#rosencrantzsguildenstern

[freddiegoesmetal]

do u have a blank of oc challenge?

yep!

[merrinpippy]

i like that ur following me bc i feel like our urls suit each other

url buddies! there's something about two characters that are defined by each other in every way that just hits yk

[squidpro-quo]

i feel like i know ur trigger thoughts already so im hitting u with tenns relatives for the chara ask game : - riku - kujo - aya and just for fun also - nagi - mitsuki

This feels like an ask challenge now! I have to get a good grade in ask game, something that is both...so on and so forth lol

Nanase Riku:

I love him and Iori's monster/handler dynamic because it just feels like yet another example of what makes i7 so good, the human intensity of all the characters and their relationships. Plus that they were so spot-on with Riku even in real life, re: the shrimp chips, the tea boxes, etc. He's got the power, and Iori can see the fallout coming even while his star is not yet going supernova.

Kujo Takamasa:

Mostly my headcanons have to do with Zero: the Musical and how that whole process went. Did Zero have these songs written after the fact or during the stages when the songs are sung in his story? Was he planning on having a musical of his life, or was that all Kujo's doing, some unacknowledged attempt to get Zero back and lay his own demons to rest finally? Did Kujo save these songs, gut out Zero's place in his search and hide the songs from Haruki, or did Haruki leave them to him in that will in a gesture of "you're the last of us"?

I should go re-read Part 5 again.

Kujo/Yotsuba Aya:

She's a tragedy, but I do love the scene where Tsumugi almost runs her over as she's trying to get to Tamaki once she hears she's sick. So much happens to her that just breaks your heart.

Rokuya Nagi:

That conversation at the riverside barbecue in First Beat is still something I look forward to in rewatches, because it impressed me so much when I first saw it. Of course, he surprises them over and over again throughout the series but that was the first layer peeled back on the assumptions we all make with characters like him, with an accent and a love for anime, who else could he be but the joke character who's clueless and air-headed?

Izumi Mitsuki:

My boiiiiii!! My i7 favorite from the group, his arc was the one that hit the hardest for me and the characterization of him from others as not being especially talented but he tries really hard being his best quality got me right in the heart. The people who make the party go round, who smooth the rails of conversation so everyone joins in and gets along have an unsung job, until someone doesn't do it and then you notice all the awkwardness and the stilted words. I remember Iori put it well somewhere that Mitsuki makes the show go smoothly from the production side, whereas others make the show feel smooth from the audience side. Or something like that, but it was really insightful.

I didn't manage to nail his exact shade on this bingo sheet, but I also love his peachy color.

[agroupofcrows]

(ships ask) takasugi and kamui

FRENEMIES WITH DETRIMENTS OF ALL TIME. i have no notes. i have no questions. also they are a ship on a ship which makes this especially beautiful

i think kamui aimed to collect the joui 4 like cards and takasugi was simply the slowest to run

who would win… stoic and diligent war widow with burning love and a shamisen or evil ginger boy who can evaporate your ribcage with a flick of his pinky finger. trick question the drugs won! takasugi is throwing up on a picture of gintoki

[the-haiku-bot]

*sees mutual tags

telling me who to vote for*

right away captain

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

*sees a character/media bracket post* i must not vote arbitrarily for the one i know. I must not bias this poll any further on pure popularity. I must consider the other side

*sees mutual tags telling me who to vote for* right away captain

[always-a-joyful-note]

I just had the horrifying thought of an Idolish7 Korean Dub where the i7 boys are played by BTS and -

[hehearse]

commission for @rosencrantzsguildenstern ! >:3

[lacieapologist]

Finally I have written my first Bad Things Happen Bingo fic, at the request of @rosencrantzsguildenstern

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65368939

[msperfectsheep-posts]

39 and 50 for the ask game 🐾

ohhhh these are such juicy questions cobalt. thank you for the ask!!!

39. Is any aspect of your writing process inspired by other writers or people? If so, who?

Yes! I have been heavily inspired by @keicordelle, @rosencrantzsguildenstern, and @deadchannelradio's writing, specifically in how snappy and thoughtful their word choices are? I struggle heavily with being concise, and these three manage to make it look effortless while also writing some BEAUTIFUL prose. I'm also inspired by the sheer amount of research @60sec400 puts into her works (and her prose is also STUNNING!!) and obviously, you are also a writer I heavily admire for your just. beautiful word choices. Additionally, I'd love to put the spotlight on @havendance for their amazing NML fics and the amount of thought they've put into Batman comic timelines, which is both a struggle I deeply relate to and am also deeply envious of how they handled it masterfully. I also must mention my current WIP's beta, @death-cannot-kill-you, who has some great characterization thoughts that really help inform my writing process as well as the inspiration to make podfics!! There are undoubtably even more writers that I'm forgetting at the moment that have served as inspirations for my own writing, but all of these writers deserve a strong round of applause in my humble opinion. 50. Answer any question of your choice, or talk about anything you want to talk about!

I think I'll go with questions 49!

49. What are you currently working on? Share a few lines if you’re up for it!

Currently, I'm working on a Reverse Robins fic, but it 1. Includes the Batgirls in this reversing, 2. Focuses on the Entire Timeline starting with Damian as Shadow (Robin) and Steph as Batgirl and ending with Dick as Robin and Barbara as Batgirl over the span of 20+ years (ambitious, I am Aware), 3. Is set within Post-Crisis before n52/Rebirth, partially because I want a set end point that I can mess with and Rebirth could add who knows how many extra characters to retroactively add in. It's almost 130k words at the moment and I'm about 5 chapters (?) away from ending the first fic, but man, what a beast I've taken on. Fun fact, this is what dragged me back into comics, kicking and screaming! As for a passage, here you go:

Bruce backs out of the parking lot and onto the main roads, which are moving at a snail’s pace with Friday night traffic. Women in short dresses walk by with painted faces and sharp laughter, arms curled around the broad shoulders of their suited dates. Performers and entertainers hawk their acts on the corners, bragging about ordinary feats in voices that suggest anything but. Office workers and college students file in long, tired lines down the sidewalks to the nearest G-Rail stop. Vanessa Carlton’s A Thousand Miles plays on the radio.  “I didn’t need this, you know,” Stephanie mutters as they drive over Schwartz Bypass into Uptown. “I would have been fine.” Her tone is carefully measured; she wants to come off as blasé, nonchalant. Her eyes, lips, and posture tell a different story. She’s defensive. She’s anticipating something she can reject. She has her eyes fixed on his dashboard, close enough to watch him out of her peripheral vision.  “I know,” he replies, watching as her air of disinterest drops. “You would have found a solution without me.”  “Are you calling a $5.00 bowl of chili and a milkshake a solution?” she snarks. “Jeez, I thought I was worth more to you than that.” Deflecting through bitter antagonism. A typical move for Stephanie, especially when she is emotionally compromised, but Bruce doesn’t know what exactly set her off between the restaurant and now. Regardless, rising to her bait is an amateur move and will only result in furthering her preconceived biases.  Bruce silently arches a singular eyebrow in response, keeping his eyes on the road.  Stephanie openly glares at him. “Well, I’m not wrong, am I? Kind of feels like you’re buying me off because you don’t know how to deal with me any other way, but you said it yourself: I didn’t come over to speak with you. I don’t need you to do anything.” “I know.” “Then why?” she asks, sitting straighter and flinging her arms outwards in a charged gesture, “Why’d you do this?” He looks at her through the corner of his eye. She stares back. She’s challenging Bruce to give her more and more opportunities to make him into a target. Her anger isn’t meant for him, but he is receiving it anyway. In a way, he deserves it. “I thought it would help,” he admits.  Stephanie’s lips spread taut against her teeth before the bottom one tucks under her maxillary arch. She chews, thoughtful, while her eyes search him for an answer to a question he is yet to beholden to.  “Why?” Bruce swallows. “It helps me.” When Alfred is mad, he says Bruce is running away. When Alfred is kind, he says it's a change of scenery. Either way, the result is the same. “That’s it?” Her tone is disbelieving, but without the sharpness of her earlier questions.   “Yes.”

[nitunioart]

fanart for the earlier chapters of ainana hunger games kuji AU by @rosencrantzsguildenstern !!!! READ IT NOWWWWW !!!!!!!!!!!!! become obsessed with it too. it's great and [AAAAAAAA]

[couldlesbiansavethem]

Sarutobi Ayame from Gintama

Reasoning: "Would make a great lesbian. Also desperately chasing after a guy that wants nothing to do with her because he awakened a new kink, so it often feels like "get with [x other character] they'd be down" and I read a long post that it should be Mutsu (other female character. With slay) so yeah. Leave that path. Convert. Keep having a slight gay vibe with Tsukuyo. Have weird sex. I believe in you." ( @rosencrantzsguildenstern)

[walterdecourceys]

tagged by @freddiegoesmetal to list 5 songs i've been listening to recently yayyy

i think i'm going to kill myself elton john

when i'm sixty-four the beatles

leaving on a jet plane peter, paul, and mary

american pie don mclean

the communists have the music they might be giants

umm tagging @raedas @sesamie @rosencrantzsguildenstern @blorb0 if you want no pressure ^-^

[klainelynch]

Summary:

Written for the prompt "Chronic Illness/Chronic Pain".

Podfic of "maladaptive," written by @rosencrantzsguildenstern

Listen (1:48) at AO3

This was created for Voiceteam 2025's Role Model challenge. I listened to a podfic by my teammate (Two Good Legs by @godoflaundrybaskets) and then used their performance as inspiration for my own recording. In Two Good Legs, Ed is confident in front of others, and in maladaptive, he’s vulnerable about his pain only because he’s alone. Cover art is by pezzax.

[squidpro-quo]

Every time I rewatch i7 a new line takes me by the throat and refuses to let me move on

I'm chewing on this one for the latest round, gotta love an antagonist with a great metaphor and especially when he adds such a fun spice of violence

Then again @rosencrantzsguildenstern 's hunger games au does already scratch some of that itch! love a good sacrifical lamb of a father/son dynamic

[day-night-darlix]

idolish7 fandom. please help. i need ideas for stuff to put on a crust jacket for haruka (pins, patches, painted on designs, etc. anything you can think of)

(tagging my i7 mutuals that are not artists i’m a bit intimidated by) @rosencrantzsguildenstern @xitty @slusshs @yukimomodivorce @prismichannah @daifukubun @astrobloos

[rosencrantzsguildenstern]

kujo would thrive playing hamlet but he wouldn't give an actual good nuanced performance which would make the play bad if the play is, in fact, hamlet. this is why im now imagining him playing hamlet in r&gad