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most-normal-eccles-cake-ignorer · 8 months

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Good Omens: Lockdown, Aziraphale’s SAD-ASS desk, and how they get to 'Our bookshop' in S2

Welcome to part 2 of me reading reeaally far into the Good Omens: Lockdown video! (part 1 from Crowley's POV here) This post assumes the item choices in the Lockdown visuals are intentional. What follows is going to be my headcanon regardless, but if you're into the Word of God, Lockdown is canon 'If you want it to be.' and I want it to be, sooo checkmate! >;D

Also this is something of a long boi (~13 minute read without following the links >.>), so if you're into unhinged analysis of details and literary references that indicate Aziraphale is in his longing era and want to learn more about author and fave-of-Gaiman, G.K. Chesterton, either get comfy or mark this to read later when you have time!

C: What? A: *somehow surprised even though HE CALLED* A-ah, hello. It's me! C: I know it's you, Aziraphale. A: *regaining composure* Yes, well, just calling to see how you were doing in lockdown.

The video starts with shots of Aziraphale and Crowley's da Vinci sketches (and some sushi remnants)... Babygirl is flipping through the time-goes-too-fast-for-me version of a facebook album, thinking about his crush. vERY chill of him. (also the paper looks new and he's eating on top of them, suggesting these are prints and he has multiple copies of them... sooo normal)

If we look closer at the still of Crowley's portrait, we can see part of the spine of a book that reads Kei- Chesterto-. This is, of course, author Gilbert Keith Chesterton, to whom Neil and Terry (and Crowley) dedicated Good Omens:

The authors would like to join the demon Crowley in dedicating this book to the memory of G. K. Chesterton A man who knew what was going on.

In this post by @azfellandco about Chesterton, you can see a photo of the dedication page and also read the book excerpt where Crowley describes Chesterton as 'the only poet in the twentieth century to even come close to the Truth'.

C: I'm bored. I'm so very very bored - transcendentally bored. There's nothing to do here!

As Crowley is explaining his nap contingency plan, we get a shot of Aziraphale picking up his mug of hot chocolate, then the image below of the 2/3rds gone bottle of Courvoisier cognac (i mean maybe he is baking with it let's not jump to conclusions), and then the stack of books beside a framed woodcut print of witches dancing with devils...

...that I used reverse image search to trace back to page 17 of a book from 1720 called The history of witches and wizards: giving a true account of all their tryals in England, Scotland, Swedeland, France, and New England; with their confession and condemnation.

Interestingly, the text above and below the picture reads:

At their Meeting they have usually Wine, or good Beer, Cakes, Meat, or the like; they Eat and Drink really: When they meet in their Bodies, Dance also, and have Musick...

Beside the framed print of Aziraphale's idea of a really great night out is a stack of books that includes (going from top to bottom):

Homer's The Iliad, Book 2

Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton

Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century by Richard Kieckhefer

a book by Hilaire Belloc with no visible title

The Club of Queer Trades by G.K. Chesterton

The Iliad (according to sparknotes) has the following major themes:

....Interesting, ok. Book 2 in particular starts with a god (Zeus) messing with someone (Agamemnon) via a dream that says he will be successful in taking Troy if he launches a full assault, balls to the (city) wall. Agamemnon, who is supposed to be leading the Achaean army to conquer Troy, believes the dream but then in a weird twist decides to test his army and be like 'jk actually I'm giving up and going home' and then is mad when the soldiers are like 'sick, to the boats!' Then Odysseus, who sparknotes tells me is the most eloquent of the Achaeans, gives an impressive speech to inspire the troops and reminds them that they vowed 'that they would not abandon their struggle until the city fell.' ...No way that could worsen Aziraphale's internal conflict about being a bad Angel who thwarted the Great Plan. >.>; Orthodoxy we'll get to in a second.

Then there's Forbidden Rites which is a medieval necromancy guide translated from Latin with added commentary - Aziraphale is perhaps studying occult topics in an attempt to understand Crowley better? And then there's the Hilaire Belloc book on top of the second Chesterton book, a collection of related stories/episodes?, The Club of Queer Trades. The book's Wikipedia page says:

Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means. To gain admittance [to the Club of Queer Trades] one must have invented a unique means of earning a living and the subsequent trade being the main source of income.

Aziraphale and Crowley have rather novel/extraordinary jobs and they're both peculiar-queer and gay-queer. Neat. The narrator in the book is named Charlie "Cherub" Swinburne - also neat. >.> He goes on an adventure with his friend, a retired judge and president of the Club of Queer Trades, Basil Grant, (who Oct 2021 GoodReads reviewer Cecily said is "described as mad, mystical, and a poet, with almost no friends, but who “would talk to any one anywhere”) and Basil's younger brother, a private detective named Inspector Constable Rupert Grant. The last line of the book is:

Thus our epic ended where it had begun, like a true cycle. (something something "It starts, as it will end, with a garden.")

Anyway, the Belloc book and The Club of Queer Trades are placed back to back in such a way that they almost look like they could be one book with two different aesthetics, or... two halves of a pantomime beast?! (stay with me I needed a segue)

Belloc and Chesterton have what is essentially a ship name:

It was coined by George Bernard Shaw (if you are like me and didn't know why you've heard of him: he wrote, among other things, Pygmalion, which was adapted into My Fair Lady). Shaw apparently liked to gossip about Belloc and Chesterton with H.G. Wells (again if you're uncultured like me: he wrote, among other science fiction-y things, The War of the Worlds).

In the Feb 15, 1908 issue of The New Age newspaper, Shaw said:

He continued:

"Chesterton and Belloc are so unlike that they get frightfully into one another’s way. ... They are unlike in everything except the specific literary genius and delight in play-acting that is common to them, and that threw them into one another’s arms.”

Shaw says Belloc is 'a bit of a rowdy', and 'cannot bear isolation'. Hmm. Then he says Chesterton is 'friendly, easy-going, unaffected, gentle, magnanimous, and genuinely democratic'. HMM.

“They share one failing—almost the only specific trait they have in common except their literary talent. That failing is, I grieve to say, addiction to the pleasures of the table.”

Ok ok I think we can see where this is going.

(^ from Staged S3E6)

Now, someone did ask Neil Gaiman about this similarity, and he said the Lockdown video was filmed by Rob Wilkins in Terry Pratchett's library, and that he suspects 'Belloc is there because he was on Terry's shelves beside Chesterton.' And it MAY VERY WELL BE that NONE (0) of the book titles are meant in any way other than 'these are books from Sir Pratchett's library that looked nice on camera and ofc we wanted some Chesterton refs and maybe some demon-y stuff for Crowley' but that is WAY less fun so I am choosing to take them as intentional: these are books Aziraphale is actually reading (along with the sushi and many cakes he is actually eating). Let's put ourselves in Aziraphale's shoes and try to imagine how it would be to read this stuff during lockdown while you pine for a demon with slinky hips after you got in big trouble at work for Armageddoff (and work happens to have defined your worldview and general purpose in life).

C: welll... ngk then people might follow my bad example and get ill. Or even die—

As Crowley acknowledges that he ought to be out making peoples' lives worse, we see Orthodoxy by Chesterton open on the desk.

Orthodoxy is described as a ‘spiritual autobiography’ and is considered a classic of Christian apologetics, i.e. the religious discipline of defending religious doctrines (in this case, Catholic) through systematic argumentation and discourse. Wikipedia also says Chesterton's The Everlasting Man contributed to C.S. Lewis' conversion to Christianity, so overall it sounds like he must've been fairly convincing. (and so maybe reading it also poked at that work-related-but-religious-trauma-adjacent stuff Aziraphale has going on?)

You can read Orthodoxy (and probably any of the books I mention bc theyre all old) on project gutenberg but I will include this part of what is shown on the righthand page bc it just reminds me (and so probably Azirapalala as well) of a certain angel squeaking happily at a nebula:

"I felt economical about the stars as if they were sapphires (they are called so in Milton's Eden): I hoarded the hills. For the universe is a single jewel, and while it is a natural cant to talk of a jewel as peerless and priceless, of this jewel it is literally true. This cosmos is indeed without peer and without price: for there cannot be another one."

Ok great, so Aziraphale is diving into the works of one of Crowley's favorite authors bc he misses him, that's cute. What else? Oh he already wrote him a letter right before calling - THE WICK ON THE WAX STICK FOR THE SEAL IS STILL SMOKING. sO CASUAL asdashgfjds

something something 'either call on the phone and talk, or appear mysteriously; don't do both'

When Aziraphale gets to 'I've never had so few customers, not in two hundred years!' We get a close up of this glass of cognac with droplets still on the side — I take back what I said about baking, Aziraphale is drinking it~

He's not drinking a wine, eg Châteauneuf-du-pape, which would be ~14% alcohol by volume (ABV), or a sherry (15-20% ABV); he is drinking Courvoisier cognac, a hard liquor (40% ABV). Crowley's Talisker whisky is 48.5% while we are on the topic. This is stronger than what Aziraphale usually drinks which means... he could be a bit tipsy.

As Aziraphale starts talking about the would-be cash-box burglary, we get this wide shot of the desk:

In the top left hand corner, we see two stacks of books, most (all?) of which appear to be Chesterton when I zoom in. Some of them have Chesterton's name visible on them, others have the publisher name 'Darwen Finlayson' on them, which according to my googling is a house that published several of Chesterton's works. If Chesterton was truly 'a man who knew what was going on', then perhaps this is Aziraphale seeking not just to feel closer to Crowley, but also to make sense of the warring ideas in his mind. Interestingly, Chesterton has also been described as 'The Eccentric Prince of Paradox'.

C: *clearly amused* Did you smite them with your wroth?

The screen then shows two occult-y books and a flickering candle (lower left image). Then Aziraphale explains about his cake~, and as Crowley cuts him off because he's about to nervously ask to come over bc he is so so lonely & down bad for a certain angelic bookworm, we see a map of Oxfordshire on top of Pilgrim's Progress (lower right image).

The two books beside the candle are Satanism and Witchcraft (presumably the 1862 book by Jules Michelet that comes up when I search the title), and another called Magic: An Occult Primer.

Satanism and Witchcraft is described on Wikipedia as 'notable for being one of the first sympathetic histories of witchcraft' and says 'Michelet was one of the first few people to attempt to show the sociological explanation of the Witch Trials.’ Sympathy for people who like to eat/drink/dance with demons, if you will?

Magic: An Occult Primer is a 1972 book by David Conway, a Welsh (CACHU HWCH!) magus and is described as 'a seminal work that brought magical training to the every-magician'. It also includes an appendix called The Occult Who's Who, which is somewhat reminiscent of Hastur's Furfur's book about angels. In Chapter 11: A Word About Demons, it says in regard to summoning them:

"Assuming that the form has turned up in the right place, it will soon begin to act and talk in a very friendly manner; do not forget, however, that its winning ways conceal a sinister intention-- namely, to get the adept out of the circle, and into its clutches.”

...okay?? Aziraphale's desk has a flickering candle on it throughout the video, and we get a close up of the flame when Crowley offers to slither over:

and just like that, Aziraphale has summoned a demon~~

Naturally, he freaks out:

A: *panicking*Oh I— I— I— I— I'm afraid that would be Breaking All The Rules! *nervous breathing* Out of the question! I'll see you… when this is over.

But why? Isn't this what he wanted? Let's go back to the Pilgrim's Progress shot from right before the successful demon summoning and zoom in:

In a similar vein to Orthodoxy, Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan, is an allegorical Puritan conversion narrative. Christian is the main character / stand in for anyone who wants to be in the allegory and Hopeful is well, hopeful, from what I gather. A slightly larger continuous excerpt is here for the curious, but here are some bits I thought were especially interesting in the part of the book shown above:

Christian: Why, what was it that brought your sins to mind again? Hopeful: Many things; as, If I did but meet a good man in the streets; or, If I have heard any read in the Bible; or, If mine head did begin to ache; or, If I were told that some of my neighbors were sick; or, If I heard the bell toll for some that were dead; or, If I thought of dying myself; or, If I heard that sudden death happened to others; But especially when I thought of myself that I must quickly come to judgment.

Perhaps the pandemic is bringing Aziraphale's "sins" to mind again, on top of the whole choosing faces thing to avoid 'quickly coming to judgment'. And then:

Hopeful: I thought I must endeavor to mend my life; for else, thought I, I am sure to be lost forever. Christian: And did you endeavor to mend? Hopeful: Yes, and fled from not only my sins, but sinful company too, and betook me to religious duties, as praying, reading, weeping for sin, speaking truth to my neighbors, etc.

UM??? While I can't say about the praying or weeping for sin, he has definitely been reading and the whole 'giving a good talking to' the burglars could be 'speaking truth to [the] neighbors'...?

Anyway to recap:

Aziraphale has been poring over books about dark magic and demons as well as a ton of books by an author that Crowley loves and who formed a partnership w a very different person in a sort of yin-yang, pantomime beast situation

He has been looking at pictures that remind him of their fun times w Leo in Florence and eating sushi and cake cake cake (and forgiving sinners) and drinking hot chocolate and cognac trying to fill a void but now he's tipsy so he wrote Crowley a letter, stamped it with a wax seal and then thought 'I should call her' BUT

His recent brush with attempted death penalties, the death toll of the pandemic, and some of the religious books he was reading have also filled him with guilt/fear over disobeying Heaven, who he knows could still be watching him and Crowley, so he feels much more conflicted than usual AND

He probably has some inkling that he wants to go ape shit on that ox rib if it comes over to hang out (lol editing to add bc i remembered ox rib discourse: ape shit in an emotional way! whether you hc them as ace or not I just think he really likes him and I’m using ox ribs as a stand in for general forbidden joy/love, not specifically sexy stuff)

So he has to say no.

Anything else might cause him to spontaneously discorporate into a plume of pining and cognitively dissonant gay smoke, which may be all well and good if you only think there's a God, but if you KNOW it and the angels are absolutely recording you and Heaven just tried to kill you and your wife colleague, it's... kind of a big deal.

C: Right. gnnehh. I'm setting the alarm clock for July. Good night, angel. *dial tone*

We don't get to hear Aziraphale's response, but besties you and I both know he is not feeling tickety-boo. He spent like a month putting off calling Crowley (UK lockdowns started end of March, the call is at the beginning of May), finally got drunk and said what the Hell, it'll just be a fun flirty chat in between his temptations, and then it turned out Crowley was depressed and not going anywhere and Aziraphale made him even sadder. And then it got worse because it wasn't all over in July, or in October, even.

I think Aziraphale ends up with a lot of time and brain space in which to think about how Orthodoxy and Pilgrim's Progress were only written to guide *mortals* and how it really wouldn't be so bad if he spent more time with Crowley, would it? Heaven hasn't reached out in actual years again, things feel safer. Crowley is essentially Good and spending time with him would be sort of ministering to the downtrodden and afflicted, and Aziraphale does miss reporting his good deeds (lol you know, whatever rationalizations you need to get you there).

More than anything, he thinks about how hollow everything feels without Crowley; how no mouthful of food or drink tastes as satisfying in his absence because it wasn't ever just about the 'gross matter'...

So when lockdowns end, Aziraphale begins to summon his demon again, but this time with much less inner struggling. It all comes so naturally, when you let it. By the beginning of Season 2 in 2023, they seem delightfully comfortable with their shared routines and places (see also this lovely post by @nightgoodomens). Our car. Our bookshop.

Aziraphale might take longer to catch up, but he does get there.

(SHHH DON'T THINK ABOUT EPISODE 6! STOP! I'M HANGING UP!)

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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the-final-sif · 6 months

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What's up with Foolish in this AU

Oh he's not a god at all he's just a dude who has heard very old tales of humans that became gods and would like to give it a shot.

One of the problems with the gods effectively halting the cycle of new gods coming into being is humans' historical memory isn't that long on the scale of god's lifetimes. Previously, there were usually stories, guides, an understanding that gods came from humans and that certain humans chosen could end up as gods. But since the cycle was unnaturally halted, humans have largely forgotten how gods are born.

Foolish heard rumors that it was possible and started seeking out anyone with info. Eventually he stumbled into the Dream SMP where there's just an actual literally god chilling out, granting wishing sometimes and totally down to talk to humans. Which I cannot stress enough is a buck fucking wild thing to find. Most people never see a god in their life. Most never even get a true response to a prayer. They are reclusive and mysterious. End Gods most of all aren't even accepted as a "real" god in a number of major religions because of how rarely they interacted with humans (and also because End Gods rarely cared to correct this misunderstanding, unlike other titles that generally got pissy if they were omitted).

And then you've just got a wholeass End God running around on this random server. Just hanging out with people. Also there's a dude dressing up as him? Or maybe he's dressing up as the dude? It's unclear? Foolish has a lot of questions but he's not sure how to even start asking them.

A number of the people on the server don't see this as weird either because they don't realize XD is a god, or because in the case of Techno/Phil/Wilbur they'd gotten some sort of heads up that XD's just a bit of an oddball and also might be a bit lonely right now. It's still very weird to them, but at least they had a heads up to just act normal about it.

Badboyhalo actually knows the most of anyone on the server outside of XD, although he's confused on some accounts. There's a lot of things he's very concerned about, and not much he can do about any of it.

#dreblr #dreamxd #c!dream #c!foolish #dsmp #dream smp #godling dream au #sif speaks #sif answers #anonymous

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ananxiousgenz · 1 month

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Part 3 OF THE HADESTOWN FLASH FIC

for anyone who is actually reading these in order: they are not in any real kind of order. I am simply writing as the inspiration comes to me so the scenes are all over the fuckin place. also if this isn't as good as the prior parts, i apologize, i am eepy and my brain isnt working very well

@smidgen-of-hotboy and @ceaseless-watchers-special-girl psppsps come get your juice (@urjover and @one-joe-spoopy and @waters-and-the-wilde you guys can come read this too!!)

part 1 and 2 are on my account somewhere

the world straighted up and took notice the day peter nureyev walked into that bar.

well, maybe not the world.

but fate certainly did. and so did juno steel. and maybe that's close enough.

it was another day like they had all been in that eternal winter: windy, overcast, and grey, with a kind of chill that doesn't nip as much as sink its fangs into your bones and never let go. he'd come into the bar for the same reason everyone else had, juno assumed, trying to get out of the wind and cold and warm up a little. but there was no warmth to be found here. no true relief from the constant cold that had been the norm for years.

spring had disappeared. and the world had never really quite recovered from its loss.

juno wasn't discouraged, though. he knew there had to be a way to fix it, and then it came to him while he was stacking crates out behind the bar a few days ago. a simple song popped into his head, and when he sang it. oh, when he sang it. it was like spring with all of its warmth and goodness and chaos had come back into the world for just a moment. and then the moment was over, and juno left with the knowledge that maybe, just maybe, he could fix things. the song needed work, certainly, but even as it was, it could fix a lot.

not everything, but a lot. he knew deep down some things could simply never be fixed.

he was musing about how to continue the song while wiping down one of the bar tables that seemed to be perpetually sticky with old beer and fading finish when the door creaked open, announcing a new customer. the work never stopped here, did it? no matter, he'd get to them in a minute when he was finished with this table and then he'd-

oh.

he glanced up at the new customer and suddenly found himself rooted to the spot, heart pounding and face flushed.

he was.... he was.........

wow.

this new customer was quite possibly the most stunning man juno had ever seen. his hair was mussed from the wind outside and his face was flushed with cold. standing tall and lean in an oversized traveling coat, features sharp and clever as he spoke with juno's coworker at the bar. a streak of dirt rested on his cheek just below his wire rimmed glasses as he wriggled his warm leather gloves off.

he was clearly tired. everyone was. hard times do that to a people. but this man wore the exhaustion like a fine diamond bracelet, made for him in a way that complimented his countenance perfectly.

he was beautiful.

and that made him dangerous.

not that juno cared. he was quite fond of danger.

the man finally sat down at a table and sighed deeply, propping his head up on his hand as he waited for the drink he ordered. juno simply kept staring. he wasn't quite sure what to do next outside of stare. a thousand words were flooding his brain and all of them were stuck in his throat.

rita, his coworker, noticed. "you really wanna talk to him, dontcha boss?"

juno could only nod. dammit, why couldn't he say anything??

"then go DO it, boss!! whataya waitin' for?"

he opened his mouth to make some snappy remark, but nothing came out, so he just closed his mouth and nodded.

"oh, and mista steel?"

"yes, rita?"

"don't come on too strong, okay? I know you get a little excited about meetin' pretty people sometimes-"

"oh gods, rita, that was one time!!"

"well, it still cost lil old rita about a week's wages to replace the whiskey bottles you shattered from bein' so clumsy, so don't do it again!"

juno rolled his eyes and grabbed the stranger's drink to set down on his table. it was only a few steps to move, but somehow it felt like crossing mountains and rivers. juno's hands were shaking by the time he finally reached the man's side.

"ah, thank you, darling."

gods. even his voice was stunning. low and even and smooth as glass.

juno didn't even realize he was staring again until the man looked at him, slight concern etched onto his features. "are you alright? do you need something from me? I'm quite sure I paid at the bar but if you're looking for a tip-"

"come home with me." the words were out of juno's mouth before he could even think about them.

the man's eyebrows shot up and juno felt his face redden. he was quiet for a moment before responding. "you want me to go home with you?"

"yes."

"i don't even know who you are."

"i'm juno. i'm going to marry you."

there was another pause and internally, juno cringed. the one chance he gets to talk to someone attractive and he can't even act like a normal human being. of course it would be like this.

the man studied him for a moment before leaning back towards the bar to look at rita, who had been studying this interaction with all the curiosity of a child watching rabbits in the forest. "is he always like this?"

rita nodded vigorously. "absolutely, mista stranger-guy."

the man nodded thoughtfully before turning back to face juno. "i'm peter. peter nureyev."

#aaaaand that's all for part 3 kids!!#i might make a part 4 but we'll see if i get more inspo #love you all <3 #the penumbra podcast #tpp #hadestown

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moorishflower · 2 years

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see the thing about Dream is

the thing is

it's very tempting to look at Tom Sturridge and go ah yes my sad scrungly wet cat anthropomorphic personification, because he does have Those Eyes and That Hair, and then it is very tempting to look at some panels of Dream in the comics and go ah yes my depressed weird friend who lives in a void, except sometimes i feel that this is too humanizing, especially if you're talking about Dream pre-1300s

and i think in the comics in a lot of his pre-Hob Gadling interactions with mortals you can see that he is balls to the wall batshit insane

his track record with loving mortals is absolutely bonkers

>Nada, Queen of the First City, pursued Dream and then when she discovered who he was went "oh shit, humans loving the Endless is forbidden by my people, we definitely shouldn't" and Dream confronted by a mortal he couldn't have went grabby grabby hands, convinced her to fuck him anyways, and then condemned her to Hell afterwards because the sun nuked her city and Nada, grieving, said she didn't want to be Dream's Queen (on account of the sinning)

>Killala of the Glow, an alien lady precursor to the Green Lanterns who punches through to the Dreaming by accident and Dream falls in love instantly, he knows her for basically 3 months and invites her to a cosmic entities convention to show her off, does not tell her that all of these people are literal quasars and planets and shit. she freaks out understandably, seeks comfort in the arms of the sun of her world (encouraged by Desire), and Dream, seeing them embracing, just fuckin leaves her there "the sun'll get her home," he says, "they're going to the same place, i'm not crying YOU'RE crying"

>Alianora, who was sent by Desire to help Dream fuck up some old gods, was given her own private island and also one of the Dream-Stones (for show fans, the ruby is a Dream-Stone!). i sincerely believe the only reason that Dream lost interest in her is because she spent so long in the Dreaming that if she tried to wake up she would die, and Dream is absolutely fascinated by things that can change (prob because that's his tragic character flaw is he can never change himself quite enough)

he don't got a great track record with his non-mortal lovers either (Thessaly, An Witch, and Calliope, the Muse), but over and over again with mortals, brief and ephemeral and changing, Dream cannot regulate himself. he burns super hot, super bright, and then either gets sucked back into work, or the fact that he has 0 Chill puts his lover off entirely. he has no concept of compromise and he's unable to not throw himself wholeheartedly into love. having Dream love you must be like being loved by a hurricane or the core of the earth. can you imagine what that would be like? having the attention of something that huge and fathomless and ancient focused on you like a laser? it would be like being crushed under a mountain.

this is why i think Hob Gadling is such a fantastic foil to, and the Premier Ship Of, Dream. Hob Gadling also throws himself wholeheartedly and joyfully into every new thing, Hob is out there living his best life and telling stories and i think he mentions doing cocaine in like the 90s in one of the comics? but, point being, Hob doesn't ever let immortality go to his head. he is the most mortal mortal that ever mortaled, he just happens to have a concept of eternity that, no matter how infinitesimally, actually approaches what Dream is.

it's just that the dynamic you get now, with a mortal who understands the true concept of endlessness, is "Hob I have brought to you a brooch forged from the heart of a dying star, pearls harvested from oysters that have never seen the sun and never will, sapphires infused with the waters of Eden"

"oh that's gorgeous dear how thoughtful I'll put it on the shelf with the Polished Sphere of Crystallized Auroras and Hope"

and then Dream fucks off to do his job for like 8 years and Hob isn't too fussed because he spent like 6 centuries waiting for this weird wet cat of a man to fuckin introduce himself, he can wait a few years for them to meet up for dinner again

anyways i wrote all of these as a partial explanation as to why Dream is so fuckin weird and turbo in Husbands, and it's because he's a sad scrungly pathetic cat man AND he's also an enormous endless eldritch creature that has no concept of emotional regulation but also a terminal fascination with the changeability and fragility of mortals that translates into absolute fucking insane love

#the sandman #the sandman meta #dreamling #dream of the endless/hob gadling #dream/hob #the sandman (2022)

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snobgoblin · 9 months

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Seeing as you’ve been diagnosed the Ace Wiki how does someone unfamiliar with the powerpuff girls write Ace? (Not just as a boyfriend but just in general)

ok Ace is a bit of a tricky character to write (I've made a guide like this before but it was vague and also I can't find it) but it's not so hard once you keep these core traits of his in mind-

Ace is stupid. he just is. it's not bad, he's just kind of dumb. but he THINKS he's smart. and his gang does too (besides Snake sometimes) he's got a big ego and nothing much to show for it. he often doesn't think things through and acts very impulsively, and he gets words and phrases wrong a lot and he doesn't know about a lot of things, but pretends he does (like Shakespeare, calls him the guy that's always shaking the spear)

he likes to get under people's skin and has no accountability. he likes to bully people or annoy them on purpose and then immediately backtrack and say he can explain or someone else told him to do it or something

he is self serving. he puts himself and, to a lesser extent his gang, first (I say to a lesser extent because for the most part he keeps them safe but its not unheard of for him to throw them under the bus)

he's funny! intentionally sometimes, making dumb jokes or puns, and unintentionally other times ("gimme the money or your fish will be swimming with the... fishes" <- not meant as a joke he just didn't think it through)

he's chill for the most part but he does have anger issues

he puts on this air of confidence that's always quick to come down as soon as something goes wrong- he's really really nervous under all that

he's an outcast. nobody likes him, not even other villains, and he's incredibly aware of this

he's a manipulator! he knows how to get on somebody's good side if it means he'll get something out of it

above all else, he's charismatic, at least he thinks he is. you really just have to watch clips of him to understand what I mean by this it's hard to put into words

......yeah I hope that was enough. I feel like I really went ham listing off his bad traits but there is a lot of good in him too- he's been known to comfort people and actually be sad when they die in later seasons, so there is a bit of development there and even in Gorillaz! he says "please can you get out of my way" that would be unheard of in ppg, he only really said please when he was begging for his life, not when he was telling someone to get out of his way. so I will give them that there is a little development there but at the same time he's still the same old scamp (carries around knives, even popped somebody's basketball though he felt bad? about it (though its very possible this is another case of "he does a bad thing and then loses his confidence as a defense mechanism"), carries around brass knuckles implying he gets in a lot of fights, steals toasters, implied to have eaten a cigarette, definitely drank alcohol when he was specifically told by his parent company not to) he's not suddenly some average Joe just because he said please one time you know?

and remember that I left out some traits because they're incredibly scene-specific and not necessarily true for the entire show, like that he melts when he gets excited in Aspirarions and hes incredibly loyal to Sedusa because she promised them a better life, things like that. his character works differently for the purpose of some episodes but he largely remains the same and has consistent traits

I don't think I explained right at all so I definitely encourage you to just kinda like? watch clips of him if you wanna write him. I don't articulate things well and you'll be better off getting it from the source (though I do love talking about him though so thank you >:]) just try to remember he's a scamp first and foremost and don't try to scrub that away. his strong personality is something to be embraced not worked around

#the wording on this one confused me a little so i hope i answered this in the right way #ace copular #ace gorillaz #ace ppg #asks #daftydill #long post

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Very glad to hear you enjoyed your time with Engage! I heard a spicy take that I wanted your thoughts on - I've heard people expressing that Alear is almost like a more tolerable version of Corrin, with some even calling them straight up better written.

Yeah, again, the narrative isn't the best, but I'm fundamentally a gameplay-over-narrative kind of guy when perusing non-VN video games, and the technical love that Engage is imbued with needs to be acknowledged.

Well, I don't know if that's actually all that spicy of a take because, wonderful design aside, Corrin isn't all that well-written, honestly. Fates was... Very weird. Somehow it had (accounting for Conquest here) some of the actual no-holds-barred best gameplay Fire Emblem has ever seen, and I say that as someone that has played all the games and has grown up with the franchise, and yet, and fucking yet, at the same time, had the actual worst writing in the game and the most weird fucking uncomfortable mechanics and subsystems in the franchise, easily... The Fucking Babyrealms!!! What was that about!!! And dragging units from your roster into your room to pet them??? What in the actual hell is going on here dog hgwgh4ug4 in some other universe at least some thirty degrees to the left of ours, Fire Emblem evolved into a franchise where inviting units from the roster into the main character's room to vore them became a groundbreaking, fan favorite mechanic.

Corrin... Look, again, I love F!Corrin's design for absolutely no Christian or pure reason, and the memes can be fun, but Corrin is in no way written in any way I want to remember. Alear honestly grew on me in the way a dumb dog grows on you: I still don't mesh with Mika Pikazo's work, it's just a design philosophy I don't particularly like for the most part, so in terms of appearance, I don't really care for Alear, but they are not hideous looking either, just a stern but polite "yes, I don't like this" and I move on, and when it comes to writing, they are nothing special, and yet, in a way, I believe they embody what I said before: They don't push the ceiling in any way, but they bring up the lower floor.

They are not annoying at all! Alear is not frustrating. Alear is not annoying. They are not unlikable. They even have scenes where I really like them, to be honest! This is one of the few protagonists that outright says "Prepare to die" to an enemy that has wronged them severely! If you ask me, do you like Alear, Drimo? To be honest, I do, they are not a favorite, but I do like the fact that they are no-nonsense when it comes to hostility: You wrong Alear or those they love? They Will Kill You And They Will Voice Their Intent To Do So. Alear tells Nelucce as much: "Prepare to die." And it doesn't detract from their heroism! Their status as a physical deity is also really cool, because I love that, and the fact that they are chill as hell about it and willing to go panorama-viewing with Rosado or straight up partying with Pandreo? Pretty cool!

So, in every way, yeah, I agree, Alear is a better written Corrin, which is... Not a big feat! Corrin is just not well written, man, what can I say! But comparisons aside, it's true, Alear may be basic, but they are Trails Of Cold Steel-style 'basic', like my beautiful baby boy Rean: They may not be the most well crafted of characters, but 1) they do a good job at what they gotta do and 2) are a natural result of their surrounding cast, among which they fit their role perfectly.

#Fire Emblem #alear

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I'm curious about 4. and 16. for the choose violence ask!

Sure thing! Since you didn’t specify a fandom, let’s go through them all. ^-^

Under the cut for both length and spoilers for some of the fandoms. lol Proceed with caution as always.

4. what was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person?

Bungou Stray Dogs fandom: Well, I’ve blocked about seven different people in this fandom, actually; for the first five, it was because they were a group of five haters who, by their own self-admission, instead of blocking or avoiding me for the sake of their own mental health when they found my content uncomfortable, continued to keep me unblocked and even actively seek out my page just so they could get angry/upset and then send me harassment in asks and/or vague post about how much they hated me.

Personally, I didn’t care all that much about the vagueposting; as I’ve said in the past, I actually kind of find hate motivational and fueling for my creative fire from time to time, but it was clear that it was getting very unhealthy for them, and since they hadn’t the sense to do it themselves, I simply blocked them from my own end so that they couldn’t see me anymore.

For one of the other two, they just had the worst fucking takes in the world, and their content kept somehow getting recommended to me as being “based on my likes” despite that I had never liked anything similar (or even anything from them), and since I found it to be headache-inducingly bad — and not even in an entertaining way, either — I simply blocked them.

And for the last one, they actually used to be a friend of mine, but they unfortunately seemed to have fallen down into a toxic rabbit hole since our last interaction years ago, and eventually came back and started accusing a close friend (and me, purely by association) of terrible shit for absolutely no reason, so I blocked them. I really do wish them well and that they come back around to their senses someday and realize the error of throwing accusations around simply because you’re still bitter over a breakup, but seeing as that’s unlikely, I’ll spare myself the trouble and just keep them blocked.

Legend of Zelda fandom: I said in a previous post where I listed out answers to all of the questions for this fandom that I’ve never blocked anyone in the Zelda fandom for fandom-related reasons, and that’s true, but I did block someone in this fandom once, for other reasons.

It’s a little bit of a long story, but to put it simply, there was this guy who had been stalking my now ex-girlfriend (mtf, tho she hadn’t come out as trans yet at the time while we were in the relationship) and had created a sock puppet account on a large Zelda forum we were on in order to find out information about me.

The story actually runs a lot deeper than just being a cut-and-dried “oh, he was a creepy stalker who had bad intent” situation — there’s a lot of nuance involved that would take quite a while to dig into and explain — but as I don’t really feel like getting into the whole tale right now, I’ll just leave it at that even tho the guy came clean to me out of guilt shortly after creating the account, it was my ex’s firm insistence that I block him, and so I did as she asked with it. And that was that.

Helluva Boss/Hazbin Hotel fandom: I’ve never blocked anyone from this fandom, but God has it been tempting sometimes… Thankfully, I don’t follow any blogs that make me feel like that, but if someone’s annoying ass bad takes ever start continually appearing on my recommended like they did with BSD, believe you me I’mma start blocking faster than the speed of light.

Other fandoms: I’ve never blocked anyone in any other fandoms, actually, and I can’t say I really have any active reason to at the moment, as most of them seem chill enough to not be an active and rampant threat unless you go looking for them.

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

Bungou Stray Dogs fandom: … sighs …We’re really doing this, aren’t we? Okay. Listen, I want to start this out by saying that I am a huge advocate for AUs and personal canons and ships and whatever else out there in the fictional world that you can imagine — go ham, have fun with it.

That being said, I will never in my life understand the appeal a very specific portion of the fandom finds in the concept that Arthur Rimbaud/Randou is as equally cold, unhinged, and detached as Paul Verlaine — often to the point where people genuinely allow that AU headcanon to skew their view of canon and convince themselves that it is such, when nothing could be farther from the truth (and the truth is actually far more unique, deep, and interesting).

Although the block button has largely solved this issue for me these days, my eyes have unfortunately already seen far too many posts of people talking about how a large majority of the fandom “gets Arthur wrong” because they don’t make him and Paul into this unhinged, cold-hearted assassin duo, and frankly, it’s just bullshit.

You can enjoy and/or ignore whatever the fuck you want in a series for your own personal canon and AUs, but don’t delude yourself and lie to others about official canon in the process because you’re pissy that the uppermost levels of official canon don’t represent certain characters the way you’ve imagined them in your head.

For one thing, if everyone around you is supposedly the issue, and even the uppermost levels of official canon themselves in their original language are supposedly the issue….then I hate to say it, but the only person or thing in need of a reality check is probably you.

Arthur was never an assassin; these people out there who are acting like “oh, Arthur being a spy means he must be cold-blooded and must have committed as many murders as Paul has” are insane; despite what certain stories in media will tell you, being a spy does not necessarily have to ever involve murder, and even if it did, Paul could have easily been the one doing the murdering. Is Arthur 100% innocent? Are his hands 100% clean of blood? No! But canonically, the only 1,000% confirmed act of physical harm he has ever committed was the attempted murder of Dazai and Chuuya, and even then he showed significant hesitation, and only committed to doing that so as to both save Paul and to avoid potentially harming significantly more people should assassins have been sent after him. Is it probable he may have killed people during the faked Arahabaki incident? Yes. Is it probable he may have either directly or indirectly killed at least a small number people while either working as a spy or as a mafioso? Yes. But is it confirmed? No. There is nothing at all that directly, explicitly confirms he himself has ever killed anyone at his own hands. It is likely that he has, but unless it is ever directly stated that he did, it is still technically not canon and thus 100% up for interpretation based on what you would like to believe about him. Until we know otherwise, he could have killed as few or as many people as you so desire.

However, what is not up for interpretation when it comes to official canon is that if these murders did occur, they were absolutely not done in cold blood. True canon — the original JP light novel(s), and, second to that in the canon hierarchy, the original JP Stage Plays — have gone far out of their way to express that Arthur is the farthest thing from a cold, emotionless killer. Despite how some would like to believe, Paul is not his “one exception”; Arthur cares about the lives of literally everyone and feels deep, intense remorse and hesitance over the idea of harm coming to literally everyone. If you think this man is “cold-hearted”, you have not read the actual canon — you have either watched an adaptation that took some massive liberties and not looked past that, or you have made up a story in your head based on what you would have preferred, and you refuse to accept the validity of anything that disagrees with it.

…Anyhow, yes…while people can absolutely make him such in AUs and personal canon if that’s what they enjoy, it makes me extremely annoyed when people conflate that with canon, and I will never be able to truly understand the appeal of it in general. The idea of two characters who are just “absolutely unhinged, cold blooded assassins who care only about each other” is, in my opinion, far less interesting than, and even downright insulting to, the deep characters that both he and Paul are, and the great narrative foil that the emotional, shy, sensitive, openly caring, and much more mercy-minded and life-valuing Arthur makes to the admittedly unhinged and cold-blooded (but still very much deeper than fandom treats him) Paul.

People can like what they like, but man, it is definitely not for me, and I feel like if that’s the dynamic you’re really looking for, there must be better characters out there to do it with.

Legend of Zelda fandom: See [here].

Doctor Who fandom: I’m sure there is something, but I honestly can’t think of it at this moment in time. Most of what’s enjoyed even vaguely popularly in this massive fandom is…pretty alright by me, honestly? Or at least understandable.

Ace Attorney fandom: Honestly, I have more to say on what this fandom doesn’t like than what it does, so we’ll skip over this one for now. If I think of something later, I’ll amend it.

Helluva Boss/Hazbin Hotel fandom: The idea that Stolas is a bad father and an equally bad person to Stella. Also that everyone in Hell must be bad in some way.

Final Fantasy fandom: …Final Fantasy VIII. Don’t get me wrong — I don’t think it’s a bad game by any means, or even a bad Final Fantasy game; I just don’t think that comparatively to some of the actually (in my opinion) amazing games that get way more shit from than they deserve, it’s really that much to write home about.

I think that it had a ton of great ideas going for it, but that a lot of those ideas got lost along the way in the quest to explore other ones — which ultimately led to the vast majority of them just barely getting touched on at all. And, of course, there’s a big major plothole where the main character gets absolutely fatally impaled by the main antagonist and then it just…basically doesn’t even get addressed at all? Also, all of the main characters sharing the exact same backstory and then just having conveniently forgotten about it was…deeply underwhelming and felt a bit lazy, to be honest.

And…yeah… I liked some of the characters a ton, and I enjoyed some of the plot points, but I definitely can’t understand why it’s hailed as being so great compared to certain others that are just…objectively actually more solid and well-written.

Pikmin fandom: I wanted to try to be as absolutely thorough as possible in listing out any of the series that I love and have actively participated in the fandom of (whether that be going out of my way to interact with fan content for it or making my own, or both), but honestly, I haven’t been around the fandom of this one quite enough to know if there are any popular takes or favorites out there that I’d strongly disagree with, or of which I’d particularly question the appeal.

Xenoblade Chronicles fandom: I know this is probably going to piss off a lot of people out there, but honestly, both Xenoblade 2 and Xenoblade 3 — but for opposite reasons, and with the DLC games notwithstanding for both of them, as I have few complaints with either of those.

I understand why people love Xenoblade 2 as a story on the whole — even if I think the first five chapters are largely very weak with only a few highlights and far too much filler and have terrible pacing — because the last five chapters just make every bit of the initial drudgery worthwhile, but I what I cannot and will never understand are the people who think the gameplay is somehow anywhere even close to good — much less god tier. Genuinely, there are not a lot of games I would call worse and less user friendly gameplay-wise in the modern era than Xenoblade 2; as a matter of fact, there is so much wrong with it that I can’t even begin to unpack all of the problems here, except to try to just lump it all together and put it very simply by saying that a fully paid-for, full price game absolutely should not entirely rely upon you having good luck in an absurdly rigged, file-dependant rng pity-system-granting uncheatable gacha system in order to progress the main plot, and even still make you sit through hours waiting for the skills to unlock on those characters that you have to be lucky enough to get good RNG assigned to your file to even get a halfway decent chance to get through further, still absurdly rigged RNG.

Normally, I would say how good a game is or isn’t is just a matter of personal opinion and what one is looking for, but legitimately, if you see no problem with this game’s gameplay and view it as something that should be defended, then you either got the best possible RNG in the world and played the game at such an absurdly slow pace that you somehow never even encountered one instance where skill unlocking slowed you down from progressing the plot, or you are just the biggest simp in the world for this game and you’re lying because you just can’t stand the idea of not defending every single aspect of this game even if you know for a fact that part of it is awful and inexcusable.

And as Xenoblade 3, that game has the opposite problem; whereas Xenoblade 2 had an overall amazing story the farther you progress with terrible gameplay, Xenoblade 3 has overall amazing gameplay with a (for the franchise) absolutely weak story that just completely drops the ball at the end. Thankfully, just as Torna: The Golden Country largely improved on the gameplay of Xenoblade 2 with its release, Future Redeemed largely improves and even fixes and, dare I say redeems, the story of Xenoblade 3 (even if it does make it feel a bit redundant in some aspects)…but…that doesn’t excuse the game being weak initially to begin with compared to its predecessors, and I truly can’t understand what all the hype for it was before the DLC released, as at the time I only found it a massive disappointment in all of the worst ways considering its series’ strong reputation for cut-above storytelling and incredible foreshadowing.

Also…in regards to Xenoblade 1…I don’t understand the appeal of Shulk and Melia as a mutually required ship — I’m sorry; if you love it, that’s 100% valid and I hope you have fun with it, but like…I just see zero romantic chemistry between them on Shulk’s side; I honestly see more chemistry potential between Fiora and Melia and that isn’t even canon on any level. I really think Melia is just best narratively having a one-sided interest in Shulk; anything else has always just felt forced to me.

Pokémon fandom: This is one of those fandoms where I have more of a problem with the dislikes than the likes, but I guess as with most games, I don’t really see the appeal of a truly open world; Scarlet and Violet pulled it off alright, but it wasn’t entirely open, and even then it had the typical issues of limiting storytelling ability through lack of any linearity at many points. I know many people are going to say “oh, but Pokémon has very rarely had a super deep story; it’s pretty much only a select few of the middle and more recent gens that did this”, and that may be true, but…why should we have to go back from that?

People use this excuse with many older games that have had a long series — that because their first iterations “weren’t that deep”, it’s somehow the natural and most acceptable course of action to go back to those roots, even if they’ve come very far from that over the years, and to me it’s just absurd. It’s like saying that we should go back to using outhouses because that is the purest form of using a bathroom and it was the way bathrooms were always meant and intended to be used; as we get more advanced in technology, we are naturally going to progress and do more that once could only have been a dream to us before. All old games weren’t necessarily lacking story because they “didn’t want to do anything more”, but because they didn’t have those capabilities. 2D games weren’t all 2D because no one wanted them to ever be seen in 3D, but because 3D wasn’t possible yet.

I will never understand the desire to backtrack on progress made simply because “that’s how it was back in the day”.

…Also, as far as the anime, I get that the idea of Ash growing up would’ve been cool and all, but like…I seriously don’t understand why it’s that big of a deal to people. Ash staying in a form that’s iconic is hardly surprising or beyond understanding, and really I would’ve cared more to see Ash grow emotionally from all of his journeys than physically, but eh. To each their own.

Super Mario fandom: The OoC situation that happened with Princess Peach at the end of Super Mario Odyssey. Straight up, I will say that I’ve never played the game, but from what I have heard (and please do correct me if I’m wrong!!!), Peach straight up rejects both Bowser and Mario from marrying her at the end, and like…for some reason everyone thinks this is some cool girl power moment instead of realizing that this, while maybe a cool message had it been any other character with any other two pushy suitors, is…actually deeply out of character for her.

It wouldn’t be so incredibly OoC if it weren’t for the fact that in all previous Mario games, Peach has been explicitly in love with Mario and very, very happy to be with him and be very romantic with him every time he’s rescued her, and he’s always been a gentleman to her, too, so like…the whole thing just sounds really off to me and I’m not sure why not many people are bothered by this like I am.

Maybe I just don’t have the context everyone else does. I don’t know.

Persona fandom: …Persona 5; don’t get me wrong, I actually enjoyed the story of this one quite a bit and I think it had great foreshadowing, but like…at least comparatively to 3, I don’t know why it seems to be “the baby” of the fandom. As a story, 3 is just so much more compelling and emotionally high stakes, with a lot more actual deaths and consequences and, frankly, more interesting twists and characters on the whole, and that’s all I’m going to say on that…for now.

Persona 5 was…pretty alright; Persona 3 was stellar.

Makai Ouji fandom: Pretty much the same situation as Pikmin here; while I’ve technically been in this fandom for at least 7 or 8 years, I…don’t really have enough active interaction with the greater fandom to know if there are any popular opinions or ideas I’d disagree with.

There are some fandoms that I just…don’t really have the drive to engage with that much outside of the source material, and this is one of them. Sometimes you feel called to engage with and observe the larger fan base and its creations, and sometimes you just don’t; this is one of the latter times.

Person of Interest fandom: I’m just gonna say it — Shoot. I know it’s canon, but honestly, that pairing felt so fucking forced — and I don’t mean forced as in “oh, they need to stop shoving gay relationships down our throats” like you’d expect to hear from some bigot or something, I mean forced as in they weren’t compatible, there was no chemistry, and literally no strong lead-up to the relationship whatsoever. One day the Machine was just like “oh I predict a possible timeline where you two get together” and then suddenly that one hypothetical possible scenario was enough for them to actually get together after an eternity of hating each other and torturing each other and literally trying to kill each other.

I think the pairing sucks and it felt terribly shoehorned at the very end of the show, when there were a million better options out there for the both of them, and then within like two episodes they killed one of them off anyway.

If anyone reading this likes it, then good on you, but personally I will just never understand the appeal of it.

Code Vein fandom: Honestly, the same situation as Pikmin and Makai Ouji here. I love the game dearly and I definitely consider myself a member of the fandom, but also I’ve never truly interacted with the rest of the fandom enough longterm to pick up on any grievances I might normally have about it; what little I have seen of the fandom, they’re very nice and chill people who really enjoy character creation mode, and pretty much that’s all I know of them.

Five Nights at Freddy’s fandom: Damn, I guess this is how I come out about being this one after years of silence, huh…

Oh well… I’m sure there are actually many things I could be talking about here if I put my mind to it lol, but I’ll probably just go with the fact that wayyyy too many people are comfortable and content with just writing off Gregory as evil or cold-blooded, when Ruin made it pretty damn clear that the Mimic was the one who made Cassie take the plunge in the elevator, and not him.

This fandom has a lot of wildly incorrect theories, though.

…Also, I don’t really understand the appeal of wanting to fuck the animatronics, but meh, maybe they’re just not humanoid enough for me. *shrugs* I like my anthropomorphic animals to have a massive dash of humanoidness to them and these guys just…don’t. Also they’re inherently super spooky and I’m not usually about that life.

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE fandom: Dude, we’re seriously a fandom of like literally 5 people across the entire internet; we ain’t big enough of a fandom to have problems amongst ourselves about popular takes. A take from one single person could be considered popular here. …But really, we all seem pretty cool from what I’ve seen.

Fringe fandom: I don’t usually actively engage in this one’s large-scale fandom, either, but when I have…I can’t say I’ve ever seen a take I disagreed with, really; at least not one that’s stood out to me, so…yeah. It’s all good, I guess.

Nier Replicant/Automata fandom: Honestly, we have the same situation here as Pikmin, Makai Ouji, Code Vein, and Fringe. I have no idea about the favoritism or the takes because I don’t really hang out in this fandom in my spare time all that much.

I’m sure there are things I’d take issue with if I searched enough, but what little I’ve seen of it is fine.

Other fandoms: Since I’m sure I’m forgetting quite a few and/or don’t consider myself a big/long/active enough fan to list them here, I’ll just lump all the rest into this category and say, obviously if I have had any interactions that I’ve learned fandom takes or favorites I’ve disagreed with from, they didn’t make a big enough impression to end up on this list, so all things considered, they must not be super bad to me — probably.

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Aaaand that’s all of them! Thanks for the ask and happy reading!

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eruverse · 1 year

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Wfsn headcanon (kinks, preferred sexual dynamics) for Mongolia, developed with @justknocking in our discord chat (can’t do this without you homeboy o 🌞). This isn’t actually explicit (or even mature tbh), but be cautious just in case.

*reposted and edited because the last post got eaten

*sorry no readmore, it’s what ate my post

Mongolia is a 70% top and an all-time dom, and the kinks he’s personally into will take into account this preference of his. However, for the most part he doesn’t look like he would be an exclusive dom since these days he acts so casual and chill, to the point that people might think he would be okay with absolutely everything. In fact though, like everyone else he has things he wouldn’t ever touch; he is Very Big on exerting control upon himself and it’s by far the most important thing to him, so he doesn’t like any kind of kink that would put constrains on himself like sensory deprivation, choking, or tying on vital places/full immobilization. I liken him to the Mongolian horse and they’re semi-wild wild on the steppe even though they are loyal to their owners; these horses you don’t even put on stables, and they’re only caught when you have a specific use for them right at the moment like milking or riding. Choking, sensory deprivation and tying also look subby so he wouldn’t exactly be into them on that ground alone ahah. Anyway, with Mongolia exceptions may apply but it would need to be with someone he can fully trust and is comfortable around. Though again, in general he doesn’t. He exerts his boundaries firmly and would also put his partners’ into priority.

Regardless, it’s true that Mongolia is chill and he’s indeed okay with a lot of things! He’s experienced, experimented on and explored about everything so most things known and unknown are game as long as they’re fun for him and his partners. On top of being chill, he’s also really generous; would do everything his partners requested from him as long as it’s respectful of his boundaries, from vanilla to super kinky. He’s also not easily squicked out, because for him bedroom activities are messy and if they’re not messy then you’re not actually having fun, haha. All in all, he would endeavor to give his partners the best possible kind of experiences. This is also a challenge for him, and he never backs down from any of it!!

However, what Mongolia loves most is to exert an even greater control and influence over his partners, and that they would WANT and EXPECT that from him. Those are the times when he could unleash his ultimate (real) dom self compared to the casual and almost detached way he usually operates under (in a way, his discounted dom self). How would this translate into action? Basically, he would still just be his chill and generous dom self, but with more active directing and controlling from his part. Of course, it’s not only that he could be more controlling but that this attitude is actively desired by his partners. He loves being wanted the way he actually is!!

He also loves taking multiple partners at once. Not exactly a remnant of his Empire days, but he simply has enough energy and scope of attention to handle more than one at the same time. He also loves it when they would put on a show for him; the way it is, he would lounge around to watch them get busy while directing them, telling them what he wants them to do that they would find fun in as well. Fun for everyone is a priority for him because high on his list of boner killer is when one party is simply there tolerating things and isn’t actually in the mood. He can sense real desire and lust from his partners, so he knows well when it’s not there. When any partner of his really isn’t feeling it, he would call it off. Would he not try to bring them to mood or warm them up? He would, but he knows the difference between someone who’s taking a bit of time versus someone who’s totally NOT feeling it.

Anyway, certainly it’s not just watching and directing his partners getting busy like a conductor of an orchestra; he’s a proactive person, and he has the most fun when he can go right into the heart of things to share the fun. It’s like this:

He lets them know he enjoys the show ❤️

and the moment they call for him he DIVES into action.

daddy is here, brats.

Insert some daddy play played jokingly except sometimes his partners do slip and call him daddy. Mongolia isn’t inherently into it on his own, but he would be lying if he says it doesn’t do Anything to him at all. Hell yeah, he loves beng acknowledged as someone who takes charge in all generous, guiding, and caring ways like a daddy. He also likes the almost reverent and admiring tone of the word, yes.

Speaking about it, he’s not actually into bratty subs even though he might (jokingly) call his partners brats, ahah, but this isn’t his actual squick so he’s okay with roleplays involving bratty roles. If you want some good spanking he’s the man for you.

He also Loves it when his partners beg from him. Once, he was getting on with Turkey and somehow it just slipped from him. Turkey!! Mongolia nearly went off on that alone:

MonTur with Turkey dropping an accidental “please” and Mongolia is like BEG ME MORE

Turkey: HELL NO

(So Turkey is also a dominant person but I hc that he’s sub curious even though he doesn’t want to admit it ❤️ I WILL EXPAND ON THIS SOMEDAY)

Anyway, one might think Mongolia is all this because he used to be one of the largest Empires on earth, like he has some kind of post power syndrome from it? But actually nope, he just has always been like this. Mongolia has always been this kind of dom ever since he was just a lesser power on Mongolian steppe who was constantly bullied by the Türks and other barbarians, because your bedroom tastes and life are typically separate from your out-of-bedroom life obviously. Similarly, just because he fell from grace doesn’t mean he would became more of a sub today as what some nations might think. If anything, he just became a calmer and more mature dom as he got older. He has newfound appreciations for lots of things today, but his principal tastes have never deviated much from their basic core. For all the changes in Mongolia’s external life, he’s always been internally stable for the most part. He’s just this kind of person.

So he’s a 70% top. On what occasions he might bottom? Firstly, it has to be with someone he really trusts and is comfortable with. Someone who doesn’t equate being a bottom with being a sub because ew. Someone who won’t make a big annoying deal out of it, for example someone who would make a joke about ‘subjugating the Empire’ (these people will get the spanking of their life from Mongolia). Someone he has a soft spot for and is on neutral grounds with him. Once he bottomed for this exact type of person, who was drunk out of his mind compared to him who was still quite sober. He figured the dude would hate being sore and hungover at the same time come morning. It was a nice experience. He’s a considerate man alright.

Anyway, he’s a 70% top. On what occasions he might bottom? Firstly, it has to be for someone he really trusts and likes. He wouldn’t do it for someone who equates being a bottom with a sub, because ew. Someone who wouldn’t make a big annoying deal out of it (insert some ‘subjugating Empire’ joke maybe; these people would get the spanking of their life from Mongolia). Someone he has a soft spot for, who’s on neutral grounds with him. Once he bottomed for this exact kind of person, who was drunk out of his mind compared to him who was still quite sober, because he figured the dude would hate being sore and hungover at the same time come morning. It was a nice experience. He’s a considerate man alright.

#hetalia #aph mongolia #hws mongolia #aph turkey #hws turkey #turkey mention lol #my headcanon #plus a mysterious person here who is he????

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just some thoughts under the cut.

this is a mixed bag of a post.

it's true that the idea of a husband going to work and the wife just staying home is definitely a very very modern idea.

but the rest of the first paragraph is a bit questionable. the system before "the factory ate up humanity"? not sure what's meant by this. before the industrial revolution? before capitalism? what is the system that preceded these? you mean agrarian feudalism? where most people (like 90%, depending on the region) were farmers?

yeah most men, throughout history, did NOT "have his own business or enterprise". as i said, most men would have been peasant farmers. maybe a tiny percentage were lucky enough to be yeomen/freeholders. but yeah, men and women, for most of this period, would have both been doing lots of work around the farm. in urban areas, maybe the women would work as laundry workers, chamber maids, prostitutes, weavers, brewers, midwives, etc.

yeah if a woman was lucky enough to be married to a man who did operate his own enterprise she most definitely would have helped him with it but this wasn't a common situation. it'd be the premodern equivalent of being upper class.

in fact, this is one of the things that makes america so special because it actually broke this mold. from america's founding onward we have had a high rate of independent (family run) businesses, yeomen farmers, homesteaders, land ownership, etc. so yeah what she's describing here only would have really been relatively common in america (post-industrial revolution).

also, i don't know how true it is that people has less debt. debt has been an issue since time immemorial. but i also don't believe less debt necessarily means wealthier? in fact, in reality it seems like the opposite. many of the richest people in the world have lots of debt. most of the richest countries also have lots of debt. debt almost seems like a prerequisite for debt.

had more freedom? in what sense?

their work was meaningful? according to what metric? and compared to what? i live in a town that has a pretty strong manufacturing base and i know the factory works are very proud of and find a lot of meaning in their work.

they had more time with each other? perhaps.

"The "trads" lament that women must go to work instead of being with their families. But they have no problem with men suffering this fate. The reality, the true traditional reality, is that this "office work" is for neither man nor woman. It is an inhuman modern invention for organizing work and it serves mainly those who want to make money from interest."

i mean, yeah, obvious i support people in general, both men and women, getting more time to spend with their families. but like in "traditional" societies everyone is still working. even the kids for the most part. it's not like everyone is just chilling together all day. and even in premodern times there were still office jobs and clerical/administrative roles and bureaucracy and all that. that stuff isn't any more inhuman or modern than pretty much any other job short of hunting and gathering. like, i've seen people say agriculture is inhuman/unnatural. i personally think that's silly but you do you.

again, i'm in favor of reducing the amount of work people do and increasing time spent with family and for recreation and stuff. but this just seems no better than the idiotic prattle of other trads.

speaking as someone who has spent my life doing backbreaking manual labor and whose body is already breaking down as i approach the age of 30 i'd love having an office job. in fact in premodern times having an "office job" would have been "making it". the way everyone wants their kids to become doctors and lawyers and computer programmers, premodern folks wanted their kids to become priests and scribes and accountants and so on. there's a reason why people are leaving their "traditional economy"-based countries and rushing to becoming office workers in modern economies.

not saying office jobs are extremely fulfilling or anything. but digging ditches or pulling weeds ain't that fulfilling either. most jobs in general are just shit. lmao. if they were fun times you wouldn't have to be paid to do them.

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cj-the-random-works-in-progress · 8 months

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Introduction Post

Hello, my name is CJ Nightingale, and this is my blog dedicated to my OCs, their story, and the development of said story!! I'm making this blog for the sake of having a designated place to talk about my OCs, and so that I have some people to hold me accountable for actually making story progress, since I've been struggling a bit to actually sit down and make progress on getting the comic going. I think having a blog about it will help me stay motivated. Hopefully. Lol

A little bit of story related information:

This story has over 36 very important characters, not including antagonists and "true" side characters. This story takes place over the course of about 7 or 8 years, in 5 acts, taking the characters from middle school into early college. It's based in what I believe would be described as an "urban fantasy" setting, which looks similar to our world but is quite different. The story is meant to be mostly lighthearted, but there will be very intense moments and emotional damage (and a little blood sometimes too, as there will be fantasy violence).

I will make proper posts describing things in more detail as I go, but for the time being here's a brief introduction to each of the main characters:

Skylar: Acts 1-5, sarcastic, takes no BS, a bit of an enigma, Lukas' twin

Jesse: Acts 1-5, scatterbrained, just out here doing his best

Rin: Acts 1-5, mischievous, enjoys trying new things

Zander: Acts 1-5, smart, unbothered, designated "responsible dude"

Tabitha: Acts 1-5, bubbly, arguably too much faith in humanity

Lukas: Acts 1-5, looks more chill than he actually is, emotionally intelligent (most of the time), Skylar's twin

Lydia: Acts 1-5, too smart for her own good, very good with power tools

Marcus: Acts 1-5, quiet, listens a lot and knows more than he should, arguably drinks too much caffeine

Jules: Acts 2-5, highly approachable and talkative, likes poofy dresses

Dillon: Acts 2-5, skeptical of people, likes roller derby, hates group projects

Takuma: Acts 2-5, Ambitious, sarcastic, has doodled on every piece of clothing they own

Mariah Mae: (Kind of a side character) Acts 2-5, wildly peppy, a bit of a nerd, highly authentic person

Rea: Acts 2-5, perpetually has her head in the clouds, bewildered by humans

Dani: Acts 2-5, highly intuitive, knows all the things, likes music and their service dog

Booker: Acts 2-5, tends to accidentally run his mouth, likes basketball, bass guitar, and his friends

Ollie: Acts (1) 3-5, a little bit reactive, closed off, terrifyingly good at sleight of hand and at lying (do not play poker with him)

Meklit: Acts (1) 3-5, levelheaded, blunt, likes people and dislikes shoes

Gavin: Acts 3-5, both lawyer smart and a bit naïve, cellist, keeps putting himself in situations by accident

Goldie: Acts (1) 3-5, a bit shy, puts a lot of pressure on himself but looks really really chill at all times, chronic doodler

Blake: Acts 1-5, very antsy, very tired, very full of nervous energy, makes some poor decisions

Zaahira: Acts 4-5, genuinely nice person, cares about people, prefers plants

Wulf: Acts (3???) 4-5, impulsive, giggly, just happy to be here, on the run from the government

Akachi: Acts (1) 3-5, extremely ambitious, aesthetically inclined, color coordinated at all times

Selene: Acts 4-5, high tolerance for shenanigans, very bubbly, just out here having a good time

Sakura: Acts 4-5, detail oriented, loves stickers, can borderline read minds/hj

Remi: Acts 4-5 (probably??? gonna have to figure that out a bit more), very smart, very sarcastic, very giggly, very happy to be here

Leah: Acts 1-5, insomniac, a bit pretentious, makes some poor decisions

Sylvi: Acts (1) 3-5, borderline annoying theatre kid in the best way possible, very good singer

Karim: (Arguably a side character) Acts 4-5 (maybe idk), arguably too much faith in humanity, enjoys puns

Jono: Acts (3) 5, loves music, loses his train of thought frequently, looks more nervous than he is

Ivanna: Acts (3) 5, tough, good at water polo, believes in doing the right thing

Sovanna: Acts (3) 4-5, super chill, loves stickers, loves travelling, detail oriented

Ash: Act 5, under a ton of pressure, a bit reactive, out here trying his best

Coral: Act 5, can be hard to talk to, big listener, takes herself very seriously

Sib: (arguably a side character) Act 5, way too much energy at all times, good sense of humor, Ari's twin

Ari: (arguably a side character) Act 5, tired, quiet, talks more to animals than he does people

So that's a brief introduction to the non-antagonist characters, I'll make actual introduction posts for them later, but also if y'all want to ask questions about any of them before I get to that lmk!! Also feel free to ask questions about anything related to this story, I'd be happy to talk about it, and it might motivate me to help get stuff done.

If you found this blog just randomly and not from my fanart page, you can find that at @cj-the-random-artist , and you can find my website which has more art of my OCs at the link down here:

If / when I start uploading this story as a comic, I'll update this post with that information as well. That's all for this long introductory post, and I hope y'all enjoy this long winded thing and enjoy this little blog here!! Have good day lovelies :D

#introduction post #yay here's my long winded post about this OC blog #please ask me about my ocs i need to make stuff for this story so i can get the comic going/hj #peer pressure me y'all lmao (pls don't actually peer pressure me i just need encouragement)

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"Uptown Girl" | Eddie Munson x Chrissy Cunningham | Stranger Things

Eddie sits on top of a heavily graffitied picnic table smoking a cigarette, his combat boots planted on the seat below as one of his legs bounces up and down with nervous energy. He never could keep still, and it was a habit that constantly got him into trouble in class. That or the humming. There was constantly a tune playing in his head from one of the hundreds of songs that helped give his life some meaning and he’d often hum a few notes out loud without realizing it. This was usually accompanied by a little drum solo via the pencil in his hand.

Ya’ give the people a free show and they don’t even appreciate it, he muses to himself with a snort.

His thoughts drift back to English class that day and he feels his gut respond with an anxious flip. He still wasn’t sure what parallel universe he’d slipped into that led him here, sitting on this shitty picnic table, waiting for someone he hadn’t spoken to in years but still very much remembered. She wasn’t the forgettable type.

I mean, by all accounts, she should be. Forgettable. Her life was the polar fucking opposite of his and he was fairly confident her personality was, too. They most likely had diddly squat in common, and he’d assumed she was just another uptight, pretty popular chick that preyed on all of the lowly peasants beneath her. Peasants like him. That’s what pretty, popular chicks do, right? That former confidence was utterly rattled earlier that day when out of nowhere, she’d shyly asked if she could speak to him by his locker as everyone was spilling out of the classroom to the sound of the bell ringing.

When they were at his locker (or at least, he thinks it was his locker – he didn’t really ever use the thing) she’d smiled nervously up at him as the glittery blue makeup on her eyelids sparkled beneath the overhead fluorescent light. It felt like a punch to the chest when her silvery blue eyes, shadowed by something that looked an awful lot like desperation, then locked onto his as if she’d done so a thousand times.

“So...hi. Um, can you – will you read this when you have a minute alone? It’s totally okay if not. I just...I overheard that you might have something I kind of really need. I’ll check the meeting spot after school. Come if you want to,” she’d rambled breathlessly, her already light pink cheeks turning a few shades brighter. She’d then gently pressed a folded note into his hand and promptly scurried away without a reply, her strawberry blond ponytail whipping back and forth as she went.

He’d stood there with his mouth hanging open stupidly, not yet processing what had actually taken place, before coming to and quickly unfolding the note right then and there. With a furrowed brow, he’d read the short message scrawled in neat, feminine handwriting.

I need help. Something that can make a person not think for a while.

And just like that, Chrissy fucking Cunningham was back on his radar again.

“Chill out, man,” he mutters to himself in annoyance at the way his stupid heart responds to every stupid thought he has about her. It's all stupid.

She was the Queen of Hawkins High, after all. Head cheerleader with a bright, sunny future, dating the basketball star of the town, Jason Carver. The King of all assholes and a royal thorn in his side. Jason didn’t seem to have two braincells to rub together but apparently that didn’t matter. The town gobbled up his shit like he was a god, conveniently looking the other way when his true self came out when provoked. Eddie just happened to be a connoisseur at provocation. It was too easy, really, to get Jason all worked up.

Bottom line, Jason Carver is a dick. What Chrissy sees in him, Eddie will never know. Not like he cares, anyway. As if.

Eddie had accepted long ago that if Hawkins High was a monarchy, then he was the court jester. Someone to laugh at. Someone to provide endless amusement. Someone to use and discard without feeling. Everybody loves to laugh, right? He’d learned how to own it over the years, making it his choice rather than the decided role others had so graciously thrust upon him. He turned to music and D&D, flipping a big ol’ middle finger to anyone who didn’t like him as he drowned them all out with rock n’ roll and good pot.

He scowls, stubbing out his cigarette on the table and flicking the butt into the woods. He wonders about what Chrissy thinks of him. He thinks about how annoying it is to be wondering about what Chrissy thinks of him. He thinks... he might be losing it.

Before he can dive into some good old-fashioned self-loathing, he hears the crunching of leaves and his head snaps up to see her walking towards him into the clearing, shoulders slightly hunched and arms wrapped around herself as if she’s cold. She looks... scared.

Her face softens a bit when their eyes meet and she offers him an awkward little wave. “You... you came,” she says quietly as she comes to sit down opposite him. Up close, he realizes how haunted she appears, her eyes swimming with unshed tears. Eddie feels his stomach lurch in concern.

“Hi. I did, indeed,” he replies, unable to concentrate on anything but the evident fear radiating off of her in waves. “Hey... you okay?”

She swallows hard as her eyes fall, and wraps her arms around herself again. “So... how does this work exactly?” She replies, dodging his previous question and getting straight to business. I mean why wouldn’t she? Not like she’d want to spend one unnecessary second of her time with Eddie the Freak. He clears his throat and pops open his tin lunch box, going into sales mode like he does with everyone else.

She’s just another customer, he reminds himself.

Before he can get a word in, a branch snaps from somewhere behind her in the forest. The girl practically jumps out of her skin as she whips around to see what it was, her chest heaving as if she expects to be attacked at any given moment.

Irritation flares inside of him at the realization that she’s probably just scared to be with him, close enough to the school that someone could possibly stumble upon them. Now, that wouldn’t be too good for Chrissy’s squeaky-clean reputation, would it? Can’t tarnish her crown for the likes of him.

He flips the lid closed and sighs, looking everywhere but at her. “Hey, uh, we don’t need to do this – gimme’ the word and I’ll just walk away.”

She spins back around in alarmed concern, shaking her head back and forth frantically.

“No, it’s not that – I don’t want you to go,” she says in a rush, her eyes falling again to stare at her fingers as she picks at her nails nervously.

“It’s just... do you ever feel like...” she pauses while Eddie’s eyes narrow in on her in surprised curiosity, “... you’re losing your mind?”

For a minute all he does is cock his head to the side and assess her, completely unprepared for such a relatable inquiry from the cheerleader living a life so laughably different from his. It doesn’t appear that she’s messing with him. Not with the way she meets his eyes with an expression of hopeful anticipation that yanks on one of his heart strings.

She just wants someone to understand her, he realizes as he recognizes the signs of someone who fears being mocked. Someone whose already been laughed at in a moment of vulnerability. Eddie is all too familiar with the feeling.

“Uh... y’know, just... on a daily basis,” he replies with a genuine, cheeky smile, and something flickers in her cobalt blue eyes as the corners of her pink lips turn slightly upwards.

“I mean, I feel like I’m losing my mind right now doing a drug deal with Chrissy Cunningham. The queen of Hawkins high,” he confesses with a slightly teasing tone. She gives him a look that translates into something like amused skepticism, a small smile now donning her features. He allows himself a moment to enjoy how pretty she looks when she smiles. To enjoy that he was the cause. It unnerves him, that it even matters to him at all.

“Y’know, this isn’t actually the first time we’ve... hung out,” he says, feeling a slight twinge of apprehension.

She cocks her head and looks at him curiously. “No?”

For some reason, it makes him feel... something, that she doesn’t remember him.

“You don’t remember?”

“I’m sorry... I – “

“That’s okay,” he replies nonchalantly, before abruptly clutching at his heart and dramatically launching himself backwards off of the seat and onto the forest floor, earning a yelp of shock from her.

“I wouldn’t remember me either, Chrissy,” he exclaims in a wounded tone, pushing himself up off of the ground and smacking the autumn leaves off of himself.

“Do I have somethin’ in my hair?”, he inquires facetiously as he turns back around just in time to see her face break out into a broad smile, her eyes glittering with wonderment and mirth as she actually laughs out loud at his antics.

The only thing he can think of as he takes in this utterly bizarre scenario between them is that Chrissy Cunningham smiles like the sun. When she laughs, it lights up her entire face, banishing the shadows and illuminating something so honest and real... and this time, Eddie is the one she’s shining on.

He finds he rather enjoys the warmth.

#eddissy #hellcheer #eddie munson #chrissy cunningham #eddie munson x chrissy cunningham #stranger things #eddie x chrissy #i needed to start writing something for them to cope with the mourning #i am genuinely gutted and angry and heartbroken #iykyk #i think i'm gonna continue this #but here's what i've got so far #my writing

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Ok so its not so much an ask as it is me wanting to gush about ‘From the Stars’ I don’t have a AO3 account yet so I couldn’t comment there, but I just wanted to say I have LOVED reading and rereading your fic. I literally found this fic on Friday night while resting in bed and I stayed up until 3am binge reading it. I also reread it again later on Saturday and Sunday and still reread it during lunch breaks at work. I’ll be honest, this story made me GIDDY which I don’t typically get from most fanfics out there. It literally boosted my mood this whole weekend. Your writing is great, the 2 first chapters were lovely in getting the story established and I loved the details that went into describing everything in terms of the scenery and even down to the scents. You have a great eye for timing and progression and just laying out a scene. I loved reading the reader and Ratchets early interactions. I think my favorite bit to read is during the icebreakers scene in Chapter 4. The way you closed that chapter with Ratchet’s answer was very sweet and it honestly felt like it was something that could have been written into the actual show. Also, you portrayed ALL of the canon characters perfectly. From KO’s brief scene to ALL of team Prime. I especially love how just incredibly accurate Ratchet is. Seriously, I can HEAR Jeffery Comb’s voice as I’m reading his dialogue and I love how you include his mannerisms and movements too. Your writing is incredible in depth, true to character, and thoughtful. The reader character is darling and their attitude and reactions are very realistic and similar to how I’d probably react in those situations. Its very easy to see why Ratchet starts to fall for them as time goes on. The canon chapters were great too, but I think your writing truly shines when you’re writing original parts. Also, there were SEVERAL parts that made me literally laugh out loud. A few of them I had to set my phone down because I had to get over my laughing fit. KO’s ‘Common sedan’ line and the ‘”Did you see that shit” scene from the shootout with Soundwave killed me. Ugh, sorry this is long and wordy, but I really wanted to reach out and let you know how much of a positive effect this story has had on me. I even made a very short playlist on Spotify for it with some songs I like to listen to during long runs or drives when I just need some positive chill music. Cant wait to see more if you do continue it! Keep up the amazing job! You’ve def got a fanbase from this and it’s been amazing to binge read over and over.

I am… flabbergasted. Thank you SO much for this, this is perfect and everything I wanted to hear. (And apologies for the lack of updates with the story - life has gone tits-up and I’m trying to get it sorted first)

I definitely want to work more on little interactions rather than adapting episodes, ‘cause those drive me to create more. Anyway I’m keeping this ask forever, bless

#basicautothot #asks #i’m gonna find time while working at my parents’ place to work on it i swear it

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10, 11, 12, 19, 29!

hi eulie you are so nice to me

10. Does your muse like to cook? Would they cook with another?

i think he does despite the whole not eating thing... he's not great at it (see: aforementioned not eating thing) but he works at the church of onoma and they have potlucks sometimes.

he likes cutting onions, which no one's complaining about because they don't make him cry. he's terrified of baking. burned some cookies horribly in the oven once. never again.

he would not share the kitchen because he's embarrassed about his cooking skills (they're okay, he hasn't given anyone food poisoning yet, sometimes he burns things. he's just slow), BUT if you were nice enough to him he would warm to the concept, though he'd probably still be on edge.

11. What pet names would your muse give to others?

like, using their actual name? "mortal"/"machine" can be pet name-adjacent, but that's also what he calls literally everyone. i could see him being the kind of guy who calls someone "love" or "beloved" but the first time it would slip out without him meaning to and he would be viscerally embarrassed about it.

12. What pet names would your muse want to be called?

god. he's an absolute sucker for pet names!! he's secretly a soppy soggy romantic who's been repressing that urge for the last million years!!!

thinking about this for more than five seconds made me shrink into the size and shape of a shrimp so i can't tell you exactly which ones he would like but if anyone called him one gabe would instantly be rendered into a pile of mush.

19. How does your muse behave when they are with their crush / love?

(thinking about v1 and gabe's threads in group) lol

he gets super flustered when they're not trying to kill each other, which is the most comfortable he is with v1. he doesn't have a great understanding of romantic things™ to do™, and also statistically speaking v1 has so far mostly spent its time trying to extract blood from his body. actually (thinking about boss fight p-rank times) that might not be true depending on the strats you do, but

anyway,

in isola he feels the need to be over-the-top and exaggerated in everything he does (even more so than usual), to... seem cool in front of it (afaik v1 does not think any of this is cool, unless bluffy's been very cagey about v1's internal monologue). he wants it to give him attention, and he wants to keep it close. it's hard to romance a war machine, okay.

29. What makes your muse smile?

i don't remember if i've mentioned to you that gabe is excruciatingly sad and stressed all of the time in isola (this setting really sucks for his canon point), but he literally does not have the language to recognize himself as a being who can be sad at all, on account of being an archangel who's supposed to be above mortal emotions. he doesn't realize it's possible for him to feel some other way.

it's a similar deal with smiling or joy-- where he doesn't actively seek out moments that make him happy because he doesn't believe he can access that emotion on his own. the stuff that makes him smile is more like.. moments that make him feel safe enough to uncoil slightly and chill out, when he doesn't feel like he's being watched and judged by literally everyone around him.

also because you asked, you can't see gabe smile because of the helmet but you can generally see it in his body language and voice, where he's more relaxed (he usually stands like a soldier, at attention) and his voice gets softer/quieter and dips a bit lower (gabe talks so loud eulie. the #2 tip for doing a gabe voice is to yell (the #1 tip is to sound like a stuckup jerk)).

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(looks at the length of this post) (+)-b <- gabe thumbs up

#ooc #eulie #i spend 100% of my time thinking about v1gabe. every day of my fucking life #(points to them beating each other up) they are deeply in love #answered asks

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Rodaine Codex 7

Rodaine Life 11

Tierce Codex 4

Tierce Party 1

alright alright now I’m done

7: How do they feel about religions that are not their own, like the Chantry or the Qun?

Rodaine isn't stoked about religion in general. He hates Andrastianism on account of fuck them for ruining his entire family. Even though he was pretty close friends with Sten, he's not keen on the Qun given that if he was born there he'd be leashed and have his mouth sewn shut. Also he's not keen on being told what to do anymore. I think he would be interested in the Avvar and the Chasind, not really with the idea of worshipping their gods in mind or anything just. Purely interested in how magic plays a role in their culture and by extension their religion since he loves studying magic and learning new things.

11. Do they prefer being stealthy or charging head-on?

Rodaine, in true Amell fashion (at least according to this particular world state), is very straightforward. He does have the ability to be sneaky. He perfected the art of looking innocent at the Circle. But by the time he was free of Kinloch, he was kind of sick of that approach. He prefers a good old head-on attack unless sneaking is completely necessary.

4. How do they feel about the Fade, spirits, and demons?

Tierce graduated the Malcolm Hawke 24/7 Magic Boot Camp so he is pretty confident in navigating the Fade. He doesn't like. Hang out there spiritually for funsies like Solas but he was not nervous during the night terrors quest and was. Royally pissed when people started turning on him (especially since they were like two out of three of his most holier-than-thou friends (Fenris and Aveline)). He's chill with spirits as a spirit healer but even though he's also a blood mage he's generally not a fan of demons since most of them just kinda suck. Also he doesn't actually like being a blood mage ajsdkdl. I feel like these things are so normalized for him though that he doesn't feel like he needs to have much of an opinion. They're a fact of life as a mage and he knows how to deal with them and anything else is situational.

1. Who does their preferred party consist of?

Uhhh I feel like most often it's Anders (so Tierce isn't the sole healer), Bela (bc he loves her), and Fenris (Tierce needs a warrior and is amused by Isabela's flirting with him and sometimes the fights between Fenris and Anders) but he switches it up a Lot for fun and profit. And also because he cares about his friends. (Don't tell anyone tho)

#rodaine amell #tierce hawke #ask games

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it’s hilarious how frobin stans try and debunk every other robin ship. I found your debunking of lawbin post just by searching them up. Like your shit and stay in your lane. I recognise you too. You’re the try-to-be sanctimonious frobin stan on Twitter that says they always try to “check” toxic frobin stans but your likes consist of posts that trash other robin ships. I like frobin but the stans are worse than lunami shippers and have ruined frobin for me. It gives insecurity. The whole basis is “oh oda said they’re the mom and dad of the crew”. Yeah he also said Zoro is the dad and Usopp is the mother. So what then? All of u need to stop being so annoying

EVERYONE, I'm going to answer this ask because I want to educate. I have no idea if you return anon but hey... maybe you do and maybe you actually learn something from my post. But be aware I wrote it while being pissed off.

And sorry to all the LawBin fans who find this because of anon who did not censor the ship name. I don't control the anon.

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Mate... if I would try to seriously debunk La:wB:in I would put much more effort into it.

And what post do you mean? This one, that is two years old and posted because I tried to understand where you fans saw La:wB:in?

Or this one, with ONE (1) note, that I only answered because someone asked me? And sorry that I got a bit prissy in this one but I was annoyed by the fact that La:wB:in fans had spoiled me - while I was searching for FRobin on twitter - with something that turned out to be one of the thinnest anti-FRobin arguments that I've ever laid eyes on.

And I've seen quite a lot of anti-FRobin arguments. Honestly I have better anti-FRobin arguments than two people sitting beside each ohter!

"Like your shit and stay in your lane"

Yet, you are in my inbox.

"You’re the try-to-be sanctimonious frobin stan on Twitter that says they always try to “check” toxic frobin stans but your likes consist of posts that trash other robin ships."

True and even though it might seem insincere this ist the thought process: I hope that when I like their stuff - instead of retweeting it - they follow my twitter and see the many times I tweet "Please don't engage in fandom wank! Leave other shippers alone! Ship and let ship!"

And it is also true that I do sometimes tell peole "hey I'm sorry you had bad experiences with FRobin fans" because personally I mostly had positive ones. In my opinion FRobin fans are smart, calm, silent and love FRobin because it's healthy and wholesome. The exception from the rule? Most of the times Trolls.

I've told "FRobin fans" to stop to annoy others and they told me that they actually don't ship anything. Often enough people just want to stir shit up, making people hate "the shippers" and so "the ship".

Just like you. You fell for it and you also give a very bad image towards all of the La:wB:in shippers. But I know you're just a single warrior on your path of righteousness. Good luck finding the chill to not do that anymore, mate. Maybe read my pinned post?

Before anyone wonders why I made those screenshots: I sent them to a Zo:Ro:bin shipper to show them that maybe not every attack made by FRobin fans are actually FRobin fans. And the same goes for EVERY SHIP! EVERY SINGLE SHIP!

We different shippers and organiziers sometimes work together to bring shippers home, where they belong.

"I like frobin but the stans are worse than lunami shippers and have ruined frobin for me."

Here is a little fun fact: You can still enjoy FRobin without engaging with the fans. Just go read fanfiction on Ao3 without an account. Go on pixiv and deviantart and look at fanarts. Don't read tweets or tumblr posts. Curate your online expirence. It is really simple.

Also I don't know what LuNami has to do with anything... but you will find assholes for every ship and every fandom (yes, FRobin too). I tend to be quite the asshole sometimes. Luckily most of the time I calm down before I go full rage.

"It gives insecurity."

FRobin fans have nothing to be insecure about. We constantly make fun of our ship because of how safe we feel in our little vessel. It's a strong ship because we have a shipwright. ;)

"The whole basis is “oh oda said they’re the mom and dad of the crew”. Yeah he also said Zoro is the dad and Usopp is the mother. So what then? All of u need to stop being so annoying"

..... oh god I'm so tired. Please if you want to debunk FRobin just do your homework. If you want to know why people ship FRobin, here is some reading material. Go through it and then please give me something else to work with.

Why people ship FRobin:

Too much to read for you?

Take this:

"Franky and Robin are the mom and dad", mate that is not even accurate anymore. It's Jinbe now. Franky is a perverted Grandma.

God, imagine shipping FRobin only because of that... that is even a worse argument then "People only ship FRobin because of one non-canon scene in the anime". No dude...

The tag is "why I ship it" on this very blog. Educate yourself

#FRobin #not frobin #come on give me something to work with #I'm tired and bored #and I hope my RL friends don't learn that I answered this ask #because they said I should just delete it #but in case someone else finds this post #just do your homework before you come running into anyones inbox #and be aware of trolls #they are everywhere #they live for the wank #I hate that this is forgotten knowledge #kon

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