#GREAT questions thank you!!

[zensations35]

🚕👀?

🚕 - choose a type of transportation to witness a snz on/in

-Was really hoping to get this one, thanks!! I asked Nostrildamus about this too and our answer is the same--train. And I don't know why. I love the thought of someone being exhausted from a trip, scrunched between suitcases and bags, withdrawn and on their phone or reading a book.

And then, overcome with a fit, feeling like they have to make themself even smaller by stifling, squeezing their body smaller, maybe bending over said luggage, doing their best to stay unseen and not bother anyone. 🥹 Rrrghhh

👀  - what is the longest sneezing fit you’ve ever witnessed?

-Besides myself (because I don't count witnessing myself), it's my hubs. Before we moved, he was deeply allergic to the flora in our town and he would wake up every morning having uncontrollable, 30 minute long fits. Even before we dated, we were roommates and purely platonic, but his fits were my alarm clock because they were loud and....🥵 he didn't want to wake people up so he would head straight for the bathroom across the hall--and pass my room along the way.

Because he's such a teasing little shit (yes I call him that and he loves it), this is one of his favorite memories for me to revisit. It makes him giddy and he's so cute about it.

[criticalrolo]

11 for Remus, and then 51 and 67 for all four of the ones in your tags!

11. if they have a pet or animal companion, how do they spend time with them? if they don’t have one, what sort of animal would they be interested in raising, if any?

Yup, Remus has a canary familiar named Persephone! He carved her out of wood when he was trying to learn how to cast spells, and the first one he learned was Find Familiar and turned his little canary statue real :)

51. what element of their backstory are you proudest of?

Sigrun: I really love how I've constructed her family situation -- going from a single dad trying his best but being actively hunted by religious extremists, to living with her violent clan leader mom who kind of terrorized her but also is one of her strongest supporters and a huge mentor figure/influence in her life. Then after both of them disappeared, falling in with a new band of mercenaries that are her best friends and partners as well as their Collective Dwarf Father Figure, until they disappeared as well. I love her connections to other people and how sensitive she is to abandonment even though she's a big strong viking in the meantime.

Eden: To be honest I kind of love how I've integrated his racial attributes, classes, and backstory all together so that he really Belongs to his setting if that makes sense. He's a storm genasi trapped in the desert who uses his own internal lightning to power his little makeshift lightsaber that he built himself to attract storms/water. I like how everything about him is built to Survive and how he uses EVERYTHING at his disposal

Remus: WIFE WIFE WIFE CAN'T WAIT TO SHOW OFF HIS CUTE WIFE AND HOW THESE TWO ARE MADLY IN LOVE -- basically we've flavored all his magic items as Ordinary Objects that represented his love for his wife that got infused with magic when he lost his memory in a Magical Explosion. So like -- the red string that he wears as a necklace USED to carry his wedding ring, and now it gives him a bonus to his constitution <3

Kestrel: Is there anything sexier than a wizard trapped in the most Dire of situations deciding to claw out his own magical powers and knowledge to keep it from falling into the wrong hands, relying on his conviction that if he was smart enough to figure out how to be a high level chronurgy wizard once he'll be able to do it again from scratch. and turning himself into an unstable nightmare in the meantime. LOVE HIMMM

67. do they consider themselves to be special?

Sigrun: Sort of? She considers herself to be Her Mother's Heir and Her Father's Child and wants to be the best parts of them both, so she's constantly pushing herself to represent them both as the Titans that they are in her memory.

Eden: Nah, Eden knows everyone else thinks he's weird as fuck but he truly thinks of himself as Just Some Guy who Happened to get stuck in the desert for a decade

Remus: No, this man has the self esteem of a wet paper bag and thinks he's a scared weak idiot (has no concept of how crazy it is to have a 20 con and a 22 strength). He thinks he's "special" in that he has no fucking memories and Explodes when he gets anxious and gets premonitions of the future but that's caused nothing but problems in his life

Kestrel: Yeah, Kestrel Knows that he's a good fucking war mage and the FIRST son of a bitch to figure out chronurgy magic to the extent that he did. Now, he thinks he's the one who HAS to figure it out again as a safe guard from opposing armies who would destroy the world with it

[setacin]

"she's dead scar.... you won."

my cosplay of scar's secret life red life skin!

[pencildragons]

still insanely funny to me that ortus nigenad has canonically written 18 volumes of epic poetry about a bodyguard who was, in fact, Just Some Guy, and regularly quotes himself out loud in conversations on the regular. man had to die at the start of gtn because he was too fucking powerful to live

[callisteios]

I have a new uquiz for you, go on a pilgrimage with me. discover who you are.

[queerliblib]

Most libraries in the US are free only to people in the library's taxing district. Who will be able to get a QLL card? Is it a subscription library? I am watching with great eagerness - I can't wait to add a QLL card to my Libby account :)

Hello! you're absolutely right, and that's partially due to how public libraries are usually funded through local taxes. That's one of the unique things about QLL, since we're a 501(c)3 non-profit and fully funded through donations, our library will be accessible to anyone across the US* who signs up for a digital card with us! We've already met with Overdrive/Libby to confirm that we can do this.

*we are currently limited to the United States because of how ebook licensing works. It would be exciting to expand in the future, but we're just getting started.

[finemealprompt]

DP x DC Prompt #38

The observants are in a bit of a pickle, at the moment. The young Danny Fenton is refusing to be the Ghost King, saying he is too busy and doesn't want the responsibility that comes with it. Clockwork insists they don't need a king, but what does he know?

Who else could be their king? The other halfa, Vlad Masters? No, no, he'd be almost as bad as Pariah Dark. The clone? No, she's not nearly stable enough. Ruling the realms would be the definitive end of her.

That's when they remembered. There was this guy who reeked of death in Gotham. He had started a legacy, he helps lead one of the strongest team of heroes in the world, surely he'd be a great fit! He's not exactly a ghost, but beggars can't be choosers!

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

In one of the episodes, Jun mentioned that she wanted to pierce her ears twice. in your version she has already done this?

oh dude you either have memory of a steel trap or someone had a good rewatch recently! But, wow, tbh I do not remember this and in HoM AU designs I only delibarately added earrings/piercings to Kim and Jake to sort of break their design more from their og looks (especially Kim lol, I barely changed her anything xD) but also for practical in-verse reasons. I didnt even think about Jun or anyone else... but you know? I like it, so now she does!

AND now she got 7 of them!!! Some are just simple hoops or studs, but others are magical gem stones for emergencies (small spells and protections), and she can just swap them out when needed.

After you mentioned it, I wonder why out of all characters Jun is like almost the only one without piercings of any sorts? I mean even Lila got a fang earring and she has been human-shaped for like less than a year?? Which led me to a headcanon:

What if Jun's invulnerability is so strong she couldn't even get piercings in a normal human way? So, going with her Mom or her friends to get her ears pierced in a mall was out of the question. She and Jasmine had to enchant a needle/make a spell (or maybe just visit a monster beauty salon), just for her to do it and after they just show up to her parents like: "Oh look Barbara, Michael, I took Jun to pierce her ears, doesn't she look wonderful?'

And later Jun just took the needle/spell to covertly make more piercings with her friends, which Ophelia was more than happy to do. The other three she got a bit later over the years. ;D

[ithinkitwasvodka]

MIN HO? MORE LIKE MEAN HOE

[kimtaegis]

blue joon ♡ for @rkivedfiles

cr. namuspromised

[ao3-shenanigans]

Would it be rude to ask an author how sad of an ending an ongoing story will be? I don't like permanent major character death stories or Greek tragedy levels of sad ending stories and it's one of the ways this story I'm really enjoying could end up going. There is no indication in the tags or author's notes from what I've seen. Idk I just don't want to be mean or discouraging cause I love the story soo much!!!!!

To be honest, I’m not entirely sure; I know everyone will have widely varying opinions on this which means that it’s a very good question!

On one hand, authors aren’t generally fans of being told what to do or not to do in the comments as that’s not really the place for such things, on the other hand- if it’s a genuine question I don’t really see why not?

I think it really comes down to tone and context:

‘Woah! I love your story! [character/concept] is one of my favorites and you do it so well!

Out of curiosity, may I ask how sad you intend the ending to be?/genq (I’m sensitive to some endings and didn’t notice anything in the tags and as such wanted to be able to prepare myself; if you’re willing to share)

I love this story and am always so excited to see an update notification in my inbox!

Many many kudos!’

^something like this would be, I think, pretty well received by the author and understandable as it’s coming from a place of good intentions and is made clear as such

Of course, if it does end up being a tragedy for the ages, you might have to stop reading, which would be unfortunate but there’s really nothing you can (or should) do to change it. If it turns out to be the case, leave an “Extra kudos!” On the last chapter you read and walk off without further comment- leave on a high note, and hey- bookmark it and maybe one day you’ll be able to come back and revisit the story!

Note: to everyone commenting and sharing their own experiences and opinions, please, above all else, be kind, both to commenters and authors <3

[bakathief]

It’s been 209 days. Since the last time you updated Shadow Chase when are we getting a new update :(

Hi how are you I‘m good thanks :)

If you are worried that I‘m slacking off rest assured that I have been working on my art in my 2-3 hours of free time every day. If you don‘t believe me you can check out the +140 art pieces in my latest collab or the 22 pages comic I uploaded 2 weeks ago. Thank you for leaving words of motivations in my comments and inbox as noone loves more „when is the next update“ comments than me, especially after a 12 hour shift on the weekend. :)

That being said, there are new pages, when I have the capacity to upload is another question.

[tcfactory]

This is fully a personal preference thing honestly, but I've been turning it around in my brain why I don't like BingQiu specifically when I'm at worst neutral on almost literally any other ship and I think it boils down to this: it's really important to me that in a ship that's supposed to be lasting and stable at least one character can say "I see you for what you are and I accept you for all there is to you". And that's just not a thing with BingQiu.

Binghe literally can't know a huge part of Shen Qingqiu - the part that is Shen Yuan, the part that wears the scum villain as a mask that it can never even take off completely - because of the transmigration and the System. He also idolizes his Shizun and at the same time puts on mask after mask so that he can be Shen Qingqiu's lovely white lotus which also don't help.

And Shen Qingqiu's head is full of so many bees, so much denial and self-delusion that we watched him actively think himself in circles rather than admit that Binghe might be interested in him for three whole books. I don't trust him to have a reasonably realistic idea of himself, much less of someone else. Especially not Binghe. He will make up a picture in his mind about how things are supposed to be and it has to be an act of divine intervention for him to budge from it. He will deny reality if he has to, so he's incapable of seeing Binghe as anything other than the Perfect Protagonist.

I don't often see Binghe shipped with others (he's so singularly No Thoughts Head Empty Only Shizun that it's hard to put him with anyone else. Shen Jiu sometimes I guess, but he is shipped more with Bingge which feels like a distinctly separate thing to me and anyway, it's usually predicated upon the realization that they are both similar kinds of monsters, even if Bingge outdoes his scum villain by several orders of magnitude) but Shen Yuan has a few choice ships that either challenge his expectations enough that his denial and delusion breaks down eventually (Liu Qingge, Shen Jiu, etc.) or ship him with Airplane who knows him for what he is because he's also a transmigrator and he's familiar with Cucumber bro's acerbic inner self.

Other ships too. QiJiu/LiuJiu/QiJiuLiu any variations of these three tbh thrive on clearing up their misunderstanding and starting to see each other clearly again. MoShang get together once they start to properly pay attention to each other and their respective needs. Airplane in general has just an impossible understanding of whoever he's shipped with as only Author and his creations can have. Tianlang-jun's weird charm comes from it that he can't (or possibly refuses to) pretend to be anything than who and what he is beyond the most superficial disguise.

And BingQiu just doesn't have that. They are both too obsessed with an idealized version of each other to ever see things clearly and that's what makes their dynamic not very fun to me personally.

[strangegutz]

How do you sell the dolls? I’m not asking where or about pricing, but how do you prevent getting attached and wanting to keep them? That’s what I struggle with. I’d love to sell my creations, but after a while of working on them I get so attached. Do you ever experience this, and if so what do you do to prevent it? Thanks in advance, and have a wonderful day.

(If you don’t ever deal with this/don’t have advice feel free to ignore this of course)

This is a good question! I think a good thing to do is make sure you're making stuff for yourself occasionally. It won't cure the urge to keep other things you've made, but itll help a bit. And sometimes, after keeping something on a shelf for a while, you might decide it's time to move it on. I think that making a handful of dolls with the same general concept, take my witch cats for example, you could convince yourself to just keep your favorite and sell the rest. There's also asking the question, "do I want this forever, or did I just spend a lot of time with it and am used to it being around" which gets easier to answer (either way!) the more things you make, in my opinion.

I'm a little weird with how I create dolls that makes it kinda easy for me to sell them (this isn't advice but just what goes on with me) The things that are fun for me to make are not usually the things I care to keep. There's something very satisfying about making a cute pink creature with a frilly dress full of texture, but it's not something I care to put on my shelf. Kinda like having the fun of building a Lego set then not knowing what to do with it after. You'll notice I make a lot of cutesy or fanciful dolls, like kitties, rabbits, lemon slices, but I keep things like giant spider women and a rat that looks like Siouxsie Sioux.

There's also the weird problem I have, where knowing that I made something makes me like it less, but that's just my own hang up haha

Maybe as you go, you can find something that's fun for you to make and explore, but doesn't spin your gears in the way more personal projects can?

[plantboiart]

My autism superpower is being able to connect every single song i listen to to just roll with it blood in the bayou with minimal effort

[whatsanameanyway]

wanted to do some ddvau fanart bc i love the series and these guys are everything to me

au by the amazing @kitsuneisi and @xmaruu11 you guys are amazing