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70 horrible questions ... Fuck it

01: Do you have a good relationship with your parents? 02: Who did you last say “I love you” to? 03: Do you regret anything? 04: Are you insecure? 05: What is your relationship status? 06: How do you want to die? 07: What did you last eat? 08: Played any sports? 09: Do you bite your nails? 10: When was your last physical fight? 11: Do you like someone? 12: Have you ever stayed up 48 hours? 13: Do you hate anyone at the moment? 14: Do you miss someone? 15: Have any pets? 16: How exactly are you feeling at the moment? 17: Ever made out in the bathroom? 18: Are you scared of spiders? 19: Would you go back in time if you were given the chance? 20: Where was the last place you snogged someone? 21: What are your plans for this weekend? 22: Do you want to have kids? How many? 23: Do you have piercings? How many? 24: What is/are/were your best subject(s)? 25: Do you miss anyone from your past? 26: What are you craving right now? 27: Have you ever broken someone’s heart? 28: Have you ever been cheated on? 29: Have you made a boyfriend/girlfriend cry? 30: What’s irritating you right now? 31: Does somebody love you? 32: What is your favourite color? 33: Do you have trust issues? 34: Who/what was your last dream about? 35: Who was the last person you cried in front of? 36: Do you give out second chances too easily? 37: Is it easier to forgive or forget? 38: Is this year the best year of your life? 39: How old were you when you had your first kiss? 40: Have you ever walked outside completely naked? 51: Favourite food? 52: Do you believe everything happens for a reason? 53: What is the last thing you did before you went to bed last night? 54: Is cheating ever okay? 55: Are you mean? 56: How many people have you fist fought? 57: Do you believe in true love? 58: Favourite weather? 59: Do you like the snow? 60: Do you wanna get married? 61: Is it cute when a boy/girl calls you baby? 62: What makes you happy? 63: Would you change your name? 64: Would it be hard to kiss the last person you kissed? 65: Your best friend of the opposite sex likes you, what do you do? 66: Do you have a friend of the opposite sex who you can act your complete self around? 67: Who was the last person of the opposite sex you talked to? 68: Who’s the last person you had a deep conversation with? 69: Do you believe in soulmates? 70: Is there anyone you would die for?

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Who do you ship more? Darling x Trench or Darling x Zane?

No neutral option, either choose your hill to die on or skip the vote xP (see results can be option)

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Yet another random question for the Remedy nation:

Which two characters would you like to see meeting/interacting in Remedyverse? (Regardless of the game either of them originally appears in).

I would like to be a fly in the ceiling to witness a direct conversation between Door and Ahti. I know Ahti mentions Door to Alan in passing, but these two never interact directly on screen. And I want to see it.

Either that, or Ahti and Scratch.

I feel someone would get smacked with a wet mop in that scenario but that's just a bonus.

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Tom Zane is:

A good guy. He was trying to warn Alan and was letting him find the conclusion himself.

A bad guy. He wanted to drag Alan down with him.

He's just a little birthday boy.

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Tagged by @phenanthreneblue to post a WIP preview!

I had JUST finished a Hank/Jerry smut fic, and now can focus my attention on the excerpt below, which is a standalone smut fic for Ahti/Oldest House (AKA Theodore Ash Sr) ((there's a whole fanfic I just finished about how that even happened, do go and read wink wink)).

Outside of that, I have plans for an action/intrigue sequel to my Ahti/Oldest House fic, and I also have plans for maybe a semi-slow burn romance between Hank/Jerry.

I'm tagging anyone who sees this, because I'm not admittedly familiar with who writes fanfics here

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Dirty, filthy coward | Hank Flowers x Jerry Standish

It's a rare, quiet day at Firebreak HQ. After Security sends over a crate of condoms, Jerry wonders if this is a sign for him to take the initiative and make his friendship with Hank something...more.

Can a man make love to another man when the latter is trapped in a containment tank?

There's only one way to find out. As long as you don't be a coward.

Pounded in the butt by my boss who is in a containment tank, the Jerry/Hank story of making big plans in tiny spaces.

Coming to all AO3 outlets near you (yes, this is a real fanfic I'm making)

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Pounded in the butt by my boss who is in a containment tank, the Jerry/Hank story of making big plans in tiny spaces.

Coming to all AO3 outlets near you (yes, this is a real fanfic I'm making)

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Resurrection Tango | Ahti x Oldest House/Theodore Ash Sr Chapter 11: Papa Loves Mambo

A new branch reaches its end. The Oldest House extends its leaves to all.

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Humanization of sectors in the Control

Sorry, not on the topic of my account. I'm just posting my old sketches on Control. Maybe I'll redraw them properly later.

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Your #RMDSpotlight Fan of the Week is...@alphawave-writes !!

You want fanfiction between Ahti the Janitor and the Oldest House? Alpha is just the writer you're looking for! Let's get to know her, shall we? Be sure to check out her links below!

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Alphawave/pseuds/Alphawave…

Twitter: https://x.com/Alphawave13

Tumblr: @alphawave-writes

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/alphawave.bsky.social

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I really like ur Ahti/Ash fic!

Btw what is the skin you use for the translation bits? And how does one use it? I have been looking for something exactly like that 👀

Glad you enjoyed Resurrection Tango! Someone's gotta build that ship, and unfortunately I decided that it had to be me LOL (Please, if you're even remotely interested in making other fanworks, I NEED more of them, I will be so happy to see more fanart and fanfics about this very VERY crackship)

But going back to the work skin, I cannot take any credit for it. The workskin is called Inline Tooltip Translation by AstariaEverlasting but I found it on a different Ahti fic: Lost at Sea by Ailren, which I do recommend as well. Like you, I also saw this fic and the translation features and thought it was really cool, and so I have used the code myself. (Also PS, if either of these people are on Tumblr, I'm happy to link more directly to their profiles).

Instructions on how to use the workskin will be below the read more.

So this is a workskin that requires a little bit of coding. If you've never done this before on AO3 (I certainly haven't before writing this fic), what you need to do is copy the code from the Inline Translation page, go to your username, then 'Skins', and then 'create work skin' and just paste the code. Should look like below.

Remember to enable the work skin when you create a new fic on AO3 by clicking 'select work skin', otherwise it won't look right.

As for how to use it, it's pretty simple. There's instructions on the page, but essentially the code is this

<span class="tooltip">UNTRANSLATED PHRASE<span class="tooltiptext"> (Translation: TRANSLATION OF PHRASE) </span></span>

This is HTML code that on the text UNTRANSLATED PHRASE, when hovered on PC or clicked on mobile, will show a black box that will say (Translation: TRANSLATION OF PHRASE).

I usually do this stuff LAST. As in, put in the code part just before I'm about to post the chapter or fic during my final edits. My recommendation is you just write your story like normal, and if there's a phrase that requires some coded translation later, I tend to go "random phrase [TRANSLATION: BLAH]. Less clunky, and easier to see how the translation is.

Now, the other thing is that once you put your stuff in with the code, you will need to put it into HTML, not Rich Text. HOWEVER, that can lead to some funky stuff. My recommendation is that you put it everything in RICH TEXT FIRST and then click 'Preview'

The result will be that the code will just appear like this, and it won't do anything. That's fine. This is part of the process.

Go to the bottom of this page and click 'Edit', it'll take you back to the edit work page from before, where all that text has now been turned into HTML. (Side note: Don't ask me why, I'm no IT guru, but if you just go straight to putting this stuff into HTML first instead of Rich text first, the formatting looks strange in the final product)

Anyway, you'd think that would mean your fic is ready to go, and it almost is, but something strange happens. All the little < and > symbols have turned into &lt; and &gt; which is not what we want.

My method is to then go to my word processor of choice (I use Word, but google docs or anything else should work), use the 'replace' function, and replace &lt; with < and &gt; with >. Trust me, you do not want to do this manually. Learn from my mistakes.

Now the code will look normal, like below, and NOW you can post it (just make sure to keep it in HTML so the code works). I still recommend going to 'Preview' to doublecheck in case you miss a letter or two, but otherwise it should be good to go.

If everything has worked well, the result should look like this.

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Resurrection Tango | Ahti x Oldest House/Theodore Ash Sr Chapter 10: Resurrection Tango

This story has been told many times before

Only a moment's rest before he's called back again

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62942722/chapters/171470620

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My personal headcanon is that this relates to Ahti being away from the Oldest House and/or the Oceanview Motel. In the entirety of Control he never seems overly concerned over the Oldest House. He hates the Clog for some reason, is a little annoyed with the Hiss, but is more keen on getting his holiday and getting his work done before that time. The implication is that he will come back at some point. He just needs a break and will return to help Jesse clean up when the holiday’s over.

Except he doesn’t. Ahti isunable to return to the Oldest House. He can seemingly travel to and from the Dark Place (there’s another theory I have about how he’s also the caretaker for the Oceanview Motel/Hotel and that they’re the same thing perceived differently by Jesse and Alan, but that’s its own separate thing), but as the Firebreak trailers have confirmed, Ahti never returned to the Oldest House in all those years.

Ahti is no ordinary human. An Old God if you will, one associated with water, with the ability to seemingly travel anywhere and possibly with the same eyes as the actual Old Gods of Asgard in being able to see the truth, hence him calling Alan “Tom”. He can traverse freely through the Oldest House, and as stated earlier, the Oceanview and perhaps even the Dark Place itself. But he can’t get back to the Oldest House.

And it’s not because of Scratch—not directly. It’s because of Alan.

During AW2, there are a few manuscript pages that mention Ahti by name, including one that explicitly places him in Valhalla with the other old people there. Just like with Saga, Ahti became a character in Alan’s story/escape attempt. And just like everyone else he became trapped in Alan’s story, forced to play the role of a resident of Valhalla. He cannot leave until the story reaches its conclusion.

Keep in mind, this moment right here is the LAST time he talks to Saga, and the last time he talks in the “surface/real world”. His part has been played, and he has said what he needs to say to Saga. This extra incidental dialogue? This optional scene? This reads to me like Ahti’s first moment of clarity. As an Old God, he gets to snap out of it and see the reality of the situation, but just after he’s done playing his role. That’s why he’s confused. That’s why he wants to go home. And he probably doesn’t even realise that Alan is at least partially responsible for trapping him.

And I do want to add an aside as someone that’s overanalysed his dialogue: Ahti never speaks nonsense. His dialogue is usually perfectly normal English mixed with the direct translation of certain Finnish idioms. If he spoke in Finnish to a Finn, he is talking…well, like an old man, but normal for an old man. In English, if he just switches the idioms to some more “normal” ones, he would also make logical sense. I know that for a fact because I made a giant document full of the translations of numerous Finnish idioms into English for an Ahti fic I’m writing but I digress.

What is truly frightening here is that Ahti has defaulted back to Finnish. There are very few times he directly says something in Finnish, and that’s usually when he’s muttering to himself. This is more in AW2 than Control, but he doesn’t break out the Finnish to other people unless he can’t think of a word in English (a very common ESL experience, I can attest to). For him to mostly speak in Finnish here, he doesn’t register Saga in the room anymore. He’s terrified, mumbling to himself in his native language. He has been let go from the story for a moment, and he is utterly confused.

As for why I say his home is the Oldest House, rather than Cauldron Lake, that’s more because of his lines about wanting to go “home” implying the town isn’t his home. He can travel freely to the Dark Place, seems to know his way around, so that’s probably not his home either, and if you subscribe to my theory that both Oceanviews are technically the same nexus point, that also takes the Oceanview out, leaving the Oldest House as the lone culprit.

And why he cares so much more about going home to the Oldest House? Well, he is the janitor. In Finnish, that word is “Talonmies”. Translated directly into English like Ahti so often does, that means “man of the house”. And that’s what he is, except the circumstances prevent him from being that role. So now he is a man without his home.

An Old God without his Oldest House.

hey apparently there's an occurrence that can happen in AW2 when you play as Saga in the Nursing Home where Ahti just suddenly starts freaking out and talking like a normal person, and combined with the fact Ahti has been in Bright Falls for 3 years and Scratch was pretty much very close to getting the ending he wanted, and everything is centered around the lake getting fucked up when Ahti is literally a Sea God, it probably means Scratch was fucking with the lake so much to the point where it was making Ahti just lose his mind. and its very fucked up and i fucking hate it and i hate hearing him sad and lost and confused. this is the worst thing ever.

did you guys ever watch the movie A Wrinkle In Time. theres a god-like character in it that only speaks using other peoples sentences. when everything starts falling apart she starts speaking fully for herself, using her own words, and specifies to the main character that it means everything is falling apart. the reason she speaks the way she usually does is because the worlds are balanced. her speaking normally means everything is wrong and something needs to be done.

Ahti is never supposed to make complete sense. like you can generally get the gist of what he's saying but most of the time he's basically speaking his own weird lingo. him making complete sense is not good. Scratch was probably close to fucking killing Ahti even. i fucking hate this i hate this so much.

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fanfic writers what font do you write in

i know on ao3 it's all in verdana but when you're drafting the fic in word or docs or whatever

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Which revelation was more shocking to you: the surprise buff-ness of Doctor Darling or the level of sluttiness by Tom Zane?

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everyone talks about the folgers coffee incest commercial but remember the quizno’s commercial where the guy was fucking the toaster oven?