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I would kill it as a sociologist but instead I just analyze fictional characters on the internet

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I run @leslegendairestranslation and I would absolutely love it if you checked it out!

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✦ I use any pronouns. I’m an adult. I speak English, French, Italian, and some German and Yiddish.

✦ This is a sideblog for my original posts.

✦ These days I’m mostly into Invincible, Naruto, Star Wars, and Les Légendaires, but this blog is victim to my whims (read: brainrot).

✦ Please send me asks, I love to talk and I have many thoughts on everything all the time. (Though I may be slow at responding! I want to make sure everything gets a good response, and sometimes that takes time.)

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Invincible (Cartoon 2021), Invincible (Image Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Monster Girl | Amanda/Robot | Rudy Conners, Amanda/Zall Zaxal Characters: Monster Girl | Amanda, Robot | Rudy Conners, Zall Zaxal Additional Tags: Character Study, Flaxan Arc, Vignette, Introspection, Missing Scene, (sorta) - Freeform, Unreliable Narrator, Canon Compliant, Angst, Bittersweet, Bisexuality, (an incredibly pertinent tag), ft. rex and amanda’s various war crimes looming in the distance, putting a flashing neon sign over robot’s head that says, “every action he takes that says he’s changed means he’s actually the same as he always was and that is worse”, Invincible (Image Comics) Spoilers Summary:

He always thought he could keep things from her, if he so chose. Eventually, he would be proven right. Up until then, however, she’d thought it impossible, and he had indulged her.

And wasn’t that just the crux of it.

She knew what she was getting into from the beginning. He was smarter than her, and that had never hurt her pride. Because she always knew more than him. Somewhere, in the midst of seven hundred years, that had very neatly been ironed out, and she hadn’t noticed.

She had never been bothered that he was smarter than her, because it was just another rule of the world. It would be like being bothered by gravity following its rules. Up was up, down was down, and Rudy Connors was the smartest man probably on the planet.

The worst part was, she was fairly certain he’d never grown an ego. He just knew exactly what he could do. And he did it.

OR: Amanda, Rex, and the Flaxan dimension.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Invincible (Cartoon 2021), Invincible (Image Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Monster Girl | Amanda/Robot | Rudy Conners, Amanda/Zall Zaxal Characters: Monster Girl | Amanda, Robot | Rudy Conners, Zall Zaxal Additional Tags: Character Study, Flaxan Arc, Vignette, Introspection, Missing Scene, (sorta) - Freeform, Unreliable Narrator, Canon Compliant, Angst, Bittersweet, Bisexuality, (an incredibly pertinent tag), ft. rex and amanda’s various war crimes looming in the distance, putting a flashing neon sign over robot’s head that says, “every action he takes that says he’s changed means he’s actually the same as he always was and that is worse”, Invincible (Image Comics) Spoilers Summary:

He always thought he could keep things from her, if he so chose. Eventually, he would be proven right. Up until then, however, she’d thought it impossible, and he had indulged her.

And wasn’t that just the crux of it.

She knew what she was getting into from the beginning. He was smarter than her, and that had never hurt her pride. Because she always knew more than him. Somewhere, in the midst of seven hundred years, that had very neatly been ironed out, and she hadn’t noticed.

She had never been bothered that he was smarter than her, because it was just another rule of the world. It would be like being bothered by gravity following its rules. Up was up, down was down, and Rudy Connors was the smartest man probably on the planet.

The worst part was, she was fairly certain he’d never grown an ego. He just knew exactly what he could do. And he did it.

OR: Amanda, Rex, and the Flaxan dimension.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Invincible (Cartoon 2021), Invincible (Image Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Monster Girl | Amanda/Robot | Rudy Conners, Amanda/Zall Zaxal Characters: Monster Girl | Amanda, Robot | Rudy Conners, Zall Zaxal Additional Tags: Character Study, Flaxan Arc, Vignette, Introspection, Missing Scene, (sorta) - Freeform, Unreliable Narrator, Canon Compliant, Angst, Bittersweet, Bisexuality, (an incredibly pertinent tag), ft. rex and amanda's various war crimes looming in the distance, putting a flashing neon sign over robot's head that says, "every action he takes that says he's changed means he's actually the same as he always was and that is worse", Invincible (Image Comics) Spoilers Summary:

He always thought he could keep things from her, if he so chose. Eventually, he would be proven right. Up until then, however, she'd thought it impossible, and he had indulged her.

And wasn't that just the crux of it.

She knew what she was getting into from the beginning. He was smarter than her, and that had never hurt her pride. Because she always knew more than him. Somewhere, in the midst of seven hundred years, that had very neatly been ironed out, and she hadn't noticed.

She had never been bothered that he was smarter than her, because it was just another rule of the world. It would be like being bothered by gravity following its rules. Up was up, down was down, and Rudy Connors was the smartest man probably on the planet.

The worst part was, she was fairly certain he'd never grown an ego. He just knew exactly what he could do. And he did it.

OR: Amanda, Rex, and the Flaxan dimension.

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If Thrawn and Tarkin would have interacted more do you think they would've liked one another or do you think they would've started getting weird about it. Do you think they would've started playing homoerotic cat and mouse games we can't even conceptualize. Do you think- [I am forcibly dragged off stage]

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Genuinely obsessed with these tags @machetespaghetti

Tarkin has to be deeply gay and fucked up about all of his relationships. Meanwhile Thrawn is able to hyperanalyze literally anything BUT relationships.

Tarkin is flirting. Thrawn is just getting Enrichment Time. Everyone's happy. Immovable force vs unstoppable object

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Happy pride month to what could've been (Jadina/Saryn)

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A very key component to understanding Robot Invincible is that you gotta have a red flashing neon sign over his head that says "EVERY ACTION HE TAKES THAT SAYS HE'S CHANGED MEANS HE'S IN FACT THE SAME AS HE ALWAYS WAS AND THAT IS WORSE"

He does not change actually. And that is the problem!

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A very key component to understanding Robot Invincible is that you gotta have a red flashing neon sign over his head that says "EVERY ACTION HE TAKES THAT SAYS HE'S CHANGED MEANS HE'S IN FACT THE SAME AS HE ALWAYS WAS AND THAT IS WORSE"

He does not change actually. And that is the problem!

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Thoughts on the new Origines volume:

the friendship between Ténébris and Dasyatis is actually really cute. I like that they really seem to care for each other

Miraga is fucked up I love her

That said her calling herself Ténébris' mom is insane

What is Esméralda DOING. What is she scheming. What is KALANDRE scheming

Love Shimy getting to be so badass in this vol

Can Ténébris have a break. Like

She makes me sad she has literally no one on her side :(

Shimy it's so over

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🤗✅🧠(for Gryf if that's possible) for the fanfic writer emoji ask ??

🤗 What advice would you give to new fanfic writers that are just getting started?

None of this is unique to fanfic, but my writing advice is:

Read more and read everything. Novels, nonfiction, fanfiction, comics, poetry, classics, contemporary, genre, etc. Expand your horizons. There's no faster way to find inspiration.

In a similar vein, when you like something, figure out why. Dissect it, copy it, save it for later. Figure out how you can do something similar, and then figure out if it works for you.

Start new things even if you won't finish them. You can always come back to it later, and getting started is the hardest part.

Try to find some friends to write with, or at least show your work to. Peer pressure is a powerful thing and getting feedback on your progress is really nice.

You can take it as serious or as not as you want. There's no rules. Try things on and see how they fit.

✅ What's something that appears in your fics over and over and over again, even if you don't mean to?

Man. Probably the grief. It's only intentional like half the time and otherwise it just sneaks in there. I write a lot of character studies and there's little that affects people more than that.

🧠 Pick a character, and I'll tell you my favorite headcanon for them.

Alysian languages are real to me and Jaguarien linguistics especially considering its isolation. I think Gryf still has a Jaguarien accent even if he doesn't remember speaking the language. For the flavor. And the angst potential

[leslegendairestranslation]

The Legendaries: Volume 4: The Awakening of the Kréa-Kaos is starting this week!

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Fanfic Writer Emoji Ask

😅 What's a story or scene you've created that you're a smidge embarrassed exists?

🥺 Is there a certain type of moment or common interaction between your characters that never fails to put you in your feels?

🤡 What's a line, scene, or exchange you've written that made you laugh?

😈 Has there been a point in a story where you did something just to be playfully mean to your readers?

✍ Do you have a beta reader?

🛒 What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.

🎢 Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?

✨ Give you and your writing a compliment. Go on now. You know you deserve it. 😉

💋 First kiss fics. Love em or hate em?

🎶 Do you listen to music while you write? What song have you been playing on loop lately?

🛠What tools/programs/apps do you use to write?

⛔ Do you have a fic you started, but scrapped?

🙋‍♀️ Do any irl people know you write fanfic?

🍦 What's the sweetest fic you've created so far?

🍷 Do you drink and write?

🍆 Do you write the spicy stuffs? If so, what's your most popular nsfw fic?

🌞 Do you have a preferred time of day to write?

💖 What made you start writing?

💌 How do you feel about comments and feedback?

❌ What's a trope you will never write?

💲 Would you ever open commissions?

🧐 Do you spend much time researching for your stories?

🏆 What's your most popular fic?

🎃 Do you write fics for certain holidays? Which is your favorite holiday inspired fic?

🎯 Have any of your readers accurately guessed major plot points? Care to share which?

🎨 How do you feel about fan art of your stories?

📈 How many fics do you have?

🦅 Do you outline fics or fly by the seat of your pants?

👀 Tell me about an up and coming wip please!

🤗 What advice would you give to new fanfic writers that are just getting started?

💞 Who's your comfort character?

🧠 Pick a character, and I'll tell you my favorite headcanon for them.

🤩 Who is your favorite character to write?

🤲 Would you please share a snippet of a wip?

😬 Which of your fics would you be most horrified for friends, family, or coworkers to stumble upon?

🎉 What leads you to consider a fic a success?

✅ What's something that appears in your fics over and over and over again, even if you don't mean to?

📚 Would you ever want to turn writing into a career?

⌛ How long does it take you to write a fic, or a chapter?

🤯 What's a genre you struggle with as a writer (ex. romance, action, etc.)?

💔 Is there a fic of yours that broke your heart?

💥 How do you feel about criticism?

🤭 Do you have a favorite tag to use when posting your works?

🥰 How do you feel about reader interaction? Are you open to receiving questions about your fics?

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Guys I miss Paul already

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People have GOT to start getting more normal about disabled characters I swear to g-d

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I'm actually going to go insane about Bulletproof like what the fuck do you mean. What do you mean he was comitting identity theft the entire series. What do you mean he was kidnapped and experimented on by his twin brother and it accidentally killed him in the process. What do you mean he's living a double life as said brother the entire series. What do you mean he's lying to his parents' faces because he knows they loved his brother more and pretending to be him is the only way he'll get the love he wants. What do you mean he thinks he's doing them a favor by not telling them his twin was a bad person. What do you mean he and his girlfriend accidentally kill them and then throw their bodies off a cliff. What do you mean he sides with the dictator. What do you mean nothing is done with any of this because he's a minor character

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Thragg calling them family hurts me. You might hate every other member of your species but there are less than fifty of you and you know them because how couldn't you. You're all each other has. Or not.

Like. Man. Situation in which if you don't partake in the violence you will be culled at every single turn. Situation in which if you don't make everyone else scared of you you will be killed. Situation in which you don't know how to interact in anything more than violence. Situation in which violence has quite literally been bred into you through the generations. Situation in which you can't express the slightest doubt because you will be hunted down. Situation in which you will spend the rest of your life trying to be stronger but it will never be enough. Situation in which every single other species in the universe is terrified of you and hates you. Yeah.

And I think about those who were alive for the purge. They partook in that culling and they have spent the time since defending their right to have survived it. You are not tolerated by a single person in this universe and you know that intimately. You know and hate every person in your Empire on an individual level and they are still your family. You will never have anything but violence in your thousands of years of life because you will be killed if you try. You will spend your life trying to turn away from the reality that you are continuing a ruined empire that you hate. You will finally meet a viltrumite who is more than that and you will try to kill him at every turn because he's proof that maybe you could have been different

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Someday I'll actually write that fic where Itachi's plan to brainwash Sasuke into complacency to protect him actually works