al-spudnik ha risposto al tuo post “Yeah I know but man have you ever considered, a queerplatonic...”
That is sorta what I attempted in “A Pretty Taste For Paradox,” though obviously with femshep the queer aspect of it is diminished. Even playing it relatively “heteronormative” I tried (am trying) to maintain a truly aromantic asexual intimacy between them, because the idea of a rarely portrayed platonic relationship with a male OR female Shep was too intriguing to pass up!
INFACT A Pretty Taste For Paradox is that ONE FIC I always return to when, like, I need to regain that sweet sweet nectar of life to keep going on in dire times - I might have been rereading some chapters some hours ago, but I’m definitely not one to push for more ...;D
I general I think you did? Like, exactly what i was meaning <3<3 The “queer” in queerplatonic is not intended for, how can I say, “lgtbq”, but it is there for its original meaning of “odd, peculiar etc.”Anyone of any orientation can be in one :3 . Queerplatonic is a term of the asexual community to specify a relationship that is more than friendship and intense as a romantic one, but it is not based on sex and attraction, and the romantic feeling can be present for intensity, but not in the traditional sense of romance and courtship (I don’t know if this makes sense). To simplify it, life partners, cosmic companions, zucchinis. I don’t know if this is what you had in mind, but I just have to say I LOVE your work xD
All the people I ship romantically with this character:
I don’t! I’ll be honest.
My non-romantic OTP for this character:
I have this vague idea him and Samara had interesting late night chats on the SR-2. I have no idea where this comes from, they never interact in the game. But I like to think they have talks in passing.
My unpopular opinion about this character:
He was shit at amateur dramatics, and he really didn’t fuck Aria.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:
Nothing. His arc was beautiful, and one of the saddest moments in the games.
More words for the WIP Guessing Game: fire, scar, memory
you have a filthy mind, fred.
Fire: Between her legs was a fire: Garrus was its source and center.
Scar: He wasn’t made of glass; he had been through far worse than this, had the scars on his face to prove it.
Memory: If she curled up and slept, she’d go back into the ground; she’d disappear until one day even her ghost was nothing but a memory, and maybe that’s all she was ever meant to be.
As a drunk Minnesotan, I'm high-key jealous of your solo mango chowdown. Mangos are like... a special kind of good. 11/10 unusually sensual perfect juicy soft fruit experience.
I am spiritually sending you mangoes and including you in this feast because the best things in life only become better when shared with friends 💛💛💛
al-spudnik replied to your post “I saw the tags you left for my Turian art history shenanigans, and I...”
I feel approx. 10% dumber after reading this. Some amazing meta right here.
al-spudnik replied to your post “I saw the tags you left for my Turian art history shenanigans, and I...”
(I mean dumber by comparison, NOT because this meta is dumb. AH CRAP. Can't even comment correctly oh GODDD hahah)
Lol! Thank you! I really wish the games would’ve given us a bigger glimpse of art in the Mass Effect universe than just a stroll through a Bond villain’s vault of ill-gotten pieces. But they didn’t, so that means we get to make it up for ourselves :D
(main blog of ThunderheadFred here) - How has TAW been going for you? How far along are you? Have you done it before? Okay I admit this a whole slew of random prodding questions all rolled up into inquisitive sushi (also, hello!) but what I'm getting at is simple: what's your experience with the program, and are you having success with it at the moment? P.S. I have a bunch of your fics bookmarked and cannot WAIT to read them omg.
(Disclaimer: The Artist’s Way isn’t for everyone. It really worked for me. I basically always tell people to skim the intro and first chapter in a bookstore before committing, to see if the language resonates. No shame if it doesn’t.)
I am always SUPER happy to talk about this stuff, actually, whether I’m actively doing The Artist’s Way at the moment or not. Right now I’m -- actually, I should be in like, week four but I got sidelined, so I am practicing kindness with myself and saying, “Hey, it’s okay. How about you go back a couple weeks and make sure the ground under your feet is sturdy?”
So, really, I’m probably in week 2. Not beating myself up about following the strict timeline is actually a huge progressive step for me! And that’s good! Learning about myself! Yay!
I’ve done TAW... two and a half times. The first half-time is my cautionary tale for anyone embarking on the program. TAW asks you to dig pretty deep, and look at some pretty sad/upsetting/angering things in your past. To make it a medical metaphor: this is the illness. The tasks and the morning pages and the artist dates are the medicine. It’s like when you get antibiotics and they always say YOU HAVE TO TAKE THEM ALL, even when you start to feel better? You have to take the medicine. Even if it tastes bad. Even if it’s boring. Taking the medicine’s what’ll get results. The first time, I lingered way too long in all the illness stuff and made myself way sicker.
A few years later, I decided to try again, and this time I really committed to the whole thing. It was life-changing for me. Really. I wrote two separate 100K books (that I’m now thinking of going back to revise and make something of) in a year and a bit? Which I totally credit to TAW giving me the tools I needed to get back into writing stuff that meant something to me and that I wanted to write instead of desperately beating horses that were so, so dead.
The last time I did TAW was... back in early 2014? I was living in Abu Dhabi at the time, feeling totally adrift and awful mentally, physically and creatively, and although that time through the program wasn’t quite as great as the time before, I credit it as being a tourniquet that sort of held me over until we moved away.
This time, I’m doing it at the same time as my mom, so we can talk with each other about our progress. This is actually a good program to talk out with people (that you trust and that support you!) because it’s amazing how talking about things can really open your eyes and make you see connections you mightn’t have put together before. It’s REALLY great to have friends doing TAW because you end up having the same vocabulary, the same grammar. If I say, “Dude, my artist child’s pissed at me” or “my inner critic/Censor/etc is blurting like crazy” it’s helpful not to have to explain the terms or their relevance or whatever.
I will say this, though: morning pages are my everything. I think I’ve got about 15-20 notebooks going back to about 2010 at this point? With a few earlier scattered attempts. There are periods in there where I didn’t write for a couple of months, and I can always tell; morning pages are brain tonic for me. I love them.
SO ANYWAY. Come talk to me about TAW any time! (And hello!) ((And also: aww, shucks. Basically all my stories are about the same Shepard and Garrus; there’s a chronological listing on my sidebar. Y’know, if you want to make sure you’re reading things in order! <3))
