#cyanoticfallacy

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Congrats on 800! For a prompt, could you do an Animorphs fic with Marco and Cassie? Maybe something that's a little bittersweet that has them finding some common understanding?

welcome once again to my favorite Animorphs fic trope, Marco drinking underage

“We didn’t,” Cassie insists through a mouth and head full of cotton. She stretches out cat-like on Marco’s ridiculously huge round bed in his ridiculously huge Hollywood house, and props herself up just enough to take another pull from the wine bottle. “We weren’t ready, and then we were ready but he was so messed up he had to punish himself by not sleeping with me, and then he was so angry with me about the box he didn’t even want to anymore.”

Marco was spread out on his stomach over his pillows like a starfish. “No barn hookups? Oh maaaaan, he wasn’t even lying to me when he said you didn’t do that. He was blushing so much I thought he had to be lying.”

“Did you?” Cassie said, flopping on her side toward him. She vaguely shoved the bottle in his direction.

“What?” Marco screeched, completely missing the wine bottle, which rolled right up against his head. 

“It’s okay, Marco,” Cassie said solemnly. “I understand and accept your bisexuality.”

“I’m not even – I don’t even – okay yeah maybe but Jake is super straight and I didn’t.” Marco buried his face in the pillows.

“I get it,” Cassie said. “I really get it. He’s so serious. And so dorky. He actually liked helping in the barn. And shoulders. So much shoulders.”

“Especially when he used your pitchfork,” Marco said, muffled by the pillows. “Shoulders for days.”

Cassie flung her hand out, pulled the wine bottle away from Marco’s head, and patted his head. “Hey. Hey. We’ll get him back. Not like we had him before. But we’ll get him back.”

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Hey! I've been reading your Finding Kurt Hummel recaps and they're really fun to read! I was wondering after reading the I Am Unicorn recap, were they really setting up a Writer!Kurt arc in the show? Do you know why Chris didn't want to go that direction?

Hello! Thanks so much for reading! :) 

Yes - it’s not only hinted at a few times in the show, there’s been a few times in interviews where Chris has mentioned that Ryan Murphy originally had plans to make Kurt into a writer.  (I believe these interviews were in season 4? But I’m bad with my sourcing.  Maybe someone else knows off hand.) 

Basically, Chris asked for Kurt not to go that way.  He wanted to keep some boundaries between who Chris is and who Kurt is.  Chris is a pretty individualistic person. Between his personality, and the fact that (some) fans were already beginning to (wrongly) think that there were some aspects of Kurt that were real (like dating his co-star), he wanted to make sure the line between reality and fantasy wasn’t blurred.  His first TLoS book was also coming out around that time, and he probably wanted that to succeed on its own, instead of people assuming it was some schtick tied in with the show. 

Tl:dr Chris wanted to make sure his other projects and personal life were separate from what happened on the show. :) 

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I'm also curious if you have an Animorphs relationship dynamics between the main 6 that you wish was explored more and what you find interesting about it?

Well, Marco/Cassie obviously, but I already posted fic for that.

Cassie and Ax. They have such beautiful tender moments together in canon (8, 38, others), and there’s Ax’s fascinating declaration in the series endgame that Cassie is the most dangerous of the Animorphs. Their relationship is so interesting and complex and I rarely see it in fandom. I ship it, tbh.

Rachel and Ax. I feel like they have to have a bond on some fundamental level from being the only Animorphs with the guts to sit there for the two hours while David was trapped in morph, but I haven’t seen it explored.

Marco and Tobias. They came into the Animorphs in the most desperate home situations of the six, but they reacted to their problems and trauma in such different ways. They have much more class consciousness than the others, a sensitivity to privilege and unfairness. And I love how they went from disliking each other in the beginning to being a weird sort of friends by the end. I also ship it, tbh.

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Yoooo for the ficlet ask, I was just thinking like post Lito’s psychic nosebleed, post rescuing Wolfgang and saving the day, what would it be like having all the sensates together physically in person? (Hernando and Daniela’s involvement always a plus too)

I’m gonna skip Hernando and Daniela because telling them about the cluster deserves very much an entire fic on its own. But here’s my take on what that feeling of physical presence is like.

Lito didn’t know whose hands these were that reached out for Nomi’s. It was like getting deep into character, lending his body to a fictional person who felt entirely real to him, whose thoughts shared space inside his brain. But it was so much more than that, because the truth is so much richer and stranger than fiction.

Sun’s steady breath was his breath, but he could also feel it warm on his face. He was one person looking through a funhouse mirror at himself. He was in a family of eight that after far too many years apart had its family reunion.

“Pah! Pah! Pah!” Lito said, expelling the sounds with his diaphragm, because he was the only one in the cluster whose body was practiced at the vocal exercises, the only one who could make that sound. Maybe it was pointless trying to find which body was his, maybe it didn’t matter, but he wanted to know.

Sun understood, and swept herself through the tai chi poses. Riley’s hands flew out to an invisible piano, playing the keys for Lito didn’t know what piece, but he did, it was a composition by her father, and Kala chanted a prayer to Ganesha, and they all found what was theirs and no one else’s.

“Maybe there’s a reason why clusters don’t hang out in person,” Nomi said. “If we’re going to do this, take control of Whispers’ organization, we can’t just be each other. We have to be ourselves.” She took a deep breath. “Feel who you are? Remember that.”

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cyanoticfallacy reblogged your post and added: “you ever have that feel when you have so many feelings about a person...”

All day every day

I currently have a list of people who I JUST MET who I want to cling to until they tell me their life story and I CANNOT ALLOW MYSELF TO BE THIS EXTRA thank you for sharing this feel

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cyanoticfallacy reblogged your post:*creates this folder in my Dæmorphing Scrivener...

THIS IS TOO SOON

It's not the upcoming fic, I swear. I will give you warning. But the particulars of the plot endgame are really starting to coalesce so I need to put them all down somewhere but... hell, it's kind of shocking. This is really happening.

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I've been seeing your analysis of la sirena y el pescador circulating around a bunch of blogs and I wanted to ask how does it feel to be famous? :P

Yeah that post has gotten away from me a bit. My girlfriend (who is not on Tumblr) messaged me today linking me to my own post saying, “Look! I saw this on Facebook! What a cool poem analysis!” to which I responded “...that is my post and apparently it is circulating on FB too, wow”

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I think my favorite fic of yours is the Cowardice of Lions. That's probably the one I've returned to most.

Thank you. That fic was kind of one of my guiding lights from the beginning of the series. After I wrote “Make a Little Birdhouse in Your Soul,” I knew I had to make it a whole series when the scene with Rachel threatening David and then settling right then and there popped up into my mind, bright and clear. I was writing toward that guiding light for quite a long time.