#the life behind the writer

[tennessoui]

it’s like baby gorl there’s no way I, the author who wrote the fic you’re commenting on and who is the intended audience for this comment, am gonna agree with you 😿🙏 some things can just stay on your chest 🙏

[oceanwithouthermoon]

people who insist that things like shipping or headcanoning are bad because its "disrespectful to the writers" and you can ONLY appreciate canon things are fucking hilarious to me, like if im not allowed to headcanon anything and have to live by all canon things then i would have to accept that saiki is transphobic and kaido and kuboyasu are homophobic

[blvvdk3ep]

You haven't known the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of having to explain ao3 to someone who's never heard of it before

[bedtimegiraffe]

Nia has always been a badass- it just takes her a while to put it to use for her own sake

When you first meet Nia, she's running into town asking for help in her pretty, sparkly dress that looks like it would catch on every branch in the world. And she has a pretty low opinion of her fighting skills. Everything about the setup seems to suggest she's going to be a healer you have to focus on protecting.

And Nia's right, she isn't great at taking care of herself. But not for the reason she thinks! It's not that she's at all weak, physically, mentally, or magically.

I think it's because of her assumption that she can't fight. That she's fragile. And because she initially thinks she's no use in combat, the second Nia's in danger she just gives up and calls for help.

But the second someone else is in danger? Well, Nia doesn't hesitate. She starts destroying necromantic skeletons, because she's certainly not going to just stand by and let someone get hurt.

She'll do this as soon as the Temple of Ellara if you screw up. No hesitation, just smashing shadow hounds. Then she's shocked that it worked! Because it didn't occur to her she could help until she did it out of protective instinct.

It's devastating to Nia when Scholar Vash dies to the Shadow Court. She mourns him. She has a big, well deserved cry about it. But she doesn't stop there. Because other people are in trouble. She immediately goes, "No one else dies. I'm going to kick the Shadow Court's ass. You coming?"

The team's encouragement, especially MC's, slowly helps Nia see that she can be badass. That she is badass.

And that is how she saves the world. By becoming aware of what she was always capable of. MC has to remind Nia of all she loves and wants to protect in the world to help her resist the Dreadlord. Because that's easier for Nia than fighting for herself.

But it's Nia finding confidence and strength in who she is, separate from her commitment to others, that ultimately lets her save the day.

Basically, I love the story of this sweet priestess who thinks she's fragile, only to realize she's so powerful and determined she's disrupted the plans of a guy called the Dreadlord.

Screenshots from my hero, Neckrone Shen on youtube whose 4 playthroughs of Blades have saved me hours of replaying.

[marlynnofmany]

I just shared the first bit of fiction that the main character from The Token Human appeared in with the $10+ patrons. Hard to believe that I wrote it eleven years ago! Of course I had no idea it would go anywhere, much less to a novel with a sequel in progress, and an endless series of short stories that shows no signs of stopping.

High five to my past self for scribbling down something worth playing with a bit more. And a bit more. And maybe some more...

[erabundus]

HAPPY BLOG ANNIVERSARY!

it's  officially  midnight  here,  which  means  i'm  allowed  to  post  this!  so ...  happy  one  year  anniversary  of  enduring  the  plague  of  avalon  upon  your  dashboards!  alternatively,  thank  you  so  much  for  giving  me  a  place  to  babble  about  my  #1  favorite  comfort  character  who  has  experienced  zero  comfort.  (  i  swear  i  am  being  SO  NORMAL  about  this.  yes i did literally buy  cake  and  party  hats.  )  whether  we  speak  on  the  daily,  you've  just  gotten  here  or  anywhere  in  between,  i  want  to  extend  my  sincerest  gratitude  for  being  on  this  absolutely  wild  ride  of  a  blog  with  me.  there's  been  ups  and  downs,  but  ultimately  i  feel  like  my  passion  for  writing  has  been  ignited  stronger  than  it's  ever  been  before.  i  am  still  always  so  excited  whenever  i  get  the  chance  to  log  on  here  and  create  stories  with  all  of  you  —  and  i  wouldn't  have  that  opportunity  if  it  wasn't  for  this little  corner  of  the  internet  you've  helped  make truly special.

there  are  so  many  of  you  i  feel  lucky  to  have  met.  (  and  so  many  i  would  love  to  get  to  know  better,  too!  )  i  hope  we  can  continue  writing  together  for  many  more  anniversaries  to  come.  and  if  the  day  ever  comes  that  they  finally  pull  the  plug  on  this  cockroach  of  a  hellsite,  i'll  forever remember  this  community  as  the  rpc  that  got me to  laugh  at  petrichor.

have  a  wonderful  day  /  night!  i'm  sharing  the  cake  with  everyone  in  spirit.

[ticklingtimetickstotest]

Everything and everyone has a story.

[azaracyy]

today, cupimon prays for your happiness too.

[theyaremycrocsyoudonut]

"Don't fucking tell me what's impossible"

GET IT GUYS CAUSE HE THOUGHT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO BE IN AN ACTUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH IAN BUT HE JUST CAME OUT TO EVERYONE AND THEIR MOTHER SO "IMPOSSIBILITY" ISN'T A CONCEPT FOR HIM ANYMORE. AND WHEN HE THOUGHT "HEY THAT'S MY OPPORTUNITY TO LOVE AND BE LOVED WITHOUT CARING ABOUT WHAT OTHERS THINK CAUSE I'M OUT AND ABOUT" IAN GOT DEPRESSION AND FIONA SUGGESTED TAKING HIM AWAY. NO FUCKING WAY, NO FUCKING WAY. DON'T FUCKING TELL HIM WHAT'S IMPOSSIBLE KSHDKSKSHDHS

[blockmenmakemecry]

HELLO

You can call me Blocks!

Or anything, I'm really not too fussed

I am a writer and artist!

Please if you're interested in anything I do tell me!! Ask me questions!!!

I have autism and my current ongoing hyperfixation has been minecraft, for literally as long as I can remember

Since it was released?

I am currently in love with these MC series!! Please talk to me about any of them!

Hermitcraft

Left Behind

Life Series

Series I'm not quite over yet

Achievement Hunter King Series (but I can't bring myself to rewatch them)

Yogscast (like moonquest and yogslab, they make me cry atm lmao)

I am quite unwell so I'll do my best to stay off tumblr when it's bad so I don't go reblogging some sad or possibly upsetting stuff!

I am not savvy at Tumblr so one day I may change this post to be more readable/accsessable with tags and what not

[bad-girl-coven]

Blockshade of the Threshold babies in celebration of their birthday <3

[technicallywrite]

Hello, I’m currently rereading My Cosmos is Yours and during the first two karaoke dinners Kate gives Osgood quite a few unreadable looks. We are in Osgood point of view so I was wondering if you could tell me what those looks meant? Just like one or two so I could kinda understand where Kate’s head was at at the time. Loving the story even more on the second read though!

Hi, I’m so glad you’re enjoying the story that much!

In that first arc of the story, Kate is unaware of the attraction she’s developing for Osgood, as we later find out.

During the first dinner, she’s mostly just enjoying seeing a different side of Osgood. By this point, she has clearly already had some opportunity to appreciate Osgood as a person, in addition to being really impressed by what she knows of her abilities from work, even though we haven’t seen it ourselves. But she has only seen her in their shared work setting. Now she’s discovering Osgood in a very different environment, and she likes what she sees, in the sense of “hey she’s really cool and fun” (though Kate wouldn’t use those specific words). She feels a pull, like she wants to get closer to Osgood, and her conscious mind translates that into a desire for friendship, because that’s a reasonable explanation that doesn’t jeopardize her strong sense of duty and ethics.

By the time we get to the second dinner, Kate’s feelings have been evolving further and she becomes more aware of feeling affection for Osgood, though she doesn’t really consciously realize where those feelings are heading and she categorizes them as feelings of friendship. It’s likely that subconsciously, she’s actively engaging in denial, in part because Osgood is her subordinate and in her value system, it would not be okay to be attracted to her.

There are a few moments where things come into slightly sharper focus for her, like when the kids are looking at the photos and her bisexuality comes up; she notices Osgood reacting a bit oddly, and she’s trying to decipher it, but as we know from her later musings, she’s quite a bit off target because she’s assuming Osgood is straight (or possibly subconsciously not letting herself consider Os might not be). Towards the end of that scene there’s a moment where she wants to say something to put Osgood at ease, but then she dismisses those thoughts, figuring she’s probably just imagining it, and the moment passes. She has a little smile that Osgood thinks is intended for her, but really it’s more Kate smiling to herself like, oh I’m just being silly.

Later, during dinner, there’s the unreadable look Kate gives Osgood when she’s telling the story about Josh kissing her. And keep in mind she’s only telling that story because Kate explicitly brought up the rumors about her and Josh. Which is interesting because Kate isn’t even sure why she did that; it was an impulse, because the thought occurred to her, and it gave her a weird feeling that she couldn’t quite place. She’s self-aware enough to realize she doesn’t like the idea of Os and Josh being together; as we hear later, she doesn’t think he’s right for her, doesn’t feel like he would be a suitable partner who would fully appreciate and complement Osgood’s intelligence and wit. Yet she’s oblivious to the thoughts bubbling in the back of her subconscious hinting at who she feels would be better for Os. So when she asks Os that question, she’s basically looking for the rumor to be disproved —she wants to hear out loud that it’s not a thing— even though she’s lying to herself about why.

When Osgood admits that Josh kissed her, Kate intentionally suppresses her reaction because at that point, things come into closer focus again, and the feelings almost break the surface; but then Osgood confirms she has no interest in Josh so the ‘threat’ goes away and the feelings sink back down. Kate tells herself the relief she’s feeling is just because she’s glad her very good friend isn’t interested in dating that annoying guy who is clearly not a good match for her. As friends do…

All of that leads to very mixed signals for poor Osgood of course, who is left wondering if Kate is trying to tell her something; but Kate herself is only at the stage where her subconscious is trying to tell herself.

At least, that’s what I imagine to be the case! Anything that’s not written in the story is up for interpretation, so feel free to tweak that as you see fit in your own headcanon.

I hope that helps!

[fishuijuu]

comic that delves into bettys personal life before the mushroom war one day ill make it

[acotars]

the manuscript. the manuscript.

[enobariasteeth]

okay but nothing the DC writers have to say about Selina Kyle and Talia Al Ghul is canon. Only the things I make up in my head are canon.

[mulholland-driver]

The loneliness eats

Even while bits of my heart

Are held in your hands.