So..... my sister got me into cod. My best friend subsequently got me further into cod. In my defense, I am but a humble queer transmasc and all these guys are so pretty and lovable. (My sister doesn't have an excuse bc she's a lesbian.(that statement is meant to be a lighthearted joke) Soo..... I drew my lads. Might draw the others(Soap, Gaz and Price) but my brain itched for the masks. Also- I've been speeking in a weird mashup British but mostly manchester accent for almost a week and I blame both my autism and Ghost.
So..... my sister got me into cod. My best friend subsequently got me further into cod. In my defense, I am but a humbke queer transmasc and all these guys are so pretty and lovable. (My sister doesn't have an excuse bc she's a lesbian.) Soo..... I drew my lads. Might draw the others(Soap, Gaz and Price) but my brain itched for the masks. Also- I've been speeking in a weird mashup British but mostly manchester accent for almost a week and I blame both my autism and Ghost.
I love how easy it is to see that my parents were interpreters when you look at how I engage in media. I find so much joy in the languages people make up. Currently writing down every known meaning of words in every language in TES and then also taking it further by looking at which of them are compound and thus what the original words are. I am having so much fun. (Also, this is great for wordbuilding in future fics, especially when considering that these languages are just not all that fleshed out)
I just genuinely love learning these funky little languages and wish that they were more complete so that I could speak them like Trekkies speak Klingon and lotr fans speak Sindarin
Unexpected benefits of my current Hiatus on my Taliesin fic:
I am able to plan stories better since I took a fantasy writing course and for a lot of the exercises, I worked on Massacre and Taliesin because they're constantly in my head.
I have a better plot that has more conflict and am a bit more certain of what to do with the middle of the story.
I also am doing research right now for another fic( this one will be for the teldryn lovers(me)) and will now be able to include more lore and stuff in my Taliesin fic (Sidenote: I should really come up with a name for it instead of just calling it "my Taliesin Fic)
In general, I'm happy that it's on hiatus because I'm revisiting a lot of my planning and will end up with a better result in the end.
If you're someone working on things, please do not feel bad about taking a hiatus from certain projects. It may take you years before you go back to the project, but when you do, you'll have years of experience more than you did if you'd gritted your teeth and gung-ho'd through it.
Hey, so I've decided to just keep this as a pinned post until I update the old one/make a new one.
Hi, I'm arson and I sometimes make, draw, and write things. I also reblog things here.
My requests are technically open and I have one request that I haven't forgotten about and plan to finish at some point, but writing just isn't fully where my brain is at the moment and this is a hobby for me, not a job. I'm still working on fics that I have spoken about and am passively thinking about them, but the best way to describe their state at the moment is that they are meads that I am fermenting and they are also things I am lettibg simmer in the back of my head like soup. I occasionally start oneshots aswell, but none have been posted yet since I've realised I dislike posting things concretely until they're done because of the possibility that I'll abandon them/change them completely. I'm slowly getting better in regards to being creative, as you might see from my recent(and hopefully continuing) influx of original fanart posts, but I have been struggling to write and be creative in general for a while due to dysphoria being yucky and my disabilities making it hard to think/be productive sometimes.
I try to keep a pretty accurate tagging practice, but I've been here a while and need to sit down at some point and do a backlog of editing posts' tags to my system. If you are looking for/would appreciate a tag index, it'll be under the cut. The cut is here for blog accessibility. I will update this post to be accurate as time continues
Currently, if you're looking for an original post of mine, this is the category I especially want to look back on and change the tags of. So apologies that this is a bit hard to source at the moment.
From now on, I want to start tagging my posts this way so that you can differentiate between when I posted something I made/did vs when I reblog something from someone:
_My creative stuff/own posts_
#original post - used to group together all of my original posts, including: talking about things that wouldn't fully fit within my arsontastic rambles tag, text posts that aren't writing, writing, any jokes/memes I post, and my art!
#arsontastic original - used to just generally make all of my creative posts easy to find. For general original posts, the previous tag is used. This tag is specifically for my fandom-centered original posts where I show off things I made/wrote/etc
#arsontastic writing - Generally all of my writing content. If you are looking for my fics and headcanons, etc, this is where you'll be able to find them
#arsontastic fanart -all of my artistic, non-writing, content. This is a bit more general than the writing tag. You'll be able to find things like traditional and digital fanart I've done and also any other artistic stuff I've done!!
#arsontastic ocs - not currently a tag, but I've realised I want to add a tag where you can find info/ posts about my ocs. (For eg. Massacre) without having to look at their individual tags.
_Important Blog Navigation_
This post has made me realise I also don't have a tag for blog updates/talk, which is something that I would like to be easily found, so I'll start adding this one:
#blog updates and Shenanigans
Up until recently, I've only had one tag for everything I reblog and then fandom tags, but I've realised that that kind of prevented me from reblogging as much as I want to because I would be worried about something or another relating to it, so I'm going to, from now on, try to reblog with the following tags:
I do have a tag that I use for when I'm talking about things, which this post also has:
#arsontastic rambles -this is used to indicate my rambles/posts about varying things. ( For eg. I don't remember if the post has the tag, but I want to add it to it; my post where I talk about how I love fictional up languages and you can tell my parents are interpreters by how I engage with fandom. This is evident from my currently being worked on on and off elder scrolls language index
I'd also like to add tag for all of my own, and other people's resources for various things.
#useful resources is what it'll be for now, but it might change/gain section in the future
_Reblogs_
#reblog - still will be used for all reblogs, mostly for ease of movement
#reblogging other people's art - as the name suggests, this is the tag that I use to differentiate between textposts, memes, and other reblogs vs art/fanart reblogs(including writing) this tag is subject to change.
I'm debating whether or not to add a small index of fandom tags, so if that is something people would like, I'll add it.
Here are my oc-specific tags. I've only really talked about Massacre on here so far, but there are more and they will gain tags when I do talk about them. (I am putting tags here for characters that have names already and stories but I haven't talked about yet, too): (worth noting: almost all of my characters are trans, and all of my mcs are)
_Original Character section_
#Skyrim oc -for grouping together all of my skyrim characters
#Massacre the Last Dragonborn -Massacre's tag. Although I am considering also just tagging them as Massacre gro-shub aswell. Anyway, important info: Urag gro-shub's kid and is also a skyrim oc, paired with Taliesin, nonbinary, a sucker for kids even if they do dislike/not trust most people. They/them
#Lorne the Dragonborn -Lorne's (who is currently being developed but I have basic ideas and notes for her story already.)'s tag. Important info: is an oc for a skyrim fic, is a follower/ chosen of Lorkhan, trans, straight, paired with Teldryn Sero, and is technically an isekai! She/her
#Stardew Valley oc - not used yet but will be the grouping tag for all of my stardew ocs
#Grass the Farmer - Grass's tag. Haven't really talked about him at all yet. Important info: stardew valley farmer oc, is for a crossover fic, paired with Eskel from the witcher, unhinged (tm), trans, mlm, and is on year 6 with the average of 2 hearts with villagers. He/they
There are two other characters that will have tags at some point, but I don't really know how to phrase their tags yet so I'll just tell you about them here: Wiryar- my silmarillion oc. They're paired with Maglor and their story is meant to touch a lot on how religion can be used for bigotry and the original generation of elves/elf culture wasn't a fun time to be different in their version of middle-earth Their name is the verb for changing and they named themselves after that specifically because it is one of the things they value most. They're also an opportunity for me to be proud of ny country's foliage and environments because Tolkein wrote Middle Earth with South Africa in mind and my goodness, if I have a chance to be proud of my country and share my love for it, I will take it!!! Then there is also Kikyomatsu - they are an oc for the anime Demon Slayer and they're paired with Muzan. They, and their story in general, are an opportunity for me to explore the topic of disability and how that has affected me and how it can impact you as a person. This will kind of have two versions, both being similar and yet different. The main aspect is reincarnation. In one version, Kikyomatsu doesn't remember their past lives. In the other, they do. Both are going to be fun to write and share some key elements, but they will have different timelines and the method of connection is different. In the one where they don't remember, they are consistently running into Muzan by chance and it's something that Muzan has to grapple with(but doesn't) on his own for the majority of their lives. In the one where they do, though, they are actively seeking him out once they realise he's still alive and they won't allow him to push away the things he has to work through.
I might make Lore guides/story-specufic guides in the future because I tend to add a lot or change some things for every story I write. (Eg. I will be making an entire version of pop culture for Stardew Valley in Grass' story because why not :))) also because I find it fun to do silly world building like this!)
Hello, yes, for anyone following me for the Taliesin fic I'm working on; things have been delayed slightly because I haven't been able to play Skyrim for months and now I might need a new gpu because Nvidia likely nuked the drivers for my current one bc it's "too old".
I haven't been able to find the motivation or words to work on it until I can play skyrim again, since it was mostly born out of my love for Skyrim and having Taliesin in my game. I'm honestly still livid about it and am hoping that using open-source linux drivers can fix the issue right now because I have NOWHERE near enough money to get an entire new gpu. I've been trying to play skyrim for a month or more now and other games for six months, but I kept thinking it was some sort of tomfoolery that I got up to when it is likely just nvidea screwing poor people over.
I've also been having personal struggles with my illnesses and, in general, been very dysphoric, so the fic is still at 33k words out of the expected 90k. I honestly so badly want to work on it again, but I just can't find the words when I sit down to do it.
I hope everyone reading this has been having a better time in life than I have.
Oooof my pinned post was made so long ago :( I'll make a new one eventually, but it feel weird for me that that much time has passed. I've kind of been in a fog since last November, and it feels weird that it's almost November again.
I hope to make new content soon, but I'm trying not to burn myself out more than I already am. I just have not been having a good time. Requests are still open, I really like requests, I just haven't gotten any yet.
I have like so many wips. I'm considering posting like half of them because I hate hoarding them all to myself. Even if they still need editing and are still wips, I still want to post them and not just let them rot in my notes until I finally pick them up again.
