#ty for the ask! one more to go

[lochallthedoors]

You seem to be coming from a pretty optimistic place, though, with Council Skies. I guess it’s uplifting in the right places, and it’s melancholy in the right places. I think it’s quite an honest record. I don’t like to make the [songs] too autobiographical. I certainly wouldn’t draw attention to the parts of songs that are about me and my life. “Dead to the World” is very autobiographical. So are “Think of a Number,” “Council Skies” and “Trying To Find a World That’s Been and Gone.” -- noel interview, spin.com, may 25, 2023

noel interview in first and last gifs: radio x, 8 june 2023

bonus, liam when asked about the song: "It's all about me it always was and is"

[zorangezest]

Hi hello uh question who’s the dude who’s body is unwrapped or smth like a fucking pringles can I need lore they look so cool

ty for the ask!! unwrapped like a pringles is sending me. you are very lore accurate

his name is yin and hes the boy with the bird mask, he and his sister work for a very fashionable skinwalker helping her run her boutique and selling her apparel, their world has become like one giant tourist attraction for aliens and strange creatures and the siblings are here to outfit them!

granted, yin is only still around thanks to the skinwalker’s powers, and humans are an extraordinarily delicate medium that don’t mesh well with getting otherworldly powers stitched into them…so he’s got to live with some side effects! but he’s got his shot to live at all, so what’s a little eldritch goofery?

[crushedsweets]

eyeless jack eating spaghetti with his long-ass tongue

I got so many good asks today y’all .

[mblue-art]

late halloweeen dooodleee

[slasherflicks999]

erm what is slashers relationship with the other creepypastas :3c

before we begin im so sorry this took me legitimately SOOOO disgustingly long to answer holy SHART 💔💔💔 i needed to solidify some of his relationships ngl and i didn’t wanna give a half baked answer :,33 but now that it’s finally hereee…..

slasher room reveal GASP yes he’s sitting at his little computer answering this for u personally :3 i wanted to make it more fun hehe plus background practice…… thank u the sims 4…,,.,,

but anyway THE LITTLE CHIBI THINGS OF THEM WERE SO FUN TO DRAW and also nina with glasses canon i don’t make the rules sorry she’s just too cute with them :,,o

i haven’t been active much at all lately unfortunately BUTTTT more slasher content is soon to come..,.😈😈 TRUSTTTT i shan’t abandon thee tumblr my beloved :333🫶🏻

[fallenclan]

re-reading this current arc, there's a moment that caught my eye. in pt. 2 of moon 256(?), darkstone says to honeysong something along the lines of 'you're lucky you get to be here [ in the glow cave ], most warriors don't get the chance too'. which reminded me how the ( canon ) Clans as a whole lost the tradition of apprentices traveling/visiting the moonstone when they left the forest territories. there's a whole article about this 'lost tradition' on the warrior's website ( i only know this because i googled it to fact check, lmaoo ). and in that article, it describes why it was important - mainly to reinforce awe in starclan and their warrior ancestors - and so that apprentices get a chance to travel beyond their Clan and interact with non-Clan cats.

i find this really interesting; especially when crafting my own lore + traditions. so i want to wonder with you, would fallenclan have followed this tradition? would scorchstar have ever enforced this ( would her mother have told this tradition among her tales of the Clans )? or would another leader/cat have done so? would anything change lore-wise if fallenclan/other clans did this tradition?

on a side note, something really nostalgic to me is when leaders would seek guidance from the moon-stone. have any leaders gone to the glow cave by themselves or with others to seek guidance with the stars? i feel like maplestar would have, with silverbelly. <3

Also also, this is the second time i've sent an ask right after you answer someone else's, i don't mean to pounce on ya like that LMAOO i-ve been typing for like 10 minutes plss

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good question!!! to be honest, this isn't something I've given a lot of thought to, but I think generally it's just the medicine cats that speak to Starclan--the leaders get to as well, but it's only when they receive their lives that they do so. if they really need to ask Starclan for guidance, the medicine cat does so on their behalf, though it isn't a common thing. Starclan really is just a bunch of dead cats, they aren't all-knowing, but sometimes they do get stuff that they'll pass along--warnings in the form of omens, etc. They have their own lives in Starclan and they aren't there solely to help out the living.

If it was a practice in Boughclan/Tuftclan, Scorchstar didn't know about it. Apprentices probably don't go to speak to Starclan--unless they sneak out to do so, which is possible but not really likely, as it's. I don't want to say Taboo to speak to Starclan without permission, but Frowned Upon maybe? like I said, I haven't thought about this much at all, I probably should get on that XD

[amaltheas-garden]

Do you think the dance of the dragons can be between Jon and Dany? It's hard to imagine why Jon would want to go to another war though after defeating the NK.

Do I think Jon will go to all-out war with Dany? No. The main "dance" is more likely between Dany and Aegon. Euron is up to some shit, Cersei is spiraling, Dany needs to rally her armies for an invasion, and Aegon's already started his. All these people converging is going to be an absolute mess, but Jon and the starklings will be too busy taking back Winterfell and rebuilding their home in preparation for winter. I suppose it all depends on what the order of events is. The show has them defeat the NK, then kill Dany, but the books might play out different. I'm not sure how grrm plans for Dany to die, as she could blow up KL, and then die in the long night as a sort of tragic "atonement" but idk. Either way, Dany dies in some other conflict or Jon/Arya/whoever takes her out quickly without going to war. Without dragons and Dany leading them, her Essosi forces are unlikely to continue the war/start a new one. Plus, the last dance ended with the hour of the wolf, and Jon will always be a wolf at heart. The only certain thing is House Stark coming out on top by the end 😉🐺🩶.

[tojiscrack]

to my all little liars!! (edit: wtf happened to my english? 😭)

we’re at 24.6k words rn 😟 if you plan on reading it next week, i recommend you read it on the weekends when there’s no school or work for you waiting in the morning 😀

calling in the troops rn ‘cause there’s still one final scene i have to write and it’s gonna be LONG (this isn’t including the bonus scene btw) but it’s extremely important for the story to continue, and without it, the rest of the story literally cannot go on 😭

we’re locking in guys. it’s 100% gonna border 30k words for sureee. sm has happened in that ONE chapter and i literally cannot wait to release it for all of you, you have no ideaaa

gonna go to bed and then wake up, study, break, write for the fic, repeat. had to randomly drop an update here cuz i’ve been edging you guys for so long i’m sorryyy, but it really is nearly here <333

edit: fck it guys i’m writing it rn (the immediate comments got me motivated)

[thelonelyshore-if]

Morning! I read your Demo and very much enjoyed it. And hopefully I can say this in a positive way because it is positive! You actually do immutable story points pretty well! Its a difficult trick to pull off in IFs. Harder than I think most readers realize because the author is trying to tell a story but the readers want to feel like they can really interact with it too. The best example was the Doe Scene. MC was gonna end up getting their own place, the story demanded it (I assume), but resisting Doe allowed for some interesting and rewarding character building opportunities. So though one could argue in the end that the decision to make a deal with her was sort of moot it feels like it will pay off in the future how you handled it. I think the build up scene to the Car Ride in the Fog could use a little tweaking for MCs that believed them right off the bat (like if they believed them why bother trying to go on a car ride to escape? They are satisfied with the proof they've seen so far.) But the rest was handled very well as well and how an inevitable conclusion is handled by the MC continues to build their character.

Sorry for the wall of text but Thank You for sharing your fascinating story and I look forward to more.

Thank you so much for the message!

This is very comforting to read, in all honesty. The balance between player choice and plot is one I'm still trying to really feel out. I want players to feel like they get to decide where the story goes and what their character does--it's interactive fiction, after all. But at the same time, the plot does have to plot.

Like you suspected, the house is plot-relevant. I needed to get the MC there, one way or another. I'm glad the Doe scene worked for you! I'm quite proud of it. I really wanted to try and build a scenario where the player still feels like they have some control, even if the outcome is 'set'. Whether that be negotiating the deal or refusing and having ~something happen~

I also agree with the build up to the car ride, ngl. It's one of those things that is on my list for either my 'second draft' of the story, or for revisiting if the mood ever strikes to clean up some of the earlier parts. I don't want to rewrite before the story is finished, but that entire scene could really be improved by going at it with believer MCs a little more in mind.

At the end of the day I know that it's impossible to make everything work for every reader. There will be portions of the story that just...have to happen, and it really made me smile that you think I've done the majority of them well!

I'm trying, haha.

[mintjeru]

"thank you for being a victim of my shallow emotions" kvthm x alnst bc i love pain

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[sieglinde-freud]

Hi it's me again :) , what change you would make to make the kids more important in awakening and the trio more important in fates :)

hi!! :) honestly i feel like its hard to change how they did the awakening kids if only because the way that the game works, right? because the player should be able to pair off the first gen and get the kids at their own pace. to make the awakening kids relevant in the main story, you would have to make them all required pickups at specific times which. you know, ME as a person, i would love that. but for a game that was sold to millions of people, ehh. bad idea. but i think the nice middle ground would be to just make ONE more kid aside from lucina a mandatory recruit. ideally, i would pick owain if only to mirror chrom and lissa and also because lissa is already a plot relevant character (who admittedly takes a backseat post timeskip but… maybe owain would get her talking more?). and one problem i have with specifically awakening’s presentation of their story is that they always have lucina there saying something about the future coming to pass, and then. no one cares 😭 and they just ignore her and keep talking and its really just her trying to warn people who will not change their minds! having someone like owain to acknowledge and back up her claims would help a LOT at 1) giving her someone else aside from chrom to bounce off of and 2) making you see how truly dire their future was if TWO of them are begging you to listen to reason. just my take. i think owain would be a decent mandatory recruit around when u get say’ri? maybe WITH say’ri honestly…

for fates its really just a matter of giving the awakening trio more lines in the story. i think because odin joins early in conquest and selena joins (relative to the other two) early in rev, they couldve served as mouthpieces to provide context for the war to corrin and maybe even had some main story one on one conversations with them to assess what corrin is like and what their goal is. thats really all i need from them! maybe laslow (and odin in rev) couldve given corrin like a one on one update on how the war has progressed up until you meet him, and he advises them on how to act every now and then for the rest of the story. just, small things! maybe one of them accidentally drops a line hinting that they know more than they let on, and thats REALLY all they needed. because without even just a LITTLE bit of that, it just feels like they came to nohr and said “lmao this mission is boring” and just did whatever they wanted 😭 like ok guys. so yeah. just a little bit of extra screen time WITH corrin. thats how i’d improve it.

[straycalamities]

heyyy. how was truffula flu supposed to end? who died? were there any planned events?

i dont even know how to accurately answer this anymore because of reasons and things other than: there's an old list of endings a couple of the writers of a few characters gave said character here

beanpole, one-ler, and rocky's are all still accurate and relevant as far as i know, but swag's is severely outdated and not true anymore

well i know rocky's is stlil accurate because we were so set and ready for it. it was supposed to be the very next big plot point before the blogs died. big shame it never happened because it was going to be epic.

last i heard 72 and ted's endings were set to be changed from what i knew them as. audrey's and dave's i won't reveal for my own reasons. and i never planned an ending for entre and that continues to be true.

we had at least (other than rocky's) two more big plot arcs to cover. honestly i think the RV/Stripmall arc was sorta the beginning of a snowball to an ending of sorts, but it never truly got rolling.

[scionshtola]

re my last reblog i really do get so 🥹🥹🥹 sometimes when im writing about cori finding shtola hot/attractive im v glad every day that my shtola is fat 🥰🥰🥰

[broodwoof]

HELLO I am HERE for Solas & Loghain

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heeee ty zis!!! (also tagging @flowersforthemachines bc she asked too!! altho i am gonna do another one for u flowers 💖🌸 AND tagging @griffongrey who also expressed interest 💖 so fun that this caught everyone's attention hehe)

so, smth abt me is that secretly (probably not that secretly tbh) i am a petty fuck 😂 sometimes when i get annoyed by ppl being anti certain characters i'm like yeah? well! guess what! i'm gonna write them now!!! idk what actually prompted this but ik i got frustrated with some post i saw and was like FINE i'm gonna do it ALL i'm gonna write loghain AND solas TOGETHER!!!

thing is, it's actually getting pretty interesting. the working title is A Meeting of Sinners (more explanation and an excerpt under the cut!)

it's set during dai, bc you can get loghain to show up at skyhold depending on your playthroughs of the other games or your use of the DA Keep, so in my current-ish run, loghain is there. and it's been rly interesting to have him there! and i'm playing off of solas' intense reaction to the wardens plan to destroy all the archdemons before they rise. but unlike in-game, where that was just a ruse to get them to do corypheus' bidding, this time it's gonna really be smth they do. gotta work out the mechanics of that... maybe... or not, idrc, either way, loghain is a warden and is deeply concerned for his fellows and the way the order is going, and solas is panicked because no one knows but this will unleash the ENTIRETY of the blight (<- at least, that's what i took from veilguard) so during All The Everything, solas and loghain team up and just fuck right off to go stop the wardens

like, leaving the inq is not easy for him - idk what relationship he'll have with the inky, or which inky it's even going to be, but if nothing else he's leaving behind his anchor and his ability to directly influence the inq as a whole - but this is much more immediately demanding

varric tags along bc varric tagging along is a time-honored tradition... also because the structure of this fic ended up being split into two povs: varric's, after the events of the fic, discussing it with cassandra; and solas', in which we actually see things play out from his pov of having extra information

so the excerpt is actually from the original doc; in the end, i decided against keeping it varric's pov throughout, but that means that this will never otherwise see the light of day so perfect place to show it off lmao

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Solas was pacing in the room he'd come to claim as his own. Varric was always a little worried he slept here, too. He seemed way too long for that little couch.

Not the point.

Solas was pacing, and that… that was unusual. It almost felt like he should be pacing more often. Somehow, he seemed the type. But he didn't so maybe he wasn't and either way, this was weird.

And he didn't know if Solas was ignoring him or genuinely hadn't noticed him yet. Neither option boded particularly well.

"Nug got your tongue?"

Shit.

The look Solas shot his way was all intensity, eyes overbright, mouth a hard line. His arms were crossed over his chest, something between folded and hugging himself. Just like how Solas himself looked something between fury and despair.

"The Wardens are fools," he spat out after a moment, resuming his pacing. "'Yes, let's go kill all the archdemons! This will go well!'" Solas' voice, pitched high in contempt, was disturbing. Coming from him, anyway. "They have no idea what that are doing!"

"No one does," Varric dared to point out after a beat, Solas' shoulders stiffening before they abruptly slumped.

Despair won, apparently.

"No. No, they do not." Varric didn't think he'd miss the contempt, but this was worse. Solas' voice was so low he could barely hear it. And it was heavy.

"Solas—" He stopped when the other man held out a hand, looking away from him.

"Apologies. I just need a moment."

[branwinged]

https://x.com/mourningstorms/status/1920361415749091553?t=aiWIXjfYfujha9798wQqIw&s=19

this is so cute!!

[morningstargirl666]

what do you think about Hayley?

I think she was made as a plot device, not a person, and therefore has no real character.

I mean, when she was first introduced, she had a good premise---we learn she grew up with foster parents, and when she turned for the first time, they kicked her out. I think that's a really neat insight into the werewolf world they should have explored a whole lot more. If she's in her early/mid-twenties does that mean she's been turning since she was a teenager? Is she an experienced werewolf, having been running with other packs ever since she was kicked out? What happened when she was kicked out? Was she homeless for a while, forced to hitchhike and live on the streets, thinking herself a monster until she realised there were more people like her? How did she find that out? Did she bump into a werewolf in a bar? Was there a werewolf that took her under his/her wing, taught her everything she knew? Did she find her own family, even though they shared no blood?

The problem is, TVDU has a horrible habit of creating female characters for a specific purpose, and not expanding on them otherwise. Hayley was supposed to be likeable because they intended to air TO and Plec wanted the baby plotline. She wasn't a homewrecker, because Tyler wasn't actually cheating on Caroline with her, see? It's just a ploy to distract Klaus! Hayley's actually trying to help the hybrids out of the good of her heart!

Yeah, well, that's all good and dandy, but Julie---[takes a huge breath]---my darling, you forgot you made Hayley a decietful bitch who betrays the hybrids to Klaus just for the promise of information on her parents. Which, don't get me wrong---I think the twist made her character all the more interesting. It would have been better if her alliance with Shane was revealed later and came as more of a shock. But again, Hayley was a plot device, and the writers were using her for all the wrong reasons, reaching their crescendo of mysognistic bad decisions when they had her get pregnant with Klaus' child and later, forced her own plotline with the NOLA werewolves just to give her something to do rather than just be Klaus' shacked up momma.

Like all the characters in TVDU, she had great potential, especially as a morally grey character or antagonist.

But as always, the execution was shite.