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Tech support was so great once again you blow me away with your writing. Also what’s the Darkness Between the Stars? Also could I bribe you using animal pictures to write more tech support? Also what’s your personal experiences with tech support oh mighty Bronze Age god.
I'm glad you enjoyed! And these floofs are incredible.
The Darkness Between the Stars is a reference to Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence books (highly recommend, start with Three Parts Dead which best described as steampunk necromantic legal thriller which has more to say about belief and the nature of faith than most things i've read) where one of the belief systems say that there are demons in the night sky and they aren't in the stars, they are in the empty blackness between them.
But also it's part of the weird nebulous mythology and framework of the stories I wrote under the umbrella of Cold Black Iron and Green Fire: 1) Reversed Knight of Swords, 2) The Heriophant where all myths and religions kind of co-exist along side many monsters and strange things like magic and strange eldritch beings. It's a world I like to use a lot because there is no overarching lore or worldbuilding since there's a place for everything even if they compete or contradict each other as that's the point of the world. So this tech support might be slotting in nicely with the much longer and darker stories of Detective Saint Felix.
#thank you for the ask!#i'm glad you're enjoying the stories!#i hope that this long rambly ask is ok
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apparently controversial opinion (????), but I really like this question-and-answer from the recent English-language interview with Ryoko Kui
Senshi is a very unselfconscious person; he doesn't care about how he is perceived as long as he gets to do his own thing. I felt a little "oh, duh" when I read it - of course he doesn't care about flashing bulge
more importantly, I love it as an insight of the kind of mental exercise that defines dunmeshi - Kui-sensei exploring things that make her uncomfortable. she takes the time to identify the discomfort (old man in underwear) and think through what makes someone behave that way, or what might be the appeal of something that is unappealing to her. it's the thought process that gave us such a wealth of earnestly depicted characters to whom we are encouraged to extend compassion and understanding
#chances are she saw the senshi question and thought 'I've been meaning to share the old man underwear story' and that's all there is to it#extremely bizarre fandom reaction to someone saying 'I didn't draw it to titillate but I'm glad you're enjoying it'#ryoko kui#senshi#senshi of izganda#dunmeshi#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#my dm thoughts
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I'm working my way through The Final Pack after you played the game the other week, and while I understand why Stiles Ate The Thing, I still want to shake him and be like "and you didn't ask any more questions?!? Really dude?" (They're now traveling the Gouge and met the local monster.)
XD He will do worse things without much question, and they will land him in hotter water soon lol
#final pack#asks#people say nice things#my stories#I love that story so much#I'm working to get back to it now#the original one I mean#I'm glad you're enjoying it! You will want to shake him more soon :)#and I look forward to that too
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I don’t say it often enough but I freaking LOVE your take on the Archivist lore! With so little canon details to go on, and The Collector arguably an unreliable narrator (through no fault of their own), they are an enigma of the TOH universe with questions of whether their actions are malicious or not. I really like how you have characterized and fleshed them out. And, coming from a background of ecology and veterinary medicine, some of your pieces have hit uncomfortably close to home. And just to clarify, coming from me, that is high praise of your work! love works that make the audience think, reflect and maybe feel a bit uneasy when they do.
Thank you so much! it means a lot to me and Im super happy comics do give off bit of that effect:> I always enjoyed whenever villans or generally antagonists had actual reasons for doing what they do. Its not just evil for the sake of evil, there is some reasoning behind it.. ooor lack of understanding for those affected by their actions. Like Collector wasn't being malicious in wanting to play with everyone. But since they come from an entirely different background and perspective their games can seem malicious from the point of view of someone who only experiences their effects. This concept tied up with ecology and the horrors of space.. just feels like a fun story:p
#I also wanted to say that I adore your writing!#The first time I found Moonshadow I started reading something around 5 pm and had to stop at 7 am when my alarm started ringing#Your writing style is amazing and the characterization of Collector has to be my favorite!#So anyways I'm glad you're enjoying the story I'm making I absolutly love yours:>#the owl house#owl house#toh fanart#toh archivists#the archivists#toh collectors#toh the archivists#ask
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The latest chapter was soooo tense! Gosh i loved it. The situation is so tricky too- And Moon showed up! Even though Sun was still more conversational. And that cassette has me asking questions
Sun is definitely the more talkative of the two in any given situation lmao.
Moon in this au is mostly nonverbal, save for when you piss him off (as reader very quickly does). This is mostly due to what they went through ten years ago. Sun "coped" by going off the deep end, and Moon coped by shutting down entirely.
They're both an emotional mess, obviously, but Sun makes his delusions other people's problem whereas Moon withdraws himself from situations as much as possible, only ever getting involved when he has to. For the first couple of years after The Incident it was a struggle just to convince him to talk to Sun, and he only did because each other was (and is) all they had.
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God i love Hireath so far. Like you don't understand how refreshing it is to find such a well written fabrication where Sun and Moon act like their in-game self. Also I live your asshole Sun like WOW he's amazingly written- the passive aggressive and straight up aggressive uncalled for behavior has me wild. Not even to mention Moon- he's my favorite character thus far. He's just a little prankster guy. He's just so him. Rrr I love your writing style and Y/N like yay! We have a backbone! Very good. Anyways, I will be eagerly awaiting the next chapter! Love your work!
WAIT HOLD UP. WAIT. YOUR HONOR. I'M SO FLATTERED OH MY GOD. THANK YOU!!!!!
#AHHH I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE ENJOYING HIRAETH I'M OTL#I'M DOING MY BEST YOUR HONOR BUT THE DEMONS..... THEY GOT HANDS.........#I'll admit Y/N being a pushover or completely oblivious IS a pet peeve of mine#Like I get that narratively speaking it's way easier to portray someone as 'neutral' or 'reader insert' when they're not noticing things or#they're not causing shifts in the story#but I just. I don't like it. We all understand that 'Y/N' is an oc anyway. we all know it's just the author projecting.#so my y/n is a little shit who bites back#and Sun being aggressively mean is both a 'I wanna be closer to canon' AND a 'lol wouldn't it be funny'#anyway sorry I WILL ramble on about this for hours actually#//asks#crustysoapbubbles#ty for the compliments!!!!! I'm really really flattered thank you#technically#hiraeth spoilers#?#only for the tags though#hiraeth
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Thumbing back through your hyden tag over breakfast (love doing tag spelunking and piecing together story bits)- and noticed the ‘x-ray’ post, catalyst stone lobotomy confirmed 👀? (Admittedly. I do not know how the brains of rabbits are shaped)
"Lobotomy" is a bit much, but there may have been a few pesky side effects here and there. Maybe some minor difficulty sleeping, occasional clumsiness. He only really started to notice it in his 30s.
Who knows if it's even the stone, though? He was always sickly. His health declining could just be inevitable.
#anon#ask#verse: amaranthine#my ocs#hyden#I'm really flattered that you browse my stuff over breakfast!#that is very high praise indeed#also glad you're enjoying piecing this story together--I've enjoyed dropping hints and seeing how long it takes people to figure stuff out#you cannot count on pretty much any of these characters to be honest so a bit of reading between the lines is needed :)#furry#doodle#young hyden#milana
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Idk why the fucken... Divide between "it was alternate universes" & "Paul is just trans" ideas for Petscop has to be torn into a cavern. Paul being trans DOES make sense, but requires you to ignore huge details that immediately make it not work. The alternate universes DO kind of make sense, but require you to extrapolate out a lot of info purposefully left unshown.
It's hard to describe what i want to say, here -- i do think Paul being trans makes sense, 'splains why he & Care "look eeriely similar," you could argue he's just thoroughly blocked out that part of his life enough to have forgotten Care entirely, etc. I like it, & i keep it as i also say "Yeah, it's that & the universes theory." It's not two switches that demand you can only flip on one of them -- you can have both. You can have neither. Do whatever
#em.txt#petscop#i think my big thing is just that. I don't think it was intended#& it is not my job as a queer person to sweep up crumbs from under the rug for proof that is not there#if a creator wished to create a trans character i would enjoy if they would say as such. but mr. petscop has not said as such#& while i love the theory. if i see one more mfer say 'this is OBVIOUSLY canon & if u say otherwise ur LYING'#or 'omg ppl gotta make up crazy theories before they believe a queer story is queer 🙄' i will bite you.#i understand you are used to no queer rep so you take these scraps of dust as truth.#but do not mock people that don't agree with the plate of nothing you're serving.#discourse#yeah i think I'm being petty enough to deserve this tag. i am sorry for being mean#paul transgender is inherently based but u r stretching as much as me#I don't think the universe theory is canon or intended. I don't think there is an answer to petscop#i think it just exists & doesn't matter what it was abf#the plot of it is chasing windmills & ending up nowhere forever & ever to waste your time & be miserable#why do we want a conclusive answer from that? the explanation of petscop is this:#idk wtf was going on here. but i sure am glad Paul got tf outta there
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lu, I didn't know you watched my school president until I saw you comment on a post. Please tell me if you have Thoughts™️ about the show. Because mine is just 😩🥺😭💗
HI MILKTEA I SURE DO HAVE THOUGHTS
so here's the thing, okay. MSP hits every BL trope that i'm so tired of. school setting, main character plays guitar and sings, main character is in a band, band is trying to win A Very Important Competition. love interest is So Charmed by the main character and his one-of-a-kind guitar playing but cannot reveal his crush, gasp, so instead they antagonize each other.
so many BLs fit this? like, all of them??? did i just describe the plot of 2gether? do you really need to watch the 2930730472037th thinly-veiled 2gether remake?
(answer: yes.)
because some genius scriptwriter finally did it right. MSP isn't just a grab bag of tropes and caricatures duct-taped together. it's not just banking on hot actors and smoulders to carry a flimsy story.
it's about a kid, and his friends, and their small but precious dream. it's about a kid looking for understanding and connection, finding it in the most unexpected person, and then doing everything possible to make that person happy. it's about kids and their moms, and what it means to watch your kid grow up, and what it means to grow and change with them. god, it's about FRIENDSHIP, so much goofy stupid lovable friendship. it's about reaching for dreams and failing to grab hold of them and having no regrets anyway.
it's so genuine.
and fuck!!! it's funny!!!!! IT'S SO FUNNY. literally every single gag landed. when they first panned to that chinzilla plushie on the altar i busted a lung laughing. props to the cast and crew for just nailing the comedic delivery and timing.
good pacing, good writing, great characters with complex needs and wants. and fourth and gemini are a fantastic lead pair, they're strong actors and they're so effortlessly comfortable with each other on screen and they're a straight shot of serotonin 🥹🥹🥹 I WOULD KILL FOR THEM
cough. anyway. tl;dr i loved it 😩🥺😭💗 it's in my top five BLs for sure, if not top three. everyone should watch it immediately. this has been a PSA.
#i also have noticed an immense quality jump in low-heat BLs recently and i am very happy for it#we get to see different types of stories in hig vs low heat dramas and i crave that variety#msp is a standout as far as i'm concerned#and it's very easy on the brain#good show to watch when you're feeling low#it's not a perfect show but it really came for me#milktea i am so so sorry this took me so long to respond to#but thank you for the ask ❤️ so glad we all got to enjoy this wonderful show#my school president#mine: asks
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Just wanted to tell you, I've read all of Misty Eyes (I'm really bad with longer fics) and I loooooooooove it. Give me tortured characters who are healed by the power of love. ❤️❤️❤️
I also love how you've written the reader's relationship with Doffy. I think the fact that you don't get into nitty gritty detail actually makes it more ominous because your mind has to fill in the blanks itself.
Keep up the good work, Lynna!!
Thank you so much!! 😭😭 This request was meant to be a lil smut scene, but I couldn't stop my brain from running wild with all the potential trauma 😅
I've almost written the Doffy scenes, but after writing more for Law and the reader, I wanted to focus on them, and I'm glad I've managed to make Doffy ominous! That was the goal, he's a creeper, lol
The other reason I stopped myself when I started writing Doffy scenes is because 😨!! I haven't written/posted anything that dark before, and I don't think a lot of readers enjoying the sweet parts of the story would be down for that. Maybe I'll write them separately if there's enough request for it, but 😬😬😬
Doffy is big scary, and very concerning parts of my brain are activated near the heavenly demon. Plus, Law's my guy 🖤 I could never choose the giant, freaky flamingo man over my grumpy doctor 🥰🥰
But I can't promise that I won't write more bad Doffy moments in the story, just that I have stopped my brain from going as dark as it could go. He's such a great villain, and he's his own content warning 😅🦩
Thank you for the excuse to ask this! Let's have a poll on how much dark Doffy content people like to see outside of the main story!
#thank you!!#i love this story so much already#i'm so glad you're enjoying it#doflamingo#trafalgar law x reader#doflamingo x reader#fic poll#x reader#turtletaub responds
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do you ever just look back at something an ex said to you and regret that it did not turn into a full blown fight
#whosebaby talks#this goes here because having an ex constantly say that if you like fluff; recovery; or improvement narratives of any kind#or just stories about trauma survivors that don't have Horrible Tragic Doomed Endings in general#that means you're a boring normie who doesn't really understand or respect abuse survivors; with a thin veneer of ~they're valid but--~#while the entire time talking about how I'm So Glad I Found Someone Who Agrees with This and Enjoys Exactly the Same Narratives I Do :)#and that characters i related to healing or becoming better people immediately made them boring and worthless to him#all while Secretly Indulging in Fluff as a Guilty Pleasure That Would Ruin His Image with me in private#fucked me up! it fucked me up quite a lot and pretty badly!#and there's still shit i really fucking struggle to write to this day as a result 🥲#anyway a) You are Not Immune to Being an Anti Just Because You Swapped Around Darkfic for Wholesome(tm) Content#b) i really wish i had started biting over that one instead of just uneasily accepting it because holy shit was it warranted lol#abuse cw#antis cw#the salt files#personal stuff
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are you planning on writing the next chapter of D-ToD :3? sorry if you’ve already answered that question i just starter reading ur work on ao3 and it’s amazing!!
OMG thank you so much!!! (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*.✧
And no worries! The written portion of the newest chapter is actually FINALLY done for real...after being stuck in editing hell for about a month or so lol. XD I just gotta finish the art and it's a done deal! I'm hoping to have it up on Ao3 here within the next week. I hope you enjoy it when it's out there in the world~! :3
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I love grease so much I legitimately forget he's just an OC and not an official character
He's just a little guy living rent-free in both our minds, anon ♥
#ask#anonymous#train asks#local trains au#I'm glad you're enjoying him!#I sure enjoy putting him into situations#-glances at the next three story parts-
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What's the worst punishment you've ever received from Balekin?
Flashes of a golden bridle, a dark room and a whip with an iron end cloud his vision and make his stomach churn. It was the day the eldest of his brothers brought him to Hollow Hall; the same day his father, High King Eldred, sentenced Asha to be taken away to the Tower of Forgetting and himself banished from the Palace grounds for a crime he did not commit, when he was little over nine years of age. Balekin had made it abundantly clear that should he not accept his punishment, then he was to leave Hollow Hall and his mercy, to instead roam the Lower Courts of Insmire which held dreadful, monstrous fates for inconsequential Princes ― and because the monster he knew was far better than a monster he did not, he had taken off his shirt, sank to his knees and accepted each ghastly strike from the mortal woman's hand until his back bled and his vision swarm far too greatly to hold onto consciousness. It was humiliating ― then again such was the purpose of his punishment ― but it hadn't ended then. When he came to, he was laying on his chest upon a grand oak-made bed with carved legs to resemble animals and covered with fur coverlets ― the softest and simultaneously warmest bed he had ever laid on his entire life ( and perhaps, the only bed he had ever been on, considering he had spent the first nine years of his life either curled up underneath banquet tables of the revels held in the Palace of Elfhame or the beddings of hay in the royal stables ). Margaret was by his side, tending to his back with a particularly foul-smelling concoction that made his wounds itch and tingle, and Balekin was standing tall beside her, looking down at him through furrowed brows as though supervising a particularly difficult and costly strategy plan. A shine caught his eye, and Cardan's gaze shifted to the hardwood and similarly carved nightstand by his bed, upon which laid a golden device, laced on one with one dark, iridescent hair that he guessed belonged to Balekin; It looked like a bridle one would use on a steed or a toad, but it was significantly smaller and strangely fit, as though it was designed for a person to wear. Once Balekin announced that it was enchanted for the wearer to obey the commands of the person whose hair belonged to, that ought to wear it a time until he grows obedient as a Prince should be without the use of it and when Margaret ceased her tending to instead attempt to put it on him, Cardan had thrashed, and clawed, and bit his refusal but wounded as he was, the device was inevitably worn. He did, however, manage to deliver a particularly nasty bite on Balekin's wrist, regardless of whether the thorns adorning his hand hurt his mouth and tongue, but that only resulted in the eldest Greenbriar rage and the decision that since the youngest Prince liked to act like an animal then he would be treated as one and was hence sentenced to spend the night in one of Hollow Hall's basement cells where the grounds are cold, the rooms are dark and the bars are made of iron as punishment to whoever is deserving enough to be put inside. As far as punishments go, that did not differentiate much from the remainder of them throughout the following decade, but unlike the rest, Cardan did cry that night. It was an act that betrayed weakness and it disgusted him. His emotions were a swirling tornado of disgust and hate; hate for himself, for the stupid mortals, for his father, Dain, all his siblings who refused to take him in and the one who did ― hate who burned so bright it almost numbed the cold bitting on his skin. That night, he decided that he would school himself to hide the unwanted emotions, that he would learn to pretend, that he would learn to please his brother and fit into a skin that was not his to wear to begin with. Not a heart of stone, but a heart of fire, strong enough to burn down Elfhame and everyone in it.
Blinking his way back to reality, to safety, and away from the distant memory, Cardan's dark gaze squints dangerously, his sharp features hard and unreadable. ❛ Mind your Mab-forsaken business. ❜ He merely spits before turning on his heel and walking away.
#( 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐈 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 ┊ headcanons )#( 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 ┊ answered )#( tw: abuse )#( if you think i'm making this up I'm glad to inform you here is an unholy book out there with stories full of cardan's nightmare childhood#( the only difference between wren & cardan is that cardan didn't wear the bridle long enough to scar his face ( cz yeah it DOES that )#( talk. about. cardan. greenbriar's. trauma. &. ptsd.#( you thought i'd have this gem in my hands and NOT write a detailed scene on it YOU'RE MISTAKEN. MISTAKEN I SAY#( anyway enjoy the tears. xoxo#( FYI: i personally headcanon that Balekin still has a bitemark scar on his wrist because of cardan :> cardan is proud of it#( anyway jump on the balekin hate everyone we leave at dawn
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#so that dotd rewrite is out and i have some thoughts on it but i wouldn't know where to put them.. maybe in here bc i don't actually feel -#- like making a whole ass text post. this is coming from me as criticism and not hate.. just some crit from one fan to another if you get m#SPOILERS AHEAD >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>#first off props to the team because this was obv a labor of love - 4 and a half years to make a feature long fan movie is hard work#and the animated stuff was a really nice touch and very commendable - you don't see them too often in big fanworks#in terms of the story well.. there are some things i like and some things that i don't (personally) again no hate#i'm aware this is a rewrite and boy howdy it IS a rewrite - though i am a bit sad that percy doesn't end up being the protagonist and it's#- thomas that has to play hero again.. like i kinda get it but what made the original dotd stand out was that percy was given the spotlight#so i spent an ungodly amount of time wondering when percy was gonna take charge or step into the main story to resolve the problem.. sigh#i liked that they tried to give norman more of a character bc a lot of characters do often get neglected in the series but it was kind of -#- hard to sell that for me? the twist in this rewrite was very creative and i do appreciate it but i guess it just ain't for me#“different” is ok and this is just one of many fan rewrites for this particular story#if there was something i enjoyed.. i guess the beginning was still kind of exciting because the set up was honestly like hype a bit#i liked that diesel and d10 actually got to interact face to face and there are clearer dynamics established for the diesels#and also. silverband's performances as d10 will always be fun he does a fantastic job voicing him (how d10 stole xmas will still be my fav)#my criticisms for this movie also derive from the pacing and the voice acting - i found it hard to try and understand tones sometimes -#- because the delivery felt so off.. like don't get me wrong not everyone in the fandom is a voice actor but if we're using static faces -#- for these fan works the delivery has to be a little more clear or else it'll sound like you're reading from a script.. sorry yall :"|#for the pacing i found it a bit hard to parse when some things were going on and how fast things were progressing#as well as the crashes.. that's also another thing bc i couldn't tell bc of the sfx and audio balancing - it could be better..#i wanna say. muffled voices do not substitute for a “far away”/off-screen voice bc i still can't hear it :“|#there were a lot of throwbacks and references to older thomas media/movies but some of them felt a little.. much?#if this is a dotd rewrite why are we getting some parallels with tatmr.. but i digress. at least they made diesel beef with duck a bit#there's a lot more i could say but i'm keeping those to myself. at the end of the day this fan movie was hard work for everyone involved#and you can tell some of the folks were having fun in there - props to them! i'm always glad to see more fan works in the community#we've come so far we're making feature length fan stories and rewrites that's crazy! i hope to see more in the future#fauxtrainpost.txt
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