#mud guy OUT!!!!!

[hauntingblue]

Akaidu and aokiji have beef??!

[morganbritton132]

I hope when I write Hopper dealing with Steve or Eddie when they’re younger that the vibe they give off is:

Steve: *visible suspicious on why Hopper is bothering him, a self-sufficient seven year old trying to climb something he’s definitely going to fall off of*

Eddie: *caught red-handed vandalizing property and about to make it Hopper’s personal problem*

[utane]

Predictably I also like Mud

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

In your Gaslight District au, you said that during/after the Angel egg sceame, Ken basicly kidnaps Mud.

So, what are Mud's feelings about it?

And how does he feel about Mel and Breadhead?

Oh, Mud is absolutely LIVID about everything that's happened, but also extremely confused. From his perspective, he was just having a regular day doing his job until a seemingly random gang of unauthorized intruders suddenly barged out of nowhere to steal the egg. Everything was falling apart into chaos and while he was dealing with the angel storm he crosses path with Ken of all people?? And apparently he has a daughter who is also a human??? They have a whole huge fight about it on the spot because Mud is absolute frothing at the mouth at the discovery that his brother is in possession of a human, who are kept inside the gates for a reason.

But Ken manages to both kill him and his boss, allowing the gang enough time before he regenerates to just straight up kidnap him back to the butcher shop and lock him in the freezer. Mud essentially gets little to no answer to his questions and has NO IDEA what the heck is going on. AND he's still angry.

Mud's anger is mostly directed at Ken. The fact that there's a chance Ken has already broken into Paradise Lost before while he was a soldier and he didn't know about it infuriates him. Although Mel also sort of receives Mud's ire purely by assossiation. He's mostly just extremely wary of Mel.

Because he's been working as a Virtue Corp officer for so long, you could say that his mindset about humans was very influenced by the virtues. He doesn't have that same fear of the prophecy that the other rotlings do at the district, but sees her more as some sort of property or dangerous weapon that doesn't belong outside of heaven and should be returned to its rightful place. He doesn't trust her at all.

He doesn't trust anyone in in the gang, in fact; especially Breadhead as well considering his strength. He hasn't interacted with all of them much yet but he knows that they're all dangerous and untrustworthy! (not like he's in any position to say that)

[rodatirhaalo]

I think my favorite little parallel between Ascended vs Spawn Astarion has to be this little, probably even unintentional, detail in the epilogue:

Mr Vampire Ascendant, when confronted about freedom, asking the pc if they'd prefer sleeping in the dirt over "living" in his prescribed decadence.

Meanwhile, if left as a spawn Astarion is like

*Passes several chairs, rugs, a pile of pillows, and two log benches to plant his pretty little ass in the dirt*

"THIS DIRT'S THE BEST! I LOVE DIRT!!"

[deadheaddaisy]

One of my favourite scenes, if not the favourite (since the frostbite scene is a deleted one). Malcolm and Hoshi join forces to wind up Trip during Rogue Planet. All it takes is a look, and innate understanding of the other's Little Shit™ energy.

Hell, Malcolm doesn't even have to look at Hoshi for her to know exactly what he's up to and have to swallow her smile!

Poor Trip! That expressive face and its several stages of apprehension, disbelief, and horror!

[brofightiscancelled]

okay ill bite why do u hate kaoru sakuraba sidem aside from the fact that they went from hokuto as a main blue to downgrade to kaoru. to make it less awkward that I’m asking abt sidem on ur osomatsu side blog, what sidem idols would u assign to each matsu ?

i think sideM should collab w osomatsu-san and put them all in Beit so they can all get JOBS!!!!!!

anyways i hate kaoru from idolmaster sideM. i need all my osomatsu-san side blog followers to know that i hate this man. "i need a lot of money fast to pursue an extremely niche medical research track, which is why i quit my stable and high paying job as a surgeon to become an idol while having no soft skills, physical strength or stamina, or interest in getting along with people" are you Stupid??

he's not even using his idol clout to spread awareness of the rare disease he's trying to cure (like SEM does) so it can secure funding, he sees it 100% as a job and refuses to have fun, he is actively unpleasant and uncooperative in every interaction with his coworkers because he's trying to "rise to the top". it seems like the only thing he has going for him are his looks and that he kind of liked to sing when he was a kid. why not become a model at that point when you have the personality of a wet tree trunk. or better yet why not STAY A FUCKING DOCTOR!!!!!

also, i don't like meganes, so write that down.

[charmwasjess]

for our good friend dooku, 16, 21&22, and 6 if you have more to say about it. 🙏🙇‍♂️

OH YOU JUST COME INTO MY ASK BOX AND MAKE MY DAY?!! :D Beloved anon, these are SUCH fun questions and I absolutely had a blast answering them. Thank you so much! Stop by anytime and I’ll make you a cup of coffee! (I have tea too, but my taste in tea is real gross.)

16. What's your least favorite ship for this character?

Ohh, this is a hard one! 

The thing is, while I have my favorites, I find Dooku soo very shippable with a vast number of characters - not because he has any healthy understanding of his own sexual and emotional needs anymore than he has a healthy relationship with food - but because especially in his Sith era, he’s a black hole of need and loneliness. Sex is like the one way Sith are allowed to access the intimacy that fifty years of Jedi communal life has trained him to want and need. 

The ship for him that I absolutely love-hate in that vein is Sidious/Dooku. I doubt it went much further than a few absolutely debased encounters because let’s be honest, Sidious can do much better and isn’t in the habit of letting his dog eat from his plate, but whoof, what a fun, fucked up ship with nasty power dynamics. “Oh nooo, oh no, awful….where’s the link?” energy.

21. If you're a fic writer and have written for this character, what's your favorite thing to do when you're writing for this character? What's something you don't like?

I love giving Dooku big, often violent, over the top moments where his natural appetite for chaos comes out. 

Dooku gives you these amazing options as a fanfic writer. He’s so high drama. A huge part of his reserve and composure is that there’s an absolute volcano of feeling bubbling under the crust.

The things he says are absurd and beautiful, poetic and horrific, hilarious and awkward. You can push the character further than you expect, and he’ll go with you in surprising places in a piece of writing if you let him show off. This is a character who loves attention and has the natural talent and chaos to back up his own bullshit. If you can get his sound and feel right, there’s almost nothing you can’t do with him - because a core part of Dooku is the unreliable narrator: even he doesn’t always know what he’s about to do. 

I think the hardest part is his “voice” because Christopher Lee had such a distinctive cadence - it’s not just a British accent, it’s early 20th century British, who grew up bilingual and went on to speak like literally 7 different languages fluently, with a supremely deep voice, who wanted to sing opera but only got half-trained before WWII ruined that dream for him. It’s a very unique sound.

I like “my” Dooku voice in my fics and I’m proud of it; I work really hard on it and it’s why I use him as a POV character most often. But I still look at my own fics and have those record needle scratch moments where I know a line of his needs to get reworked. It’s a constant process.

The Christopher Lee accent also could not be MORE different than my own rural American one. There’s a hilarious-awful story in Lee’s autobiography, Lord of Misrule, about him getting stopped by a patrol of Americans in WWII who absolutely do not believe he’s English and they start trying to speak German to him. He goes, “you don’t have to speak German, you know, I’m fairly capable of understanding English, since that’s what I am.” 

22. If you're a fic reader, what's something you like in fics when it comes to this character? Something you don't like?

I love it when fics do a realistic job of letting Dooku be the walking contradiction he is. Two of my favorite Dooku fics right now are Pray My Mind Be Good to Me and Galaxies Far Far Away May Be Closer Than They Appear - both feature Dooku written in this way. He has done or is going to do horrific shit - shit that cannot be changed and has real consequences. In both fics, he’s also portrayed vividly, a "real person," full of genuine emotion, vulnerability, and deep investment in the other characters. Love is a part of his betrayal and betrayal is a part of his love. These two things exist in the character simultaneously in queasy, gorgeous combination. 

As far as what I don’t like, I don’t know, I think Dooku is a tremendously intimidating character to write and I’m impressed by anyone who takes a crack at writing him! I’d encourage anyone to give it a shot. 

I have one really small weird pet peeve, and that’s giving him too much stuffy, uptight rich guy cliche. Dude was a mud-grubbing mission Jedi for 50 years, himself raised by a swamp troll, who went on to train two of the most chaotic Jedi. He’s eaten more bugs than Anakin, and I'll die on that hill.

6. What's something you have in common with this character?

I went pretty broad on my other answer, so I’ll tell you two lil' things!

I’m tall (ironically I’m about Sifo-Dyas’s canon height, a character whose legit tallness is often overlooked cause he’s standing next to Dooku–) and I pull a ton of my own experiences into how I write the way he moves or his little gestures, especially how small he can fold up when he’s feeling vulnerable. There’s a unique tall person awkwardness that comes from experiencing the adolescent growth spurt right at the time when it’s the most emotionally unbearable to be physically conspicuous. 

I didn’t realize I shared his exercise-away-the-strong-emotion thing until I was chatting with @bolithesenate about some fic or something, and said something offhand like “too upset about Sifo-Dyas, gotta go for a run” and she was like “uh, Jess? are you QUOTING your own Dooku characterization here?” :O Don't call me out like that, bro!! Do not perceive me!

[swan2swan]

[angelmush]

came home and our petsitter had left US a handmade collaged thank you card w an attached giftcard, for supporting her business and being a good tipper and trusting her w our pets it was literally so sweet and so unnecessary omg

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

Some more doodles for this idea where Mud stayed at Paradise Lost :)

I’m thinking of giving him a different name like Apathy or Languish or smth like that :0

[mo-nmage]

random hc is that rayla sometimes disappears for some hours to find different things that can dye her hair brown. she comes back to a very concerned callum (that gets used to it as time passes) and shows him her brown streak while saying “now we're actually matching”

[tsunael]

I need to get off the trauma train that is this fic and finish my drybone one because it's extremely fun in my mind but I know it would take forever to actually write

[nadiajustbe]

A small headcanon that despite his forced courtship of Lettie, Howl had no idea how people around him characterized the Hatter sisters, and so when someone said something about "the pretty sister" he was CERTAIN they were talking about Sophie

[spam-caine-askblog]

Man, look at these GAY men

Au by @triangularitydubs

@anadhdperson :3

[call-me-copycat]

If I didn't have CFS I would be writing and drawing and learning and jumping around and being so happy! (⁠╯⁠︵⁠╰⁠,⁠)

My mind has so many ideas! I want to draw! I want to write! I want to talk to my friends! But my body refuses to move sometimes, I've expended all my energy for pretty much the whole week (ㅠ︿ㅠ)