#//I HAD TO MAKE A NEW POST BC I COULDN'T TRIM IT..

[sharkfinx]

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During Orochimaru's explanation, he reached inside his own cloak to get the disinfected napkins box he carried everywhere since pairing with Itachi. How impudent would be to enter someone without the proper cleaning (?) He nodded, assuring to understand all the troubles and consequences his demand could cause. “Thousand of snakes? Noooooow that you said it makes me want to test it out. Kekekeke. Sounds hilarious.” Kisame leaned in, crouching down to match his height to have a better look. Konoha and Kiri’s seals were different by miles but he could still recognize some. Not that he could do anything about it other than lower his chakra stream and hope for the best. "Nervous? I guarantee if I wanted to hurt you I would just say so, nee.”  “Excuse me, nee.” He leaned away, placing both hands around the sannins's cheek. His right thumb entering between his lips and so (and with the minimal chakra possible) touched under their right molars. They weren’t implants. Good. Then finally over the sharpness of them.

The shinobi’s eyes were wide open, veins could be seen. He found the answer he was seeking for. His other free hand just pushed Orochimaru's jaw to close on purpose to pinch his finger. “ Hm.” Kisame murmured, letting go off as well pulling his hand which had blood dripping by. “ I have to admit of being ignorant on anything in the medical field, nee..but, even a thug like me knows enough to identify which bodies to bring back Home.” He stares at his own hand, remembering only kiri-kin had teeth strong enough to pierce a Hoshigaki's skin. “Pardon me, Orochimaru san. That’s all....I would rather let Konoha's claim you. There's enough monsters in Kiri, after all. Your secret is safe with me.” 

[terezis]

ok here's the hot goss from the nycc taz gn panel

i don't actually know whether or not it was recorded/ if they're going to put it online so here is my summary. also if i miss anything and u were there pls feel free to chime in. spoilers obviously!!!

got eight new preview pages (four two-page spreads), not the pages on the macmillan website!!!

ok i will tell u about those pages but the main thing discussed at the panel was how they went about adapting this arc into gn form. the actual time spent in wonderland has been trimmed a lot bc they had to think about what was actually important to the narrative as they are building to story and song.

basically in planning out the suffering game they also really had to decide what the rest of the series would look like, bc whatever they include now is seeding the stuff that's going to happen later.

cam is not in this book. it was implied there's less wheel spins. rowan/ash/sterling get much less screen time

almost half of this book is lunar interlude stuff (pre and post suffering game, INCLUDING REUNION TOUR!!! no word on where it ends but they made it clear that a LOT of thought went into what to include and where to end it, and what that would mean for the next book)

ok so about those preview pages

first one was post-taakitz date with kravitz sensing a lich and the umbra staff shooting at him <3 <3 <3

i thought they were going to show us the preview pages that were on macmillan so when i saw kravitz i was so shook

second spread was magnus visiting the voidfish, which now happens right before they leave for wonderland; the whole beginning of tsg from magnus trying to talk to pringles to him kidnapping those guards to the chimera fight was cut LOL bc it never really got… addressed again in the podcast

angus comes to get him for the mission but magnus has been going Through It (outright stated, they were like. he found out he's a red robe. he would probably not be handling it well. he has eyebags now. LOL) and snaps at angus when angus presses him on what's wrong.

more angus content, he will be investigating what's going on at the bureau more (his scene w magnus ties into this)

same for lucretia! more content/ stuff for her to do

third spread was merle w his kids getting saved by the red robe, is at a carnival instead of a random street this time LOL

last one was the boys arriving just outside of wonderland

wonderland looks fuckign cool

what else… oh confirmed like eighty panels of bare ass naked magnus after he gets his body back. so i think we really are getting the full reunion tour this book???

ALSO NAKED BARRY COVERED IN SLIME. WHEN HE GETS OUT OF THE POD. CONFIRMED. CANON. LOL

omg ALSO!!! ben (editor) said he campaigned REALLY HARD to have the umbra staff break during the suffering game, freeing lup early, bc he really wanted more time with her, but griffin campaigned really hard NOT to do this, and in doing so his arguments solved a lot of other problems they had been having at the time LOL

travis is the fans' champion when the others get too edit-happy. he's the one who has a good idea of what moments are important to the readers so he's like hey… too far. don't cut that. and then they don't

justin leaves great notes and when they couldn't figure stuff out ben would often say "no it's fine justin will solve this." and he ALWAYS DID

this was news to justin

??? i think that's all the main points honestly i'm v picky about adaptations but overall i feel like these are good changes that make sense when translating the podcast to gn

that said i do hope taako still gets a washing machine dropped on him <3 do this for me carey <3

[sasukimimochi]

eurghhghgh this gets a little long but i'm not putting a read more line cuz i put TLDR at the bottom and i want that shown.

i'm starting to think uploading weekly is more difficult than i thought now that i'm trying to also work on other things during the week, i haven't had time to work on any of the companion fics for gom or any of my other projects, and i think GOM is suffering a bit for it [last week i did just basic sketches for the chapter bc i was struggling to get everything done in time]

and that means i also don't really have time to stream if i want to draw while you guys watch, since i stream for a few hours at least [the one i did the other day was about six hr, you can see the highlight reel here, since the vod will eventually be deleted as all vods disappear after like 7 days. i just trimmed off the start and end where i'm talking nonsense and saved that as my highlight reel. sorry about the audio being a bit funky for my mic i'll bring my laptop closer to me next time].

But also the biggest thing [on top of wanting to complete more chapters and make a buffer]: i really want to reread the entirety of Ghost of mine so i can check for errors or inconsistencies, all i could do last week was listen to the tts of 12-16 while trying to get a drawing for 17 prepared, and i couldn't fix all the errors i heard since i was just trying to fix the timeline errors as a minimum before posting the chapter. the extra time would give me more time to proofread Ghost of Mine carefully, as well as give the new chapters and art the attention it deserves. [and...actually take care of my irl self better, it's hard to find time for things like cooking and cleaning beyond what i do for the older man i live with].

So what i'm trying to say is although i didn't think i needed it before, i am changing my mind about it now. so i think it's a good idea for me to upload every two weeks instead of one...at least until i (hopefully) am able to catch up to the point of having stuff prepared ahead of schedule.

i swear on my god awful adhd that i will sit down with my sprint bot [a bot that times me and tracks my word count, not an AI], and write with no distractions at least once a day [unless i have things that i am forced to do and can't get to it, but i can get a lot done when i'm using the sprint bot to make myself focus]. So i will hopefully be making the two week change worth it by getting a lot done and being able to return to weekly updates when things are less cramped and there's stuff prepared properly ahead of time.

I hope that's alright with all of you, cuz i love working on gom it's just a lot for me to get done in a week with everything else i want to do!!

just imagine if i had more time i might be able to start posting TWPT along side gom [it's the jiang cheng lan xichen companionfic for GOM that i haven't had time to write as of late, i have it completely outlined but i just don't have time to write it anymore rn. check it out on the masterpost for my MDZS projects]. or the MXY companionfic as well, which i already started but i can't keep working on because of time as well.

basically there's a lot going on for gom besides the main fic that i haven't been able to get to and it just continues to get further behind in those aspects because i can't get the time for it. so really, i need those two weeks and i'm only just now admitting it to myself that i can't push out updates every two days like i used to and especially not now with these other projects and wanting to branch my stuff out more. There's so much i wanna do! lmao

TLDR; i want to change to bi-monthly updates for GOM so that i can increase my quantity and quality of all projects and future updates properly. I appreciate your amazing patience and i hope to make this change worth it!

i will always update you guys if i make changes like this. i can't leave the changes in your hands completely, but i will continue to upload on sunday since that's the day you guys like! expect the next GOM update on the 23rd instead of the 16th, and every two weeks from the 23rd.

[shivunin]

Hello! <3

For the Weird Questions for Writers…

2, 4, 7, 18 and 25!

(I'm greedy and they're all super interesting questions, of course feel free to ignore some if they aren't appealing or make you uncomfortable)

Hey! <3 Thank you for asking me!! I just answered 2, but here are the others c:

(Question list)

4. What’s a word that makes you go absolutely feral?

Ooooh so many!! I loooove fun words. Whenever I hear a new one my brain just keeps playing it over and over until I write it down somewhere. I have a whole list in my writing notebook for use as titles (that's where the title for Misericordia came from, for example---another word for mercy). I couldn't pick just one, but here:

Asperity (harshness in tone or manner): I like this bc it sounds like you are spitting it kind of? the form and function match.

Grandiloquent (pompous/extravagent in language or presentation in a manner intended to impress): Again, this one is long and fancy and it means being fancy on purpose---I just love that.

7. What is your deepest joy about writing?

This is going to be so full of metaphors---but the moment when you are profoundly and perfectly inspired to write something. It feels like a conductor raising their baton and the whole orchestra readies themselves to play. Writing in that mode is just this beautiful denouement that feels inevitable, cascades of letters building to the climax of harsher trills and then soft sweeps back to the conclusion. When I finish something and I know it sounded right, sometimes I just rest my hands on the keyboard and exhale like I would have when I performed with an instrument and finished playing a piece.

25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?

Elowen's Thing about her hair started when people would just start touching it growing up. It was long and soft and pretty, and others would just pick it up and run it between their fingers while they talked. She hated it, but didn't feel like she could object at the time. In most universes, when she leaves the clan for the Conclave one of the first things she does is shave both sides and trim the middle so there's less chance of people touching her. Cutting it is one of the first actual decisions she makes for herself.

18. Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end. Spicy addition: Questioner provides the passage.

I am sticking this under the cut because it's long haha. So here is a piece of Your Fate For Mine, the first fic I posted on AO3.

“The rifts!” she said, “Didn’t any of them tell you? I was not chosen by Andraste, Cullen; it was all a horrible misunderstanding. Or worse, some kind of lie–I’m just a–just a scout, expendable enough to the clan to send me to spy on what the humans were doing.”

“No,” he said evenly, “You are–”

“The Wardens needed Stroud,” she interrupted, raising her voice, “He is the only one who spoke out against their mad plans. The only one, amongst hundreds, who stood up for the right thing. They cannot rebuild without him. You know that’s true. And Hawke has people who depend on her, who need her–”

“Do not speak to me of people who depend–” he interjected. 

“–do you think I could leave her behind to be slaughtered by the largest, most horrifying demon I’ve ever seen just because Mother Giselle sang a nice song once and people liked it?”

“Sang a–” he sputtered, “That isn’t at all what–”

He had thought they could discuss this with level heads; clearly, he had been wrong. His headache beat at him, exacerbated by the way their words were ringing off the stone in the room. 

“And fine, maybe it was a selfish choice!” Her voice continued to rise; she was well and truly shouting by now, “Perhaps I had no right to decide for the Inquisition who ought to be leading them, but how could I choose? How could I look at these people and decide–yes, actually, because I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, I think you should die here instead of me. How could I–when they have lives, and responsibilities, and people who need them, people who love them –”

“ I love you!” he roared, and she rocked back onto her heels as if struck. 

“I… love you,” he said, more quietly, his pulse pounding in his ears, “I need you. Your friends need you. I should have said something before Adamant; I should have found the time. But I didn’t, and then you–I thought you were gone , Elowen. I thought you were dead!”

She didn’t say anything. He took a breath and grasped at the ragged edges of his composure.

“You put yourself in danger every day. I know that. I knew it when we decided to be–to be more than we were. To be together. I would never– never –ask you to place what we have over your duties or responsibilities, but after everything I have told you–did you not consider that it was my worst fears realized? To watch you disappear before my very eyes, to have you lost in a place I could not reach you, where I knew you would be prey for any kind of demon and Maker knows what other horrors? To watch you lose yourself, lose your own thoughts?”

Shakily, she sat down on the bed and stared at him. He hated that he’d put that expression on her face, but if he wanted honesty between them there was only one way for that to happen. He lowered his voice even more, until it was slightly quieter than he usually spoke.

“You say your life isn’t worth more than theirs? Fine. But it isn’t worth any less , either. We need you; the Inquisition needs you. I have always told myself: if something happens, we can find her and bring aid . Her friends are there with her when she walks away, and they wouldn’t let anything happen to her that she can’t manage . But Elowen–when you go, you leave me behind every time and I–I accept that. I must; it is what has to happen if we are to succeed. But this time–you chose to stay behind. You chose to be alone, where you could not be found or helped by anyone. My worst fears, Elowen, and you–did you think of me at all when you decided to stay?” 

Silence.

“It wasn’t about us,” she said softly, “I couldn’t think like that. Not there.”

Okay, so this is one of the very first passages I planned for Your Fate for Mine---this fight, where Elowen tells him she isn't that important and Cullen tells her she is wrong. The argument admission of love is---ah! *chef's kiss* That is my shit. I wanted to see Cullen pushed over the edge of his patience, I wanted Elowen to have to confront the consequences of an act she thought was selfless (stranding herself in the Fade), and I wanted them to have to confront what it means to be a good partner to each other.

I had two scenes in mind when I started writing this fic: the scene where she gets herself stuck in the Fade and this scene, when they are reunited. Actually, this was originally just about the end of the story---I'd planned for them to have sex afterward and then do a little epilogue about her readjusting to life in the realm of the living. I knew I wanted it to be the emotional climax of the story, but originally there was a lot more interrupting each other in the dialogue.

Ultimately, I decided that---since Elowen feels sort of perpetually misunderstood and one of the things she appreciates about Cullen is that he listens to her---they needed to clearly lay their feelings out. Cullen needed to confront his sense of abandonment at her leaving him behind. Elowen needed to know that she specifically mattered to him and that she is loved.

I've mentioned recently how much I love writing arguments, and this is definitely no exception to the rule. I could write them arguing and then making up over and over again. If I wrote this today, there are things I would do differently, but I still absolutely love it.