#oof this is a lot of ppl to tag

[writtenbyevie]

who do you think would win a roast off? seijoh four or miya four?

[mifhortunach]

a bunch of doodles that i honestly started like. 2yrs ago!! but only just got back to, lol

insp all through an episode of the inimitable Toxic Podcast~ alternate careers for norman bates to have; this time a fishing supply shop: Bates'n'Tackle!

[numbknee]

South park fan

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[sheerioswifties]

Okay I- I saw the post from Claire that uh kinda confirms theories that BTTWS may be about a close friend having a m*scarriage and it all makes sense and Claire even quotes it and my heart HURTS for her I mean I've been there both ways too I've also been the friend up all night while someone very close to me went through it and also a very premature birth it's all gutwrenching (and side note I almost wanted to warn my friend not to listen to BTTWS bc it's heartbreaking but the more I listen to it the more I see how actually perfectly and beautifully Taylor put it which I can go on about in another post but) I just- it- it's still bothering me- that she uses the phrase "could've been, would've been, should've been..." as part of the chorus of that song, a very specific phrase, and then she literally used that phrase as the TITLE of her J**** M**** song (do we have a calcium harvest like name for that asshole yet?)... but so like- she never does ANYTHING like that unintentionally. That's too much of a coincidence for those songs not to be somehow connected and it is BOTHERING me it's legitimately kept me up at midnight pondering what is going on it just. It bothers me. I love Taylor. I love Claire. So much pain and heartache I just sgstfisostsotsotsost

[tevanbuckley]

“As I've stated before, there is a lack of chemistry between Oliver and Lou and I think the writers are using that to their advantage and good on them for doing so. One step closer to buddie with that off chemistry” I’ve just read this and wow people are really… yeah no word

oof, think i might've seen that one and yeah, like someone said it could be s15 with buck and tommy saying their wedding vows and someone would make the post "see! they cut to a reaction shot of eddie! he smiled! this is it guys!"

honestly i think the reason i've pivoted so hard to bucktommy is that going into the b*ddie tag and seeing those sort of posts just made me kinda sad.

because for the most part they aren't malicious (maybe not the one you're quoting but more generally) and i do get why b*ddie means a lot to people and why it would mean even more for it to go canon, and bi!buck is the biggest reason ppl have ever had to be hopeful it could, but now they're twisting canon into whatever shape necessary to keep that hope alive and lashing out at the ppl who don't agree with them.

[enden-k]

Thank you for keeping your sfw blog sfw! I really enjoy your art (the suggestive stuff too) but as an ace I’m not really into outright sexy stuff so I really appreciate it! <3 love from a fellow kaveh simp

i know lots of ppl mix their stuff together (idc as long as they tag everything so i can filter nsfw content) but i prefer to keep everything neatly separated. also bc i know that most ppl dont check my pinned and wont filter the right tags if i were to merge all my accs. and personally i feel uncomfortable imagining posting heavy nsfw on an acc where i KNOW there are minors or ace/sex repulsed ppl following me and not filtering it

sfw and mild suggestive stuff goes to my sfw main blog (this here) bc of minors or ppl who are uncomfortable with sexual themes, anything more than suggestive and heavy/explicit nsfw goes to my nsfw accs for us adults only. where i dont want minors on my nsfw accs, i dont want nsfw on my sfw accs ajcsbjk it rlly is just about me wanting to have a comfy safe space for all of us on both my accs. also yea this goes not only for my art but also for anons too so general reminder again, dont send me such messages here if you want me to answer !

anw enough of my babbling (i feel like i have to repeat such stuff every now and then bc new ppl oof), sending love back !!! <3

[bodyfrmabalcony]

actually sorry to be back at this again but i did have slightly more to say about tim and jason (see last post i reblogged)

that post does a lot of analysis that i enjoyed re: their read on what tim is dream hallucinating jason saying re: his own death and i had a couple thoughts i wanted 2 add to that. tldr they r saying that this is wayy more about tim than it is about jason and i super agree. i said something about jason's line saying he killed himself in my tim post from last week, but it was kinda reductive, where i said basically yeah that sure sounds like like a way bruce might describe it!! but i don't really think that's the whole story - my more genuine nuanced take on that is a little more like: it sounds an awful lot like what a scared kid might imagine that bruce saying about what happened to a robin who fucks up, i.e., not something bruce said about jason but something tim is afraid bruce would say (or think) about tim if tim went the same way as jason

being a martyr and a cautionary tale and a failure - his own or bruce's - are all stacked up on top of each other w/ jason, and tim just kind of. has all that. to deal with. the linked post gets way into how tim is reacting to his mom's death, which is so so interesting to me, bc tim is clearly soo scared of his grief disqualifying him from everything else he wants and feels like he needs to do. he's scared he won't be able to be robin bc bruce sees him compromised by his grief, so he's got to grieve Just Right, at the same time that he's basically trying to take on bruce's grief for jason. the kid is in the poster house for Grief Alters Your Life In Ways You Can't Control and he's still trying to grieve correctly. oof.

and back to tim's relationship to jason post-jason's death, it's so interesting in every direction, but specifically a big thing to me is that on some level jason is not real. like he is, obviously, but tim didn't meet him and he's never going to. he's not dick, a man tim can remember as a child and whose apartment he can break into as a slightly older child. he's not bruce, a guy whose basement tim can end up standing in if he tries hard enough. he doesn't! exist! you don't get to meet dead men! jason doesn't need to be pinned down as tim's hero or tim's fear or tim's resentment, bc the most important thing is that he's just a story. he's just an idea.

and then, of course, what do u do when the idea puts a knife to your throat. or puts on bright yellow tights to beat u up in front of your friends. things get really silly!! quoting my own tags on the first linked post just to have them here as well:

#i think constantly constantly about the car crash disaster of #all the things ppl did in their grief after jason died and then #jason comes back. and sees things he was never meant to see #and it's specifically sooo interesting for the ppl who got caught up in the grief but never even met jason #tim looking at the memorial case #cass sitting at jason's grave on his birthday with bruce #like wtf is jason supposed to do w all that grief from ppl he doesnt know for a person he only sort of was #and on the flip side! wtf r the ppl who grieved a story supposed to do when the story walks up to them! #and in some cases. walks up to them holding a knife. #anyway just thinkin

[dio-the-thot-exterminator]

whats the tumblr accounts of some of ur fav ocs like

I wanted to come up with actual usernames for them but some were taken and that's kinda awkward uhhhhhh

Becky Maurice

“You have tumblr? Ew grosss”

I love Becky but she wouldn't be caught dead on tumblr 

She's a Instagram tiktok girl sorryyy

If we are being sillay then she’d have a secret acc prlly one of those girly coquette blogs or a stan blog for cupcakke whaaaaaa

Definitely just something with aesthetic photos and gifs.

Also Becky does editing as a hobby so she might post some of her videos

If she were to interact/collab with someone it would be like those giant editing videos

(i guess this might be an instagram thing but when a lot of amv editors come together and slay)

She would only post edits that are relevant to the aesthetic and theme of her blog

also she'd delete asks and dms (if its not about collabing)   

Jia 

"What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my--"

I used an old photo i alr had oof

I don't even know but she would send a lot of hate anon

Like her whole blog is just her arguing with people.

She sends it off anon first but if someone stops replying or blocks her

She makes an another acc and goes on anon to terrorize people.

She's deff the person on live telling the opps to pull up and it's like 4 am

She got a job (a literal warrior princess) but she behave like she unemployed so she on here 24/7

I don't wanna say her blog would be like a thirst trap blog but...

if she's not arguing with ppl she's flexing on them and posting like insane workout videos.

Or sparring sessions.

or thirst traps but in a way to piss people off

She’d prlly post some sort of art too but the replies and reblogs are turned off cuz she fight with too many people hahhhhh

She’d also have to remake her blog so many times cuz she gets reported a lot

Jelly

"Actually now that i think about it she'd send anon hate too"

Jelly wouldn't use social media cuz she doesnt know what it is

But if she was stalking really liked someone she’d join.

Deff one of those accs that look like a bot

no header no pfp no posts no likes no titles or anythin

she just lurks 

or sends weird anon asks

Rurue 

"I draw her too damn much she doesn't need an image"

pink with glitter and its kinda tacky lookin with clashing colours

Her tumblr would be kinda a fandom blog?

About all her little shows that she fw

reblogging and likin everything hahaha hits the post limit everyday

she's one of the people that goes crazy in the tags

Rurue would post her fandom ocs awwww its gonna be so cute. 

Also just post images of her toys and little crafts then fucking randomly a image of her killing someone.

She gets away with it because people think it's a fake

She also doesn't know how to take good pictures so the victim is not identifiable

Octavia and Debbie

"Debbie doesn't look like that i was having trouble with her face so i covered one eye and yassified her..."

I'm grouping them together because they’d have very similar blogs.

(they are literally connected)

they are both kind of self loathing so they’d never post anything directly about themselves. 

ooo Becky would prlly find Debbie's blog and put her on blast -

"Uh look at the stupid shit debbie is posting on tumblr lets all make fun of her"

"Wait a minute becky…how’d you find that?”

“.......”

“What are YOU doing on tumblr???”  

The blogs would be a mix of like a rant vent #depression and like those early 2010 cringe like

The main difference is that debbie would be posting shit like this

and like those black and white images of crying anime girls.

Octavia would be reblogging historical art and photography etc etc

Ok thats it. Ahaha i spent to much time on this, sorry for typos <3 

[johaerys-writes]

Tag 9 people to get to know better

I was tagged by @hazelek thank you!!

3 ships: Patrochilles currently rules my heart and my brain (and my dick). I also love Fitzloved (RotE) and Sheith (VLD). If it ain't childhood friends to some unhinged version of lovers I don’t want it LMAO

First ever ship: probably Griffguts (Berserk). I still love them a lot and I think they're the blueprint for a lot of media I enjoy, tbh!!

Last Song: One of Your Girls - Troye Sivan

Last Movie: probably Oppenheimer?? I don't really watch movies very often

Currently reading: oof buckle up LOL. I usually read several books/audiobooks/fanfics at the same time so currently I'm reading Caroline Alexander's Iliad and a book on the philosophy of Protagoras & Gorgias that I found in a dusty corner of my library, I've also been listening to the Villains series by V.E. Schwab and really enjoying it. As for fanfic, I've had so little time to read and it’s driving me crazy (hence the lack of five fic fridays lately 😭) but I'm slowly catching up on Sweet Victory, Chrysalis and Agua Caliente by @baejax-the-great and Where the Dead Forget by @darlingpoppet (all fics highly recommended!!) Hopefully I can get to some more fics on my list soon

Currently watching: I've been rewatching Midnight Mass, and getting serious AU brainworms 👀

Currently consuming: I'm omw home from work and just had some grapes but still hungry :(

Currently craving: Some warm milk tea. Sleep. A loooong ass holiday. And honestly I've really been craving to go hiking in the woods somewhere until all I can see are trees and birds and bugs and grass. No cars or houses or humans in SIGHT

Tagging forth to (more than 9 ppl lol) @elemmacil , @cosmicvoidance , @peachandfig , @heypax , @darlingsart , @mary-aries , @thiefylilelf , @cata-liinaa , @annalyia , @luxken , @motleywolf-et-al and anyone else who'd like to grab this!

[irrealisms]

character ask vitalasy :)

hehe. giggling kicking my feet etc. i like that guy :3

How I feel about this character

EVERYTHING TO ME. holds him so gently. cries and wails. 6/7 of my lifesteal fics have vitalasy in them--compare to the second most popular character for me to write about, zam, at 3 fics! which is kind of weird in that i think of myself as probably being more of a zam guy than a vitalasy guy and i'd expect the numbers to be about equal, but also, like, i like them both so dearly that it doesn't surprise me either. i am the only guy on ao3 who has used the tag Vitalasy-centric and i've used it twice.augghghhh. obsessed with him OBSESSED !!!!!!

All the people I ship romantically with this character

zam. subz. these are both uncontroversial. i could be oasispilled but i'm currently not

My non-romantic OTP for this character

jumperwho in season 5! although i am also very fond of vitalasy & zam without very clear/explicit romance it feels unfair for me to double count them bc i am such a shipper. it's not like fenglian or jondaisy or whatever where im gong "this is one of the people i ship with them but i primarily enjoy this as a nonromantic relationship", it's my romantic otp, yk. so instead: jumperwho

My unpopular opinion about this character

everyone is either too mean or too nice to him. imo. sometimes i am like "man i am in fact more critical of zam/sympathetic to vitalasy than a lot of fandom, zam sucked and vitalasy had a really bad time" and then i encounter a youtube-only fan who doesn't know about monster by vitalasy and i immediately explode into a million pieces because no, fuck you, he did spawnkill planetlord and it was horrifying, solar union's narrative here is not from nothing. ummmm. does that count as an unpopular opinion actually i think probably a lot of people are centrists in the eclipse federation divorce. OH i know my unpopular opinion and it's that s5 vitalasy is profoundly ableist towards zam to the point where it is. honestly very hard for me to watch. no one talks about this bc it makes ppl uncomfortable to talk abt the ways mcyts they like are casually awful outside of callout posts and such, but from a character standpoint it's wildly compelling to me & a notable part of my "c!zam is meaningfully mentally ill & considered to be an intended target of ableism in his social context" beliefs. i mean ok all lifestealers are ableist towards zam at least sometimes but s5 vitalasy is . oof. his video on s5 zam is literally titled "Hunting a Delusional Minecraft Player". the vod it's from is just, like, 45 minutes of calling zam every ableist insult in the book and talking about how zam needs to Get Help for his Symptoms (while vitalasy is killing him) it's . like i said it is hard for me to watch!

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

ok so i have a serious answer for season 4 which is that i desperately desperately wish he and zam had talked more about how zam mourned him. because of course as soon as he's back zam goes "i am now busy mourning subz with my entire being and am physically incapable of talking about anything else". which is like. understandable. but vitalasy just killed subz and also is mourning subz, and vitalasy killed himself bc he thought zam would be happy and not care, and vitalasy heard zam laugh at his death and thought he was right about that, and vitalasy never got told "i made you a grave, i almost trapped myself in bedrock forever because i missed you and felt guilty, i left the solar union because i felt so bad about hurting you", instead he got told "where is subz? subz is gone? we need to bring subz back? i miss subz???", and This Kills The Man. this is why i wrote my first lifesteal fic. i NEED vitalasy to know this

and i also have the answer from my heart. which is I Miss Him :( i wish he would come back to us....rejoin s6......this is ultimately very selfish and i support him seeking happiness and prioritizing irl friends and especially family. but also i miss him :(

WAIT just thought of a third answer. which is that i wish he had been around longer for s5. i want him to react to zam remembering season 4!!! and getting to have that conversation with zam instead of zam doing the "i dont remember you" routine!!!!!! i want him to react to zam comparing late-season jumper to eclipse!zam, jumper asked minute and spoke about what the fuck this meant and neither of them were able to answer her and i think vitalasy would understand instantly and it would fuck him up at least a little bit

(ask game, give me a character)

[darthdutton]

15 questions for 15 mutuals

tagged by @mx-siniste,thank you soo much for the fun tag game

are you named after anyone? A hindu goddess

when was the last time you cried? Last night

do you have kids? Nope.

do you use sarcasm a lot? Very fluent,but ppl think im stupid

what sports do you play/have you played? Badminton,but just for fun

what's the first thing you notice about other people? Idk. Eyes??

eye color? Very black

scary movies or happy endings? Thriller movies with bad endings

any special talents? My parents dont think so

where were you born? Kerala , India

what are your hobbies?; watching anime, reading, writing, listening to music, dancing,trying out new restaurants/cafes, going on trips ( hate to copy ,but damn we do have the same taste )

do you have any pets? Nah

how tall are you?oof 4'11''

fave subject in school? C++

dream job? The thing that im doing rn 😂, teaching

No pressure tags on @littleholmes @lilacs-in-the-wind @chrimsss @theanimepsychologist @chiaablossom @luri-isa @we-are-so-close @thepuckishrogue and anyone wants to join in

[findingschmomo]

Fic Writer Questions

@spinyfruit tagged me in this and so im actually gonna do it

1.) How many works do you have on AO3

oof. officially? 54 fics.

unofficially? (aka including my anon fics) 66 fics

I also have some orphaned works from FF that im not counting tho

2.) What’s your total AO3 count?

I'm assuming this means word count? If so: 1,192,409

3.) How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

I have written for:

Haikyuu

Hetalia

Hunter x Hunter

Spy x Family

Free!

Sk8

My Next Life as a Villainess

Puppet History

Deltarune

So 9.

4.) What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

My top 5 Kudos fics are all Haikyuu LMAO.

#Betrayal (IwaOi, Kudos: 6,349)

And All the Prince's Men (IwaOi, KageHina, Kudos: 4,219)

The Sweetest Smile (KyouHaba, IwaOi, Kudos: 3,950)

Melt Me With Your Gaze (IwaOi, Kudos: 3,264)

Anonymous Fic : ) (Kudos: 3,155)

The Best I Ever Had (IwaOi, Kudos: 2,450)

5.) What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

Okay i'm only counting fics that have endings, and are not anonymous. But honestly? I dont write many angsty endings. Don't get me wrong, i go hard on angst, but my endings are usually fairly happy.

I guess it would have to be Out of the Oven and Into the Fire (RusAm ABO). But even then, it's the third story in a four part series. But this one deffo ends sad.

6.) What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

Like ALL of my stories lmao. Or the vast majority. I feel like counting the oneshots that are just fluff to begin with is cheating. I guess I'd go with Courting Disaster because it has a very fluff ending.

7.) Do you write crossovers? If so, what is the craziest one you’ve written?

I HAVE ONLY EVER WRITTEN ONE CROSSOVER. AND IT WAS A SECRET SANTA GIFT FOR MY HORRIBLE GIRLFRIEND WHO REQUEST THE PROFESSOR/SPAMTON SMUT FIC.

PuppetRune: Cursed Route

8.) Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I write....a LOT of smut. Basically all of it is explicit m/m. I've written a lot of ABOverse stuff too now. Most of my anon fics are just porn I am uncomfy having tied to my name x)

9.) Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I typically don't. I have this weird worry that ppl might percieve it as me inflating my comment number? I only respond if someone is asking a question or I recognize the username and wanna say hi.

10.) Have you ever received hate on a fic?

oh hunny. i've gotten death threats. I literally had to get AO3 admin involve because two users were stalking my one fic demanding i kill myself, my readers kill themselves and that I report myself to the police....on like every chapter update..which meant they were subscribed (?)

ive also gotten very annoying entitled ones, demanding i change things but idk if that's classified as hate.

but 9/10 times every comment i recieve is wonderful and lovely.

11.) Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I've had links to my fics posted on good reads which i HATE. but no i dont think anythings been full on stolen hopefully.

12.) Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yep!

#Betrayal was translated to Spanish

The Best I Ever Had was translated to Thai

Melt Me With Your Gaze was translated to Russian

13.) Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes I have! All three times with @notallballs for the Sk8 fandom

Get (Un)Lucky (LanReki)

Ready when you are (LanReki)

Camera Ready (LanReki)

It was a really fun experience to do!

14.) What’s your all time favorite ship?

TOUGH. I'll always be a ho for IwaOi. But RusAme owned my high school years and has made a startling comeback.

15.) What’s a WIP that you want to finish but you don’t think you ever will?

Honestly, probably Apart from the Pack (UshiIwaOi). I love that fic. I love the world building i was able to create and explore. I have an idea for an ending, but I just can't really bring myself to write Haikyuu rn :////

16.) What are your writing strengths?

My favorite thing in the world is to write dialogue. I LOVE IT. ITS MY PASSION. And not to toot my own horn, but i think I'm fairly good at it.

17.) What are your writing weaknesses?

Honestly probably grammar lmao. Like, the really nitpicky stuff. I also think I could get better at writing descriptions of things.

18.) What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in fic?

I've done it. I've gone back and forth on it. I mostly don't, except for fics like My Salvation (RusAme) where the whole point is the existence of a language barrier.

19.) What was the first fandom you wrote for?

WARRIOR CATS

IT WAS A CRACK FIC AND I AM STILL ASHAMED

20.) What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

OOF! I love so many of them. Let me at least do top 3.

Bridge the Gap (UshiIwaOi) will always be special to me. I pour my entire heart and soul into that. It's not as popular as all my other Haikyuu fics (because of the pairing lol) but I really do think its my best work.

A Human Invention (RusAme) is also special to me. It's my most ambitious work imo, because each update required SO MUCH RESEARCH. And I just really loved being able to play with heavy themes and philosophize on the nature of existence. If only I could just write the last god damn chapter

Now, here's a curveball: A Challenge (Keith/Geordo) My one and only My Next Life as a Villainess fic. I think it's one of my best oneshot porn fics. I had SO much fun writing it even though no one read it lmao.

Idk who to tag so i'm just gonna not. this already took wayyyy too long to do. but it was fun!

[sapphire-weapon]

Favorite ships in RE verse (Remake included)? Ik you like Ashley/Leon so feel free to scream about them. I'm also curious to know if you have any ships among the side characters.

oof. aight. so.

Leon/Ashley is the only "real" RE ship that I have, in the sense that it's the only one that I actively create and seek out content for. I'll go into the whys and hows of that a little later, but. In case anyone was curious why I go so hard for Leon/Ashley --

Actually. When I reblogged this post initially, I almost tagged it as #WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME WHY I SHIP LEON/ASHLEY #THIS IS WHY

I restrained myself because I don't like doing that to other ppl's posts, but. It's a pretty accurate representation of what drew me to the ship initially 18 years ago. Queen/Knight ships are my absolute favorite dynamic for a ship ever ever ever ever. Hands down. No contest. And what are these two -- especially in OG -- if not that?

My second favorite kind of ship? Doomed ones. Missed opportunity ones. "If only things were different" ones. "Our roles in each other's lives will never allow this to happen" ones.

And that's also them.

Real talk? I would actually like the ship way less if I thought for a second that there was a chance that Leon and Ashley could/would actually get together in canon. I'd still like it, but not nearly as much. (which is why it's really funny when people try to be like "it'll never be canon" YEAH NO SHIT I HOPE IT NEVER IS)

So I was cursed to fall super hard for this ship from day one. Like, there wasn't even a chance in hell I wasn't going to ship these two. No other two characters in this series have a dynamic that's even kind of similar to this.

And then the remake happened and it poured even more of the shit I already liked about it on top of what was already there and I was like "mmm yes it's delicious thank u capcom"

So that's my whole thing with those two.

And outside of those two? Well.

Back in the days of early RE fandom, we were so small and so starved for fan content that it was commonplace for people to read fics for ships that they didn't care about or even like lmao. I once read like 80,000 words of a Wesker/Leon fic because that was all I could fucking find that I hadn't read yet (and also wasn't weird monster dog porn -- late 90s/early 00s RE fandom was fucking weird ok).

Those early fandom days were also kind of magical, though, because so much of the canon was wide open to so many different ships and interpretations and scenarios. Like, as time has gone on and RE has grown larger and larger, the world of RE has started to feel smaller and smaller. It's way way WAY harder to write a canon-compliant fic these days, because there's so many moving parts to the story now, and a lot of details have been cemented in place that never used to be there.

Like, it's rad that the canon has so much to consume in it. But it sucks because it feels restrictive as a result.

So, like.

I have actually written fics for so many different, random ships over my 25 years in this fandom, because this fandom used to be more of like a... swap meet, sort of? Where we'd all just take requests from each other and write fics for each other and share them around -- because the fandom was so, so goddamn small back in the day.

I have actually written fics for:

Leon/Ashley (of course)

Leon/Claire

Leon/Luis

Chris/Jill

Chris/Rebecca (seriously)

Chris/Leon

Steve/Claire

Billy/Rebecca

Wesker/Ada (this one was fun, actually. I'd fuck with this one again)

Of course, there were people who were ride-or-die OTP folks (though this actually didn't get really bad or become any sort of real majority in the fandom until after RE4's release, and that's only because RE4 just dumped so much gasoline on the Aeon vs Cleon war holy fuck. RE fandom became a fuckin minefield after RE4), but a lot of us really just dabbled in a bit of everything. So I never really got like... super attached to any one ship, if that makes sense?

There is actually something very nostalgic about Leon/Claire for me, if you can believe it, because the ship was only viable until about the time of Degeneration, so we're going way back. That movie made it very clear that these two were not at all going to stay as active parts of each other's lives, so the ship basically died upon its release.

But prior to that? That was one of THE BIG SHIPS in the fandom. So, the vast majority of fics that I wrote back in the swap meet days were Leon/Claire, because the majority of my fandom friends fell more on the Cleon side of things.

Today, I don't like where their dynamic has gone in later canon. There's nothing there anymore, and I've lost all interest in it.

But... at the same time... when RE2make happened, it was something I thought about revisiting just for old time's sake. I haven't pulled the trigger on it yet, but I do still think about it from time to time. Maybe I'll actually go ahead and do the thing one of these days, now that I'm back in the habit of writing RE fic again.

But anyway.

The point is. Any side ships I have, I really just enjoy in passing. Like, if I see nice art of Chris/Jill or Billy/Rebecca I'll definitely reblog it because I do enjoy it, but I have never even one time gone out of my way to find it or any fics of them. Most of my contributions to side ships are thinkpieces and meta analysis.

Leon/Chris is one of the ships that I've done deep dive meta analysis for -- and half of that was just to piss off fanboys who were already mad about RE6 to begin with, because those fuckers made the fandom UNBEARABLE in the early 2010s -- but I still don't go super hard for them.

Same thing with Remake-verse Leon/Luis. I've done meta for them because people have asked me for it, and I do find their new dynamic absolutely fascinating from a literary/storytelling standpoint. They're another ship I do enjoy, but... again, mostly in passing.

So. idk if this actually answered your question. RE ships are just kind of a weird topic for me in general most of the time, because I went so, so, so long just looking at characters' individual arcs as opposed to engaging in actual ship content.

I've talked about this a little before, but I did go through that period (around 10 years) where I tried to pass it off that I had no ships in order to seem like an "objective" source for canon information (which, in hindsight, is so fucking stupid because I could've just done what I'm doing now and kept objective facts about the series/canon differentiated from my ship shit, but w/e), so in those 10 years, I didn't really engage with RE ships, like, at all.

So now I'm just kind of at the point of "dude whatever idc as long as we're all having fun."

[ki-flor]

I think the wait feels so long because we're almost in the year they start filming, which makes things seem closer, but we're also quite far when you do the math for it. It doesn't help that this is the last season and there is so much anticipation, questions, and cliffhangers that remain with hardly any official content. The writers are really quiet like you said (but in a weird way) so we're having to rely on each other. A lot of ppl already are moving on which is normal but for ppl like me, the hyper fixation will probably remain till release... oof lol. But big thanks to you and the others who really put forth content and shit posts, I can't complain too much since I'm a quiet fan. I know it's especially hard for the people who post rn.

The Byler tag is really what's going to keep me afloat until S5 filming starts next year and then hopefully we'll get leaks and behind the scenes photos/videos. Glad I can be a small part of trying to keep byler bylering in these quiet times. 🫡

[viola-ophelia]

2022 Fanfic Year in Review: ifearnocolors on ao3

i was clicking around on my own blog earlier and randomly found my 2021 fanfic year in review, so i thought it’d be fun to do it again! i wasn’t tagged by anyone ofc lol, but i’m tagging a few ppl at the end in case anyone wants to do this too :) 

Total Completed Works: 11, same as last year! 

Word Count: 21,677... much less than last year lol. but to be fair, i finished publishing my silmarillion longfic at the beginning of 2021, so that drastically inflated last year’s wordcount. this year, i learned to embrace the fact that i am most definitely a oneshot (and occasionally two-shot ;)) writer! 

Fandoms I’ve Written In: loki (mcu), bridgerton, pirates of the caribbean, and turn: washington’s spies. 

Looking Back, Did You Write More Fic Than You Thought You Would This Year, Less, Or About What You’d Expected?: about what i’d expected! in 2022, i think i finally found a fic-writing schedule that i’m comfortable with... which is writing whenever inspiration strikes, but not pushing myself beyond that! i wrote pretty sporadically in the first half of the year (mainly because i was working on a personal writing project) but published a few more things in the fall and winter as i got back into the turn fandom (and ran my first fandom event, which was so much fun and filled me with inspiration!). 

What’s Your Own Favorite Story Of The Year?: i’d definitely say it was gather up the splinters, build a casket for my tears. this was, like, my 3rd or 4th attempt at writing a turn au where john andre survives LOL, but i’m definitely happiest with/proudest of this one. fun fact, i wrote the whole thing in a day after being struck with random inspiration during my ‘turnsgiving’ week event LOL! 

Do You Have Any Fanfic Goals For The New Year?: i just hope to keep writing, to keep loving it, to keep expanding my skills, and to keep being proud of my work!

Most Popular Story Of The Year?: you stuck in the knife that you held at my back, my speculative loki season 2 opening scene, with 43 kudos. (hey, i never claimed to be a popular writer LOL! but 43 whole people enjoying one of my stories is incredible.)

Story Of Mine Most Under-Appreciated By The Universe, In My Opinion: i’m well aware that there’s literally zero market for cutler beckett x OC fanfiction LOL, but in the ideal universe, chasing pirates would’ve gotten a lot more attention! (and for all you beckett haters, the OC in question is a cannibalistic siren, so. there’s something in it for everyone!)

Most Fun Story To Write: i think my idea of what’s “fun to write” is, uh, a little different from the norm. i greatly enjoyed forcing john andre to kill ben tallmadge in the crown hangs heavy on either side, and i also took great pleasure in forcing davy jones and cutler beckett into a weird existentialist hell scenario in parley. clearly, i’m extremely sane! :D 

Most Unintentionally Telling Story: oof idk, someone else psychoanalyze me! idk about a particular work, but i feel like the fact that all 11 of my fics from this year were tagged as “character study” says... something? 

Biggest Disappointment: that i didn’t really leave my comfort zone in terms of style or substance. 2022 showed me that i definitely have a “typical fic” (oneshot, character study, vignette/snapshot style, angst and/or existentialism), but i’m not sure whether that means i’ve found my style/authorial voice, or if my works are a bit formulaic lolol. i’d like to hopefully branch out from my instinctive structure/style in 2023. the closest i got to trying anything new/different last year was attempting to write fluff in the second chapter of sweet nothing, and, well... it’s simply not that fluffy. a bit of angst got in there somehow!! 

Biggest Surprise: someone wrote a fic inspired by one of mine for the first time ever, which was so amazing. also, i randomly wrote a bridgerton fic (i want to be the one to walk in the sun) while recovering from wisdom teeth surgery LOL! 

i’m tagging @deathicus-sling @thatfeanorian @maironsmaid @sauronnaise @moodrose @leomcclintock @tallmadgeandtea @musicboxmemories @hmsannlett (thanks for tagging me last year LOL!) and any other writers who follow me! (feel free to ignore this if you want lol. also i don’t mind if you reblog or make your own, either is good!)