[mercutao]

hi, i'm tao. i do art and write fic. in my sxf era❕my art can be reposted with credit ❕

art tag. fave pieces so far fic + fic ideas tag gif tag

i also made a tumblr choose your own adventure game loosely based on the doggy crisis arc

[mercutao]

Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Marcello Mastroianni in La Notte (1961) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni

[thinkingisadangerouspastime]

red bikini

T | Oneshot | 5k | BeckyAnya ft. Pool Party | Takes place after the events of ‘cause i’m for real (i can’t help myself, it’s the way i feel).

Even through the chlorine, Anya’s lips still taste of sugar, and Becky is grateful this is the sweet taste of victory she was promised. (Or: Becky throws a pool party to celebrate graduation. With the end of one Eden, she finds, comes the discovery of a new—better—paradise.)

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[mercutao]

4, 14, 41 for the ask game! (- thinkingisadangerouspastime)

@thinkingisadangerouspastime hiii the ask game

4. Where do you find inspiration for new ideas?

Other TV, games, music, myths etc. And then I come to your dms, start yapping, and bam!

Honestly talking to people is 50% of it.

Then some ideas are alone thinking type of ideas, but chances are they Will end up in your dms. lol. (Now where to find the inspiration to commit to ideas -> I don't. It either gets posted or lives in the notes app for the next 1-5 years.)

14. how do you write emotional scenes? Do you ever feel what the characters feel? Do you draw from personal experiences?

Lots of adjectives and hoping for the best. I try to channel the emotions In the moment, and thats the rough draft. Then I delete half of that as it is usually redundant and not hitting well, and go on from there.

I love picking up the things fellow fic-writers do, be it vocab or the devices they use.

The personal experience is trickier, I find it is helpful with practical matters — would be cool if I knew how to do cool spy shit so it would be easier to desrcibe, but when it comes to emotions, i believe that the imagination ✨

41. Do you tend to reread fics or are you a one-and-done kind of person?

I am a "play-it-on-repeat" type of tao :3. I'll be reading it while am writing, when it is posted and whenever the fancy strikes me. And considering the things am writing most of the time it truly is write what you want to read.

[carterrdraws]

mel for a secret santa gift 💛🎁

[fat-models]

Luz by juliperesphoto

[janeaustensgirlfriend]

Anya and Donovan in the Greatest Battle of the Telly-Paths in the History of The World just reading each other's minds like

[tilloooo]

Im the no1 sxf fan

[coffinvows]

“I have been in love with no one, and never shall,” she whispered, “unless it should be with you.”

[ahdriking]

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[countrymint]

Jeeves observing the Desmond family having the tiniest normal interaction thanks to him:

[mercutao]

[fat-models]

louangemwajuma

[11thfempachi]

Girls just wanna have fun

[killjoygem]

Pre bed doodle that I got rather carried away with

I once wrote a bunch of random scenes for an au where Nightfall discovers Yor first, this is vaguely based on that

[fat-models]

Akona Adichol for Vogue Italia February 2022

[real-language-facts]

white boy BAFFLES aliens by ordering in perfect gloobxax