#thank you!!! very interesting ask!! :D

[desceros]

this got longer than i meant it to, so tldr is these young men need to increase their experience bars to catch up to vi, nobody's maxed ??? i guess?? i rambled. uh. ANYHOW; gentle reminder that the boys were not in fact raised like typical humans, they have a very tight-knit social circle that very rarely grows or changes and their outside social interactions tend to be limited to yokai and other mutants just as bizarre as they are. Vi was raised presumably pretty standardly as a human in human society, regardless of the perceived pro-mutant thing given her some flavor. Her expectations are already set, she learned all this socializing biz growing up around other people learning probably around the same time, assuming she had like-aged peers as a kid- doubt that's been considered but if she's written to be neurotypical-coded then that's probably a fair take on her formative years. The boys did not get this social interaction with humans in public spaces and navigating relationships; even homeschooled children get outside to play with the neighborhood kids. They didn't even have yokai until they were 15. April was it until then. She's not exactly typical herself, either, so that's not much opportunity to learn how to treat people properly. all this to say, Leo and Donnie are both making the sort of mistakes you tend to make as kids, when it's less consequential because there's no predetermined expectation. I saw in another ask, Des, you said the bar couldn't be lower and I feel like that was true from the get-go with these boys; Vi's not just the best friend or love interest, she's also probably one of the, if not their very first human friend since adulthood (and no I do not count the Jones pair; one's feral ninja crazy and the other is apocalypse boy wonder, neither raise that bar, i will die on this hill). The boys are both learning character-building life lessons here. I for one am gonna be rooting for Leo to bounce back just as much as Donnie because these are not bad people, just inexperienced dum dums and I for one enjoy watching character growth in progress.

i'm really in a glass house about the Wow This Got Long tirade so you'll have no slings nor arrows from me, lmao

so, in symphony, i've tried to show that there's kind of a. hm. sliding scale of socialization that's happened with the boys. allow me to ramble on in detail since i know it's one of those things i've been perhaps a bit too sneaky about:

on one end of the spectrum, you have mikey. he's the one that goes out to the grocery store while dragging donnie along when he can, he makes friends that come to the party, etc. he's basically integrated at this point, as much as one can be as a ninja turtle that grew up in the sewer.

next you have leo, who i suspect talks to people and interacts with them as the face man, but he's still very sheltered. his sheltering, however, is by choice. hes not very interested in getting to know them. he's very closed off and protective of the hamato secrets, so he doesn't let people in. not unless they're useful.

next comes raph. i think early on, after krang, he probably tried to integrate. but he's, yknow, a huge-ass alligator snapping turtle mutant. he looks scary, and he's aware of how it comes across. he has a lot of encounters where people assume the worst of him. there's one line in chapter 14 that illustrates his stance on the situation, and how he's basically given up hope on the idea of integration:

“Honestly? I dunno. For years, we always lived in the shadows, never lettin’ humans see us ‘cause we didn’t know how they’d react. And now that we know, I wonder sometimes if we shouldn’t just stay down here.”

and finally, at the far end, we have donnie. if it weren't for his touch-aversion, i think he actually would have been next after mikey to integrate. we see him in the show going to april's school in the daytime in just his hoodie, talking to humans easily, and he's comfortable wearing pretty shitty disguises to go topside. but in symphony, because of his trauma (some of which we haven't explored yet i am so, so sorry to tell you), he self isolates so he doesn't have to Deal With People. crowds in particular are a No No, and the boy lives in new york. crowds are kinda hard to avoid. and you are correct! this has been detrimental to his socialization. he doesn't know how to communicate his needs to people. he never had to learn how.

but that's what's so... delicious about writing this fic for me. donnie having to grapple with the fact that he has to meet viola-chan in the middle, and viola-chan grappling with having to meet him in the middle. he needs direct, specific language. she needs authentic, affirming language. they're not mutually exclusive. but they are something that needs to be practiced, and hhhhhh. it's just so much fun to iron out!

[sleepis4theweak]

I just saw your post on Mikey doing angry stimms and had to ask for more /nf since this is the first time I've seen someone draw angry stimms for a character (it's not that common from my perspective)

Thank you- love your artstyle so much!!! :D

(P.s. I also get angry stimmys too sometimes)

Aww- thank you so much for this ask! I am really, really happy you liked it!! And yeah I feel like angry stims aren't talked about as much...

Anyways I was really super excited to draw more- still using stims that I have done, though these are a little more uh... aggressive? I wanted to preface this by saying that I do these gently, or they are stims that I've replaced with something else hehe :)

For my angry stims a lot of it is based on frustration so it's kinda a lot of flailing? Like aggressive shaking. The biting one isn't something I've done in a while- and is one that I would try to do gently (would not recommend that one lol), and the punching of the thigh is something I tend to do (gently) when I'm hella frustrated with homework :)

[chiscribbs]

For the WIP game: SoPMeme (ROTTMNT)

(Sorry I'm asking so late!)

(No worries! I don't think there's a time limit on this, I'll just keep taking requests until I run out of wips to talk about, LOL)

SoP Meme...well, it's beyond late at this point, so I may as well just be frank about it. Back when a certain meme was circulating around the Rise tags, I decided to get in on the action with a Shades of Purple version, for funsies.

However, I got a bit overambitious as I often do and then started getting busy with other stuff right around the time when I was getting close to finishing it... Soooo, it's been on the backburner for about a month or two. I still intend to finish it, though, since I put so much work into it, lol. Here's a snippet:

[prentissluvr]

anyways how was your day?? i saw you post a bit about in the morning hehe

yessss it was great!! i had all my dance stuff which i'm excited about! i'm just a little bugged because i can't use any wifi at the uni that i dance at and i have a total of five hours of down time in between practices that it thought i'd be able to do homework during :// hoping i can figure something out! instead i planned a fic on paper (thank god i brought my journal) and researched ptsd with secondary psychotic features for said fic ! :DDD

ANYWAYS HOW WAS YOUR DAY MY LOVE <33

[pushing500]

Also what is the Eldrich horror in the yearning post?

Buccaneer is a drebbbd from the Ebbbs mod! It's a spooky amalgamation blob creature, and I love it. It has a "friend" named Sinbad who is a thrumebbb and is just as horrifying.

I guess the random name generator decided to go for a nautical, seafaring theme with these two and their names.

There used to be a mod called Ebbboids Race which let you have creepy little black-blob eldritch colonists, but that mod hasn't been updated to 1.4. It's very sad, I liked that one. Ah well.

[luffington]

Whats your favorite dinosaur?

brachiosaurus! also the poison spitting ones from jurassic park hehe

[idkaguyorsomething]

tell me headcannons about dalek thorn (please)

okie dokie, here’s five quick fun facts about dalek thorn:

if anyone directly asked it what its pronouns are, it would insist that “DALEKS HAVE NO NEED FOR PERSONAL PRONOUNS” (then the doctor would explain that it’s fine with any pronouns, it probably hasn’t even clocked the difference in fact).

if it had stayed in rose tyler’s body and gotten a chance to try some food and drink, its favorites would’ve been pumpkin pie and hot milk.

it would secretly like an electric blanket.

when it gets really frustrated, dalek thorn would like to reduce the nearest inanimate object to atoms so it can at least pretend it can still EXTERMINATE properly. mostly it doesn’t do this because of rose.

it believes music, as all human things are, is inherently worthless and should be EXTERMINATED. folk music, however, is slightly less inherently worthless than all the rest.

[soyoursoulisgreen]

15 and 32

15. Do you prefer writing one-shots or multi-chapter fics?

I tend to prefer writing one-shots! I love to read multi-chapter fics, but I always get so worried that I'll lose motivation and just, never come back to it :') My first fic on AO3 is loosely a multi-chapter, in the sense that I've left it open to return to someday, but haven't had any interest to pick it back up in years lol. There's something very punchy about one-shots as well - I have a pretty solid split between short and long one-shots, but it's so satisfying when I Finally have a long one finished!

I also like making connected one-shots, or sequential one-shots, but letting them stand on their own so?

32. What’s a fic you’d love to write, but probably never will?

I think I had a Vargas fic idea at one point that I so badly wanted to read but didn't want to write, and made some concept sketches and an outline for and everything lol - something with the Jake/Edgar/Scriabin dynamic ♥ I do know that someone made a missing scene-fic about Scriabin and Jake's first interaction that I've been quietly making eyes at - next time I'm into Vargas for sure 👀

As for love to write, hm... Probably this overly-convoluted Osmosis Jones NTR fic that I've had in my back pocket for way too long honestly lol - ever since I learned about netorare they were my first and only choice but it's so all-hurt-no-comfort and kinda dark and sad and while it sounds really fun, the self-consciousness monster in the back of my head is like "Really? The White Blood Cell Movie? For that?" lol

[sensitive-g]

Sorry, I found you by accident, but who is Blue Scarf? why does he look like Geno Sans from aftertale (and many other questions)

Hey no worries! You’re not wrong about him looking like Geno- Blue Scarf is actually a variant of Geno himself that I created wayyyy back in 2016 and have been continuously working on his story since! His AU’s name is REDAftertale, a combination of REDACT and Aftertale, and the AU’s been a bit of a passion project that’s taken over my life.

I do have a lot of development on it, I just haven’t really given much detail about it in public yet- I have a ref of Blue Scarf on this blog somewhere, and a ref of the Sans that’s one of his current brothers, but most of everything else I’ve kept to myself and my friend circle just bc,,, Idk how I wannna publish it HDKDJDK. Idk if I wanna do like a comic or a fic or what LOL

I actually nearly gave like a multi-paragraph story summary as I was writing this answer out bc I just love talking about him HDKDJD but I’ll try to make it a really concise elevator pitch sort of thing:

Basically, what if you took a Geno out of his save screen, and put him into a timeline where he could do something? What if he wasn’t confined to just watching from afar, and was actually able to influence how things went from within?

Granted, the timeline isn’t his own, and his own influence is honestly less… in his control than he would like. But what could he learn here? What could he take back?

If this interests you at all and you wanna know more, or if you have any questions you wanna ask like you mentioned, please feel free- I’m more than happy to answer! Like I said I love talking about it so honestly if you’re willing to listen I could go over the whole ass thing FJDLDKDHK. Right now I just wanted to do a little hook thing bc my summaries are,, exceptionally long, and I didn’t wanna bombard you with all that at once LOL. OR if you wanna see it as a story I can see about making that happen 👀 it would just take time bc college,,,,

(Also lol if I do make it a fic I can make this the little summary thing at the beginning of it so there’s that too)

[jascurka]

oh my god did you read foul & fair???? i have been waiting for someone to notice that masterpiece ever since FOREVER, it's so beautifully written i almost can't believe it's real and yes i cried, it's one of the best mp100 fics out there istg, it also filled me with 29462946 ideas of the au itself *goes absolutely batshit insane*

Oh this? That's just like in miraculous ladybug!

[skyward-floored]

Little kids are very interesting to talk to sometimes and I was very much reminded of that today

[ghosts-and-blue-sweaters]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!! I HOPE YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!! :D

THANK YOU SO MUCH, SKATER!!!

I had a very tasty dinner of burger and fries :)

[driftwooddestiel]

*brings up f.r.i.e.n.d.s*

SO!!! did you know they were originally going to make chandler gay but they decided not to because matthew perry was straight….. i can never get over that WE COULD HAVE HAD IT ALL!!

and then david crane (i think?) told the writers to write him gay… but have him played/acted straight/……… insane

[despairforme]

Ok, then lets say someone close to him did the hugging and comforting thing. Talking about your feelings is manly as hell, Nnoi 😤

❝ Someone close 'ta me, huh? ❞ Did he even HAVE someone who he considered himself close with? Surprisingly enough, Nnoitra had quite a few friends. Agatha, Adelha, Emil, Emily, Ikkaku, Sasaharu, Loni... He was getting pretty friendly with one of his neighbours too. That blonde guy, Tesla. However, he would not consider himself CLOSE to any of these people. They were his friends, sure. He'd be okay with them hugging him. Maybe that would even feel nice. But - talking about his feelings with them? Hard pass. They'd see him differently, he knew that. They'd see him as weak. He didn't want that. And, even if they didn't, he didn't want their pity OR their ' advice ' or whatever. Talking about his FEELINGS wasn't going to make them go away or change. And, in any case, a lot of his emotions were tied to really personal things. Like his sexuality or the things he'd done in his life. Stuff he'd rather just keep a secret.

As for it being ' manly as hell ' to talk about your feelings? That was something only a woman would say. It was the whole new ' men can cry too '-shit, that made NO SENSE. Talking about your feelings was a girly thing to do. If a guy did it, then he was simply being a little bitch. If you had negative emotions ( which Nnoitra had A LOT OF ), then you should suck it up, deal with it or move the fuck on. Not whine like some pathetic loser.

[serenescribe]

💌 >:) or just 💫 (or both if u want)

Let’s Get ((REAL)) fic writer asks

💫 : what is your favorite kind of comment/feedback?

i mean, what author doesn't love long comments? ahfndhfdfd- but i know long comments is a bit of a cop out answer, especially since they take a lot of energy and not everyone can do it. i do really love comments that just- react viscerally! when people scream and sob! and i also love hearing about the things that they liked. like, you could honestly just quote all the lines you enjoyed and i'd eat it up. just... comments that get specific my beloved

in the end, i just adoooore getting comments in general tho fhdnfdhf, i love all the ones i get! if you've ever commented on something i've written, whether it's on tumblr or ao3, i love you <3

💌 : share something with us about an up-and-coming work (WIP) that has you excited!

ohh this one is hard because most of my wips are kind of... paused atm? been mainly writing requests lately. i haven't started on the next longfic i wish to pursue ;;; that being said, the wips that are paused will eventually get posted, no? can't decide on one so i'll just show a few below the cut because it might get a little long!

i. i've had the "locked in the freezer" bingo prompt as a wip since... april, actually. this was my very first venture into writing twst. might have to rewrite a bit of it but i hope i can finish it someday. i just have one chapter left :') (surprise, it's not silver angst! or... diasomnia at all, really. which is probably why i keep slacking)

ii. a longfic i started a while back based off one of @olivebranch311's au, which we'd been talking about in dms ;u; don't know how much i can reveal atm apart from it being dubbed the containment breach au. something about researchers and inhuman entities.

iii. i'll post about my daemon au someday. i just... keep forgetting to write up the masterpost...

[causalitylinked]

Herja, what does a typical day with the Iron Spears look like for you?

            unprompted asks. » always accepting!

    "Let's see... back before we travelled aboard the Grandcypher, my mercenaries and I were usually up around the crack of dawn, starting off our day with a bit of training," Herja began. Of course, life as a mercenary wasn't always easy back then, but if nothing else, she could now look back on the memories she made on that remote island with nostalgia rather than sorrow.

    "Afterwards, we would then go off, either spearfishing or hunting our own food. Then once our appetites were fully satiated, we would then look for new jobs by the town plaza and use the money we were rewarded from our jobs to afford ourselves a nice, warm meal," Herja then fondly reminisces. Why, considering they had to be more frugal when it came to spending their rupies, it was honestly a common day to day occurrence for them to camp outside and cook their own meals in order to save up money; after all, a mercenary's lifestyle was very costly, to the point where they had to regularly maintain their weapons and equipment as well.

    "If rooms weren't available, however, we would be camping outside or scouring our own food. But nowadays, our schedule has grown a lot more flexible and lax, especially after we became skyfarers, so some days, we would remain on standby from the Grandcypher or participate in assignments together."

@dcviated