#Fox Answers

[ccrystalfox]

Sunday Snippets

More like SINday... I was tagged by @vspin and honestly at this point I tag ANYONE who's busting to share something interesting like I was hehehehe:

(I've saved the best until last, be warned)

Commorragh:

The bruises disappear before her eyes, and he gives her a smug little smile before tilting his head to kiss his mark into the sensitive skin of her neck. Over and over and over, like the bruises are leaching from his skin and into hers.

Post Commorragh Do-Over:

“Something troubling you, Lord Captain?” “If you value your life, van Calox, I suggest you put that piece down and come here.” “I’m perfectly comfortable where I am,” he replies, smiling almost cruelly. “Heinrix—” “You know, I can read you like a book, Lord Captain,” he says, seeming to revel in using her title rather than her damned name. “Oh?” she replies, through gritted teeth. "Flushed cheeks, fast breathing, pupils blown wide...and you can barely sit still." "Throne curse you--"

but then later (and I'm very proud of this one lol):

He wipes his mouth with the back of his hand, then swipes the amasec from the table and takes a drink. “Can you walk to the bed or will you need to be carried?”

[introvertedfox]

✨️🐰hello!!!! would you help spread some cuteness and silliness around our timeline? Share some pics of your Sims' pets!!🐰✨️ Share the ask around if you also wanna see more pets friends around! 🥰✨️

Thank you so much for the ask! 🧡

I've done an overview of all the little buddies on a recent ask, so all just dump a few more pictures. (Also forgot to include Daisy, the yellow Lab last time)

[foxtrot91]

Do you think Buddietommy has any habits that drive each other crazy?

In my head, Eddie and Tommy have forbid Buck from baking past 9pm. Because otherwise, he will be running that KitchenAid mixer in the middle of the night and he insists that "it's not even that loud" but it almost always wakes the entire household up.

So it’s so funny you bring that up because as a baker - this is a valid fear.

Back when I had time to bake as regularly as I wish I could now I’d legit be up baking late into the night and back when I lived in a basement apartment where you could hear EVERYTHING the upstairs tenants would get pretty pissed with me (especially when I’d make mini cheesecakes and would tap out the air bubbles) 😬

Anywayyy yes, they definitely have habits the drive each other bonkers and I can absolutely see that being one of Buck’s.

For Eddie, I like to think that since finding his joy he dances a lot more though this isn’t a habit that annoys Buck or Tommy, I think it annoys Christopher. He’s a teenager and is at the age where he’s probably embarrassed by everything Eddie does, it’s practically a rite of passage. I’m imagining Eddie dancing around the kitchen and Christopher walking in with a friend and just being mortified.

Tommy and Buck would love his dancing though and probably join in (however terribly) much to Christopher’s horror.

Habits that annoy Tommy and Buck though 🤔

I think Buck is a clean freak and Eddie doesn’t really strike me as one. I don’t think he’s a slob by any means but I do think he’s more comfortable with a little bit of clutter in a way that Buck isn’t (have you seen his loft??). Eddie probably occasionally leaves some dirty clothes lying on the ground (usually next to the hamper because he likes to ball up his dirty clothes and throw them like a basketball and sometimes he misses). He may even be the kind of person who leaves the cap off the toothpaste when he’s done with it (I think out of all of these this would be the one that drives Tommy nuts).

He’s probably also someone that doesn’t immediately do his dishes - he doesn’t let them pile up, but he’s fine with letting them sit in the sink through the day and then doing them all before he turns in for the night.

Buck is the opposite, he cleans up his messes immediately and often ends up doing Eddie’s breakfast dishes because he hates leaving them until the evening (this probably drives Eddie nuts because he definitely would’ve done them later). I’m not 100% sure where Tommy would fall on this but I don’t think he’d be all that annoyed by it but he is silently amused by a perturbed Buck.

Annoying habits of Tommy’s? I think his most frustrating one for both Buck and Eddie is that he tends to turn inward whenever he feels frustrated or insecure. Buck is a talk it out kind of guy, and Eddie, well, he’s getting there (hello therapy and hot priest) but he also sees both sides of it. He was that guy who kept everything inside so he understand it, but it also means he knows how bad it is for the individual so when he sees Tommy get in that headspace he takes steps to draw him out.

Aside from that, with Tommy’s hobby of tinkering with old cars comes a lot of motor oil stains and I think Eddie and Buck both flip back and forth between finding it sexy and frustrating 😉. Sexy in the moment - Tommy, arms bulging in his white tank top with black smudges down the front etc etc. but frustrating when those stains end up on their walls because Buck and/or Eddie couldn’t wait until after he’s had a shower to jump him and his hands (which are still covered in motor oil) end up braced against a wall.

For Buck, I think another annoying habit of his would also be one that they find super endearing which is his research dives. Adorable as they are, they are less so at 2am when they’re trying to sleep haha.

Anyway, thank you for the ask! Love thinking about them being all annoyingly domestic! Decided to add Christopher in there as a bonus 🥰

[hiruandonyokai]

[from @undersidebakehouse ]

Hello! I don't believe we met before, but I wanted to quickly make sure of something. Your...nieces? The girls with the cat ears and tails who keep saying 'meow' at the end of every sentence.

I was hoping you could warn them about interactions with my associates Robo-ky and Millia. Robo has a tendency to...come across as romantically desperate, especially with social media, and almost exclusively with women. I wouldn't want them to be made uncomfortable.

Millia tends to be more respectful and reasonable, but she does have very strong emotional reactions to cats, and to flirtatious women. I fear having both buttons pushed at once will have her acting...unwisely.

ahhhh da nekomata, theyll b fine lol. most of em r adults so it should b fine, if anything u should b warning ur friends about them. those claws r not only 4 show

[mercuryretrogradelabs]

APRIL FOOLS MOTHER FUCKER EVERY WEAPON AND ALL TECH IN THE LAB HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH BARS OF SOAP

...

This holiday is fucked. Everything smells like mint. Eugh.

This all better return to normal by tomorrow.

[fox-quills]

Sorry if you've been asked or have the answer for this somewhere,

How long do you estimate your WIPs will be? How many chapters do you think they'll have, and do you have an estimated word count for them when you begin writing?

Oh, thank you for the question!

The short answer is I have a very rough idea of length by the time I start a fic. How accurate that winds up being to the finished product is uhhh variable.

For example, I expected Mobius to be about 100k, and it clocked in at a bonkers 269k. Defiance I also expected to be about 100k, and it's looking to land in the ballpark of 120k, so much closer to the mark.

I do tend to think in word count, not chapters. Unless the fic is quite short, I'll rarely have any real estimate of chapter number until I start getting close to the end. Anyway, here's the estimates for my current wips, assuming none of them come at me with a baseball bat: Defiance: 115k Kintsugi: 100-150k Necessary Evil: 200k+ (might even be longer than Mobius) Dragon Crimes: 100-150k Bite the Hand: 50-100k Once More, With Feeling: 50k-ish Some Assembly Required: 35K Stable Alchemy: 25k Safe Harbor (Sequel to Ships in the Night): 20k Untitled Big Bang: 30-50k

[fanpersoningfox]

Schoethe class conscience Gespräch One-Shot! Schoethe class conscience Gespräch One-Shot! Context is for WEAKLINGS, just throw us the shreds!

"Bitte sag, dass du nicht FDP wählst."

Ein ganz dumpfes, schweres Gefühl hatte sich in Friedrichs Bauch breitgemacht. Johann sah auf und blinzelte ihn zweimal langsam an.

"Wie kommst du denn jetzt darauf?"

"Ich mein's ernst. Sag mir, dass du nicht FDP wählst."

Das wär's jetzt. Wirklich.

Johann schüttelte den Kopf.

"Ich habe die Grünen gewählt. Aber sagst du mir jetzt bitte, wo diese Frage herkommt?"

Friedrich fiel ein Stein vom Herzen. Halleluja. Gleichzeitig erwischte ihn das schlechte Gewissen.

"Du... Naja, du bist halt so..." - er machte eine vage, Johann umfassende Geste - "... posh?"

Jetzt war es ihm doch irgendwie peinlich, gefragt zu haben.

Johann schnaubte.

"Bitte, die von Goethes haben schon CDU gewählt, da war Christian Lindner noch ein Funkeln im Auge seiner Urgroßmutter." Ein Schmunzeln schlich sich in seinen Mundwinkel. "Du solltest mal meinen Vater hören..."

***

"Du hast ein HAUS? In Frankfurt?"

"Ja."

"Und dir gehört dieses Haus hier? Auch so richtig mit Eigentum und Grundbuch?"

"Ja."

"Du bist Eigentümer dieses Hauses hier, in dem du wohnst, und du besitzt noch ein weiteres Haus, in Frankfurt, das du vermietest?"

"Streng genommen sind es zwei Häuser, aber ja."

"Zwei- Du bist VERMIETER???"

"... Ja."

"Gott verdammt, Johann, ist das dein Ernst??"

"Ja. Wenn du dich damit besser fühlst, ich verlange nicht mehr als die ortsübliche Vergleichsmiete und während Corona habe ich für mehrere Monate die Miete erlassen."

"Das - Johann, I swear to God, wenn du die Miete erhöhst, verlasse ich dich."

[no-foxgiven]

favorite word?

Very fun question. I'd say it's a toss up between "soporific" and "petrichor".

[foxprints]

Hey! I bought some Murderbot prints from your Etsy store, and was delighted when I got a bonus MB-in-a-Jar sticker! I'll leave a review on Etsy as normal but wanted to say a special thank you for the little treat - really made my day!

Aww this is so sweet! I'm so glad you liked the little extra!! 🥰 Thank you so much for your review and support!!

[sourw0lfs]

🦩

🦩dealer's choice (choose any quote at all! or the summary / ao3 tags thing! whatever! wild card!)

A flash of lightning larger than the rest illuminates the world in a haze of red. It’s only it that light that Steve finally sees it: a shape in the distance, looming over the rest of the world as it curls forward on it’s haunches.

[foxetails]

Your art rocks. What process do you go through to pick your color palette?

AHH!! Sorry tumblr didn’t notify me for this!! Also thank you!!

For the most part, when I go into a piece, I already have a general idea of what I want the colors to portray. For example, in this first piece here, I knew I wanted the background to be really bright and eye catching, and for the subject to be a little less bright. And in the second screenshot, you can see that I originally chose this greeny-blue and red (picking near complementary colors helps for contrast.)

A lot of my process after that has to do with color adjustments and sliders. If I’m really unsure of how the base colors would look in a certain color environment, I lay them down raw and then adjust with overlay layers, the curves function or through manual color replacement (drawing over them again).

Some more tips/other bits (hopefully I explain this well):

- My white colors are almost always not pure white, instead they tend to reflect the background or general color palette I’ve chosen. In the first example I provided, my white is purplish, and in the second its blueish.

- Color palette websites can help too! I use those a lot when I’m stuck, and just generate colors until I really like one or two of them. I’m a very colorful person in general, so I like a lot of bright things haha.

-I shade/highlight with adjacent hues! So if my light source is warm toned, and I’m drawing something green, I’ll highlight with yellows and shade with blue hues. This gives a little more depth to your colors!

That’s about all I can think of right now! If I remember anything else I’ll add onto this post but hopefully this answers your question! 💕

[ccrystalfox]

hi!! i'd like something drastic (11) for the micro story game <3

Have Evelyn's very drastic solution to the possibility of there being onlookers to her slonking Heinrix's shit stupid style in a random Lower Decks corridor (under the cut because it's a bit naughty I guess?):

The second time she pulls him into a corridor in the lower decks, she’s tugging at the fastenings of his trousers before he can even protest, sinking to her knees before him. Throne, they’re both still covered in blood and dust and sweat— It doesn’t seem to bother her. She palms him, mouths him, through his smallclothes, and he feels his traitorous body respond despite the grime of both their bodies and their surroundings. “What if we’re seen?” he hisses, like the thought doesn’t set his entire body burning. Evelyn doesn’t answer. Instead, she arranges the fingers of her free hand into the shape of a gun, and mimes firing it down the corridor.

[thegoldesoul]

Tuna tuna mayo bonito flakes

(I just called you a womp womp crab/j) -inunaki

CALLED ME A WHAT

[hiruandonyokai]

@mayshipii

Hello its me the ship can u free me from slayer hell, I promise I wont crash the castle.

ya know im kinda not able 2 do anything rn, my magic is non-fuctional atm. so ur on ur own

[mercuryretrogradelabs]

HUGS YOU HUGS YOU HUGS YOU

I- Wh-

Hey, heyheyhey get off!

Do you have any idea what personal space is?

[fox-quills]

do you have any recommendations for writing a fic? i have so many ideas but never can get pass writing even 1 paragraph of my idea. I guess maybe it’s because i have ADHD but it sucks!!! I’ve such great ideas for mha / erasermicdeku fics but never can get far. Any recommendations that helped you out? Or helped you be more productive?

Okay this is about to get long-winded because I have a LOT of thoughts on this topic. I'll drop a tl;dr at the end lol. So! First some background. I have ADHD too anon, and I'm struggling my way through life unmedicated, so I absolutely get where you're coming from. I've been writing fanfiction a long time. To give you an idea, my oldest posted fic is actually older than my current beta, so you know. Fandom ancient or whatever. But, for a long long LONG time, I really struggled with consistency. I have a list of unfinished fics behind me a mile long, because as much as I loved writing, and as much as I wanted to do it, I just couldn't seem to manage it around all that ADHD brain fog. So I wrote sporadically, only ever finished one long fic in probably twenty years, and generally felt pretty bad about myself all around. And then about a year and a half ago, I decided that I wanted to try writing consistently. Again. For the fifty bajillionth time. But I also knew everything I had ever tried didn't work, so if I wanted it to happen, I needed to do something different. So I started getting up two hours before work every weekday, and I regret to inform you that it worked beautifully. I think a large part of it is hedging your bets against ADHD brain. First thing in the morning, you're going to be more alert, and you haven't already used up all your limited thinky spoons on work or school or whatever else. You get your best, fresh morning brain! Let me give you some stats. Here's my total word count for the last five years:

I started my morning writing in June of 2023, which is probably pretty obvious. When I first started, my daily word counts weren't anything crazy, but I was making consistent, daily progress and I was super happy with it!

And here's my daily word count for the last few days:

And this is not me going crazy. Just my two hours in the morning, which is closer to an hour and a half because I gotta get up, make coffee, etc. I have a few things that helped make the transition easier. I work from home, so I can write up until the moment I gotta boot my laptop for work. My husband also happens to get up for work at the same time I get up for writing, so that helps too. But even without these things? I'd do it. If I had to drag my ass outta bed at 4am, I would, because it just works that well. I'll never go back to doing anything else. I have one other piece of advice that really helps keep me motivated, and that's to find a circle of people to talk to about your writing. Talk about your fic with your friends, join a discord server, something! I absolutely CANNOT overstate how motivating it is to have people excited for your story, people to talk to about your ideas, people who care about this silly little thing you've created. There's this idea that writing is a solitary thing, but I don't think that's true. At least, it doesn't have to be. And I don't know about you, anon, but I'll write an entire novel for one friend who wants to know how it ends. I write because I love it, but I also write because I love other people too, and I like making them happy. tl;dr - Get up early to write. Yes, I know it sucks, but it really does work. - Find someone to talk about your stories with. A friend, a beta, a fellow fan. Shared enthusiasm is a wonderful motivator. I'm not going to guarantee what works for me will work for everyone. I do strongly encourage you to give it a try though, because you never know! It took me a long time to get where I'm at. Part of that was not knowing I had ADHD till I was 30, so I was stuck fighting an invisible enemy. And then I had to learn how to work around it, which wasn't an easy thing to do. The most important thing is to be kind to yourself, and to do what you can. If you're lucky it won't take you quite as long as it took me, but if writing is something you enjoy, then you'll be able to carve out a place for it. It just might take some trial and error to get there. I believe in you ❤