#tagging both cuz it applies to either series

[kusuemon]

Saw this post and was compelled by a powerful force to draw him

[gffa]

about the anti post, tbf it wasn't in the ship tag so technically not crossing lanes but it was in the character tags and as a babs fan it can still be annoying going in her tag to see that kinda stuff esp cuz a lot of db antis are bigger dick stans and are more critical and negative towards her than him in subtle and not so subtle ways, you know?

anyway thank you for your response! it reminded me why i love their relationship so much! theres so much negativity surrounding this ship that sometimes i begin questioning myself, wondering if they're really that bad and am i missing something?? so its always reassuring seeing others who feel the way i do and view them positively :)

I hear you, it can be really hard to avoid this kind of thing, even when you're trying to stay in your lane and others are trying to stay in their lane, too. And, it really doesn't help when a lot of anti-Dick/Babs people come into our space to be jerks about it. (I don't know if it happens in reverse, I'm not in those spaces enough to tell, I can only say that I haven't seen it any time I wander outside of my corner. But if it does, that's not cool, either.)(Nor do I know the context of the post you saw, for all I know, it could have struck me totally different than it did for you.) And, yeah, honestly, there does have to be room for everyone to like and dislike their own stuff, even if that means we come across posts we find annoying and it means that we find the complaining too much to be around. We have to have a little grace for disagreements, just as people who disagree with us have to have a little grace with us. That said, you know what I find a thousand times more fulfilling? Yelling happily about what I like, because I don't want the entire experience of Thing I Like to be negative and when I see other people having fun, I want to join in on that fun, too--so, I would suggest that any time you feel frustrated by someone being a jerk, find your favorite comic moment or animated series moment or fic you enjoyed reading, and yell very loudly about how great it was and put that in the tag (both characters and ship) because then I'll see something happy when I go through the tag and it'll remind me why I love the ship, too! Or find your favorite Barbara moments and talk about her, because fandom does sometimes overshadow her and I would love to see more about her view of her life and relationships and family! And, honestly, while plenty of people have perfectly valid reasons to dislike a ship--literally ANY ship, this isn't just about Dick/Babs, but it could just as easily apply to Dick/Kory or Dick/Wally or Dick/Roy or Dinah/Babs--there's always going to be a fair amount of ship war nonsense, where criticism isn't even about what the ship is really like, just that it's not the person's OTP. And then who cares! Use that energy to make positive content for the ship because that's a better use of your time! And you deserve to have a nice experience in fandom, too. Dick/Babs is a great pairing, they're adorable and they're flirty and they love each other and they support each other and they're not afraid to have it out with each other when they need to and they just like being around each other. Whether someone OTPs it or just thinks it's fine enough/is a multishipper instead, it's totally great to enjoy a moment of theirs because they can be utterly delightful and nobody's wrong for loving them. 💕

[alienssstufff]

Just saw a tag on one of your posts ("#*shaking* fucking ask me about their classpects - ask me about their classpects i fucking dare") and I for one would absolutely love to hear about the classpects you've been coming up with!! :)

WHWHHW and im GLAD YOU ASKED >:]]

ty anon for taking one for the team - i've been rehearsing this very moment uvu

TLDR Bdubs is a  KNIGHT OF TIME and Etho a MAGE OF BREATH

I tend to ramble so explanations will be UNDER THE CUT

I wrote a lot of this beforehand in notes and to ppl on priv but to preface I use @//dahniwitchoflight ‘s posts when classpecting - good read recommend checking them out if you’re interested!

[ BDUBS : Knight of Space ] Ok so I like firstly rly wanted Bdubs to be a Time player (obvious clock reasons) but truthfully Space is rly HIS aspect as it is often associated with ‘the bigger picture’, objects and creativity -- art.

“Bdubs isn’t a builder, he’s an artist.” - Scar talking about Bdubs’ and his builds and he was sooo right for that. Not just by his builds either but like,,, dude have you SEEN when he draws? When he paints??? Inspirational one of my favourite environmental artists period. This summary by Dahni I think explains him quite well:

“This makes it so Space is grand and can look at things at a higher perspective than others. It is run much more by a strong sense of intuition, and inner knowing of how things are meant to be, without being able to express the specifics in clear detail. They paint things with broad strokes and without clear lines between differences. Considering each difference to actually be a subtle variation of the same thing. Space is also very grounded in the present, very focused on the here and now, and can seem very unconcerned with the future consequences of any decisions they may or may not make. Instead relying on their inner understanding that things are happening the way they are meant to happen and even if small details are different, the larger expression of the idea remains the same.”

That thing about being grounded in the present fits him so well too applying to how he plays in the Life Series. Often in situations where he has to think fast, improvise, unless instigated by someone he trusts, he can form strong alliances but he can break them just as easily. The present and hence what’s happening In The Moment matters to him a lot.

I gave him the KNIGHT class by definition, his role is to “Use his aspect to do [goal] and exploit Space” , using the land to make something useful and something pretty. Especially evident in the Life Series, using the land he’s given and with what he can grab hold of, he tactically crafts them in a way that both looks and has (defensive) purpose: >3L! The Crastle in general, unless broken in forcibly, defensively it is indestructible and (from what I remember) was one of the only landmarks in 3rd Life to survive in one piece. She was perfect u_u,,, >LL! Ice Fort I could go on abt the the ethubs symbolism in the materials they pick- but the fort is built in a way that is used to hinder the movement of enemies (soul sand floors, snowy walls)  whilst putting them on a physical high ground advantage. >DL! Mid Century Modern House. While from appearance the most harmless-looking of bases from an outside it’s probably one of the most sustainable. Easy access to crops, livestock, horseys, to even an easy escape route/panic room when things get worse. Not to mention it was the only base that survived the Boat Boy’s wrath (but maybe that was cuz those couples were close but i digress) All these builds and his builds in all his series are just very pretty! This trait is also very prevalent in his redstone :]

I also read that Knights of Space are like “jacks of all trades” - He’s very skilled at a lot of stuff and Knight of Space made me think of him ^u^!!

[ ETHO : Mage of Breath ] Tbh not AS certain for his classpect but so far I interpret him as very free-spirited, he kinda gets to do what he wants- he’s also very flexible and adaptive without needing to necessarily change himself for anyone in compare to the Mind aspect that deals with switching between roles/masks to fit a situation. Like,,, in the life series he doesn’t Need to adopt a persona or roleplay a role to be interesting when him being himself is entertaining enough etc etc (?) BUT the mind aspect for its sense of balance and rational thinking fits him also -- I just like him as a Breath player :>

Instead focused the logic component of Etho for this analysis comes from his mage class “One who knows/with Breath” by experiencing their aspect-freedom. Etho as a mage of breath I’d constantly on the move whether willingly or by force.

“They know every loophole and twist and turn and can navigate their way around even unfamiliar territory. For some reason I could see a Mage of Breath being very good at parkour type activities. They’ve been forcibly moved around, had their roots torn up more than once, so they’ve learned to quickly settle into strange places or pack up shop and get out without a trace as they need.” “They understand how to give themselves more options in almost any situation, how to place any odds in their favor as needed. They can weasel out of anything.“

To me explains his play style in the life series quite well, especially with the tactical makeshift alliances etc. 

Also I read somewhere knights unconsciously gravitate towards knowing classes like mages and I find that very fitting :]

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Maybe I’ll expand on these one day - im sure theres like hundreds of evidence that could support these from other serieses they’ve done/been a part of. But for now using the life series and pieces of hermitcraft acts as a good starter point when psyche and The Social Game in those serves as a great source when thinking about stuff like this!

[ao3feed-hawks]

The Art of Falling

the art of falling by yamadadzawa

Touya never thought he'd fall in love, but then again he never thought that he'd fall off a cliff either. In both cases it's Keigo who catches him.

Avatar: the last airbender!AU

Words: 3067, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of DabiHawks Week 2021

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Dabi | Todoroki Touya, Takami Keigo | Hawks, Todoroki Family

Relationships: Dabi | Todoroki Touya/Takami Keigo | Hawks

Additional Tags: DabiHawks Week 2021, DabiHawks Week, Alternate Universe - Avatar (TV) Fusion, Day 3: Avatar the last airbender, Pre Relationship, the great spirits, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, hidden identity, some violence with pirates, fire prince touya, airbender hawks, chi blocker hawks, ADVENTURE!, Spirit Meddling, keigo has a sky bison named hawks, love is overthrowing a warmonger together, lowkey love at first sight cuz touya is weak for pretty boys, Teen DabiHawks

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31447706

[ao3feed-todoroki]

The Art of Falling

the art of falling by yamadadzawa

Touya never thought he'd fall in love, but then again he never thought that he'd fall off a cliff either. In both cases it's Keigo who catches him.

Avatar: the last airbender!AU

Words: 3067, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of DabiHawks Week 2021

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Dabi | Todoroki Touya, Takami Keigo | Hawks, Todoroki Family

Relationships: Dabi | Todoroki Touya/Takami Keigo | Hawks

Additional Tags: DabiHawks Week 2021, DabiHawks Week, Alternate Universe - Avatar (TV) Fusion, Day 3: Avatar the last airbender, Pre Relationship, the great spirits, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, hidden identity, some violence with pirates, fire prince touya, airbender hawks, chi blocker hawks, ADVENTURE!, Spirit Meddling, keigo has a sky bison named hawks, love is overthrowing a warmonger together, lowkey love at first sight cuz touya is weak for pretty boys, Teen DabiHawks

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31447706

[mittensmorgul]

So, in season 12, are we supposed to assume that Chuck was just fucking with the universe when Jefferson Rooney was president and got possessed by Lucifer? Cuz the show canonically refers to both Obama and T*ump, so how is it possible that this random president just appeared in 2016? Or is it implied that T*ump came after Rooney? Idk 🤷🏼‍♀️

This is one of those things that I’ve elected to hang a giant shrug emoji on in my own mental filing system.

I mean... let’s detail this puppy out, so we understand the watson and doyle of it...

Bucklemming apparently had wanted to do a storyline involving the president for a while now, and it had never worked out. I recall Eugenie saying something to this effect at either a comicon or some other interview, but I can’t be fussed to go spelunking for it again. Apologies for not citing my sources, but it’s not worth overheating my laptop for >.>

For whatever reason, Dabb relented in 12.08. I think he realized that this was gonna be a one-off. I mean, this all happened in an entire SEASON he set up to serve as a one-off with the BMoL, you know? Bad Guys that came out of NOWHERE and then were completely annihilated by the end of the season. They were basically a season-long, better orchestrated mockery of the Styne Family, you know?

And, to go down a short tangent here, this is why I love Andrew Dabb. I think he already KNEW how he intended to eventually end the entire series, and season 12 really established that. It began untangling and spooling out all of Chuck’s Past Failures as an author, you know? Hence my tag for this phenomenon:

https://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/tagged/mittens-makes-peace-with-s10-via-dabb%27s-spitewriting-of-s12%3A-an-ongoing-saga/chrono

there’s like 50 posts in that tag :’D

But little by little, Dabb has been showing his hand, which is made up of every past Authorial Infraction that in-text has been attributed to Chuck himself. Dabb hung giant neon signs on this in 14.20. He BLATANTLY showed us everything up his sleeves in 15.04, and after that, I don’t know why we bother questioning anything anymore.

Chuck loved the leviathans. he’s cancelled forever. :’D

(are we placing wagers on whether he’s real, or if he’s actually a cake?)

ANYWAY, back to the question. I think Dabb realized he could give this to Bucklemming, since it would be a one-off, and then he could lampshade that fact with his OWN one-off (the British Men of Letters) essentially slaughtering everyone who ever knew about the Winchesters and the fact the president was possessed, effectively wiping the slate clean. Then everyone could go back to ignoring the fact there was a random one-off president of their version of the United States, because hey, there’s infinite universes, right? And their universe is NOT our universe, so things like “the order of presidential succession” doesn’t actually have to match up exactly. The show had hung lampshades on that fact way back in 6.15, you know? And Dabb spent all of s13 proving that to us with the Apocalypse AU (and the tentacle monster AU, and the Bad Place, etc.), and if that wasn’t enough we met the Altchesters in their lil Fiat 500 and Huntercorp in 15.13. There’s just no reason the Supernatural Ur-universe COULDN’T have a president that we in our reality never heard of.

And for the narrative purposes he served, it works out, so I’m not gonna go poking at it too hard lest it make their entire timeline fall apart. Chuck can mess with stuff on that level. It’s been proven again and again. So I personally just choose to wave a hand at it and move on with my life. In the grand scheme of things, it’s like being worried about having driven over an ant in the road, you know?

But if you can’t let it go, and need an explanation that goes deeper... I assume that after his possession, President Rooney was deemed no longer capable of carrying out his duties, and Trump became president after that... maybe in their universe, Obama became president in 2004 instead of 2008, and then Rooney came after. Or heck, nothing says that 2016 was even an election year in that universe, right? I mean, maybe they have different term limits or laws about that sort of thing. The show has never chosen to explain that one, so honestly adopt whatever headcanon you personally favor.

I really, really wish they’d picked ANYONE else than “the generic president nobody’s ever heard of” for Lucifer to possess... a corporate leader, any other high ranking politician... but it is what it is, and it brought us both Jack and 12.09, so I mostly just choose to apply the white noise brain filter to it and pretend it all makes sense. :’D

Chalk it up to the Bucklemming AU Theory, and move along.

[goldgalaxytea-fanfics]

Worlds Collide - Nadia headcanons

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M, F/F, Multi, Other

Fandoms: The Arcana & Patema Inverted

Relationship:  Nadia x Reader

Characters: Nadia Reader, You, The Apprentice

Additional Tags: Patema Inverted AU, inverted gravity, headcanons, Headcanon, AU, Alternate Universe, Reader-Insert, Reader Insert, x Reader, First Meetings, gender neutral reader, no specific pronouns used for the reader, Female Reader, male reader, invert, invert reader, inverted reader

Words: 593

Summary:

You live underground in a world made of metal, but things change when you fall into a world of grass and skies where everything is upside down. Luckily for you though, there's someone to help you from falling into the sky.

Notes:

I recently watched Patema Inverted cuz a friend recommended it and omg it's so freaking good!!! Y'all should really watch it, it's amazing!!!

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Nadia

She's a pretty proper woman, but even Aiga is too proper for her.

There's no room for individuality, everything and everyone is the same.

And it's boring.

But every time she tries to be different she gets in trouble.

And so she eventually just stopped trying.

Until one night, when she's taking a walk through the land surrounding the school.

It was peaceful at night. With no one around criticizing her every move it almost felt like an entirely different world.

Her peace was shattered though, as a person screamed

"You're upside down!" You shouted, clinging desperately to the fence. Your grip being the only thing keeping you from certain doom.

Her eyes widened comically large. In front of her was someone climbing the fence, upside down.

"You're mistaken. You're the one that's upside down." She pointed out.

You just ignored that. "Please help me!" Your hands were getting sweaty, making it harder to hold on.

She hesitated a moment too long. Your hands slipped, sending you falling.

Nadia reacted quickly though, jumping to grab your hands. But despite her gravity you kept falling.

Nadia watched in awe as the world she knew started to drift away. Aiga looked so tiny from within the clouds.

As you started to fall you screamed, before quickly remembering your backpack. You shook it off, letting it fall into the sky.

The loss of weight caused you both to float back down. As you descended you finally got a good look at the woman that helped you.

She was gorgeous, with bright red eyes and pink hair that faded to purple. What was truly stunning was her look of awe as she observed the sky.

As her feet touched the ground she turned to you. Upon being caught staring, your face went red and you averted your eyes, staring anywhere but at her.

She smiled softly. "Let's take you somewhere you can properly stand."

As she walked you held as hard as you could to her arms and she held you just as tight.

You approached a small shed and she helped you inside. You sat down, exhausted from holding on for dear life.

Nadia just watched you. Curiosity shining in her eyes.

You were unlike anyone she's ever met before. You could defy the strict laws of gravity. You were amazing.

As the night went on the two of you grew closer. You talked and learned about each other's worlds.

You told her about your world of rocks and metal. A place so far underground you could never see the sky.

She told you about her world, a place that was beautiful yet so cruel to anything that didn't fit their mold.

For the first time since her family died she talked about the stress she was constantly under, how unhappy she was with her life, how she longed to be allowed to be herself.

It became apparent very quickly how you both didn't belong in either of your worlds. You both wanted to explore and be free, but with the way things were it was practically impossible.

The both of you were still awake when the sun started to raise over the horizon. Though neither of you cared as you were too invested in each other"s stories and words.

As you told her a story from your childhood, the rising sun illuminated you from behind, making you appear even more out of this world. As she watched and listened, Nadia realized something very important.

Aiga was wrong. There was nothing bad about being different.

Notes:

Watch Patema Inverted 👁️👄👁️

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[ao3feed-ineffablehusbandz]

Fallen Angels

by CloseToSomethingReal

Raphael had known this was coming for a long time. Azra couldn't say he hadn't, either. Yet both had hoped it would never come.

Words: 4636, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of We Scream, We Shout

Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale (Good Omens), Beelzebub (Good Omens), Michael (Good Omens), Gabriel (Good Omens), Adam Young (Good Omens), Pepper (Good Omens), Brian (Good Omens), Wensleydale (Good Omens)

Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)

Additional Tags: reverse au, Crowley as Raphael, falling fic, That's right guys, it's a falling fic, with a twist cuz I got really bored

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/24646936

[fandumb-thoughts]

Rating: General

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: M/M

Fandom: Harry Potter - JK Rowling

Relationships: Sirius Black/James Potter, Sirius Black/Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black/Remus Lupin

Characters:  Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin

Additional Tags: polyamory, poly trans Sirius Black, Hindi James Potter, animagus choosing, animagus, explaining why Peter is the Way He Is, marauders, fix it fic, start of a fix it fic, marauders era, Peter Pettigrew isn’t awful, that’s just the tea, well he is awful, only he’s not awful as a fifteen year old, cuz like, he’s just a kid, and he was one of their friends, ignoring that is ignoring the magnitude of the betrayal, Sirius has a shitty homelife, but it’s kinda background?, werewolves and shit, the war is happening in the background, domestic marauders

Language: English

Series: Part 1 of “Choices (are uniting)”, Part 1 of “A Hundred Divides (make a piece whole)”

~~~~~~~~~

Sirius was the first one to see his potential animagus forms.

He dreamt of a tree with bark that was blackened like coal. It was twisted, and gnarled, and rotted at the core. But above the tree sprouted young and pure leaves that shone through with sun and shaded the ground below.

There was a rabbit near the edge of the roots that was too terrified to move, erratic eye movements showing he was caught debating. Bolt and hope to outrun what endangered him, or hide in the roots and hope to avoid detection.

There was a snake that lay coiled at the base of the tree, half hidden in a deep hollow. His eyes glinted a familiar, unnatural blue-grey.

There was also a tiger, proud and lazy, dangerous claws glinting obsidian in the sunlight. He lay far away from any roots--away from the protection of the shade, farthest from the other creatures.

There was also a Grim, standing right before Sirius. Or rather, a large black dog that looked uncomfortably like a Grim. His eyes were blue-grey, like the snakes, but instead of unnatural it seemed rather more striking. As Sirius looked at him, he sat and wagged his tail, head tilting and tongue lolling from his mouth.

When Sirius awoke to Remus nudging him awake for breakfast, he debated on what he should say. Tell them he saw that he was still, somewhere deep down, part Slytherin? That part of him was skittish and terrified of what his future held, that some days he wanted to run and run and run and others he wanted to hunker down and weather the storm? That part of him was powerful but lonely, and content in the way it was? That the strongest piece seemed to be a loyal, obedient dog that took a rather uncoincidental appearance of a Grim?

“Are you alright?” Peter asked, bumping their shoulders and tangling their fingers together over the silverware.

Sirius fought the urge to pull away. There was no reason for him to get so flighty.

“Of course,” he said, stiffly.

Janmesh narrowed his eyes at him. Whenever Sirius was uncomfortable he reverted back to a very formal way of speaking, as had been ingrained in him. Shit.

“I just-I had the dream last night,” Sirius admitted. It was the final step to the animagus process, just in time for the full moon coming up in a week and a half. All there was left would be to choose, and then the transformations should be possible.

Janmesh leaned forward excitedly, nearly sparkling with excitement (or maybe that was just the water he’d shaken out of his still-wet-from-the-shower hair a minute ago, clinging to his skin). “Really? What did you see?”

Peter squeezed Sirius’ fingers, silently supporting him. He was sensitive like that, he understood that whatever Sirius had seen had shaken him up. It was a sweet gesture, just like Janmesh’s excitement was sweet in an entirely different way: it was a distraction. And Sirius loved ignoring his problems.

With a reassuring squeeze to Peter’s fingers he made an attempt to match Janmesh’s enthusiasm. “There was a tiger, a rabbit, a-uh, a snake, and a big black dog.”

Janmesh ignored Sirius’s stumble over the ‘my animagus form could be a snake,’ like a good friend/maybe-significant-other/whatever-the-fuck-they-are should do. “Really? Which called to you the most?”

“The dog was right in front of me, and seemed the friendliest.”

“You’ll have to focus on that when you go to bed tonight, then, and drink-”

“What are you talking about?” Remus asked, practically flinging himself onto the bench next to Janmesh, reaching blindly for the kettle. 

“Divinition,” Janmesh answered casually, automatically pouring Remus a cup and pushing it into his hands so that he wouldn’t knock something over or burn himself. “Peter has a dream journal as an assignment this month.”

Remus mumbled something to indicate that he’d heard, too tired to continue the conversation. Sirius thought he ought to start studying before late at night, and go to sleep at a decent enough time so he’d be able to function before noon.

“Speaking of that, I’m going to be late,” Peter squeaked out. He was so terrible at lying it was cute. “See ya guys.”

Sirius twisted his neck so Peter could press a quick kiss to his cheek before rushing off to his first class. “Bye, babe.”

Janmesh grinned. “You’re so cute.”

“Fuck off, it’s better than being starry-eyed over someone who doesn’t even look at you.”

Janmesh placed his hand over his heart, and dramatically swooned into Remus. “How callous! You wound me!”

Remus elbowed him, knocking him to the floor. They both laughed. Remus glared through foggy, baggy eyes.

“C’mon, Moony, off to Runes for us,” Sirius prompted, leaning across the table to push a piece of buttered toast and bacon into Remus’s mouth before he could curse at him for interrupting his morning caffeine.

“See you in Charms!” Janmesh called after them. Lucky bastard, the Arithmancy classroom was closest to the Great Hall. Then again, Arithmancy first thing in the morning.

~~~

When Sirius fell asleep to the effects of the binding potion that night he thought of all of the options that had been presented to him.

The rabbit was the first thing to greet him.

“We’re scared,” said the rabbit. He had Sirius’ voice, but it sounded younger. Sirius’s blue-grey eyes seemed trapped within the rabbit’s face. “We’ve always been scared.”

Sirius nodded. It was true.

“It’s all we’ve ever known, for a long time. It’s comfortable.”

And it was comfortable, in a familiar sort of way. Sirius had grown up in his mother’s house, and his family’s world. He knew how to navigate it and avoid trouble, and how to run from it when he met it. It would be so easy to silently struggle and stay right in the position he’d been born into.

“I don’t want to be that person anymore,” Sirius told the rabbit.

“Very well.”

The rabbit vanished, and next there was the snake.

“We were raised to be this,” said the snake. His voice was smoother, refined in the way all purebloods were forced to be. Sirius’s eyes fit within the snake’s face but didn’t belong.

“I’m not a Slytherin,” Sirius protested. “I’m a Gryffindor.”

“That’s not the only indication of character,” the snake said. “We have it in us. We could do great things.”

Sirius could do great things within pureblood society. He was higher in line for lordship than any of his other cousins, aside from Alaric, and Alaric was a Prewett in name. The chances of the family magic claiming him as heir after his mother Lucretia were fairly low. It would likely go to Sirius’ father, and then Sirius if he hadn’t married out of the family at that point. He could have power. He could-

“That’s not who I want to be,” Sirius told the snake.

“Very well.”

The rabbit vanished, and next there was the tiger.

“We don’t need anyone else,” said the tiger. His voice sounded old and arrogant. Sirius’s eyes were wrong and disjointed in the tiger’s face.

“Yes we do,” Sirius argued.

If tigers could smirk, the tiger would be doing so.

Sirius wanted to squirm under his stare. He-he was self reliant, wasn’t he? The only people that knew even close to everything about him weren’t his friends, or even his boyfriend….s. It was his cousins and brother. In their own strange way, they stuck together. Even then the information shared was only enough so that everyone was able to get by in the strict way of living within their family and marriages and Hogwarts house. Sirius could shut himself down completely around his friends, and close himself off from his cousins and do things all on his own. No expectations to live up to, no rules to follow, free-

“I don’t want to be alone,” he told the tiger. He didn’t know if he fully believe even himself.

The tiger was judging him. He didn’t believe Sirius fully either, but it was Sirius’s choice to make.

“Very well.”

The tiger vanished, and next there was the Grim.

“We want things to be different,” said the Grim.

Sirius nodded, almost shaking with relief. All of the other options seemed to be rooted in staying right where he was, doing slightly different variations of what he was already being forced to do.

“No matter what happens, we need to go with our heart and stick with what we know is true,” said the Grim. His voice was Sirius’s voice. Sirius’s eyes were too intelligent for a dog, but they were fitting.

“Yes,” agreed Sirius, reaching to make contact with the Grim and bind his soul to him.

The dog stepped back. “There is danger in blind loyalty. Do you accept these dangers, know of them? Do you believe I am the best piece of you?”

Sirius thought of the rabbit, and the snake, and the tiger. 

“Yes,” he answered honestly.

“Very well.”

~~~

Janmesh saw an elephant, and a squirrel, and an owl, and a stag.

He dreamt of a river bank, the water slow moving and vast, and a grassy bank. The sun made the water shine and the grass alight a vibrant green.

In the water was an Asian elephant, pouring water over himself with his trunk. He was powerful and proud, uncaring to the other animals about. He had no reason to worry, so he didn’t.

The squirrel scurried between the small trees and bushes along the water’s edge, making cheerful noises as he played, unheading of the predator that sat on one of the branches.

The owl ignored the squirrel. He was a barn owl, pale-moon face staring smugly down at Janmesh. He was above the rest, arrogant in his full view of the world.

Then, closest to him at the edge of the water was a stag. His antlers weren’t quite full grown, but they gleamed in the sunlight. He watched over the squirrel and the uncaring elephant and the arrogant owl. The cautious protector.

Janmesh woke up to Peter screaming.

He bolted upright and shoved aside the partially-opened drapes around his bed. Peter was knocked to the ground, a great black dog with gangly legs and too-big paws standing on top of him and attacking his face.

No, not attacking. Licking.

“Sirius!?” Janmesh cried out, elated. The dog leapt off of Peter and bounded up to Janmesh, tongue lolling out of his mouth, tail wagging.

“What in the bloody fuck is going on?” Remus growled, poking his head from his drapes, squinting.

“Oh, um-” Before Janmesh could come up with either an excuse or begin to explain that they had been attempting to become animagi since the past summer and had neglected to tell him as a surprise, Remus continued.

“Just get the dog out of here and let me sleep until I physically need to be up.” And with that Remus snapped the drapes closed.

“Dramatic,” Peter remarked in a whisper. Janmesh struggled not to laugh. Sirius-the-dog thumped his tail loudly against the bedpost. Remus let out an ominous growl.

“C’mon,” Janmesh told them and ushered them out of the dorm and up the boys staircase. The few early-risers gave Sirius some odd looks but decided not to comment. Upon reaching one of the empty rooms towards the top of Gryffindor tower, Peter locked the door behind them.

Sirius ran around the room, jumping and knocking into things. Janmesh had seen toddlers that were more coordinated, but at least Sirius could functionally move.

After three loops, he stopped and shifted back into his human form.

His very naked human form.

For all of five seconds Sirius didn’t seem to realize, so caught up in the excitement. “I did it! I did it firs-oh fuck.”

Peter covered his eyes with a squeak and a blush. It wasn’t that they hadn’t seen anything before (living in a room with each other for over four years would ensure that), however, it was very rare that it was Sirius being unclothed--even more so since he’d openly admitted to fancying all three of them. 

Janmesh valiantly decided to pretend that nothing too-far from ordinary was happening. He wasn’t going to check his...maybe, almost boyfriend out, no matter how much he wanted to. He also wasn’t going to look away, making it blatantly obvious that he wanted to check him out.

“Might’ve been the first one to shift, but that doesn’t mean you’ll be automatically able to keep your clothes, mate.”

Janmesh forced himself to focus on Sirius’s face, which was tinting pink high along the cheekbones. Even though he didn’t look down, he could tell Sirius was twisting up to attempt to cover himself up.

“U-ha-um-”

Instead of waiting for a more intelligent response, Janmesh pulled off the nightgown he wore over the flannel sleep pants Remus had introduced to all of them (after years of having his stolen, Remus had just gifted them each two pairs last Christmas and James wore them nearly every night).

Sirius’ blush intensified as he took the offered garment, quickly pulling it over his head.

“He’s decent, Peter, you can stop being scandalized,” Janmesh teased, shoving at Peter.

“Yep,” Peter managed to say, keeping his eyes firmly on the ground.

Sirius wouldn’t make eye contact, either, just as red as Peter. Janmesh’s nightgown was too big on him, and it kept making attempts to slip down his shoulders.

“I had my dream last night!” Janmesh announced, perhaps a bit louder than he meant. 

“Lucky,” Peter mumbled.

“What’d you see?” Sirius asked eagerly.

“An elephant, an owl, a squirrel, and a stag,” Janmesh relayed proudly.

Sirius frowned. “None of those would be quite useful against Moony, would they be? A stag would get eaten, a squirrel and an owl’d be too little, and the elephant would be a touch too dramatic.”

“Hey, the owl could, uh, could be lookout! And the squirrel would probably be good for getting through the Whomping Willow!”

“That’s actually a good idea,” Peter said. “Accuracy levitation is finicky, and it’d be a bit suspicious if any of the professors looked out and saw a stick hovering in midair.”

Sirius spun around Janmesh and Peter as he passed to get to the door. Janmesh attempted to will away the heat in his face at the reminder of how graceful Sirius could be when he wanted to, the aesthetic only intensified at the swirling of the borrowed nightgown. 

“It will also be easier to fit two of us and a squirrel under the cloak, rather than trying to squeeze the three of us.” Sirius opened the door, and the collar of the nightgown finally slipped off his shoulder, exposing the sharp line of his collarbone.

“Huh-yeah!” Peter agreed, hurrying to follow. From his momentary stutter Janmesh knew Peter had likely noticed the same thing he had.

“Squirrel it is, then,” Janmesh confirmed.

~~~

That night Peter dreamed of a black bear, and a blue bird, and a rat, and a wild boar.

He was in a field of raspberry bushes. He couldn’t see the edges of it, but he knew that not too far away there would be a little stone cottage with painted blue shutters. It was his muggle aunt’s place, out in the countryside. The sun was weak, but still bright in the middle of the sky.

The black bear was eating from the bushes. He moved slowly and calmly from bush to push, rolling gate peaceful as it sought out more of the sweet fruit.

The blue bird sat on one of the bushes that had yet to be picked over by the bear. The berries on that particular were full and ripe and red. The bird was jealously guarding the bush from the other animals there.

The rat was hard to see, hidden in the underbrush. He ate the berries from the lowest branches and the ones that had fallen to the ground. They weren’t the beautiful berries from the blue bird’s bush, or the bountiful feast that the black bear had, but they were food and it kept him hidden.

The boar was paying no heed of the black bear, marching right in front of his path and interrupting him when the boar wanted the berries the most. Even the blue bird with his beautiful horde was not enough to stop the boar, though he did not attempt to eat from the bird’s bush, only around it. He was fearless, yet still respectful.

~~~

And here is the divergence. The moment that would define the rest of history--or, at least, the history of the four boys sleeping in the dormitory that night. 

Either Janmesh Puther would choose with his head, or he would choose with his heart. The conversations with his animal pieces would go along a similar strain as Sirius Black’s had. Janmesh would be at the same stream as in his first dream, only he wouldn’t really know that, and the pieces would try to sway him to their side.

The elephant with freckle-spots around his eyes would tell Janmesh that he should reclaim his heritage of an ancient and powerful pureblood, to bask in the benefits of the Puther name. 

The owl with heavy brown markings around his eyes would tell Janmesh that he was capable of great things, if only he stopped lowering himself. 

The squirrel with pale spots around his eyes would tell Janmesh that the world was harsh and cruel, and he had people like his parents and Dumbledore to look out for him. He was still only a child, these things weren’t his to worry about.

The stag with large white marks around his eyes would tell Janmesh that he was in the best position to help his friends. He wasn’t the best duelist, and he wasn’t a genius, and he didn’t even know how to properly cheer someone up when they were unhappy, but he had the name and the wealth and the support that came behind it.

Janmesh would always reject the idea the elephant proposed. He was uncomfortably aware of the privilege he had over Remus and Peter and Lily and Sirius, in some regards. He wouldn’t ever want to ignore that.

Janmesh would instantly chafe against the owl’s suggestion, despite knowing, deep down, that if he were to mature some things could be going much differently in his attempts at wooing Lily and actually talking things over with Sirius. His parents would be less exasperated at his interactions with the rest of pureblood society.

To the squirrel, Janmesh might accept. It would be with trepidation, and the squirrel would make him hear out the stag first, but he would agree. Even if what the stag promised was true, it was not the correct choice for him. His friends need him to be a squirrel and he couldn’t be a stag, or else the very friend he was becoming an animagus form might try and hunt him.

Or, Janmesh might reject the squirrel. He would tell him that he didn’t want to live that way, with his head buried in the sand, that he had an obligation to his friends and if the squirrel wouldn’t allow it, he’d find another way to be there for them. In this version of events, Janmesh would immediately agree with what the stag was saying. He wouldn’t care what warning was issued with, just that he couldn’t live his life the way the squirrel wanted him to.

If Janmesh went with the squirrel, he would wake Sirius first by chittering loudly in his ear, and then wake up Peter in the same way. The three would go to the same empty room as the day before (this time with clothes for Janmesh in tow) and discuss the dream that Peter had.

If Janmesh went with the stag he wouldn’t have a choice on who to wake first as his young antlers would get tangled in the curtains and he’d nearly bring an entire bedpost down while clattering around. Sirius would be forced to explain to Remus why there was an animal in their room for the second morning in a row, inciting a disagreement that wouldn’t end until after the full moon.

If Janmesh went with the squirrel, the next night Peter would go with the wild boar. It had felt the most right to him. It was brave in a way that Peter had tucked way down deep inside, and not oblivious like the bear or jealous like the bird or scheming and afraid like the rat. Remus wouldn’t be woken up by his first transformation because he would have fallen asleep in the common room late the night before, and they would go with the plan to surprise him outside of the Shrieking Shack (in order, of course, to be sure that as a werewolf he wouldn’t attempt to kill them). The next day Remus would be furious at the risk but secretly touched.

If Janmesh went with the stag, the next night Peter would go with the rat. It would make the most sense, if they still needed a small animal, and Remus had shouted about how a dog and a stag was already enough attention, without a third giant animal in the mix. Peter wouldn’t wake anyone up with his transformation, he would sit on his pillow with some strange sort of forlornness that he couldn’t place, until Sirius pulled back the curtains to wake him and offered up a beaming smile at Peter’s accomplishment.

But these are just two possibilities, neither set in stone.

Janmesh had to choose, and his options were difficult, each weighed for their worth with the information that was known.

But choices, as everyone knows, have power.

[ifridiot]

Teachable (Fic)

Word Count: 1136 Fandom: Original Characters Rating: General Audiences  Warnings: No Major Warnings Apply Relationships: Shi Carlton & Elijah of House Usher Characters: Shi Carlton, Elijah of House Usher Additional Tags: none that i can think of Summary: Elijah is in the doghouse with Tonic, she 'volunteers' to work for Shi and he tells her to get back there and apologize.

for @amuseoffirebane

Shi has always suffered from a lack of practical imagination.

Give him five minutes alone and a suspicious noise and he can come up with roughly seven billion paranoid theories as to the source every second. Paranoia has served him well, kept him ahead of the curve, always ready to fight or grab his boys and flee should the need arise. Paranoia got him on his feet and across the garage, muffling the explosion when the place was bombed and sparing his boys damage that the shrapnel might have caused. Paranoia helped him pick marks and steer clear of likely snitches.

Paranoia served. Imagination, however…

Well, there were enough things to worry about that were actually happening, actually feasible. He didn’t need to make up new situations.

So he’s at a dead loss to imagine what having his fierce Bug helping around the garage would be like. Can’t imagine what he’d do with her, where he’d set her up, how he’d teach someone almost as bullheaded as he was. He managed with Dowel, and had given up doing more than teach Gage the very most necessary basics, and they both had the good sense to worry about his temper.

Not that he’d hurt them -- he was Pa’s child in a number of ways, but not in that -- but letting them think he might didn’t bother him.

Lige though, no, she’d never feared him and wouldn’t start anytime soon. She’d seen his temper, and it only heated her own. She was a good bug, perfect for watching over Tonic’s place and keeping the bartender safe, but teachable Shi was certain would never be a word anyone used too liberally with this particular bot.

“Please, Shi, there’s lots I can do!”

She’s dancing around, hopping from foot to foot to foot, the segments of her body moving in a fluid series of swipes as clawed gripping feet scratch against the concrete floor. It’s like listening to a bundle of knives being drawn across the pavement; a sound he knows humes tend to avoid. His customers, by and large, tend to be humes.

“A’righ’, a’righ’ settle yerself,” Shi finally grinds out, making a sweeping motion toward the garage’s interior, away from the ever-broken chain trencher and the car lifts. “Siddown ‘n watch me fer a tick. Tell me why y’ain’t chasin’ Handerson if yer off from helpin’ Tonic.”

“Well…” She draws the word out like a child trying to avoid or distract by annoyance, and She gives her a sharp look as his fingers unfold and slip into the guts of the disassembled lawn aerator he’s been tasked with getting working.

Elijah does a good impression of clueless. Good enough that he knew plenty wrote her off as all strength and no brains. She ain’t dumb, though, no more than he was at so young an age. She’s barely done being a kid, he reckons, and she’s got a temper on her, which he also reckons is normal, given the state of the world.

She waits until he’s got his fingers deep in the machinery, so he’s only half focused on her. It’s cute, in the way a kid trying to be sly is always cute.

“Tonic and me are havin’ a fight. I can’t stay with Handy cuz they’re working today plus you got more space and you said I can always come here and I don’t need extra space ‘cause I can just sleep out here like you --”

“Like hell,” Shi cuts in, fingers going still and then retracting back to a more manageable length. He sees her getting ready to talk back -- deflect, change topic, argue, he doesn't care. He speaks and she at least lets him. “You come runnin’ in here askin’ t’ work fer me, I bring y’ in thinkin’ y’ jes’ mean t’ pass a couple hours. Yer talkin’ like this’s some longterm thing ‘n it ain’t gonna be. Y’ain’t stayin’ here t’ dodge a fight with Tonic, girl.”

She rears up, several sets of legs off the ground, the world’s smartest, angriest centipede. Before the last upgrade, she’d be right about his height, but he’s taller now, lankier. When she tries to draw up further, she wobbles, weaving like snake thinking about striking, and then lowers a little to settle on the next set of feet. “You said there was always a place for me here!”

“And there is!” He grinds back, arms crossing. “When y’ got a legitimate reason fer staying, not jes’ cuz you ‘n Tonic ‘r havin’ a spat.”

“That’s not fair!”

There’s no humes in the garage, and the doors are rolled up to deal with the heat anyway. Shi vents a blast of dark exhaust in a snarling huff, feeling it plume and dissipate around the sides of his face. “Izzit fair you ran off on her when y’know she can’t come after you? Izzit fair y’ use th’ fact she ain’t gonna leave that damn bar t’ end wha’e’er argument th’ two’a you ‘re havin’?”

He’s gotten better at figuring out how she displays emotion and watches a number flit over her. Outrage, irritation, guilt, shame. “She told me to leave!” She argues, but she’s lowered herself back to her usual posture, which is sign enough that she knows she’s got the wrong end of this fight. When Shi scoffs, she shoots him a glare, and then looks quickly away.

“Lemme guess, she said summin like, ‘if yer gonna act li’ that, y’ kin jes’ leave’, yeah?”

Bug huffs and refuses to look at him.

“G’ home, ‘Lige. Make yer manners ‘n say yer sorries. Th’ two a you take care a each other, ain’ that always been th’ way ‘ve it?”

“I wanna stay here ‘n learn how to fix stuff.”

Shi angles his head upwards, like the secret for patience is lurking in the gloomy rafters. “Fix yer deal wi’ Tonic firs’. Come back ano’er day ‘n I’ll teach ya fer a night.”

The way she looks at him, fins down and eyes big but dim, makes him wish he were a kinder bot. He looks back at her, keeps his arms crossed, and nods when she finally turns away. It seems it doesn’t matter how long he knows her, she’s always going to feel like one of his kids, someone he wants to protect, someone he wants to comfort.

But he’s not going to foster any rift between her and Tonic. That partnership helps two of his people, keeps Lige and Tonic both safer than either of them would be on their own. It’s better, he knows, watching her mope her way out and back onto the street before darting off in the direction of the bar, to be the angry bastard in this. He’s a rock, after all, and a rock can’t yield.

[chibigissy]

This was Too Annoying for a Video so here’s a Tumblr Post that’s a Ted Talk. (PLEASE READ THO)

Okay, let's start out by saying, I had originally had a recording for this type of subject, which is a bit of a response to Evan's podcast "Animation Hour", or at least part of it. It's was mainly about works that in a style of a motion comic and works that in a style of a Visual Novel. It was before I talked with a good friend of mine about this and he coined a term that is more broad terms for the type of content we do, which started out as a semi-joke before I'm actually starting to legit like the term. So recording and video I originally had is useless no longer relevant in my eyes. But hey, it's better to start over from the ground up when doing these types of discussions. If you have not seen Animation Hour and have read the comments, I recommend you do so. Cuz, I'm sure this shit is gonna get confusing.

With all that said, let's get started.

So I know that Evan's First Animation Hour, where he talks about fanime, and already, there has been plenty feedback. Alot them are fairly good. Some positive and some fairly critical with reasoning behind it. There is a bit of a discussion. Yeah, 25 comments is not a whole lot compared to other types of YouTube videos that got like a million comments per day but compared to some videos those in our community get, I'd say that is a fairly decent amount, if I do say so myself. One thing that has been brought up in some comments of the video, is the term the Evan coined, which is OAS. OAS stands for Original Animated Series. And it's good term. It's a abbreviated like AMV, PMV, MAP, and MEP. It's short, sweet and to the point. AND It's more board so anyone can join and we can refer to our fanimes as such when promoting them to those outside of the fanime community. However, I do feel there is a bit of a miscalculation Evan might have.... well, unless he'll explain what he means in the next animation hour. I do feel OAS might exclude those that don't animate much for there series, such as doing things in a style of a motion comic or a visual novel (The latter being more of my concern, since initially, what the fuck can you call that besides fanime.) See, I said my original discussion video, you can easily refer to your motion comic style series as motion comic, as it is an established genre. With a visual novel style series, I did tried to coin the term "VNS" which stands for "Visual Novel Series" but it has it's ups and downs. The downside is that it's a little to vague of a term and it could apply to a series of visual novel games, say like Ace Attorney, Danganronpa, and Higurashi. The upside is that acronyms can have more that one meaning. There are two meanings for PMV. My friend, TenshiHanka, told me it could mean either "Picture Music Video" or "Pony Music Video". Speaking of which, I had a conversation with Tenshi and UniversalFiction about OAS. Universal was asking if we're going to change the name of the Fanime World Server to something like OAS, which I was not sure if the mods would agree to that idea. And least not yet. Might be too soon at this point in time. As for Tenshi, he is basically, like "Yo. I got it! OWS. Which stands for "Original Web Series". And OWE , which stands for "Original Web Episode!" Now, like I said at the beginning of the video, this was a bit of a semi-joke. It was a semi-joke in a sense that we both pronounced them as "ow's" and "ow" and saying shit like "Cuz making art is an ow", which in all fairness, it is. Art can be a pain sometimes. And so, he posted his comment about on his TenshiHankaTR account, which compared to his Otaku Krap account, it's is smol! Like, with the other comments (especially mine), you would need 15 semi-trucks to carry them! With the smol comment, it's straight into the point! Then Universal's comment came a long and she brought up legit good point about how OWS is more inclusive than OAS and I'm like "Oh..... what's feeling in my heart. I think I'm starting to legit like term OWS and OWE" And that's what I feel actually, OWS is good for a series that episodes on YouTube or just the internet in general and OWE is good for one-shot story that is in a video format. It's open for animators and those who don't animate but still like to portray their stories through art and a video format! I'd say it's down right genius Now, I have a bit of hot take, You can have your series under the OWS and OAS labels. After all, as Evan said, you can use as many tags as possible to promote yourself out there. And another hot take, you can also have the fanime label for your OWS in the tags. I feel you can have a community within a community. Now I know what ya'll thinking "Gissy, what the angling fuck are you going on about? And what are you smoking and can I have some of it?". Well, I've seen communities outside of the art community that have their own little sub communities. An example I can bring up is with Twitch. Twitch, while it's a big ass community, has like a shit tone of communities that surrounds a Twitch streamer. There are two I'm in are related to Doodletones and KisakaToriama. And sure, there are times when it's just a chill streams, sometimes it can have a shit ton of overs of... 20 something views. (In the case with Kisa, might be around 30 or more, if she is like playing a popular game) Now I can got into other community types but if I do, we'd be here all day. So yeah, with that example in mind, I'd say, you can have the fanime community with an OAS and OWS/OWE community community! Checkmate, Atheists!! Now, there is one more thing I wanna bring up and that is that what would be a good main hub to post our work, besides YouTube and other Social Medias. Because face it, YouTube is dun mcfucked right now and if you don't have a big following and/or not using your tags properly, your work is gonna get buried by other tweets about some fuckward doing something stupid or illegal for like the millionth time. I know some of you are gonna be like, “Why not a Discord Server as the Main Hub.” And I'd say that is a fairly decent idea. Just don't let me be the moderator for it. Cuz I have the Fanime World Discord to deal with and trying to moderate that server alone is freakin difficult at points. I don't even WANT to imagine how moderating a OWS server would be like, if it has more people than with Fanime World. But there are other options as well. There's creating an amimo for OWS's. There is a problem however, Amino is kinda hard to keep up with. Trying to look at your mobile is tedious at points and the desktop version of Amino kinda sucks, if I'm honest. But here, something like an OWS Amino can work for mobile users that like said app. There's also a creating a forum for OWS's. It's just.... Forums are kinda going extincted, sadly. Like, unless it’s for something popular, it's hard to make forum of something not to popular. "But wait, what about Creative Studio Forum?" you may ask. I know that was popular back in the day but it's currently in the dead zone and none of the moderators of that forum probably don't care about anymore to a point that unless you already have an account on CSF, you get the freakin' #Hashbrown theme since that's currently the default theme. Tho who knows, maybe there will be a "Creative Studio Forum 2: Electric Boogaloo" one of these day. After all, there are other types of projects the tell a story and don't involve video editing exists. I mean hell, Penalty All About was originally a web novel, my duudes! There would just be an OWS sub-section in the of the Visual Project Section of that forum There were other options, such as mastodon or even creating a website from the ground up. The latter might get too confusing, if you don't know any coding. Not to mentioned, both of them cost money. (Even tho, the former claimed to be open source. Don't think I'm not salty that false advertisement, Mastodon....) Anyways, this has gotten a little all over the place but to summarize: 1. OAS is a good public name but it might exclude those that 2. OWS/OWE is a more inclusive those that animate and those that don't but still wanna make episodes. 3. The Fanime Comminity can be within the OAS community and OWS/OWE Communities, change my mind. 4. WE NEED A MAIN HUB CUZ YOUTUBE SUCKS, DAMNIT 5. ????? 6. Profit Okay the last two points are a joke but I hope you get my drift. That is all I gotta say, hope you have a good day, and thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[kagetsukai]

Writing Process Meme

So I got tagged by several people for this meme (thank you @jonogueira, @ladydracarysao3, @roguelioness & @princessvicky01) and I finally got the wherewithal to get it done.

Short stories, novels, or poems?

Writing? Short stories, hands down. My sweet spot seems to be between 1500 and 5000 words. It's not a bad place to be :)

Reading? Novels, always. Gimme a good book to get lost in.

What genre do you prefer reading?

Urban fantasy tends to be my preferred poison, though I hate vampires and zombies. I also enjoy high fantasy, but those get very cheesy very fast. I also dabble in dystopian YA.

What genre do you prefer writing?

Fanfiction. I have a plan for two non-fanfic stories and one is a romance story and the other is this... multi-genre epic that starts as a fantasy, becomes steam punk and then sci-fi. Don't ask, I don't know either.

Are you a planner or a write-as-I-go kind of person?

I guess it really depends on what kind of a story I am writing. Usually for short stories I will have an idea and I'll just sit down and start writing. If I'm working on something multi-chaptered, I will make an outline and have notes on all sorts of things.

What music do you listen to while writing?

My writing music largely depends on my mood and what I'm writing. I will generally have electropop for smut, softer/melodic music for my dance!fic and Weirder Shit gets what I call "emotional music", which usually means a lot of Within Temptation, Trespasser Williams and Vienna Teng. I also love having Dead Can Dance as background for just about anything.

Fave books/movies?

Fave movies: Love, Actually; Imagine Me & You; Moana; A-Team (I will die on that hill and I don't care)

Fave books: I love Mercy Thompson series, Dresden Files, books by Carol Berg for emotional wringing; Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C Wrede; Old Man's War by John Scalzi; Alex Verus series, etc. I could probably go for a while. I used to read a lot ;)

Any current WIPs?

Ugh. So many. I have Weirder Shit, dance!fic, my end of the art trade with @elalavella, two fairy tale retellings, and Cute Bisexuals story that wants to get written but I refuse to start because OMG TOO MANY WIPs.

If someone were to make a cartoon out of you, what would your standard outfit be?

Jeans (knee-length shorts in the summer), a t-shirt with something clever on it, ponytail, black flats

Create a character description for yourself:

On an average day, Shan would say she dressed casually: jeans and a t-shirt with some comfy shoes. Occasionally, she liked to go all out and get crazy with her appearance: put on a dress and do her make using her favorite purple color. Unfortunately, today was not that kind of a day.

Do you like incorporating people you actually know into your writing?

Absolutely, though never in their entirety. I mean, even my self-insert is no longer like myself! A good writer will observe their friends/family/people they know so they can understand how any given person would behave in a certain situation, then apply it to their writing. Otherwise, your characters will suffer from what artists like to call “Same Face Syndrome”.

Are you kill-happy with characters?

Moment of truth: I haven't really killed a character yet? Not really? There was that one drabble with Josephine and Mahanon but I can't call it being 'kill-happy'. That being said, I love teasing my friends that I'm going to kill someone in one of my stories. Their terror brings me lots of joy *maniacal laughter*

Coffee or tea while writing?

Usually neither. When I'm in the zone, I'm so absorbed that I don't eat or drink anything. Granted, I usually write at night so any of these would prevent me from sleeping at night as well. So, water?

Slow or fast writer?

Is 'both' a good answer? I am extremely slow to get my ass in gear, figure out what is happening and actually sit down to write. Once I'm writing, I'm WRITING. I once banged out 3K words in less than 2 hours. I guess what I'm saying is that I'm a fast typist, but not so great with getting ideas flowing.

Where/who/what do you find inspiration from?

If I want to get inspired to write, there are three different things I do to potentially get inspired: 1) I go and read someone else's fic. With good stuff, I get so inspired to write my story I will usually close AO3 and immediately open Google Docs. Occasionally I'll open the bad!fic section, cuz that usually gets my "I can totally do better than THAT" juices flowing; 2) I go and reread what I have written to get into the groove of where I'm at in the story and remember where I wanted to go. It also gives me a chance to look at my writing with a fresh eye and see if I messed something up (this is my most common source of inspiration); 3) I put on my "Inspirational Music" playlist and hope it works. This one is the most fickle and I try not to rely on this method.

If you were put into a fantasy world, what would you be?

A hot mess. No? I would like to think that if I ended up in a fantasy world, I'd train myself to be like Cassandra, but with a two-handed sword. Or a sword and a dagger. Anyway, I'd try to train to be a warrior and die horribly in the first encounter :P

Most fave book cliche? Least fave book cliche?

Fave cliche: I don't think I have one? I love when books take an overused cliche and do something cool with it. Just saying.

Least fave cliche: Love fixes all. God, I hate that one. Having the support of your lover is super important if you're trying to deal with shit (ie. past trauma), but it doesn't mean that you're automatically cured of your XYZ. I hate that.

Fave scenes to write?

Anything with dialogue, really. I love when things are happening, people are interacting, secrets come out, etc. Human interactions are my favorite to write about.

Most productive time of day for writing?

Early to late evening. Or at 10am, right as I really get going at work (THANK YOU ASSHOLE MUSES).

Reason for writing:

I like making people happy with my stories. I enjoy finishing a story, releasing it out and seeing people's reactions to it, bad OR good. I don't necessarily want praise for what I do (I mean, it's nice to get, let's not kid ourselves), but I'm more about putting a smile on someone's face and having them enjoy something.

[ao3feed-fma]

Clearing the Smog (In Our Hearts)

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by Kattythingz

Greed was based on the sin of greed, after all, so it’s no surprise that he was painfully self-aware of his wants and desires. He wanted everything: money, fame, power, women…

And, recently, Ed.

Ed had agreed to work under him, and that meant he was Greed’s, to an extent. He should be happy with that. But he’s not. Not when any positive emotions he received from Ed were either accidental or just not meant for him at all.

It… hurt. Why did it hurt?

OR: Ed and Greed have a much-needed talk. Feelings happen, some sweet and some bitter.

Words: 2527, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of To Be a King Beside You

Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Multi

Characters: Edward Elric, Greed (Fullmetal Alchemist), Greed (Ling), Ling Yao

Relationships: Edward Elric/Ling Yao, One-sided Edward Elric/Greed, Edward Elric & Greed

Additional Tags: This is me redeeming myself after I wrote angst, Greed is pining after ed, poor Greed, he's trying his best, Established Relationship, edling - Freeform, Greed is a sweetheart and I wanna hug him, I'm so sorry Baby, Reconciliation, Enemies to Friends, Ed and ling reunite cuz Greed just wants his friend (crush) to be happy, Unrequited Crush, Unrequited Love, ish, you could read it as friendship too, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, like at the end, Pining, Ed and Greed talk, because they're both stubborn idiots and someone had to say it, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon Compliant, Slight Cursing

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[celestialallstars]

Episode #3: "Make me look like fucking Doofenshmirtz when I’m trying to be like Maleficent" - Mo

So first off WOOOOO! The vote happened exactly as it was supposed to. I'm hoping that means I'm actually on the pulse of this tribe. I've gradually been getting closer to Jared, and I think he trusts me probably more than I trust him.

Second off, this challenge my god. I hate it, like it's a good challenge but for me... oof. Doing this, it's like I have facial dyslexia or something. Like all of the mouths and eyes start blending together and it just starts to look nuts.

I'm hoping to keep trudging forward, if we somehow pull a win out of this, even better if Cyrena goes to tribal again given it was basically unanimous. Alternatively Orfeo to balance things out. I'm tired though and it's been a long day, so it is now time to sleep.

I’m conflicted because I so badly want to be a bad bitch and create an over the top plan but there’s such a high chance that it will flop and make me look like fucking Doofenshmirtz when I’m trying to be like Maleficent. So I’m going to try to create my own kinda of genius that only applies to me. It sounds stupid but it’ll work. I’m being bold by saying it’ll work cus if I get eliminated I’ll look like a Doofenshmirtz. We’ll see. I’m already making charts to help me see who’s good and who’s not so good at comps. Comparing teammates to eachother and comparing the entire cast to eachother. Wish me luck. (Also I love everyone in this cast.)

So like I have so many mixed feelings about this cast. In terms of talking a lot of them are BORING or LEAVE ME ON READ, and like maybe for some it’s cause I’m not in their tribe but like, some people on my tribe still make me want to hit my head against a rock. So like that’s what I’m feeling.

Also think we’re gonna loose this immunity which I’ve hardly done anything for. So go me.

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Just a small update Mitch and I are chatting so that answers that question

"What's going on?" Well I shall tell you Anna Jane exactly what is going on. I need to get back into therapy that's what.

Apparently everyone is stressed about results and then there is me who does not care cause I want bodhi gone cause he legit doesn't talk to me so meh.

ALSO ALISSA FOUND AN IDOL QUEEEN. so we now have an idol between the 3 of us which could come in handy very much later down the road which we love! I have 100% trust in jack and alyssa now, with mo as my number 3 on this tribe. As much as i love tobi personally (hi tobi reading this post season) but like idk something is still off. he hasn't spoken much game to me at the moment so idk where his head is really at..

god help us its results this challenge was hard woo go cyrena!

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we lost by 1 point. oh my god. 1 point. that makes me wanna cry. dear god let this be a simple vote or i will actually start crying

WHY MUST I ALWAYS BE ON THE SHITTY TRIBE WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY IS THERE SOME SICK SATISFACTION OF ME ALWAYS GOING TO TRIBAL????? FUCK

I am SO pumped! I do feel bad for the people on Cyrena, but where it stands now, them going to tribal I feel is best for my game just relationship-wise for me. Still, I can only hope I am making few bonds over on their end while maintaining the ones I have on my tribe and Tuatha as well. I do really hope Mo at least makes it because he helped me this morning when I was getting bummed about all the winner talk. I'm quite optimistic for right now!

I Wrote Alexis Maxwell But I Erased It

Well we won the challenge (BARELY), a bit annoyed that we submitted before I got another chance to take a crack at the photos. I feel like I could've maybe found 1 or 2 more before we submitted. Granted we'd need to have found either 3 more or beaten Orfeo to the punch if we had wanted the reward.

I think so long as Bodhi doesn't go on Cyrena I'm pretty indifferent about them losing. They're the people I talk to the least relatively. Ideally I'd probably want an Alyssa, or Matt boot, but I have no influence so we'll see what happens.

I'm just trying to be social and relatively unimposing right now. It's Day 8, now's not the time to be doing glaringly bold things.

um so we won wooh but still no 2nd idol im sad i want one. um wanted green tribe to go tribal but blue going again i hope bodhi/jack/alyssa leave cuz they dont talk to me ever um ya thatd be cute or maybe tobi cuz hes a snake but maybe he not a snake this time? my stan list atm is jared > zach = rhys > loris = chloe > everyone else. my unstan list is: sharky jack alyssa mitch <3 um yaa hope i can do sth. chris so good gotta always watch out for him jared asked who i wanted to go to f3 with and i said def not chris and he was like oh i wanted chris in end so like hes def a threat also he likes zach so um that needs to stop real quick.

I think it should be Bodhi or Tobi to go. Am I gonna say anything? Not right now, no. Will I say something later? No clue it depends. But Bodhi isn’t as active as the others and doesn’t participate all that much. Tobi is semi-active but isn’t great at challenges. I remember him being good at challenges so idk if he’s just distracted or not putting that much energy into this. I think a swap is happening after this potentially but if it ain’t it’s still best to vote out the weakest link. It might be me and I might just be super cocky rn but I don’t think it’s me.

hi! yesterday was a monumental day. I tried to mend my social game with those I hadn’t talked much to, which resulted in me having a lengthy conversation with jack, and making me feel a bit more secure in my tribe/in the event of a swap. the people I don’t talk to keep getting voted out which I’m very much a fan of but that’s probably because they were inactive so that trend might not continue :(. also I lied in my last conf I’m now in an alliance with Chris Jared kori and Bryce? I didn’t expect it but i didn’t feel too close with kori so that should help me solidify something there!! :) I’m thriving. don’t call me ANGEL!

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don’t call me ANGEL! (in case of task challenge :p)

So we won the challenge. Again. It’s really nice to be able to just sit back and relax in the game and watch people struggle but I’m really nervous about it because we’re all so kumbaya on the Oreo tribe that I don’t fully know who I can trust just yet. Another piece of tea is the fact that Alyssa has an idol which is great for me because it shows Alyssa trusts me and I can trust her for the time being. However I’m worried about Alyssa because we keep promising each other merge which tells me she won’t want to go to the end with me just yet so I gotta keep her close and we’ll see how much damage we can do but i think I’m thriving bc I actually know where an idol is compared to last time when I had no clue.

so previously on The Adventures of a F*g, i had a small breakdown about the game. i dont know if true, but bryce informed me of an alliance between kori/jared/bryce/loris/chris, and the last two named are super close allies of mine (the closest on my tribe). they like.. didnt tell me shit about it and idk i guess i just feel excluded and it sucks that im in legit 0 (real) alliances. ive been doing good socially i thought and i dont know but i feel like i really sucked.

meanwhile, i sat down with a bag of salt and vinegar lays chips and talked to myself. why was i doing bad? why was i in 0 alliances? why no one like me?

then it hit me... like boom.

i realized that a typical flaw i had this game was caring too much. i pride myself on my ability to read situations (barring paranoia) and i know myself very well. like, i realized that since i was too concerned with doing good and proving myself, i kind of lost the fun of it all and probably come off as fake or forcible to other people. that isn't authentic.

BUT MY EPIPHANY increased even further. how? i dont know!! my brains so fucking big. i just had to be goofy. yes, i want to do good. i really do. but i played once before in this series and got RU pots and 5th. i know i am capable of being a good player and im content with that, and now that im moving into that mindset where this game wont no longer dictate whether im good or bad, im going to start having fun.

i know this isnt about game really but its like... #selfdiscovery

but ya i just wanted to update yalls on that. i won immunity though so im f18 and probs in swap. woo. finna get fucked. anyway, thank u.

and since i want like attention on this post im going to put tags.

#selfdiscovery #justgirlythings #l4l #follow4follow #gay #faggot #0alliances #disney #anime #weeb #lgbt #survivor #bigbrother #celestial

After we won the face morph challenge, it has been pretty slow. I still have a solid group with me Stephen Z and Jared. Kori and Bryce are close, Jared and I are close, Rhys and Jared are close, and Stephen and I are close. Those are the allegiances I know of right now, but things could change. Lucky for the alliance of 5, they all get to stick together. If there is a swap though, I won't hesitate to flip on bryce/rhys/kori if the opportunity presents itself. I am also kind of worried I am not keeping up socially. I have had a busy week, so my availability is limited, but I try to talk to as many people as I can when I am available. If my predicitons are correct, we should expect a swap soon. I'd love to meet up with Michael, Bodhi, Alyssa, Chloe, Drew, and Mo just to name a few. I feel like I have been able to connect well with everyone except Matt H.

So, as per my last confessional we are at tribal. And I'm conflicted. As said before I have an alliance with jack and Alyssa and they are my main 2 at the moment like love them both. We helped Alyssa find the idol and we now have a vote steal which I found. However I am feeling kinda conflicted over this vote. Jack and Alyssa want to get rid of Tobi but I personally want bodhi gone. He doesn't talk to me like at all and like he's not the best at challenges. I wanna keep Tobi as well for like a laugh because I genuinely love him. We all agreed to keep mo thank god but still, a lil conflicted. AGH. I have found a vote steal tho woo. I'm not going to be happy but I'll swallow my pride and just go with the alliance, because I'm not out here trying to make waves and be unloyal at the moment. That's for later LOL

I think there is a relatively high chance that i'm going home here, considering its 1 and a half hours till tribal and people "still haven't heard anything" so i'm assuming that i'm getting the chop here which sucks... I tried pretty hard considering i've been pretty busy and like they're not giving me much to work with here and it feels like im trying to break through a wall. I'm trying to get the target on bodhi but no one is fucking online to even try to talk to about it so i'm at  a lost for what to do here... I want to stay but i just don't know how to do that when no one is talking to me... i could just be extremely paranoid and i sound delusional right now but idk something feels off here... its so annoying when I enjoy talking to other tribes more than my own NNNN like i really wish things were different but they're not so i'm just gonna try my best and see what happens

Woo we win again. Im trying to step up socially with my tribe, although who knows how long it's gonna matter bc we're prob swapping tonight. Apparently people were saying mo's name, let's pray it doesn't happen bc he's a good fucking kid.

Well it's been a slow couple of days for me. In game I can't really speak much to anything that may have happened. I feel like Tuatha has had a bit of a kumbaya casual flow going on. Which isn't necessarily bad but it makes it hard for me to know how I'm really doing.

Tobi was messaging me worried it might be him, which admittedly wouldn't be the worst thing given how we ended our last game. I was kindof an ass which I kindof leaned into after essentially throwing that game, but I still wish I'd found a way to end things better with him. While there are others I'd rather see go, his boot is one I can probably accept.

If it isn't him then oof who knows then. So long as it isn't Bodhi from that tribe. Overall I'm feeling ok, but I don't want to get complacent, it's just so early that I really don't know what to make of things. One world still isn't really helping since I'm still struggling to try and make conversation with EVERYONE. I really should consider just narrowing it down to some instead of all.

I’m sure hoping this works out for me if there is a tribe swap like a suspect, I think I’ve built some strong enough connections but without going to tribal it’s just not possible for me to be 100%

I've never been on a tribe with a winning streak I feel like I'm in the upside down hahaha. I'm having a great time and getting to know everybody and not having the stress of tribal is great. Sucks for the other tribes OOP

Nothing much is happening! I am still set up perfectly on my tribe and Bodhi has informed me that either Mo or Matt might be going. That was at the beginning of the round so it could really be anyone. I just hope it isn't Bodhi Alyssa or Mo.

Ok this past round was ok. I just kind of let us lose immunity and then we voted out Tobi. I didn’t want to vote out Tobi but that fucker voted for me so I don’t really care at all fuck him.

So not very much has changed on Tuatha as far as I can tell. My tribe winning the immunity challenge has helped me delay any confrontation between my 2 alliances which is great, as it should theoretically allow me to maintain relationships with all 6 members of the tribe. Still, it's going to keep being important to win immunity or pray for a swap in order to keep these groups from clashing.

Jared and Rhys are still a ? for me. I don't know why/how Rhys was able to convince Kori to invite Jared to the alliance of 5 instead of Mitch, and it worries me that those 2 may have a stronger bond than I immediately suspected. Hopefully I'll have an opportunity to deal with that when the time comes.

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Tobi is voted out 5-1. We swap!