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[cashhkitty]

jennifer's body au - bimbo-ish reader x nerd armin. 9g*+

𝓈𝓊𝓂𝓂𝒶𝓇𝓎: reader attends highschool. her two main friends, to which she'd call it, "sandbox love", one friend out of the two she dates, and hasn't been separated since junior high. reader and her boyfriend-along with the other, attends a highschool party. not long after reader's friend finds her body behind the house during the party, lifeless. the next day, reader's friend notices that she is now present at school-with out a scratch. how is she alive? can and will he solve this mystery?

𝓌𝒶𝓇𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈: suggestive themes/mentions of gore+blood/angst/ drug use

𝑔𝑒𝓃𝓇𝑒: horror/drama/romance/mystery

PART 2: Three Little Pigs

armin pov

"take your textbooks out everybody, and we'll start on page three 'oh seven."

nothing could ease the pain in my head, even though, i was up cleaning the black-or what it looked like, ferromagnetic fluid off of the ground late last night. but because of the situation i was pulled into so suddenly. why'd [name] just waltz into my house covered in blood? she didn't look alive at all, how her eyes were so dark and hooded, not even a glint could be spotted on a full moon night. why was she even present before me like i hadn't discovered her corpse.

my thoughts were cut short when someone had entered the classroom abruptly. resting their textbook next to mines, [name] sat down before turning her head towards my direction...smiling. her toothy grin staring back at me again, this time white and spotless, not blood-soaked like it was prior.

"hey min. whatsup?" [name] asked. she pulled out her phone and begun typing away as if she wasn't waiting for a reply.

"you're...alright? what huh..happened, [name]? you were all bloody and..acting weird—*

"what?"

[name] had snapped her head in my direction. she made this look on her face as if someone had said something inhumane. the phone hanging loosely from her hands as she scanned my facial expression. i was more than shocked to say the least. i hadn't noticed my reaction when she'd kept staring.

"did you... did you not come to my house last night?.."

"no…?!"

"[name]."

*ping

a message notification pinged on the phone, and i could've only guessed it was eren.

since they both had gotten together before junior high, it was like parasites just leeching off of each other. though, it made me happy to see them happy, but even then i’ve felt more odd than i should. we are best friends after all, it wouldn't change anything.

“ohhh, so she asked to get lunch with you!”

“not…necessarily.”

i shouldn’t stare. but—the way [name] and eren sat down together at the lunch table, with no care in the world. i’m bothered, realistically there’s no reason to be. [name] said she would’ve gotten me lunch, and she did? so, why do i think she has to be sitting here right now with me?

“you listenin’ to me?” annie waved her spoon around in my face violently. her head cocked to the side as if she was trying to cave dive into my brain or something.

“yeah, yeah. your art show? i mean i’ll see if i can come..”

“jesus, you never do though, armin. we only have these once a year, and exams are coming up so i’d thought this would just ease the stress off of you and i.”

i looked over again. my thoughts drowning my older ones.

“ok…well if you’re so busy with studying and [name] and whatever, i’ll just go with mikasa—again.”

“huh?!”

annie begun to pick her tray up, preparing to exit the lunchroom.

“no no, annie wait!”

i grabbed her arm just in time before she stopped by the garbage. my brows furrowed as i felt sweat build up on my forehead and palms.

“i’ll go! …maybe this is probably what i need to get away from those two for a while.”

annie softly grinned. she held her shoulder bag, opened it and took out a flyer. handing it to me she spoke, “see you tonight, armin.”

SATURDAY 8:21 PM

annie pov

‘where the hell is he?!’ thinking maybe armin would just give this friendship a chance. seeing him cling to those idiots all his life just, made me feel so bad for him. it’s stupid really, and i don’t know how many chances i can give him anymore.

eventually, i tied my hair up and got ready for the show, ignoring my obvious worries.

“where’s the mirror at real quick—?”

“you’re checking your outfit again, you look fine.” mikasa replies.

“wasn’t fine like what happened last year mika, oh my god.”

armin pov

“please…please.”

“yes! heh..hello?”

“yeah, where are you?”

my head was spinning. i tried to figure out if i should go to that art show with or without someone. yes it was kind of breaking annie’s promise but…jesus christ i feel like such a loser…

“oh um, home. but i’m actually going to an art show right now, so—“

“a fucking show?! when i told you that i was throwing a birthday party for my friend?” eren cackles.

“y’know him and i aren’t that close eren. i thought hanging out with you guys…was too much.”

“yeah okay i know that tone. you found a new friend to ride and let them get into your head again. see you in five.”

then he just, hung up.

[name] pov

“what the fuck dude! when i invited you this one time—and you try to hit on me?! i was being nice!”

“ion need you to be [name]!”

“fuck you!”

i stormed out the kitchen, heading upstairs to search for eren. my only hope in this stupid ass city. armin’s not coming and i’m already pissed off. this night can’t get any worse…

but, my feet stop suddenly..

and my stomach’s growling.

i’m hungry.

standing in the hallway, my eyes turn, then my body. ‘i wonder where that guy ran off to?’ my thoughts stopped flowing straight. my heart starts to race when the only thing on my mind was that same guy i invited. i’m so hungry…

annie pov

“again—thanks armin for actually showing up.”

scratching his head nervously, armin occasionally breaking eye contact. “yeaah, no prob.” he fumbles over his words everytime.

i tuck a strand behind my ear and exhaled lightly, drifting my attention to my phone and checked its time.

“well since we finished earlier than i thought, i’ll just head over to reggie’s party one time. he’s been begging me to come.”

“oh—okay then! see you annie.”

“night.”

“get away from me you crazy bitch!”

[name] pov

“if you’d stop fucking moving. didn’t you like what i put on tonight?!”

“get away. get away!”

his whole arm is bleeding out. what do i do?

he grabs his arm tightly, using the other to crawl across the hallway. he spots a bathroom just not too far with the door cracked open. grabbing for it in an instant, i only follow behind him slowly till we were both inside together.

“are you fucking insane?! what the hell are you?!”

“…”

“…why’d you bite my arm off you bitch?!”

minutes later, walking out the back where no one hung around, drenched in blood. he said i could’ve ate someone else, but i dunno how i felt about it afterwards.

i wonder what armin’s doing.

a/n: idk if it was me not being confident abt ts fic anymore or what, but i left ts alone for a good while and then actually locked in anyways same disclaimer, i’m a “beginner writer” so it may NOT b the best 💔 jus doin ts for fun atp, lol my stuff may not add up to the warnings ruh roh

[leveragehunters]

Downloading fanfic from AO3

I've been downloading a lot of fanfic lately for personal archival purposes, and I figured I'd share how I do it in case it's useful to anyone else (and so I have it written down in case I forget!).

There are lots of different ways to save fic, including the file download built into AO3, but I find that this gives me the nicest ebooks in the most efficient way.

(Under a cut cause long.)

Download Calibre: https://calibre-ebook.com/ or (clickable link).

Calibre is about the best ebook management and control program around and it's free. You can get it for windows, mac, and linux or download and run it from a portable storage device (I'm using a windows PC).

Install it and run it. It's gonna ask you where you want to put your library. Dealer's choice on this one. I recommend your internal drive (and then back up to external/cloud), but YMMV.

If you want to keep fanfic separate from the rest of your ebooks, you can create multiple libraries. I do, and my libraries are creatively named 'Books' and 'Fic'.

Customise Calibre

Now you're gonna install some plugins. Go to Preferences on the menu bar (far right), click its little side arrow, then choose 'Get plugins to enhance Calibre'.

At the top right of the box that pops up is 'Filter by name'. The plugins you want to get are:

EpubMerge

FanFicFare

Install them one at a time. It will ask you where you want them. I recommend 'the main bar' and 'the main bar when device is attached' (should be selected by default). When you're done, close and reopen Calibre.

The plugins you just installed should appear on the far right of the toolbar, but if you can't see one or both of them, fear not! Just click Preferences (the button, not the side arrow), then Toolbars and Menus (in the 'Interface' section) then choose the main toolbar from the drop down menu. That will let you add and remove things - I suggest getting rid of Donate, Connect Share, and News. That'll leave you room to add your new plugins to the menu bar.

(Do donate, though, if you can afford it. This is a hell of a program.)

Now you're ready to start saving your fave fanfic!

Saving fanfic

I'll go through both methods I use, but pick whatever makes you happy (and/or works best for what you're downloading).

ETA: if the fics are locked you can't easily use FanFicFare. Skip down to the next section. (It does ask for a username/password if you try and get a locked fic, but it's never worked for me - I had to edit the personal.ini in the configuration options, and even then it skips locked fics in a series.)

Calibre and FanFicFare

You can work from entirely within Calibre using the FanFicFare plugin. Just click its side arrow and pick from the menu. The three main options I use are download from URL, make anthology from a webpage, and update story/anthology.

Download from URL: pick Download from URL (or just click the FanFicFare button) and paste the fic's URL into the box (if you've copied it to your clipboard, it will be there automatically). You can do more than one fic at a time - just paste the URLs in one after the other (each on a new line). When you're done, make sure you have the output format you want and then go.

Make Anthology Epub From Web Page: if you want a whole series as a single ebook, pick Anthology Options, then Make Anthology Epub From Webpage. Paste the series URL into the box (if you've copied it to your clipboard, it will be there automatically), click okay when it displays the story URLs, check your output format and go.

Update series/anthology: if you downloaded an unfinished fic or series and the author updates, you can automatically add the update to your ebook. Just click on the ebook in Calibre, open the FanFicFare menu using its side arrow, and select either Update Existing FanFic Books or Anthology Options, Update Anthology epub. Okay the URLs and/or the output format, then go.

Any fic downloaded using FanFicFare will be given an automatically generated Calibre cover. You can change the cover and the metadata by right clicking on the title and picking edit metadata. You can do it individually, to change the cover or anything else specific to that ebook, or in bulk, which is great for adding a tag or series name to multiple fics. Make sure you generate a new cover if you change the metadata.

Browser plugins, Calibre, and EpubMerge

You can also use a browser addon/plugin to download from AO3. I use FicLab (Firefox/Chrome), but I believe there's others. FicLab: https://www.ficlab.com/ (clickable link).

FicLab puts a 'Save' button next to fic when you're looking at a list of fics, eg search results, series page, author's work list etc. Just click the 'Save' button, adjust the settings, and download the fic. You can also use it from within the fic by clicking the toolbar icon and running it.

FicLab is great if you're reading and come across a fic you want to save. It also generates a much nicer (IMO) cover than Calibre.

You can add the downloaded fic to Calibre (just drag and drop) or save it wherever. The advantage to dropping it into Calibre is that all your fic stays nicely organised, you can adjust the metadata, and you can easily combine fics.

Combining fics

You can combine multiple fics into an anthology using EpubMerge. This is great if you want a single ebook of an author's short fics, or their AUs, or their fics in a specific ship that aren't part of a series. (It only works on epubs, so if you've saved as some other format, you'll need to convert using Calibre's Convert books button.)

Select the ones you want to combine, click EpubMerge, adjust the order if necessary, and go.

The cover of the merged epubs will be the cover of the first fic in the merge list. You can add a new cover by editing the metadata and generating a new cover.

Combing with FanFicFare

You can also combine nonseries fics using FanFicFare's Make Anthology ePub from URLs option by pasting the individual fic URLs into the box.

Where there's more than a few fics, I find it easier to download them with FicLab and combine them with EpubMerge, and I prefer keeping both the combined and the individual versions of fic, but again YMMV.

Reconverting and Converting

Once I'm done fussing, I reconvert the ebook to the same format, to ensure everything is embedded in the file. Is this necessary? YMMV, but it's a quick and easy step that does zero harm.

If you don't want your final ebook to be an epub, just convert it to whatever format you like.

Disclaimers

Save fanfic for your own personal enjoyment/offline reading/safeguarding against the future. If it's not your fic, don't distribute it, or upload it to other sites, or otherwise be a dick. Especially if the author deletes it. Respect their wishes and their rights.

This may work on other fanfic sites, eg FFN, but I've never tried so I don't know.

If you download a fic, do leave the author a kudo or a comment; you'll make them so happy.

This is how I save fic. I'm not pretending it's the only way, or even the best way! This is just the way that works for me.

[limes-sagau]

Starting My Sagau Writing Journey

Ok Im wanting to dip my toes into the Sagau writing scene and I wanted to put out about 3 ideas I have and plan on writing. Each idea will be outlined below and people are welcome to take inspiration off of them just make sure to tag me in the writing. There will also be a poll at the end where you can vote for which one you want to see first. When I finish writing each chapter they will be put up on AO3. 

Shimeji AU: 

For those who don't know, Shimeji is a browser extension that spawns a chibi version of a character onto your browser. This character can then move around and climb on the borders of your web page and just be a cute little distraction (I know this might sound like malware but its not I've had a Venti and a Lumine Shimegi for a while now and haven't experienced anything that can imply they are malware) 

This would be more of a drabble and less of a full fic. 

Basically the characters in genshin become aware through their Shimeji and then begin acting up in your browser when you're out of the game (when you're in game you're fine).

If you leave your web browser opened when you leave your computer you will come back to it being on a weird page 

Like Venti looking at a wine website 

Diluc somehow ending up on a streaming service watching Batman 

Yae Miko finding your writing 

I'll likely start off with characters from Mondstadt and go down the list for each region.

Kidnapped by the Harbingers (not the final title): 

Exactly as it sounds, in the middle of the night you are taken from your college dorm (or room I likely won't specify) to Teyvat after the harbingers find a way into our world. 

Haven't decided which harbinger will be sent (leaning towards Childe because I feel like it would fit best and he'd be down for that type of experiment). 

Most of it will take place in a separate castle from Zapolyarny Palace. 

If you want to know my specific location I have in mind their is a visual novel called Dottore And The Spy where you become Dottores apprentice (highly suggest this visual novel) but its main story takes place in a castle in the middle of a frozen wasteland away from civilization where both Pantalon and Dottore live. This will be the main location for the story. 

I'll also be adding in Capitano as another permanent resident of this castle because I want to write about a big strong man who is the emotional intelligence of the three main harbingers present. 

The other harbingers and the Tsaritsa will appear but they will be much more understated in their role.

I want this fanfic to go into the mental load that being locked away from the world has on a person's psyche.

Readers' powers will slowly awaken, making it harder for the Harbingers to keep us a secret from Teyvat and specifically Celestia.

This won't be a full blown yandere fic with the harbingers, they will be slightly possessive but it is more about your safety since Celestia doesn't like you. 

Celestia will be the ultimate enemy over all but the story will not be focused on shooting down Celestia from the sky as readers powers will not ever reach the strength needed to face Celestia alone. 

Harbingers plan will not have changed; they are still working to take down Celestia.   

This will be taking place after Sumeru (so no Scara or La Signora and their will be less clones)

The story will also include 

Getting to know and bond with your castle staff like maids or ladies in waiting (I know these are typically only given to female presenting reader but I want to write about gossip and forming friendships so this is what I'm going with) 

Quality time with each harbinger

Impressing Dottore with your basic levels of knowledge on Astronomy (since Teyvats sky is fake)

Eventually a runaway arch

Lots of tears and mental breakdowns, but don’t worry there will be comfort as well

Shenanigans 

Possibly NSFW after reader finally convinces everyone to stop calling them “your grace”

To Make a Haven (Title might change):

Imposter (but reader is the real deal) AU

Reader gets killed once by a mob of NPCs 

I want it specifically to be NPCs so the reader still has emotional attachment to the playable characters

Reader seeks out a safe and secluded place  

Teyvat awakens to readers distress and opens up a hidden area of the map to the reader that can only be accessed through very specific means. 

Reader eventually starts bringing in Hilichurls to what for now im going to be calling “the Grove” 

Reader will begin messing around and experimenting with her powers and finds a way to somewhat heal the hilichurls 

This isn't a full fix it will be like layering a curse on top of a curse in order to negate some of the effects of the original curse

The hilicurls will not return to being human they will become something else (human like but not human) 

This fic will contain way more original characters 

Reader will be more spiteful in this fic but less in like a “make everyone suffer” way and more like “lets shake up the system and make everything more challenging for people because they tried to kill me” 

This fic will span over a larger span of time in world with the reader building a full city in the hidden area Teyvat made for them.

Well those are my three ideas! after this poll is done I'm hoping to get the first chapter out with that week, but I'm a college student and it been a while since I have written fanfiction so i make no promises.

[forevergoldgame]

2 MORE DAYS EVERYONE!!

LS here. Today I'm going to talk about my favorite thing: UI design. When it's good, it's utterly invisible, but when it's bad, everyone notices!

There were definitely some hurdles and hiccups in the UI design of the demo. Part of it was me being unfamiliar with my tools, part of it was not understanding some of the in-built features of the sugarcube twine template. Since then I've brushed up on my JS and restructured things to make the game more intuitive.

First up, we now have two different options for the choice menu! By default, the game displays the "scrolling list" as seen on the left. Using either touch controls or your mouse scroll wheel, you can cycle through the available options before making your choice... or if your device lacks touch/wheel options (or you dislike needless UI animation), you can set the choice menu to "static list" and have your options display in a plain list.

Next is the top bar! At first glance, the buttons might look the same as they did in the demo, but they are not. Yes, the larger of the two still leads to a (new) character summary, but the smaller button now opens the new glossary rather than than being a redundant link to the inventory.

The glossary is a small feature a few readers suggested and it does exactly what it says. It combs through the current passage and looks for vocabulary words which may be unfamiliar to readers.

As always, the glossary feature is meant to be a convenience for readers who may have taken breaks in their playthrough and would like a refresher. It's an anti-frustration feature, not "homework!"

The settings menu is much like it was before, but with a few new features. Changing the theme now changes the UI popups as well as the main layout, so no more white text on dark backgrounds for light theme users! Mobile users will also be happy to learn that you can adjust touch sensitivity - this should hopefully fix some of the issues with people triggering the touch menu when scrolling down the page.

(The touch sensitivity range given in the menu might be tweaked later though - I've only had a few people test mobile for me so my perception of "the average mobile device" has a lot of holes in it. Mobile users, you'll have to let me know if the range is too great/too small to be useful!)

The "You" page has been separated from the Party menu and overhauled. This was mentioned in a previous post, so I'll move on to how the Party menu has been restructured!

Wanting to have as much information as possible easily available, I did away with the individual subpages in favor of these smaller summaries you can scroll through (using touch, mousewheel, or buttons).

The longer, unclear lists of companion thoughts are now represented by almost equally vague relationship icons. The left icon gives you an overview on "what" your relationship is, while the right icon gives you an idea of its "tone." Broadly speaking, "low tension" relationships are ones where the given companion and Quincy largely agree, and "high tension" relations are ones where you do not. A friendship with high tension might manifest as a cheeky rivalry, while a low-tension enemy might be someone who resents Quincy but stays polite for the sake of shared goals.

The travel log has gotten a similar retool for ease of use. We've chosen to drop the framing of "quests" in favor of plainly listed "tasks." Itemizing story events as "quests" was a sort of holdover from early development, when we were still conceptualizing what "gameplay" for an IF story like this would even look like, but as development progressed, it became clear that was kind of an overcomplication.

The timeline on the synopsis page has also been done away with in favor of this woven history log which tracks the beginning/ending of arcs and some big ticket player choices. You can scroll through the squares for a brief reminder of what you did in your specific playthrough!

The inventory has been redone to better reflect how we're putting the inventory system to use in-game. Doing away with "notes," we now have three categories of inventory item: actual items, Quincy's observations, and oaths. What is an oath? You'll just have to find out!

The codex has received a ton of QoL updates - namely, better options for navigation and a simple search function. We've also altered the categories somewhat and reassessed what "deserves" an article and what should exist as an amendment to a larger article, as - for example - giving each and every named location a codex entry like we originally planned would very quickly spin out of control and overwhelm players. We hope the end result is a cleaner codex experience!

And, finally, we have the retooled map. Instead of awkwardly navigating submenus, we now have one huge map with everything on it! The player can navigate by either clicking the points on the map or the list of available locations. A selected location will display in the corner, and list any active story tasks associated with that location.

And that's all for today's post! We're so close to release, and I can't wait to hear everyone's thoughts on what we've made!

-LS

[hotcoldboyssummer]

Hot Cold Boys Summer Fest Info!

Here's some basic info about what's going on with this thing. More in-depth FAQ to come + will be releasing prompts in the following days leading up to June! Really excited to have you all with us!

What is this?

A two month, SFW Terror fandom fest! Nine weeks from June to July featuring a weekly theme with little mini prompts and mini activities in between. Prompts will be summer related and a mix of Victorian-applicable and stuff for AUs (Modern AU specifically) + a week for pride!!!!! Mini activities will include such fun stuff as filling out ship charts, putting stickers on your favorite guy, throwing a powerpoint together on why you really like this specific thing in the show, maybe even irl arts and crafts, etc.

What about the zine?

At the end of this 9 week period, a form will go out where you can submit one or two of your pieces you created for the fest. This INCLUDES anything that isn't a fic or an artwork. Some restrictions may apply (more info on this to come. restrictions will involve word count, maybe artwork size, maybe number of pages you can submit, etc.). ANY PIECE SUBMITTED THROUGH THE FORM WILL BE ACCEPTED! (with rules ofc like it must be sfw) After the submissions close, a digital zine will be put together and hosted for FREE DOWNLOAD on itch.io.

How do I participate?

Give us a follow! We'll be posting the prompts for the event at the beginning and then re-posting each week's theme and prompts every Friday! Then all you need to do is create whatever you desire fitting that prompt (or not! do whatever you want forever) and post it with the tag #hotcoldboyssummer25 + maybe the theme's specific hashtag (for example #hcbs25 week 1 or something of the sorts. this is just coz i think it would be fun to be able to look at each week separately). We'll try to reblog it here! You can also post fics and art to our Ao3 collection which I will have set up and linked when the main FAQ / Rules come out.

Are there any restrictions? Can I do [insert AU here]? Can I do [insert ship here]? Etc?

Absolutely no restrictions except for the following: must be SFW! Should be summery (because that's the zine's theme after all), and for this event we prefer sillies and fluff over angst but you can do whatever you want forever (the appeal of angst is massive and i am guilty of this sin (not writing fluff)). You don't even have to post anything anywhere! You don't have to follow prompts! You can do prompts out of order. You can only do one prompt. You can do no prompts. You can just pick one theme and do that the entire time. No limits!!!! Just make sure you're SFW!

You can also do any ships you want, crossovers with other media (though we ask that at least one Terror is involved), any AU you want, etc!

But I really want to do NSFW!!!

Keep an eye out, we're gonna' try and figure out how to offer an 18+ only after dark version as well!! (TWO ZINES WITH UNLIMITTED SUBMISSIONS YOU MUST BE CRAZY - well you see. you see. this is an act of hubris i may not survive (saying that jokingly)).

When will this be released?

Hopefully by the end of September, even better if earlier / sometime in August!

Other Things to Note:

I—main mod Aubrey—do NOT know what my schedule for the summer looks like! I'm still looking for a job which may end up being full time which I will HAVE to do because I have to pay for school. On the topic of school, I'll be starting the fall semester sometime in late August! I also do not know what that schedule will look like at all. Furthermore, July is artfight month, and I love to participate every year! I'd love love love to get this zine running and really provide a good experience for ya'll (the fandom as a whole), but note that my summer may be absolutely packed. Finally, I'm on Pacific Standard Time and I currently have a terrible sleep schedule. Posts may not be made at times when you're online, so I'd suggest checking in every now and then.

Final note, if you could please reblog for reach, that would be awesome; I'd love to have as many people in the fandom as possible!

That's all! Glad to have you all join us!

[steddieunderdogfics]

This is a space to celebrate fanfics that may have been lost to how quickly this ship grew!

This may change as the blog grows and the fandom continues to create! This post will stay pinned and be updated when these changes occur. Right now, these numbers come from the first three pages of the Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson tag on Ao3.

Nominate an author for WRITER'S SPOTLIGHT here!

Vote on our next THEME WEEEK here!

Suggest a CHALLENGE for Challenge Mondays here!

Submit a fic through our ASK and/or our SUBMISSIONS!

You can see our previously recommended fics here!

Below the cut, there are some frequently asked questions!

Can I submit my own works?

Absolutely! The more the merrier!

What counts as a popular fic?

Popularity is hard to determine with how many pockets of fandom there are. This is why we're using the metrics to gauge the cut off since people are discovering fics for the first time everyday! What may be the quintessential, most popular fic to you could be entirely new to a new fan or someone in another bubble of the Steddie fandom!

Are there any fics you won't take as recs?

No! All fics should be celebrated and it's easy to miss so many amazing creators and stories. Please refrain from anything that is on the first few pages of the ship tag when filtered by hits, kudos, comments, and/or bookmarks, since those are technically the most popular by numbers. As far as content, as long as the fic is properly tagged, it's okay to recommend!

How should we submit our recs?

There are two ways to submit: through the ask box or the submission tab. Asks: If you chose the ask box, just send the title and author (and if you're able the link, but sometimes tumblr won't let you) and I'll add the template to your response with the rating, tags, and summary! Submissions: In the guidelines, there's a template to copy and paste into your submission. Fill it out, add the links, and then choose the tags that best fit the fic you're recommending!

Can I submit multiple stories in one ask?

If you're rec'ing more than two, please do them separately! In order to give each fic the recognition it deserves, it's best if they're getting a post to itself so they stand out. Two is fine for a post, but anything more than that, please split it up!

Can I submit multiple stories in general?

Please do!!

Where can I see the fics that have been submitted?

You can check our main tumblr for fics organized by title and by author!

[daiourage]

(long post warning because I love to talk 🥂 the parts I want to be seen the most are highlighted in pink)

Hi guys. Text post here.

Y'all remember the AU trend that I made my own take on (part 1 is here and part 2 is here)? I'd like anyone reading this to say your ideas!!!

I'm in the middle of doing homework for my research group (it's the thing I've been talking about sometimes in the tags when I reblog something), and though I'll be done soon, I still won't be posting for another week or so. Not a big deal, obv, and I'm still interacting with the community, but I would like help from y'all!!!

I've been sketching during the downtime of my research and the pages have been piling!!! So expect a sketch dump of this AU (albeit in a slightly different font I suppose) soon!!!

What I would like y'all (anyone reading this) is for help on who to add into this AU!!! send me suggestions on who you'd like to see (I'd like some minor characters but major characters are also welcome)!!! Also what events do you want to happen???

For the explanation of the AU, it's very similar to the premise of the Happy Ending/Two Primes AUs. The main crew will still be the focal point of the AU, but it'll mainly deal with Megs (still D-16 because I want his Prime name to be given to him via Optimus) and his struggles with thinking that he isn't good enough to be a Prime (I'm thinking of calling it the "Other Prime AU").

For the events in the AU, that will relate to the characters that might be added. But, I am planning:

1. Senator Shockwave back!!! 2. Bee will lose his ability to talk via Starscream? (thinking of basing it off of the Starscream vs. D-16 fight where Dee jacks up Scream's voice box;;;) 2.1. Bee's health will be monitored by someone 3. Starscream defecting from the High Guard and fighting against the Autobots 4. Starscream coming back to ask for help (there's a greater evil (I'm thinking of adding Tarn and Pharma but is that too many G1 bots askdjflaksd///)) 5. Autobots and the government (the Council) will be separate factions

I want to add characters that aren't just part of the G1 continuum because while I like the idea of TFOne being an homage to G1, I want to add characters from other continuums just because there's a lot of leeway because it's a new series (possibly).

(Also because it got me back into the fandom. Perhaps it can be separated from TFOne altogether, but the designs will at least be from that side of the continuum. Also I haven't read the TFOne books so tell me if I should definitely not skip someone from there!!!)

For example I do intend to embellish Optimus's and Megatron's designs with G1/IDW references, and I intend to mix IDW characters in there since (if you know me) I really like the idea of TFOne leading into G1/IDW. But, I also intend to put Prime characters/characters with Prime-based designs (since I grew up on Prime and Rescue Bots (I'm kinda still baby tbh)), or characters from Armada and the Animated series, etc. I just would like help adding which ones (thinking about adding Prime-based Knockout (listen the concept of K.O. being a medic is incredibly interesting to me??? I'm totally not biased guys I promise--));;;

(Ratchet and Rung will be in there too!!! I want to add the other Seekers but I don't know how to incorporate them in there when Screamer's on the opposite team and I don't think the Seekers would both fight against Screamer or the Autobots/the Council)

(Maybe Bee will be monitored by K.O.??? i wanted their relationship to be more explored in Prime so this is ENTIRELY biased im no longer gonna hide it (was never hidden in the first place))

(...Also it's a MegOp AU but that's not entirely the focal point.)

(Also also I'm not that adept at making comics so I don't even know if this will be all fleshed out into one;;; but have my ideas anyway *hands this to y'all like it's a resume*)

[undertale-fic-librarby]

Featured Fic Friday!

Welcome to Featured Fic Friday! A day where I, or someone who suggests one, tell you about a fanfic that I really enjoy! Spoiler's under the cut! Today's featured fic is...

The Pathlighter by TGK Translations (Not Rated, Complete)

A translation of Его история (История 1 - Фонарщик) by Elena Troitskaya (Sariko). A note from the translator: "His Story" is actually a series of stories in nature. However, originally, all of its stories were posted as one single fic, but due to AO3's capabilities, the translated stories are separated into actual fics under the same series. The preface by the author (which was originally a separate chapter) is now available on the main page of the "His Story" series. Thank you for your attention and enjoy!

A bit of a darker fic in the beginning, this work is not for everybody! Make sure to check the tags before reading!

With that being said, I really enjoyed reading it! I can't say that the tone gets much lighter as you read through it, but that isn't to say that there aren't softer parts!

Spoilers ahead!

I love how the author goes about having Star from a different multiverse, especially since it's so different from what we normally see with this concept! Typically we read about different multiverses having minor differences or alternate personalities, but I've yet to see one that goes about describing so many interesting aspects, if that makes sense!

I love the bit with the original Error of the multiverse giving access to Star & immediately distancing himself by removing his own access. He does not want to be involved anymore! He wants to rest & won't be bothered further!

[theelf-art]

How I color manga panels: a tutorial

I'm no expert at doing recolors, I'm simply an artist who's occasionally too lazy to do my own lineart, and uses that of my favorite mangaka's so I can focus on other styles to simply have fun with my colors. I always try and choose panels or pages that are high quality, to avoid too much pixelization. Often I end up sourcing these from scanners or google images.

As far as programs, I use Krita (a free software). This all can be done with the standard brushes and tools that come with the software. But for some of the coloring, I have brushes from brush packs i like to use, as well as a few brushes I have customized myself. The main ones I use are from David Revoy, so if you want a recommendation for a great free brush pack, that's mine.

For this example I'll be using this panel from Chapter 58 of Moriarty the Patriot (I believe this would be Volume 15 of the manga) that I posted earlier here.

I'm not including the step where I crop the image, but I personally chose to remove some of the white borders that are needed for a traditional volume's page borders. Since I'm doing digital art, I don't always include them.

My next step is always to outline and fill the individual base layers. This includes the speech bubbles, each character, any independent props, the panels themselves and the backgrounds. There's no correct way to do this, but personally I use a brush to outline the object, then fill tool to well. Fill it, as well as the rectangle tool for the panels or straight lines I need to do.

For layers, I usually put all of these color base layers in a single group that's set to multiply, and change the opacity of the base panel so that I can fill the blacked out areas with a solid color easily, here you can see I was working with the base panel at 50%, but honestly i just kind of turn it down to whatever I think looks good.

The colors I use for this step are usually brightly saturated rainbow colors so it's easy to tell the different elements apart from each other. So you end up with something that ends up looking rather horrific like this:

From here, I usually create a copy of the base panel to put over the top of the colors. This way I can have transparency for the colors on some of the blacked out parts, but don't loose some of the nuance of the shading entirely. Moriarty the Patriot is a very black heavy cell style, which is the style I find the "panel above, panel below" method works best on. However as I work on the colors, I tend to toggle between having it on or off.

It's about here where I start doing my coloring. Of course this will depend on your coloring style and art habits, however personally, I like to start with the characters. I use those colored layers as the base layer I can clip my coloring layers to.

I will often turn off the layers that I'm not currently using so I don't have to deal with eyestrain, and will change the base layer to something more suitable (often a grey or light tan) so my color theory doesn't get all messed up. The bright colors in previous steps are to make sure they're visually separate. Now they've been established, I don't have to worry about that.

I don't usually label my layers, but for the sake of the tutorial I have to make it clearer which layer grouping is which.

I find in this step because of the multiply layer the colors can be a bit washed out, so I tend to either use much more saturated colors than I usually do, or switch to another layer style like Linear Burn of the overall color group to make the colors pop more. Ultimately though this comes down to personal preference. If your coloring style is very de-saturated, you might not have any problems with it. (I do suggest making your base color white, so the coloring of the base panel isn't off, you'll see in the screenshots above I forgot to when working on Sherlock. Ignore my mistake)

For the parts of the image where it's primarily blacked out (such as Sherlock's hair or coat) I don't bother shading at all, and only do the highlighting, as the black takes care of the darkest tones anyways.

During my coloring, I also add a separate grouping above everything for adding rendering and details above the panels. This includes things like the eye highlights (which I always do in pure #000000 white) and making certain parts of the heavily blacked out areas pop more.

(those refs and paint layer 13 are what I'm using to color pick off of, and keep the shading colors consistent throughout the piece. There's probably a better way to do it, but I just paste them directly into the image and then delete them at the end, paint layer 43 is a color dodge layer, and so has to be outside of the layer grouping to work)

Comparison of the art without:

And with the top details and white highlights:

It's a pretty subtle difference, but I find it's the little things that truly make the piece. Especially with the strands going over the face, they need just a bit more to make them really pop. I also just really like my fancy eyes which is hard to do without the top layer.

Insert several hours of coloring here, and about another hour just trying to figure out what gradient to use for the background, and you end up with the the base colors. From here I usually mess with overlay layers as well to get the colors to all look fancy and nice together without having to do color theory (pro tip /lh).

I forgot to grab screenshots while doing the background, but for the top panel I essentially just used the [deevad 5c screentones] brush and a transparency mask to add a screentone gradient, and totally didn't google "splatter overlay" or something like that and picked something off of google, and added some borders.

Because both the base manga panel and manga panel over the top are both not at full opacity, if there is text in the page or panel (such as this one) I like to copy the just the text part of the panel and add it as full opacity in the "colors" folder to make sure it's legible and matches up the rest of the colors.

And after all that, its basically done. I'll sometimes continue to mess around with certain aspects to make sure I like how it look, but that's essentially it. This is when I add my signature, and then it's queued to post!

[witheredoffherwitch]

I can't help but cringe when I see some people trying to push Aegon v. Aemond or Helaena v. Alys in these online spaces. Each character in the show has their own role in the storyline--and it's absurd to think they could be pitted against each other. It's just too weird.

Aegon v. Aemond isn't a thing because despite these two hating each other's guts, they fight besides each other till their last moment. Aemond fights this war in Aegon's name -- and despite him thinking his brother is nothing more than a drunken wastrel, this fool still offers this challenge to Luke by asking, "did you really think you could just fly about the realm trying to steal my brother's throne at no cost?" In F&B, the conflict is mainly panned out between Aegon v. Rhaenyra and Aemond v. Daemon. Helaena's role is much more passive all while being extremely crucial to how the Dance ultimately ends. Many are quick to point out that Lucerys' death was the catalyst that jumpstarted this whole civil war (even though in truth, it had been simmering since that Driftmark incident) but fail to notice that Halaena's end is what cements the final conclusion of the war.

I have acknowledged my hesitation in discussing Helaena-centric topics on my page because I have always felt like I understand her the least out of all the Green characters. But the way some of y'all go ahead and make assumptions about her relationships with her family -- and make up fake conflicts to justify your own crackship is truly bizzare.

I cannot even comprehend how stupid this forced competition between Helaena and Alys is. People really need to stop injecting Aemond into Helaena's storyline. Her loss, grief and trauma is separate from her brother's struggles -- and Helaena's tragic end is one of the turning points that change the tides against Rhaenyra. Infact, I suppose in this Aegon v. Rhaenyra clash (where Rhaenyra is unbashedly favoured in the show), Helaena's presence might be offered as a false positive for Team Black after the fall of King's Landing. Helaena's death comes right before the Storming of the Dragon Pit that ultimately sealed Rhaenyra's fate -- what remains to be seen is how the show is going to depict the events leading up to that point? In the book, Helaena is more or less a passive figure who is reduced to a grieving queen after the culmination of B&C. I had previously suggested that Helaena's role is going to be bigger than what was depicted in F&B - and given the fact that she has prophetic powers in the show, I assume she will be playing a much bigger role! Helaena is a seer who can see into the future -- and since the show is already exploring the 'song of ice and fire' (a la the long night), it needs to be seen how else are they going to use Helaena beyond season 1. Does she see her line ending after the Dance? Is she aware that dragons might cease to exist after the war? Does she see the eventual demise of her house? Does she see the Dance's conclusion as some sort of inevitable truth that must follow to achieve Aegon's dream?

Alys on the other hand has a completely different role all together. She is either Aemond's high-calling or his partner in chaos. Much of her story is shrouded in mystery. We don't even get a full account of how her story concluded; what happened to her and her child during Aegon III's reign. She becomes the witch queen of Harrenhal but for the next thirty years, we do not know what happened before the castle was eventually given to Lucas Lothston.

In conclusion, I will once again remind folks that each character serves a distinct purpose in this war. The common denominator between these character is unfortunately their father, Viserys -- and this story is essentially a run-down on how the prophetic king himself dooms his entire family (and eventually his house) into the path of self-destruction. For most of his life, Viserys' main aim was to ensure both stability and longevity for his line, and despite his efforts, he failed at that task quite remarkably. Each one of his kids possessed that distinct Targaryen 'trait' and yet this is a king who places his oldest daughter above the rest out of the guilt for killing his first wife. In the end, it was his choice that ultimately doomed his own house.

[writingquestionsanswered]

Hope this makes sense. In my novel I wanted to focus on the main romance, but two side character are hitting it off and it has the potential for a separate novel. How do I handle the timeline of both romances occurring roughly around the same time period if the events from one story might influence the events of the other and vice versa (I really don't want to bog things down with two stories in one novel).

Side Character Romance in Spin-Off

Here's what I would suggest...

Plot out the whole main story, including everything the side characters do and the development of their relationship.

Now, on a piece of paper, create four columns. In the first column, list all the events/moments relevant to both couples (in other words, events/moments both couples are involved in). In the second column, list all the events/moments relevant only to the main couple. In the third column, list all the events/moments relevant only to the side couple. In the fourth column, list potential "off the page" moments and events that do or could happen for the side couple, either that are hinted at or mentioned in the story.

The first column is essentially book one's plot. The second column is where most of your focus will go. The third and fourth column are essentially the second book/spin-off book's plot.

I hope that helps! :)

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Quick question— where in the novel does it say that Jekyll was a law professor? I don’t remember that in my copy—

Also SUPER sorry if my reply came off as snotty or rude, I just wanted to suggest my own theory.

this is something that is more implied than stated outright, but i think its canon

i will say, before i go further, this is what i know as someone who is not a lawyer nor a doctor and has little tangible knowledge of these fields. this is from me reading sites advising people who wanna go to law school or med school

jekyll's listed honors are MD, DCL, LLD, FRS

MD, doctor of medicine. this one he lists first. on a resume, you put first the one you really want people to know you for, the most recent thing impressive thing you've done. its what people are gonna first see, after your name. so that implies this is either 1. his main interest, or 2. his most recent interest

now. i will say. you can be an MD and not be a practicing physician. MD is a catchall medical degree, and people have specializations in this degree. i went to an old university, and our science/premed college is also the catch all school, for things that aren't law, botany, or business. as medicine and science develop into established fields of their own, like pharmacy, they split off into their own schools, but especially in the 19th century, i get the vibes that you could be a research pharmacist and get a MD because pharmacy wasn't really its own thing quite yet. our school of pharmacy wasn't split off until 1903, and jekyll was working in the 1860s-1880s

also it states in the beginning of Incident of the Letter that jekyll doesn't like anatomy, and the lab is just a lab, not a clinic. it could be a clinic, and if he were to open a clinic, that lab would be a clear choice, but its not. why would he buy or rent an entire separate clinic to be a physician in if that was his profession? no. jekyll's that joke of "is anyone here a doctor??? and utterson's like 'well, yes, but i'm a doctor of law' so you cry out 'is anyone here a *medical* doctor???' and jekyll's like 'well yes, but i'm no physician teehee. i'm a chemist'"

DCL, this is a special type of law degree that you get if you *really* want to get into the academics of law. its not a "i'm going to be an attorney" degree or a "i'm going to be a judge" degree. its a "i'm going to be the wise old professor that attorneys and judges come to because all i do is study the law. and they'll come to *me* because i was their professor"

LLD, this is a normal doctorate you get if you want to practice law, and you might get this one before you get a DCL. its more common, and practicing attorneys have this one to this day. jekyll listing this after DCL makes sense, if he really wants to highlight that he does the academia side of law, not practice it. if you have a resume, you list your most recent degree first, then go backwards in order that you earned it until you hit something that matters more than a degree. so. he probably has a masters in law of some sort, and a bach degree, but those matter less than FRS

FRS, this is someone who's done good for the world of science. you do one good thing and they let you into the special scientist club. i have no comment on this, but whatever contribution jekyll got, he doesn't consider it as important. that is to say, he wants you to think of him as a chemist, or as a scholar of the law, but his best work is yet to be revealed to the world (hyde)

and. in jekyll's confession, the last chapter, he calls himself a professor. its a few pages in, when he starts talking about why he created hyde

so. what do we get from all this? what do the clues point towards?

jekyll calls himself a professor. i think he was a professor for a while. i think he was a law professor, which his DCL degree indicates. but i think he always was somewhat interested in chemistry, just not on a "i wanna be a physician" level. i think he took a few chemistry classs in university and there met lanyon, but he was studying law with utterson

i think during his teaching days, he contributed with other research professors and was named as a contributor to a project, which made him and his colleagues FRS. but it wasn't all him, and it wasn't his thing. but he was allowed to attend meetings of the royal society

i think that around age 40, he was introduced to transcendental medicine by another fellow. and i think he wanted to go back to school to study medicine for real, specifically chemistry. if you have a doctorate's in one field, universities generally give you leniency in terms of having to complete lower requirements to get a degree in another field. so i as a person with a bachelor's degree in computer science, i'm negotiating with my college to let me get a masters in business, even though i didn't take some classes that would normally be taken at the bachelor level of a business degree. its not unheard of, and i think jekyll could say "hey, can i just sit in on a lecture or two and write a thesis and you give me a doctorate in medicine to justify my medical research" and the university, which he may very well have been working for, would probably work with him on that

it even matches with the way he writes his confession. he doesn't mention medicine at all until he says "i got old and realized i was living a double life and things were sad... and then i found transcendental medicine". he says he was tired of the life of an academic, but not what profession that was

so. is it a headcanon? yes. but i have enough textual evidence that i dare you to find enough textual evidence to prove otherwise

[discord-lurking]

Dungeons and Daddies Wiki Drama: A Greek Tragedy Told through the Medium of Forum Posts (Part 4)

Epilogue/Exodus

Phaethon loses control of the chariot's reins.

As of the writing of this post, the wiki forums have stayed largely inactive.

December 22nd, 2023:

However, the wiki itself has been going through many changes in the days since starting this series, most notably the deletion of all character and location pages.

Yes, you read that correctly: the Dungeons and Daddies wiki will no longer be allowing pages about characters or locations featured in the show.

A quick look at the "All Pages" section of the wiki:

Only 37 wiki pages remain, all of which are separate pages for each episode of season 1 (and not even all of the episodes- many episodes past episode 33 are simply missing).

If you try to search for a specific character, such as main season 1 character Darryl Wilson:

The only results are pages of episodes where Darryl is featured (which, as a main character in season 1, is all of them).

This is a baffling decision for wiki moderators to make in good faith. It renders the wiki entirely useless, as fans now have to comb through individual episode pages for simple information on characters or locations. Why on earth would they make this change with no announcement?

The simplest explanation is that these people (or singular person) are not acting on good faith.

Taking a look at the wiki policy & wiki forum rules is also enlightening:

Wiki policy as of screenshotting earlier this week, then an addendum for the new rules related to character pages, lagging, and location pages, as of December 22nd, 2023.

These rules are... long, to say the least.

Notably, the second paragraph on the page reads as follows:

"Also, every rule must be taken seriously and if you think this is a joke that is your fault, and if you got blocked because you broke a rule that's your fault because you broke it. Don't try to get out of this, you have to follow the rules."

Again, odd speech patterns and a focus on wiki justice. I'm sensing the work of TwoRatner afoot.

I believe this part was added after penguinwithatophat's question in the forums about whether the rules were serious. The new moderators seem very concerned with being taken seriously and instituting absolute rule over the wiki.

Some rules of interest to me:

"Don't gossip about drama or cause drama."

I've already failed on that count. It appears I might find myself banned from the Dungeons and Daddies Season 1 Wiki.

Tragic.

"Malware, viruses, fetishes, and any links of that variety or any evil lowlife site link will not be allowed to prosper."

The Four Horsemen of wiki moderating: malware, viruses, fetishes, and any links of that variety/any evil lowlife site link.

"You can have alternate accounts, but you should tell everyone it's an alt before using."

"You can not sockpuppet. If you are found sockpuppeting, especially to evade a block, then that account will be blocked indefinitely. You will have a message sent to your main account stating what you did wrong and that you should not do it again."

"Meatpuppetry is semi-allowed, because some blocked users have good requests to give to others. Anyone who doesn't want to change and did severe rule-breaks shouldn't be trusted so you shouldn't add edits on their request, but a user that wants to change can ask a friend to edit for them."

"Don't sockpuppet, ever, especially to evade bans."

Four (4!) separate mentions of sockpuppeting/meatpuppeting in the wiki policy.

"Don't abuse your power. You shouldn't break global polices on FANDOM or attack users just for annoying you. Ask polite questions, or give stern warnings, but don't exact harm or make people feel unsafe by being here."

Seems that this rule for admins is more of a suggestion than a law.

Then the forum-specific guidelines (which are also, unsurprisingly, long).

"Be nice and treat people with respect. Keep discussions civil and be open-minded about differing opinions. Don't do other dads dirty. We need this to be a safe and welcoming place."

Again, a rule that seems to be more of a suggestion than a law for the new admin team.

"Don't use sockpuppets to add more votes to yourself or make yourself look good. Just don't use multiple accounts for bad reasons."

"Sockpuppets posting will have their posts removed; no exceptions."

"Alts posting is fine, but remember to state that it's an alt."

"To elaborate, sockpuppets (alt accounts for evading blocks or sabotaging polls) in general are outlawed, and you should never make any."

Again, another four (4!!!) separate mentions of sockpuppeting/alts. They seem very deeply concerned about this potential issue. It's truly unthinkable that someone might take over the forums with multiple accounts, pretend to be more than one person, and use these accounts just to agree with themselves.

Right?

I tried to pick out more favorite rules, but then I realized I was just repeating the entirety of the screenshots. If you're skimming this, I highly recommend pausing to read the entirety of the forum guidelines. They're funnier than I could ever attempt to be.

Now, screenshots of some mod accounts of note.

Dramatis Personae (screenshots taken December 19-22nd, 2023):

Gaycowboyrats, former administrator of the wiki.

Honic Washington, (allegedly) former administrator. The link on their page leads to a Reddit acount, which has seemingly been deleted/banned, as mentioned in their forum posts:

Then some of the main culprits of the new admin team:

TwoRatner, whose account has seemingly been taken over by MitchRiot(er(er)) and been replaced by TwoMarshall. Another reference to account breaches, possibly perpetuated by the mysterious MitchRiot figure.

The link on the TwoRatner page leads to a user account under the same name on the Jonah Who wiki.

Brazil86, controversial new admin figure and someone who self-avowedly "serves to live."

Then other assorted current & former mods:

As mentioned by Tumblr user spaceyam, Nicoh Watonshing sure sounds similar to Honic Washington.

(I hadn't noticed this at all until I saw it pointed out in the notes but now it seems incredibly obvious, thank you!!)

The link on TheOneTrueGod41's page also leads to the Jonah Who wiki, but this time to the main page, not a user page.

On Marth8204's page, the link goes to the main page of the Funbob wiki.

As for NicohWatonshing's page link, it leads to a user page for the same name on the Luke Nukem wiki.

Interesting.

It seems that if these are all separate people, they have a history of being editors on niche wikis.

Then, I became curious about the Season 2 wiki.

What was this all for? Why the rush to split the wikis? What was so important about the season 2 pages that they had to be kept separate from season 1?

Right.

Thank you to everyone for reading and getting involved in this series! There may be more posts happening if things continue to develop, so stay tuned if you're interested. There also may be a new fan wiki effort underway, keep an eye out for that!

[razzle-dazzle-stage]

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Razzle & Dazzle Centric page for these lovely conjoined mask characters Razzle: *Says something* Dazzle: *Also says something interesting in response* & Glisten centric fic, because I'm Rocking with glisten centric one-shots since I haven't found any <3 [This is the character I feel more fine with mirrorshipping Lol] KEEP READING if intrested, you can dm me or send and asks <3

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Here Are Some Suggestion, to get your mind rolling {1}

─── ⋆⋅ ♰ ⋅⋆ ─── Gothic Victorian Au with similar elements to Shadow House & Bendy: Iqour manipulation controled by demons, running through tunnels of an ol dungeon. The Razzle Dazzles are singbirds, Vees is probably assumed as a psychic and used like tellytubby as cameras. They were created for entertainment but the 'demon?' wants them back, Razzle'n'Dazzles Where Specifical made for the opera stage and plays. Mask are more horned shaped, but if you want i can describe patterns, or other attire of clothing, also are the still more simplafied because even one of human is still not going to have pants since their considerd like a bear plushie and dont need it, like winnie the poo. ─── ⋆⋅ ♰ ⋅⋆ ───

 ∩_∩      ─♡  („• ֊ •„) |￣U U￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| |                 ˗ˏˋ ꒰ ♡ ꒱ ˎˊ˗                  | ￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ Im ok with mirrorshipping, i just dont know how thats going to work lol. But twisted Razzle-Dazzle as your chosen wish for requests has my respect, along with them interacting with toon Razzle and Dazzle. Just specify wether they turned twisted, ir an outcome of well, who knows!─•

Yeah you can have character interactions, shipping is gray because i think astro is one people would ship them with. idk havnt put much thought, i think Roger was one with Dazzle. ─•

X Readers are fin, polyamoury? i aint sure of any storys of twins- or conjoined twins being both into polymary.  ─•

Not intrested in romance with the handler, or caretaker. ─•

I'm fine with using different pronouns even if their canon was a boy, i don't mind, what else to do but project gender. HC of gender identity and ig their sexuality is alright as a mini character descriptor. ─•

I'm happy with writing these siblings as conjoined, but I headcanon any separation gives them both separation anxiety, like if you forcefully did surgery on the twisted Razzle and Dazzle and put them in separate rooms that will be havoc! and... nicely angsty, but other than that sure. ─•

𐙚⭑𓂃What I am not writing𓂃⭑𐙚 Human Versions Incest Pedophilia Bestiality Romanticised Abuse Rape 𓂃𓂃𓂃𓂃𓂃𓂃𓂃𓂃𓂃𓂃𓂃

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Remember 200 is the most i will write, itll be really short. I cant wait to have my fun, as i plan out my longer fic of Razzle And Dazzle

-ˋˏ ༻❁༺ ˎˊ- Game terms I didn't learn when maining RnD I thought RnD was a snack bar, Gl was girls live than good luck from the dead, Gte Being GTA than Get to Elavator.

𝑹𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑷𝒂𝒈𝒆𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒄𝒖𝒕𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒊𝒍𝒔, 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒂𝒛𝒛𝒍𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌s 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒕𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅  ♡ 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒆𝒃𝒃𝒍𝒆 ?!

[zahri-melitor]

Newish Comics:

Batman: the Brave and the Bold #13: God I so want to enjoy the Nightwing and Deadman story (because Dick and Boston hanging out, given their shared backgrounds, is exactly my jam) but unfortunately this is written by Tim Seeley and while there's stuff in it I quite enjoyed it still had the problem where it was full of Seeleyness. You don't need to repeat that Dick is a carny, a traveller, a circus kid so many times, Seeley. We got your point. (Also why are you travelling on a goods train, presumably without paying for the tickets? Is this inherently important to either of you? Dick has a fortune right now and Boston's fine with spending other people's money especially if they're rich or crooks).

The Booster Gold and the Jurassic League story hmmm feels too invested in how outsiders see Booster, rather than Michael's personal competence. Not that that's unusual for a Booster story but it's disappointing. Mark Russell, given your other work I was expecting a slightly defter hand with this, but it's only the opening part of the story.

The Artemis story remains so good. That's all I have to say.

The Bruce and Guy Gardner story has interestingly stylised art (I can tell some people are going to instantly hate it) but I had to laugh at the goofy ears Bruce has on his helmet. Commitment to the aesthetic! (Also lol Roswell and Grey Aliens)

The Perpwalk: oh look it's commentary on killing Joker and why that's bad. It feels very pop psychology.

The Flash #9: I mostly loved this. Wally's continuing to lose it, Jai's still getting the main plot out of twins (which is a nice change as the balance was definitely over on Irey's side during Adams), Barry is also having a breakdown (but different), Hartley gets a quality win, and we are confirmed to be on round two of time travelling Wade (seriously Wade has appeared on more pages, aged up, than he has as a baby so far).

The Wally and Dick stuff is just really...you know how Wally's connection to the Titans saved Donna? And the Titans connection to Wally saved him? And now Dick's helping anchor Wally even as he's trying to drop all of his connections? Ugh it's so good, Dick Grayson will not give up on his best friends.

The bit which really made me sigh was that finally, we got confirmation that Linda has post-partum depression (which has been obvious the last 9 issues), and...it's been aggravated by the Rogues. Deliberately. Ugh. Which is exhausting, but the panels suggested that it was actually based on Linda having existing problems (which made perfect sense, given that among other things, she'd just been sharing the Speed Force with Wade until she lost the connection when he was born. Of COURSE her neurotransmitters and hormones were even more out of whack than your average person after giving birth). But then when Hartley removed the influence from Linda, she suddenly perks up in an 'all fixed!' manner, as if that was all that was needed. And I really really hope it wasn't that simple. (Like, even if you give me a panel when this storyline ends that has Linda telling Wally she's seeing a counselor).

I would, actually, like the comic to have a little bit of a discussion of PPD, rather than just fix it magically via supervillain nonsense ending. Because Linda has lots of basis to have developed it. And she's just had to hand over her baby to stay safe in another crisis situation. It just makes so much sense and could lead to some more interesting storytelling and I just want it to be acknowledged as a real issue, not 'waves wand, all better'.

Green Arrow #12: the hugs edition.

Look. For a story arc that's premise was 'let's get all of the associated Arrow characters out of the various separate ruts (or editorial jail) that they've been in and reunite them on page', with a framing story for why everyone's wheels have been spinning and going nowhere for anywhere up to the last 14 years? It achieved that. It also got almost everyone into a costume that didn't make my eyes burn and am happy having as their default design for a while (Cissie I'm so sorry, yours is not great).

It set everything up for a continuing run and I'm glad that it has been signed off as a continuing and due to Williamson being heavy handed with allowing Waller nonsense in this plot it's going to run through Absolute Power and presumably be able to pick up with some actual ordinary Green Arrow plots.

I just want Williamson to pick up the pace a bit, and give us some one shots and three issue stories once we get back from Absolute Power to justify pulling this huge cast together by using them as more than set dressing for Ollie having a midlife crisis realisation.

The Warlord #54: Travis has a minor breakdown because Ashiya is using the form of his dead wife, Rachel, then realises he's being duped.

Shakira pushes Tara out of danger, proving that despite everything, they don't actually hate each other.

Jennifer is now a super powerful witch who has outpaced Ashiya's teachings and they have a cool sorcery battle:

And we finish off with Travis heading back to Shamballah with Tara and Jennifer staying in the castle to learn more magic (after defeating Ashiya).

[two-gays-in-a-trenchcoat]

an update from osa

wow….. it’s really been two years…… kind of crazy…..

in all honesty, i’m not quite sure what happened with this blog. ramones and i became seniors in high school, and then we graduated and all the while we were trying to figure out how to be functioning independent adults. while, of course, battling our individual social and familial struggles.

ramones and i jumped into this blog ready to dedicate all of our creative energy towards it. we had ambitions, and at first we were really on top of it, but then slowly life began getting in the way. this page became long forgotten in the wake of real life.

(you’ll be glad to know that even though ramones and i are in college and i relocated halfway across the country, we are still besties <3)

i do want to offer apologies for everyone that really interacted with this blog. i’m sorry we left, i really am.

that being said, i think i am ready to start opening this blog back up!

i am far from any of the fandoms i’d originally started with, but nonetheless, i still like to write. moving forward, my side of the blog will look something like this:

- my current fandoms are: dungeon meshi, honkai star rail, baldur’s gate 3, blue lock, haikyuu. i’m mostly writing for dunmesh though (i am down bad for laios)

- commissions will be available upon requests, but not guaranteed.

- requests for fics and drabbles will not be taken, but i am still open for suggestions, imagines, and conversation :)

- if i specifically promised you a piece or commission, please reach out to me. i really feel bad about going off the radar (especially commissions!! please please reach out and i can offer a full refund or a new piece)

i have moved to two personal blogs separate from this one! one is a lot of nsfw and me being a freakazoid on main (minors dni) and the other will be sfw and where i’ll probably start publishing my sfw pieces :)

@osalotte (nsfw main)

@osa-lottery (sfw side) (coming soon! i just put it up so i can’t actually tag it yet…)

while i will be opening and checking this blog sometimes, the best way to reach me directly is at one of these accounts :)

anyways, if you made it this far, thank you for taking some time out of your day to read this.

i hope to hear from you soon :)