axolotl on the loose

Ey-yo, Ax here! I write fic and yell a lot in the tags. I cycle through a bunch of fandoms at any given time, but I am currently stuck in a pit of FE3H and FE Engage.  Find me on AO3 as ax100! Nice to meet you! (avatar by 8cake)

[kyotoprotocols]

[mafuwara]

A present worth of royalty

This took me way too long but it's done now so I can finally share Strohl being two seconds away from devouring Will 😌

[ghostwriterofthemachine]

not to make posts that are going to get me anon hate, but I am fucking begging people to stop calling fictional characters "minors." can we please go back to talking about fictional characters as children or teenagers. please.

[ghostwriterofthemachine]

first of all, "minor" is a word that has a meaning and that meaning isn't necessarily "children in the general sense." it is in fact a really specific legal term. it is a status that grants a group of vulnerable people protection by the law. so, as fake people who don't exist and therefore have zero protections by law, a fictional character cannot be a minor. a fictional character is fictional.

Also, in the sense of those real-world protection laws, sure, it makes sense to group together newborns through 18-year-olds. but doing so is genuinely completely fucking useless when talking about a narrative. "This is a story where the main character is a minor!!!!" you could be talking about Bluey you could be talking about The Catcher In The Rye you could be talking about Yellow Jackets. I don't know how else to express that story about a 7-year-old, a story about a 12-year-old, and a story about a 17-year-old are are, structurally, completely different things despite all being about "minors," and how grouping them together makes no sense. it's reductive at best and destructive at worse. Imagining sitting down and being like "oh yeah, let's look for a story about minors to recommend to minors" and you hand children's picture book No, David! to a high school senior.

what bullshit scare tactic language. "yikes, you're shipping minors" and the ship is two 17-year-olds who the narrative treats as active parts of the story who make their own decisions and have their own desires. when did we all agree to start talking like this and can we stop. just fucking tell me if a character is a child or a teenager.

[zed-sabre]

i'm only a few minutes late for his birthday but it's ok i'm on the west coast

[frederickchiltonsdivacup]

Insane writing techniques that help me every time

writing

writing my words

thinking of words and writing them on paper

putting words on paper

putting them out there, words and all

typing on the keys and everything

filling up the document & shit

writing

Hope this helps !!!

[aromiekimart]

Happy birthday to this king~ Based on whichever calendar he'd be about...couple hundreds years old today wooooo

[rabbitscreams]

we need to invent a way to explain how deep running and pervasive and subliminal racism and antiblackness is without immediately sounding like an insane conspiracy theorist

[rabbitscreams]

female characters are always lighter than male characters. strong characters are almost always dark. aggressive characters are almost always dark. peaceful and intelligent characters are almost always light. even amongst darker characters the lightest one is usually either the leader or the girls. dark is evil and light is good.

[rabbitscreams]

if you try to explain this to a white person they look at you like youre insane

[gay-milton-quotes]

briefly pursuing a career in animation radicalized me on this. So many stories from the industry about how you have to start with your character design as dark as possible, because INEVITABLY you'll get "notes" from higher-ups asking you to make them lighter.

In a class about making a pitch bible my teacher once role-played as a shitty executive with a classmate, pressing them in intentionally abrasive ways about why they made their characters diverse. He emphasized that we had to learn to defend these things, because the racism in the industry is extremely deliberate.

[vforvalensa]

Ronald Wimberly's comic essay, Lighten Up, stays evergreen

[angelicguy]

me and the boys have a couple of chains wrapped around the sword in the stone hooked up to mikes toyota tundra gonna pull that fucker out like a tooth.

[seaweed-station]

Me and the boys misunderstood the arcane nature of the stone and now the Toyota is king of England

[doggirlpaws]

I read that capsaicin makes your mouth feel like it's burning because it increases your nerve sensitivity to heat, and menthol works by doing the same thing to cold

So if I eat a habanero pepper and then chew a bunch of breath mints they'll each other out and I'll be fine

[doggirlpaws]

Hey guess what hellfire tastes like

[nudibranchparty]

Fun fact! The nerve endings for "ouch too hot" and "ouch too cold" are different! Which means that they can both be activated at once, without cancelling out. Rip OP.

[justme-inmyownworld]

Alright, time to upload this masterpiece. I’ve been waiting!

Happy birthday, my beloved King Dimitri 🦁💙

May the light and happiness always shine on you and stay with you. No darkness could hide nor take you, or your kindness away.

Artist: @Lidijun189 (on Twitter. They’re insanely good, pls check them out!)

[batsandboba]

(opening the author’s works page after finishing a fic) and if im lucky they’ll have written this exact same fic but different a bunch more times

[vieryplus]

HBD to my king🎂🎂🎂

[ax100]

No one told me that A Restless Truth would basically be Ace Attorney Investigations but on a boat instead of a plane 😂

[ghouls-on-film]

[anaphoraholic]

hot take: if you're not developed enough to know that there's a difference between having a crush on an unrealistic-looking cartoon character that's younger than you and being an actual pedophile, you shouldn't be on the internet

[ancestral-steppe]

❅ a very merry almost christmas ❅

[genomurlocs]

I think Goro and Ken should meet