#thesherlockdavenger

[astro-b-o-y-d]

A lot of people are getting an unknown error message, is this normal? Can it be fixed or just waited out?

There might just be too many people on the site. Give it some time!

[gallifreyanwriter]

spoiler!

i ahvent written anything original for so long

OH

being the human vessel for a fire spirit while in your senior year of high school is not as fun as she imagined it would be, she doesn’t know why she agreed to do it

[forestwater87]

A1 A5 A10 D10

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A1: When did you start reading (and writing, because I got kinda off-track answering this question) fanfiction?

I was around 10 years old? I joined fanfiction.net in 2006 with the most awful thing ever written at around 13-14 yes the 87 in my username is a lie because I wanted to get on deviantart and had to lie about when I was born, but I’d been reading Legend of Zelda fanfic for a while before then, and writing it all down on an old Windows 95 laptop that didn’t have an internet connection, and a slightly-less-old Windows 98 laptop that didn’t have an internet connection. 

I had to save my fics to one of these guys in order to upload it to a computer with actual working internet:

(Those fics still exist; I haven’t had the heart to delete anything I’ve written since 10 years old, though I have gone back and edited some things . . . which, since so much time has passed, I’d probably want to go and reedit by now. They are tragic, but they make me smile for all their flaws. I wish I’d kept the unedited versions though, because yikes. Please, save all your cringiest stuff, because it’s so much fun to look back at.)

A5: Who was the first author you subscribed to?

That was probably Rose Zemlya, who wrote this . . . well, gosh, at the time it was this mind-blowingly excellent fanfic for LoZ: Ocarina of Time. (I’ve never successfully beaten those games nor am I all that interested in them anymore, but baby Forest’s romantic awakening came from a man in a green dress and tights, and so I devoured fanfic about them. Link/Zelda was the original OTP of my dreams. Since I didn’t play the games, I alternated between scouring wikis for canon accuracy and not caring because I was a tween and just wanted to share my dumb OCs.)

I don’t actually know if I’d still think the fics were particularly good or not, because I haven’t bothered to go back and reread them -- and I fell off the wagon when she got interrupted by college or grad school and stopped updating regularly -- but she was the first author who really made me feel something. 

I did just find out she’s still active on tumblr, though I don’t know if she’s still writing either for that fandom, or for fandom in general, or even at all. But I’m glad to see she’s still out there, because she was hugely formative to getting me to actually start writing. (Which means, Rose, it’s all your fault I’m like this. Apologize to the fanfic community for what you’ve done.)

A10: Who did you have your first fanfic-related conversation with? What was it about?

Oof, now we get mildly depressing. When I was a kid (as in, ages 4-16 years old), I had this . . . extremely codependent and borderline abusive relationship with the little girl who lived next door. She and I no longer speak, and there’s a lot of extremely negative feelings built up around what were in retrospect a pretty awful time in my life, but she was also the one who introduced me to fanfiction -- she actually played the Zelda games, and wrote fic for it herself and wanted a writing buddy; I kinda gave zero shits about the games beyond it being a nice convenient generic fantasy world with pretty characters. And while we were highly competitive in the not-fun way that still leaves me really fucked up over not being the Most Popular Author in Any Given Fandom because it triggers some horrible flashbacky feelings, I owe her a lot for being someone who showed me this entire culture existed, that it wasn’t weird or lame, and helped me get really excited about writing.

D10: What is one story idea you really want to read but no one has written yet?

God, I don’t know. I’m not really an “ideas” person -- eagle-eyed readers may notice that none of my fics really have plots to speak of -- but for Camp Camp at least, I do think some sort of immortal/groundhog day/time loop AU would be fun. The writers have said that the series is meant to be an endless summer that exists largely outside of time, right? So what if the entire camp, or the lake, or Sleepy Peak did as well?

I’m not sure exactly how this would work -- are the adults just random wandering immortals (vampires, what have you) who found a job somewhere where no one questions why they’re not getting older, and the campers are normal people who never stick around long enough to notice? Are we talking a Brigadoon-style situation where time stops for whoever’s in the camp but keeps going outside of it? Is there a dimensional rift? 

Fuck, I dunno. I’m not an ideas person. I’d just enjoy the fuck out of an “It’s All Been Done” situation, but fanfic. (And resemblances to two particular angels who keep meeting and falling in love over the course of forever and palling around in various fun historical moments are entirely coincidental.)

[virfujiwara]

This is officially how Sportacus googles things, thanks @thesherlockdavenger for inspiring this hc

[harristanning]

thesherlockdavenger replied to your post “ok so it looks like its not working for three people so far. idk what...”

just curious are you on your own rt membership or someone else's

someone elses! im not allowed to get one, but someone was kind enough to let me use theirs. i used the same account last year as well as several times this year without any problems, even if the account was being used by someone else at the same time

also, update: not working for 4 people

[lilacbombs]

(The source for the egg man piss joke)

oh I know that, I meant the sonic the hedgehog astrology thing

[monkey-network]

@thesherlockdavenger replied to your post “*hauls out the spiral* I’ll say that if you want to critique something...”

But you can disprove a theme by giving counters from the show. SU is a children’s show, and those are made specifically with the goal to use messages to socialize kids, that’s why the lgbt rep is such a big deal in the first place. Characters are looked at by the themes they represent, Peridot has a nice character discrption, but it’s what she gose though and what that says too that works. Theme is the events that happen, the tone that goes with it, and what it says, sometimes very directly.

You can give counters, but my point was that this is what people can resort to define SU as good or bad writing. Themes are so subjective, you can put the content on a shelf that cannot be considered good/bad; circumventing any criticisms that could prove you wrong. It can be frustrating trying to deconstruct because you can’t kill an idea. 

SU isn’t like MLP where the themes are more prevalent to the story and characters, and even then, trying to contextualize themes over the actions of the characters and the flow of the plot can often lead to conflicting and sometimes frustrating thoughts as to what is the show trying to say. The value you’ve defined from the show with the themes is strictly for you. That doesn’t mean you’ve made a case for why SU is an objectively good/bad show.

Then again, I’m one of the few SU Crits on here that focuses less on the themes and more of what generally happens in the story. Because I could’ve easily said SU is whatever theme I could make up or find thanks to patterns, but I like to focus on the context and measurable quality of the show’s writing.

[dadvidismycanonheadcanon]

Not the anon but here’s my puppers, I hope things get better for you! 🐶

[toxic-jpg]

Hello! Do you have anything fun planned for Halloween?:oD

maybe! I most likely will stay at home but lets just hope something pops up right? :>

[astro-b-o-y-d]

Honestly a few people will probably bring up good omens for your au no matter what just because it’s so popular, like if you made a super hero team au someone is going to say teen titans or the avengers, but g.o. has a distinct ascetic and personality that really doesn’t fit KevDan, so as long as you’re creative and you’re self whatever you do with a devil angel au will probably be pretty clear it’s a thing on its own.

...You know what, you’re right.

[gallifreyanwriter]

Butter

I totally forgot to do this WHOOPS. 

So, I hate putting butter on things. Of any kind. So when my first grade class decided to try to make butter via churning it i was like eh okay whatever, i just wont eat it

but then we somehow messed up the churning process so bad that it turned into whipped cream instead and everyone was sad but I was SO STOKED.

[majorxsportyxboy]

Your son, Trixie, MissBusybody, and Ithro? :o3

Pixel: What’s your favorite video game?

I like the Harvest Moon games, and Professor Layton (really anything of that nature), and Animal Crossing...and Legend of Zelda!

Trixie: What’s the most trouble you’ve ever been in?

Trouble as far as needing rescuing, i’ve almost drowned two different times! Once as a little kid and once as as a teen. On the second occasion, i was staying in the shallow part of a pool because i couldn’t (still can’t) swim, and explained as much to a guy who asked about it, but later he pushed me into the deep end of the pool :(

Miss Busybody: What’s your favorite Lazytown episode?

At this point i really think it’s Defeeted! Which is odd because there’s no sugar apples or Sporp doing the forearm thing...but there’s just something about it i really like a lot!

Íþróttaálfurinn: What’s one of your favorite Lazytown headcanons?

Sporp’s ‘mustache’ is actually whiskers

Based on the fact that a single bite of a sugar apple sends Sportacus into a sugar meltdown, a single bite of fruit can revive him or, if he’s already up, give him a pronounced boost, and a single missed night of sleep causes him to crash the next day, Sporp probably has exaggerated reactions to other things as well so, what would be a fairly trivial illness for anyone else would put him out of commission until he’s recovered, he likely doesn’t do well missing meals, probably can’t handle alcohol all that well, would require different dosage of medicine than a human if he needed medicine for anything...stuff like that. Really most things about Sports Elves being different from humans. 

[virfujiwara]

Gravel

M I N E C R A F T! I like Minecraft, I’m not particularly good at it, I haven’t played in a while, but it’s good and I like it! Thanks for sending a word!!

[hyperfixationtimego]

Niel for the character ask? 😃

Sexuality Headcanon: G A Y

Gender Headcanon: trans boy or nonbinary

Ship I have with him: Maxneil! (Of course!)

Brotp I have with him: makkeil, presneil, neirris, etc.

Notp I have with him: him/dolph (WHAT THE FUCK), him/tabii, & and all the Nasty™️ ships

Random Headcanon: probably watches anime with Nerris

Overall opinion: MY LITERAL SON. I WOULD ADOPT HIM IF I COULD. DESERVES SO MUCH MORE LOVE

[pika1043]

🔥 for pokemon please :oD

All starters are the best starters, you guys are just mean.

(Though Shinx is the best starter sooooooo XD )

[is-osana-here-yet]

So now that every student has a camera on them, will there really be a point to the photography club once dev inevitably implements them instead of Osana?

good point

i think the photography club is supposed to more so actively chase you when the school’s rep goes down, but everyone being able to take photos kind of ruins his own implementation lol