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... I'm getting back into Voltron.

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Well, this'll be an interesting bout of hyperfixation, since the source is unavailable. Guess I'm improvising!

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Welp... Finally watched the Wicked Movie.

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10/10, would recommend. Only musical where I've listened to the music outside the movie, but couldn't bring myself to sing along during the show, and I think that says something.

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Fun little fact about Asteria, her sister-in-law is her ex. The two dated for a while before Marisol realized she’s Aro, and Asteria realized she was Ace. They had amicable breakup, and remained friends. Then Asteria married Solis, and now they’re sisters-in-law!

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As a heads up, my one shots are going onto a hiatus. My laptop's charger is busted, the laptop(which is where I do my big chunks of writing and transfer everything to AO3) is nearly a decade old, and it's stopped taking updates and will probably give up on life the next time I open it.

Sunlit Blossoms will continue to be updated, as I have 15 chapters(and therefore 15 weeks of content) drafted up and completed, so I just have to do quick edits and hit the post button for those. If I don't have a new laptop by then(which would be surprising, as my birthday is between now and then, and I'm planning to take a shopping trip for some stuff when I get my last paycheck from my seasonal job anyways), then everything will be going on hiatus until I get a replacement laptop.

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Uh, guys? The death count is for both sides. It's for who died in that specific chapter...

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Spent yesterday doing a mix of art and writing. I found some tutorials to make brushes for curly hair and braids, so now I have some new brushes on Procreate to use in my art! Can't wait to show them off!

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/62261111

New Shattered Fate chapter is up. Has been for a couple days now, I just forgot to post!

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I just searched up what the scientific name for a dragonfly is. For reasons...

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Neurodivergent Volteer: A Headcanon

So, I've been chatting with a friend about Legend of Spyro. And the first time we(and our friend group), watched the cutscenes together, we all actually suggested Volteer is ADHD/Autistic coded. So now it's a headcanon. As a note, all of us are either officially diagnosed as neurodivergent, or peer-reviewed neurodivergent.

Why do we say this? Personal experience! Half the group is officially diagnosed with one or both of the two. To put it simply, Volteer, albeit probably not intentionally, exhibits at least a couple neurodivergent behaviours, such as:

Rapid fire yapping: When neurodivergent folks get excited, at least in my experience, we talk a lot and we talk fast until we are actively told to stop. I literally yapped about Demon Slayer for 8 hours one time! I sometimes talk faster than I can think, and lose track of myself as a result! And Volteer is a notorious babbler!

Getting guided back to the topic: If you're neurodivergent, you've probably had a multitude of instances where you talk about one topic, but shift to another because of something slightly related to it, rinse and repeat until you lose the plot completely? Well, after Dante's Freezer, one of the first things said is "Yes, Volteer, it's good to see you too. But we don't have time to waste on sentiment. BACK to Cynder. She was doing what to you?" This implies they were discussing what Cynder was doing, then Volteer got caught up in greeting his old friend, and Ignitus indulged before pushing the conversation back to the more pressing topic.

Not everyone understands your special interest terms: It's a running joke that not everyone fully understands Volteer's rambling. Yes, it's technically because he uses more complex terminology, but I definitely feel that. I have had multiple conversations with people(particularly family) outside the circles of my special interests, and have had those people pause the conversation because they had to remind me they don't necessarily know the words I'm using in the context of the conversation. Maybe Volteer just really likes reading thesauruses in his spare time.

TL;DR Volteer is giving Neurospicy, as reviewed by a small group of Neurospicies, and he's a favourite of ours among the Guardians.

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You know how some people in the KNY fandom have mentioned Kie and Hinatsuru look really similar.

You know how I have Sunflowers and Thundering Fireworks, where Nezuko gets adopted by Tengen, Suma, Makio, and Hinatsuru?

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Imagine Nezuko is closest with Hinatsuru, because Hinatsuru reminds Nezuko of her mom, which subconsciously comforts her after everything she's been through.

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The Infinity Castle Arc has begun for Sunlit Blossoms. I look forward to seeing you all there...

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64495078/chapters/165618790

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I'm on the right, my IRL friends are on the left. I babble so much more to them than I ever could here when we're hanging out.

If any y'all see this; I love you and appreciate you listening to my nonsensical blabbering about whatever random rearranging of canon entered my brain...

Most blessed type of fandom experience tbh

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... In light of the recent AO3 AI scrape, I've set all my works to AO3 user only.

I know it's too late to prevent a full scrape, but I can probably prevent future work from being hit. Especially because I'm pretty sure all of my publicly available works were scraped.

It sucks, especially since I know so many guests in my comments alone who love to read my works, but this AI nonsense is ridiculous. Doing what I can to prevent my work being taken in future scrapes is important. I don't want something I've worked on for anywhere between months to years being stolen and used to train one of the plagiarism programs.

If you can, please try to make an account if you want to keep reading my stuff, as well as that of what I'm sure will be countless authors doing the same in the wake of this.

Hopefully, the AI BS will blow over, and this kind of scraping will be made illegal. At the very least, I've heard some of the companies and sites that have been scraped(including OTW/AO3) have been trying to get the data entirely out of the hands of the pricks who stole it and their programming, so that gives me hope.

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It's Time

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Couple of doodles I did during some downtime at a volunteer gig.

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I got a question I currently have been reading your sunlit blossoms series and it’s amazing

I love your writing style

but why do I get strong

Nezuko will die vibes ?

because Mrs RubyLarkspure21 now my brain is spinning of some reincarnation even crossover ideas …..

if that was your goal for the readers congratulations you succeeded

Aw, thank you so much! I'm always happy to know people enjoy reading what I've put into the world!

I mean... You're not wrong, but also not entirely correct. Mostly a manga IYKYK thing.

Any foreshadowing on my part was unintentional in that regard...

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Now, MUICHIROU, on the other hand!

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Watching everyone freak out over Nezuko fainting in the latest chapter of The Final Sunset is hilarious.

I did not expect everyone to freak out so much...

Anyways, the sobfest starts in two weeks! Prepare yourselves accordingly!