#cactusspatz

[smilebackwards]

For the WIP game: pressure!

Tim winces. He didn’t mean to bring this up with Conner whose dads are a fumbling, if no longer entirely disinterested, Superman and Lex fucking Luthor. But Tim’s been stressing about this for weeks now and Conner can hear the thunderous elevation of his blood pressure.

[faejilly]

Please tell me about your owl!alec WIP, that title is hilariously intriguing!

[wip meme] Unfortunately not hilarious! The Owl is the name of a creepy possessing demon thing in s3 of Shadowhunters, and I have trouble with this storyline for a few reasons, but in terms of this fic, I am concerned because Shadowhunters are supposed to mostly be immune to possession (or else they’d be very bad at their demon hunting purpose after all) and the fact that there was a demon that could possess them in s2 was kind of a big deal, but then this one just sort of... gobbled a guy up in s3, and got to hang out and do scary shit when said guy was sleeping. There were extenuating circumstances in the show, but? *shrug-emoji* I never really liked them. *laughs*

So it’s kind of a fix-it fic, as to how I think the demon managed it, but that also meant that said demon ended up uh... possessing Alec (which didn’t happen in canon).

For @echo-bleu​​ (who also asked about owl!Alec):

Alec doesn't respond. His gaze doesn't even flicker away from Magnus' face, his body doesn't shift. Izzy feels something twist underneath her lungs, something cold digging in between breaths that are too thin.

He hasn't looked at her at all. When he glanced over them all when he entered the room he hadn't met her eyes, when he walked in he hadn't nodded at her; he'd walked right by her without even a lean in her direction, without a hand against her arm or a shifted shoulder for an implied hello.

In her entire life, that's never happened before. Even when he's distracted by Magnus, he always offers her at least a smile after they've greeted each other. He's never not acknowledged her presence, he's never not noticed her in a room, no matter what else was happening, no matter who else was there.

"Who are you?" She barely manages to speak this time, but she can feel something shift in the air, can see everyone else tense.

He, it, doesn't answer. He leans in closer to Magnus, whispering something she can't hear. It's smiling, something sharp and dark and wrong and nothing at all like her brother even though it's using his face, and then it's out the balcony doors, and over the edge, and Izzy can't stop the scream cracking in her throat as she follows, caught between my brother is falling and what is it and how and she's staring over the edge, her fingers gripping the ledge so tight she can feel one of her nails start to crack, but she can't see him... can't see it, whoever whatever it is, wherever it's gone.

[copperbadge]

dignitywhatdignity replied to your post “Bird dog” was RIGHT THERE and yet Person of Interest fandom whole ass...”

I don't know. Wouldn't Bird Dog be a Finch/Bear pairing?

pixelbypixelfanfic replied to your post “Bird dog” was RIGHT THERE and yet Person of Interest fandom whole ass...”

My brain kind of did the same thing as @dignitywhatdignity

cactusspatz replied to your post “Bird dog” was RIGHT THERE and yet Person of Interest fandom whole ass...”

The presence of an actual dog muddied those waters too much, Sam.

The dog is symbolic! Because he gave it to Finch. 

Also I trust fandom not to believe that the biggest ship in the first four years of the show was dogfucking. I don’t trust fandom very far but I do trust them that far. 

[pluckyredhead]

Damn you, I saw the title of your newest fic and now I'm never gonna get that song out of my head. TODAY'S THE DAAAAAY WE'LL SAY I DOOO, AND WE'LL NEVERRRR BE LONELYYY ANYMOOOOORE, hello my childhood oldies mix tape that my mom made me. <3

This is me every time I name a fic after a song lyric, which is the only thing I name fics after, because I’m dumb.

(GOINNNNG TO THE CHAPEEEEEL OF LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE)

[primarybufferpanel]

Thoughts on tattoos?

I have them! I want more of them! I fell in love with this guy’s work and have dreams of a sizeable shoulder/upper arm piece with a nautical theme. I’ve had about half of the funds ready for a while, and had hopes of finding work and finally doing it... and then the world went to shit. So.

Still hoping that’s gonna happen someday.

[laylainalaska]

For the meme: You're pragmatic and reasonably organized. You're in the older fan bracket, 30s or 40s. You have siblings, and/or very close long-running friendships. You're familiar with children in a caretaking way, as mother/teacher/big sister. You like the outdoors. You like understanding how things work, and working through problems. You like people/characters who *do* things, who are active in the world. You're optimistic, and believe in people, but not in a naive way at all.

This is accurate to a really astonishing degree, tbh. XD At least based on my own self-assessment.

(I don’t have kids myself or work with them, but I enjoy borrowing other people’s kids. And then giving them back. BORROWED CHILDREN: THE BEST KIND.)

I think one thing that’s interesting about the answers I’m getting to this question is that I typically think of myself as ... well, most of these things, pragmatic and competent and a bit assertive - but I have no idea if it actually comes across that way to other people, let alone whether it’s reflected in my writing. So it’s interesting to see some of the similarities between different answers.

[stele3]

cactusspatz replied to your photoset: steampunktendencies: Steampunk Time Traveler...

Inquiring minds want to know what you’ve put in the pouches?

Keys, loose change, cash...too small for a wallet or a phone, but other stuff works!

[astolat]

Hi there! I was curious - the poetry in Champion and Victory Condition obviously overlap between the stories; did you write Champion first and then go 'let's play with this more', or were you already writing Victory Condition at that point? (I didn't think to ask until Neery mentioned that poet!Megatron was canon, which. WHAT.) I don't have any idea if you're a multitasking writer or a one-at-a-time writer (though I'd bet on the former).

Super late here, but the answer is actually that I started out writing a different story about poet!Megatron (for which I wrote the first poem, which was “we are always lying”), but it wasn’t working, so I pruned it off and instead it branched off into Victory Condition and Champion, which both developed alongside each other. I’m definitely a multitasking writer in this fandom for some reason, and I will cheerfully reuse my own ideas between stories basically the same way I use canon. :D