#combination-nc

[carnivorous-horses-lover]

I just want you to know, I love your username with all my heart. Go, team carnivorous horses!

Haha, thanks! The cookie elephants in your icon are adorable~

[faejilly]

Stardew Valley absolutely spoiled me re: how to figure out mods btw

(wandering around PC mods is like a foreign language after years on consoles, and I am *not* used to not being fluent at the words 😅)

I have a chest in camp & invisible hats & a party of 4+mabari tho!

/haven't tried to bash a lock yet or much of anything else tho

[silentwalrus1]

SHINY!

 If Potts is just casually dropping his name all over her shiny boardrooms that’s not any fucking better.

from caya

[dsudis]

Last sentence (fragment) game

Tagged (liiiike a month ago) by @i-will-not-be-caged! 

If you are tagged, post the last sentence you wrote and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence!

From All Eternals Deck #2:

Or an uprising.

(Sorry sorry I know that is a sentence FRAGMENT but I am too pleased by the illusion of having actually written a short sentence for once in my life to pass it up.)

Anyway that’s only three words! I WILL TAG THREE PEOPLE! @praximeter @notlucy @combination-nc you’re up!

[foxghost]

ltleflrt

Welcome back to the world of writer's angst!  What are you working on?

> i started writing a fic for finder no hyouteki  which is a fandom i’m not even IN it’s like scratching a brain-itch

combination-nc

Me too! ISN'T IT TERRIFYING, ARE YOU SCARED TOO

> it is the most terrifying thing !!!!????? in a fandom i don’t know anybody in???? so i can’t even find ppl to look at my stuff

[koreanrage]

“Happy birthday, Ste-” SPLAT (*≧∀≦*)

[luanna801]

yes hello, I would love to hear about the Qin Su Fic!

(WIP Game here.)

Yayyy, thank you for asking! <3

So this fic came about simply because I was fascinated by Qin Su and Jin Guangyao's confrontation in the book, and disappointed that her subsequent suicide stopped that plotline in its tracks as quickly as it started. Yes, we ultimately learn more of the backstory, but by that point Qin Su is no longer around to be a participant, and there was so much ground that felt left uncovered to me.

I wanted to see more of Qin Su, more of her dynamic with Jin Guangyao, and there was so much left unsaid in that short confrontation that I wanted to see play out longer.

So, as a fic writer... I got to make that happen.

So in this AU, JGY isn't confronted the night of the banquet, meaning that Qin Su isn't pushed into committing suicide at that point. Instead, they're both left to deal with the fallout of what she's learned and what the hell is supposed to happen next.

JGY is still keeping QS locked up, and this story gave me the chance to really dig into her pain, her anger, her shame and disgust, her very conflicting feelings towards JGY, and all of the lingering questions she doesn't have answers to. It's not a light pleasant read, but it was extremely satisfying to write, and hopefully will be for people to read as well.

Excerpt below:

Jin Guangyao's lips pressed together tightly, his eyes pained. Qin Su thought she would almost have preferred an expression of open malice. There would have been an honesty to it, at least.  “I understand my actions may seem… extreme, but I was only trying to protect us both.”  Qin Su actually laughed at that, harsh and clanging in the small chamber. “I don't think you've ever cared about protecting anyone but yourself.” She wondered if she really believed it, even as she spat the accusation at him. They would not have met if he hadn't risked his own life to save hers, all those years ago. Had he truly cared about protecting her then? Or had she been nothing but another tool for gaining glory, another story to burnish his reputation as a hero of the Sunshot Campaign?  Jin Guangyao shut his eyes. “That is not true,” he said, in a low voice.  She just shrugged, feeling something helpless beneath the simmering anger. Perhaps the saddest thing was that whatever the truth might be, his word no longer meant enough to convince her either way.  “I wish I could believe you.”

[helenedraws]

combination-nc  hat auf dein Foto geantwortet “sneak peek of what I’m editing to post this weekend because I...”

I'm so excited to see the finished piece! I grew up with the myths, so I feel so at home seeing them portrayed in watercolours; it reminds me of this sort of floaty fairytale feeling they gave me when I was little, and it still seemed like there was magic in the world.

posted it! Thank you for this wonderful comment! I really adore the myths of old, especially because it recently dawned on me what I should have realised all along, namely that this is germanic in origin. These are my gods, so I’m reexamining my knowledge of them in a new light. 

I’m so happy to read what kind of feeling the watercolors inspire in you. That’s really all I wanna do! <3