#i'm around if anyone wants to plot!

[ai-the-broccoli]

enemies to lovers / but you'll never own my heart

@luzon-dove happy birthday, Quinn!! As a present, I decided to draw a piece fanart of your "blood in the walls of the yagami house" AU fic series, since I found it very well-written and full of super interesting ideas and concepts. I hope you like it!

[r3dblccd]

Chat, how many benefits of the doubt do I give someone that keeps kind of ghosting me

[paxtonxxwalker]

Paxton poured out a few shots that were on the counter and looked over at the person beside him, "C'mon drink with me! I'm in a great mood." He grinned, "After all the hell of the past couple weeks things are finally okay-ish. I'll take it as a win. At least for now." @ggstarterblog

[yoihino]

Does anyone have any modern cultivation novel/manwha/manga recommendations? I found a really good mdzs fanfic where it was situated in modern times but with known cultivation (Truth will out (when caught on video) by KizuKatana on ao3) as well as a svsss one where Liu Qingge, Shen Yuan and Shang Qinghua are all transmigrated back to the modern world where they discover cultivation also exists there (Another time, another place by Mayvn also on ao3). I loved these fics and want to read more modern cultivation stuff, but I have tried some of the most recommended ones and found them to have too much harem/flawless op protagonist for my taste. I like it when they center more around cultivation itself and the mechanics of the world. Does anyone know of any work like this or is this a futile search and I should learn to read harem novels?

[moondustlings]

i am home and unpacked (kinda, not really) after a long weekend away, so replies owed will be written over the next couple days!

[asureblogs]

This ending... wasn't it. I don't understand what Gege had in mind at all, what is this?? Respect to Gege of course but, no...

[viridiave]

ahhhh calling them fic logs might be charitable actually because all I want to do when I write is complain and over-explain my own fucking logic until I stumble into an answer that makes me go 'ohhhh THAT'S why I wrote that line'

i say this every time but i write like i'm flying by the seat of my pants and it turns out I have a LOT of complaining to do

i really want to delude myself into thinking that like. I'm writing something meaningful but what this really is is just me having a lack of restraint when it comes to ideas. Like I'll start injecting an entire backstory onto that kid Miguel smacked around in Alfyn's Chapter 3 because I was like 'Saintsbridge is a little fucked up if you think about it' one day and now I'm staring down a script including Timothy and it's like 'why in the fresh HELL does this make sense actually.'

I dunno who really cares about seeing any of that unfold except for me. I throw words onto the screen and hope people care about it enough to think that it isn't a pointless diversion from the characters that 'matter'

[bitegore]

baru cormorant seems to me to be a series that suffers miserably for me having read machineries of empire first. unfortunately everything BC is doing strikes me as something MoE did better and more believably and with much a greater and more grounded eye for how systems, complex system interaction, and oppression like. work

[kowaindar0u]

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[mysteriouslybluepirate]

PLEASE CLICK A BUTTON

No knowledge of either media is needed. Please. Click a button. Click what sounds cool! You not caring HELPS!

If you WANT knowledge about what you voted for, I've written out a description of each faction down below.

If you know both stories, pick what sounds most interesting to you. Your vote shapes a story!! I'd appreciate a reblog for more votes!

(The top 5 groups will be featured somehow in the fic)

Why am I doing this? Well, I am signing up for the Izzy Hands Bingo! Only issue, I want to use my bingo card to create an AU based around the world of Fallout. I have 1 issue.

I don't want to decide this one choice, as to me, planning any aspect of a fic before a writing challenge defeats a bit of the purpose of the challange. You know? So I'm letting y'all choose Izzy&Ed's background. Their background influences how I write almost everything else. The moral, the main beats of the sotry, the romances, etc. All on THIS choice.

So I am relying on the people who don't know shit about the fallout universe to act as a random dice throw. BUT PLEASE VOTE IF YOU KNOW WHO THESE FACTIONS ARE! This fic is going to be written for those who know nothing about this world, but if you want to see Ed and Izzy with a certain background, VOTE WITH BIAS!

QUICK EXPLANATION OF EACH FACTIONS FROM ME, WITHOUT GOOGLE:

New California Republic: After the world has been destroyed, this group believes on forming another democracy. Taking over small societies, and taxing them in return for protection. Full of modern white collar corruption, this faction is prone to murdering their citizens, or giving them HIGH standards they will fail. This group believes that THEY are the superior organization and wants everyone else to be dead.

Brotherhood of Steel: God, isn't it cool that the US has such advanced weaponry? Isn't US culture so COOL? What if the US was destroyed, and now there's a faction built around gathering technology of the Pre-bombed world, dead set on taking over the US? Willing to die for a pre world toaster. OH- AND they are a psudeo-Christan/Catholic faction built around following some pre war religious ideas. Including chastity, and following a ridged social ladder. This group believes that THEY are the superior organization and wants everyone else to be dead.

Raiders (Unfriendly): Why build a new society when you can just kill people and take their shit? Not a faction, but SOME build small settlements. They are the vultures of the wasteland. Murderous vultures. Very close to historical pirates, tbh.

Raiders (Friendly): Groups that usually don't trust any of these fucks as shit goes wrong WAY too often. A few friends that take over a building/farm and chill. They will raid, but often choose abandoned buildings and can rely on trade.

Caravan Merchants: Traders that walk the wasteland trading their items for money. SOMETIMES affiliated with one of these factions, but not always. They just explore, find shit, and sell shit. Actual vultures. Chill bros.

Child of Atom: AKA the radiation monks. THESE GUYS FUCK. Not to bias this vote, but out of all of these, these guys are usually my favorite in game. Imagine if after the nukes that end the world drop, you decide to worship the bomb. The live/stay in water that is toxic and live their lives surrounded by mutated monsters. Children of Atom LOVE radiation of all forms. In the games, half your quests with this cult is spent secretly deactivating their radioactice items without their knowing so these fucks can live another day. This cult is my wild card, I have no idea how I'd write this lol. (Image below just fucks too hard for me not to include it)

Minuteman: Basically Raiders(friendly) + NCR. A bunch of settlements that vow protect each other, but without the taxes of the NCR. Often small factions that promise to step in if their land/property gets attacked.

The Railroad: Robots are better than people, we are willing to die to save synths(robots) Yes, it is based on the underground railroad. They save robots, kidnap them from the institute(described down below), wipe all of their memories and personalities, and abandon them without resources somewhere far from them. You know...when you say it like that, comparing this organization to the REAL underground railroad is a bit fucked up.

The Institute: It goes like this, kidnap someone, copy their memories, and put these memories into a robot body. Many Synths don't know that they are human. This group believes that THEY are the superior organization and wants everyone else to be dead.

Pre War Ghouls: Congratulations, you survived the nuclear apocalypse! You're reward? Well, you have a chance of being immortal, and a change to turn into a mindless zombie. You live 200+ years and get to watch society rebuild. Only issue, you look like death. Most factions HATE you. You know how Elves are treated in fantasy? That's how ghouls are treated. This path gives Ed/Izzy a SHIT ton of angst as two people that are some of the only people left who remember a life before survival.

Synths: Robot copies of a person. If this is chosen, I am 50/50 on if they themselves know they are synths. If this wins, I will post a second poll on who knows they are/aren't a copy of a living person. Or if they even look human. as some synths, like the guy on the left, don't look human AT ALL.

[To not step in bad water, I have excluded the following 'factions':

*Slavers. In this world, being pulled into slavery is one of the many things that threatens the player chatacer. If a city is taken over by a faction, sometimes people of any race are sold into slavery. I'm not touching this. I'm not making Ed and Izzy into Slavers, or victims of Slavers.

This plot is important to the world and shows how society has fallen back into chattle slavery, I'm not touching it for this fic. In fact, most fallout fans who write fic don't include Slavers or Slavery. These stories that feature slaves predominantly happened in the games fallout 3/new vegas, and often featured women being used as sex slaves. These plots were not picked up in later titles. As this fic is predominantly a survival romance/mystery story, I don't need to add this topic as a narrative tool to build temporary tension. Some narrative tools deserve more respect than others. Especially that of *slavery* (cough cough to the anon who sent me hate about this part, no shit slavery is a thing today....like? This entire post has been summarizing these games. Why would i add a psa about how slavery is still a thing mid post? I swear. Anon on tumblr can be a burden and a curse)

*The Enclave: they believe in social Darwinism, and are generally racist to those outside their faction, and mutated people. (But why did I include the brotherhood? Because power armor. They're assholes, but Izzy and Ed are going to spend this story learning their world view is wrong. Making them Brotherhood members is easy mode plot wise, as they learn to live their lives. Compare this to the Enclave? I can't personally justify fixing an enclave member.)

*Any new Vegas specific groups. I don't want to limit my location to Las Vegas/Nevada. I'm literally going to spin a wheel for a location, and having 'the Kings' be in Missouri doesn't work for me. (If NCR is the most popular I'm fine with it as historical lyrics they spread through a LOT of the wasteland. It excludes like, 20 US States). For the institute/railroad, I'm going to rename the faction but keep the belief of the factions. ]

If you are reading this- THANK YOU FOR INDULGING MY HYPERFIXATIONS lol. I have some lovely ideas for how to combine OFMD and Fallout's humor, and can't wait to dive in!

I would love to hear what you voted for!!

[computer-einstein]

Having a really hard time finding the parts I need for my miniature robots rn. My favorite scrap electronics store in the downtown just closed down, and my science teacher is being really stringent on robot parts not being in her possession. I have enough to make it through maybe one or two more projects throughout this current school year but that's it. I'm honestly considering looting up some abandoned buildings and junkyards for parts. Does anyone who lives in the Boulogne-Billiancourt area know of any good places to find scrap? I'm not planning on doing a run right now, but once the new school year starts, I'm going to need some points of interest because its getting really hard to find good parts. Sadly, I only come to this area because of my boarding school, so I can't just freely explore.

If anyone knows of any good places, just send me an ask.

[hummingbird-games]

So i've played most of hummingbird's games, and I know you like realistic stories but I really liked the knight dance, it was perfectly gay, thank you for that 😛 Will you make other games like that? Ones with older characters?

*footage of me cooking up The Knight Dance last year*

HSJFHSFD LOL! So. Hmm. Okay soooo...

I want to make games with older protags! I really do, and I have one previously abandoned idea that I picked back up and want to see where it goes. I'm also helping a friend with their game that has non-teen MC and LIs (and I'm learning how to write for others which is both fun and a new experience for me that I'm determined to improve my writing and collaboration skills with).

I have mini ideas and plot bunnies of possible 18+ stories I'd like to explore and create visual novels for.

All that said, I'm so immersed in teen media and content and pretty discontent (disgusted) with the crumbs and disrespect that the demographic gets. I'm also over teen and tween girls being villainized for being *checks notes* girls. 😐 (I stand for girlhood and I explicitly mean those tender years of 12 to 20 because I feel it's such a crucial time.)

So if it's between writing another teen story verses finally getting around to an older character's story, I'm probably gonna lean towards the teen 😅 Not at all what you want to hear I know, and I completely understand! I hope you find what you're looking for in other creators, and omgggg I have so many cool peers who've made amazing games with adult characters and storylines!! Some have sexual content, and some don't, but there's something to love in them all.

This post is long enough, so I'll stop, but thank you for checking out The Knight Dance!!!! I'd been dying to tell that story for a while and I'm glad others love Heather and Ezra like me 💛

[torgawl]

everyone here was soooo excited because a national channel was going to bring back this iconic tv series, directed specifically to the youth, from our childhood and adolescence that we are so nostalgic about after 11 years for them to disappoint us all with the trailer because it looks like elite 2.0

[jorvikzelda]

At this point I've got a full list in my head of fics I want to write when You Know What is done lmfao

[bestcadaverinthejujutsumorgue]

Depending on how thorough Maki's slasher movie moment was (she seemed mostly focused on combatants), it's actually pretty likely Toji's mother/Megumi's grandma is still alive. Food for thought.