#i haven't finished the game but yolo

[highlordofkrypton]

Thank you so much for the tag @zenkindoflove, I freaking love being tagged in writing games!

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 32 (To think I started??? This year??? Or end of last year???)

2. What’s your total AO3 word count? 271,982

3. What fandoms do you write for? ACOTAR & DC Comics.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Regrets (Superbats, DC Comics)

Little Secrets for my Soul (Batjokes, DC Comics)

The Lighthouse (The Aquaman Family, DC Comics)

Wildflowers (Tamsand, A Court of Thorns and Roses)

The Justice League's Mom's Book Club's Guide to Vampire Slaying (Martha Kent, Alfred Pennyworth, Hippolyta & Atlanna, DC Comics)

5. Do you respond to comments? Always! My readers made the effort to comment on my fic, so I will absolutely respond with the utmost enthusiasm. It means the world to me when I get comments.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Oh, it's absolutely Wildflowers. I mean, it's canon ending so does it really count?

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? I think most of them have happy endings, especially the oneshots. If they're not happy, they're some kind of tender, or sweet. I do think Regrets has the most upbeat ending.

8. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Yes. More and more lately. I would say I write the kind of smut that makes you question yourself (and I haven't even dived into the kinkiest kinks). Are you confused? Yes. Do you know what happened? No. Do I know what happened? No. Were we all entertained? HELL YES.

9. Do you write crossovers? I didn't name my blog home of the crackships for nothing. I LOVE crossovers. I have a few on my AO3, but so many on my to-write list.

10. Have you ever had a fic translated? No.

11. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Nope! Not formally. I do roleplay with a partner. I tried to re-write one of ours as a fic, but it's soooo tricky.

12. What is your all-time favorite ship? SUPERBATS SUPERBATS SUPERBATS. At least, if we're talking something that has a fandom. If we're talking my fav ships forreal, it's Lambert x Gojo Satoru x Clark Kent, Orm Marius x Clark Kent x Bruce Wayne, Barry Allen x Hal Jordan x Komand'r, Lilith x Eskel, etc.

13. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? None that I know of. I usually circle back and/or can be swayed to finish one.

14. What are your writing strengths?

Details. I think I have a few. I get weird fixated on details that I think make the writing feel more 'lived in' and immersive.

Side characters. I think I'm very good at creating intriguing side characters that you'll get attached to. My trick is that the character is fully developed with their own story before they appear on my page. How else will I get their interactions down, even if it's for a chapter and they're never seen again?

Humour. I literally cannot be serious. I have to shitpost halfway through my story.

15. What are your writing weaknesses?  

Pacing. I am impatient, I wanna get to the juicy parts, but some stories need to cook a little before getting to the fun stuff. I tend to use the excuse that since it's fanfiction, I can #yolo and post.

I cannot write something short for the life of me. Everything needs to end up being multi-chapter, I'm TIRED.

Smut. It's not raw enough. It's not filthy enough. I need to let go and be less formal about it. Just dig right in and have a meatier writing. I just don't think my current style fits pure smut. It does fit trying to fuck an eldritch horror and soul-shattering orgasms tho 😂 But sometimes, I just wanna go to pound town, not achieve self-actualization through butt stuff, you know???

16. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I have some foreign words in my Illyrian fic, and I am fluent in french. I do hate seeing other people write dialogue in different languages SPECIFICALLY FRENCH, so I won't be doing that.

17. First fandom you wrote for? A Court of Thorns and Roses.

18. Favorite fic you’ve written? I have different favourite ones for different reasons.

I like cosmic bloom because it's unhinged smut.

I like Regrets because it's my first ever Superbats fic and got so many kudos!

I like Wildflowers because it's my first story I ever wrote from start to finish.

I like Needle & King because it's healing a lot of trauma to write it, and I get to discover my identity and explore lore/worldbuilding that I've been putting off for ages.

NO PRESSURE TAGS: @goldheartedchaoticdisaster @praetorqueenreyna @achaotichuman @arson-09 @unanswered-stars @matrixsss @watcherintheweyr @witch-and-her-witcher @chunkypossum @foxcort @positivelyruined @angelosearch @goforth-ladymidnight @themildestofwriters

[measuringbliss]

what have you been into these days? I've seen a lot of comics and hot guys floating around but I'm afraid it's all rather gone over my head!

oh gosh

sorry my mind is reeling, today was not a good day for my country holy hell (far right getting 40% of the votes at EU Parliament votes, the president proceeding to disband the National Assembly and setting the vote for later this month... a lot happened!)

So where I've been is... I've been reading Spider-Man comics, reached 1982 and it seems that after around five years of publication just not being great, it turned around, but we'll have to see.

I finally fell victim to the 911 propaganda and watched season 7 mostly as it aired as soon as a character was revealed to be bisexual. I have Thoughts™ but I'm not sure I should share them. Started the show from the beginning, currently at episode 3. I'm very slow.

I'm also still in the middle (well, near the end) of S3 of Star Trek DS9, so far keeping with one season per year, which is silly. I also continued Interview With the Vampire, and by continued, I mean I finally watched Episodes 2 and 3. Also I'm vaguely following the spoilers Twitter throws at me. They help make me hyped.

Was obsessed over the movie Challengers, watched it 3 times in theaters and one more time outside of it. Still not over it. I love that movie.

I wrote a lot and finished basically nothing.

I'm also doing A LOT of fan translation for visual novel players who can only read my native language. I'm publishing a patch later this month (on Stonewall day!) after working on it for, what, 2-3 years (and after a major hard drive failure that made me lose a lot of data). I'm also working on correcting 3 game translations and translating another one.

Did I mention that summer is the busiest time of the year for my profession? I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed but whatever. YOLO!

I also proofread a scientific paper and utterly failed to make my boyfriend understand that I'm not the right person for this (I haven't done science in 8 years, honey! I don't even know what a compound is!). Turns out most people seem to be convinced you can simply translate words by other words and you don't need to understand the text you're translating, which explains many asinine takes online but also jeeeeezus.

Aaaaaah I'm sure I missed tons of stuff but whatevs!

What about you?

[scribblyshipping]

What if i made you answer all the sf ask game questions bcuz i wanna know all the answers

I love when you ask me to answer every question because it gives me a side project to do for the day :]

Putting it under the cut because it's insanely long.

1. favorite character?

You just can't make me pick like that! (Pim)

2. favorite ship?

Chimbly Charpim :]

3. favorite episode?

Pim Finally Turns Green! Its an episode where nothing really bad happens to Pim, and everyone has a good time pretty much. Its surprisingly feel-good in its down Smiling Friends way.

Didn't really like that Zoey was there though. L.

4. pim or charlie?

Seriously this time you can't make me pick either of them. I like them both!

5. allan or glep?

Same as the last one. Sorry chat.

6. favorite one-off character?

I have a few: Bill, Fillmore, Gwimbly, Grim & Gnarly (do not separate), "Tanning Salon Guy" (I call him Homer), and Homunculus.

7. which of the three "fifth smiling friends" is your favorite - smormu, jombo or tyler?

Smormu of course. My buddys dating that guy

8. do you have a character you think is underrated?

Eh? I don't really know... I suppose I'd like to see more of some of the side characters like Amy. I wanna know more abt the main 4's lives outside of work. But I doubt we'd get anything serious like that.

9. have you watched any other shows created by zach or michael? (hellbenders, YOLO, koala man, etc.)

Nah. I'm not too interested in it either.

10. who's your favorite guest star actor?

Nostalgia Critic was crazy I literally started yelling when I saw him ESPECIALLY because Zach has made fun of him so much.

11. how did you first find out about smiling friends?

I think through memes, but I started watching it when some of my friends started posting abt it more during season 2.

12. do you own any merch, official or fanmade?

No but I wish I did!!!!

13. have you created your own merch (shirts, keychains, stickers etc.)?

No... It'd be cool to but I don't really know how.

14. favorite fanfic?

I'm gonna tell you a secret.... I haven't read a single fanfic. Because I'm scared.

Actually thats a lie I read one but it was selfship (you know)

But I don't really want to read many fanfics until my hyperfix dies down because I tried and I kept getting too emotional. Plus I just don't want to read mischaracterization or angst. And both are pretty common.

15. do you write any fanfic yourself?

Yeah, but nothing too finished to post.

16. do you have any OCs?

A few...

17. do you have any vocal stims from the show?

A lot but heres some I can remember:

HELLO MY BABIES!!! HELLO DADDY PIM HELLO DADDY PIM HELLO

STOOOPPPPP FIGHTINGGGGG

[allan voice] what the fuuck?

Pim's picking up twigs song :]]]

Guess I'm oogily goo!

EPIIIIIC!

Doodoo feces

18. what would be your dream smiling friends episode?

A new character named Scribbly is introduced and becomes the girlfriend of Charlie and Pim. In the process, Charlie and Pim come to the realization that they're in love with each other as well. They become a polycule, and Scribbly becomes a semi-reoccurring character.

19. which of the smiling friends would you want to hang out with?

I wouldn't really mind hanging out with any of them! But uhh ranked it'd be Pim > Charlie > Allan > Glep

20. do you own the season 1 DVD/blu-ray?

No, but I wish I did! Even if I don't have anything I can watch it on :[

I'd like to find an upload where the audio is synced to the episodes but it's proving difficult.

21. what's your favorite adult cartoon aside from smiling friends?

Gonna list out all the ones I can think of!:

The Amazing Digital Circus, Futurama, & Tuca and Bertie

Original Ask Game

[two-reflections]

Been ill for the past week. Still not doing great now. (More info below.) But whatever, I'm back, though I'd be surprised if anyone noticed I wasn't around thanks to my queue. 😅

Haven't written anything for MMM because I haven't been awake for long enough each day to do much writing aside from bits for the upcoming exchange. I suppose I'm awake enough now to do a quick story audit, though. Click the Read More to see what I'm working on, and how I'm doing.

Writing Audit:

Aside from the first, these are vaguely in order of completeness/when they're likely to be posted.

TOP PRIORITY - Fic for the summer exchange. I have been doing some reading, and have put together an outline. I'm excited about this one, I really hope my giftee will like it. The problem? If I stick to this outline, the story will be several chapters long, and I'm probably not well enough to write all of it before the deadline. I wonder if it's acceptable to only put up a chapter or two of a gift exchange fic and finish it over the next few months?

Of Steel and Flesh - The next chapter was largely written back in January after the game that inspired this story, but as a consequence, it feels a bit too much like a TTRPG summary... It needs to be fleshed out more. Also, should it be split into two chapters? Unfortunately, while I love this story, it probably takes me the most effort to write, so it has been hard to work on recently. (Update the next day - Put out a chapter of this! Took me weeks to get it together.)

Alpha Legion short - I have a Alpha Legion short I threw together for an MMM post a while ago but I didn't post it because it was more silly than hot. My concern with this one is that I could easily see it becoming something much longer, like Iron Will, Crimson Whispers did. I don't have the space for another long project now, so I've been ignoring this one for a while. But I like it, and it shouldn't take too long to edit it...

Even in Death - The final chapter is basically complete, I just need to decide if I'm moving one section earlier so all the flashbacks will be in chronological order or if I should leave it as it is so there is a happier flashback following a sadder one. Once that's done, I can edit and post it.

Vulkan x Roboute short - Started outlining something for a friend. The pairing is cute and I want to make her something nice involving her OTP. This one will take me some research, though, so it probably won't be ready until after July. (Update - I guess I have to put on my clown makeup now, because I was reading The Art of War for unrelated reasons and ended up YOLOing this one.)

July MMM - One of the discord servers I'm in has been very keen on MMM recently. We're choosing a couple of prompts each month. Problem is, I recently wrote two stories that were a bit similar to July's prompts ("It's raining outside" is a thing in Feel for It, "knives and blood" was a thing in Afterparty). I've got something ready for it, though. Just need to wait til next Monday to post it.

Techmarine Story - This one is still in EARLY days. It doesn't even have a complete outline, just like 7-8k words in disconnected sections. I think I may need to severely narrow the scope of this one and make it either a oneshot or 3-6 short chapters. But I can't think about it anytime soon now I've signed up to a fic exchange.

Salamander Slice-of-Life Romance - My comfort project. It's coming along bit by bit, I probably add about 1k words to it a month. Still, I'm not in any sort of hurry to finish it. This is the one I really don't think anyone but me will ever want, haha. It's literally just an Astartes' first year or two on the job in a reserve company. Lots of mundanity, city life, squad dynamics, smaller deployments, and a romance with his brander-priest. I love it. It'll be ready when it's ready.

How I Am:

Warning, this is kind of a rant.

I miss being well. I was SO prolific just a month ago, before I got Covid again and had to go off my narcolepsy meds for an unrelated reason.

Even mild Covid sucks, but untreated narcolepsy is fucking shite. I've been on meds since I was 19, so I forgot how disabling it is. It felt less crushing before I was diagnosed, but at that point, that was the only way I had ever lived. Now, I've spent eleven years without the constant sleep attacks, and I can't remember how I used to manage this. (Probably badly since I ended up doing a full sleep study, lol.) It feels like I'm out of practice, if that makes sense? This whole thing has really thrown me for a loop.

Aside from writing, I haven't been painting much because I fall asleep when I sit still for more than a few minutes. Coffee helps, but I can only have one a day, so I'll drink my one coffee and then get a decent hour or two of painting at most before I'm back to being a bit useless. That may sound like a lot, but I'm a very slow painter. So, that's no fun.

I really don't want to just complain. My life is great, I'm very lucky to have a lovely spouse and not to be in a position where my narcolepsy could endanger my job or leave me homeless. I'm also lucky to be in the UK, where my diagnosis was free and I could actually afford eleven years of treatment without difficulty. But, fuck me, I want to be able to do normal human things again without falling asleep. This isn't forever, I'm off them for a good reason, but it may be a long time before I can go back on.

Ending on a happy note:

Hopefully, two friends and I will get to play Blood Bowl soon. She has played the digital version, he used to play but hasn't played for decades, and I've never played at all, so it should be a lot of fun. Plus, if there's three of us, whoever isn't playing can sub in for me if I fall asleep, haha.

[kayluh1915]

Is it possible you can recommend some ianthony fanfics?

Also I want to know your fave ianthony stories 🤭

psssst, disclaimer…

Of Course! We can't forget about some good fanfics! I haven't read any recently so I may make an updated post a while later after I've read some newer ones and give them shout outs. For now, however, I'll only be focusing on some older classics. I also haven't read some of these in a loooonnnggg time so a few may not be as great as I remember them being. Just keep that in mind moving forward! These are in no particular order!

Brilliant Blood, Beautiful Bones

Warnings: Possible sexual themes. I can't remember lol This fic is one of my absolute favorites. It reminds of me of something like Detroit: Become Human, but this was written before that game came out. I actually recommend anything Patricia has written, but this one is my favorite by her!

New You

Warnings: Sexual themes Unfortunately, this story is incomplete and is only three chapters long. I'm still upset about it, but those three chapters are SO GOOD that I can't help but recommend them. The premise isn't new but it's done in such a unique way that it feels new. I wish the author would come back and finish it, but it is what it is.

Soulmates

Warnings: Possible smut or sexual themes... I can't really remember again... I am such a sucker for soulmate AU's and this one is the standard I judge all other soulmate fanfics I read. It's so perfect on every level. It's fluffy, angsty, bittersweet, everything. I cannot recommend it enough.

#YOLO

I know, the title is extremely dated and doesn't seem like it would be something good, but trust me it's more than the title! It's a oneshot where Anthony buys a motorcycle and Ian's afraid of it. In order to help him get over his fear, Anthony takes him on a ride and he ends up enjoying it. Trust me, guys! It's worth reading.

The Summer to Remember

Warnings: Maybe Smut? I honestly can't remember if there is or not... YET AGAIN This is one of my favorite chaptered stories. It documents Ian and Anthony going on a cross-country road trip over a summer. It seems simple enough, but pesky feelings get in the way and make things complicated. Just describing it makes me want to reread it. I love it. This was written by a fan-favorite author, Grace. Another one of her fics show up in this list, but that's for later...

Kama Sutra

Warnings: Explicit Sexual Content If the title wasn't obvious, this is an extremely NSFW work. I had to throw one in there, guys. This is a little silly at first, but the dynamic they portray here is great and ends up being pretty hot and wholesome. If you're over 18 and like smut like I do, it's worth checking out!

Gone

Warnings: Depictions of depression and non-descriptive suicide This would not be a fanfic list without Gone. This fanfic is the most infamous work in the entire Ianthony fandom. I remember back in the day that the tag was flooded with people love-hating this fic for months. It's extremely well written and hooks you in, but it's absolutely heartbreaking and will steal your soul. The author, Grace, actually reached out to me at the time and thanked me for making her fic so anti-popular. I haven't spoken to her since and her accounts are all inactive, unfortantly. If by any chance she's reading this, I'm sending well wishes and much love to you!

That's all I have for you guys right now. I have some new stories queued up, but I'm obsessed with Stony right now and have been for months... I seriously cannot get enough of those two even four years after they kicked the bucket. However, I promise I'll get to them! When I do, I'll be sure to come back and make a rec post. For now, I hope you and others can enjoy some of the classics! I also have written a few if you'd be interested in checking them out!

[lgbttruther]

I was tagged by @brainrotdotorg and @brainworm-terrarium !! tysm!!

rules: tag 9 people you want to get to know better (in this case, much-appreciated friends and mutuals)

last song: Raspberry by Grouplove - its a p good song. epitome of very early 2010s indie pop

last show: Mob Psycho 100, I think? It's the last show I remember finishing because the finale was relatively recent, and I enjoyed it for the most part

currently watching: YOLO Silver Destiny, I watch the episodes when they're up on some pirating website. It's one long shitpost and I enjoy that

currently reading: I have a collection of Kafka's short stories that I'm crawling through. Not much time for reading these days. I also need to catch up on Dungeon Meshi

current obsession: sigh. Disco Elysium has me by the throat

tagging @feintenstein @hahnsplatinum @nonbinarypunkk @mahou-demi-senshi @kringelorde @transhitman @junkirat @honeyginsen @strawberry-sylveons

There's no obligation to respond or participate! I haven't done one of these tag games in a while, it was fun.

[awiola]

Normal update, winter XXIV

BUT IT'S NOT WINTER ANYMORE HA! Happy after-equinox to y'all. I planned to write the update in march and it's still technically march but, like, y'know, it's the first day of spring so it feels kind of late, ig? Not that it really matters here and I drew Morana on fire so all is good.

This is not completely [un]related but I'm trying to complete the 'draw sth for 100 days straight' challenge and rn it's going okay though I have to admit I'm being a lazy ass. But hey, a bad sketch a day is still a drawing. Not sure if that's the reason I wasn't able to complete my easter sketch dump but knowing me it wouldn't be finished anyway so whatever ig. AND YES, I WILL DRAW FATHER DAKI ON TIME. I planned to do it when I was drawing Agatha for thug in PE's style but oh well... You'll see both ot these pics on the first of april.

Also, like, in case anyone was interested, I finally decided to learn how to adult and might open comms this year? I tell myself I'll open them since, like, 2020 so yeah. Maybe. I think I will, tho.

Current game stuff

Mushroom game... Yeah... It exists and I technically haven't dropped it but yeah... Yeah... Tbh I even hid the link from my page but it's still public and all... But yeah... It goes into the "finally finish it in 2024, you stupid fuck" list - which, incidentally, is a mouthful so from now on it's gonna be "24 >:C" - together with Enmity and all.

Remember the golem game? Yeah, we don't see its non human form but I did technically draw it. Humanoids are, like, so last decade. It's called Sorcerer's golem and because I was not the lead, we managed to nicely finish it on time ✨ [Unrelated but I wonder what happened to the old unicode emotes, I need to look into it]. There's not really a lot I have to say here, tbh. It's short, it's wholesome, I'm totally not gonna go almost fully lineless again. I almost died and it was only two sprites. Never again proceeds to do that again later anyway.

Some time after, or maybe during, I can't really remember, I heard of Queer Vampire Jam and ofc had to join because I wouldn't be me if I managed to stop myself from joining yet another jam. It just so happened I both felt like shit and read something from my SF gods at the time so I commited this open ended 3k long story and it's, like, really obvious how I felt and what I was reading but then I decided to go yolo and publish it anyway, especially since I got an editor and made laby draw for me. Just had to publish it at that point. Enough about that, though - let's see what is it all about. Vani vani, because Tas tatum was deemed too lame of a name is a story about a [queer obviously] vampire who's kinda dead inside and it shows. I did say it was obvious I felt like shit. I'm not sure if it ended up being too edgy or not... I mean, I made it really obvious it's, like gestures vaguely y'know? I don't wanna spell it out but, like, the theme and everything there was so obvious I'll be disappointed in you if you didn't get it based on the pun title [the other two layers of puns there aren't as obvious] and the page/thumbnail. Unless, of course, you never heard about it at all which might be the case for people from other continents, I wouldn't know. I realise that doesn't say a lot about the contents but I mean, it's more of a progress update, I'm not actually trying to market anything here lol So whatever. It might be the only game ever where I put a whole nsfw scene of a sexual nature... Or it might just be the beginning of my unsexy h scene adventures. I even asked others how to make it as unsexy as possible and I hope I succeed. Going into gore or kink migh be sexy for some but boredom? Probably to no one who actually reads it. And, as is the case with my other personal games, not a lot of people read them. So I think I succeed at that. It's just the beginning of my SF adventures, though. Be prepared.

Now for the thing that might interest the potential reader the most because I saw the statistics and I bet all the follows are alse due to that - Impostor Syndrome. I know the page is pretty much silent but we are working on this. The common route received a lot of notes to make it longer, more cohesive, funnier and possibly better for all the gremlins that wanted a troll mode. Or at least that was the plan. Route wise we had something but after some consideration, it had to be basically scrapped. I won't go into all the details here as for why, but the rewriting of the outline is proceeding. Slowly cause it's kinda hard to find the best time to talk when you have multiple people from different timezones to consider but I think it's looking good. There's a sliiight possibility it might be a bit less vanilla than, like, your typical sfw otome but I don't think any vanilla lover would think it's too much or anything. Not nearly kinky enough for that. I think labelling it as having a soft dom MC might even be false advertising. Maybe. Hell if I know, I suck at tags. But yeah, it's proceeding. Obviously it won't be out during winter but I do think it will be finished this year. Most likely.

From other game stuff... I might have a monster type project made with Ameena for you. Or I might not. The designs are done but is anything gonna come out of them? We'll see. Leaving the possibility open.

I helped Doibats [who I helped with Cool Days before] with some art. This time it's an rpg, currently still in development. The cool art direction is still there so I think it would be worth a play when it's out. I think I'm more of a guest artist than an actual member of the team, though lol But yeah, check it out when it's done, I'll link it then.

Yet another game where I didn't do much - The Villainess Just Wants To Eat!! had its full, official release 🎉 Congrats to the team [check out their gui, btw]. I was mostly helping with this or that due to the usual jam team stuff that happens but yeah. Syd wrote afterstories for the charas, too. They're technically linked on the game's page, too, but you can read them on her tumblr, too.

I kind of forgot to mention, which also ties with my next point, but she hosted the Ossan jam again which I planned to join with my nano project about Wedding crashers but I overestimated my ability to write energetic chaos so... umm... Well, it's not dropped and while it won't get done in time for nano, I think I'll manage before Ossan jam ends. It started as a loose idea that kinda parodied romcoms and then the protag became an AAA battery but also aplatonic and then I got some concepts from tea[? - dunno how they want to be called 'officially' and this one seemed safe but?] and yeah. I'm trying to work on this, though. Even though I feel so stupid attempting to write an anthropologist. Should've stuck to writing mostly what you know like with Vani vani, eehhh... Wish me luck o3o

The last thing, or two, probably, is more of a... forecast? I happened to help with the editing of a certain 18+ otome game but I'm not on the team or anything so I can't really tell you more since I don't know how much should I reveal to the potential player but from what I've seen, the development goes well since they started making it for nano and might actually be finished before Otome jam ends so I'll link it then.

The other thing is that in an unspecified future I might have a yet another AAA battery protagonist, this time replacing the MC of an otome isekai story. I'm not sure how much I'll help with [maybe just editing, maybe we'd become a two person team, who knows] but it has a hight possibility of being developed eventually. No set dates or anything, though.

Pariiish noootiiiceees

Remember Tentacle jam and Insect [adjacent] jam? They're still happening, I'm just being lazy setting the pages up. The working date is from around the middle of august to the middle of october due to all the other jams happening at the time. I think it's the final date, though. It's come to my attention there's also the Monstrous Desires jam that also shares the timeframe almost perfectly so, y'know, why not make a game that lets you join all three of them? Just a thought.

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My god, this thing became so long. Like half the length of my typical personal project orz I had to add all the Ps and BRs manually. Damn you, html shakes fist

Over.

[prynnehesters]

i think i fucked up in my current bg3 run cuz a bunch of tieflings are gone cuz i told rolan to leave bcuz im playing a drow and all the tieflings and druids were being racist to me. im just a simple guild artisian. i know im a warlock. yolo swag (jk). we did have the tiefling party, just eh.

idk, my first playthru i was happy w my ending, my second one made me sad, my third one made me frustrated, and this one....idk. haven't finished it. i dont think i will do another playthru after this. i'll probably put the game down and play other things.

i think i need to make a list of how i feel about how classes work in bg3 vs 5e and which i like more cuz thus far it's

5e

warlock

barbarian

fighter (except battlemaster)

cleric

bg3

sorcerer (except wild magic)

both are good

bard

rogue

ranger

wizard (less expensive in bg3)

paladin (feels less strict in 5e)

monk

i dislike both

druid (there is just too much shit w druid no matter what)

i think for a lot of these, it just depends on person. cuz if i had to pick my favourite classes, i'd say bard for both bg3 and 5e. although i love sword bard in bg3 and my fave in 5e is lore bard, followed by glamour bard.

i think they did make certain classes better/worse in bg3. sword bard in dnd is ok, but amazing in bg3. the wild magic classes i think work better in tabletop. warlock is missing patron interaction (unless ur wyll, but even then, im kind of shocked that everyone else gets to see his patron, but yeah, video game). sorcerer and wizard feel beefier in bg3 (bcuz the armor).

[sevscase]

Hey everyone !!

I haven't used Tumblr in a /hot minute/ and I'm new to the Tumblr side of the chaos that is the Watcher fandom (?) so I decided to do a little intro :D

My name is Eddie - I'm 24, white, and Canadian. My pronouns are they/she/he n I'm genderfluid and pansexual. I'm studying folklore and geography in university (graduating in April) and I wanna work in broadcast journalism or film making eventually !!! I'm also an aspiring storyteller . My other interests include Star Trek and the Jurassic franchise.

I'm also gonna throw in that I DO NOT ship Ryan and Shane romantically/s*xually and I am NOT rpf friendly so please keep that off my dash <3 if your blog is full of either of that, I'll probably block you but please don't take it personally. I also will not interact with anyone under the age of 18, as I am 24.

AnYWay, looking forward to interacting with this lovely fandom :3 I'm a little late to the game as Ghost Files just finished it's first season but yolo !! I'm super friendly I promise xx

[chronic-ghost]

because no one fucking asked me to . . .

Fandom: Horizon Zero Dawn

Pairing: Aloy/Nil

Rating: General Audiences

Title: breathe as though you are drawing your bow

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She burst through the crowd at the edge of Daytower and took a deep breath. The smell of the spices, the loud chatter of the crowd, the sheer number of people —

Aloy slipped open the wide gate door and managed to shut out some of the static in her head. It was as though someone had thrown a blanket over the world and muffled everything that wasn’t important. She heard the chirp of crickets, the rush of water down below the cliff face, and the rush of wind through the grass.

She felt a worrisome buzz travel up her ribcage at the thought of being stuck in such a small camp with so many strangers, so many travelers, and so much noise. She knew eventually someone would come looking — to say thanks, to cheer her name — so blessed moments to herself like these were precious.

Aloy took another deep breath, this one free of anxious fears and full of cool, moon-lit air. At the end of the rampart, someone had lit the traveler’s fire and it called to her like Nora horn. Yet, as she approached, it seemed someone was already there — lying supine in the dark grass as though on chaise of a king.

Bow and helmet cast to the ground beside him, Nil tore at a blade of grass in his fingers, the hollowness of his collarbone cast dark shadows in the firelight. As though on instinct, she became irritated at the sight of him. She just wanted to be alone, by the goddess , and here he was — when she needed silence the most.

Behind her, the din of the festival echoed into the crevices of the mountain behind Daytower.

“Well, huntress, are you going to come over here or just stand in the dark, staring at me, all night?” Without looking back at her, he tossed the shredded bits of grass into the fire in front of him.

Aloy scowled at the back of his neck as she tried not to stomp over to the empty space beside him.

“How did you know it was me?” She asked as she slid down to the ground, her knees bunched up to her chest.

At that, he frowned, still not looking at her. “Come now. Do not all great hunters have a keen sense of awareness? I know exactly where you are, whenever you’re around.”

A crack in the fire made her cheeks warm. “A great hunter, huh? Is that what you’re calling yourself these days?”

“What would you prefer to call me?”

“A murderer with an advantageous bloodlust.”

“Better than a skinny savage with no social skills.”

The fire burned red hot against her cheeks. “Why are you out here, Nil? Why aren’t you inside, with everyone else?”

He stilled and finally, those storm-grey, metallic-silver eyes fell on her. The heat on her cheeks dropped into the back of her throat.

“ Why aren’t you? ”

Aloy bit the inside of her cheek to stop the spread of the heat to her entire face and she looked away. Why did he have to be like this? Always . Always pushing. Always going too far. Always saying things that —

“It’s the music.” He was talking to the fire again, the pads of his fingers nimbly twisting another blade of grass. “No offense to your people, but there is too much religion in your music. Too much praise to an indifferent being, if there was one at all. It’s a fine call-to-arms, but it’s just simply not my taste.”

Rost once said, some people lied as easily as they breathed and she was sure Nil was one of those people. Though she wasn’t sure why he would lie now, when there was nothing to lose. Then would you tell him , Rost’s voice asked, answer why you don’t want to be around your own tribe and the Carja Sundom who has embraced you as their own? Would you be so honest as to admit that despite all you’ve done, you still feel as though you are an outcast?

She knew very little about Nil and his past, Aloy thought vaguely as she watched him pluck more grass from the ground below him, then ease them into the fire. So little in fact, she dared to wonder if there was something in his past that made him reject the great cities of the Sundom and find peace in the wild, open lands.

“You cannot dance to this music,” he said simply, never needing encouragement to hear the sound of his own voice. “And dancing is nearly as good as killing.”

“That’s not true,” she said, ignoring his casual bloodlust. “I’ve seen hundreds of Nora tribesman dance at the Blessings.”

Nil shook his head, his dark hair sliding free from where his helmet would usually hold it in place. It brushed easily against the smooth skin, below the dividing line on the side of his head. “Dancing is meant to be shared, little huntress, not in the supplication of some silent goddess.”

“What are you talking about? Dancing is dancing.”

His grey eyes seemed to glow in delight as a thought crossed his mind. “Have you never danced with anyone before?”

She really didn’t like the small, knowing smile creeping across his face. Her mouth was suddenly dry. “I don’t dance at all.”

Nil chuckled to himself as he brushed the grass from his hands and stood up. “Well, that explains so much. Stand, huntress, and let me teach you.”

“Don’t be ridiculous, Nil.” She rolled her eyes away from his outstretched hand, something hot and warm simmering in her stomach. “You said it yourself — dancing to this is impossible.”

“Not if you have the right partner.” He slid his wide palm underneath her hand resting on her knee, pulling her forward. He kept tugging until she was on her feet and Alloy wanted nothing more than to run into the nearest glen and never been seen again.

“Nil —,”

He pulled her close, his bare chest warm beneath his silken vest. She put a hand between them to prevent her body from falling into him. “Hush, now. This isn’t meant to be torture.”

He lifted their hands still wrapped around each other until they were about shoulder-height. He stepped impossible closer until he had one knee gently between her legs. Aloy found she couldn’t mount a sound of protest even if she wanted to.

Nil held his other hand aloft, fingers splayed wide as though to show he held no tricks. His eyes were the color of a Stormbird’s wing and he was circling ever closer.

“Don’t snap my neck over this.” That grin, sharper and heavier than any he had given her before, was growing wider, bolder. “This,” he indicated to his aloft hand, “is meant to go here.”

It came to rest on her hip, gently, as though he knew she was hovering on her instinct to fly or fight.

They stood like that, pressed together, in the shadow of the Carja outpost under the summer moon. She felt his breathing, smelling of wintermint, tumble down the bridge of her nose.

“Now what?” She hated to think her voice came out as a whisper. The point where his throat met his collarbone fluttered under her forceful gaze. If he really were a Stormbird, her hesitation to look him in the eye would have meant her death — her corpse a charred mess, still warm from the blast of electric power.

He tipped her elbow up, up across his chest to rest on his shoulder, at the curve of his shoulder. The pads of her fingers brushed the fine hairs regrowing at the base of his skull and the breath on her nose hitched.

“Now we dance.”

As the hand on her hip tipped her closer, Nil stepped forward. She moved with him, against him,  and he stepped again. Little steps, nothing more than an inch in the shape of a square, but she was moving and he was carrying her, his fingers resting cooly low in the middle of her back. She heard the crisps of their feet as they edged around on the grass.

Beyond them, the drums beat wildly, like a throbbing heart. The crowd roared with ecstasy.

“Relax,” he murmured into her hair. “Don’t think of this as part of your training, or a challenge to win. Lean in. Breathe as though you are drawing your bow.”

He paused and put his wide hand flat against her breastbone. Up an inch more and he could have taken her throat in one palm.

His eyes were as dark as a turbulent river. “Breathe.”

For a single absolutely absurd moment, she thought he was going to kiss her —

— and in that breath that she felt all the way down to her toes, her body loosened, hips and thighs going slack. Her fingers spread against his neck and her lips parted.

His smile was almost cruel with delight. “Such a good listener.”

But then his head turned, his feet resumed their shuffle, and he pressed his temple to hers as though by touch alone he could transmit the tune in his head.

“You must stay in Meridian longer next time,” Nil continued, unhurried and frustratingly unaffected. “It’s a rather shit city but the dance halls are quite extraordinary.”

There were things she wanted to ask him; questions that began as feelings and vague fantasies that were only now growing clear and concrete. But where to begin? Her eyes on the glowing Daytower, Aloy dropped her chin and rested her lips against his shoulder. The silk there was warm.

“What are our thoughts now?” He asked after a moment. He had slowed their flow from a pattern to a slow turn, their two bodies revolving and swaying under the light of a thousand stars. “Still think dancing is just dancing?”

Rost had warned her about all sorts of men — liars, cheats, thieves, killers, monsters more machine than man — but somehow he neglected to tell her about men like Nil. Perhaps there wasn’t anyone else quite like this Carja soldier.

So, she thought about his question, and her answer, and she thought about his gaze on her when he thought she wasn’t looking, and she thought about the calloused hand at her back, and she thought about him, and her — Aloy lifted her head to look him straight in the eye.

“Is that all we’re doing? Dancing?”

He hummed, as though his every nerve was crackling. “Little girl, that’s all we’ve ever done.”

Inside Daytower walls, a loud bang echoed into the night and a brilliant tongue of fire lit up the night sky. The crowd cheered as more and more brightly colors exploded against the blackness above, the sound incredible before it all faded out.

Aloy turned to the noise, watching the explosions rise and fall.

Something warm brushed the shell of her ear, her skin vibrating sharply with sound so close, and suddenly his hands were gone.

She knew he would not be there if she turned to look for him, so she continued to stand underneath the great screaming fireballs with a knot rising in her throat so painfully it hurt to breathe. Her hands knotted into fists, she watched the lights even when her vision blurred.

Eventually the lights faded and no more came. A thrilled shout went up from the outpost and the music started again. Behind her the fire had died out and she was suddenly colder than she had been all night. Willing her hands to stop shaking, Aloy turned to go — to wander, to hunt, to be anywhere from here — when she saw something scarlet in the dark grass.

A single red feather.

And in that moment, she realized what he had so pleasantly whispered.

Come find me, little dancer.

Or read on AO3

[reuska]

"Summonus Interruptus" - a summoning strategy?

Hey guys! I haven't yet posted an update on my summoning because I still haven't finished. And this is why:

Basically after posting my orb score (795) I immediatelly went to summon. That was a bronze shitstorm as never, huh. At 4% I got my first 5*, my babies, luckily. And then after another 4.5% I stopped. I spent 300 orbs and got one gold unit. Literally.

This is where it gets interesting. I've been thinking about this for quite some time, after hearing about your experience with summoning and an alarming number of people who save large amount of orbs seem to have had the shittiest luck lately. I suspect the game has an algorithm that somehow recognizes that you're going to spend large amount at once and punishes you for that. How? It can't just deduce from the fact that you're sitting on a large pile. But it's possible that if you have many orbs and your first interraction with a new banner are consecutive summons, you get "flagged".

So I stopped. I came back after an hour and guess what, 3rd or 4th summon looked like this:

First Alfonse, and Selkie right after him. And 6 more summons got me 5* Mordekai.

And then things went south again. I got to 5% pityrate and stopped again. For 15 minutes only - to prepare lunch. Then I launched the game again and the first (FIRST) summon:

Judging by the three units coming soon after each other before, I decided to keep going for a while. Not later than in 10 characters, this happened:

With my babies coming first again (that's when I immediately try more orbs to see if I get the chain).

Now, I stopped after these three. For an hour and half. When I came back, the third unit that came:

After the last one, that came almost instantly after the pause, I started to get lots of bronzes, just like at the start, and I had some ugly streaks of bronzes there. So I stopped and I am waiting again.

Basically, I think that a pause gives you "yolo summon" status - for a while at least. And those have been MUCH luckier for me ALWAYS.

That's why this post has such a silly title, "Summonus Interruptus" is how I'm calling it now. It's just an experiment and I have still like 150 orbs to go. But if you save orbs, maybe give it a try, it might help.

[bittersweetsongbirdsworld]

So Show Me (I'll Show You)~ NamJin Social Media AU

"For your first round, you'll do a 'boned out', following a 'Bluntside'. You'll then do a 'Cab', finishing off with a 'Japan'. The second round will consist of 'Michalchuk', 'Wildcat', 'Roast Beef', and then 'Crippler'. The final round will consist of 'Pretzel', 'Cork', 'Jabbing', and the hardest trick yet.. 'Yolo Flip'. Did you get all that?"

The look Namjoon was giving Jin only confirmed his suspensions. It was early, Jin gave him that, but these were simple terms every snowboarder knew. It was frustrating to say the least, but Jin didn't want to spend twenty minutes explaining the tricks themselves.

"Just- Watch me and I'll show you how these are done, yeah?"

Namjoon nodded his head eagerly before he watched Jin make his way towards the ski lift, snowboard in hand. With a small wave and a few words of encouragement, Namjoon wished his teacher luck as he made his way up the ski lift.

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"You want me to perform a stunt that a Canadian man came up with? That was a one thousand, four hundred, and forty degree flip, Jin hyung! There is no way a newbie like me can do that! Its nearly impossible! I'm not shocked that you were able to do it, but I was a figure skater, not a snowboarder."

It wasn't a comfortable thing, Jin has to admit. Namjoon was sitting on the ground, sulking to himself as Jin stood over him, arms crossed and all. The two were stuck in a awkward silence, Jin biting at his lip, and Namjoon drawing patterns in the thick snow.

In the end, the silence ended up being too much for Jin. Picking up his board, Jin shook his head and made his way to the ski lift. He gestured Namjoon to get up and follow him, which he quickly pierced together and pushed himself off the snowy ground.

"If you don't think you can do it, I'm pushing you to your limit. I will make you do so many flips, jumps, slides that you'll wish you were dead. With competition coming up, I'm going to whip you into shape. I don't care if your in pain, that's the price you pay for snowboarding."

This made Namjoon stop in his tracks. He held his board close to his chest as he just stared at Jin with wide eyes. To say it didn't hurt was a plain out lie. It felt like Jin had wacked him in the side of the head with the snowboard before stabbing him in the stomach with said board.

"Jin hyung.. Is this because I rejected your confession? Will you go back to the way you were before if I said I liked you back? Will you treat me like you did before if I just pretend to like you?" Namjoon whispered as he continued to look at Jin.

Now it was Jin's turn to stop in his tracks, but he didn't look at Namjoon with wide eyes. When Jin cranked his head to look at Namjoon, the younger male literally backed up.

Jin's eyes were lit with pure furry. His glare alone killed Namjoon, but the tone of his voice had Namjoon on his ass.

"I spend countless tears on this career, Kim Namjoon. I spent nights sobbing in my room because everything fucking hurt. I spent years upon years working my ass off for what I got," Jin spat as he stepped closer to Namjoon. "I spend nights not eating at all because I was too busy training. My legs were covered in countless bruises because of all the wipeouts I endured. The countless bones I've broken from great falls isn't a fucking joke."

Jin's voice was laced with venom, a serum so thick that Namjoon felt as if he was going to drowned. He had to grab onto is snowboard to steady himself, his legs weak from Jin's harsh glare.

But, Namjoon wasn't expecting one thing from Jin. With how harsh Jin's words were, he wasn't expecting to see tears streaming down Jin's cheeks. Nose, ears, and cheek red, Jin hiccupped into his hand as he continued to cry silently.

"You think so lowly of me. That fucking hurts Namjoon-" Jin choked into his hand, dropping his board in the process. "I worked so fucking hard for all my accomplishments and then you come in here, yelling at me for telling you how I feel. No, you stay away from my fucking feelings because you don't care about them. After his competition, I'm retiring. I'm done. Clearly I haven't worked my ass off for anything. Now pick up your fucking snowboard, I'm going to train you and you're going to fucking win gold."

Let's just say they rode up on separate lifts, Namjoon behind Jin, who looked like he was trying to compose himself. By ten o'clock, Namjoon was sore everywhere. Jin tallied up Namjoon's falls and the number was pretty big. Thirty seven falls in five hours.

"Great, you're done warming up. Now, let's get to the real stuff."

Damn, Namjoon really wasn't going to make it out of this lesson alive.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

After his terrible accident on the ice, Kim Namjoon must give up his passion for skating and find a new career. Not wanting to give up the cold, but thrilling adventures of winter, he decided to hire himself a snowboarding instructor. Well, he's in luck. By mere coincidence, he is set up with the gold medalist, Kim Seokjin, champion of snowboarding for the last five years. Will these two be able to keep things between them professional, or will one of them slip up at the worlds biggest game?

🏂🏻12/20