#livefancy

[angelstrawbabie420]

ive got to remember that im just some guy. im not the most horrible person to ever walk the earth. ive got my flaws like everyone else does. i am just a human. and i deserve to live just like everyone else.

[disvain]

list of OCs :]

a brief thread (that i'll try to update) with my characters and a brief summary of them so you can ask them stuff if you wanna :3

(also, if you wanna draw them, please ask first!!)

disvain - sweet wanderer (he/him; in his mid 20's)

a sea otter who barely holds any memories of his past. his body still knows how to swiftly move with a sword. he's been travelling around the universe to find clues about his past.

his blade, the Tizona, is forged with a metal said to come from another realm, and allows him to cast a variety of nature-related spells.

hiroko - cold mercenary (she/her; in her mid 20's)

a river otter who seeks to seeks to find the culprit behind her village's fire. being left alone at a young age because of it, all she has left from her parents is the Leviathan - a ninjato said to be forged with the same metals as the Tizona and able to cast water and ice focused spells.

despite being fond with using daggers, her fighting style mainly focuses on a mix of martial arts.

epsali - warrior princess (she/her; in her late 30's)

despite her royal status, epsali is a fire dragon who would rather train and fight than attend to her duties as a princess; that's part of the reason why she often wears her royal guard's armour instead of her dress.

although her people seems to dislike the royal family, she cares for them. she carries with her a massive axe which she was told is made of emerald.

livefe - shy healer (she/her; in her early 20's)

adopted by epsali at an early age, she looks up at her almost as a motherly figure, although she's still unsure what sort of dragon she is. all she has from whoever left her at the castle's door is her ruby pendant.

she's diligently been studying light magic ever since, and her staff helps her amplify her spells. no-one in the castle is too sure what these seals around it are, though.

[xitty]

Btw, I don't know how many people caught the announcement about the next Masterpiece MVs and upcoming LiveFes MVs:

Next Masterpiece MVs will be for fine, Ryuseitai and 2wink (not necessarily in that order).

LiveFes MVs will be Selection 10 Unit songs (the ones we could vote members for in-game) and:

! era songs for Trickstar (Nijiiro Seasons or Diamond Summer) fine (Tryst of Stars or Rainbow Circus) Undead (Darkness4 or Break the Prison) Ryuseitai (Goshoku no Shooting Star!!!!! or Yumenosaki Ryuseitaika) Knights (Knights the Phantom Thief or Checkmate Knights) Ra*bits (Dream Collection or Hoppin' Season) 2wink (Wonder Wonder Land Toy or 2winkle Star Beat)

A brand new song for Akatsuki

Jin & Akiomi MV (no mention whether it's old or new song. Only Sentimental Liars doesn't have MV but it's a Reminiscence song)

There won't be LiveFes MVs for Valkyrie, Switch, MaM, Eden, Alkaloid and Crazy:B in this rotation. (remember they don't have any more unused songs except ex-Valkyrie and MaM feat. Akatsuki)

Out of those ! era songs, following have been performed in Dream Lives, so there's choreography for them (might mean nothing though and Trickstar and Knights have both here anyway):

Nijiiro Seasons, Diamond Summer, Darkness4, Yumenosaki Ryuseitaika, Knights the Phantom Thief, Checkmate Knights, 2winkle Star Beat

[starswallowingsea]

uuuuauughashdfoiasmfd

[ensemblewithsenpai]

Apr 30th: An official statement from Happy Elements regarding writer names, this year's events, and new music videos. A full summary is below the cut.

Making Writer Names Private: From Apr 30th onwards, all stories between ES! and ES!! will no longer have writer names listed.

Main Story Audition: The main story will consist of 4 tour events carried out once every two months. The results of the auditions will be revealed outside of the event.

Unit Events: All units will have an event in a year's time, from Apr 2024 to Apr 2025.

Shuffle Events: There is no predicted date for the completion of the shuffle unit project, though it is estimated to be more than a year's time. Characters who have received a 5* shuffle card in the past will not be selected as the 5*s.

New Music Videos and LiveFes: All units will have an MV outside of unit events this year.

Songs from ES Idol Song Season 2 will be used (e.g. fine's Never-ending Stage!!!!, Ra*bits' Usagi no Mori no Ongakkai).

Songs from ES Idol Song Extra ALKALOID & Crazy:B will be used for ALKALOID and Crazy:B. The song titles are Across the universe and Foolish Alien, respectively.

[an-ruraiocht]

authors on ao3 love to say "not a real fic, I'm just tidying up the livefic" and then it's 246,000 words long

[rufusahhahh]

I MIGHT STREAM ON THIS WEEKEND FOR FUN

i just got obs to work and i could STREAm my ART and DRAW LIVEf or FUN. Idk what day but I will have FRIENDS hopefully that will be there

[alfgifu]

Fic analysis 9. Tenebra, or The Crow

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47563792/chapters/119874838

Word count: 246,201

Chapters: 67

First posted: 31st May 2023

Last chapter up: 22nd January 2024

Summary: 

It was highly inconvenient to find myself transformed into a crow in the Imperial Apartments, and somewhat alarming when I discovered that I could not access my magic, and therefore could not turn back.

...

The small room was empty, and dark. A single patch of silvery moonlight picked out a fluffy piece of fabric draped over the back of the long couch.

Cliopher stared for a long moment, then became aware of movement by his feet. He looked down. The large black crow had landed beside him in a splatter of ink, and was regarding him solemnly with one gold-rimmed black eye.

“She’s taken him,” he said, softly.

How and why this came about

The behemoth.

It wasn’t supposed to be. Tenebra started as a collaborative story-making exercise in a discord channel with a number of people feeding in. The premise - that the emperor becomes a crow, and that Cliopher fails to recognise him - led to a rush of ideas about what Cliopher might have done to try to rescue his lord. Most obviously, Cliopher would travel to Sky Ocean and attempt to bring the Sun-on-Earth back from the Sun or the Moon.

The livefic hopped about a bit but mostly consisted of bits of the conversation between Cliopher and the Moon Lady and then a later scene of Cliopher on Loaloa finally recognising what has happened and figuring out how to restore his Radiancy.

With the agreement of the other participants I offered to tidy it up a bit. I thought I’d probably add about three chapters at the start (to get Cliopher and his crow up to Sky Ocean) and then could just stitch together the parts we’d sketched for the second half.

That was not what happened.

First off I realised how many questions we’d left unanswered about what had happened and why. I didn’t want to dwell on it but I did want there to be a sense that there was a reason, so I started with a mishap befalling the Diamond of Gaesion. Then I plunged into the reaction of the Imperial Household to the sudden disappearance of his Radiancy and, well, it was more than three chapters. I skipped the politics almost entirely, and it was still more than three chapters.

Cliopher had to adopt his crow, extract himself from the Palace, and travel to Gorjo City to get his boat. That meant reckoning with his family and friends too. Including sections from Tenebra’s pov added more length and shenanigans, as did working through a properly mythic voyage into Sky Ocean.

All told it took nine chapters to get to the Moon Lady, two for the negotiation, three to get out of Sky Ocean, four to get Cliopher and Tenebra back to the Vangavaye-ve, and another four for Cliopher to put his clues together and break the spell.

I could have stopped there, where the livefic ended. Yes, the world was going up in flames, but Cliopher had his emperor back, that was the important thing.

Only, as that arc of the fic ended, in the immediate reaction to being restored to human form, Fitzroy kissed his rescuer.

I could have left it there, too. But it would have felt cruel. There were so many questions and challenges raised by that one instinctive kiss. I wrote it because it felt natural in the moment and then I sat around wondering what I’d done.

And then I fixed it. Which took another 13 chapters. 

Cliopher is clearly presented in the books as being (a) uninterested in sex unless someone else raises it, (b) strongly longing for a lifelong committed relationship which is deep and bonding and doesn’t involve sex, or doesn’t have to involve sex, because that feels more true and meaningful to him given his personal indifference to sex (c) someone who thinks of himself as only being attracted to women, (d) someone who constantly muses on the physical presence of his beloved lord in terms that certainly sound a great deal like physical attraction.

Fitzroy, by contrast, is famous for his exploits as a lover and unquestionably physically attracted to Cliopher, but has a whole empire’s worth of trauma around asking for the things that he wants.

It felt important to take some time to work through what it would look like for them to talk to one another about all of this and come to an understanding.

The second place I could have left off would have been the end of what became a short recovery break on Loaloa, around chapter 35. Having got that far, however, I sort of wanted to resolve all the other threads left hanging - the politics, the priest-wizards, and so on. And that was another 32 chapters.

What worked and what didn’t

Tenebra was supposed to be a short fic and I thought I’d finish it faster if I just wrote and published as I went. So that’s what I did - I had no buffer at any stage, I dropped a chapter as soon as I finished it and went on to the next one. This led to an erratic posting approach. At times I was uploading chapters every day, or even twice a day. At other times I let it lapse for weeks while I focused on something else. This helped me keep up the illusion that it wasn’t a real fic and I could therefore do what I liked, which I needed so I didn’t run screaming for the hills.

I was pleased with the slow disintegration of Tenebra’s human intellect, and also with the way that Fitzroy kept crow mannerisms when he returned to human form. It was also satisfying, if rather hard work, to bring together all the big politics of the world with the small politics of friends and family.

Navigating Cliopher and Fitzroy into an acknowledged bond and physical relationship was something I approached with a certain amount of fear and trembling. The ace representation in these books is important; the relationship dynamics in canon are interpreted in different ways by different people; I’m not ace myself. I wanted to do the characters justice and I’m pleased with how it came out.

Chapter 35 also included my first ever sex scene which felt like a big deal at the time. I was thrilled to find that depicting sex isn’t materially different from depicting any other part of a relationship - what does this look and feel like to the characters, and what does that mean to them? - but I did go back and tweak it very slightly around the time I finished the fic up, because I think the pacing was too hurried in the first version.

What I learned from writing it

Working on something over such a long time and sharing it in instalments as written gave rise to lots of opportunities to take inspiration from comments. I appreciated them greatly, and was incredibly pleased with the art that some readers made [melts].

There was some fandom drift over the time I was writing, with many of those who had been involved in the early conversations moving on from active involvement in the discord server. The big burst of fic in the summer of 2023 was almost certainly not sustainable given the small size of the fandom. By the time I was uploading the later chapters at the end of 2023/early 2024 the Lays fic conversation had largely dried up and the enthusiasms on the server had shifted focus - which happens, of course - I’m sure things have moved on again in the ten months since then.

It was hard not to read that change as a sign that I was doing something wrong, even though rationally I knew that made no sense. So I definitely learned something about the fragility of ego, the addictiveness of validation, and the way the brain benchmarks automatically to context.

More cheerfully, I did finish it, and I’m proud of it. I think it holds up well to re-reading. It turns out that far more plot can be worked out on the fly than I used to believe, and I love the way this story surprised me as I was writing it. If I’d planned it and written it all and done an editing round and had a good beta, would it have been better? Yes, probably, but it also might never have happened at all. Sometimes you just have to keep swimming.

[bucketspammer4life]

☆ WVBA At A Party ☆

So uhh tw for alcohol mention,emetophobia other than that its ok

Glass Joe

- doing his best not to get thrown into a dance circle

- anxious as fuck

- piston hondo (drunk as shit) keep trying to explain star wars lore to him

- hes just nodding and pretending to understand, he cant because hes speaking in japanese

- had some drinks & passed out because he doesnt take alcohol well

- woke up on the roof because some drunk bastard decided to put him onto there, theres now a investigation about trying to find who put Joe on the roof

- will hold your drink for you

- keeps getting dragged into doing dumb shit by aran ryan

Von Kaiser

- buzzed, looks like hes on the verge of death

- at the karaoke bar, killing it, yess grandpa slayyyy one foot in the grave one foot in the rave

- keeps chugging like hell, look at him go

- teaching some random people how to do traditional german dances

- randomly starts sobbing

- bear hugger has to stop him from chugging another bottle of whiskey

Disco Kid

- thrown into the dance circle, killing it

- spamming everyones phones with really positive texts

- "YUO AR TAKENTED SNF CAN DK SNYTHING YKU PUT YOU4 NINF UBTO" (You are really talented and can do anything you put your mind into)

-"thank you : )"

- "YOU SRE LIVEF ANR 4SKEBT2D,,,,ÖOCE YOURDRKF" (You are loved, love yourself)

- wasted

- giving out free hugs

- had a really good dance off with aran ryan

- fell down a flight of stairs and got up like it was nothing

- dancing the pain away

Piston Hondo

- avoiding the dance circle like its a death sentence

- explaining the star wars lore to glass joe in japanese

- will hate himself in the morning

- speaking really broken japanglish with bear hugger

- keeps lifting up von kaiser & running away as he holds him

- partying hard

- randomly starts speaking about stuff, you could be talking about how you ran over a man and his son just yesterday and he'll be like "Do you like sailor moon"

- tried to eat a glass of water, sad because he got stopped

- randomly got stuck in a british accent

King Hippo

- passed out on the floor

- someone help him please

- people keep trying to use him as a trampoline

- randomly gets up and starts to talk about sea slugs

- he just leaves after that,he is done

Great Tiger

- only sober person here

- has to stop piston hondo from explaining the star wars lore to random people

- making sure everyone is hydrated

- victim of disco kids positive texts

- gathers drunk passed out people and puts them somewhere safe so nobody gets hurt

- oh my god he is on the verge of tears from all this stress he needs help

- ended up sobbing into disco kids arms after it all got too stressful

- he could really use a break

- will hold your drink,may switch it out with water if he decides youve had enough for tonight

Don Flamenco

- too distracted too go to the dance circle

- keeps singing & referencing dumb stuff while anyone talks to him, he just has 0 thoughts right now

- "i feel like im never gonna amount to anything in my life, it just feels like im destined to end up dying alone-"

- "FIESTA SALSA QUİNCEAÑERA-"

- "why do i even bother"

- drinking cocktails like someones gonna take it away from him if he doesnt inhale it within 10 seconds

- keeps trying to call carmen

- stumbling like hell

- someone needs to tape his mouth shut

- asking the dumbest shit ever to carmen as he texts her

- "would you still love me if i was a muppet,,"

- "would you still be able to control yourself or would you need to be used like a actual muppet??"

- "i dont knwo im durnk"

Bear Hugger

- will not go into the dance circle, ever

- singing sea shanties & suddenly has the personality of a ye olden sailor

- someone convinced him to wax his legs

- confused as shit when he wakes up in the morning

- listening to hondo infodump about sailor moon, intrigued

- will laugh at anything, laughed at Macho mans left eyebrow for a solid 40 minutes

- passed out for a hour after that

- brought a random frog from the nearest pond & named it Buddy, buddy was never seen again after someone threw him out of a window

- ate candle wax, he just did, he somehow stomached it

- sober yet wasted, tapdancing on that line between mentally not present & aware

Aran Ryan

- drunk but has a camera, recording whatever happens

- "guys... this little pocket sized eejit is stuck on the roof... what the fuck.. get him off of there"

- will do anything you dare him to do, got dared to throw someones TV out of the window, the rest is history

- eated a bees

- chased piston hondo with a chair, you havent known true fear until a irishman with a camera & chair is chasing you while yelling like a psychopath while youre talking about star wars lore

- called glass joe "Glasses Jonathan"

- mourned the loss of buddy with bear hugger

- on his hater routine, texting back discos positive messages with mean messages

Soda Popinski

- sober, enjoying the show

- in the dance circle, busting it down

- dehydrated because theres no soda :(

- trying to convince aran ryan to eat a pair of headphones

- gives out water to anyone who appears drunk & asks for a drink telling them its "strong stuff" Just to see them smile & hydrate themselves

- enjoying the karaoke

- also mourning the loss of buddy, thought he was really cool

Bald Bull

- scared of the dance circle

- drunk but his social anxiety is still acting up

- mom i threw up pose when he zones out & stares into the void

- standing in the corner or clinging onto don flamenco because he cant manage crowds well

- getting second hand embarrasment from don flamencos singing

- people keep using the top of his head as a mirror

- clinging onto the nearest extroverts he knows well

- "what if everyone thinks i look like a complete idiot standing in the corner"

- Just really anxious & stressed, he doesnt manage social events well

- needs some silence

Super Macho Man

- thinks hes a good dancer, looks like hes having a stroke, dancing is not for him, especially drunk dancing

- people keep calling him grandpa

- sobbing over any minor event that effects him even slightly negatively

- sobbed over the loss of buddy

- crying over everything

- sobbing on the bathroom floor because he threw up so hard he felt like his soul left him

- hes literally just crying

- tried to do karaoke through his tears, couldnt sing the tears away

Mr Sandman

- pushed into the dance circle, accidentally made a conga line, who knew a conga line full of drunk men could be so fun?

- watching aran ryan eat weird shit & cheering him on because he thinks its funny

- bald bull tried to make a "man me a sand" joke to him, ended up looking like he was having a seizure

- "Mr sandman.. Sand.. The man?.. Sand man.. Uhhh, man him a sand-"

- "bull please lay down"

- enjoying bear huggers sea shanties

- trying to get glass joe off the roof

- fell asleep using a freezer as a pillow

Extra

- narcis showed up to tell everyone that theyre losers & left

- doc louis left early with mac as soon as the alcohol drinking started

[kaguya-muneuji]

hiii 🖊 miharu !!! i like them

ik this is abt hcs but liuke i dont care im goingto talk about miharuu...

they really like spicy foods ! which doesnt help their singing at all but what can you do about it they REALLY want that new spicy ramen dish at that new place that just opened up come on wont you let them try some WHO CARES if they have a livefes this week its Fine. their vocal chords will be fine trust. (they later have to drink lots of lemon and tea to make up for that ramen </3)

[hocksburn]

new livefic up its a combo of yesterday n today. granny seeing askarov eyeing up klim's two-stick nest and hes like get the FUCK out. i love this nest actually. you cant have it. (if u read between the lines of the fic. they arent quite there yet but theyre Getting there.)

shoutout klimjury for providing the inspo. also i put them all in a series so u can subscribe to that if u are interested! maybe there'll be a coherent plot by the time we hit playoffs idk

[disvain]

sea of clouds

[praycambrian]

PRAY miss you blowing a kiss to you on the wind. also: 🔥 what’s something that’s currently going really well?

tooks! captain my captain! blowing you a kiss right back i promise i'm still alive lol. thank you for the ask <3

🔥 what’s something that’s currently going really well?

i'd say my writing in general is going really well right now! my personal life is stable and happy, my professional life is productive and fulfilling, and it turns out that not trying to crawl out of an actively on-fire dumpster makes it easier to invest in what i love. shocking!! i'm still working on my original novel(s?), and really excited to turn my attention back to that project, but this year i've been working on what's going to be my longest and most successful story so far (a hands of the emperor canon divergence AU that is at 100k and only 5/7ths done hahaha kill me) and i've learned A LOT. i'm growing, i'm having fun, i'm doing rewarding little one-offs on kinkmemes and livefics while maintaining a larger project, i'm collaborating with artists and getting betaed and offering betas...it just feels really good :)

ask me other stuff or play the game yourself :)

[thetisming]

i got a supercharge for KILLING a golden familiar. that i needed to steal from. i have the worst life anyonrs ever livef ntw

[xitty]

Enstars has stopped displaying writer names for the stories in-game. This includes old and new stories. They say this is to combat slander against the writers online and they tell people to behave. This decision was made together with all the writers.

In happier news: Main Story Audition Arc will be 4 parts: tours every 2 months or so. Shuffles will have 5*s for characters who didn't have 5* last time. Every unit will have a song event.

And! Livefes will have MVs for !! era season 2 b-sides, that means for example Never-ending Stage!!!! for fine and Savage Love Affair for Undead!

[x]

[gilderoylockhart]

I wish Tyler livef closer to me tjis is so sad guys