add a song for each letter of your username and tag as many people as there are letters
tagged by @wilwarindi (hi hi!)
i was fighting for my life looking for that Y song and eventually i just had to google it
tagging @midwinterhunt @loverboy-havocboy @cozy-fish-crow @goodeveningdove @sofiaspeaksart @brokenphoenix99 @deco-devolution @rooksunday @jkl-fff @merlyn-bane @myidealhousehaschickenfeet @icnamiro @26velociraptors (and anyone else if they want to play!)
T - The Marriage of Bigfoot & Mothman by The Forgetmenauts (absolute 10/10 song)
H - Hunger by Florence + The Machine (my favourite song by her)
E - Electric Pow Wow Drum by The Halluci Nation (check out the movie Slash/Back that they did the soundtrack for 👀)
S - Spring (La Primavera) by Vivaldi (i was looking for Flight of the Bumblebee and the only thing i could remember was it was spring related for like... ten minutes, and this was my favourite song i found along the way)
T - The Moon Will Sing by The Crane Wives (from my Troy Calypso playlist)
A - Ayy Macarena (Official Trap Remix) by Trap Music Now (it's good, fight me)
R - Run the World (Girls) by Beyoncé (from the lesbian space pirate playlist)
R - Rasputin by Turisas
Y - Young Dumb & Broke - Khalid
S - Safe With Me by Ike Dweck (sent to me for my DinCobb Bioshock fic)
E - Electric Eye - Celldweller (wishing my url had an I in it so i could put in the Imperial March remix instead)
A - Ahead Of Myself by X Ambassadors (from the mordebrick playlist)
S - Sins of Saturday Night by Alan Doyle (also from the lesbian space pirate playlist)
ask gameeee 11 18 19 20 for gempearl purrhaps if u want... :3
EDIT: This has been sitting in my drafts for almost a year and i haven't watched gempearl content in quite a bit lol (other hyperfixations have taken over my brain) but i decided to finally release this post into the wild even though half of it is unfinished ^_^;;
gempearl !! yayy my weird codependent kind of toxic yuri <3
(this is mostly going to be talking about their dynamic in the life series. mainly secret life and wild life. also i'm far from a gempearl expert, so if anyone else sees this please don't crucify me thank u <3)
11. Could they drive the other(s) to hurt someone? Themselves?
To hurt other people? yes, definitely, has literally happened in canon. shoutout to the murder camel in secret life. which was gem and pearl riding around on a camel and killing people <3
(also clip of pearl inviting gem to do some 'killing an maiming' because they're insane and i love them. gem is so bloodthirsty <3).
on one hand pearl is a lot more obedient, so gem is more likely to order pearl to do things. however pearl is also very loyal, and that loyalty applies to people other than gem so pearl might be a bit more hesitant to actually hurt others. gem loves treating pearl like a dog and it doesn't really help that pearl does often obey like one.. (another clip. context: one of the gimmicks turned pearl's voice robotic to everyone around, so no one knows what she's actually saying)
gem is a lot more solitary. she knows people view her as a leader and she uses that to her advantage. she only really cares about a select few people (one of those being pearl), so technically it isn't very hard to get gem to turn against people, but in actuality gem likes having the reputation of someone dangerous rather than actually have to act upon it.
so in summary. yes they could drive each other to hurt other people, under the right circumstances. usually where it benefits both of them.
now. to hurt themselves is a slightly different story.
i know ive mentioned it a bit earlier but. Pearl is a dog. always has been and always will be. in my mind she's specifically a wolfdog. she's loyal and sticks close to people she cares about but there is a breaking point. a point where she will lash out and bite.
gem is very well aware of that and she knows how to push pearl's buttons. even if pearl distances herself from gem, she's still the one holding pearl's leash.
pearl craves a lot of validation from gem , so i think gem would know what to say what to do to make pearl do whatever she wants, even if for pearl it means hurting herself to appease gem. i dont think gem would necessarily want that to happen, but she would know how to push pearl to do things she wants.
gem is usually the one with the most control, so i think it would be very unlikely for pearl to be able to make gem hurt herself. so it's mostly one sided in that specific scenario (but that's not to say that gem wouldn't do a lot of other things for pearl <3)
& this isn't necessarily related to the question but this clip happened 4 days after i started drafting this answer and i feel like it's important. direct transcript btw
Gem: This is why we're a good duo, i like stabbing and she likes being stabbed
Pearl: …what
a beat
Gem, clarifying(??): with a knife :D
Pearl, quietly, sounding like she's about to lose her mind: what does that mean…??
18. Do they love the real them or a mask? Both?
I think they definitely love the real them. however there is an asterisk.
They've been through a lot together and i dont think either of them ever really hid their personality from the other. gem and pearl know each other through and through. they know how to make each other laugh, how to push the other's button, how to comfort them.
insert asterisk here. gem has heard stories of red pearl (also known as scarlet pearl or 5am pearl. a state where pearl goes very bloodthirsty and is very mentally unstable. happened in the seasons before gem joined the life games).
gem is very intrigued by this supposed kill hungry pearl, whom gem has never properly seen before. she idolizes this twisted version of scarlet pearl and willingly overlooks the damage being in that state has actually done to pearl. because gem thinks it's hot (#myfreaks)
Ok ok ok there are so many good ones for Winterhawk here! I shall restrain myself.
40. Have I entered an alternate universe or did you really crack a smile for me?
alternate, 8. Wanna bet?
Were these supposed to be drabbles? LOL.
Bucky glared at the coffee pot, willing to to drip faster. He hadn’t been able to sleep the previous two nights, between Rogers’ snores and his own nightmares and he even he was self aware enough to realize he was well past grumpy in his sleep-deprivation. He didn’t need much sleep, but he did need some.
He was just hoping some caffeine could get him through the early morning meeting, and after that he had every intention of taking a nap.
“Not sure even you can intimidate that pot into working faster,” Clint said from his elbow. He managed to suppress his startle reflex, goddamn spies, and turned his glare onto Clint.
Clint, who was only wearing a low slung pair of basketball shorts. Bucky could see way too much of the man from his broad shoulders to his bare toes, which was a problem because he wanted to lick all of that golden skin with its scattering of freckles and faint line of hair disappearing under the waistband. Hell, even his knobbly knees were a problem for Bucky, which was how he knew he was in deep.
Clint raised his hands in front of him, biceps bulging with the movement, in a placating maneuver. “Glaring at me isn’t gonna make it go faster neither.”
“Maybe I’m glaring at you to make sure you don’t try and take any of it till after I get my fill.” It was a boldface lie. Bucky always glared at Clint, it was the only thing he could think to do to keep any other incriminating expressions off his face. He was terrified someone was gong to catch onto his stupid little crush. Steve used to sniff out Bucky’s feelings for someone like nobody’s business, but so far his nose had been too busy chasing after Sam.
“Sure, okay. You get first dibs.”
“I get the first pot,” Bucky corrected.
“Aw, no, what?” Clint whined, and Bucky felt the urge to kiss the pout off of his face. Instead he redirected his glare back to the now half-full coffee pot.
“It’s lucky you’re cute,” Clint muttered to himself. Probably Bucky wasn’t meant to hear it, but he did and his lips twitched upward as warmth surged through him before he got control of his face.
But it was Hawkeye watching him glare at kitchen gadgets and Hawkeye hadn’t earned the moniker for nothing.
“Was that … holy shit. Have I entered an alternate universe or did you really crack a smile for me?”
“Oh, fuck off,” Bucky said, trying to sound exasperated, but he could feel his ears heating up and knew there was no way Clint would miss the blush.
“Oh, wow. No. You did, you absolutely did. I don’t think you’ve smiled once since you got here and you just smiled for—”
He cut himself off and backed up rapidly, only stopping when his bare back hit the opposite counter, when Bucky whirled to glare directly at him. Bucky stalked forward, menace and threat clear in his movements, until he was right in Clint’s space, finger jabbing hard in his sternum.
“The Winter Soldier doesn’t smile,” he snarled. And then his body registered how much bare skin was pressed against him; he could feel Clint’s body heat through his own thin sleep clothes. It suddenly wasn’t just the tips of his ears burning.
“Maybe not, but I think Bucky Barnes might. I think Bucky Barnes might blush too,” Clint crooned, leaning in. “I think Bucky Barnes might—”
19. How old were you when you found out Santa wasn't real?
Santa isn't really something that's believed in by children where I live, so he wasn't anything more than 'a character from US Christmas movies' to me. BUT we DO have 'Sinterklaas', which - very simply put - is a more realistic (and uhhh more racist) version of Santa. It's a separate celebration from Christmas, but most young kids here do believe he's real. I think I was the very last kid in my class to find out Sinterklaas doesn't exist lol. Might have been 10-11 years old? ... I was late... but in my defense, no one told me until then haha
37. What's an uncommon/specific/ obscure topic you're interested in?
That should be ants probably! I often feel like I don't know that much about ants until I remember that the average knowledge and interest of other people is close to zero haha
I just love watching videos about these little critters and watching them outside, and I really want to start an ant farm myself (and now that I think about it, this is actually the perfect time of the year to do that and I no longer live in a house that gets either too warm in the summer or too cold in the winter hmmmmmmmmmm)
40. What's the most interesting item you own?
Speaking of ants!-
I got this from an ant gachapon machine in Japan!! It's fully posable and as big as my hand palm (it only has 5 legs now tho, because my cat that's named after a devil broke it off :'))
My dear Q. #1 and #23 for the fanfic ask game if you are so inclined. 😊
I am so very inclined! Thank you for the ask!! <3
Favorite Fic I wrote this year?
Ouch, okay, I filtered by fics I updated between January 1 of this year and today, and came up with 16 fics to pick from. But from there, it's not easy to narrow down because I wrote some banger fics this year, and I love them all for different reasons. It's like, what is my favorite fruit? Idk, depends on my mood. So I'm going to cheat and list the top 5 of my favorite fics from this year and why they make the list.
Rotten Work - Honestly, just the most healing thing I've written in a while. Writing it helped me process my feelings about a time in my life, and I think it helped others in similar situations feel seen and understood and cared for.
There Is Something Beneath - Joaquín and Sharon are so hot together, and getting to explore both their characters and how they were changed by their relationship was so much fun.
The Sequel to The Pirate Fic - The Pirate AU is probably my favorite thing I've ever written. I love existing in this world with these characters, and seeing people be excited to come back to Refuge in this sequel was just so humbling and incredible.
Brood - So this one took like three or four years to write? Idk, for a long, long time it was my oldest WIP, and I'm just really proud of myself for sticking with it and finishing it in spite of how hard it was to write.
SamBucky Aren't Subtle - I got to work on this one with you! It was so much fun talking about the fic and getting it to come together, just from beginning to end a wonderful co-authoring experience! Just working on the fic with you was such a joy, and I look back on the fun times fondly :)
23. Fics I wanted to write but didn't?
Okay, so let me preface by saying that all of these are WIPs that I do intend to finish, but due to lack of time/inspiration/energy or the prioritization of other fics that have time-sensitive deadlines, they've been pushed to "later" to work on. Also, I have a million WIPs that are carrying over to next year, so I'll just share a few:
Bloodsport - The sequel to There Is Something Beneath in which Joaquín is undercover in Madripoor and ends up running into Sharon.
SamBucky's Co-Op Adventure - Sam and Bucky get magically trapped in a TV and Kate, Yelena, Joaquín, Kamala, Shangqi and Katy try to get them out.
The Intelligence Agents' Guide to Dating a Superhero - Joaquín helps Sam woo Bucky, and Sharon helps Bucky woo Sam, because Sam and Bucky have been out of the dating game for a little too long, and they're kind of hopeless, and along the way Sharon and Joaquín develop a thing for each other.
Hopefully these will all be worked on and published sometime next year!
Thanks again for the ask! Sorry for cheating on the first question and being so long-winded. Hopefully you don't mind! <3
🌻Sunflower: Who or what is your character loyal to? Is loyalty something they give often or is it hard to earn?
🌸Cherry Blossom: How does your character feel about death? Have they experienced a lot of loss in their life?
🌹Rose: What or who does your character admire? What do they admire about that person or thing?
-taps fingers together- Mehehehehe! I happily answer with Chip
🌻 - He was loyal to his family despite being the odd one out but after being completely betrayed and forced to run he kept his loyalty close to his chest. At first it was given naively while he was younger, hard learned lessons. Loyalty was something that fell from his vocabulary and mind until Citrus joined the team.
Citrus being so bubbly and bright in a line of work that happily kills people left and right it caught his attention. At first it felt fake and blinding, made him hide away in the shadows. Being treated like a person and not a thing made him protective of that rare light in such a dark life. When he was in real bad shape and extremely vulnerable after a violent encounter Citrus took care of him and comforted him the whole time.
Now he is fiercely loyal to his friend but even then there's distance due to his past. It's gotten him into trouble pretty often but he won't back down. He can't, to lose the light will completely shatter him.
🌸 - Chip has a weird stance with death. He walks with it every day and wonders if the noose is getting tighter. Passively he is suicidal, in a tired of living but not actively searching to end things. His survival instincts are too strong to let him not accept death yet. His lifeline is Citrus, he needs to know he'll be safe if something were to happen to him and that is not the case...yet. Part of him is afraid is know how he'll feel when that moment comes.
Never staying in one place for long over the eleven years since he ran away he hasn't experienced much loss. Until he joined The Company and saw how death is essentially a middle manager for the job with how integral it is in the culture he wasn't really touched by it. People reduced to numbers in the system, watching those numbers work slowly to the top of the Deadlands Board until they're bumped off and forgotten. Seeing the desperation of other employees staring at the Board to see if they'll see their friends ever again.
He's convinced Captain is some sort of reaper with how casual he has been with killing and how much he gets off with threatening his life.
🌹 - Chip admires nature, always fascinated by the different flora on all the different moons. It reminds him of home, when things were still good and safe. When he encounters new things he gets so excited and marvels the adaptability of plants in places that have become so hostile to humans.
In a similar vein, he admires the rain or snow. He can, even for a moment, feel somewhere far away from the living hell his life currently is. The rain allows him to release the bottled up emotions without evidence being left behind.
Finally he has admiration for Citrus, someone who actively treats him like a person and has proven himself to be a safe person. His feelings are complicated deep down but he admires how Citrus can smile genuinely in the face of everything.
"More afraid to show her face than to make the moment awkward by lingering, she hides there, nose flat to his sternum, aware that he is big and warm and smells faintly of cigarette smoke and unfamiliar aftershave and irritatingly her father’s cheap soap."
