#thanks that was fun!

[chronurgy]

23, 37, 49 for the fic writer ask!!

23: What’s a trope, AU, or concept you’ve never written, but would like to?

Five Durgetash AUs I'd love to write someday:

Gortash finds Durge in the mindflayer colony and tries to dissect them (I have it plotted out!)

A minotaur in the labyrinth AU where everyone needs to start asking who is really the monster here. Here's the only part I've written, which is the introduction:

Everyone knows that there is a monster in the labyrinth. It's what labyrinths are for, after all. And like labyrinths, monsters have a singular purpose: they are for slaying. Many a man has gone into the labyrinth to greet that monster with its purpose, but none have ever come back out. They wander still, those lost men, searching for home or for glory. So just meeting someone in a labyrinth isn't enough to name them monster. After all, they've also met you.

Gortash tries to summon and bind a demigod Durge to his will instead of turning to Bane (think ritual magic a la The Bartimaeus Trilogy, if you're familiar with that)

Pirate AU that's totally normal until it becomes clear that there's something deeply wrong with Durge and that their father, the Pirate King Bhaal, is in fact a giant kraken in human form

The gang goes to kill Gortash but when Karlach goes to deliver the killing blow Durge panics and throws themself in front of him. Gortash takes advantage of everyone's freak out to grab the severely injured Durge and trigger some sort of escape mechanism.

A trope I'd love to write: Timeloop (you got me thinking about Durgetash timeloop and now I want it. No idea what to write though)

37: Promote one of your own “deep cut” fics (an underrated one, or one that never got as much traction as you think it deserves!). What do you like about it?

Oh a deep cut hmm...I'll give two options:

Tasting Notes: Franc Peartree (Full-bodied White) was never going to have mass appeal given the subject matter, but if you're looking for fun, visceral, weird writing it's probably some of my best.

Then They Who Seek to Deceive is probably the best Durgetash I've written in terms of complex insanity from both parties but has half the hits of Departure from the Vulgar Crowd which kinda surprised me? It's probably the length and being third in a series (you don't need to read the others for it to make sense though!) working against it, but I'm still a little surprised by that.

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

I'm currently working on a Wyll pov fic set during Gortash's coronation ball:

He's been watching Gortash dance too, at this coronation ball of his. Not that it’s hard to miss the man, dressed as he is, and when the whole of the ball’s society seems to rotate around him. He’s not a bad dancer per say, but he can hardly be called good one either. His steps are quick and precise, sharp somehow, and his feet are always too exactly where they should be. They come crashing down with exactitude at the precisely correct moment, giving his partner’s feet absolutely no quarter. He moves with rigor, executes every turn, dip, and move competently, but he doesn’t seem to feel the tug of the music.

[discoveringasterisms]

5, 11, 18 (I wanted to paste the questions to make it easier for you but tumblr won't let me copy & paste... and I'm too lazy. my bad.)

I’m happy to copy and paste for you any time, especially if it means I get to talk about myself 🩷

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself

I usually post every finished piece eventually. Despite really enjoying seeing other people’s process I’m way too self conscious to post my own sketches (either noodling out what will be a finished illustration or the just for funsies nonsense.) So if we include sketches as art as opposed to exercise then I guess 90% stays secret. Which makes it sound exciting instead of what it is: silly

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what

Audiobooks! Something easy and uncomplicated so it’s not a big deal if I start tuning it out. So, loads of cozy mysteries because I love an amateur sleuth and the plot is barely plotting.

18. An estimate of how much art supplies you've broken

Surprisingly few, especially now that I’m a studio only hermit. A couple of plastic pencil sharpeners have met their end being dropped one too many times, same deal with pencils. Some paint brushes, though it’s mostly the super cheap ones I get with the intention of treating them as disposable because completely cleaning off masking fluid is a nightmare. I did break a plastic tool box using it as an impromptu stool sketching outside because there were ants. Knock wood, but I’ve never wrecked any of the good stuff. Except for the squirrel mop brush a foster kitten got a hold of and chewed bald before I even had a chance to use it.

The damage from my clumsiness usually goes the other way. Lots of cuts and scrapes, a couple of pin prick tattoos from stabbing myself with inked up crowquills.

[thisdivorce]

Hey Leigh (:

I hope you're having a great day! Do you feel like answering some headcanon questions by any chance?

When was the first real time they went on a date? (possibly like a date where you sit down, and you go to a nice restaurant, and you put on a nice shirt and you– like– eat with utensils. )

When and where was their first public kiss, in front of people they know? (so not the club kiss)

-anon xx

hi! who is behind this account? i must know.

i feel useless these days but let me try.

When was the first real time they went on a date?

i think they do it unintentionally after they're married. like they go out to dinner, or beers, but they never really call it a date until one day ian teases him and calls it what it is. maybe he asks mickey out on a real date, and makes him wear a dress shirt and mickey complains about it but then he keeps referring to ian as his husband to the server and the server is like.. ok.

When and where was their first public kiss, in front of people they know?

i think it's after their engagement and in between the wedding, at this point mickey is used to gestures of love in front of people and just stops caring. i think it would be really cute if it was super casual, like mickey kisses ian goodbye while ian is sitting on the couch with some other gallaghers. no one say anything :)

[inklingofadream]

6, 18, 19, 25, and 35 for the weird writer asks!

What is your darkest fear about writing?

My mom finding it, wildly missing the point, and deciding that enrolling me in talk therapy is non-negotiable lol

Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end.

Gonna scroll it back to Till Things Are Brighter, which no one whose followed me in the past year has read because I last updated in ~February 2021~ but which is still the work I'm most determined to finish

I hadn’t meant to tell you so much. [Growls] There’s too much of a risk of Magnus pulling it out of you and accelerating his plans, or out of my dreams since you’ve made it a proper Statement , but apparently knowing when to stop asking questions isn’t a power granted to any Archivist. Next time you can’t stand not Knowing, just ask me to write it out. Statement fucking ends.

(From the end of chapter 9, for any who want to read my beloved magnum opus bc of this passage lol)

(cut because I am at heart a rambler)

So I knew that in order for various plot events to work I needed Daisy to meet with Gertrude, and I realized that it didn't make much sense for Gertrude to meet with this mysterious lady telling her all this stuff with little if any context to why it's important and not eventually getting fed up and taking a statement by force. That wasn't in my original plan, because it introduces a couple complications, but I actually ended up with a lot of affection for the chapter as a whole.

The handy thing about forcing a statement out of one of your characters and including it in the narrative is that it's an excuse to break the writing rule that people almost never just state their emotions in plain terms. The format by definition requires honesty and usually some explanation of the character's emotions either generally or at the starting point, sometimes complete with their assessment and feelings about those feeling in hindsight. So I got to use it to incorporate stuff I couldn't otherwise!

But Daisy gets pretty mad about having her statement taken every time it happens in canon, she just doesn't have the full details for Jon and can't take it out on Elias. She can't afford to take things out on Gertrude, either, other than peacing out. And I don't generally like including swear words in my writing but... nothing else fit. So Daisy got One Swear, for a treat!

Tell me a story about your writing journey. When did you start? Why did you start? Were there bumps along the way? Where are you now and where are you going?

Ahahaha, I started writing in second grade. My best friend and I were going to make a novelization of the Rankin-Bass Santa Claus in Comin' to Town Christmas special with her doing illustrations and me writing. It was never finished and lost to time because my family moved the summer after second grade :( I wrote other things throughout elementary school, but sadly never found such a willing cowriter. The draft of the story that made my mom point out that people might not be interested in reading a story that interrupts the action every time a character is introduced to tell you their age, hair and eye color, favorite color, height, and hobbies is a happier loss X'D I did Nanowrimo for the first time in 7th grade, and did finish the story (it's still around... somewhere...) but it was handwritten so I don't know the wordcount. Probably more in the 20k range, but whatever. Did it again successfully on a word processor in 9th grade (also around... somewhere... in printed form even though the computer it was saved to is long gone). Those would probably be better if they were Mary Sue stories, I think if I reread them they'd probably be mostly very boring.

There's a local day event thing for teenage writers in my area called Teen Author Boot Camp, my best friend since toddlerhood got me into it and the first year we went we got 1st (her) and 2nd (me) place in their first chapter writing contest (year redacted bc you could def dox me from their FB). That was probably the last gasp of me successfully writing as a teen. I went again as many years as I was eligible, because it was hugely fun winning aside, but never won again lol. I started reading fic around the time I started high school, and wrote some a few years after that (it's all MCU/Marvel fic, don't go that far back on my AO3, some of it I probably still stand by but some is for sure Bad). I spent most of high school with major burnout writer's block. I started writing again slightly before listening to TMA, but that was what got me back into writing recreationally in a big way. Since I think 2019? maybe 2020 idk, every year I've had an end of year wordcount on AO3 that's... honestly a big embarrassing lol.

I have a fistful of original ideas (fiction and non) that I want to get around to, but right now those are on hold until I finish the final paper for my Bachelor's, which has sadly NOT been blessed by the inspiration gods... fic gets to happen because on a conscious prioritization level I can post it for instant gratification which original writing can't do and on a less conscious level because the chronic health issues that blessedly got me accommodations on that paper interfere enough with my brain on most days to make academic writing hard where fic just isn't. I'm finally in a decent enough place that I'll hopefully be able to get past that, and once that's out of the way original writing (and hopefully improvements in health once that stress is gone) here I come!

What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?

My Daisy Tonner is femme but mostly can't express it because it's impractical at work. She always painted her nails because it lasts decently and doesn't detract from how her colleagues view her. She has a bunch of more feminine clothes that she doesn't wear much because she doesn't spend that much time not working. Basira doesn't really know all that about her because by the time she was in the picture Daisy was too Hunt-influenced to pay much attention to unrelated things, which got worse over time.

Or for an OC, Cece who shows up in Little Archive is biromantic asexual and has freckles and moles because projection thy name is Ink

What’s your favorite writing rule to smash into smithereens?

When I was a baby teen writer I would absorb anything that seemed to have a decently informed source and for a long time I had this quote from Elmore Leonard hang on

Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.

taped to the side of my bedside table where I saw it all the time. Anyway screw that guy, I love exclamation points! Avoiding them outside of a non-personified distant third person POV is janky! It sounds weird! It distances you from the character! What about dialogue?! Anyone transcribing mine would have to use a bunch, that's how lots of people talk!

[rialitysworld]

9, 31, and 46?

9. which do you prefer, hot coffee or cold coffee? - depends on the season (currently drinking my iced vanilla latte while writing this)

31. what type of music keeps you grounded? - anything by abba

46. favorite holiday film? - Carol and The Holiday are my faves (and I can watch them all year long)

[jugglingjujube]

for the character meme: camilla or pal or a character of your choice !! < 333

Let's go with Camilla because I'm always ready to talk about her

favorite thing about them

she is so funny. Camilla has a very dry sense of humor and is going through it for the whole series but when she's comfortable with someone she is constantly sassing them. she even does it to pash.

also she is so cool and smart and strong and handsome

least favorite thing about them

I have no least favourite thing about Camilla. Everything she does is perfect in my eyes. Nuance and critical reading is for every other character. This is my tragic flaw actually.

favorite line

Telling Nona she thought eating breakfast was sexy.

although this is a close second

“I saw your corpse.” “Well,” said Camilla Hect steadily, “don’t tell everyone, or they’ll want to see it too."

Because that is a wild situation and she's just happy to see Harrow again and cracking jokes about how people want her dead

brOTP: Campal

OTP: Campaldulcie

nOTP: I ... don't think I have one? I'm sure if you started pairing her with non-palamedes men I would find some

random headcanon

This was a post from a while ago

Headcannon that when Pyrrha asked what Palamedes looked like, Camilla drew a beautiful lovingly accurate portrait from memory.

When Nona asked what Palamedes looked like, she drew a tall stick figure with big glasses.

unpopular opinion

She's a liar! Palamedes and Dulcinea are all about the truth but Camilla lies all the time, even to them if it means protecting them!

This isn't a moral judgment, I just don't see people talking about this much. Also her being aroace in canon and whatever is hot in fanfic isn't unpopular i think.

song i associate with them

King and Lionheart by of Monster and Men

I could probably pick a better song than the one on all of my otp playlists since i was 16 but i'm so picky about character song associations

favorite picture of them

probably this one or this one

[daikaiju-arts]

May we see some Gangle x Pomni plspls I just like them in your style 🙏🙏

I don’t necessarily ship them romantically per se, BUT I do like to think of them as being close friends 💚 I friendship them lol

Also a Bonus:

[theoldkyokodied]

Really quick doodles of a few scenes from the stream yesterday. Including combat flirting taunting, gale’s magnificently distracting shoes and.. whatever you wanna call gale agreeing to give 15 gold to astarion 😐😑😐😑😐 (that’s me blinking)

[nessieartss]

Another sibling au featuring megumi (they finally met and sukuna already made yuuji cringed)

Also happy new year!

Part 1 | Part 3

[bewarethecircles]

Neil Gaiman: "in season 2 the fan-favorite angel/demon couple will fall in love, overcome great adversity, and eventually defy heaven and hell to run off together to the stars :)"

Fans: "cool! I can't wait, does Aziraphale confess first or does Crowley?'

Neil, holding Gabriel and Beelzebub figures and making them kiss: "Does who do what now?"

[shikisei]

ok stupid question my bad

[applestruda]

Starry Sleepover

First ever dtiys! Celebrating 1 year here!

Rules below!

No deadline!

Feel free to use my designs or your own

You can change up the composition as you want, but keep the main vibes of sleepover, stars, and Boatem (don't remove folks)

You can use any form of art for this dtiys (writers included!!)

Use the #BeeBoatemDtiys tag, and if you want you can optionally @ me

If you have any questions ask away! Other than that have fun :]

[colinprovolone]

the low quality children

[punkitt-is-here]

transformers are so cool

[mintaii]

one piece characters! suggestions were taken from here and twitter 🤠

[wingsofahoneybee]

fantasy costco is a front for garfield's true passion: illegal cloning