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Writing stories about my beloved characters (sims)
rules: List five things you never get tired of writing. It can be tropes, themes, characters, phrases, whatever brings you joy. Then tag five people!
Whump, obviously. The actual impact of injuries, but also fainting, the weakness, ooooh I love that.
"However" (and every beta always erases a lot of my however's). Sorry, I feel I just write that a lot.
"How peculiar". I like to sprinkle that in from time to time. I swear I never used peculiar before I heard a certain Sabaton song. Because in the History Version of "The Future of Warfare" (see below), the narrator says "How peculiar" and I instantly fell in love with the phrase. Yeah, I'm strange.
Clueless Geralt. Oh, how I love to depict that man as a total idiot in the matters of love.
Modern AU. I'm such a sucker for witcher characters in contemporary surroundings. I love how you can play with things while trying to keep the basics – like, my Regis is always somehow in the medical field, Emyhr is usually the owner of a corporate empire, Geralt loves animals and/or has a military background and so on. I just love to write AND to read that stuff.
Soooo. I bet everybody has been tagged already. I'm gonna randomly pick five people, no pressure, and if you read this and want to play, pleeeeease go ahead! @witch-and-her-witcher, @jawanaka, @resident-lambert-hoe, @highfunctioningflailgirl, @humbae.
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Thank you, renfree!
Five things that make me happy:
⛾ Large mugs! large mugs hold large amounts of tea, so less trips to the kitchen.
I am going to be silly and ask for your top 5 Su She Ships. (I assume number 1 will be SuYao)
....you assume correctly
1. su she/jin guangyao
I was in no way prepared for the amount that this pairing Came For Me. I mean, I really should have been, considering on how many different elements and tropey things i love are embodied in both characters & their relationship in just the tiny bit we get to see--and then there’s so much offscreen to think about--but yeah, this pairing just Gets Me in the best way.
without like. writing a whole ship manifesto, I love it both as a ship and because it functions as Wanting Nice Things for both characters? like I want sms to have someone who recognizes his strengths and appreciates him, and I want jgy to have someone who’s wholeheartedly on his side and cares for him with the same devoted intensity that he tends to care for other people. suyao fulfills both those things!
2. lan xichen/jin guangyao/su she
to poorly quote a post i half remember and can’t recall where i saw it (source originally @madtomedgar) it’s time for lan xichen to get pulled into an ill-advised throuple with someone he hates as karma for the 3zun thing
in all seriousness, i love the potential of this trio. xiyao and suyao are both Good Ships already and the sms-lxc dynamic is potentially fascinating--not quite enough to get them a solo spot on the list, but still great. there’s the fact that in cql especially, sms is one of the only people lxc just... does not like, which i find delightful because half of my desires re: fic are ‘make lxc confront having negative emotions’; especially since it has that element ‘if I don’t like him, but jgy does, what does that mean’ etc. sms, on the other hand, has a whole tangled mess of emotions in regard to lxc. there’s the ‘head of the sect that i got kicked out of/left’ thing, the ‘official boyfriend of the person I care for more than anything’ thing, ‘foremost example of perfect cultivator manhood that i’m continually being reminded i fail at’ thing (the ‘guy i was desperately in love with as a teenager and eventually realized he barely knew i existed’ thing...)
literally i’ve tried to write this a dozen times and each time it gets too long lol i just have a lot of excited feelings about this ship
3. xue yang/su she
this is more of a vitriolic broship, but I have to count it just due to how much it delights me. interactions between these two keep sneaking into unrelated fics I write because they’re just so fun to play off each other; xy fucking with sms until sms finally gets enough nerve to fuck with him right back (which gives xy a solid minute of going ‘i have experienced a. workplace harassment??? i just feel so attacked right now??’ before he settles down) and the two of them absolutely embodying the dynamic where two characters are definitely smarter on their own but somehow reduce to having 1 brain cell when you put them together
(spinoff movie that’s just xy and sms in a ‘what the fuck did we do last night’ style comedy when)
4&5: I have no more like. Actual Ships with him, tbh. I know people ship him & lan wangji but like. even if I think sms had a crush on him at one point (like. i’m pretty sure you were assigned a crush on him by default if you were a teen in the gusu lan at the same time as him) unlike lxc which has a lot more nuance to it, lwj and sms just. seem to straight up hate each other, and not in a particularly sexy way. probably the closest I’ve come to the ship is thinking idly about how murdering jin zixun could conceivably be played as proxymurder of lwj, especially with the donghua’s slightly more delightfully unhinged sms; so honorable mention I suppose, and maybe I’ll come around to it more in the future?
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Well hello, @basmathgirl. After all these years you know a lot about me but let’s see what I can come up with.
1. You know I’ve lost my breasts and hair to cancer, but guess what? I don’t miss either of them. No bras! No unfortunate nipple protrusion on a chilly day! No sweaty redness under them on a hot day. No conditioning, hair dryers, flat irons or styling rods! No dying my roots.
2. The place I visited that I have loved most, and feel a strong attachment to -- is Egypt. My heart is there, definitely. I could go back a thousand times.
3. I was a real beach bum when I was younger. The crashing waves, riding the surf, and sailboarding. The smell of the sea. The sea food! We used to have dune buggy races on the sandy beach over at the lake, unbeknownst to our parents.
4. David Bowie was and is my first and always Great Love. I know you know that, but I had to say it. I’m hinting around the family for Peter Frampton’s memoir as a Christmas present, as he tells about when they were school chums playing music together during recess.
5. In my dotage I have developed a thing for Jude Law’s voice. I mean, yes he’s attractive -- but his voice is suddenly doing things to me.