#waffles answers

[corrupted-baby]

how did rose get corrupted? and what did the gems do to not bubble rose when she was corrupted?

//I read somewhere that the Gem corruption is also a bit of a mental kind of corruption too or something of the sort but if that's not canon, its just a thing for the AU lol

Rose got corrupted from the stress of her pregnancy (I might also have with her doing such a large alter to her "code"/body it also just completely messed things up + with stress that led to corruption). The gems didn't know she was corrupted until they met Steven when he was born. Rose left the Gems when she was corrupting, worried she would fully corrupt and hurt them

[latenitewaffles]

I? What does this mean? Like genuinely is there stuff about Strega we didn't know in the original game? Best I can guess is stuff from the light novel but that would be fleshing out their characters not like "oh the truth about them?"

Baffled. I am baffled

Takaya and Jin on screen kiss /s

But in all seriousness it probably is the light novel stuff or any additional things from any other content? There's a lot about the P3 characters that simply wasn't in the original games that got revealed in the stage plays, the manga, the radio drama, etc, so I'm glad they're putting that stuff into Reload so that people who don't have the time to consume that stuff can learn more about the characters

[wafflesrock16]

Squigglysquidd mentioned that you're working on an original fantasy romance series, Rifts. I'd love to hear a little about your series and your experience writing it! I assume it's published somewhere? Congratulations, by the way! What a fantastic achievement!

Howdy! I do have an original fantasy series that is available in ebook and paperback on Amazon. There's two books out, Aerials and Fathomless Depths and the third book will (hopefully) be released late next week. The overarching plot circles around a theme that sometimes, the monster deserves to get the girl. So if you like monster romance, female protagonists, and immersive fantasy settings, give the Rifts series a read.

This is my fanfic/fandom account so I try not to cross-pollinate too much with original works, but rest assured after finishing book 3 of 5, I'm deep in OC hell, haha.

So far as my experience self-publishing an original series and all the leg work that goes into that, I'll put a full answer under a cut, because it's long.

I was one of those that actually got a college degree in fiction writing and held onto a cozy notion that in-between a day job, I'd submit stories to journals and anthologies as a fun hobby. Unfortunately, my day job ended up beating the love of reading and writing out of me for several years. It wasn't until I started reading fanfiction that I rediscovered my own love of writing. While I do write main characters, I enjoyed creating fics featuring all original casts, or else putting a fantasy spin on the scify setting. Which led me to considering doing my own totally original works...

I am fortunate in that I knew a professional editor through another friend. We agreed to meet for coffee, and she gave me the run down on the writing/publishing process. Initially I had thought I'd pursue traditional publishing, but after in depth conversation with the editor, whom I'll call "K," I was more than a bit overwhelmed. While I knew publication wasn't just emailing a publication house my book, I never realized how in depth and daunting the querying process for an agent was, and all the other things that entailed. Likely seeing my wide-eyed look of shock, K had a suggestion for me: self-publish on Amazon.

K walked me through that process and given my own self-perceived feelings of still not being "good-enough" she advised I try to self-publish an original series first, build my skill and confidence, and then if I was still interested, circle back to traditional publication.

So that's what I did. First, I had to write the story; which was a journey of frustration in itself. I was lucky to have met the fabulous @squigglysquidd through fanfiction and she graciously offered to alpha read my chapters as I completed the first draft. Without her cheer-leading I might have given up.

After finishing a complete draft, I went over and fixed the glaring issues myself before handing the manuscript off to a beta reader. My beta reader happens to by a huge fantasy nerd and a trained editor of sorts, and while their concrit is sometimes very... lets say blunt... it's always great. After getting the book back from my beta, I overhauled it again with all their edits. Once I was confident that it wasn't a total turd, I contacted K again and hired her at her freelance rate to do a general edit of the manuscript. (Most freelance editors offer different services from general review to line edits, for my purposes general edits worked best). K was absolutely fantastic and taught me SO MUCH about writing and details and pacing ect. After I again overhauled the manuscript based on K's edits, I gave it over to a beta reader one more time for final critique. When it was returned I fixed any issues they identified and then began the painstaking line edits for any grammar issues.

While I have not used an empathy reader in my own works (yet) I did find a fabulous resource, fiverr, where you can hire empathy readers to review your work for areas where an author might unintentionally sound racially insensitive, ablest, ect.

So far as cover-art goes, I'd met an absolutely incredible artist through the Mass Effect fandom: @savbakk is the most talented land-mermaid of an artist and when I approached her about a commission for cover art, I hit the jack-pot when she agreed to do it. I adore her style and gaze fondly at the three book covers she's done in pure disbelief that she captured my characters so perfectly...

When my book is as polished as it can be, and I feel the narrative is tight and characters fleshed out with a solid plot, I self-publish on Amazon. It's a fairly straight-forward process, luckily.

I then marketed on Twitter and other social media platforms, with varying success. I was fortunate and my series was selected for a book club and I did an interview and gained some nice readership from that. I definitely could be better about marketing, but admittedly I get lazy after a while on that front.

And that’s my process in a nutshell. Eventually when I complete my fantasy series I’ll tackle traditional publishing. Until then, I’m enjoying myself and the experience. 😃

And that's my experience/process in a nutshell. I still have 2 more books planned for my series. I feel that I'm a stronger, better writer, with each story I complete. When my series is all finished, I will pursue traditional publication on my next project. Can't say I'll be successful, but I believe I'll be ready to try and enjoy the learning process.

I'm always happy to chat self-publication with anyone who's interested, just pop into my DM's if you like. =)

[bitemeilovewaffles]

Your pinned post is embarrassing.

“Wow, this murderous edgelord prick is SO cool & quirky!”

Shut the fuck up. This shit makes me want to vomit in revulsion at how proudly stupid people are.

[thatcoyperson]

Ok it's 4am and I'm going insane thinking about this but I need answers.

So we all know how Mumbo stole Grian's soul back in Season 8 right? Which brings me to my first question: What happened to Mumbos soul? Did Grian's soul just override Mumbos soul OR does Mumbo have 2 souls now? Or did they like somehow fuse together into one soul and just leave Grian soulless? Like just- what happened to Grian's soul after it was eaten

BUT THATS NOT THE PART IM THINKING ABOUT THE MOST

But yknow how in Double Life there were Soulmates? Yeah. What was Scars soul bound to? Was it just bound to nothing or did Grian get like- half of Scars soul during it. If it is the second one DID SCAR GET HIS SOUL BACK? OR IS HE JUST DOWN HALF A SOUL AND GRIAN HAS THE OTHER HALF FOREVER NOW?

IF NOT THEN HOW DO YOU BOUND A SOUL TO NOTHING? WHAT WAS HIS SOUL BOUND TO???

Im so confused. I've been plagued by this for actual months and I'm no closer to an answer. These sound like the ramblings of an insane madman and I've accepted that. I just need answers.

[ask--invaderzim]

Am just gonna *gives gir a waffle gun*

Anyways Zim do you have any wholesome moments with gir? :3

[mrsketchy]

hey there! Im the friend that was going feral on discord about your art and im still going off about it now, im so so grateful!! and thank you for the waffles ❤

Thank you so very much~

It's easy to forget that there are people behind the likes/reblogs and it always makes my day/week/month/year to find that other people are legitimately enjoying my shenanigans.

Happy holidays and a Wonderful Wafflemas to you~

[not-poignant]

If someone stopped reading your story, not because of anything wrong you've done, would you be interested to know why? Or would that just be unpleasant?

That would just be unpleasant, anon.

The reality is a lot of people just stop reading for a lot of reasons, and hearing someone's negative feedback isn't really that useful, because I'm writing the story for the people who really love it, and not for the people who got bored or stopped liking the themes etc. And then of course there are folks who just stop because life intervenes, which is normal.

Generally speaking there's a saying which is: If you wouldn't ask that person for personal advice, why are you listening to their criticism. And I tend to apply that pretty aggressively to strangers on the internet tbh!

Part of it is that I take negative critiques very personally, and can spend a really long time feeling like I should change an entire story for one person who's already stopped reading, or like I should be trying to fight to keep that one person's interest instead of like...focusing on all the readers who are actually just enjoying the writing as it is. And changing my writing for the people who aren't finding it interesting enough to keep reading (and/or who don't have time and/or who find it too upsetting etc.) is not going to help anyone!

So yeah, generally speaking telling a person why you've stopped reading a story is like...not really a thing to do (and that's true for most authors).

About the only time I don't mind it is when someone starts reading again after a period of absence where they've been stressed and I get a comment like 'Ah I haven't been around due to life/stress/illness but I'm so happy to be back and reading' lol, which I don't think is what you're referring to!

[melobin]

help i just saw a tt showing pics of hanibani (seunghan/wonbin) and 01z and the way my mind INMEDIATELY went "well ive 2 holes and 2 hands" soo any thoughts on seungbinchanseok 4some?

i need help frr

I will faint 🫠

that’s so … you’re so real for that though. feel like there’d be such a good balance with the roughness and softness?? like there’s a line from who’d be the sweetest with you and who’d be the meanest in my and head and it goes like

seunghan who just wants to praise you for taking them all so well and being so good for them, fucks you so good whilst the other three watch. probably goes last because he’s the youngest but also because he’ll hold you close to him and whisper sweet words into your ear to encourage you to cum again :(

sungchan could he so sweet and caring with you but he could also be really mean. tells you how well you’ve done taking them but also taunts you and tells you you’ll never feel satisfied with just one man again and laughs when you whine about it. really doesn’t care that he’s being watch and does kinda wanna watch you choke on another one of their cocks whilst he’s fucking you.

wonbin is just a little bitch tbh. kisses away your tears from you being overwhelmed but mocks you for being so needy that you’ll let four different men fuck you. gives you a little bit of sweetness but the mean definitely overpowers it. will manhandle you in front of them and laugh a little sadistically when you moans get louder. gets quite prideful in having you cum around his cock in front of them.

eunseok is the meanest, he’s degrading and teasing and just. yeah. he makes you look at the others whilst he fucks you, taking you from behind and pulling on your hair to keep your head up so you’re watching them. calls your their personal little cock sleeve for letting them all take you like that, kinda wants to watch you cry out of pleasure.

[sleepis4theweak]

Have we seen the 2018 Caseys and 2012 Casey react to Milkshake and Waffle? Along with both Aprils?

If not.... can we?... 👉👈

Very sketchy art- but this is SUCH A FUNNY CONCEPT LOLLL

Poor Milkshake :/

[corrupted-baby]

Can I pick all four Coren babies? They're all so cute!

You can only pick one :)

[latenitewaffles]

SEES adjustment AU 👀👀👀

OK so imma spill about their relationships and genders and stuff

Makoto is 41, Aromantic, Bisexual and Nonbinary! They're a therapist, specializing in grief therapy, and they're dating Junpei. They also foster kids and own a cat named Thanatos.

Kotone is 41, Poly and Sapphic! She's a History teacher and coach at Gekkoukan, and she's married to Aigis and Saori. They have an adopted son named Akinari.

Yukari's 41 and Bisexual, and she's still an actress! Married to Mitsuru of course!

Junpei is 41, Poly and Bisexual. Somehow he managed to land a coaching job at Gekkoukan, and he's married to Chidori and dating Makoto. Chidori and him have 4 kids!

Akihiko is 42, a gay trans man, obviously married to Shinjiro, and obviously has a son named Katsuro- Shinji and him also adopted Ken. Akihiko's one of two SEES members who works full time with the Shadow Ops and is their de facto leader when Mitsuru isn't present.

Mitsuru is 42, and a Lesbian. She's still head of the Kirijo Group and the Shadow Ops, and as previously mentioned she's married to Yukari. They have 2 kids, you know whom.

Fuuka's 41 and Pansexual, and she's probably the head of the tech research department in the Kirijo Group as well as being a Shadow Ops scientist. She's married to Natsuki, but they don't have kids.

Aigis is 36, Panromantic and Asexual. She works full time with the shadow ops, and as previously mentioned she's married to Kotone, and they have a son.

Ken is 35 and Bisexual. He's a defense attorney and has a rivalry with Sae. He's also divorced and has twin daughters.

Shinjiro is 42 and Bisexual. He owns a quiet but successful restaurant in Iwatodai City. Obvs is married to Akihiko, adopted Ken, and has Katsuro. Fun fact, he damn near had a heart attack when he realized that Ken having kids meant he was gonna be a grandpa.

Given that it's been 25 years since P3 Koromaru is no longer with SEES but he does have descendants!

[wafflesrock16]

8 Shows to get to know me better.

 Tagged by @ashacadence 

In no particular order:

1) The Mandolorian

2) Abbot Elementary

3) Only Murders In the Building

4) The Witcher

5) Norse Men

6) Derry Girls

7) The Bad Batch

8) Wheel Of Time

[bitemeilovewaffles]

Hello i hope you have a sweet day and remember to hydrate ❤️

Awww thank you so much! Take care of yourself!

[hypogryffin]

i cant believe i wasn't following u b4,,,,,ive just been silently scrolling through your blog for like a solid YEAR and just haven't even noticed????? n e ways what are tha thoughts on literally anyone in p4 being trans bc i live for that 🎤

the way my brain decided that this was asking for pronoun headcanons and did not reread to make sure that was what you were asking before drawing all of this…... well anyways

[absolutebl]

Hi!!! Your posts are always amazing and I have so many bookmarked because you create the best little collections. Anyway, I am in a big BL rut right now and I can't seem to get into anything. Any fast-paced, recs that can bring me out of my slump? Thanks so so much :)

Oooo, fast paced is pretty subjective lemme think...

Imma got with the narrative sense of the word pacing (rather than just an in-your-face fast-moving plot, although that too,) so: good tension, craft, and narrative. Here's my pulls - I went broad and into the well, in case you had seen some recent stuff.

10 Fast-Paced BLs to Pull You Out of a Slump

(I'm assuming you have seen KinnPorsche)

I did a quick pitch for each cause I'm drunk so maybe they're funny, all spelling errors are my own and the result of growing up in 3 different English speaking nations and 2 non-English ones.

Someone wanted more elevator pitches a while ago, here ya go!

Our Dating Sim - nerds in love, reunion, deadlines, gaming, teasing, pining tiny idiots, ADORABLE

2. Semantic Error - you cannot be a BL fan and not have watched this, the ultimate enemies to lovers, also the prettiest

3. To My Star - neurotic actor (actual puppy), grumpy chef, sparks, cooking lessons, LOVE!

4. We Best Love - defines fast paced in romance, literally when asked why his character fell in love so fast Yu said, "well I only had one 20 minute episode." Yet... we BELIEVED IT.

5. HIStory 2: Crossing the Line - it's a perfect sports romance, don't bother me with trifles

6. Not Me - also how do you say antidisestablishmentarianism in Thai? + hot boys kissing who probably shouldn't be and convoluted soap opera identical twins plot... someone at GMMTV thought it made sense, we just here for the tattoos and the the Pride scene

7. The Eighth Sense - who let Korea be this angsty? SO MUCH TENSION.

8. Unintentional Love Story - omg the plot, forced into a totally understandable betrayal, falling in love despite himself, put into a corner he can't get out of, the AGONY, the eyes EMOTING at us in PAIN

9. HIStory 3: Trapped - hot cop falls in love with hotter mafia boss he is chasing for MURDER (bonus weirdly domesticated switch-blade wielding hit-man obsessed with geeky police tech support - COME ON)

10. Long Time No See - assassins, cat fishing, either side of a turf war, HOT sex scenes then even hotter beating the shit out of each other and kissing while COVERED IN BLOOD (this came from KOREA?)

There.

All kinds of flavors.

One of them just HAS to work!

If not, you could go for shorts. Try Strongberry:

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