seeing stars but losing time

i heart Triple Threat primary fandom(s): THSC and AVA co-writer and editor of Forever Lost Together. ao3: faeinthewoods

[fae-in-the-woods]

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Hey! I'm Fae/Faetal or Kai, your local aroace writer and lover of sticks (terminal). I write shortfics turned long.

Longtime lurker finally making an account. i will make ANYTHING aromantic and asexual and that's a threat

Current fandoms: THSC, AvA

Other fandoms: TMBD, Project Hail Mary, HK/SS, Hermitcraft/Life series, Ace Attorney, Pokemon, D&D, Deltarune (extremely multifandom).

ao3: faeinthewoods (cowriter Day's ao3: daydreaming_fics)

Tags, AUs, and fics are listed below!

Primary AUs (summaries incoming)

THSC:

Primary ships/pairings: Triple Threat (platonic/secret third thing), background Copperright (romantic)

Anomaly Prequels

After the Triple Threat ending, Henry expects to finally live his happily ever after. However, Ellie, Charles, Reginald, and RHM begin to remember their past lives in the resets. Now Henry must contend with the betrayed and vengeful Toppat leaders while helping his partners with their newfound memories. Includes storylines like Ellie's Family Reunion.

Culminates in a final fight between TT and the Toppat chieftains, where Charles is brought to the brink of death, Ellie is nearly glitched from the world, and Henry is forced to make a terrible choice about the future of his timeline.

From there, this story branches into either Anomaly or Retold.

Anomaly

At the end of the prequels, Henry takes Charles to Dr. V, and he is healed and given cybernetics. In another fight, Henry is glitched and opens a portal to a new universe. TT and the Toppat chieftains are thrown into a new world filled with magic, chaos, and a new organization strangely obsessed with pursuing Henry's younger self.

Retold

Henry wakes up in a new timeline where he is already the chieftain of the Toppats. Henry must hide the fact that he is not this world's Henry while searching for his missing partners. (Don't tell the other AUs, but this one is my favorite!)

Forever Lost Together

Do you like time travelers, multiversal intrigue, worldbuilding, and weird third thing relationships? Do you want a four-part longfic focused on the lasting bonds between TT? Do you want the CCC to cause problems, new factions, and a descent into madness? Then I've got the fic for you! READ IT HERE!

AvA:

Primary ships/pairings: Grapeduo (romantic/secret third thing), Vicagentsi (Victim + Mitsi romantic, Agent is their aromantic third), CG + Orange (platonic, with some intersecting things)

Feylost

Avian AU

Lights, Camera, Action!

ColorCorp

Fics to Check Out:

AvA: Skirting Around the Issue

My trans and aro Chosen agenda. Check it out if you love toxic chodark and the healing power of friendship and acceptance!

Life Series: Stolen Valor

My entry in Day's Demigods universe. Contains Martyn suffering, Treebark, and extreme amounts of murder.

AvA: I'd Like to Make Myself Believe

Orange experiences the eldritch horrors of being a stick figure. Alan-centric. Lots of fluff at the end!

OC Stories

Regarding the Disappearance of Dr. Petrichor

Summary: A small town mystery where a woman searches for her missing roommate. Features weird laboratories in the woods, unethical experiments, devoted friendships, and women! Lots of women!

Primary characters: Jackson Geosmin, Levi Rockefeller, Scott Soleano, Jessie Petrichor, Heather Shrike

common tags: #story: rtdodp, #oc: jackson, #oc: dr petrichor, #oc: scott, #oc: levi, #oc: levi, #oc: dr shrike

The Sea Forest

Summary: After being thrown off the End of the World, a man wakes up in a mysterious, ever-growing forest inhabited by strange new creatures and untouched by the warring factions above. Features talking animals, gay men, and healing from the many traumas caused by war.

Primary characters: Damien, Dapplethorn, Freya, Kamiya, Icarus

common tags: #story: the sea forest, #oc: damien, #oc: dapplethorn

The Bureau of Supernatural, Arcane, and Occult Happenings

Summary: Less of a story and more of a world. The Bureau is a multiversal organization that handles strange, eldritch, or otherwise anomalous events across as many worlds as possible. The primary story follows grizzled 1920's-esque dragonborn detective Cavalier as she attempts to make something out of her chaotic life.

Primary characters: Cavalier Dupin, Steve, Alarick, Rava, Oakleaf

common tags: #story: the bureau, #oc: cavalier

Kai's Ascension

Summary: Taking place in Day's D&D world Qridius, my D&D character, dragonborn wizard Kai, and Day's character, his elven cleric bestie Azlea, search for the means to ascend to godhood. Features bad people becoming worse, copious amounts of murder, and the unbreakable friendship of two people who match each other's freak.

Primary characters: Kai Ramkennd, Azlea Calienthe

common tags: #world: qridius, #story: kai's ascension, #oc: kai

Finding Sanctuary

Summary: Based on a dream I had, where I was a lone hunter carrying a comatose princess across a continent to reach an undefined sanctuary. There were no names, only titles.

Primary characters: the hunter, the princess, the scholar, the apothecary, the soldier, the champion

common tags: #story: finding sanctuary, #oc: the hunter, #oc: the princess

Skywatchers

Summary: Based on another dream. A zombie apocalypse hits where the undead float up into the sky and hang suspended in the air, and then at random intervals drop back to the earth to spread the plague. The world returned to some semblance of normalcy, but the looming threat of the undead lingers. Skywatchers, commonly college kids hired to gather on rooftops and watch the sky for any Fallers, remain the first line of defense against the hovering plague.

Primary characters: none

common tags: #story: skywatchers

Taglist:

my posts/replies/generally me talking: #faetalks (for my cowriter: #daytalks)

my fics: #faefic

my cowriter's fics: #dayfic

fanart for mine or day's fics: #faefanart / #dayfanart

fanart for Day's fic series FLT: #flt fanart

my platonic murderbot and mensah tag: #m&mb; my platonic art and murderbot tag: art&mb

fandom tags: #thsc, #ava, #tmbd, #silksong, assorted character tags

if i ever end up posting about my AUs here, it will be formatted as such: #[fandom] au: [au name], and for characters: #[au name]: [character name]. for example, #thsc au: retold and #retold: henry

if i ever post about ocs, it'll be formatted as such: #story: [story name] and #oc: [character name]. for example, #story: rtdodp #oc: jackson, or #story: the sea forest #oc: dapplethorn

things about aromantic/asexual stuff: #aro, #ace, #aroace

[skybristle]

circa 2017

[whiskermania]

More propaganda for Chosen

[sturionic]

"Learn the fundamentals first" seems like really sound universal advice, and as a former classical musician, I can vouch for it. You will have a more solid foundation for increasing complexity if you put in the time to study in a structured way. If you don't, you'll have a lot of shit to fix later.

As a former music teacher, I can also say that "learn the fundamentals first" is the death knell for a vast percentage of beginners, especially adult learners.

I've run into this with drawing several times, where some well-meaning artist has lectured me on needing to study anatomy properly or not use shortcuts like CSP brushes. And oh, believe me, I know. I know exactly how to learn an artistic discipline in a structured way. I just...don't want to!

The thing is, I'm not aiming to be a professional artist. I want to draw my gay little anime guys. I would undoubtedly improve at art much faster if I approached every gay little anime guy drawing as a study exercise. But I would also have quit drawing a decade ago if I couldn't just let myself enjoy drawing imperfect fucked-up little guys with whatever shortcuts I needed to body myself across the finish line.

With my adult piano students, my approach was always "What's your goal?" If their goal was to learn exactly one Elton John songbook to play at parties, then...that's what we did. We'd put tape on the keys to label the notes, and just fuckin go for it. Learning exactly one Elton John songbook is a good and noble musical goal, full stop.

Some of my students needed and enjoyed a more structured approach to learning; if they wanted to be able to play classical music, then yes, scales were going to have to enter the equation at some point. And yet others would learn the Elton John songbook, catch their white whale, and realize they wanted to explore more of the ocean. The scales were still there for them to learn!

Often the choice isn't between "learn art well" and "learn art imperfectly" - the choice is between "learn art imperfectly" and "don't do art at all." To which I say, learn imperfectly! Or, what the hell, don't 'learn' art. Just do, and enjoy the doing of it.

You have official permission from your local pretentious classical music snob: fuck the fundamentals. You can always unfuck them later (but only if you want to).

[vonlipvig]

i'm actually curious, what trinkets do you guys have on your keychains? 🗝️

[capribornio]

Link

[toruandmidori]

[astrrrx]

painting practice based off of this music video!

[loveridden1999]

[browniefox]

We don’t talk enough about how fanfiction writers love to give character large amounts of non-specific paperwork they hate doing

[streamofsalmon]

say more pls

[browniefox]

Yeah sure why not.

So most stories take place when Events are Happening, and this means that no matter what kind of job the characters have, they’re probably not too focused on them. Fanfics, on the other hand, often show the down time. Which means that the writer has to figure out what the hell these characters do in their jobs. Unless the characters have a job the author understands or knows well, the author is often at a loss for what to have the character doing.

So they sit them at a desk and give them paperwork. What is the paperwork for? Rarely specified. It is Paper Work for the characters Important Adult Job they have and they need to read or sign it or something. And there’s always a line about how Character Hates Paperwork. Doesn’t matter if Character is a Mafia Boss or a General or a Diplomat, here they are in an office trying to get out of Doing Paperwork.

There’s also a sense of, like, humor and mundanity that comes with it. Like the examples above, it always particularly stands out to me when a dangerous individual is griping about some paper they need to sign or something. The less you can picture Character doing paperwork, all the better to force it upon them. If Character is saddled with Paperwork, they’re usually now concerned about the physical damages their motley crew causes, because damage = More Paperwork.

Anyway I just think it’s fun or funny, Sephiroth doing paper work and Sawada Tsunayoshi doing paper work and this just in, Tony Stark is doing paperwork. Sorry, Phoenix Wright can’t play right now. Yeah, it’s paperwork.

[elumish]

A very non-exhaustive list of actual paperwork they could be completing/reviewing/approving, in no particular order:

Timesheets

Expense reports

Requisition requests

Budget justifications

Payroll

Performance evaluations

Incident reports

After action reviews / post-mortem analyses

Incident Action Plans

Contracts

Contract proposals / grant applications

Reports / briefings

[redwingedwhump]

Your Royalty or Nobles in your feudal society should be doing this constantly unless you want to show how they're losing the kingdom and about to be usurped or overthrown.

petitions, speech-writing, complaints, requests, assignations, disputes, judiciary forms, declarations that need signing off on, matters requiring the Royal seal, matters requiring a royal endorsement, pardons, judgments, invitations, rebuttals, census data, crop yields projected or actual, livestock records, water rights, Sumptuary laws, taxes taxes taxes...

[val-ritz]

solid point there!

even when the royalty look like they're just fucking off to have fun, they're doing Socially Mandated Fuck-Off and Have Fun Time

Tournaments? Gotta show you're manly and virile through sport, or the nobles will supplant you. Feasts? Gotta show you're wealthy through conspicuous consumption, or the nobles will supplant you. Patronizing the arts? Gotta show you're cultured and erudite, or the nobles will laugh at you behind your back and probably supplant you.

[delicatefury]

Lawyer here. Here’s some more mundane/modern ones for you:

Invoices.

Intake sheets (information about new clients. The one for my firm is 13 pages and requires an hour long meeting. Then you have to do something with the info gathered)

Data entry for invoices and intake sheets.

Billing. (More involved than timesheets because you’re justifying to clients why you’re getting paid so much).

Form letters.

Taxes. Including 1099s for any contracted work.

Bank statements/accounting spreadsheets. Gotta track how expenses are trending.

Insurance documents.

General messages. Lots of office still use a paper system for missed calls and “important” stuff because it just works better than emails and chats for some people.

Memos. Big enough office to have at least one attorney on payroll? You’re getting memos about every legal question and concern and contract. It’s how we’re trained to communicate in formal settings.

[letslipthehounds]

And if you want to get into modern military, the forms are numbered, and people will refer to them by either their actual name, or the number. (Have you filled out the 4187 for this? Yes, I filled out the personnel action form.)

The military has so many forms.

[leebrontide]

If you want to add a rage level, there’s the Regular Paperwork and then the special hell of Fuckup Paperwork.

Cause there’s the invoice, and the follow up invoice and the we are about to have a problem follow-up invoice.

There’s the incident report and then the I swear I yelled at that worker about this don’t be mad at me if they do it again second warning documentation

The requisition form and the it has been six months now get me the fucking thing or you’re gonna hear from Cindy escalations form.

Paperwork has layers and protocols and backups.

[dancing-thru-clouds]

For law firms, there's also the 'I am asking nicely for you to send me this legally mandated document' and then the follow-up 'My please was a social nicety, I am no longer asking, I am telling you to send me this document or explain to a court why you refuse to do so' which, depending on the type of law, can fill a significant amount of the day

[103chara]

Would it be okay if I could ask for some art of dave ? =D

Here you go, Dave Panpa trying to say Hi

Bonus of pos Multiverse Correction colors

Also, the pose and all are a refernece to my Digimon AU (more specifically Chapter 2: Prison and glitches.) Where Dave hasn't gotten his pos Multiverse Correction colors yet, since the Henry from the AU only obtained some endings before all of the reality mixing w Digimon happens.

Hope you like it and See ya next post folks 🫶🫶🫶 (and don't mind my AU rambling)

[aromanticaardvark]

[image description: image of an Aardvark with grey, yellow and white in the background. Text says “Parents say they just want you to be happy and get married” at the top and “Oxymoron” at the bottom.]

[heartless-aro]

Here’s an old aro meme from 2011, which was before the rise of the “Ace Discourse” around 2015 (which may have started out as backlash in response to The Trevor Project deciding to include asexual people around that time). This meme format uses an aardvark to represent aromantic people. At the time, axolotls were often used in similar memes to represent asexuals, so the aromantic aardvark was chosen as the aromantic equivalent of the asexual axolotl. Aardvarks were considered to be somewhat of a mascot for the aromantic community for some time, though they have become less popular as a symbol in recent years.

[nillthirteen]

This reads like a museum guide showing one of the most prestigious pieces in an exhibit

[valyducky]

Más agent ohziiiii B-)

More agent oooh yeaaah B-)

[copepods]

down, down, down

[flyrulez]

Love me, Normally

I would like to make this look cooler but i dont really know how to edit stuff like that or animate yet so here’s a video with the song synced up at least

[syn4k]

[talking about my favorite characters] okay so THESE two come in a bonded pair and if i think about them too hard i start taking poison damage

[notquiteaghost]

i cannot be the first person to post this here but i am going so fucking insane about the gaia music collective's one day choir singing wait for me. the opening harmonies are you KIDDING me