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Bechloe and a kiss on a falling tear please 🥺 thank you!

oh that's soft, I have Feelings about this specific concept 🥺🥺🥺

(6) kiss …on a falling tear.

Beca's hands twisted in her lap, her eyes fixed on them as she finished speaking. It had been a long, awful day, and the last thing she had wanted to do was talk about it, but she hadn't been able to help it once she started. Her cheek still throbbed from earlier, her head hurt from trying to make sense of it all, and most of all her heart felt heavy in her chest. She didn't understand how she'd gotten here, how it had ended up like this. Things had been strained for years but...

"Hey."

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For the ficwriter asks: 3, 18, 21, 27

1- Tell us about a headcanon you invented for a fic.

HMM! Well, I did decide Hinata would be the kind of dad who would wear Hawaiian shirts, lol (for Twenty Five Years). I made sure that was immortalized in fanart.

I think my HC of Kageyama as somewhere under the ace umbrella isn't specific to any fic, that one's just there all the time. Hinata being aro was specific to Diving Reflex though.

18- If you have noticed themes emerging in your writing, what are they? What broad themes and topics do you enjoy exploring?

Turns out I'm big into choices being made, and how it directs your life, and how your life could have been different if you made different choices at specific points in your life. The entire Over, and Over, and Over series is built on Tobio and Shoyo asking what if? And Every Version of You is a literal interpretation of Tobio going after different versions of his life by slipping into alternate universes.

Making your relationships be whatever you want them to be-- aro, ace, somewhere in the approximate vicinity. Mismatched romantic and sexual inclinations meeting in the middle and accepting each other.

Romanticizing being middle-aged, lol.

Fluff and Angst with a Happy Ending.

21- Without getting into any discourse, just thinking as a writer approaching characters, would you ever write about your NOTP? If you did, do you think that would change how you feel about it? (If you’ve done this, how did it go?)

If I did, it wouldn't be endgame. But I don't think I'd enjoy writing a NOTP, so I probably wouldn't do it. I'm writing for fun, but I'm also not necessarily trying to get better at writing. What I mean is-- I wouldn't necessarily think "I should write my NOTP because it would be good practice." I'm not trying to get anywhere with my writing necessarily-- just enjoyment and engagement with the community. I guess-- I'm not opposed to it, like if it came up as part of a writing event or challenge or something I might do it, and I'm not opposed to having my mind changed about a NOTP. But I don't really see it happening. 🤣

27- Share a random sentence from a WIP. The less context, the better. Be confusing.

Hinata held the letters and imagined a balancing scale, inside his ribcage.

This was fun @tom-failure!! Thanks for asking for so many <3<3<3

Here's the list.

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soulmates au mattdrai. maybe sentences/word appear on their skin??? soul marks idk but I think it would be fun ;)

GOD I AM SUCH A FUCKING SUCKER FOR SOULMATE AUs.

I've had this little idea floating around in my head about a soulmate/soulmark AU where there's a soulmate dating/matchmaking app that exists where people upload photos of their soulmarks in hopes of finding their match (because holy fuck you can't convince me that this wouldn't exist irl).

But it's like, so basic - you're only allowed to upload photos of your soulmark, nothing else. Something similar to like... idk DNA tests or whatever. It's strictly for the purpose of matching people. So Matthew uploads his during his first year in the league and then forgets about it for years.

Then he gets traded to Florida, and secretly, he kind of went there because maybe his soulmark is something vaguely tropical, and he's hoping that he'll find his person there.

And sure enough, a few months into his first season with the Panthers, he get's a notification from an app that he'd completely forgotten about telling him that he has a match. And yep, sure enough, there's the soulmark that he's had on his hip for his entire life, clear as day on the clavicle of some guy. Or at least, he assumes is a guy, if the bits of his muscular arms and chest that are visible in the photo are anything to go by.

So of course Matthew messages the guy. And oh - his name is Leon. God, how funny, that his alleged soulmate's name is fucking Leon. And they chat a little. The guy tells him that he lives in Canada - wow, that's also a little ironic - but he travels for work, he'll actually be in Florida in a few weeks, maybe they can meet up.

So of course Matthew agrees, gives Leon the name of this coffee shop that he loves near his place, and plans on meeting up with him the day before his game against Edmonton. Maybe, if it goes well, he'll invite him to the game.

Except, of course, it's Leon fucking Draisaitl waiting for him in the coffee shop. And Leon's like "you've gotta be fuckin' kidding me" and Matthew's like "look, I live ten minutes away, can we not do this in public."

Aaaaaaand, yeah idk, I unfortunately haven't thought it through any more than that. Except for absolutely LOVING the idea that Matthew's soulmark is on his hip and Leon fucking worshipping it in bed, once they sort their shit out.

feel free to prompt me more shit:

I wish you would write a fic where…

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please, please please do established relationship/teach au for steddie :)

I'm guessing this is for the fanfic mash-up, and I'm so freaking excited. This is a good one!

Eddie is the teacher. After graduating from high school and realizing just how much was out there, Eddie goes to college, first for music, then for education. In the end, he's able to combine the two by snagging a musical theory teaching job at a magnet school. He gets to wail on the guitar daily and be the coolest teacher to every student that passes through his door. It's not exactly what he always pictured for his life, yet he's happy and more in love with his job every day.

Steve, on the other hand, is a writer. After what happened in Hawkins time and time again, Steve is filled with a ton of material. Add in the fact that he's been in a long-term relationship with his unlikely partner in crime. It's easy to draw on his life to create stories that people flock to. Being an LGBTQ+ advocate for the youth isn't the worst thing, either.

In terms of their relationship, Steve is the obnoxiously proud boyfriend. It's still not that easy to be open about their relationship (or safe for that matter), but he's as much a teacher's spouse as any of the other ladies he sits with during events. Eddie pretends to be perturbed by Steve's devotion, but he's secretly so into it, it's sometimes hard not to let Steve know (spoiler alert - Steve already knows).

There's a little ring box in the back of Eddie's bedside table he's been hanging onto for a couple of years. He knows it's not really possible for them, not yet, anyway, but there's a certain feeling he gets when he thinks about Steve wearing the white gold. He's never been a jewelry guy, but Eddie knows Steve would wear it without complaint. Watching Steve turn the ring around his finger over and over again is a fantasy he's been unable to get out of his head.

It's Steve that beats him to the punch. The power of attorney he presents to Eddie isn't quite a ring, but it's still a promise - one that says forever and permanence and a lifetime full of happiness. They already have a dog and a home together, never mind the six kids that still rely on them. If there's a tear in Eddie's eye when he nods seconds before bringing Steve into a kiss, no one really needs to know.

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eefsdroppe

I Know That She Likes Me

She Had Better Like Me Given What She Did To Me

(That Was A Joke I Am Joking)

(I Am Obviously Beyond Pleased With How Things Have Been Going)

Mmm

I Am Not A Groupie I Have Never Been A Groupie I Never Even Listened To Any Of Her Music Before The First Time We Visited One Another

I Can Not Even Really Listen To It Unless It Is Very Quiet Given How Sensitive My Auricular Dishes Are

I Just Keep Having This Very Stupid Image Of Those Silly Short Form Video Scenarios Where Some Absolute Square Of A Girl Is Standing In The Front Row Of A Concert Reading A Book (Why Are They In The Front Row If They Are Not Even Going To Pay Attention To The Acts On Stage) And The Singer Makes Eye Contact With Them And Is For Some Reason Charmed By This Frumpy Little Nobody Who Is Ignoring Their Art In A Disrespectful Way

Not That I Ignore Lanota's Art

Sorry This Whole Thing Has Gotten Away From Me As It Usually Does

So Much Of The Time She Is So Real

She Has Such Soft And Pretty Hair And She Looks So Serene When She Sleeps

She Is So Goofy And Quick-Witted And Affectionate And Far More Insightful Than She Is Willing To Put On Display At All Times

You See I Need Everyone To Know How Much Attention I Am Paying All Of The Time For Example So They Know How Smart I Am But She Is Always Paying Attention And Only Rarely Capitalizing On That Knowledge When It Is Most Advantageous

(I Suppose There Is Something To Be Said About The Difference Between Being Raised By A Lusus That Is Basically Friendly Cattle Bred To Be Stupid And Complacent And Being Raised By A Lusus That Is A Shrewd Perfectionist Ambush Predator)

She Is Not Afraid To Be Imperfect

But Sometimes When I See Her On Stage I Feel So Small

It Is Just A World I Am Not A Part Of

I Think It Would Be A Bit Pathetic To Describe My Heightened Hearing As A Disability But The Fact Of The Matter Is That It Does Prevent Me From Participating In Many Of The Sorts Of Events That Her Career Includes And Those Are Such A Big Part Of Her Life

She Puts So Much Work Into Crafting Her Image And Perfecting Her Music

And I Know That She Loves Me Even Knowing I Can Not Fully Participate In Her Full Vision

But I Still Feel Like That Dorky Hypothetical Person Reading At The Concert At Times

Maybe I Am Just Getting The Jitters Because Of The Egg

I Want To Stay With Her Forever If She Will Let Me

But I Know Better Than To Bank On Forevers

I Am More Than Happy To Be Confident That I Have A Handful Of Tomorrows Left With her

And Tomorrow I Will Still Have A Handful Of Tomorrows

And Perhaps If I Play My Cards Right I Will Never Befall The Misfortune Of Running Out Of Tomorrows

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☕️ + zero dark 30. Been pissed off since I saw that film and rarely found anyone who cares to critique it so really just want to hear you drag it tbh

*cracks hands*

Zero Dark Thirty is a CIA-backed pro-torture propaganda film, and while it pretends at being a near-journalistic piece, it is in fact constructed to make the CIA look good and torture like a reasonable if maybe sort of regrettable option that not only works (a lie) but was also instrumental to the irl extrajudicial killing of bin Laden (also a lie). It did draw a fair amount of criticism for the way it dealt with its subject matter, mostly wrt its take on torture and historical accuracy, and if you hit libgen or scihub you’ll find more in-depth criticism than I can offer. I watched it once maybe five years ago, and I mostly know about it from reading up on the military-entertainment complex, so that’s the aspect I’m going to be focusing on.

Because when I say the film is CIA-backed propaganda, I don't mean the Agency saw it and liked it. I mean the CIA was involved in shaping it, starting before there even was a script: Mark Boal (the screenwriter) and Kathryn Bigelow (the director) were already working on a movie script about the hunt for bin Laden and were in talks with the CIA for that project at the time he was killed; when the news broke they decided to scrap their losing hunt movie and do a winning hunt one. The CIA loved the idea and gave them so much access to information and personnel there was a bit of a scandal about it.

I also mean that beyond the specifics, it’s not something unique to Zero Dark Thirty: it's the norm for American movies using DoD assets or internal knowledge or locations for free (free for the filmmakers/studios/moneyfolks, at the end of the day it’s people's taxes that pay for it), that the script and film go through the concerned branch(es), in this case the CIA, for approval, which is of course conditional and mostly rests on creatives’ and studios’ willingness to comply with requests for changes. Depending on directors, studios, screenwriters, the sort of stories being told, which arms of the DoD are concerned, and a bunch of other factors, that process can be more or less invasive but overall, it concerns a long list of films, although the most complete one I found stops at 2013.

Creatives do get to argue back, to a degree; some of them do, more or less successfully, some of them, well, don't (Boal and Bigelow belong to that category). I say to a degree, first because as I mentioned, the DoD is under no obligation to give its approval in the end, so if you plan to make an epic war film (or shoot a scene in, said, the CIA headquarters at Langley) it can be sort of hard to justify to the money people why they need to pay for planes and fake locations and things when the DoD can offer those planes, let you in real locations, and give you access to all the things for the measly cost of a few script changes.

Secondly, to a degree because there is an unavoidable requirement, that of positive representation, with a view to public opinion and recruitment:

According to the army’s own handbook, A Producer’s Guide to U.S. Army Cooperation with the Entertainment Industry, this collaboration must “aid in the recruiting and retention of personnel.” (quoted in Operation Hollywood)

Of course, if you look at military-entertainment films, you’ll find plenty that are more nuanced than actual recruitment spots; the positive rep requirement means the DoD can say no to helping any film project deemed too negative, but it’s not going to say no over an asshole drill sergeant or bureaucracy criticism or a good helping of “war is hell” etc if, on the whole, the project is deemed positive enough in its portrayal of the military, its role, or its importance.

While accuracy is also technically a requirement, as can be read in the DoD’s own guidelines ("the production must be authentic in its portrayal of actual persons, places, military operations and historical events. Fictional portrayals must depict a feasible interpretation of military life, operations and policies.", as quoted in Operation Hollywood), in a move no one saw coming, that's…. extremely relative, as this amazing quote also from Operation Hollywood illustrates:

Phil Strub, the head of the Pentagon’s liaison office recently revealed the following criterion for getting approval for a film as “accurate”: “Any film that portrays the military as negative is not realistic to us.”

In practice it means that, well, historical and factual accuracy frequently take a backseat to the positive representation requirement, but also that DoD requests couched as demands for greater accuracy range from technical nitpickings, to erasure of atrocities in the name of being accurate to the ethos of american fighting forces, to technical nitpickings that are really major changes. Etc.

In Zero Dark Thirty's case, one of the script changes demanded by the CIA was not to have the lead character be an active participant in the opening torture scene:

"For this scene we emphasized that substantive debriefers [i.e. Maya] did not administer [Enhanced Interrogation Techniques] because in this scene he had a non-interrogator, substantive debriefer assisting in a dosing technique." (from a Gawker article covering the changes)

Under the procedural jargon and the rulebook technicality framing it's not a small change that's being required here, especially since it concerns the opening scene, which sets the tone, and is the audience's introduction to the lead character. Even in 2012, introducing your heroic ladyboss character doing torture was somewhat risky; making her an observer was more likely to help with audience identification, and it gave the film more time to bring the audience to the point of accepting that maybe torture is kinda yikes and it's not great we had to do it (which is not at all the same than it's not great we did it) but. it worked, didn't it? and who's gonna argue it wasn't for the greater good?

Leaving some room to the notion that torture is kinda yikes lets the film pretend it isn't portraying torture as a good thing, no sir, all the while constructing a narrative that frames acts of torture as instrumental to the success of the bin Laden hunt, something a bunch of reliable people, including one acting head of the CIA itself, have called a big fat lie and/or generally criticized as a choice for the film.

The CIA script memo only says that according to The Rulebook Maya wouldn't have been an active participant in the opening scene; what was made from that change comes from Boal and Bigelow, in an example of the worst sort of synergy the military-entertainment complex facilitates -- they were clearly into working *with* the CIA and never planning to do anything but a film about heroic, hard-working Agency people who had to do some ugly things for the greater good, and in turn the CIA was more than happy to help. But if Zero Dark Thirty’s overall thesis and message wouldn’t have been that different without the CIA’s active involvement, it would nonetheless have been a different film. It would have shown a lead character arguably closer to the people that inspired her, people who include a CIA employee literally nicknamed the Queen of Torture (identified as Alfreda Frances Bikowsky). It would have shown an officer firing an AK-47 from a roof for funsies during a party, and it would have shown a dog used to scare a detainee. Those two scenes were removed for “accuracy.” I don’t know if the CIA used dogs for the bin Laden hunt, or if it’s in their catalogue of atrocities at all, but I’ve seen Abu Ghraib pics and it’s definitely accurate that dogs were used for intimidation during the War on Terror.

Now, while I find the accuracy tricks especially pernicious personally, you’ll find plenty of cases where the DoD liaisons don’t ever bother – Operation Hollywood, which I quoted previously, covers times when they straight up asked for more positive rep or, you know, lied, or demanded stuff like plain atrocities erasure, as with John Woo’s 2002 Windtalkers, the script of which initially had a Marine nicknamed ‘the Dentist’ removing gold teeth from Japanese war dead and a scene in which another Japanese soldier attempting to surrender gets blasted with a flamethrower, also I think by a Marine -- two things documented to have happened at least many times more than once, details in this book I’m reading, but all that went away easily enough because the Marines have an ethos or something, and that’s what must be shown.

The whole system is rotten, really. It’s meant to facilitate positive portrayals of the US military and if not completely forbid criticism, make it not only much harder in comparison to put it on screen for cheap, but also to flood it under those more positive portrayals. Zero Dark Thirty is an especially awful, unsubtle product of that system, but it is not a surprising one. The almost-underdog against a unhelpful bureaucracy, the ugly but necessary acts, the horror of war and even the moral injuries – nothing in Zero Dark Thirty is new or revolutionary. We’ve seen it a hundred times, and if it was American, more often than not the DoD had a hand in it.

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WIP Tag Game

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it.

Tagged by: @laciefuyu

Tagging: @smhalltheurlsaretaken, @thetorontokid, anyone who wants to do this

Only doing my Star Wars wips since this is my Star Wars blog:

Unresolved

Those Left Behind

To Get Back Home

If Maul Had Stayed Dead

The Untimely Death of Chancellor Palpatine

"...if you remain his student"

Lineage Collector

The Troll's Mirror

Why the Sith Don't Have Class Reunions

#thanks for the tag #most of these are just outlines at the moment #but if you remain his student is almost done #i plan on editing it this weekend so you should be seeing that one soon #ask meme things

what d&d race/class would u assign to rosaria, zhongli, and alhaitham 👀

Be prepared for a long post ;w; I may have gotten a teeny tiny bit carried away with researching this >>

First up, Rosaria

If I'm being honest, I never really liked Rosaria, mostly because of her visual design -- I wasn't super drawn to it initially, and accidentally coming across male streamers thirsting over her kinda killed any appeal she had for me. Her portrayal in quests was always kind of one-note, so reading through her character stories to try to figure out what D&D race and class she'd be has made me like her. (Rosaria hangout quest dropping when?) so thank you :)

She's prickly, does what she wants, and never works overtime (#goals). The people of Mondstadt side-eye her for her...unusual behavior and appearance, but she fights to protect their freedom regardless. And this is why I think she'd be a Tiefling.

If I were trying to maximize her stats, she'd be a Paladin because she doesn't strike me as the Bard or Sorcerer type. I'd put her as Oath of Vengeance because Rosaria doesn't need to be a tank if she's already killed everything. It feels in-character if she's a Paladin of Vengeance, but there's a part of me that really loves Rogue for her as well. The min-maxing side of me says Tiefling Paladin, my heart says Tiefling Rogue (Assassin or Inquisitive archetypes).

Ok, now for Zhongli

My favorite sentimental old man, who is incredibly particular about traditions and can't seem to remember to carry a wallet. The Zhongli we're introduced to is pretty mellow, but I feel like assigning him a race and class based on his current personality alone isn't doing my favorite character justice. This is why I'll also be giving the younger Zhongli, who I'll call Morax for the sake of clarity, a race and class.

Morax, known to his people as a capable warrior god, is a bit of a meat-head. He was arrogant, possibly a little bloodthirsty, far from the kind, gentle man he is when we meet him. The two classes I can see for Morax are Barbarian and Fighter. I think I prefer Fighter for him only because it feels in-character for him to be a master at all different types of weapons. On the other hand, I can see meat-head Morax charging in while raging. Yeah...

The only race I can see for Morax is Dragonborn, so I'll have to go with Dragonborn Barbarian (Berserker)/Fighter (Battle Master).

Zhongli's turn now

In his advanced age, he's learned to be kind and take things a little slower. He's the definition of a well-rounded person, so the race I'd pick for old man Zhongli is Human. +1 for all stats.

He's taken a step back from being the warrior god he once was and is now supporting Liyue through his wisdom. Thus, Zhongli is a Human Cleric in the Domain of War.

Alhaitham

Okay, so here's the thing, I think Alhaitham is the kind of person that would play what's best for the campaign. I think he'd fill the role he thinks the team needs most so they don't die instantaneously (*cough*Kaveh*cough*), which probably means he'd get stuck playing a support character most of the time. So in that case, I'll give him a Half-Elf Cleric (Domain of Life). OR he'd play a wizard that borrows healing spells from Clerics. So, in that case, I'd say a Gnome Wizard.

If he can play what he wants, I think he'd want to do the most damage with the least amount of effort. And tbh Monks pack a punch, pun intended. I also love the idea of the feeble scholar playing a monk. So a Half-orc Monk (Way of Kensei).

(I'm sorry if this is too long, i tried to edit myself but i needed to add context ><')

#ask meme things #thanks for the ask :)#genshin impact #d&d #I rambled a lot in this...

☕️ + zero dark 30. Been pissed off since I saw that film and rarely found anyone who cares to critique it so really just want to hear you drag it tbh

*cracks hands*

Secondly, to a degree because there is an unavoidable requirement, that of positive representation, with a view to public opinion and recruitment:

In Zero Dark Thirty's case, one of the script changes demanded by the CIA was not to have the lead character be an active participant in the opening torture scene:

#ask meme things #meta #zero dark thirty #the military-entertainment complex #took a while to hunt down the quotes and sources but i hope the drag met ur expectations

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