#(this is later than i wanted it to be wow)

[bixels]

I'm glad nobody's questioned why Sunset's personality is so different in the AU, but I'll explained anyways. AU Sunset basically has Tempest Shadow's personality. I decided not to adapt Tempest because too many redeemed villains, she doesn't play an important role in the overall story, and her broken horn is so cool and unique to her as a unicorn that any adaptation wouldn't do it justice. So I fused the two together. Sunset's backstory and hotheadedness with Tempest's tired, jaded, anti-social disposition and fighting skills.

Anyways, I hope it's not too jarring of a change. The more I develop Sunset, the more you'll probably notice how OOC she seems. I'll probably end up adopting Sunset into an OC once I'm done with the AU, since she's basically a completely different character.

[clockworkclownart]

Day 6 - Immortal AU - #DannyMay2024

so i was thinking, "who else becomes an immortal space themed monarch?" ~ if your immediate thought was "sailor moon", you are so right, i realy admire that about you 💚

[muffinlance]

I really do love your writing and Salvage gets me through when I am sad or depressed. However, I was wondering, how do you cope when someone who wrote a review didn’t like your writing? If you’ve had this before… I had one today and I am dejected. I’m working through my perfectionism and I keep telling myself, “my writing isn’t for everyone and it’s okay.” Any advice?

If it was unsolicited, especially on a fanfic? Delete it, block the person if you feel like, then go do your rage activity of choice before forgetting about it forever. That person is rude and doesn't deserve your time anymore than someone bumping into you on the street.

I've also found it useful to actively think of my fanfic as writing practice, and not even my brain expects perfection from writing practice. It also frees you do Try Cool Things.

Now take this digital blanket and cup of hot chocolate and go reread your nice comments.

[nicnacsnonsense]

You know, I think Clark and Lex’s relationship really could have benefited from a safe word. Something either of them could have said to the other to communicate “your current line of inquiry is infringing on my privacy in a way I cannot elaborate on without further compromising my privacy, so I need you to redirect or drop it.”

[sluckythewizard]

[PUT INTO PLACE, TIED DOWN AND ARRANGED, AND IS NEVER THE SAME, AGAIN.]<-listen to my favorite songs. VAMPIRES ARE WONDERFUL ARENT THEY. THE FLESH IS SO MUCH MORE DURABLE. SO MUCH STRETCHIER THAN HUMANS. THE STRESS DOESNT KILL A VAMPIRE THE SAME WAY IT DOES A HUMAN. YOU CAN TAKE THEM APART THREAD BY THREAD AND LEAVE THEM WIDE AWAKE WITHOUT WORRY OF THE BRAINMATTER SPOILING UNDER VINEGARY AGONY.

[skunkes]

ok posting it here bc im not sure if its going to stay in the doodle page

[byrdblood]

I read your entire rant about how the fandom snases in the fandom and how they treat nm and killer and the others and how they treats dust and his obvious schizophrenia and as a fellow psychologically nerd I salute you and I am SO SICK OF PEOPLE IN THIS GODFORSAKEN FANDOM DEMONIZING CHARACTERS WITH 9BVIOUS NEURODIVERGENCY AND MENTAL HALTH ISSUES OR JUST COMPLETELY IGNORING THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE LIKE AHHHHHHHHHH 5HANK YOU FOR CALLIMG THEM OUT like okayokayokay. I have to chill 4 a moment but THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. I love digging apart the mind of undertale aus snases and figuring out how they tic but sometimes the stories make me so pissed off because their is SO so much potential like i have written quite A few analysis analysis and hypotheticals on them and argh the way people just ignore and dismiss the Canon and what's right in front of them them feels like the dismissal of their characters. I understand theirs fanon and it exist but wish I saw more Canon. Just... it a breath of fresh air to see someone like this.

here's the thing - i genuinely, most of the time, do not dislike fanon.

in fact, i think it's fantastic that there's so many flavors of interpretations, not just because it's a sign of a healthy fandom, but because it offers accessibility. there are people who cannot handle morally grey (or outright evil) characters even with sympathetic narratives, or who come home from a long day of work-hell and can only stomach something soft & easily-digestible - and that's not bad! earlier in my fandom days when i was recovering from living in an abusive household where i had no privacy (and where my bitch-ass cult-wannabe father explicitly preyed on my ocd by telling me god was watching my thoughts at all times), exploring some of these grey moralities through a christian-washed lens was the only way i could consume them; anything else would have been too much. so it's only because of fanon being so vanilla-cookie that i really got to be introduced to the fandom in the first place; i can't hate it for that!

my problem, several years later, is with canons that have fantastic, agonizingly interesting premises, but whose executions end up being lackluster, and the fact that the fandom's response has been, historically, to take that premise and shove it into the little block-shape toy box they already had even when it doesn't really fit - and i especially find that frustrating when either phenomena are clearly borne of fear, either because of the weird puritanical bullshit that's been rabbit-breeding in this fandom since the early internet shipping wars, the fear of portraying something "incorrectly" and being dogpiled for it (often by the aforementioned group), or even due to misinformation and an unwillingness to do the bare minimum of research. (maybe im a fucking nerd for loving wikipedia so much, i don't know. i watched Annihilation for the first time last night and had to pause the movie 37 minutes in to send my boyfriend voice messages - which he described as "would be fun to animate" - ranting about how the main character - supposedly a biologist - clearly had never entered a science classroom in her entire fucking life. (otherwise loved the movie! last 3/4s were - wow! horrifying!!))

i don't know. for a long time i bit my tongue on shit like this because i felt silly about it, but i don't know, man. i really like utmv; it's the one fandom i always find myself coming back to when other interests get put on the trophy shelf to lovingly stare at from afar. there's just so many good, interesting ideas in this fandom. the universe that it sets up is so wide and full of so much potential. but ive never seen a story that really... gripped that potential the way i wanted. (some that came very close! and many that didn't, but that i loved regardless!) i don't even think my OWN stories could reach my expectations, because i'm very much an amateur writer and the vast majority of my energy is taken up by work (and generally the stress of poverty/unmedicated ADHD), but i don't want to let that stop me from enjoying my hobby!

and as long as i'm making things, i'm gonna at least try my best to make them cool - and a part of that, for me, has always been trying to make them make sense, without losing their fantastical charm.

[hoshiina]

pairing: akatsuki hyoga x gn!reader (no prns)

summary: kind of inspired by from the start by laufey, you loved him from the start

warnings: the reader is described as beautiful and pretty, hyoga is kind of sweet

If someone were to ask you what made you fall in love with Hyoga, you’d be in a bind, because you truly had no reason. You had no idea what started this little crush, but you were certain you loved him, there was no mistake about it. From the way you would notice your eyes following him, all the way to the way your heart would flutter when he talked to you. There was no other explanation of these emotions you harboured.

Hyoga was skeptical at times. He enjoyed talking to you far more than you would ever imagine, but sometimes he would have a sense that you might have some feelings for him. However, every time he had thought of this, it would immediately fade as he came to his senses, because there was absolutely no way you would fall for him. There was nothing he had ever done that could possibly come across as good, let alone something that would make someone fall for him. And definitely not you.

There were so many people who would kill to get one date with you, but none of them had had the confidence to ask. You were the most beautiful person most people had laid their eyes on, and he wasn’t an exception. This wasn’t only about your looks either, it was actually mainly about who you were. You would always be down to help and you always had a smile on, no matter the day. 

Your existence was more of an annoyance to Hyoga when you were just revived. He first assumed that Senkuu had just decided to revive a pretty person to raise the moral of the team, after realizing you had no particular strengths. However, it wasn’t long until he realized it wasn’t your looks that were making everyone’s day, it was rather your energy that was. For the first time in his life, he realized the effect one’s kindness can have on others. Soon after, the two of you had your first conversation, and for the first time in a very long time, you brought a smile to his face.

Now, you had no idea how to make Hyoga fall for you. You had pondered on this for months now, thinking about this every time you talked to him. Quite frankly, you were tired. You wanted him to like you so badly and today you were going to go for it. You had to start somewhere and whatever you were doing obviously wasn’t working.

The next time you talked to Hyoga was rather soon. He was just finishing his training for the day and you had just helped bring back the minerals that Chrome had found today. You were always nervous when you talked to him, but today must have been so much worse than usual, because you blurted out the words you had carefully held in for months.

“Hyoga, I like you,” you said and he was visibly shaken, but to his surprise you looked just as horrified. 

“...What?” he asked, genuinely surprised.

“That came out wrong,” you said and he undeniably felt his heart drop a little. Of course it did.

“If you’re going to pull that prank, at least do it to someone believable,” Hyoga said.

“What?” you said and immediately you realized what he meant. “No, I do like you. I’m serious, I just didn’t mean to blurt it out like that.”

“There’s no way,” Hyoga said, but he was hoping you would deny him and explain. “What have I ever done to make you like me?”

“Well, I’m sure that I do. I can’t quite point out when I first fell in love, but I can list things I like about you,” you said, absolutely confident. “I like the way you don’t say things you don’t mean. I like the way you care for those who matter. Oh, I love the way you’re always working hard. I know you’ve never skipped a day of training, even when you were burning up with that fever and you really should’ve...” You were ready to go on but the way Hyoga’s eyes widened surprised you. Immediately, you remembered when you first fell in love with Hyoga.

It was like you had thawed his frozen heart. He was so lost on how to react, no one had ever said that to him before. It was then that he remembered the time he probably fell for you. It was the first time the two of you had talked and your first comment was that you liked his kudayari spear. He had questioned if you were familiar with it and you told him you were not, a little embarrassed. You had admitted that you hardly knew anything about combats and weapons, but you assumed that the wear and tear in his spear showed how hard he worked. That couldn’t help but make him smile.

You were always like that. 

“Hyoga, I remember what made me fall in love,” you said, almost proud. “The first time we talked, you smiled. I thought a cupid shot me in the heart.”

Your confident demeanor was slowly fading away as you waited for his response. He could tell you were nervous and that made his heart flutter. You were serious. 

It wasn’t on purpose, it wasn’t because you had just said that. He just couldn’t help but smile. 

“Then, I fell in love first.”

BONUS

"No way," you said, unable to process that he returned your feelings, let alone fell first.

"You better not go around doing that to other people," he said, not elaborating on the previous statement.

"Oh, don't be silly," you said and he opened his mouth to tell you he was serious, but you went on. "I've only ever been looking at you, how would I know anything about anyone else?"

[moeblob]

Deacon loves two things: Ymber and digging himself a grave.

Fulj hates one thing: Deacon.

[waveridden]

3life martyn 33

sometimes, sometimes the only way out is through

[glass-oranges]

What if I connected to a very unstable chassis then tried to kill you and your girlfriend wouldn't that be fun

[atissi]

if you are 1) currently in a university where your student healthcare covers hormone therapy, and 2) in a good financial, emotional, and social position to start hormone therapy, i would recommend pursuing it. because in my experience, it's a huge pain in the ass to get an endocrinologist once you're on your own

[scalproie]

my extremely corny and indulgent but satisfying and symbolic ideal scenario for Kazuya and Jin to fully Break The Cycle™️ would be for one of them to grab and save the other from falling off a great height. perhaps even a cliff.

[vampthropologist]

New selfship! I call them HarV (Harvey/Harv/V) - ref img

[thethingything]

I really don't like our brain's ability to jump from "I'm going to organise all this stuff and catch up with a bunch of tasks" to "it's time to get stuck in an increasingly distressing thought spiral for several hours, accidentally trigger yourself, then feel like shit because you haven't done anything but also haven't managed to rest".

like please can we maybe have like a nice middleground where we do a few things and then rest for a while and don't experience the full range of human emotions over the course of about 3 hours

[yooniesim]

Only goofy bitches wanna call other people racist and then call every black person that don't suck their asshole a coon 💀 uneducated, fragile ego behavior if we're being honest. not a speck of self awareness or intelligence in any inch of their body. but we been knew that