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i'm sorry but this is the only submission to this trend that i'll consider giving any thought to

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Poll: if your mom remarries when you’re 26 years old is that guy still your stepdad or is he just your mom’s husband.

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inspired by this post by @drwcn... all the Jin bastards canonically see Stab as their way of solving a problem when the situation gets dire, which I think in a universe where the sibs get a chance to get to know each other, might give poor JZX a bit of a complex

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20 Questions for Fic Writers

Tagged by @redlightsandicedtea

How many works do you have on ao3?

49

What's your total ao3 word count?

865,962

What fandoms do you write for?

I've written for a few different fandoms but the main ones were Harry Potter, Supernatural, and The Untamed. I've done a few fics for other fandoms like Naruto and Star Trek and Kuroshitsuji

Top five fics by kudos:

Red Azalea (songxuexiao)

Soul Magic (Harry Potter & Voldemort, gen)

Eyes that can see in the dark (Harry Potter/Riddick, crossover)

Exclusive Exceptions (Harry Potter/Tom Marvolo Riddle)

That time Dean and Cas dated for a year and no one noticed (destiel)

Do you respond to comments?

I do. My inbox just has a lot of comments right now and i haven't gotten around to it

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Either Echos From The Void or Missed Heartbeat

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Magic Trains or Technicolor Beat

Do you get hate on fics?

Not really. I get weird comments sometimes, where its a bit like "commenter are you aware that i am a real person who can read this?"

I got a few comments once asking when wangxian were gonna show up and start making out which was weird bc the fic isn't about either WWX or LWJ, and also its set while WWX is dead

Do you write smut?

Mostly only as short sex scenes in multichapter fics

Craziest crossover:

Eyes that can see in the dark. Its set centuries in the future where Master of Death Harry is like now some weird immortal non-human entity who is holidaying on a death world and then a ship crash lands there and the survivors have to get off the planet before nightfall when the giant evil bat monsters Harry's been chilling with take to the skies and eat every living thing they find. Harry takes an interest in Riddick, a violent criminal who is now the best chance for the survivors to escape.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I don't think so.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

A few times. Red Azalea has a translation, its linked in the fic. A few others got translated too.

Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

Yes lol its called Lacustrine, it was for the @spncoldesthits bang, i wrote it with @hitthebooksposts. the objective was to write the fic that would get the least hits and interaction

All time favourite ship?

Songxuexiao

What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Hide, so I can seeQ its about Picard and Q, where they were both Qs but they get in an argument about the best way to experience mortal culture and make a bet that PiQard can't live an entire mortal life without accessing his Q powers.

What are your writing strengths?

I think i'm good at worldbuilding and emotive writing.

What are your writing weaknesses?

I don't think i write intrigue very well. i make things too obvious.

Thoughts on dialogue in another language?

I don't really write in languages other than English, which is my native language.

First fandom you wrote in?

Inuyasha. Its an angsty oneshot called Poisonous Thoughts

Favorite fic you've written?

Magic Trains. The entire time i was writing it and every time i reread i just giggle. its so silly

tagging: anyone else who feels like it

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MECHANICAL HEAT by Jason Pierce • Illustrated by David Martin Mandate / OCTOBER 1979 [credit: CowboyFrank]

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S17E01 outtake

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Aliens (1986) dir. James Cameron

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in space, no one can hear you scream

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bastille has done more for the queer community by just making all of their love songs about "you" instead of specifying a gender than taylor swift has in all of her discography. thanks for coming to my ted talk.

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No, but to suggest that Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng only ever had the relationship of a master and servant and that the only thing that held them together was debt and obligation on Wei Wuxian's part is such a wild take considering how absolutely unhinged the both of them are when it conscerns the other.

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Word of Honor as text posts (47/?)

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"don't ask me that, Parker. because if you ask me, I'll tell you. so please, don't ask me."

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There's a reddit thread on the BG3 sub where the user u/InklingRain posted a spreadsheet they made with all the companion approvals. Super useful in general both for playing the game and for fic, so I thought I'd post it on tumblr and play around a little!

There's a top row with the average approval by companion, but I didn't find that very useful, so I changed it to the count of approvals (i.e. count of approvals & disapproval total, how often a companion had a reaction to something). We all know Astarion gives a lot of disapprovals here and there, but they're only -1 at a time, so no big deal, right?

No. Minsc has the least at only 45 reactions, Halsin at 95, Minthara at 145, and of the main companions, Gale is pretty average at 198, Lae'zel at 224, and Shadowheart, rather opinionated at 258...

but that's nothing compared to Astarion's 406. That's almost 150 more than the next person!!! That's more than Minthara and Shadowheart combined! Babygirl really woke up one day and decided to get in a snit over everything that happens 😂

(Longer post about count of positive and negative opinions, sum of approvals and disapprovals, and some major outliers below. Picture with values at the very end.)

But that's a bit disingenuous. If we look at the ratio of positive to negative opinions (not taking value into account), Astarion's pretty average at 30% (negative count over sum count, so let's call that negativity). This is similar to Gale (31%), Karlach (30%), and Lae'zel (32%). In theory, getting Astarion's approval or disapproval is just as easy as any of theirs, with a 20% bias towards positive approvals. Later companions are weighted heavily towards the lower end of the spectrum, with Jaheira at 13% negativity and Minsc at 9%. As you only get them very late, it's pretty clear that the game gives you a lot of opportunities to get their approvals and thus open up more of their quests and dialogue.

However. We have an outlier. Wyll Ravenguard, clocking in at an indecent 38% negativity! Which really just goes to show, while Astarion is the most opinionated, Wyll has the most disapprovals, making him the judgiest companion of all 🤣

However, this really wouldn't be a good post if we didn't look at the value of approvals. Karlach, for instance, has the strongest disapproval value of -100 (given if you sleep with her and then call it a mistake). Ouch. This is clearly at outlier and doesn't say much about Karlach's changeability of opinion in general. If we look at the sum of positive and negative opinions, this is a very heavy swing, making up 100 points of her total 191 disapproval points possible to her 281 approvals total. Another outlier is Minsc, who currently possesses a 43% disapproval percentage (a heavy -50 disapproval given if you sacrifice him to Sarevok. Jaheira, by contrast, apparently doesn't give a damn, or her value might simply not be included in the dateset.)

Removing outliers is really a matter of opinion here, so I'll only remove the most extreme swings, such as the above mentioned disapprovals.

The otherwise strongest swings are Astarion (-15 for telling him it was a mistake preventing him from drinking Araj's blood, or saying you only wanted to sleep with him, not deal with his trauma) and Wyll (+20 for siding with Karlach during his confrontation with her, which really shows he didn't really want to kill her and is very grateful you stopped him). Halsin gives +40 for reuniting Oliver with Thaniel, which...lifting the shadow curse is sort of his life's mission, and a bit of a unique case, so while it makes sense, I think it's such a unique event that can't be topped by anything else and will remove it. Jaheira give +20 for extending the Emperor's protection to Minsc, and, for funsies, Minthara's heaviest disapproval is -5 for donating to Lolth at the Stormshore Tabernacle. (lol)

I only chose to remove the aforementioned Karlach, Minsc, and Halsin values, as they're all very large swings and rather character-defining or personal to the individuals mentioned, so I don't think it says much about them in a more general day-to-day sense.

Now, using the sums of our negative and positive values, Gale is our most Negative Nancy, clocking in at 37%, which goes to show that while he's pretty average for the amount of things he cares about, when he disapproves, it's a strong one. Next up is Astarion at 35%, and Wyll at 34%. Lowest are Jaheira and Minsc at 7% and 4% respectively, which makes an intuitive sort of sense: Jaheira is old and just over being upset by the players poor choices, and Minsc is an insanely positive person overall. The next most positive companion is Halsin at 13%, which also matches with his vibe pretty well, followed by Minthara at 17%, Karlach at 24%, Lae'zel at 26%, and Shadowheart at 28%.

Tl;dr: Astarion has many, many opinions, but Wyll is the most judgemental (most disapprovals compared to approvals possible). However, when it comes to the strength of those disapprovals, Gale reigns supreme, followed by Astarion.

If don't break Karlach's heart, help Halsin achieve his life's ambition, or sacrifice Minsc, then they're pretty positive overall. Later companions are heavily weighted to approve of your actions, and Minthara is comparatively judgemental, but overall far more easy to gain approval than disapproval from.

If you take the average of all these values and include the later companions to look at as a personality "baseline" of how judgy and how strong those disapprovals may be, then...the Act 1 companions are all dramatic af, which really should come to no ones' surprise, while Karlach is the most willing to give the benefit of the doubt imo.