#jaymeow speaks

[disorganizedkitten]

please please please comment, it's the only way I know if my foreshadowing is working

do fic readers know that their comments actually influence the course of the story sometimes? i don't mean in a "you need to write it this way because i say so 😡" type of comment, i mean when people are asking questions or really engaging with the plot and the themes in the comments they sometimes bring up things that i didn't even think of, or dig into parts of the story that i've overlooked, or get really interested/fixated on something i was going to just kind of glance over--and it has me going 'oh wait that's actually really interesting, that's a good point' and fully adding or tweaking or changing things about the story going forward. i'm literally adding an entire additional chapter to something right now because someone's comment had me like "oh i didn't dig into that as much as i could have." you have impact!

[disorganizedkitten]

5:15 PM

[artemistheauthor]

Running an experiment, either drop a vote or drop an ask - what is the hardest part of writing?

[disorganizedkitten]

Hm. The justice league are called in to deal with two mad scientists who are hunting down and destroying government labs, reportedly claiming that their "research" was stolen

It's odd though. The doctors fenton have no prior instances of active aggression. Even their papers took a sudden turn from anatomy to anthropology of the dead. Is this a vengeful spirit thing?

...considering the "research" is a child's ghost, yeah, actually, it might be

[artemistheauthor]

[disorganizedkitten]

Bites you bites you bites you bites you bi-

CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP

we are going to be covered in bruises when sehr or saga pull us off each other

[artemistheauthor]

There sure are schemes happening on this fine night

[disorganizedkitten]

I absolutely adore how many people tag me in this. Never stop.

Was scrolling through AO3 and found this gem

Enemy to parent is a trope we have to popularise lmao

[disorganizedkitten]

I want to talk about equals theory so bad but putting it into words is so hard. Rude.

[artemistheauthor]

Everyone needs to know how much I adore them

[disorganizedkitten]

No One Believes In The Avatar Au

Aka something silly I came up with a few months ago that I have no idea when I'll write but wanted to share anyway

Aang comes out of the Iceberg and says he’s the avatar, but the avatar has been gone so long that no one believes him

Zuko breaks into the South Pole and says he’s here to cause problems, Aang offers himself as hostage, Zuko also doesn’t believe Aang’s the Avatar and thinks Aang is lying to protect the people at the south pole, Zuko huffily goes off and lets them stay; he has to keep Aang a prisoner because Aang won’t give up the lie but they absolutely argue about it. Because he’s untrained, Aang can’t use any elements other than air

He doesn’t believe in the genocide

Zuko assumes that if Aang is out and about then there are other Air Nomads, so he tries to convince Aang to ditch them when they pass the Southern Air Temple (or to draw the actual avatar out of hiding)

Sokka and Katara come to rescue Aang and they take off running

Uncle goes ‘are we gonna follow them?’ “But he’s not actually the avatar! It’d be a waste of time!”

This is the view most people they meet have. Except Zhao, but he’s just here to cause problems.

They end up crossing paths now and again and Zuko is there to break them out and tell Aang he really just has to stop lying about this before it gets him killed

Zuko gets that Aang is trying to give them hope (goes on an entire rant about how the avatar is a spirit tale that revolutionists use to justify their defiance against the fire nation and then talks about different ‘fake avatars’ who were viciously executed)

And then Aang asks why zuko is hunting the avatar if the avatar is such a spirit tale.

So Zuko explains the terms of his banishment

And Aang goes ‘hey wait, so, if I can fake being the avatar enough for you to get back onto fire nation land, you could take over as fire lord and end the war?’

‘Well, no-’

'Why not? Aren’t you supposed to be the crown prince?’

It’s a disaster. Sokka is amused. Zuko shouts and just takes them to the north pole so they’ll stop

They come back from the north pole and the disaster that it is, and Aang eagerly goes to show off his new mastery to Zuko! Who doesn’t believe him, still

Zuko! Come on!

Zuko proceeds to show off mastery in theater special effects as he explains exactly how they’re faking it

And it’s exasperating but they do take notes. Also they learn so much as Zuko shows off other ways to fake bending using firebending, and then explains how to fake firebending using airbending, and Aang just wants to wrap Zuko in a hug and carry him around like a purse poodle, okay? Okay.

Off in the Earth Kingdom it Just Keeps Happening, and then they get to Ba Sing Se and still no one will believe them. And they have Zuko’s notes.

So.

Katara grabs Sokka by the arm, drags him past where Aang is trying to get them in, and plants him in front of a Ba Sing Se official. “This is Sokka of the Southern Water Tribe, he’s the avatar.”

And despite Sokka’s sputtering, they believe him.

Cue Aang, Katara, and Toph’s new scheme about faking Sokka as the avatar!

When they meet Zuko, Katara immediately reads him in and explains that they’re trying to get the Earth King on their side, but he didn’t believe Aang was the Avatar (of course he didn’t, Aang is 12. The Avatar won’t learn who he is till he’s 16 at the youngest’ ‘which is why we switched who we were saying was the avatar and are now pretending it’s sokka. But Sokka can’t bend at all. Help?’)

Zuko agrees

They’re really good at this, actually

Idk what happens next I just require shenanigans

[artemistheauthor]

It's that time of crisis again. Time to shuffle around blogs and figure out what I want my digital footprint for the next 2-5 years to be

[disorganizedkitten]

I think it so cool, actually, that Elliot likes food. That he's a chef. That around all of his functional knowledge of weapons and fighting styles of militia groups, he also knows culinary things.

Because there are so many reasons for him to know this, and every one makes sense. Elliot has been in the trenches fighting and liberating countries, he knows generals and admirals and soldiers. Elliot knows what rations taste like, what gruel is, of course he got home and made something better, something special, because it was a way to remind himself that it was over.

Elliot has been a hired goon for mobs and mafia, for men who threaten others while snacking on decadence and claiming it shows their superiority. Except those mobsters still need his protection, and he understands how to make such decadence in a borrowed kitchen in half an hour. Their posturing is just that, posturing.

Elliot has been undercover as the type of the man who buy food based on its price tag, and undercover as the type of man who'll eat anything that won't poison him.

Elliot has been the TARGET of assassination attempts, is on wanted lists. Of course he learned to cook so he could recognize it if someone tried to spike his food.

He's been in so many situations, held captive or part of a team in rough circumstances or an unhappily helping goon. Of course he likes being able to go home and make himself food.

Food that he can control the flavour of, the decadence of. Food that he knows hasn't been tampered with, because he made it himself.

Of course it's a point of pride. That's his civilian hobby. And he's good at it.

[artemistheauthor]

Someone slid into my dms a few days ago and called me Artemis which is how I found out the name does NOT vibe anymore 0/10

So now let's look

(birth certificate name) 9/10, I've got a double name and I DO care whether you use all of it or half of it but which I prefer changes

Apple: 9.8/10, I love it but every now and again someone starts complaining about Apple Products (technology) and I go "🥺 what did I do"

Cider: 8/10 I derive GREAT JOY from this

DK: 7/10, I like it but it's not really In The Schema of "that word = me!" yet.

Cecilia: 6/10 I enjoy it but I don't get called it often enough to be really really sure. People should call me that more often

Canary: 4/10 camp names mean a lot to me and it has good memories but I wouldn't introduce myself to anyone new with it

Scarlet: 3/10 I used to respond pretty well but the vibes are off now.

Disorganized: 1/10 I'll know it's me eventually but I hate it

Carissa / Patricia: 0/10 nope. Nada zilch don't

Kitten: 0/10 I will bite you no thank you

...now I gotta pick a name for the main blog that WON'T make me shudder with gross

[disorganizedkitten]

🎉👀💜🤞🩸

Yeah okay. Fits. Sadly these are basic emojis so my canhas, elmofire, and chewing on text emojis down count 😭

@weak-fragile-mortal @nancyheart11

💯🙏💛🟨👍

[carissascontent]

I'd like to write a quick love letter to the queue button, because it means that when I'm active I can reblog about 80 posts a day, but not only does it let the posts be staggered so my mutuals and I aren't stuck in the feedback loop of seeing the same post seven times in a row bc everyone's reblogging it, BUT also means that I can spend a week or two active and then the blog can stay active for another month before I have to come back to it.

Currently have 2 scheduled posts a day + whatever catches my fancy enough for an "ah yes, time to work the system" moment. There are 541 queued posts at this exact moment and it's been less than a week.

How do I work the system you ask? I reblog it right away, and then I add it to the queue and ensure that it'll recirculate in a couple of months >:D

I have some posts that were saved as drafts throughout the blogs that are verging on 5 years old now >:D time for a resurgence!