

What got me into IE?

Simple. My brother. Summer 2018, he was always watching that annoying soccer show on TV at our grandparents' house, always asking me to come join him. And you know what? One day, I did, and it was one of the best decisions throughout my entire life. The show (only the first season back then) grew onto me rapidly, especially its lovable characters. Heck, IE had me in such a chokehold that I even played soccer with my brother bc of it. At the very beginning, Afuro was living in my head rent-free. He specifically helped me through some very rough times and I will never forget that. He will always be dear to my heart. I did get "out of" IE at some point for reasons, but I always wound up coming back to it cause turns out, no other franchise has ever quite given me as much comfort as this one. Across the last few years, I've been always returning to it with my thoughts whenever it got especially bad. I'm glad I managed to properly come back to it and have it be a big part of my everyday life (hyperfixation be damned (very lovingly)).

Now, imo, Chrono Stone deserves a honorary mention. The CS game (and later the anime) made me feel approximately ten times better than the rest of IE, and that's something. Long story short, I picked up the game from the store the first time I was into IE right after I had done research and learned that this franchise is actually based on games. There was no other game there, so I thougt this would do, too. Then I didn't touch it until 2021. The reason I started playing it was that I desperately needed to escape reality and CS succeeded at distracting me excellently. Coming home in the evening to open my Nintendo was the single highlight of my day.

How did I become insane over Sarufei?

Good question, anon. I cannot really pinpoint the moment it happened, but I can tell you it was pretty quick. Their first bits together already caught my attention in the most brain-tickling way possible, like this one:

The CS manga panel where they let Saryuu cry after he lost and Fei reassures him played into that too (I bought the manga solely for that, but turns out it was overall good). I could go on and on about their psychological aspects that spoke to me right off the bat, but I'll spare you that. Before I knew it, I was trying to search out content of them at 3 am on a week day (good content of them is pretty hard to come by with, in my experience at least). My head was really really really full of them, as it is now as well. They're pretty much the reason I picked up drawing & content creating again after years. The first thing I did after I finished playing CS was draw them and create a social media account so I can post it, so I can find someone to talk about them to. I had to channel how unhinged I'm over them somehow. They're also the reason I still keep on drawing. They make so fucking ill and I'm rotating them in my head at all times.

In conclusion, thanks for letting me go wild through text although this is by far not the best thing I've ever written

(I have. So much to say its jarring but sharing my stuff makes me anxious sometimes nonetheless)

#feisaru receives asks #i wanted an excuse to talk about this for so long #its good nobody will ever see this too #if u got any more questions come at me anon #ask #anon #also just quickly about their shipname #solely bc i felt like talking abt it #feisaru prolly #fits what i think of them a little better #at least as far as others peoples method of composing ship #names goes #fei is the one much more comfy with the idea of them being affecionate with each other in the beginning #but sarufei is the name im used to #and its a name i keep close to my heart as well #the thing is who cares about who gets the front of the shipname and who the back?? it doesn't matter #esp when the power dynamic evens out more eventually #still feisaru does sound very nice. that's why i'm now polluting that tag with my drawings too #my brain is a bit tired after the past week #loads of humans loads of walking not too much sleep and freetime. yeah #forced to be out with my class yk the drill #feisaru #heh #sorry for the choppy tags read them like theyre not choppy #i always go insane whenever i get asks

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dalniente · 5 years ago

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Hi! I know this is indeed a silly question but do you have any specific techniques for dealing with writers block or maintaining motivation through a long period of time? I personally have a hard time holding on to motivation and just wanted to know if you know anything that helps with that?

not a silly question at all!!! my tried and true methods for banishing writers block are:

find music that fits the emotion of the scene you’re struggling with, and write while listening to it. lisa gerrard, thomas bergersen, & christopher tin are good for this. and movie soundtracks.

the problem may be that the scene you just wrote isn’t right for the story. yes, even if you planned it this way. yes, even if you’re proud of it. you accidentally wrote a square peg for a round hole; that happens sometimes! cut & paste it into a blank doc and write the characters doing something different. it might be the whole scene or it might just be the last 4 sentences. just go in a slightly different direction & see if that helps.

you might be bored. work on a different project for a while. (this is super valuable because it lets you build other projects for very low stakes, which i’ll discuss further in the next section.)

read a book you haven’t read in a while or watch a movie you loved as a kid. or absorb new stuff! too much output and not enough input means your creativity reservoirs are dry & you have to re-fuel.

if all else fails, find a friend or fellow fan and rubberduck at them. infodump about your fic. either they’ll have suggestions, or you’ll realize what’s wrong as you’re talking.

motivation-wise...unfortunately half of the answer in my case is “ADHD hyperfixation, baby.” I don’t really have any solid answers for this...the vast majority of what i’m publishing these days are fics i started drafting ages ago and have been quietly adding to when i hit writer’s block on my “main” project (see #3, above). procrastination is a great motivator! use it! so is “oh my god i am sick of looking at this and i want to just share it with people, already,” which tends to happen when you’ve sat on a fic for like eight f!cking years XD but yeah, point is, a lot of my recent fics are thing i never thought would ever be published.

but on that note, another thing i’ve been finding works pretty well to help keep momentum is not to start posting multi-chapter fics until you’ve got a bunch of chapters spaced out and already partly filled. i can’t outline without losing interest, but what i CAN do is write 60 pages of raw, procrastination-fueled nonsense and then go “okay, now where are the chapter breaks and what am i building around, here?” and use the dopamine high that comes with posting chapters to keep myself going until it’s done. Pros of this method: it reduces the odds of writing yourself into a wall (see #2, above) and having to slog through a block that won’t budge. Cons of this method: it requires a lot of time spent writing with no input at all, which may not work for you.

ultimately, i think the most important thing is: give yourself permission to take whatever time you need. nothing kills motivation like guilt. i got hella depressed and didn’t even look at cold fusion for two years, didn’t look at swansong for...a little under half that. it is okay to let your projects sit for months or years until you’re ready to work on them again. they’ll be there when you come back! just don’t feel bad in the meantime, or you won’t WANT to go back.

tl;dr: big projects take time to complete, so let yourself take time to complete them and don’t be afraid to work on other stuff. the motivation will probably come back around eventually!

#askbasket #whovianimeniac #dal is a fanfic #writing #i hope some of this is useful!!

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ask-edd · 5 years ago

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hey dan, what are your favorite songs? also is your cat Paramore a reference to the band Paramore?

Strap in lads, you’ve asked about my hyperfixation! I’ll be nice and put it under a cut though because it’s gonna get long

Okay so first a special mention to my favorite bands!

- Literally every Autoheart song is amazing, Special mention to the Punch and We Can Build a Fire albums (Their music can be a bit hard to find on youtube sometimes, but they’re available on Spotify, so it’s best to listen to them on there)

Some specific recommendations include Hungover in the City of Dust, Lent, Agoraphobia, Stalker’s Tango, Foolishly Wrong, Sylvia, No Beat to My Heart, Factories, Beat the Love, Wretch, and like..... a lot more...........

- There’s only a few Sonata Arctica songs that I like, but they were my favorite band from like, 8th grade until post college drop out when I found Autoheart.

Those songs are Shy, Replica, Fullmoon, Kingdom for a Heart, San Sebastian, and Wolf & Raven

- And Ghost! They’re a band with lore that you should definitely look into. Plus if you like Gay Catholicism, these guys are Gay Satanism, which is 10x better

Songs of theirs I love are He Is, Year Zero, Square Hammer, Dance Macabre (Remix), Kiss the Go-Goat, Cirice, Zombie Queen (Live), and Monstrance Clock

- Pretty much every RWBY song is solid gold, Jeff and Casey Lee Williams are phenomenal artists

Some recommendatiosn include Miracle, Lionize, Nevermore, Indomitable, Forever Fall, Cold, Armed and Ready, Ignite, Bad Luck Charm, This Will be the Day, Boop, Let’s Just Live, Home, This Life is Mine, Like Morning Follows Night, RWBY vs FNKI, Mirror Mirror, I May Fall, Red Like Roses pt II, Shine, and This Will Be the Day

And now for some more randomly assorted songs!

- 18 and Life by Skid Row

- 12 Feet Deep by The Front Bottoms

- Naked and Love the Way You Move by Slightly Left of Centre

- She’s So High by Tal Bachman

- I Don’t Wanna Be in Love by Good Charlotte

- Getaway, Technically that’s a Hook, Not Myself, I for One Welcome Our Robot Overlords, Bon Bon Voyage, Underpaid and Overqualified, Outro Outro, Keeper of the Flame, and Cult of Personality by Richie Branson

- In the End, Crawling, Papercut, Numb, Breaking the Hait, New Divide, and What I’ve Done by Linkin Park

- Picture Framed by rei brown

- Romeo and Juliet, Sex in the City, Peach Scone, and Creve Coeur 1 by Hobo Johnson

- Kangaroo Court by Capital Cities

- Killer, Goodbye Mr. A, Up to No Good, Worried About Ray, and A Sadness Runs Through Him by The Hoosiers

- When I’m With You, The Future, Every Note, Soul on Fire, Freaking Out, Money, Paralyzed, Hellbent, Forever, Magic, Ghost, and Losing My Mind by Mystery Skulls

- Campfire Light by Tequila & The Sunrise Gang

- Cola Song by INNA

- Here Comes the Hotstepper (Remix) by Baby & Me

- Bruises by Fox Stevenson

- Shut up and Dance by WALK THE MOON

- Kiss Me by Sixpence None the Richer

- So Good by Bratz

- Dark Paradise by Lana Del Rey

- Amhran Na Farraige by Lisa Hannigan

- A Moment of Silence by Dan P

- Toes, Black Mambo, Season 2 Episode 3, Youth, Gooey, The Other Side of Paradise, and Pork Soda by Glass Animals

I’ll cut it there or else we’d be here all day

#ask #eddsworld #ew dan #talksprite #gif #Anonymous

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dameronology · 5 years ago

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what’re your fanfic preferences?

thank you to @ewansumfuk for tagging me :D

tag someone whose writing you like or whose preferences you’d like to know more about: i’m gonna have to come back and tag people when my laptop has charged bc my tumblr app never lets me tag anyone and it’s a pain in the backside

1. NSFW or no? low-key and non detailed smut i can do, but anything detailed is difficult for me because frankly i don’t know enough synonyms for people’s biological parts to make it long and detailed, BUT i love writing lists of random head canons

2. Drama and angst or fluff’n’stuff? i live for drama that turns into fluff. like declarations of love in the middle of arguments? kissing someone to stop them rambling? that is what sustains me

3. Do you prefer pre-established relationships, pre-relationship fic, or confessions? in imagines and oneshots, i much prefer pre-established relationships but in longer series, i almost always start from scratch and go from when they met

4. Friends to lovers? Enemies to lovers? Enemies to friends to lovers? i see your friends to lovers and i raise you friends to lovers to enemies to lovers. like i love a bit of angsty back and forth and i especially love when they decide to try and be friends despite the obvious tension that eventually snaps

5. How do you take your pining? mutual pining, but only one person makes it obvious

6. Kidfic or no? it’s not something I’ve written before tbh

7. Do you prefer short or long fills/stories? honestly, i love both. i love quick blurbs that give you feels but those long series that you get absorbed in and make you feel like you’re living it? that.

8. Canon-compliant or AU? both, but mostly non-canon compliant because i am in two fandoms which ended with some famously bad writing decsions (see: steve rogers in endgame and reylo) and if i don’t ignore them i’ll cry

9. Of your current hyperfixation, how many AUs do you have? more than i want to admit

10. No, really, count them. it’s probably a solid 8

11. If NSFW is your thing, what’s on your no-no list? bc i don’t write detailed smut i don’t think i’d write anything kink specific

12. What’s on your yes-please list? in terms of more than just nsfw stuff: jealousy, slow-burn, friends to lovers, soft domestic stuff, literally anything angsty and also enemies to lovers

13. What do you think you don’t see enough of in your corner of ficland? i’ve jumped between fandoms for the better part of six years and one thing i wish i saw more of is fics that ended with the characters apart but happy. like where they go on a journey together and have fun and do love each other but ultimately recognise they’re better apart and they stay friends/cherish those memories. like that happens a lot in real life and i think it would be cool to see in fan fiction

14. What’s your be-all, end-all, will always make me happy favorite trope combination? when people are arguing and somebody yells ‘i did it because i love you!’ or something to that affect...and then they just stare at each other in silence like oop

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trashpremium-moved · 5 years ago

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13, 31, 35, and 51?

13: How do you feel right now?

tired, first of all because it’s after midnight akdjfha. but also kinda excited/sad because my parents are going on vacation for a week starting tomorrow (they bring our sailboat to another town for races every year) and so i’m gonna be alone in my house which is cool but also i am gonna have to take care of three dogs and my grandma so ;-;

31: 3 random facts.

all the facts in my brain rn are podcast related bc i’ve been hyperfixated for a solid year but uhhhh

1. julius caesar was such a hoe that they had to make new adultery laws in ancient rome specifically because of him 2. cowboys were mostly black or latino, and a lot of them were gay. the cishet white guy version of the wild west just straight up isn’t true 3. probably pretty common knowledge but Mary Shelley lost her virginity on her mother’s grave (i’m staring at a copy of Frankenstein rn and couldn’t think of another fact)

35: favorite subject.

Like school subject? I’ve really liked science, specifically things like biology, for as long as I can remember but this past year i had my first history class that taught actual history and not white christian bullshit so i’m finding out that i also really like history!

51: star sign.

my friends teasingly make fun of me for being a stereotypical capricorn all the time. like we get it i’m a workaholic and a perfectionist akdfjhaskdjfh

#sorry i couldn't think up more interesting facts my brain straight up stops working at midnight #zephyr talks #zephyr gets asks #winged-wolf-s-collection-of-arts #ask games #friend tag

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noccalula-writes · 6 years ago

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What are your favorite games and franchises? Top 5?

OH BOY have I got feelings on this subject.

Please keep in mind - I’m a storyteller and a writer. I fucking /love/ a good story. I DM a DnD game and my biggest weakness is that I don’t often include enough combat because I am so much more interested in telling a story. So for me, there’s got to be an emotional investment for a game to really land. I also hyperfixate like a motherfucker so I often refuse to pick up new things purely because there’s not enough space in my head for them at the time, so I’m slow getting to things as they come out.

So, I’m first and foremost a survival horror bitch. I cut my teeth on Parasite Eve before I played any others - my mother scrimped and saved and fought her way through Wal-mart back in like 1998 to get me the original Playstation gaming console and Tekken 2 (which was my first PS game, I played it in an arcade near her barber shop as a child - Tomb Raider 2 was my second). The old Playstation discs at that time came with demos for different games, including Metal Gear Solid, which I replayed until I could have done it in my sleep because poverty meant I wasn’t likely to get another game anytime soon. I mention this because the Parasite Eve trailer used to give me nightmares but I was super, super hooked.

I am a huge Silent Hill fan. Huge. That is a tragedy I could write a whole ‘nother post about, because as excited as I am to finally get my hands on Death Stranding (again, poverty, so it’ll be another minute before we can get a PS4), we’ll never get another SH game again unless some major reconciliation happens with Kojima and Konami, which is unlikely (and also hard to hope for - I’m happy Kojima now has the creative freedom to go as balls to the wall as he wants).

I am an equally huge Resident Evil fan. I’ve always maintained that my first fandom was The X Files, but my wife pointed out a few nights ago that my RE love started around the same time in the late 90′s, so now it’s a chicken and egg kind of thing. Point being, it’s either The or One Of my longest lasting fandoms/interests. RE and Silent Hill get compared to one another a lot - RE7 did nothing to help that - but they really are apples and oranges to me. Fruit, sure, but two totally different tones and experiences.

I’ve been a huge Tomb Raider fan for forever - my first high school boyfriend was loaded and bought me Angel of Darkness to come play at his house and while it was def critically panned, I do recall enjoying it - so that’s been fun to get those games remade with updated graphics. I’ve only played the one but the others are def on The List.

So now that I’ve talked for an hour, my Top 5 fave games ever -

#1 - Resident Evil 3 I am beyond jazzed for this remake, and a lot of people in the 90′s complained about RE3′s lack of clear cut boss battles, but I don’t know what they’re talking about. The entire fucking game is a boss battle - Jill vs. Raccoon City, and of course, Nemesis, who used to give my mother nightmares and caused me to sleep with a leaf-stabber by my bed for years. Jill is far and away my favorite protagonist in RE; she’s got a resilience of the spirit that somehow isn’t conflated with naivety, which is uncommon in ‘nice’ female protags. She’s savvy but she’s still kind, and she’s committed as fuck to survival - not to mention, as zealotous a Chris and Jill shipper as I am, she and Carlos had hella chemistry and I’m excited to see where that goes (JD Pardo would have made a fuck of a Carlos Oliviera, btw). It was An Experience and it’s forever at my #1.

#2 - The Last of Us

There is no comparison for emotional weight in video games, as far as I’m concerned. SPOILERS if you don’t already know the ending (this game came out in what, 2014?) but to me one of the biggest thing in the game’s favor is that the protagonist made the wrong choice. He had an option to potentially eradicate the cordyceps fungus and maybe save the world, turn the tides back for humanity, and with the weight of the world in the balance, he chose to save Ellie instead. It was, on a global scale, the wrong choice - but it was the human choice. It was the thing that a dad who never properly grieved his dead daughter would do for the surrogate daughter he inherited by accident. As for Ellie, there is no other character quite like her in games, and she’s fucking quality LGBT representation, especially considering how little we see queer children in media. I still cry every time, we play this game twice a year like clockwork and every single time, I still cry.

#3 - Silent Hill 3

All of SH’s games will have a special place in my heart - and if you wanna talk shit about Downpour, I’ll meet you in the Denny’s parking lot at 11, you better square the fuck up because I will defend Murphy with fists - but 3 is the best, hands down. I felt like it did the best job of streamlining the series’ ... uhm... somewhat complicated lore into something more understandable. SPOILERS: The villains are horrific - the Missionaries strike fear into my heart every time I play, and Claudia eating a miscarried god fetus to become god herself? Fucked up on a level you rarely see. I suppose if you didn’t catch it in the last sentence - your protag Heather vomits up a fetal god late in the game. Yes, you read that right. The best thing about this game though? Heather. I could climb up my feminist soapbox and talk about Heather as a subversion to video game tropes all fucking day - she’s a nonsexualized teenage girl whose father is killed for her character development. She’s self-sufficient, tough but still vulnerable, and hard as nails in a fight. As I might have mentioned a time or six, she also voluntarily aborts a god because Fuck Your Plans, She’s Got Her Own.

#4 - Final Fantasy X

Listen. I don’t know how much of this is because of actually enjoying playing the game and how much of it is emotional attachment. As most of you who follow me know, my mother died when I was sixteen. When I was about fourteen, I dated a rich kid who used to bring his PS2 to our very not-rich house and play games for us to watch - the sort of neophyte version of Watching Guys Play Videogames, if you will, which is another rant for another time. He got a Gamecube specifically so I could play RE Zero and Hunter The Reckoning. He was a neckbeard but he was also desperate to keep me from ditching so he did the smart thing and plied my very poor ass with money and food. The #1 game in the watching roster, though, was FFX - and if you know anything about the game, you know how heavily spirituality features into the story. My mother, very caught up in a very Eastern Philosphy Meets Quantum Physics internal seeking about the nature of things, was hooked from the word Go. She used to sit and watch Trey play for hours - we all did, but having her join us and love it that much? Wonderful. Half my memories of this game are both of us crying - crying when Yuna dances to send the souls, crying when Yuna reveals she’s on a suicide mission, crying when she and Tidus fall in love anyway, crying when she sends her Aeons to die in the final fight, crying over ‘the fayts are waking up’, crying when the big reveal about Auron comes up, crying crying crying. My wife bought it in 2011 and I watched her play through it again and while it suffers from the same issue as all FF games - too much filler and weird battle scenarios - it was cathartic. I miss my mom.

#5 - Resident Evil 6

Eat my entire ass. You already knew this was coming. I will defend this game to my grave for the fact that we have complex, interesting narratives surrounding female characters who have actual personalities. Was it perfect? No. Did it take RE out of horror territory and move it more into action? Woefully, yes. Is this series deeply problematic for where it chooses to set down your mostly-white protags and have them kill their way through? Big time. Don’t gloss those facts. But it’s got emotional punch in spades and a few weird character breaks that ended up being kind of brilliant - Chris has been so resiliently relentless in his fight against bioterrorism that a major PTSD break was inevitable. Leon would of course risk life and limb to help Helena, even though she implicated herself in something terrible. The icing on the cake to me was a grown up Sherry Birkin, wide eyed and believing like hell in the fight she thought she was on the right side of and getting knocked down only to get back up. Ada’s entire side campaign was brilliant. I hate some of the control choices they made in this game - the running from the Haos scenes near the end of Chris and Piers’ campaign makes me want to eat my own fist - but so it goes with most RE games (until RE4, moving your protag was like driving a tank). Jake and Sherry are My Unsinkable Ship. There are at least six scenes across this game that never get easier to watch - when the bomb hits the city and the cut scene of the mass infections begin, I still get sick to my stomach - and that, to me, is the mark that this game struck a hell of a chord in terms of storytelling.

This was long.

#noccalula answers #this was fucking long #ask and ye shall receive #vidja games

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jessielefey · 3 years ago

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So @akinaw hey... back when this post was new and I had yet to regret all of my life choices that lead me here, I had a little fun actually interacting with good faith criticism with the obvious "this was a 3am rant revolving around my irritation with a very specific recurring pop-culture joke and not an academic thesis" flaws in this post.

And I don't know if it's because this particular outbreak of "oh god if I knew this was my legacy I would've added footnotes at least" has been more positive than usual, but I wouldn't mind if someone who actually did a thesis on the topic wanted to extrapolate on my "had a year and a half hyperfixation on the history of street medicine and who gets dismissed as quackery versus who gets called a proper doctor even though they were just as wrong" disjointed statements on a poorly defined topic.

Accurate criticisms I remember and acknowledge:

1) some of them *were* actually just snakeoil selling graverobbers, no doubt (though that's beside the point, the "real doctor" leeching out your bad humors had a similar percentage of actual self-aware and malicious con-men with added snobbery, the entire irritation is about who we give the benefit of the doubt of respectability to)

2) I'm making points that cover like six hundred years and half of europe and a solid bakery order of very different plagues *and* the outbreaks thereof as if it was a universal constant, with very little acknowledgement of how regional, fragmented, and transitory anything that could be called a plague doctor was. Very fair. The joke I was arguing against is unstated, without that context this seems random in a way that's likely to increase people's pre-existing preconceptions on the topic, because the incorrect preconceptions was what set me off to begin with.

(Criticisms I refuse to acknowledge: people who pretend I'm saying vinegar can kill covid. This post predates covid by at least a year, I would've been more clear if I wrote it after the great bleach drinking of 2020. Just because it's a solid household decontaminant doesn't mean it's as good as an industrial decontaminant and just because it can't kill tuberculosis doesn't mean it's suddenly unarmed against normal kitchen e coli. The whole point, like with Jurassic Park's cgi, is on how well it still stands against modern advancements; modern advances being better was assumed?)

So yeah, obviously you're not obligated. But if you were looking for an invitation to infodump or had bit your lip to not make a comment for fear of being unwelcome, you're one of like three people I'd be excited to get a followup post from, because you're both knowledgable but also seem to get the vibe I was riding when I wrote it and aren't likely to be antagonistic.

I like enthusiastic nerd-sharing fact checking not pedantic nerd-rage welackchyually-ing, yano? You seem game.

Apparently I badly want to go on my “stop making fun of plague doctors, they were ahead of their time and doing the best they could with the primitive equipment they had available” rant.

#I have huge deja-vue on this now though #I hope we haven't had this interaction before and I'm coming off like I'm begging the popular kid to talk to me or something

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I'd love to hear those hyperfixation thoughts (also everytime you post ian and mickey I get closer to catching up on shameless)

Hello! omg haha thank you for giving me an excuse to waffle on about it. But also now that you’ve said that you’re gonna regret it because I’m gonna go ahead and write the essay that’s been brewing in my head for like 2 months and I apologize in advance.

But first oh no pleaseee be wary of catching up shameless. It’s really just as bad as it was before, and there’s a lot of tension in the fandom from what I can see, and I feel like it’s not a good for anyone’s mental health to get invested. Or maybe wait until the s10 finale airs (end of January) and then catch up on all the ian and mickey stuff, that way you don’t have to wait out the stressful cliffhangers and you’ll know how it ends. I just don’t want to be responsible for anyone getting themselves emotionally hurt by shameless again. But also I am glad that there is now a second person who I know doesn’t hate that I’m posting that stuff haha because unfortunately I am *in it.*

Okay hyperfixations! I have always been someone who is prone to hyperfixations, which I think has been both a good and bad thing for me. It’s bad in that I get over invested in something and it gains too much power over my mental health, so then if anything goes wrong (see, shameless sucking, that whole dnp at f*lix’s birthday fiasco) I feel a big emotional dip in response. Which obviously, like, is not good for my or anyone’s mental health!

But hyperfixations have also been really good for me because they’ve helped me get through bad times by being a distraction, or they’ve given me an outlet to be creative and really think about stuff in a way that I might not be getting in my life. And I think hyperfixations of certain things often come into our lives because we are lacking a specific something. When we fall away from the thing, it’s likely because our life or feelings have changed and we don’t feel we can get as much from it anymore. So this makes RE-visiting hyperfixations super interesting. Because it could be you need it for the same reason, but that’s unlikely because people change! So even if, say, you’re going through a tough time again, you’ll probably be in a slightly different place than before, so what you GET out of a hyperfixation and what you SEE in it will change. So the hyperfixation will be the same, but the experience won’t.

Like, this is my second go-around in the phandom. I first, like, joined the phandom in 2010. I remember the buildup to pinofs 3 and 4. And at that time it was already clear to me that there was strong chemistry between them and thought they were probably more than friends, but to be honest I just thought they were really funny and enjoyed the banter. I wasn’t too invested in like phan per say, and so when 2012-2013 became a chaotic time in the phandom and dnp became much more weird towards each other on camera and I hated that and I hated all the speculation about it and I didn’t make it through.

I didn’t revisit Dan and Phil until November 2016. I missed the whole tatinof era, knew it was happening but wasn’t really interested. I went through a rough patch during that time where I had to pull away a bit from a lot of the people in my life and wasn’t sleeping well, and then one day I came across pinof 8 and…ohh boy. I was TRANSFIXED. I was like wow something is going on here and it’s complex and layered and fullll of love. And the first time I discovered dnp I’d needed to laugh. The second time I wanted to better understand love. So they became a little bit more of a case study for me, this go around. And then – who would have ever thought �� I wrote a long-ass fanfiction ABOUT 2012. The me who was in the phandom in 2012 would’ve probably hated my own fic lmao. But that’s how revisiting hyperfixations works! You’ve changed and so the thing itself has changed.

And I don’t think I ever fully realized this until these past few months when I fell back down the god forsaken rabbit whole that is ian and mickey. (And shameless is, like, the textbook example of a BAD THING TO BE HYPERFIXATED ON lmao. I think even back in the time of s1-5 people would’ve said it was an unreliable hyperfixation, a sort of gamble in hell, and that’s especially the case now. I would argue that s1-4 were good, with a solid tone and arc, and then s5 started to lose its magic, and then s6-9 were so bad that they cracked the entire foundation of the show. Shameless will NEVER be able to recover from that and unfortunately never will ian and mickey.) I rewatched all of their scenes for the first time since like 2015 and found that I felt differently now about almost every one! Back in 2011-2015 I really enjoyed their dynamic in s4 and cared the most about that, but now I feel so much more aware of ian’s manipulative nature. Comparatively, I used to not care about ixm stuff in s2 at all, because they only had like 3 seasons. But now the idea of that summer!!! Makes me want to explode!!! Because that’s the summer that they actually like became friends and got to hang out and be just dumb young boys. The dugout scene kills me, is maybe my favorite of theirs overall. And of course the fact that I care about this more now is probably also because I am older and feel more badly about their lost childhoods, and so instead of wanting to push them forward as s4 does – mickey coming out, their famous kiss scene, etc – I want to rewind time and give them the space to be children and dumb in love. I never would have cared about that before.

So revisiting hyperfixations is kind of nostalgia but also a strange marker of time in which something that is old becomes completely new and also makes you aware of how you as a person have probably become new even though you might feel old or exactly the same. I don’t know it’s so weird! Time is so strange! Happy new year everyone!

#tortitabby #i think the last paragraph of this is the TLDR haha

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