#Now I'm emotional

[warpedpuppeteer]

Something something the crook of your shoulder and your neck is my home

(gif credits to @feelsforsterek @goforkinard @housewifebuck @bucktommys )

[astraystayyh]

Hello!! Sending a couple from the ‘Questions for Fic Writers’ if that’s ok! 😄

7, 17, 28?

ofcc it is!!! thank you for sending these in lovely <33

7. How do you handle writer's block or moments of creative stagnation?

i stare at the wall in pure agony (kidding, kind of AJSSDN) I usually brainstorm with my friends about the idea i have in mind so I can regain my excitement for it again,, I also play songs that i associate with the fic so i could get inspired, trying to come up with dialogue or specific scenes while listening to the lyrics,, i also try not to force myself to write, i give my brain a little break and then go on a walk to spark up my inspo thanks to my surroundings (mostly nature which plays such a pivotal role in all my metaphors if you noticed:,)))

17. What's the most memorable comment or review you've received on one of your fics?

i think my most memorable feedback was under invisible thread,, here are some that truly impacted me :

"I honestly didn't believe that fanfictions could heal, but yours did and I'm grateful for that. Thank you for healing 10yo me."

"Hope you'll have a great weekend ahead of you, of feeling just yellow. Or taking your time to settle in the orange sunset and rest a bit."

"this work has left its mark on my heart and it's in the shape of a bandaid"

"This had me sobbing. It was around 1am last night, and I swear I haven't felt so safe at night. This is love."

revisiting the feedback underneath that fic and now i'm crying again, I can't believe so many lovely people has left me this many sweet feedback MY HEART WILL BURST WITH LOVE AND APPRECIATION

28. What's the most ambitious or challenging fic you've ever written?

echoes of love!!!! but now that i think of it, invisible thread was a close second because it was 1) my first long fic, 2) I really needed the pacing to make sense, for mc to open up naturally to minho and for their rp to culminate in that 9thbirthday scene where they finally confess to one another. it took me months to write it and rereading the feedback made me so emotional. i think my happiest moments this year were thanks to the people who read my works :,)

[mygwenchan]

OMG MY QUEEN FROM GO_A IS BACK ;A;

[bisexyjedi]

Carrie Fisher finally got a star on the walk of fame today! All hail space mom!!

[xandrikart]

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

oh right, technically i sell t-shirts

i forgot about that

[thereblob]

I'm not crying over Christmas Wishes for Long-Distance Friends! Definitely not!

[yes-asil]

Soul Melter Mode held it’s promise

[lastflowerofyourhouse]

something i like about nona's family is that they're so like, almost a perfect little nuclear family, and then just. not.

like. pyrrha is "the person who works for her" but also the one who makes breakfast and does the dishes. she's a woman quite literally posessing the body of a cis man and really leaning into the look, honorarily trans in both directions, working construction and shaving in the mornings and braiding nona's hair before school.

and then there's camilla, her...nagging wife? troublemaking older child? roomate who she barely gets along with? the fact that palamedes shares this role is doubly weird. he's a man literally posessing the body of a cis woman, and they're both pyrrha's nagging wife/problem child/roomate. i don't personally believe that anything explicitly or overtly sexual was happening between her and either of them, but i completely understand where people who think that are coming from. and it's fucking weird (affetionate?).

even nona occupies a weird place in this dynamic. like. pyrrha is definitely a parent to her but camilla, who takes a much more active role in her daily life, is...idk. nona has a crush on her and wants to marry her and adopt dogs. camilla's feelings for nona are more parental or older-sisterly, in that she cares for her and wants to protect her, and if her feelings are more complicated than that, it's because of the obvious aspects of the situation which make her extremely sad and apprehensive of the future. her affection for nona seems relatively simple.

and then there's palamedes, who is in theory another parental figure (see: camilla's "i'll talk to your mother later" face, or pyrrha's "you're going to make someone a really irritating wife one day, sextus"), but in nona's view of things he seems like something more along the lines of an older sibling, or perhaps a cool uncle, which is funny because pyrrha arguably treats him more like a spouse than she does camilla.

it's all just so fucking weird and jumbled up on itself. pyrrha will kiss camilla on the head and say "i'll be home for dinner, dear," and then turn around and call both her and nona "daddy's own treasures" (don't get me started). she'll kiss palamedes and camilla both on the mouth and tell them she loves them. she'll tell them she didn't love them well, or even wholesomely, and she won't explain what she means by wholesome.

alecto calls her "mother and father." alecto tells her she should've given into her urges and eaten them.

palamedes and camilla are second cousins and queerplatonic and married and the same person and by the start of the book the lines between them are already dissolving.

nona is so so young and she's so so old and she's not so much younger than camilla and she's older than pyrrha can even comprehend and some days she needs help getting her shirt over her head.

and most importantly they all love each other. it's a weird and confused and unhealthy love. it's a love full of tension and annoyance and fear. it's a love that wants very badly to fit a category and can't. but it's love it's love it's love and even when it's over even when it has nowhere left to go it's not gone it can't be gone. it's over it's done you can't take loved away.

[marzipanandminutiae]

as a woman who grew up with an emotionally abusive mother constantly telling me I needed to wear more makeup/more revealing clothing/date (boys) more/go out to "normal" parties more, I despise "she should be at the club"

god forbid some people- especially young women, who already have to deal with a thousand different behavioral standards from a thousand different directions -not have the same dreams and desires for their lives as you do for yours

fucking hell. the correct response to "women should stay at home and have kids and be submissive wives" prescriptivism was not MORE PRESCRIPTIVISM

(I also just saw a poll asking if people partied as teenagers, and OP responded that the answers were "killing them" because No was winning. like? why is everyone so personally invested in other people having a very specific kind of fun?)

[teaitis]

Silly little darling!

[vaguely-concerned]

*in the tones of a man revealing the secret name of god to you* "beets... are a very misunderstood vegetable"

god I'm fucking crying... there's no one in this shot I wouldn't kill or die for in a heartbeat. sisko I love you so much I can barely speak

tfw BEETS??? this is the most scared bashir has looked in the whole show (julian baby boy it's a buffet you don't have to eat beets if you don't want to)

odo… no notes you are doing amazing sweetie keep up the good work

[theminecraftbee]

gentle reminder for the fandom, since i've been noticing it in comments of decked out videos: backseat gaming typically isn't appreciated. telling the hermit to go to compass school is kind of annoying and not particularly constructive. telling the hermits to go check the underwater chest or the spider's den or whatever is spoilers, tango has directly asked you not to, you wouldn't want to make tango sad, would you? being like "lol how do you not know that yet" is rude, because the hermits aren't actually supposed to have watched any of the decked out development we have, and almost certainly haven't watched all the other hermits playing like we have.

even offering what you feel like is useful advice is normally going to be repetitive and unwanted instead of useful. yes, even if you've figured out a game meta the hermits don't seem to realize. yes, even if they're doing something really wrong or have the really wrong idea for how the game works. yes i KNOW the urge to explain the mechanic they're misunderstanding is strong. 99% of the time you should not do it.

if the hermit asks a question directly go ahead and answer the question! but if you weren't asked, don't say anything. don't be a backseat gamer.

[gwinverarrouz]

July 22 is the date I chose as a birthday for Bisig, my beloved little sailor cat, and to celebrate the occasion here is a mini-comic about her and how she met her crab fam :D It's kind of a continuation of something I've drawn back in 2020 as a way to explore her backstory a little and it's very dear to me.

(Please watch it in full view, I worked really hard on it! ^v^)

[lunarwednesday]

before reading 2ha, I was confused by everyone raving about someone named Chu Wanning. after reading it, I now completely understand why.

[ruporas]

chapter 90 vash