#About Liz

[tessaservopoulos]

-seeing noah kahan in 11 days -moving out of state in 13 days -seeing taylor acorn in 18 days -seeing taylor acorn again in 31 days

gonna be the best month ever :")

[randomestfandoms-ocs]

💙 + The Castellan siblings? (Elaine, Felicity, Liz)?

Elaine

Felicity

Liz

[nieithryn]

GET TO KNOW THE MUN.

respond to the prompts out of character!

what made you pick up the current muse(s) you have? These days, especially in this fandom, it's usually the relationships between either a friend's muse and the character, or another of my muses and a character. But looking at some of my main kiddos, or my OCs? I write characters that embody something that fascinates me. Frequently it's a new take on strength through adversity, or the reforging of the self after trauma. Sometimes it's something I identify with deeply, like Mace and Quinlan's struggle with the Dark from a young age. Or Yularen being willing to do bad things for the greater good as he sees it. Or Cody being a protective big brother who can't always protect his brothers. And sometimes, just because it seems fun, like with Zam!

is there anything you don’t like to write? There definitely are, though they're rare. Few and far between, aside from the obvious hard no's of various kinds. I'll write almost anything if a partner and I have enough chemistry. But some of the things I'm less comfortable with are crossovers (never been quite sure why, fandom AUs are fine, but crossovers I struggle with), true crack, and angst or smut without some kind of purpose or plot. I love me some angst, but I need the comfort after, unless I'm writing a symbolic unhappy ending for some reason. There's a few muses I have for whom that would be appropriate or canon compliant, but otherwise the angst needs a gentle comfort after or some reason.

is there anything you really enjoy writing? Basically anything else! I'm pretty flexible, if my partner is interested I'll do damn near anything tbh. I love hurt-comfort especially, but I love me some good canon divergent "what ifs" and alternate takes on how characters meet or even hook up. It's fun sometimes to see how a complicated relationship can go so many different ways, where along the forks they might have gone different directions. I love writing the inbetween moments canon never shows us, because there's never enough time to. The ways those inbetween scenes might affect entire relationships, or should have. Honestly, give me all those little bits inbetween.

how do you come up with headcanons? Usually headcanons develop from my analysis of whatever canon I accept for my muse, sometimes from small facial or body language tells during a panel/scene, sometimes by extrapolating from something they say or are described to do. But sometimes it's actually extrapolating from their relationships with other characters, both the muses of my partners and the people they interact with canonically. You can tell a lot about a character by how they interact with loved ones, for instance.

do you write in silence or do you play music? This depends on the ADHD mood of the day. Most days, I have 1-3 songs on repeat to become such a smooth background I can write without silence, but not get distracted by lyrics or the instrumentation. But some days, I need complete and absolute silence because any noise will distract me and the replies will never happen. Oh the joys lol.

do you plan your replies or wing them? Kinda both, and it usually depends on the muse the reply is for. Some I can plot out really well, or get so excited to write that I spend hours plotting the right reply. And some either flow so naturally I can wing it, or unexpectedly just decide the plotted reply isn't the vibe of the moment when I'm actually writing, and off we go to the races!

do you enjoy shipping? Oh hells yes, absolutely. Romantic, platonic, absolutely I love shipping. In the purely romantic sense, while many of my muses over my time RPing are demisexual, I am always down to give them partners, and in platonic senses, family and friends and found family are just. So wonderful.

what’s your alias/name? Liz or Argent

age?  25

birthday? April 2nd

favorite color?  Dark Blue, Silver, Gold

favorite song? 

last movie you watched? 

last show you watched?  Uhhh Family Feud I think lol.

last song you listened to? Will The Circle Be Unbroken by Peter Hollens & Malukah (Honorary shout out to Baba Yetu as well bc they've been on a two song repeat lol)

favorite food?  Oooh hard choice. Steamer clams or steamed artichokes.

favorite season?  Autumn

do you have a tumblr best friend? I used to have a really close friend group on Tumblr I would've tagged, but many have since disappeared. Now it's @strcngered and I against the world, lol. Though @valorums/@prodijedi and @mayxthexforce are very very swiftly making it into that same level of vibe, so I'm rebuilding slowly but surely.

TAGGED BY: @valorums

TAGGING: Ohhhh just steal it, Callie snagged most of you anyway lol.

[nashforhire]

[akkpipitphattana]

i’ll never understand people who can’t make fun of their faves a little. like yes i love this character and would defend them to my grave but also they’re stupid sometimes and they do dumb things and imma make fun of them for it

[anthyies]

the thing about disco elysium is that it has women in it. what you see on the internet about it might lie to you about that but it has women, gay women even, very compelling women even, in it.

[girlwiththegreenhat]

with as many "oh fuck off (delighted)" moments as the fnaf movie had i don't think anything ignited a more visceral reaction in people than when matpat had a minor role and did indeed say The Line

[thiccermccer]

all of ryan gosling's comments about "telling ken's story" are really interesting and even funnier now that i've seen the movie. yeah ken is ridiculous but his feelings and sentiments are really similar to ones of seen from boys who are starting to enter that alt-right/incel pipeline. feeling abandoned and useless without a woman and turning that hurt into anger at women!! ken's story did get told and it's a story that i don't think we acknowledge enough

[sketchy--akechi]

thank you atlus for giving us a yaoi dlc

[pa-rou]

when I rule the world, then you're the little girl

[tessaservopoulos]

20 questions for fic writers

Tagged by the ever lovely @oliviassunrise - thank you friend!!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

521

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

as of today i have posted 1,189,141 words, which makes me feel insane!

3. What fandoms do you write for?

i have written for a lot of them, but the current three are the last of us (tess/joel), the hunger games (haymitch/effie), and fringe (peter/olivia).

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

but home was a dream (one that i'd never seen until you came along) [jopper]

i am still looking (even when i look away) [kate/yelena]

this is home [philinda & philindaisy]

your heart is a masterpiece [melinda & daisy]

how everything still turns to gold [tessjoel]

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

i do!! i'm terrible at it and usually very late but i cherish every single person who leaves me a comment.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

probably confined, where tess is captured by fireflies and has no hope of escape.

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

probably my tessjoel summer anthology fic!

8. Do you get hate on fics?

not usually? if i do i'll just delete it and move on, tbh.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

i do lmao it is a majority of what i write nowadays if i'm being honest?? i did kinktober and had an absolute blast, especially because i wrote some kinks i never had before.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

i have! i've written plenty of marvel crossovers, but the silliest one was wayyyy back in my ncis days- i wrote a jenny shepard/bruce wayne crackship fic, haha.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

i don't think so?? if i do i don't know about it lmao

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

i have not!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

back in my sons of anarchy days i used to rp gemma/clay, does that count?

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

i'm gonna be honest- i don't have one. i love each ship so deeply in the moment that it always feels like the all-time favorite! like right now, it's tessjoel. but two years ago it was jopper. before that, it was philinda. before that, riverdoctor. and so on, and so forth. i just love what i love, man.

15. What's the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Honestly, my maydaisy + avengers au that has sat unfinished since 2017 haha. i had such a great plan for it and then aos broke my heart and i got discouraged. i really should go back to it because melinda + the avengers is my favorite thing.

16. What are your writing strengths?

description. i have a very flowery writing style that lends itself better to descriptive scenes.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

starting too many projects for my pea brain to keep up with

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

i've added bits and pieces of other languages to my fics before and it is always after intense googling, haha.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

NCIS, for my beloved jenny/gibbs <3

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

this is so tough!! i have been writing for nearly half my life now so i've written so much. but i really really loved i lost a part of me out there, a tessjoel time travel au borrowed from one of my favorite tessjoel writer's verses. i think it's some of my favorite writing ever. but also the jopper marriage law fic (my top kudos fic) is my absolute pride and joy.

tagging @wardenannie @sassymajesty @professortennant @wistfulwatcher and anyone that wants to do this <333

[aq2003]

you know that term "male character being written by a woman" that describes an emotionally complex well-written dude that fans immediately fall in love with because they are crafted w/ so much care and would probably make an ideal partner or whatever? yeah this is exactly the energy of brennan lee mulligan portraying his discontented girlboss npcs in dimension 20

[nieithryn]

GETTING TO KNOW YOU

Respond to the prompts below, and tag fellow writers that you’d like to get to know better.

FAVORITE COLOR(S): Dark/Navy Blue, Metallic Gray/Silver, Metallic Yellow/Gold, Heraldic Red.

FAVORITE MOVIE(S): Pirates of Penzance (1983), Attack of the Clones (2002), The Greatest Showman (2017), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Walking With Dinosaurs/Beasts, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002), The Lord of the Rings Trilogy,The Hobbit (1977) & The Return of the King (1980).

FAVORITE BOOK(S): Shatterpoint (Matthew Stover), Jingo (Terry Pratchett), Reaper Man (Terry Pratchett), Night Watch (Terry Pratchett)....do the Open Seasons comics count?

FAVORITE SERIES: Hands-down Discworld by Terry Pratchett as far as bookseries, followed closely by Honor Harrington by David Weber. Dresden Files by Jim Butcher; The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer (but I know the author personally, so, I'm biased). For tv series, The Clone Wars, Good Omens, Hogan's Heroes, uh....there's more I am simply blanking.

FAVORITE MUSICIAN(S): Elton John, Billy Joel, Mary Black, Roger Whittaker, Malukah, Enya, Loreena McKennitt, Josh Groban, Aurelio Voltaire, Blackmore's Night, the Seekers, Peter Paul and Mary, John Denver, Glen Yarbrough.....

FAVORITE MUSIC: Celtic Folk, Folk (in general, especially 60s folk tho), TV/Videogame/Film Scores, Musical Theatre, Classic Rock, Soft Rock, Pre-9/11 Country Music, Classical Orchestra, Disco...a little bit of it all really.

LAST SONG: Let Your Love Flow by the Bellamy Brothers

LAST SERIES: The Clone Wars....I am predictable, okay.

LAST MOVIE: Take the Lead

CURRENTLY READING: Lots of old Star Wars comics, Off Armageddon Reef, and a reread of the Dresden Files (Grave Peril currently). Whatever takes the mood of the moment lol.

CURRENTLY WATCHING: Trying to get myself to rewatch Bad Batch season 1 and then start season 2, or watch Book of Boba Fett.

CURRENTLY WORKING ON: Recovering from a toxic relationship and some old old fanfics I wanna finish. And making my way back to the lovely Tumblr SWRPC after a long absence.

[nashforhire]

anemone, edelweiss, lavender, peony

anemone : how does your muse view the world ; as a cruel & unforgiving place , a land full of wonders , or something in - between ? where does that world view come from ( what experiences , life lessons , etc . ) ?

I think she sees it as both, really. Liz is a realist in many ways. The universe is a giant, unforgiving, ruthless place full of suffering and death, where you are insignificant. But it is also a magical, beautiful, endlessly breathtaking place full of wonders and joy and love the likes of which no one person will ever fully comprehend. Both exist simultaneously and inseparably. She, personally, finds dwelling on it overwhelming. So she mostly just tries very hard to accept things as they come and focus on what's in front of her to avoid the headache of trying to rationalise the entire depth and meaning of the cosmos. People are people, no matter where you go. Everyone is a weirdo, especially the "normal" ones. And people, by and large, just want to feel seen and heard. Every experience she's had has taught that lesson, over and over.

edelweiss : what was the bravest moment in your muse’s life ? are they known to be courageous from then on ?

Just living her life has been an act of courage. Not letting her circumstances crush her or force her to give up who she really is to please others. Right from the start, she was behind and she never stopped fighting. Even in her darkest moments, she managed to claw her way back. Whether anyone noticed or cared was never important to her because she was never doing it for them. How people see her - brave, cowardly, strong, weak, whatever - says more about them than it does about her and she is finally in a place where she's really accepted that.

lavender : how easy is it to gain your muse’s trust ? once their trust is broken , how might one go about mending it ?

On a surface level, it's pretty easy to get her trust. On a deeper level? It takes a long time and a lot of work. Liz has a lot of "friends". More acquaintances than anything. People she knows to talk to, that she'll drink with, and do business with. But very few people she considers family. And if you've become family and break that trust? You're done. There's no coming back. You can't mend that. She is very much one and done that way.

peony : what would a ‘ happy life ’ look like in your muse’s eyes ?

Being able to sleep easy, to feel safe, and to actually let her guard down, even a little.

[hiamabbass]

Dead people are dead. Danvers... No, there’s no heaven, there’s no hell, there’s no ghosts fucking beyond. There’s nobody out there just waiting for us, watching us.

TRUE DETECTIVE: NIGHT COUNTRY (2024) Dir. Issa López

[dlartistanon]

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