Hahaha I raged quit halfway through the space season right before a certain wedding 😠 and tbh I spent all of the first half hoping they bring Frameward in somehow so he and Jemma could runaway together lol
Honestly? I didn’t even have the rage to rage quit, I was just super behind and catching up was so much work and I didn’t care...so I just stopped.
(But if Frameward or ANYTHING had shown up I definitely would’ve at least watched that episode. I’m a trash panda and I accept my life and my choices.)
Go to your works page, expand all the filters, and answer the following questions!
1. What’s your first and second most common work ratings? Any surprises?
Teen And Up Audiences (33)
General Audiences (9)
Honestly, I’m surprised explicit isn’t higher. I mean, I know I specifically made a collection work for it but still. I feel like I’ve let someone down.
The rest below the cut because, per usual, I ramble on.
2. What’s your most common archive warning? Least common? Do you consider yourself an adventurous writer?
No Archive Warnings Apply (57)
That is the only one I use apparently. Which, I could potentially use graphic depictions of violence more but it’s always canon levels which, I guess I expect people to expect or something? I dunno. I mostly use tags to warn about things, or the beginning. And I guess according to this no, and I definitely tend towards things I’m more comfortable with, but I do like branching out and trying new things and seeing how it goes.
3. How many fics have you written in each relationship category? Is this more accidental, or do you have preferences?
F/M (54)
Gen (6)
Multi (3)
M/M (1)
I am more than a little horrified there’s no F/F, so that’s something I have to do soon...I know I have a prompt for Bobbi/Jemma somewhere...I swear I’ve written Jemma/Skye though so, hm. Anyways, not super surprising. My preference tends to go by a single character per fandom and their relationships, romantic or not, but with Jemma being involved in a number of ~more~ rare relationships, I do tend to tag a little more freely than maybe I ought.
4. What are your top 4 fandoms by numbers? Are you still active in any of them, and do you tend to migrate a lot?
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV) (50)
Marvel Cinematic Universe (5)
Labyrinth (1986) (2)
Arrow (TV 2012) (1) / Once Upon a Time (TV) (1) / Leverage (1) / Avatar: The Last Airbender (1)
I tend to migrate in my reading habits a ton, but in what I actually have the attention span to write? Nah, not so much. I do kind of want to try branching out more, but except in a few cases it takes me so many false starts to get the feel of the characters in my writing style that it can be very discouraging. But, I’m still willing to write in any of these, and still actively writing in AoS, MCU and Arrow.
5. What are your top 4 character tags? Does this match how you feel about the characters, or are you puzzled?
Jemma Simmons (50)
Grant Ward (48)
Skye | Daisy Johnson (14)
Antoine Triplett (8) / Leo Fitz (8)
XD This is a pretty good representation, though I am surprised Fitz is higher up than May. And I’m surprised Will doesn’t show up. Huh. Things I need to work on. (Will and Jemma are second on my relationship list at least.)
6. What are your top 2 most used additional tags, and your bottom 2? What would happen if you combined all 4 of these into a fic?
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence (10)
Alternate Universe - Magic (6)
and
Marvel Cameos (2)
Alternate Universe - Soulmates (2)
(I am honestly shocked soulmates is so low. Am I really bad at tagging? Is this what this is telling me? Probably.)
Um, hm. Canon divergence where SHIELD still exists but characters have magic, there’s some magical soulmate thing and obviously the Avengers show up at some point. I am...honestly surprised I haven’t written that yet.
It’s only a matter of time, lets be honest.
7. How many WIPs do you have currently running on AO3? Any you don’t plan on finishing?
I went from 57 to 49, so apparently 8. Which, I have five collections that are never finished, touch, a whywolf fic and my arrow fic which I really need to finish the next chapter for, so yeah. That sounds right!
Uh, the collections may never be ~finished~, at least until I’m done with writing here, but they’re not exactly actually WIP. Touch I definitely plan to finish I just have to figure out what I’m doing (or accept that it’s going to be four chapters but I dun wanna). I’m halfway through the whywolf and then I can call that whole series done, though that’s hard to motivate on given lack of interest but I don’t like leaving things unfinished. And the Arrow fic which, yeeesh, I have no updated in forever. I am so sorry guys.
No, I’ll finish them all..I hope...eventually.
8. Tag 5 people!
You should do this if you want to, tag me in your reply! <3
For a variety of reasons I’m riding the struggle bus this week and have started to get way too emotional about feedback (and the lack thereof) and so am going to take a bit of a hiatus from posting just until I’m feeling more stable.
For now this is just until the 17th of May. I will still be around and probably trying to catch up on my own comments and replies so feel free to contact me if you need something (and don’t be surprised about seeing me).
Hey guys! So as most of you know, Tumblr decided to eat the links on my (and Amy’s and JD’s and presumably other’s!) fic list. But now I’ve redone it! Yay!
It was a lot and there are some very real possibilities that there are bad links, so if you stumble across one please let me know!
The fic list is still where it’s always been, but now it just contains links to different pages, and I’ll probably be making random notes/links to announcements and such there now.
Here are the links, as they appear, that you can find on the fic list.
Assorted Fics (Non AoS, including drunk!fic)
AoS Ao3 Fics (with associated head canons/extras that aren’t necessarily on Ao3)
AoS Connected Tumblr ficlets (Order is totally random, I'm sorry. There are also headcanons/extras there that won't necessarily be on Ao3 even if the fic itself is)
AoS Unconnected Tumblr ficlets (An attempt at ordering by pairing was done)
AoS Drunk!Fics
Sunday Six
As always, please enjoy and you are always welcome to prompt me whatever! (Though it's worth noting that I am not, unfortunately, prompt at answering prompts.)
And let me know if you have any suggestions for making it more user friendly! Thanks!
Hey all! I was just informed that due, probably to some new tumblr coding, my fic list is currently not working. (It appears that when there are too many characters on a page the links go first).
If anyone desperately needs help locating something, feel free to let me know and I’ll do my best to navigate my mess of tags.
I’m sorry for this and I hope it’ll be fixed soon, or I’ll figure out some way to work around it.
shineyma replied to your post “modern-magic history lesson”
I loveloveLOVE all the detail/thought behind this and how expansive it is and just HOW MUCH world building is going on behind the scenes. World building is my favorite thing. And I extra extra love the detail about Jemma's magic appearing purple because of the sacrifice aspect of her potion-making! SO COOL! *draws hearts around the border of this post* Thanks so much for sharing! <3 <3 <3 <3
<3 <3 I will admit, when I wrote the first installment of this series I didn’t have much of anything totally pegged down and I mostly got lucky that when I did start actually figuring out the things I worked there were easy to work into the world I started mentally constructing. I may also sometimes imagine other OTP’s, specifically Marvel ones, in this universe. Thank yooooou.
thestarfishdancer replied to your post “modern-magic history lesson”
Oh my goodness, I love all this! I would totally read a history of this magic world in head canons whenever you felt like indulging!
XD I’m more of a “try to ramble with a point” person, so without questions I’m always kind of at a loss as to where to focus and get disjointed and then figure I’m probably focusing on things that I find interesting but that literally no one else will...Ah, the struggle is real. XD But thanks, dear!
varentain replied to your post“my silent fears have gripped me - SafelyCapricious - Agents of...”
Oh em geeeeeees, girl. THAT END, YAAAAAAAAAAAAS. I was listening to a slower, softer version of CHASING CARS and it was PERF. I think I'm going to read the entire series again, yaaas
Ahahaha. Yeah. XD I’m so glad you liked it, I hope you enjoy your read through! (Also ooooh, I will have to try that! The series really doesn’t have any sort of soundtrack, except the obvious, as music matching isn’t something I’m good at but I can see why that would work!)
last reply has (very small) spoilers so under a cut
thestarfishdancer replied to your post “my silent fears have gripped me - SafelyCapricious - Agents of...”
Oh YAY! More of this, soon soon after the last? I'm so excited! It's like a birthday present! AND ON MY ACTUAL BIRTHDAY!!!! Total coincidence, I know, but I'm counting it as the universe giving me a gift by poking your muse until you published this on my birthday. AND SHE CALLS HIM GRANT. YES. BEST. EVER. SO. BEST. EVER. Thank you thank you thank you. <3 <3 <3 AND THAT END. SO AWESOME. SO UNFAIR. I CANNOT STOP ALL CAPSING.
It really wasn’t the universe poking my muse so much as wonderful people commenting on Ao3 that got it there, but I’m glad you enjoyed. Happy birthday!
It is a shit show at work today, but seeing there is more modern magic just made my day. My crazy, 60 emails before noon day. Yay! Expect real comments in the nearish future!
=D I’m glad I was able to make your day a little better and I look forward to it!
azariastromsis “biospecialist, "I'll be right over," please!”
I was just thinking yesterday how awesome an update to this series would be!!
I honestly thought I had updated it more recently, whoops. And then I remembered why I didn’t but we’re good now. I hope you enjoyed it!
zychek, on Ao3 said/asked me about some specifics about social infrastructure and history, and I got a litttttle bit carried away in my response. So I thought the rest of you might like to see it! I’m putting it all below a cut because when I say I got a little carried away I might be underestimating how wordy I get.
Also! You should definitely read i put a spell on you first! And I posted an update yesterday so even if you think you’re up to date check again! Thanks darlings!
zychek: In fact, its one of my favourite things about this universe: there is obviously a whole social infrastructure which accounts for and functions around magic, and there are different levels and disciplines, but there is also the raw magic power and politics of powerful families, which read to me as very similar to dynastic families in our world who are often "old money" with their hands in government and various large-scale enterprises.
I'm incredibly curious about the mid-detail aspects of this world - education and accreditation and the such-like. Jemma is the level of a Potions Master, but how does her level of technical skill and finesse scale to a Red Practitioner? Is it a raw power vs. power equation or is there a chance that cleverness and leverage of lateral thinking could have her best him in a fight, in the way that small fighters can use an opponent's strength against them in a martial arts fight? So if there is, I see her doubt about the bonding disappear, because it wouldn't be the only way to have ever conceivably "beaten" him. But if there isn't, speaking from a world-history perspective, obviously there were magic-political 'diplomatic' solutions available, but what if there was a dictator in the past who refused bonding for balance and just kept building power and rigging batteries against their will - which you know some genocidal psycho tried - how were they beaten if there was no equal or greater power?
...like I said, I could talk about this all day.
Oh man, there is such infrastructure that's in my head (and everyone once in awhile I find myself having Jemma or Grant mentally waxing poetic about something and then it gets edited out since it's A. out of place and B. doesn't move the story at all.) Here and here, by the way, are links to some other headcanons I've done about this universe (on tumblr). (I will probably be posting my answers to you there when I'm done as well, just in case others are interested.) And now, answers!
"Families" definitely refer to "old money", or, in this case "old power" and are likely to have arranged marriages and alliances -- specifically to keep the magic strong in the family. Magic isn't entirely genetic, or rather, sometimes someone will spring up with very strong magic or very little from parents who are the opposite -- but in general it does run in families.
Potions master and red practitioner aren't actually comparable...it's like trying to compare being a chemist to being a nihilist. Like yeah, you could do it but it doesn't work super well. Potions Master -- anything -Master is basically like PhD level -- only it takes more than hard work because if you don't have an affinity for that sort of magic (and at least a drop or two of power) you will never actually reach that level. (There are also different levels within "Master" that have more to do with specific knowledge or finesse, depending and can indicate your areas of expertise, it is specific to what it's a master of -- Jemma, naturally, has three which is pretty ridiculous.) Grant probably could have gotten Combat Magic Master -- but he never bothered to be tested/take the few required classes and licensing. Now, being a red practitioner is more what your goals/aspirations are.
Red practitioners want power -- and are therefore more likely to use the various ways to get that (we'll get there in a minute). There are a number of other magical philosophies and while most of them do have a color associated with them because why and how you do your magic does affect the color of it -- but red are the only ones who go by "red" because it's got a negative association. (Pretty much every power hungry despot throughout history has been a red practitioner.) A lot of old power families are entirely red, but pretend to be otherwise. Either by not using magic in front of others or using magic to literally change the color their magic appears (it is possible but takes usually twice as much power as you'd use for the spell otherwise and is pure vanity -- obviously Grant doesn't bother.) There are people who can see color of magic always (Trip is one) and they aren't fooled by these spells, but it's a pretty rare ability to have. Jemma is a protector, which is blue magic, however potions require sacrifice (even if it's just plant life -- and sacrifice is "red") and so her magic actually appears purple to those who can see color always.
Okay? Okay! Let me know if any of that wasn't clear.
Next, raw power versus skilled power: Skill and finesse can absolutely trump raw power to an extent -- but it's still about amounts. Jemma can do a spell with a tenth of the power someone with no finesse would need, but if they have more than ten times her power than they are still going to win (excepting unusual circumstances, cheating, or, you know, Grant killing them well before that.) Grant is powerful -- massively powerful and he's not unskilled. He definitely goes more for brute force than delicate touch, but he is capable of it (making a tattoo that isn't purely decorative, as his isn't, involves massive amounts of both) -- though he's definitely not as good at it as Jemma is. But even with no skill, Grant could take Jemma, Fitz, Skye, Bobbi, Lance, Trip and a crowd of others and win. Now you could still hope and work with underestimation, but that only works for you if your opponent is too arrogant to shield or do anything reasonable to protect himself/herself. But yeah, Jemma cannot beat Grant in any sort of straight forward way and most of the backhanded ones would only work if he let them -- for example, he could've broken the truth geas on his tongue in the first installment, but not without her knowing he'd done it and truth telling at the time wasn't something he objected to. (I mean, obviously we know he won't fight her and would totally let her win, but no one else believes that.)
Now! World history. So, Lance was/is being a little histrionic in his making everyone batteries accusation. Because yeah, Grant could do that but there's a reason that his family was planning to use him (and his parents were already being ~lightly~ used by Christian). Also, I should mention "batteries" is kind of the rude term for it -- but that is one detail where I haven't totally decided what the "legitimate/PC" term is so we're just going to be rude, okay? Anyways, it's not generally advantageous to use people who you don't have a direct blood link to for it. You have to put more of your energy into taking theirs and at some point (depending on starting power and power of your batteries, it's more than you're going to get out of them). Also, even with using blood related batteries if they aren't of a certain level of power you're going to be using more to pull theirs out than you're getting -- and trying to use anyone for a battery who hasn't finished puberty is a terrible idea as people experience power fluctuations that might kill them or the person pulling energy from them, or both.
In my head their world is our world, but with magic. So history still happened in more or less the same way, just with magic, so bare with me.
The most efficient leader at using batteries was Genghis Khan who just reproduced a ton and used his kids to power his empire. He also didn't lock them up/use all of them and they got good positions in his world so they didn't object and he just died of old age eventually with no one taking him out.
Napoleon tried using batteries but wasn't using blood related and got to the point where he was putting more into maintaining than he was getting out and his enemies exploited it -- capturing some batteries and further draining them to drain him.
Other ways to get power include sacrifice, magical tattoos or alliances.
Hitler went for sacrifices -- which require a massive amount of set-up and ceremony but give solid power, which is difficult to fight. He was brought down by the allied forces who made a massive temporary alliance headed by leaders and powered not just by soldiers but citizen volunteers as well and they burnt him up.
So yes, people definitely do what they can to get power (if they're red). It just happens that Grant is less greedy about it than those dictators. He wants power but he, at his core, wants power so that he'll be safe and so getting too much power actually puts him in more danger (of other people deciding he's a threat and trying to take him out). So that's a line he's walking. Also! The police/government don't actually know about most of his actions -- mostly he just threatens. (And even then depending on who he takes out they might not object/want to deal with the effort/energy of taking him out, so long as he doesn't go like serial). But really they only know about the shooter and that was clearly defense of the cafe and is therefore totally allowed.
Um, I probably missed some things. As you can see, I too can talk about this all day. If anyone has any other questions, feel free to respond to this post or send me an ask or leave me a comment! As you like!
