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Yknow what?

First 5 people who send me an OC ref get a sketch

I got a cintiq 16 proper stand and I dont have to hunch over anymore and I'm happy :DDD

I also got a glove so no more weird drag lines on my artwork ;u;

I'll also do canon stuffs from games if I can!

Completed pieces below the cut!

2. @castironbitch RBF? Same honestly ngl lmao

[raevenlywrites]

Happy STS! How do you choose your titles? And what's the favorite title you've ever come up with?

usually they come from the email subject lines I send to my wife. The most recent, for example, it called “spooning leads to forking”. That one will probably not become the working title of this werewolfy thing, but that’s usually where they come from. 

[demyrie]

30, 31, and 45 for your ask game!

30. hardest part of writing

Getting started!!!!! and also separating your voice from authors you’ve read recently, or developing a voice at all. I’m very, very sorry to say that the only way to develop a voice is to write, write, write and keep banging up against things you like and don’t like, realize the line between consistency and baldfaced repetition, and just have patience. mega yuck

Also managing the line between fascination and fixation. When we get a new toy (a phrase, or a piece of punctuation or expression) we tend to put it EVERYWHERE JUST BECAUSE ITS NEW AND SHINY. Having a beta reader who knows your bullshit really helps with this because Rae can personally tell you about the time I weirdly hyperfixated on the phrase “his brainstem lit up like a christmas tree” and I managed to unknowingly, VERY CLEVERLY, center it in three different HiNaBN fics before she sat me down and patted my head and said “this is what ur doing” and I went oh :l

31. easiest part of writing

When you have characters who are so real to you, so fully fleshed, that you can just let them speak through you. It’s amazing. To me, thats the magic in writing. The different relationships you have with a given cast is so amazing.

For instance, when I write Erasermight, I am Aizawa, and I’m friends with Yagi. I feel very close to Yagi, I adore him, but I’m not writing from the inside like I am with Aizawa. Aizawa is a personal excavation; Yagi is appreciation and extrapolation.

With my own books, I am Eli, and I’m friends (or getting there) with Tyler. On most things, that is, but I can write Eli EFFORTLESSLY because he’s coming from the same place I am. Depression, mainly, haha. But with Tyler, I’m witnessing him, and I have to make a few passes to get him right. It’s fascinating and illuminating on a personal level and assists in healing.

45. share the synopsis of a story you work on that you haven’t published yet

UHHHHH oh man. I have a few secret things on the backburner hmm.

I think the one I’m most passionate about is a MightyShield or DaveMight fic that takes place during the little extra comic where All Might comes to see Dave to get his new suit. I imagine this is soon after the fight with All for One, and Toshinori, half-eviscerated, pretends everything is fine and normal until it comes to trying on the suit. 

There’s history between them, of course. Dave’s wife has passed and the two heroes have never really lost their love for each other, so when Toshinori just kinda freezes and then asks for privacy to try on the suit (and take off his clothes and reveal his broken body) Dave is confused. It begins as “what aren’t you telling me, toshi, what’s wrong” and escalates to this tenuous line of complicitness and guilty ownership that Dave feels that he has in Toshi destroying himself for the world. He makes a stand and says “I make your suits, I have a right to know if what I’m giving you will just lead to you getting hurt. I have a right to know whats going on with you”

So then Toshi is forced to show him the enormous freshly bandaged chunk missing out of his side and breakdowns and very sad sex ensue :) I WANNA WRITE IT BUT WHAT IS TIME!!!!

[druzydabbles]

Happy Storyteller Saturday! Which comes first when you start brainstorming a new WIP, the big picture, or the small? A broad conceptual pitch, or a small snip of dialogue/emotionally-charged scene?

Storyteller Saturday!

Usually what ends up happening is that I get the broad conceptual bit first: I knew wanted to write a pirate and magic adventure story, for One Siren’s Soul!

But the very next thing that happens is that I get a set of very specific scene ideas, everything down to the position of the characters, the colours and ambience, sometimes even dialogue, and what the scene would look like in a movie! These scenes usually get included in the first draft, and I’m thinking will likely make it to the final product, typically with very little difference from the initial concept!

One of these scenes is the one where Celestine is rescuing Phoenix (from what I can not say~ >u>), where Dione is finally curing Colin’s curse, and where Xuân first shows up!

For The Dark’s Treasured Glow, it initially started with me wanting to write a sci-fi with dragon-like creatures on another planet, one with near zero light from above, and only light from bioluminescent creatures, plants and fungi! Above the cloud layer that prevented solar lighting, I knew there was going to be a floating human city, solarpunk themed~

And the scene that sparked most of it was the one where Xali frees one of those dragon-like creatures from mind imprisonment, causing it to attempt to escape---dragging Xali down below the clouds to the surface in the process.

Thanks for the ask!

[writeanapocalae]

Happy Storyteller Saturday! Do any specific animals have an impact on your plot? Or plants?

:| Things I forget about in stories: cellphones and animals. Oh crap, do cellphones work in Hell? Oh NO. 

There’s a dog in Breaking Down Hell, so I got that right! It’s a literal boulder. There are some insects that I made up that eat rocks, some badger-like animals that eat bones, and some snakes made out of razorwire that attacked Maxia when he was a kid but none of that really impacts the story. 

I, very early on, had a character straight up say “the dog’s gone” and the dog has yet to show up again so I think that explains how I treat animals in stories. 

In stories other than Breaking Down Hell the characters often have to go through forests. I think that’s because I’m from the Pacific Northwest and I spent a lot of time in the woods growing up. I miss it. 

[orange-plum]

What was the first scene/concept of HiC that the whole story sprang from? (Or do stories happen in a different way for you?)

Each story happens in a different way. HIC happened when after I made SaM i made a small WIP mini comic of life and death, where they dated but life broke up with death because she didn’t want to be around the byproducts of death. So he tried to get an apprentice to take over so he could still date her.

I wanted to do a comic for a long time revolving around the concept of life and death without being cliche. So I dabbled a lot and talked to a friend and HiC was born. She told me “I like pompadours make a pompadour character” so I did. And I liked the gangster kid whose secretly sweet and is a crybaby trope. So Jamie was born. After that it kinda just molded to a comic.

[unintentionaloracle]

re: director's commentary ask game. TELL US ABOUT THE ERASERMIGHT HOOKUP IN OITO ;) ;) ;)

OMD! OF COURSE YOU WANNA KNOW! (TUMBLR CAN'T STOP ME WRITTEN DIRTY STUFF IS STILL LEGAL AND THERE'S NO LADY NIPPLES! WARNING THIS IS GONNA GET NAUGHTY AND EROS-Y (especially for me and my rep) BUT NOT TO DEMYRIE LEVELS, MY FRIEND, OTHER FRIENDS, FOLLOWERS, AND PEOPLE IN THE TAG!)

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Fun fact, besides the fact I kept kicking it up a notch in edits, I ALMOST added more with maybe some shirts coming off, Aizawa putting his hand on All Might's pec, All Might's hand sliding...lower than the small of Aizawa’s back *eyebrow waggle*

Anyway, after that stuff...

Aizawa, realizing "yes this could end in my v-card getting punched" he tells All Might that if this is continuing he has a perfectly good bedroom" (All Might: !!!).

All Might carries him off to Aizawa’s bedroom, they do it safely, Aizawa bottoms, and All Might switches back to his weakened form after they both finish. Then after that spooning (Aizawa is the little spoon). Other little details...well I slipped them in an upcoming chapter... ;)

I'm actually halfway tempted to write the full thing as a one-shot...

Anyway that's it!

[boydbaeulieu]

castironbitch replied to your post “I miss talking books !! I think it’s time to prepare a new book rec...”

Feel free to talk books to me any time, Alice! <3

thanks, Lisa, that’s so sweet ♥♥ i just miss the times when i was super active on tumblr and interacting with people and getting excited about books. i was busy during the school year, and now even though summer is almost over, i feel like i want to catch up with everyone :)