#me banging my pans together

[argetcross]

I got reverse uno tagged by @corviiids! <3

self-rec rules: when you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you’ve written, then pass on to at least five some other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💞

"wasting beats of this heart of mine" [hades game, gen/thanzag, M] - Pretty easy first place. Zagreus becomes mortal in exchange for his memories and grows up raised by a mortal son of Demeter with no idea who his parents are. Come for the thanzag, stay for mythical and Bronze Age-flavored ancient Greece, mortal and god relationships, questions about death and duty and love, and Callisto (🐻). Not sure who's let me get away with writing this for so long, but for some reason, people are willing to get on my wild ride.

"Two Hour Vacation" [my hero academia, tododeku, E] - Todoroki seeks Midoriya out on the evening of his abusive father's funeral and loses his virginity. I don't write a lot of smut, but I'm very proud of the flavors in this one.

"Stray Italian Greyhound" [my hero academia, momojiro, bg tododeku, M] - The best and only sex comedy I've ever written. Someone called it wlw/mlm solidarity. Nostalgic for that time in college when everyone's discovering what sex is? This is the fic for you.

"The Wyrmtongue Heist" [baldur's gate 3, tavstarion/gen, T] - Keres, my Tav, has a really shitty family of elves that belongs to the Cult of the Dragon. Unfortunately, they also have the key to returning to Avernus and reuniting with Karlach. It's self-indulgent, full of banter, and I'm really happy with it. This is like my version of playing DND with myself.

"The Art of Suicide" [fe13, say'ri and morgan, T] - Morgan asks about death in Chon'sin and Say'ri remembers her brother who sold their kingdom for her. A heavier fic written a long time ago, but I think it stands well.

tagging: anyone who wants to do this!!! my brain is soup right now, but if you are reading this, consider yourself tagged.

[5ummit]

Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

[allgremlinart]

going into the jeeko tag on this app and having to see the same 4 shitty posts of mine from the past 5 months or so and practically nothing else

[sadistic-sakamaki]

Takes a quick peek. Is this fandom still alive?

[dark-elf-writes]

Is Desmond in the Chosen One Group the Wine Auntie or the big brother who knows waaaay to many ways to make alcohol?

And also would Tav be apart of this chaos?

I would say cool older brother who lets you drink from his beer as long as you don’t tell mom (Bilbo). He also mixes a mean drink for the older members of the group when they are doing their usual bitching sessions.

Harry and Percy get a lot of tips on how to avoid anyone looking for them by non magical means (all culminating in “whatever you don’t don’t legally buy a motorcycle no matter how much fun it might seem”) that come very much in handy later and he also teaches them how to climb/fall just in case.

He also gets mothered by Bilbo and the older members of the group and he is a full deer in headlights about it because after William and the Farm he has no idea how to accept affection.

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GOD TAV

Tav would absolutely be in the support group with all the chaos they would bring. And the singing. You can pry Drow Bard Tav from my cold dead hands.

(Brb going to start a new character so the dream guardian can be an old man to fully lean into this au’s running theme)

[jichanxo]

sensei scribbles

[sidereon-spaceace]

oh god this is getting dire. i think i might actually have to start reading romance novels

[ghafahey]

SHADOW & BONE, SEASON 01 EPISODE 04 — Otkazat’sya

every ghafahey scene ever: 6/??

[rosemary-bells]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE MOST SPECIALEST OF BOYS!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE MOST ICON LEGEND MOMENT BABYGIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[voxiiferous]

Alright gang, it's time for a trifecta HC related to the show's portrayal.

Vox and Alastor's beginning friendship.

Vox didn't meet Alastor as some newly fallen nobody. The Vaudeville fellow was dead, and television was already beginning to sweep over Hell by mid 1956. Vox had been dead for the better part of a year when he catches the Radio Demon's attention.

Whether or not he was already considered an Overlord is more a matter of degrees, but he meets Alastor on a semi-equal footing. He's not yet on his way to empire building-- there's not even colour television yet! But his rise to initial power is not due to Alastor or to Valentino and the Vees. Vox is only dead like a week before it all starts to come together. Chances are, Alastor meets him during the latter phases of implementing the power grid, so still very early on, but Vox is already starting to extend his tendrils across the city, even if he isn't yet super powerful.

Why Stayed Gone Is Like That™

Vox's usual response to Alastor is... more chill. Certainly more thought out and sensible, instead, what Hell gets is an impromptu, off the cuff broadcast borne as a result of a few different reasons. The first is finding out, from Val, that Alastor has ben back for a week. And he didn't know. Vox doesn't like not knowing things at the best of times.

This, in turn, leads him to realize that Alastor is bound to do a broadcast, really, at any time, and so he doesn't have time to find the information he wants, or to predict when that will be. It's a scramble to gain control of the narrative before Alastor can. And well, we all see that it doesn't really work, but the manic, panicked lies fall to pieces only once Alastor is back on the air. The very thing Vox was trying to avoid.

Vox struggles without some form of structure to base his performance off of, and this had none.

Plust just the emotional conflicts that come from Alastor doing back after seven years.

Related to that, nine times out of ten, if there's an Overlord meeting and only one Vee shows up, chances are, it's Vox. Even in the show, we see Velvette walking in, on the phone with him, assuring everything will be fine, that she has it handled. Not exactly, the actions of someone for whom this is a normal, everyday occurrence, so much as a last minute 'I can't'.

This is half 'oh fuck no, Alastor's going to be there and I can't deal with that', and half 'I just caused a city wide blackout, am feeling suitably rough, and have so many apologies to make without showing up at a meeting because it's so embarrassing'. He wired himself into the power grid, and most of the time, that's fine. He's gotten very good at managing his emotions, to keep it all under control.

We see even earlier that episode that he's good at rolling with the press and with the punches, that's second nature, and he's got a lot of practice dealing with the business side of things. He doesn't fall to pieces, he's not an unprepared, manic disaster, he's perfectly calm, charming, putting people at ease. This is far more in line with how he usually is. Give him a week to deal with the revelation Alastor is back, and to gain some information, and he'll be back to his typical responses. Their rivalry has existed as a form of tit for tat for decades, so Alastor wins today, they've been scoring punches off each other for longer than a week.

The Blue Light District and the Vees

The biggest, main takeaway for my portrayal of Vox, is that there is no Vee tower. They all have their own districts that while, all beside each other, and thus a larger, centralized whole, are distinct. If they all lived together the alliance would have fallen apart within the decade. He might just gave killed Valentino.

No, no, he has his tower, Val has his porn studio, Velvette has... whatever she has. The Blue Light District has been his little corner of he city for seventy years. it is, like the show shows, the brightest part of the city, and the overall tallest. It's perpetually undergoing construction, improvements, repairs. He has a lot of people on staff who's jobs are related to the BLD rather than the media or technological production side of things.

Vox does enough, and has a large enough empire he wouldn't be content, or have room with only a third of a tower. Vox's tower is the heart of his empire, and it is, whatever alliance and connections exist between the three of them, his.

Each Vee has a different approach to what they want, what they need, and how much value they place on it, so while the other two have the fingerprints of Vox's taste over it, in no place is New York quite so reconstructed as within the borders of the Blue Light District.

[legendaryrooftopscene]

in which i take a stab at omegaverse and make it weird(er than normal), gender-feels and complex emotions about having kids are explored, kim makes dumb choices, and somehow everything ends up being okay.

(kimchay omegaverse au, featuring omega!chay and omega!kim. well. kind of. you'll see).

[brother-emperors]

hellooo i found ur page through the aeneas & achilles comic u did (brilliant brilliant brilliant) and just spent the last hour going through all ur art - absolutely incredible!! i was quite captivated by the excerpts from books, etc that you included in much of ur roman history pieces - do u by chance have a reading list of ur most recommended texts?? i am a classics major (future latin teacher) & big fan of. yknow. All That. :)

thank you so much!!! 💖💓 and I definitely do ✨ here are some favorites that rattle around in my head pretty regularly:

Cassius and Brutus: The Memory of the Liberators, E. Rawson

Citizens of Discord: Rome and Its Civil Wars, Brian Breed, Cynthia Damon, and Andreola Rossi

Emotional Trauma in Greece and Rome: Representations and Reactions, Andromache Karanika and Vassiliki Panoussi

The Cambridge Companion to Horace

Jane Wilson Joyce's translation of Statius' Thebaid

Statius and Virgil: The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid, Randall T. Ganiban

Cleopatra and Antony, Linda Bamber

Empire and Memory, Alain Gowing

Incest, Cannibalism, and the Gods: The Rise of the House of Atreus, Michael Kinnucan

[47-protons]

I am Once Again stepping onto my soapbox for assorted Kansans to say that the state vote is August Second and you better VOTE NO on that fucking “value them both” amendment!

from their website;

“A vote for the Value Them Both Amendment would reserve to the people of Kansas, through their elected state legislators, the right to pass laws to regulate abortion because there is no Kansas constitutional right to abortion or to require the government funding of abortion. A vote against the Value Them Both Amendment would make no changes to the constitution of the state of Kansas and could prevent the people, through their elected state legislators, from regulating abortion in many circumstances. It would leave in place the newly discovered right to abortion first recognized in 2019.”

[superhousecat-once-again]

To me the worst thing about having a depressive episode is like no matter how cognizant of it I am, I can’t just talk myself out of it. Like bitch!!! Stop thinking things that you are logically aware are not true!!! You’re doing this to yourself!!! The call is coming from inside the house!!! So just!!! Stop doing that!!!

[therealjammy]

Trying to convince myself it’s okay to indulge in original work when fic writing is at a standstill by telling myself “you’re allowed to play with other toys and come back to the ones you’ve been playing with”

[guinevereslancelot]

me, trying to will romance into my life by fitting every hallmark movie trope into my personality at once: yes i am cynical abt love and don't have time for romance. i want to focus on my career instead and also start a christmas tree farm. once again i Do Not have time for love and i do believe in holiday magic. santa isn't real . christmas tree farm 🪤