#asker: notebook

[mephone-1]

"i've heard you're in a bit of trouble! would you like to come to meeplecare so my assistant and i can check you out?"

@meeple-notebook

Oh. Hm. Alright.

I am already moving towards Meeple Care. Do not worry.

However, I believe I am encountering a. Different. Type of issue than what you may be familiar with. I am not sure if you will even have a solution to such a thing. But. It is worth a try, I suppose.

And. Hello, Notebook. I do not believe we have talked before this moment. This must not be the most. Pleasant. Introduction, though. I apologize for that.

[altruistic-meme]

Trick or treat! :]

WOO :D

for you my dear, I shall share a picture from my bsd notebook! i chose a page that has more to do with writing than analyzing, so here are some of my thoughts while planning one of my fics :3 ft a genuine look into what all of my fic planning looks like, really, disjointed trains of thought and seemingly random emphasis included

also, in case you were wondering, the fic this is about is "blackhole time fuckery"!

[ its trick or treat month :) ]

[cripplecharacters]

Hullo,

I am writing a story with a nonverbal character in a fantasy setting (though low on magic). The village this character comes from doesn’t have access to electricity and electrical technology. I want this character to be able to communicate but they wouldn’t have access to an AAC device, and they are unable to use sign language. Magic or magical devices would also not be an option.

My idea for how to solve this is them having a bag containing cards or wooden slabs (because they live in a forest and the cards can’t be laminated) with the essential words and pictures on them. With maybe more cards/slabs at home for more complicated sentences that they wouldn’t need to carry around. Does that make sense as a work around? Is there something else you would suggest?

Hi asker,

What you'll want to look into is what's called low-tech AAC, as opposed to high-tech AAC like a tablet. Here's a link to a resource, What Is Low Tech AAC by Communication Community.

Something like cards or wooden slabs can definitely work, or maybe thin engraved metal sheets. Paper can work too, even if it can't be laminated.

I'd also suggest either a board or a notebook/booklet of communication sheets, written or carved. Basically instead of multiple one-word or one-phrase cards or slabs, it's something like this:

In your character's case, they could have one (or more) of these sheets with things more relevant to them. Like, they definitely wouldn't reference an iPad or social media or LOL, but maybe they would have symbols for animals they need to be able to identify since they live in a forest.

I hope this helps,

mod sparrow

[mell0wjello]

Jello! First time asker here I'm a bit nervous

Could I ask for a sort of sequel to that Jamil nsfw fic? It doesn't have to be smut I just wanna see more of the dynamic of those two

If not, that's alright. Love your writing so so so much, take care (ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ)

Hello, tyy!! No need to be nervous <33 Ngl I’m kind of surprised lol I wrote the Jamil fic in a bit of a rush but I’m glad you liked it !! But I just feel like I have to make this clear: I do NOT support what the reader is doing here at all !! This is a clear example of a destructive and detrimental relationship to both parties involved.

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Your hand lingered on the door before finally bringing it down to knock on the door before you. You stood outside of one a vacant room in Scarabia, obediently following Jamil's words from the day before. Well, almost. That aching in your hips and legs really couldn't care less about the homework, but they couldn't stop thinking about that state of bliss from the night before. His face, his grip on you, even all the harsh and underhanded comments. His words resounded in your ears, giving you hope for a second chance.

Your mouth curves into a coy smile as Jamil opens the door. His eyes still narrowed at your figure, but amidst all the contempt, a glint remained. He was open to you. Although his eyes seemed to have some discerning hope for this evening, his words were still sharp.

"I see you actually look presentable today," His eyes swept you up and down.

"Just so you know, none of what happened yesterday will repeat itself today. I strictly mean what I said yesterday."

"Mhm." You hum, making your way inside the spare room. You can feel Jamil's stare on your back, but you continue regardless.

The room was neat and orderly, just as you remember it from your previous stays at Scarabia. You noticed a couple of papers and a notebook sitting on the desk, along with two floor cushions. Despite everything, he still had the consideration to bring all these things along. Jamil joins you on the floor with a sigh. The both of you sat in silence, not really sure how to begin to break the tension in the air.

"Doesn't this remind you of that one party?" You spoke up, looking at Jamil's changing expression.

Both of your minds wandered to a few months ago. Neither of you were strangers to Scarabia's uproarious parties, and this one was no different from the usual frenzy that they are known for. You'd usually stick around Kalim and your friends, but maybe it was the constant rounds of alcohol coming in, you found yourself in the arms of someone you barely knew. Through your drunken haze, you could vaguely make out the face of Scarabia's concerned vice housewarden.

Jamil was thrown off when you had opened the door stumbled into him while he was arranging one of the vacant rooms. He never really talked to you, but you were right here, practically falling on top of him and slurring your words. You really should get better friends. But he couldn't just leave you like this. Blackout drunk and vulnerable, the only magic-less student at an all-guys school. Putting his annoyance aside, he tried his best to tuck you into the bed he was making. Like a child, you giggled and snuggled up to him as the covers fell on you. Jamil grudgingly gave in to your actions, and despite his reservations, allowed you to use him as your pillow. He considered going outside to find Kalim, at least he'd be able to help you out and identify your friends, but every time he stood up you'd cling to him and chatter your inarticulate protests. Jamil had to wait until you fell asleep to practically pry himself away from your arms.

Months later now, the both of you find yourselves in the same room, surrounded by coarser circumstances, but an air of familiarity is able to clear the surface, at least.

"That was a long time ago now. There's no need to bring that up now." Jamil said without batting an eye, his gaze fixed on the paper in front of you both with neat handwriting. Frowning, you join him too. Jamil begins explaining the sheet's contents, but you aren't paying much attention. Your fists slowly clench the fabric over your legs as, to your surprise, guilt slowly converges on the pit of your stomach.

"Seriously? Were you listening to anything I said?" Jamil's irritated tone brings back your attention to the present situation. Jamil's face has grown bothered by now, but when you turned up at him, his face softened if not for only a second.

"You're clearly still stuck on that thought from earlier. So, out with it. Clearly, this won't get done until you've said everything you want to. " He sighed, crossing his arms looking at you with expecting eyes.

"I just," you begin, but struggle to find the right words. There are no right words to say. Everything you attempt to articulate is simply dishonest or forced.

"I guess what I'm trying to say is, I still care for you. " A twinge of embarrassment threatens to make you wince at that last sentence. You're perfectly aware of how you sound, you were never really good at these things.

"Oh, so you care? Is that what these past weeks have been about? Caring about anything that happened between us?" Jamil jeers.

His bitterness cuts into your sides, but what stings most of all is the truth and irony of his words. You had your cake and you wanted to eat it too. Months of exchanging glances in between classes, stolen kisses in the courtyard, and having nothing to show for it but casualness in front of others. Commitment wasn't made to last, so you had to indulge your fantasies as long as they were still tangible before moving on to the next ones. And yet now you find yourself face to face with that commitment, and it is almost comical that you want it back.

"I mean, really? You mean to tell me all of this wasn't deliberate? You know what you've been doing, and more than that, you knew what it would do to me. " Jamil almost cracks at the last sentence, before catching himself and averting his gaze. You had brought down his walls once before, and you were threatening to do it again. But that was the last thing you deserved; he couldn't allow himself.

Underneath his skin, he pulsed and throbbed. Muscle memory retained how consoling it felt to ease up and open up to you. The first to have perceived him as he was, bare and exposed. The first to have ever brought upon him such peaceful serenity for being seen. He was fighting against every fiber of his being that urged him to let you in. But he couldn't. Not again.

"No, you're right. What I did wasn't fair to you."

Jamil's narrow gaze slowly falls on you once more. Timidly, you dare to look directly at him.

"I know that it's too late for apologies now, but I don't regret spending these past months together with you. You've made me feel so many things at the same time that they make me think my head might burst. I know that my actions are unforgivable, but nothing I've shared with Azul or anyone else has even come close to what I had with you. I hope you know I really did love you, but I really fucked up. I'm sorry."

You stand up to leave, but a hand holds you down before you can begin to walk out. Jamil's slender fingers hold down your wrist with a firmness that speaks louder than words. Although his actions are unyielding, his eyes tremble and his expression is almost confused.

Jamil is unsure of why his hand reached out. Before he could process it, the warmth of your hand was in his, imploring you to stay. Your lips part in subtle surprise. He watches as you slowly sit back down, careful in your movements. Jamil is conflicted. You've ripped him apart at the seams, yet you're the only one who can stitch him back up because your hand is the only one to have mapped him out completely.

Without warning, your lips find themselves on his, shyly asking for reciprocation. And to your surprise, there is. You can sense an ardent desperation in him, different from the one the night before. His familiar taste is on your tongue now, and you can't help but relish every bit. This is what was missing. Jamil draws you in closer to him. You can look up to him as you're practically on his lap. Although his eyes are closed, you can see the complete surrender in them. The thrill from all those months ago resurges in you. As you sit there, you wonder how long this'll last again. Two months? Maybe four? Or will it all go up in smoke in less than a week? Either way, it isn't relevant as long as you reach the exhilaration you seek.

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[three-eyed-elk]

what do you think jedidahs notebooks would look like????

oooh…outwardly, one of those leather vintage journals.

but inside,

i like to think it starts all neat and organised but slowly gets more messy and abbreviated as the situation worsens. ink splotches and smearing, scribbled out words and paragraphs, eventually not even writing on the lines, just in chunks of the paper.

he writes with a quill and ink you cannot change my mind.

this was a fun ask thank you asker :3

[ridiasfangirlings]

Shiro Kuroh role reversal asker here again (loved your answer btw:D)

But now you got me thinking!!

Imagine Shiro (or really in this au he would just be a younger looking Weismann yeah?)

He kept notes of Ichigen's wisdom but not like recorded. But when in doubt he reads them from a notebook.

He reads them to Kuroh and instantly he is like *sparkly eyes* such wisdom of your late master!

Shiro has a lot of respect for his old master but he’s more low key about it. Imagine little Shiro walking around behind Ichigen all the time with a tiny notebook, he just likes taking notes. Actually I could see him being the type that he likes to keep records of things, like Ichigen did try to teach him important life skills like cooking and flying helicopters and Shiro made notes about all of it (though I could also see him being kinda like Totsuka with the cooking, he follows the recipe but he likes to ‘experiment’ and keeps records of his experiments, Ichigen is always very supportive even if his stomach may not be). He also likes to record his master’s haiku, both because it’s wisdom from his master but also sometimes Ichigen will ask to see Shiro’s notes so that he can refine his haiku. 

After Ichigen dies Shiro becomes a bit attached to his little notebook, the reminder of someone he cared about. Reading Ichigen’s haiku can help him feel more relaxed or strengthen his resolve and he finds himself thinking he’s glad he wrote these down, so he still has a part of his master around. Then the role reversal S1 and ROK happens and imagine at some point Kuroh spots Shiro reading this notebook. He’s very curious, especially when Shiro explains that it has wisdom from his master — Kuroh’s only heard a few things about the previous Colorless King but he’s really curious about what kind of person Ichigen Miwa was. Shiro picks out a couple of his favorite haiku and hands the notebook over to Kuroh to read and imagine Kuroh’s eyes immediately go all sparkly with emotion. Shiro’s like ‘….’ as Kuroh eagerly flips from page to page, in his isolation up in the airship Kuroh happened to have some different poetry and literature books and so he’s read many haiku and these are truly among the most beautiful he’s ever read. Kuroh starts waxing poetic about all the lovely turns of phrase and oh how skilled your master was all while Shiro laughs sheepishly and thinks ‘….creepy.’

[tabsters]

The Twelve Days of Zodiacs - Day 6

"On the sixth day of Christmas, my Zodiacs gave to me, Six ornaments, Five ugly sweaters, Four wrapped presents, Three snowmen, Two bread rolls, And a snowball fight under a tree."

it should be noted that this story is in a modern AU, aka an AU where no magic exists. everyone is just normal and untraumatized! the modern AU names for the characters are listed below:

SGZ! Virgo: Vivian SGZ! Libra: Elise SGZ! Lupus: Lucas (mentioned)

tagging @mythicalmagical-monkeyman @hyperfixation-tangentopia @maiawhimsicalt @sweet-star-cookie

next chapter is here!

"You're a very studious person, wanting to study over the break." Ciara took the notebook Cassie handed to her, looking over the numerous equations. "I don't think I've ever done that, like, ever."

Cassie laughed, running her pencil along her equations sheet. "Just thought I should get ahead a bit, is all. You know how much I don't like algebra."

"Yeah, yeah. Anyway, you got them all right." 

Cassie pumped her fist into the air. "Yes! Let's go!" 

"Cassie?" A voice asked in surprise. Ciara looked up to find a tall, slender woman with dark skin, her hair piled in a bun atop her head. "Is that you?" 

"Vivian!" Cassie said, getting up to hug the woman. "It's been so long!" 

"How've you been?" The woman—Vivian—asked, ruffling Cassie's hair. "The last time I saw you, you were—what, six? Seven?" 

"You were still in law school, right?" Cassie asked. Ciara was still confused about who exactly Vivian was, but perhaps she was a family friend of Cassie's. "How did that go?"

Vivian spread her arms wide. "You're looking at a civil rights lawyer, five years and counting!"

Cassie clapped her hands in delight. She glanced at Ciara, presumably remembering that she was still there. "Right! Uh, Ciara, this is Vivian. She used to be my babysitter. Vivian, this is my new friend Ciara. She's a sophomore in high school."

"Pleased to make your acquaintance," Vivian said, and Ciara was immediately reminded of her mother. The two women had the same charisma and manner of speaking, and even looked a bit similar. Same dark skin, eyes, hair. 

"Hi," Ciara said, very eloquently. "Um. How are you?"

"Very well, thank you." Vivian tilted her head. "Wait a moment, aren't you Auralie's daughter?"

"Uh—yeah, yeah I am." Ciara thought, for one wild moment, that this woman was stalking her and her family. Then she realized that her mother worked with a lot of people, and she was most likely a work friend. 

"Your mother showed me a couple photos of you and your siblings when we were at a work conference. Tell her I send my regards," Vivian said, turning to walk away. "Have a good day, you two!" 

"Nice seeing you, Vivi!" Cassie said cheerfully. Ciara waved goodbye as well. 

Cassie turned back to Ciara, hands clasped around her notebook. "Back to work, then?"

Ciara nodded decisively. "Yeah, lets." 

-

"Cassie?" Someone else asked an hour later. Ciara looked up again. This time, the asker was a woman with straight, light brown hair and rectangular glasses. A name tag pinned to her red sweater read "Elise". She must be a librarian. 

"Hi, Elise!" Cassie didn't get up to hug the woman this time, so Ciara figured that they saw each other more frequently. "How's it going?"

"Good! I actually wanted to invite you to something." Elise fiddled with one of her pens, tapping it against her thigh. Ciara could see that, beneath the woman's colorful holiday socks, it was a prosthetic leg. "We're having an ornament making activity in the downstairs area, if you'd like to join?"

"Oh, fun!" Cassie looked towards Ciara. "Is my friend also invited?"

"Of course. The more the merrier."

Ciara thought about it. 

"Good time for a break, I think." She decided after a moment. "Let's go make some ornaments." 

Cassie giggled, packing up all her supplies. "We're gonna make the best ornaments, yeah?"

"Heck yeah."

-

Five minutes later, they were seated at a long table with various arts and crafts materials. Cans of glitter, bottles of glue, and containers of paint were sitting in the middle of each table. Boxes of plastic ornaments were stacked in the corner. 

"The ornaments will be used to decorate the Christmas trees we have all over the library," Elise explained. "We almost always never have enough, so make as many as you'd like. If you need any help, ask Lucas."

She pointed towards a young man with square glasses, who was helping two kids with their pipe cleaners and glue. He looked up and waved cheerfully at the mention of his name.

"Thanks, Elise!" Cassie reached for a paintbrush, and immediately began painting a snowman on her ornament. Ciara spent some time just looking at the ornament itself.

"Not sure what you want to make?" She asked Ciara.

"I'm planning out my masterpiece!" Ciara protested as she tilted the ornament from different angles. This was something she did often with her physical projects. It was important to keep perspective in mind.

That said, it was just an ornament for a library. Perhaps she didn't need to try so hard.

So she picked up the glitter and began pouring a truly unreasonable amount into her plastic ornament. If her mother were here, she would be talking about how glitter is basically impossible to get out of clothes and hair and fingernails. But she was not here, so Ciara kept adding various colors of glitter into her ornament.

"That's going to look so cool," Cassie said in awe as Ciara snapped the lid back onto the ornament and shook it around. Her own ornament was covered in various swatches of bright color. "Are you going to put anything else on it?"

"Nah." Ciara finally finished shaking it, looking at the multitude of colors swirling around in it. "You can't beat a simple thing like this."

"I see we're having fun," A vaguely familiar voice said from behind them. "Mind if I join?"

Ciara turned her head up to find the woman she had met an hour ago. Vivian.

"Of course!" Cassie patted the seat on the other side of her. "Plenty of room."

They continued making their ornaments, their discussion topics ranging from school to video games to the best book-to-movie adaptations.

"Personally, I think the Lord of the Rings trilogy is not faithful," Ciara said as she started on her second ornament—a reindeer with pipe cleaner antlers. "But if you watch it without any context of the book, it's pretty good."

"Well, the book series is so long," Vivian said, waving her paintbrush at Ciara. "Obviously they're going to have to cut some stuff. And it still remains mostly faithful to the books."

"I've never actually seen or read Lord of the Rings," Cassie admitted.

Both Vivian and Ciara turned to stare at Cassie in abject horror.

"Never?" Vivian asked in disbelief while Ciara shook Cassie by the shoulders. "I swear I read you some of it when you were younger."

"I think I fell asleep during that, Vivi."

"Actually, maybe you're right."

"We need to fix this," Ciara declared as she fumbled with her phone, trying not to get paint or glue stuck to the screen. "Watch these clips of Thorin Oakenshield and give me your opinion."

"Okay, okay!" Cassie stopped her production of her second ornament—a snowball—and peered over at Ciara's phone. "Wow, he has quite a lot of facial hair."

"He's a dwarf," Vivian said, reaching a hand out to prevent Cassie's ornament from tipping over. "And he's gorgeous."

"Well, I wouldn't go that far."

"Technically, in the novels, his beard is supposed to be longer," Elise said, walking by their table, looking down at the dwarf. "And whiter."

"I think movie Thorin would actually be considered ugly by dwarven standards," Ciara laughed, finishing her second ornament. "Anyway, look at Rudolph here."

"Cute!" Cassie gently booped the ornament's red pom-pom nose. "Look at my snowball." She held out her white ornament that was covered in glue and glitter. "I think I should wash my hands. I'm gonna go do that."

And so she carefully made her way out of her seat and to the bathroom. Ciara glanced over at Vivian, who was carefully painting her ornament with chevron patterns in red and green.

"How's school?" Vivian asked as Elise slid into the seat across from her. "Your degree coming along nicely?"

"God help me," Elise muttered as she lay her head down on the table. Vivian laughed, gently patting Elise's head with her hand. "Time's lost all meaning."

"Push through. I believe in you."

"I believe in you too, Elise!" Cassie said cheerfully, sitting back down. "You can graduate college and become a...what was it? A museum librarian?"

"Do such things exist?" Ciara asked, deciding that she would paint one more ornament. "Oh, are they the ones that manage all the books in a museum? That's pretty cool."

"Thank you, thank you," Elise said, running her fingers through her hair. She looked rather frazzled and stressed. "My thesis is due in two days. Let's hope I survive until then."

"My polar bear believes in you!" Cassie held up her third ornament, on which she had doodled a bear face. "You got this!"

"Rudolph believes in you as well," Ciara said, holding up her Rudolph ornament while she dipped the bottom part of her ornament in blue glitter. "Hey, how does this look?"

"An abstract look?" Cassie asked as she filled in her bear's face with sharpie. "Of a winter wonderland?"

"Yeah, you get it." Ciara smiled in satisfaction, sprinkling more white glitter on the ornament. "You almost done?"

"Almost!" Cassie's last step was to pour a lot of white glitter into her ornament, allowing for the polar bear's face to fully show. "What should I name him?"

"Thorin," Vivian said. "In the hopes that it will get you to finally watch the Lord of the Rings."

"Thorin it is," Cassie said in satisfaction, lining up her three ornaments next to Ciara's three. She looked back towards Ciara. "You ready to get back to work now?"

Ciara shrugged, gently poking each of the six ornaments. In front of her, Elise had gotten out her phone and was now rambling about the accuracies of the Lord of the Rings movie while Vivian listened.

"I think we can stay on break a little longer, don't you think?"

check out @sweet-star-cookie's starglass zodiac lore if you liked this!! questions about my lore are greatly appreciated!!

[measurelessdreamer]

I've seen many posts about people missing how common asks used to be so I have been trying to send about an ask a week. Now I send this ask first anytime I follow someone as I really don't want to bother anyone, so I'd love to know if you enjoy receiving asks and if so what kind of asks. Not having energy for asks or being comfortable with them is perfectly okay.

The categories I have in my ask notebook that I file under are in colour. Please feel free to make your response as long as you want or private (the asker cannot directly respond to private responses).

Self, Job/Work: please let me know what you are comfortable with from eh idk just ask it to nothing personal at all.

Baggishield/Tolkien, Dragon Age, Johnlock/Sherlock, ineffable spouses, other fandom: Please let me know what fandoms. I think my main fandoms and ships are Bagginshield/The Hobbit, Sherlock/Johnlock, Dragon Age Inquisition, {Pippin/Faramir Merry/Eowyn}/The Lord of the Rings and I dip my toes in a few that I currently can't remember but ships I don't engage with the canon of at all are: Good Omens but only for Crowley/Azirapheal, Stranger Things but only for Steve/Eddie , The Witcher but only for Geralt/Jaskier, and Ladybug and Cat Noir but only for Adrinette .

OC's, art/drawing, their writing, blog specific only

Story snippets ideas and prompts: Do you like receiving them?

Pets: I'd love to know all about them

Garden and Hobbies: What type of gardening and/or hobbies?

Like being tagged in things: If so what kinds of things?

*Asks are sent for fun, no pressure to answer.

Oh, hi! Thanks for the message! I honestly didn't know that asks are no longer as common as they used to be. I've never been a good candidate to receive them since I don't have so many followers (I always thought you needed at least 500 to get asks lol) and I'm not much of a creator. I usually just reblog stuff that makes me happy and occasionally (like once in three years) I share a fic I wrote here so I never had high hopes which is why I was very surprised when I received this ask and it made me so happy! Seriously, you're so cool for doing this, especially when people don't expect it at all. Even though it's through social media, it requires a bit of coming out of your personal bubble and putting yourself out there and I rarely do that in my life no matter how safe the space is. So it's really cool and thank you. I received probably like 2 asks aside from this one in my whole life, but yeah, I enjoy it a lot. ^^

As for what kind of asks...

Self, Job/Work: I'm good with sharing some stuff as long as it's not something that hits too close to home, but I would probably say that's the case. Asking about how I'm doing in general and what I do and what I enjoy about it is probably fine.

Fandoms: Asks about fandoms would most definitely be my favourite. I always enjoy ranting about stuff I love with other like-minded people. I love Bagginshield, The Hobbit, LOTR (Faramir especially), Ted Lasso (and particularly royjamie), Star Wars (obikin is very close to my heart), The Walking Dead (rickyl is the goat ship of that fandom for me), and probably my favourite otps are superbat (superman/batman) and spirk (kirk/spock) so I enjoy these fandoms too. Fandoms where I have no ships but I enjoy them all the same are Mass Effect (only the original trilogy) and The Witcher (the games, I only read two books so far sadly, I ship geraskier from the show but I don't like the show otherwise). All these things are something I enjoy talking about. ^^ I also like Johnlock/Sherlock and I played the Dragon Age trilogy (but I enjoyed Origins the most and aside from the Cullen romance and meeting Alistair and Morrigan in Inquisition, I didn't enjoy that game very much).

I write fanfics sometimes. I haven't written many and it usually takes me a lot of time to finish anything, but I enjoy it. I'm happy to talk about my writing any day even if it frustrates me to no end.

Story snippets ideas and prompts: Not sure about this. I think receiving them is nice, but I wouldn't be able to do anything about them aside from talking and speculating about them. I'm not very good at writing something from a prompt, so probably no story would come of it, but if it's only discussion people seek, then I'm happy to provide! And if it turns out to be very interesting, then I'm all for taking it further!

Pets: I have lots. I'm happy to talk about them any time.

Garden and Hobbies: Not much of a garden person, I'm afraid, but I enjoy nature more than anything. I live in a very Shire-like country, which is the best thing when I want to let my imagination roam. I enjoy running (but I started only recently so I'm rubbish), reading (fantasy and romance especially), learning French, playing video games, hiking, watching movies and tv shows, and I recently started to learn how to play the Irish tin whistle.

I like being tagged in things, sure! Something funny or heartwarming is usually the best, but I love posts with random facts which are super elaborate and interesting. It can't have anything to do with politics, though, tumblr is my escapist haven. :D

I think I answered everything to the best of my ability. Sorry that it's so long! Thank you again for sending the ask! I hope you have an amazing day!

[armacheart]

I've seen many posts about people missing how common asks used to be so I have been trying to send about an ask a week. Now I send this ask first anytime I follow someone as I really don't want to bother anyone, so I'd love to know if you enjoy receiving asks and if so what kind of asks. Not having energy for asks or being comfortable with them is perfectly okay.

The categories I have in my ask notebook that I file under are in colour. Please feel free to make your response as long as you want or private (the asker cannot directly respond to private responses).

Self, Job/Work: please let me know what you are comfortable with from eh idk just ask it to nothing personal at all.

Baggishield/Tolkien, Dragon Age, Johnlock/Sherlock, ineffable spouses, other fandom: Please let me know what fandoms. I think my main fandoms and ships are Bagginshield/The Hobbit, Sherlock/Johnlock, Dragon Age Inquisition, {Pippin/Faramir Merry/Eowyn}/The Lord of the Rings and I dip my toes in a few that I currently can't remember but ships I don't engage with the canon of at all are: Good Omens but only for Crowley/Azirapheal, Stranger Things but only for Steve/Eddie , The Witcher but only for Geralt/Jaskier.

OC's, art/drawing, their writing, blog specific only

Story snippets ideas and prompts: Do you like receiving them?

Pets: I'd love to know all about them

Garden and Hobbies: What type of gardening and/or hobbies?

Like being tagged in things: If so what kinds of things?

*Asks are sent for fun, no pressure to answer.

Hello love! I love answering asks, miss the years when they were popular

Im okay with personal questions about myself or my job, if something makes me feel uncomfortable i would simply not answer that.

I am mostly in LOTR/Hobbit fandoms,fav ships from them are Bagginshield and gigolas. I am also in ofmd, merlin, good omens, i dip my toes in the witcher still but eh the show was kind of destroyed for me tho i still love talking about it! My fav ship is geraskier but also geralt/jaskier/eskel and my fav boy in general is eskel. I never watched stranger things after s1 but i sure shipp steve/eddie

I rarely draw ocs, i have a few but keep forgetting to draw them or have zero ideas

I love prompts tho ngl i rarely have the time for them tho i usually screenshot them for the later time when i do have it

I have a dog! Lovely bastard named Korek (or cork in english, like the wine cork cause he is the same shade and just so jumpy)

I keep an indoor garden in my room! I have around 40 pots in my room alone, a right jungle. My plants take more space in my room than I do! I also knit and personalise my clothes (is that the word for it? Sorry english isn’t my first language and i taught it myself through gay fanfiction 😂 )

I do like being tagged! In any games or posts you think i might enjoy tho there is a chance i will forget to make them cause adhd sure is there

Thanks for sending this!!

[desolateice]

I'm a simple person, so- A, B, and C?

A: How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]? Well you didn't pick one. So I'll do a lot of my fics, but not all of them.

Root Beer Floats and Green Tea- The root beer was supposed to be a stand in for Johnny and the green tea for Daniel and Mr. Miyagi. I wanted to give Johnny a cute tradition with his mother and root beer floats after a tournament tied in well with everything else and it was a stand in for his life with his mother, plus soda can be a little fizzy an 'volitile' in comparison to a smooth but sometimes bitter tea. Wisteria Sherbert- Wisteria takes a lot of water and isn't the smartest thing to have on a house in LA where it's a drought. But it shows how rich it is. And sherbert is something you can make from it but you also have to be careful because it's not all edible and inexperience with it can be dangerous. So we have a/b/o and Daniel interacting with inexperience around an omega but also there's a lot of danger of mishandling because of Terry Silver and Kreese and a lot of assumptions being made. But also how when properly loved and cared for Johnny (the wisteria) can bloom in even in a drought. A Feast for Fools was a very serious not serious april fools day post of taking Terry Silver and Johnny Lawrence and trying to write them the best possible happy ending/fic and because I posted it on april fools day and wanted them to be fools for each other in the fic it just worked. I have thought about writing them more. Double Layer Chocolate Cake is because there's two ships happening in tandem and because it was a reverse bang combo of two of pfaerie's fics. It also kept coming up as a dessert to give a loved one. Peachy Keene: this is a time loop time travel fic mostly about Robby who is not having a peachy life. The pun was too perfect to pass up. Pineapple Upside Down cake: It's a reverse Au thus the upside down bit and they eventually live in Okinawa so thus the pineapple. Spoilers I guess, but it's a prequel to bagel and lox for me and a maple bar for you so....(I feel bad for the people who maybe don't realize all the whump about to happen because they haven't seen GJ's art that I based the series off of or haven't read the next fic, though to be fair no clue if anyone reading it hasn't. It's been a somewhat quiet fic response wise.) B: Any of your stories inspired by personal experience? I mentioned to the last asker of this question yakgwa. There's bits and pieces of my interests/personal experience filtered throughout the fics I guess. For Hardboiled Gunpowder Tea I mean I spent most of my early childhood obsessed with detective novels and mysteries and usually had a notebook to write clues on and a magnifying glass and got little chemistry prompts/experiments to do in the mail (Hi yes nerd shush) and did actually get paid to find stuff for people from time to time. A lot of the prompts or ideas generally come from things I already really enjoy. Like I also was obsessed with space as a kid and paranormal/folklore which I blame my dad for. He'd studied folklore for his masters (which he didn't end up getting because he decided not to turn in his final paper) and so our house was filled with books on them and I'd sit on the floor in his library reading about all these different creatures and then go to lectures about bigfoot with him or faeries. Apparently as a small child I also told him I'd met an alien and they'd given me a rock and he was so bummed that I hadn't run to get him so he too could meet the alien. (Which is why even though I don't have a clue what rock it is I don't throw out any rocks I happen to find amongst my stuff just in case) I also grew up around a lot of nature and plants, and my grandmother tried her hardest to teach me about all of them and what ones were edible and what not and a lot about flowers. I also cooked with her a lot and then later with my aunt a lot, like every weekend for her and her guests who were visiting from far off places. Really there's just lots of random mixes in there for the different fics. Oh I also found a plaque after I moved last December for personal attendance I don't remember getting.

C: What character do you identify with most? Oh man this is hard. So I love writing about Johnny but I think it depends. There's little facets with each of them. Like for Daniel grief. My parents are gone as are my grandparents and it just sort of never lets you go, which also is something echo'd in Johnny in Cobra Kai. and how everyone grieves differently. And like I feel like you grieve for different people differently too. There's also mixes of them for my childhood in various deep ways. So any time I think to go this one, I identify with this one, then I end up thinking about it and going well I also identify with this one and... I mean hell sometimes I've also been Bobby before trying to advise a friend I care about but they're too deep in it to let anyone help them. I've also watched family members get sick and was told they were going to get better only to find out they weren't after being told they would and sat having those blindsided awful moments like Tory. So again, it's a total mix which I think is why these movies and shows hold such staying power with me and why I usually avoid this question because I could sit here for hours psychoanalyzing myself and the characters and finding those little ties and it's just too raw so I'd rather just do the cathartic thing and write fics lol.

[mephone-1]

wait. one of the dragonships is in MeRec's office.

I doubt they would let him start anything there, if that's any consolation.

Oh. I. Did not think of that.

So. I suppose. Even if. Cobs. Were to make his way to MeRec’s office through my body, I suppose he would not be able to easily take back what he had. Rightfully lost.

And. I suppose. My main goal is to reach one of these. Dragon-ships. So. I suppose. Either way, whether it is me or him, I will still be reaching my goal, especially if they do have. A way to help me get free from him.

I suppose. That is consolation. Thank you. :

[altruistic-meme]

whatre signatures? :0

!!!! where's the post about "oh good i get to explain this to you" bc that feels relevant

signatures are the collections of pages that you sew together to create a book!!

when you print out the pages, you print them with each paper having 4 pages so that you can fold the papers in half. the signatures are just a collection of those printed out in such a way that when you stack and fold them, the pages are in the right order.

here's some examples! this is one paper printed out, and it has page 2 and page 7 right next time each other

and then this paper is folded between them, with page 3 as the next page, pages 4 and 5 are on the inside, and page 6 is on the back half of it completing the order

signatures are usually multiple papers stacked this way, anywhere from 4-5 up to like 20 or more ??? (which is a lot imo)

and then you sew them together, and that's the book! (a drawn example of what that looks like, more or less!)

[mithrilhearts]

I've seen many posts about people missing how common asks used to be so I have been trying to send about an ask a week. Now I send this ask first anytime I follow someone as I really don't want to bother anyone, so I'd love to know if you enjoy receiving asks and if so what kind of asks. Not having energy for asks or being comfortable with them is perfectly okay.

The categories I have in my ask notebook that I file under are in colour. Please feel free to make your response as long as you want or private (the asker cannot directly respond to private responses).

Self, Job/Work: please let me know what you are comfortable with from eh idk just ask it to nothing personal at all.

Baggishield/Tolkien, Dragon Age, Johnlock/Sherlock, ineffable spouses, other fandom: Please let me know what fandoms. I think my main fandoms and ships are Bagginshield/The Hobbit, Sherlock/Johnlock, Dragon Age Inquisition, {Pippin/Faramir Merry/Eowyn}/The Lord of the Rings and I dip my toes in a few that I currently can't remember but ships I don't engage with the canon of at all are: Good Omens but only for Crowley/Azirapheal, Stranger Things but only for Steve/Eddie , The Witcher but only for Geralt/Jaskier, and Ladybug and Cat Noir but only for Adrinette .

OC's, art/drawing, their writing, blog specific only

Story snippets ideas and prompts: Do you like receiving them?

Pets: I'd love to know all about them

Garden and Hobbies: What type of gardening and/or hobbies?

Like being tagged in things: If so what kinds of things?

*Asks are sent for fun, no pressure to answer.

Hello there!! This is so cool and exciting!! Thank you so much for thinking of me with this, it's such a lovely thing, and I bet all the people you send asks to are over the moon about them! I know I am - anyway, to answer this ask!

I LOVE ASKS!!! Sometimes it may take me a bit to get back to them, but I try my best.

Self -> feel free to ask whatever you want, I don't usually do great talking about myself, but if someone is curious, sure!

Fandoms that we align with -> bagginshield/hobbit (my main one!!), dragon age, lord of the rings (i occasionally reblog some other stuff, but don't really dive deep into them fandom wise.)

Story snippets/Prompts -> ALWAYS

Pets -> ALWAYS ASK - I have two little doggies, and love to talk about them! They're my world, my furbabies.

Hobbies -> I'm a pretty decent baker with a side business for cupcakes and sweets, so I am always happy to talk about that.

Tags -> feel free to tag me in games or whatever! I may not always get to them all, as I miss things here on tumblr, but again, I try my best.

Thank you so much for this! And I look forward to hearing from you again!!

[corancoranthemagicalman]

I've seen many posts about people missing how common asks used to be so I have been trying to send about an ask a week. Now I send this ask first anytime I follow someone as I really don't want to bother anyone, so I'd love to know if you enjoy receiving asks and if so what kind of asks. Not having energy for asks or being comfortable with them is perfectly okay.

The categories I have in my ask notebook that I file under are in colour. Please feel free to make your response as long as you want or private (the asker cannot directly respond to private responses).

Self, Job/Work: please let me know what you are comfortable with from eh idk just ask it to nothing personal at all.

Baggishield/Tolkien, Dragon Age, Johnlock/Sherlock, ineffable spouses, other fandom: Please let me know what fandoms. I think my main fandoms and ships are Bagginshield/The Hobbit, Sherlock/Johnlock, Dragon Age Inquisition, {Pippin/Faramir Merry/Eowyn}/The Lord of the Rings and I dip my toes in a few that I currently can't remember but ships I don't engage with the canon of at all are: Good Omens but only for Crowley/Azirapheal, Stranger Things but only for Steve/Eddie , The Witcher but only for Geralt/Jaskier.

OC's, art/drawing, their writing, blog specific only

Story snippets ideas and prompts: Do you like receiving them?

Pets: I'd love to know all about them

Garden and Hobbies: What type of gardening and/or hobbies?

Like being tagged in things: If so what kinds of things?

*Asks are sent for fun, no pressure to answer.

Oh, hi!! Well, firstly, thanks for the follow!!! Secondly, I love asks! I (unfortunately) don't always get to certain things (because life and,,,life lmao!) but I do love getting them, and I really want to make the effort to get back to engaging so! Here's the info for your notebook!

Self, Job/Work: Just ask! I usually prefer to keep vague on some things, mostly because I like to keep "professional" socials separate from my fandom ones lol and would prefer there not being a direct connection. But for the most part, I'm flexible on talking about myself :)

Bagginshield/Tolkien YES YES YES UGHHHH I adore all of that. I peeped your profile and saw some Gimli and Legolas I think which is also mi amor <3 Elsewise, I'm all over the place, but do post Supernatural, Good Omens, and Baldur's Gate (i've bought all the Dragon Ages and that's next on my list) with hyperfixations sorting as often as they can. (You can check out my AO3 to see some of my favorites [CBlue], or most often I try tagging fandoms if you need to block anything or want to hunt for something specific. (I'm also stumbling back into some Geraskier too on ocassion!)

I don't have OCs that I post here (they tend to be more on my professional one lol), and my art tag changed because tumblr ate the previous one I'd been using (sometimes its #my art and sometimes its #C Draws or #C Arts), so that's a bit everywhere and not often. I more often post my fandom writings [CBlue on AO3, which if I may pimp out a writing of mine, I wrote Compression, a Bagginshield fic (though, apologies as due to recent AI scalping all of my works are now locked to registered-users exclusively]. This is my everything blog, so everything goes here lol.

Oh my god please send me snippet ideas and prompts. That's one of my favorite ways of engage---spinning with people! That's why I LOVE participating in fandom! I get some of that outlet on a few of the (more intimate) fandom Discords that I'm in, but I'm always open to some of those from asks and such too!!

Pets: I have 6 cats, all of whom are rescues. To the point that the last three were actually rescued out of my wood pile from a storm that was going to hit last year. I don't post pictures of them (mostly to keep that fandom life separation like I mentioned), but I talk about them! People who know me probably also might remember my old man, Tucker, who was the loveliest of puppers. I had to say goodbye to him earlier this year (back in April, and it's just been...a time since then. I miss him often, but every memory is nothing but fondness.) They're all so lovely, and I love talking pets! (If, you know, six cats wasn't an indication ;))

I don't have a garden at the moment, but I do love talking about it!! Hobbies tend to be my fandom hobbies, but I'm also trying to get back into reading more often and I have a few crafts planned. And I love doing a gamer when I can in my free time.

I loved being tagged in things!! I don't always get to them because I am the toxic person (/j) who sees a notification and goes "I will respond when I'm able to," but when the notification is gone I forget all about it. Actually, you've just reminded me that I was tagged in a tag game that I wanted to do, so I'm going to go do that now lol!!

But yeah! I think that's everything and hope it's in any way that makes sense lol. I definitely appreciate you asking!!!

[tondw0o2blog]

I've seen many posts about people missing how common asks used to be so I have been trying to send about an ask a week. Now I send this ask first anytime I follow someone as I really don't want to bother anyone, so I'd love to know if you enjoy receiving asks and if so what kind of asks. Not having energy for asks or being comfortable with them is perfectly okay.

The categories I have in my ask notebook that I file under are in colour. Please feel free to make your response as long as you want or private (the asker cannot directly respond to private responses).

Self, Job/Work: please let me know what you are comfortable with from eh idk just ask it to nothing personal at all.

Baggishield/Tolkien, Dragon Age, Johnlock/Sherlock, ineffable spouses, other fandom: Please let me know what fandoms. I think my main fandoms and ships are Bagginshield/The Hobbit, Sherlock/Johnlock, Dragon Age Inquisition, {Pippin/Faramir Merry/Eowyn}/The Lord of the Rings and I dip my toes in a few that I currently can't remember but ships I don't engage with the canon of at all are: Good Omens but only for Crowley/Azirapheal, Stranger Things but only for Steve/Eddie , The Witcher but only for Geralt/Jaskier.

OC's, art/drawing, their writing, blog specific only

Story snippets ideas and prompts: Do you like receiving them?

Pets: I'd love to know all about them

Garden and Hobbies: What type of gardening and/or hobbies?

Like being tagged in things: If so what kinds of things?

*Asks are sent for fun, no pressure to answer.

Hi! :) thanks for the ask, I love receiving asks but sometimes its a little bit overwhelming.

Self/job: I'm an introverted hobbyist. I do clay sculptures as well besides drawing and tipped my toes a tiny little bit in animatronic but ufff that's rough. But I still want to work on my Monty animatronic head (fnaf).

I work as a kindergarten teacher.

Fandoms:

The Hobbit, BBC Sherlock, Supernatural, Good Omens, MCU, One piece, Dragonball, Haikyuu, KnB and more.

Ships: Bagginshield, Johnlock, Destiel, Ineffable husbands, Gabriel X belzebub, Ironstrange, stony, stucky, thruce and many more I think.

Story snippets, ideas and prompts:

I love receiving any of it, if I do them is another story. But if I really like some Im gonna draw it.

Pets: Unfortunately I don't have pets ( I would love to have a cat but my landlord doesn't want that) but we had cats when I was a child. And a bird ( don't know what bird though).

Garden/hobbies:

Me and a garden don't work together no no.

Well...drawing, sculpting, felting(relatively new hobby), reading, listening to music.

yeah building, crafting stuff.

Hope you have a nice day! :)

- ToNDW0o

[darkpoisonouslove]

💛 (Valtor) 🤍🤎 (Fallen Love)

🌷

💛 Yellow: Do you ever alter, highlight, or de-emphasize certain canonical traits in a character? If so, why and describe how.

Sure! I write a lot of AUs and you have to tweak here and there to make the story work. Now I don't want to look at my earlier work because I now consider it to be completely OOC, especially where Valtor is concerned. But in more recent fics there are two trends concerning how I write him.

First of all, I tend to make him less overpowered. He is still super powerful and formidable but I often emphasize the fact that security measures can and will be an obstacle even to him (usually by making Griffin necessary to the equation or hinting he has to strategize hard to pull it off alone). It's important to me that I don't let him accomplish things too easily because that does a disservice to both him and whoever he's up against. His cunning and power shine brightest when they're challenged at least a little and besides, what kind of story would it be if he can do anything without breaking a sweat? Where are the stakes? Where's the suspense? That's just not how you write a good story.

The second thing I do is to include him breaking his composure sometimes. I think that canon is particularly egregious in failing to keep his power in check which in turn allows him to keep too much composure most of the time and that leads to a misinterpretation of his character. He is only calm and collected when he's fully in control of the situation or can easily spin it to his advantage. The moment a real problem arises, he loses his temper which... happened about 3 times on the show because nothing can challenge him. It's just not interesting. You can make a character that's powerful as hell and still has to face hurdles. It just doesn't make sense that everything works so well for him until it doesn't. It's inconsistent with the backstory as well.

🤍 White: What's a fanfic scenario or idea you'd like someone else to write so that you can read it?

This is such an ironic answer because I started outlining this for the sole purpose of writing a better witch x witch hunter story after a book annoyed me with its execution. To say I'd like someone else to write it completely defeats the purpose but at this point I have so many more ideas that have a hold on my mind that this is hardly on the list of priorities. Wouldn't mind reading it though if someone could write it for me and write it well.

If it's unclear, the answer is the witch x witch hunter AU (more info in the link). I liked the story at the time but, again, Valtor is OOC and there are structural problems with it. It could work with this structure but it doesn't feel optimal and, frankly, even if I fixed the structure, I'd have no time to write this. Which is a shame because I still think the story has a lot of potential and I do have that half a notebook of notes on it that are going to waste (I might post those as bullet points some time). It's really painful to look at something that you see as full of potential and have to throw it away so it'd be great if someone could take this off my hands so I can read it but not write it.

🤎 Brown: How did you decide to write (or why are you writing) a certain fanfic? (Asker, feel free to choose a specific story you're curious about. You can also let the answerer choose the story.)

First of all, thank you so much for asking about Fallen Love! It is my baby and I am so in love with how much of a dysfunctional disaster Griffin and Valtor are; I cannot look away from it!

I swear to god, I haven't abandoned this story! I think about it every day and I have made some progress on chapter 2 (as well as on the outline for the other chapters, which have definitely grown in number significantly). I just want it to be good and that's making things go agonizingly slowly. No, really, I am in literal pain but I'm going to stick with it no matter what. It doesn't just live in my head rent-free, it lives in my bones!

Now to answer the actual question - I can't remember the exact line of thought but I know I went "Hey, what if Valtor won the war and he has everything he wanted including Griffin but she's moping so much about losing Faragonda that it's really driving him up the wall?" It has changed a lot since then and is now more about Griffin and Valtor's broken relationship (hence the title) and, hopefully, about them taking responsibility for the actions that led to this point. Not to imply that things will get better because they won't really but the idea is to put all cards on the table and figure out how to proceed when they can't get rid of their mutual obsession with each other. Plus, I love the chaotic energy of them trying to outwit each other and pulling out all the stops when it comes to getting what they want. The upside (and downside) of being this obsessed with each other is that they both believe they can pull any stunt they want and the other will just have to deal with it. In a way they're both desperate to be proven wrong about that and be saved from the madness that is their relationship but they would also kill anyone and destroy anything trying to come between them. They're just stable that way.

This story has given me brain rot. It is such a perfect opportunity to look into where things went wrong for them and bring it back to basics. It's just the two of them! There are other characters in the story but there's no one that can come between them. It makes them face the fact that everything they did to each other was because of them and they can't blame anyone else. And with all of their other goals more or less put aside, there are no distractions to keep them from examining their relationship aka really bad news for them. But hey, they also get to be completely unhinged in every way so it should be a great show!

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