ChangelingWrites

The writing blog for CharmingChangeling on ao3 Fandoms: Six of Crows, Arcane, Sanders Sides he/him

[changelingwrites]

@ghostkittypog

Listening to that Run Rabbit song by Mollie Elizabeth while brainstorming the next chapter (pacing in my kitchen) for keep the wolves away and it immediately reminded me of you and your love of my omega Patton

(Unfortunately he is Not the focus of this intermission and I need to put this one in Inspiration Deep Freeze instead of playing it on loop while thinking about The Implications)

[uh-e-rinnie]

he loves it

thank you @coolskeleton80085 :]

[jackabbot]

i know i say this often but i cannot say it loud enough: people who comment on fics, people who reblog posts and engage with fanworks are the people who generate community and without them fandom would be nowhere, so truly thank you for your presence, you make the world go 'round <3

[daily-analoceitmus]

Remus putting a bright pink bow in Logan's hair: Do you or do you not feel bonita?

Logan, deadpan: ... I feel bonita.

Remus: WONDERFUL! Because you LOOK bonita!

💚💙

[rathayibacter]

you spill dr pepper on the concrete and a single perfect rose pushes up out of a crack

[butter-and-too-much-bread]

I know a lot of people don't like the idea of Wylan moving into his childhood home, but as someone who had a very difficult relationship with my own parents I can't deny the appeal of taking my abuser's house and going "my castle now."

[oliviaaa1717]

yes i will always associate “how bad can i be?” from the lorax with six of crows there’s no stopping me.

[changelingwrites]

I have a gravity falls royalty au fic from I think last year(?) still floating around in my elipsis and....

okay listen.

Its not good. This was definitely written when I was unendingly pacing my hotel room in ireland with a horrendous fever and listening to "its gonna get weird" on repeat. The writing is bad.

But the Concept.

The concept is So Fun.

I may have to rant about it later.

[agnesmontague]

you can kinda tell when a writer has spent a lot of time around kids bc they avoid most of the pitfalls that come with writing children. namely, not giving them a too cutesy or twee voice but making them sound more like extremely weird little adults. kids playing pretend will almost never cutely slot into some romantic scenario for the adults' benefit bc the adults are usually too busy cleaning up or wondering what the fuck is wrong with their child. kids also have surprisingly stringent hangups ranging from very petty grievances to downright chauvinist gender roles, more often than not the result of a tragic education but sometimes far surpassing what they were taught in intensity. what im saying is there's nothing inherently wrong with treating fictional kids as stock characters but it's always quite nice to see when they aren't

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

It's extremely common for very young children to suddenly say something extremely cogent and articulate, that's jarringly inconsistent with their normal speech. This is usually something that they heard an adult say recently. A kid will spend ten minutes telling you a story about how they fought a wolf yesterday using simple sentences of fifty cent words, then nibble a snack, wrinkle their nose and say something like "I feel like Mum was overenthusiastic with the salt today, and not for the first time either" before going back to their clumsy story. (They do understand what they're saying when they do this. Kids' communication is usually held back by their vocabulary and pronunciation, not their understanding.)

Young kids are also a lot more socially aware than people give them credit for. Young children are perfectly aware that adults don't take them seriously. They know when their parents don't actually like them. They listen and remember when adults talk about them while they're in the room. Kids will develop basic abilities to charm etc. from babyhood and will begin experimenting with social norms and concepts of deception, appropriate information, and acceptable language and attitudes in toddlerhood. By the time a kid is five or six, they have solid social strategies for relating to adults and separate ones fr relating to their peers, that they'll continue to refine for the rest of their lives. They will also say completely off the wall shit because they don't have the context to know what is and isn't considered super fucked up yet.

By the time a kid is eight or nine, their main difference from adults is in experience, interests, and ability for long-term focus. An eight year old can think as intelligently and coherently as a thirty year old, they just have less experience and information to draw from, and are likely interested in very different things. They're also likely still slightly hamstrung by vocabulary and literacy, though much less so than a younger kid.

Teens will behave like adults who have little power (a teen is often at the mercy of their parents and the state and rarely taken seriously, which is extremely frustrating) and who are high stress and mid-crisis, because they're going through a transitory period where their bodies and moods are changing and are having to constantly learn and adjust; a fourteen year old in a stable situation will act pretty much like a thirty year old with an oppressive boss who's just left a tumultuous relationship.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#oh is *that* why i feel 14 again after my fiance broke things off with me and i had to move halfway across the continent back in with my ma?

Yeah that's just what humans feel and act like when they're unmoored and powerless and unpredictably changing. Teenagers are pretty much constantly unmoored and powerless and unpredictably changing, and react reasonably to those circumstances.

[ursavorpalis]

when your friends are all nerdy, neurodivergent, and kinky: bd&dsm

[reptilian-rapscallion]

In which Janus has one (1) weakness

[cryptidstealingyourcreditcard]

i like to imagine the crows as pack bonded but like to a concerning extent like you separate them and they start uncontrollably vibrating and scratching at the walls and shit

[bobinnyy]

what goes on in kaz's mind to casually plan the idea that he swallows and vomits back up chloropellets and lockpicks every hour (to prevent them from being digested) in the ice court

[polycrowtruther]

honestly? probs just:

Four million kruge. Four. million. kruge. foUr mILlion kRuGe. Thats four with six zeroes. I could buy out the Dregs - hell, I could buy out the Dime Lions - I COULD ENACT MY PLANS with that kind of money holy sweet Ghezen's coin purse I could start to rip those bricks out from under Pekka and watch him tumble to his filthy fucking knees, I could make the world burn with four million kruge, I could do it with two and keep the rest for whenever I inevitably will need to invest it

"But what about the cost? What about the price?" Inej will probably ask.

Mmm, is four million kruge worth fucking up my esophagus with bile? Is four million kruge worth tearing up my stomach lining with metal?

Mmmm..... yes, yes it is.

[ashthenerd]

Jesper (incredulously) : "Are you going to help?"

Kaz: Throws his cane up and catches it with the tiniest smirk

Jesper: "Oh, that's real convient for you, isn't it"

Kaz: Smirks and tries not to laugh while Jesper sulks and walks off

[bibiwatchesteevee]

im so yaoi pilled that in soc when matthias presses kaz against the door while covering his mouth i genuinely thought they should have kissed a little afterwards

[polycrowtruther]

Im so glad I'm not the only one who thought this

[nightmare-masquerade]

STINKY DIRTY BOY

[romantruther]

i think he partially hates it cus he looks SO much like roman when hes cleaned up

[valeriacrosly]

I saw a tik tok of a girl doing the we’re all in this together dance from high school musical, and the caption was ‘trying to cheer up my friend who hates physical touch’, and it was the most Jesper and Kaz thing I’ve ever seen