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#ao3#archive of our own#fanfic#fanfiction#fanfiction writer#fanfic writers#polls#i'm honestly just curious#bc I usually go to exclude AUs immediately at least the modern setting one#i like fix it fics but usually I like the series for the canon setting and if I'm looking for fanfic it's bc I want MORE of that fandom#but maybe I'm weird stay tunned to find out
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i didn't MEAN to finish A Whole Book Yesterday and now i'm back at the bottom of the sisyphean hill of Choosing The Next One
#text#personal#books#reading#bad cree was really good!!#do i follow it with more fucked up shit happening in the Far North OR do i follow it with Mostly Modern Setting Slightly To The Left??#TRASHLANDS and ALWAYS NORTH are my two contenders rn#i wanna knock at least one maybe both of those out before i read THE WAY SPRING ARRIVES(which ive had since last year but mistimed the read)#(obvi i have to read it at the beginning of spring)
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so uh. idk what happened but I have 5 different COTL AUs now
#I'll post more about them later#one is defiance au ofc. dw I'm still working on that#two of them are very unserious#one of the unserious ones is my modern au. the other one is also a modern au but i put them in a highschool setting so that id have an#excuse to make everyone even more stupid#2/3 of the serious ones include interactions between narinder and the mystic seller- one of these is defiance#the other one i came up with literally just today and already have way too many ideas for#the remaining 1/3 of the serious ones is the most canon compliant one#its also the one im least likely to post about#cotl au#cotl lamb#cotl#cult of the lamb#cult of the lamb the lamb#cult of the lamb au
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#the few “arthur returns” fics I've read have arthur baffled by modern tech#which is fair enough. of course he would be#but you know he's a practical man#say he comes back. if he wants to lead a somewhat normal life#he's basically got two choices:#1. accept that things he previously thought impossible are now possible and real#2. go insane#so I think at some point he would be like “sure. people fly now. on metal bird-shaped machines.”#this is no more baffling to him than anything else#but I thought it'd be funny for merlin to be a bit set in his ways about some things at least#he was there to hear about the first catastrophic plane failures#he looked on the first air travel disasters the way we did on that oceangate sub implosion#and thought “you could not pay me enough to set foot on those death traps”#and never bothered to update his opinion#also it's a fairly common fear to have so#*#ramblings
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i can almost guarantee ive said it before but. he would thrive in a zero escape game
#an octopath ze au would be kinda fun actually.. especially the octo2 party#would love to see these guys in an escape room . it would be so awful#temenos would fit in perfectly and might even make a good mc given his 'truth lies in the flame' segments..#i could see partitio doing well bc of his creativity and general demeanor#osvald is great at math but idk how trusting hed be of everyone in this situation.. especially if they assume zero is one of them early on#throné . girlie im so sorry#i think shed do fine for the most part (hard to say how much her thieving skills would be of help here) but she did not deserve this </3#do not let ochette into any pantry or food storage room. i dont trust any of that food#i wonder if shed have her partner(s) here tho.. how do u handle an owl and/or jackal in this situation..#she would be great for morale tho#same for agnea tho i worry for her emotional state a lil bit . help her#who am i missing .. CASTTI#shes good at managing stress (both hers and others) in awful situations . thank god#and shes there if anyone gets hurt 👍#not that its likely outside of bad end situations ? tho i may be thinking of the 999 map too much..#would it be more fun to use that as the setting or something else altogether.. more modern or more like octopath 2..#how the fuck would someone even make an escape room in . what is it like the industrial revolution. steam era#would it make sense to be able to use magic in universe to pull off something similar..#the canonicity of some ingame mechanics is dubious so its hard to tell how malleable magics uses and effects are..#itd probably be easier to place everyone in a modern setting but i have no idea what some of them would be that way#.. modern fantasy setting ??????#what if they had smartphones in octopath. would that be fucked up or what#also who the hell would be zero . would anyone be in kahoots w zero.. or at least Know Things but be unable to say smth abt it#i straight up forgot to mention hikari earlier but hes prolly like. fine#his intrusive thpughts would probably Suck Bad here but hed want everyone to get out alive as much as everyone else combined#wait who would even be the 9th person. would it be zero. but who..#if it were octo1 id say kit but its harder to get a good octo2 equivalent of him.. hm..#oh god im out of tags . tho what would the game style be like.. nonary game ab game etc etc.. what would be unique but fitting..#am i gonna look into actual scientific theories for this . and how would the morphogenetic field come into play.. and Why..#octotag
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I'm usually not very fond of the idea of remaking/remastering games when they still hold up today BUT I think Sonic Team should make a Sonic Unleashed definitive edition that takes the best parts from the HD and Wii/PS2 versions and puts them into one
Like keep the graphics, hub worlds, and daytime levels from the HD version and keep the Gaia Temples, medal collecting system, and nighttime levels from the Wii/PS2 version. Include the DLC levels, bug fixes, general quality of life improvements, and fine-tune the controls a bit too. Maybe even add some extra content that wasn't in the og games to make it even more worthwhile, like more animated shorts and artwork, extra side missions, stuff like that
Also make a pc version. Please for the love of god make a pc version
#ramblings#i honestly just want more ppl to be able to experience sonic unleashed#especially its story bc it's genuinely one of the best in sonic#but ppl are thrown of by the gameplay specifically the werehog sections and how long they can be#in the hd version at least the wii and ps2 versions' werehog levels are a lot shorter#i also would like to be able to play it in hd graphics. bc i have the wii version and not the hd one#i'm usually not the kinda person who cares a lot abt that but y'know it'd be nice to play it again with nicer graphics#and on a controller that isn't a wiimote and nunchuck#also in general it'd just be nice to revisit unleashed. sega and sonic team should show that game more love#it set the foundations for modern sonic's gameplay and the formula it set up has been used for years#it needs more appreciation than what it gets#also also i wanna see my boy werehog again
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“You stole my cat!” she yelled.
“Is this your cat?” Al tried to scoop it back into his bag, starting to feel rather frantic. “We were just trying to take it to the v-”
Without any warning, the girl’s fist collided with his nose.
Alphonse attempts to aid a stray cat. It doesn't go as planned.
#fma#fmab#alphonse elric#mei chang#may chang#edward elric#scar fma#ling yao#my writing#fma modern au#FINALLY MAY APPEARS IN THE MODERN AU!!#I wanted to introduce her before doing anything else in this au. she needed to be here#not for like grand plot reasons#I just want her and scar to be here#fun fact about a detail that probably only matters to me: I spell her name as May instead of Mei in this fic#because it's pretty common when immigrating for people to have to change their names or at least how they're spelled#so when she immigrated as a kid in this au her name was anglicized as May#meanwhile when I'm writing in a setting closer to canon I use Mei#because that's probably more accurate to how her name would actually be spelled#this is the level of neurotic detail you get when you're a sociolinguist writing fanfic#anyway. hope you guys enjoy! I love my daughter! she's fun to write!
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Hi we just watched Good Omens 2 (amazing by the way. the religious trauma of it all. also spoilers to follow) but as we were speculating about season 3 a friend pointed out something I'd never noticed before and haven't seen people talking about elsewhere -- namely that we haven't yet seen... people... in Heaven. Hell is so swamped with people that they are "chronically understaffed," they have new arrivals every day and devote huge resources to processing them. But everyone we've seen in Heaven so far has been an angel of some sort (or so I think, my memory of s1 might be foggy). The two aesthetics are cool as hell but they also carry information: Hell is much more populous than Heaven, with all the bureaucracy that comes with that and managing their own people. Heaven is pointedly and horrifically empty (though granted that could also be that we only see the Angel bureaucracy location, and the point they're making is that in Heaven the Principalities are kept separate from the former mortals for some reason.)
This is of course rampant speculation, but it does make me wonder if what Aziraphale will find as the new Head Archangel is that... nobody goes to heaven. Namely that the rules are so strict even "good" people get sent down on a technicality. I feel like finding out he's been selling people on Earth a practical lie about doing good so they can go to Heaven would manage to break his faith in the system and set him towards reform (this is partially bcs I think the arc of the show is tending towards radical political action as a central theme: Aziraphale is still trying to get the "right people" to fix a broken system, Crowley understands the system sucks but doesn't have the sense of duty to want to release everyone else from it, only himself and the guy he cares about. I feel like together they'd be able to enact real political change. Also why I think God is being set up as the main villain- to avoid the "right people" excuse and blaming it on the angels.)
#good omens#good omens spoilers#good omens season 2#correct me if I'm wrong btw! I haven't watched the first season in a year at least so if we know there's former mortals in heaven pls#also I vaguely remember this being a plot point in the good place? but I think it was being used there to make a point about#commercialization and globalization and morality in a modern interconnected world#whereas I think good omens is looking backwards more: what were the rules the bible set out and is that really what's right#gos2 spoilers
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I’m thinking about Modern!AUs in fanfiction and why sometimes they’re some of my favorite fics and also sometimes the Worst™️. (<-that is a joke. There is no such thing as bad fanfiction, just fanfiction I don’t personally like.)
Because I LOVE Modern!AUs that ask interesting questions about how the setting of a story impacts the characters—how much of the setting can you remove while still being able to recognize the characters in question? All of it? None of it? What new problems would living in a world with planes and phones create for these characters? How are the social and political tensions of the original canon reflected in our own world?
The “problem” (again, not an actual problem, just a personal preference) is that most Modern!AUs COMPLETELY refuse to engage with any of that. They instead become a stale rehashing of the original canon except with lower stakes. Nothing about the modern setting adds interest, and everything interesting from the original setting falls away.
I think that a lot of people write Modern!AU fics to deescalate the conflict of the original canon and give the characters more relatable problems, which isn’t universally terrible, but it can so easily become boring. I don’t WANT to know what it would be like if one of these characters was a florist and the other was a tattoo artist; I want to know what would happen if you gave one of them a gun.
#yes this is about my Vanyel nuclear weapons AU. IMO Vanyel as a character should be doomed to be a living weapon no matter the setting#This is also about the locked tomb#my good friend harrowhark nonagesimus didn’t give herself a lobotomy to end up working at hot topic#and gideon didn’t throw herself on a fencepost with the full understanding that her soul would be consumed in the fires of lyctorhood#just to work at a gym. I think they should’ve been raised in a pseudo-catholic death cult and harrow should be an ecoterrorist#This is also why I think tgcf modern!AUs leave me a little flat. Like Xie Lian is SO WEIRD because he willingly submitted to#getting stabbed a hundred times. He also got buried alive. There is simply no modern!AU explanation for how weird he is!!!#(<-says the person who has a tgcf modern!au posted on his ao3)#On the flip side this is also why I think MDZS modern AUs kind of work??#because SO MANY of the problems MDZS characters have are just.#‘my dad likes my adoptive brother more than me’#‘my family doesn’t want me associating with this person who has a bad reputation’#so at least like the front half of MDZS is modern!AU-able#people lose me when they try to make a modern analogue for the genocide of the Wen. like oooookay#I don’t think getting their company shut down should be presented as equivalent to a genocide but w/ever#I do not like it therefore I shall not read it
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freiren sounds so up my alley and the one thing that's holding me back from watching it is that I hate the costume designs.... this is not a freiren-exclusive problem i feel that way about most fantasy anime these days it just bothers me with freiren because otherwise i Want to watch it
#i have trouble putting the beef into words but here is an attempt:#the outfits feel too much like something you'd see someone wearing In Real Life and it breaks my immersion#this would be less annoying to me if it felt equal between male and female characters but the boy outfits feel more fantasyish#but it feels more pronounced with the girl characters#makes it feel like the goal was 'make them cute and fashionable by Anime Standards' was the primary goal#and 'character build or worldbuild via costume design' ws at best a distant second#i could abide Aesthetic First costume design if it was an aesthetic i like but i don't like the aesthetic theyre going for#feels overly cluttered with small details that feel very Modern to me#and also it always bugs me when it feels like a show defaults to Thighs Visible on Only the girl character designs#freiren does not seem particularly fanservicey and that almost makes it more grating for me#if it didn't Smack Of Gender it wouldnt bug me#if short shorts are an element of your fantasy setting why not have at least one dude wear em is all im sayin#anyway apologies to any freiren fans who stumble upon this post like i said it sounds good and i want to watch it#and am happy you can enjoy what i cannot#rambles
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feeling deep feelings about tommy feeling not smart enough for maria like wow @hypnotisedfireflies u ate that fr
#him wanting to go back to school when hes older and with maria in a modern setting#he makes an offhand joke about hoe the husband of texas’s best layer should at least have one degree#or some offhand joke that comes from somewhere#and she’s immediately like NOPE nope nope nope#u look here tommy miller youre the best man i know#the smartest man i know#no i mean it#ur a living breathing fucking calculator and u draw like michaelangelo#‘he didnt draw maria he sculpted i think’#see??? who tf knows that#youre brilliant for me perfect for me#everything i ever needed and more than i ever wanted#if u want to get your degree go get it#but frankly i dont give two fucks about it#tommy x maria#the tipsy bison#tommy miller#maria miller
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/takes a little breath amidst a quiet dash. Starter call!
Though I have threads/asks to get to, I'm curious if one of these would catch anyone's attention. I know sending in sentence starters isn't always up everyone's alley and it's a little harder when it comes to interacting with a character who's canonically dead in present day, like mine. Although (I need to write up the details for the first iteration of it) I do have her resurrected in a present timeline (see tags). If you're interested in me either coming to you, or fishing up something with a bit of a red line, give this a like and I'll see what I can do! Trust me when I say, if we're mutuals, I'm interested in writing with you. See this as a little cheat to grab my attention if you want it!
#[ so i've simply been dying to get her in a modern setting /without/ changing the course of events. ]#[ so while i need to refine the details and the circumstances may differ down the line-- it won't affect interact with most of you-- ]#[ as i heavily tie guizhong to the moon/night due to too many references to it in her attire and symbolisms alike... ]#[ and also to the chasm and its origins-- that's a whole other hc. ]#[ i've decided the first iteration of resurrecting her to simply be based within the concept that the gods never quite die... ]#[ because the elements that they're tied to never do either. they're not 'personifications' by any means-- but they're a part of. ]#[ they can manifest into a corporeal form and in the same way; that form can be broken and destroyed. ]#[ and it weakens them immensely; a much more severe form of osial being 'restrained'/locked away for thousands of years. ]#[ i envision that they can't simply reform. but they could over-time. or at least when 'stars align' of sorts. ]#[ when their element is at its strongest and can gather elemental energy from /somewhere/. ]#[ so /after/ the events of the game thus far-- during moonchase; on the night when the moon is at its fullest... ]#[ and at its apex. it's shining less brightly than it normally is-- and it's because it's being used as a battery of sorts. ]#[ you know all of the dust above cuejiue slope? that cloud of dust moves towards the cliff by the harbor-- by that sole glaze lily. ]#[ and dust from across liyue and possibly even teyvat-- slowly gathers. it would look like a shadow from afar. ]#[ and it gathers and along with the energy that the moon supplies that night; when everything falls into place... ]#[ it allows her to regain her corporeal form as it existed prior. ]#[ this is after 'rex lapis' has stepped down and retreats from his position as archon of liyue. ]#[ she doesn't step in by any means whatsoever-- her re-manifestation is actually (in my verse) witnessed by him from afar. ]#[ and then witnesses it up close as she finally forms after a long time of this process. ]#[ she wouldn't go by 'guizhong' except by adepti who remember; but she might go by haagentus. at least initially. ]#[ /breathes. hi. hello. i'm sae and i'm a mess of an individual-- pls come here and don't leave me despite it. ]#[ ooc. ] wherever her spirit may be among the countless grains of sand and specks of dust between the harbor and the mountains…
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Prompt #15: Extra Credit
(Part 2 of the Modern Fantasy AU I started last week as something different for the extra credit time. This time features Aryn and Cedrik. With a guest appearance of Nebula and Gwyneria. Part 1 )
Cedrik led them quickly away from the alley and the bodies of the vampires. Right to where he left his motorcycle parked. He tossed the his helmet to Aryn since he'd rather go without to keep the other man safe. It would just hinder his view if they were to be jumped by more vampires anyways.
If the situation hadn't been what it was, Aryn might have pouted about the helmet. Maybe even complained about helmet hair. At least it was designed with ears in mind for viera as he slid it onto his head. He did cast one more look backwards though. It still hurt to think he was walking away from his friend. Even if the logical part of him knew it was too late. Finally he turned back around to climb on behind Cedrik as he hoped he wasn't making a bigger mistake by trusting a stranger with his life.
The bike roared down the dark city streets. It felt like they traveled for ages as Aryn kept trying to look around for more danger now that he was already paranoid and worried. It was probably only more like 20mins before Cedrik pulled the bike to a stop outside of a shop. The open sign was unlit but Cedrik walked up to bang on the door to the shop anyways.
"Shop's closed, idiot!" Grumbled a woman's voice before the door swung open sharply. Icy blue eyes stared out at them in a deathly glare for a long moment before the woman gave a heavy sigh. "Why is it always you when I open the door after hours... Gods damn it, Cedrik." She turned away from the pair to walk back inside the shop, leaving the door open. "Nebula!"
"Always so charming, Gwyn." Cedrik rolled his eyes before he reached to grab Aryn by the arm to pull him into the store behind him. He lead Aryn out of the way of the door before kicking it closed with a furred foot.
"Cedrik?" Nebula questioned as they came out of the back still dressed in their gauzy robes they wore while running the magic relic shop. Sometimes it helped to look the part of the fortune teller. It drew in some customers better than others. Nebula's gaze settled on Aryn with a raised brow. "Company? Gwyn would you kindly start the water for tea please? I think our guest may need the chamomile and lavender mix."
Aryn was looking around but his mind wasn't in the here and now. He'd barely registered Nebula coming to stand before him till their hands were on his cheeks.
"Looks like a bit of shock. Vampire attack?" Nebula asked as they took their hands off Aryn's face.
"Yeah. His friend... Didn't make it." Cedrik grimaced as he let go of Aryn's hand so he could find a wet cloth to wipe Jesse's blood from Aryn's hands. He didn't have any issues with blood but he was sure that blood on Aryn wouldn't help the other man. Not in this state.
"Very unfortunate." Nebula sighed softly before gently taking one of Aryn's hands and patting it. "Come now. Let's get some tea."
Aryn was vaguely aware of someone taking something wet to his hands. Of the smell of something he knew but couldn't quite place in the moment. A warm blanket wrapped around his shoulders and a warm cup of some liquid between his hands. Voices talking softly nearby. Something wet on his cheeks. He took one hand off the cradled cup to touch his cheek. Tears.
Right... His friend was gone. He had nearly joined his friend in that. At some point in the time of arriving wherever this was, he'd let go of himself for a bit. Unable to fully process everything. Not wanting to process it. Closing his eyes as he let himself mourn his lost friend. He felt a pair of arms wrap around him in a hug. Aryn set the cup down on the table beside him as he wrapped his arms around the person in return.
"I am sorry about your friend. Truly. You're safe here though. I swear it." Cedrik spoke with a thick voice as he tried to offer comfort to the dancer. Letting the other man cry into his chest.
#FFxivWrite#FFxivWrite2024#Prompt 15#Aryn and Cedrik#Modern Fantasy AU#Might do Jesse becoming Ronove next extra credit#Nebula decided a guest role was needed today since Cedrik is from their clan in their normal story#I do try to keep some of the original bits of their history from normal XIV while I twist the rest to fit a more modern setting#Thus Cedrik and Nebula still are connected#An why Jesse gets to become a voidal vampire named Ronove#It's interesting to say the least trying to change parts of them and still keep them as they should be#Nebula is still the calm and collected witch with their protective partner who takes no shit#Cedrik still has a weakness for Aryn even if their meeting in this is entirely different#More to come next sunday hopefully
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every time these books piss me off gender-wise i make perri more androgynous
#i just think it's soooo funny how 90% of perceived weakness is tied to failed masculinity (even when froi is doing ableism this comes up#they are intertwined) and the most consistent shorthand for weakness/uselessness/antagonism is not being manly lumatere (modern) style#like you may note i have nothing especially well-formed to say here i need to do some more reading of other stuff but i find it soooo#tacky. like. commit to the setting i'm not even saying you can't align your characters as such i know how flaws work i just feel like#maybe it implies some stuff about how the author sees this sort of thing personally rather than specifically pointing it out#altho if i am being honest if the former is the case i suspect at least half of it is what they personally find attractive (see how celie#describes banyon)#like 'ohhhh my god feliciano wears skinny jeans rather than my ultra-manly trousers as god intended clearly he's a loser and we can#all make fun of him for this & it represents how he's just a frivolous puppet for his uncle and has no agency (see also what's done with hi#at the betrothal for more passivity lmfao)'. anyway i am going to stop here i think i need to go do something else
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Randomly Generated Headcanons!
[Rules: use this site to generate headcanons for your muse!]
Tagged by @kazeofthemagun
Tagging; @flamesignite (and all your other blogs/muses if you'd like) @secondbornavaricious @bidotheuncanny @kurai-honoo @lunaferrous And YOU if you see this considered yourself tagged
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Timaues does intricate and expensive cosplays. (?)
2. Timaues cringes at their middle school yearbook photos.
3. Timaues is an introvert.
4. Timaues is unemployed.
5. Timaues does not know how to read.
6. Timaues does not know what sleep is.
7. Timaues has an incredible long-term memory but an awful short-term memory.
8. Timaues has fallen asleep at their desk while working in the middle of the night.
9. Timaues stole a lollipop at the checkout when they were 5 and they still feel guilty about it.
10. Timaues almost drank the lethal dosage of caffine once
Bonus- this is the one that popped up when I opened the site and it's 100% Tim; If This character likes someone, they will give them a pretty rock.
#Never considered him doing cosplay or not before (in Modern setting)#(oh yeah he cringes a bit at his old photos)#[Def is an introvert]#[He does know HOW he's just really bad at it and probably dyslexic to some degree]#[Sleep is ever elusive to him a fantasy what is sleep lol]#[It.. depends with is memory but yeh at least sometimes]#[has def fallen asleep in the middle of doing something and I fully believe he stole a lollipop it was an accident he intended to hand it-#to his dad it was cheap store owner knows his family it's fine dad probably paid for it later ]#[not knowing his limits as a Chimera this could happen whether or not it was more or less what is lethal to a regualr person who knows]#[I fully admit to skipping over some boring / uninteresting ones]
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hmmm do i actually like symbiote spiderman or just the idea of symbiote spiderman that exists in my head
#spiderman#i think it would be neat to have spiderman and the symbiote reconcile in a modern or at least post venom setting#but on the other hand i honestly dont think that is very compatible at all with where the current characters are#and the symbiote would be better off in the hands of flash/eddie anyways#man this is hard i should be more decisive.
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