#directors commentary asks

[utahmammoth]

dvd commentary for tarnished but so grand pls! you can discuss anything you want but also i would love to hear your favorite part in it!

i actually did one of these for this fic already but ahhhh im always excited to talk about this fic

i really waffled back and forth at first on whether to make nate a dom or not in this fic. i knew i wanted to write infidelity with these two because theyre just soooo primed for it, but i thought sub4sub would be really hard to write haha. ultimately i wanted to challenge myself and ask "what would one sub submitting to another sub look like" and i think i struck a good balance!

they have a lot of history in that universe and they really understand what each other likes, exactly as they like it. nate's been subbing for jo since before they even knew for sure he was a sub. speaking of which, my favorite paragraph is:

“I know,” Jo purrs in his ear. Nate opens his eyes for a second to find Jo staring at his face, a little look of mischief in his eyes that reminds Nate of when they first started doing this and Jo would drag it out for hours as he watched Nate squirm under him. They were both so sure he would be a dom.

I felt like that gave a really interesting wrinkle in their relationship, the way that they both once saw a future together with Nate as Jo's sub. Nate in this fic is still very much clinging and holding onto that dream, thinking that hey we could still make this work, it doesn't ever have to end whereas I see Jo as having a much more realistic view of the situation in that Jo isn't thinking they'll actually be together someday. he's much more.... i was originally going to say happy but I think settled is that right word for it. He knows the score, understands his relationships both with Nate and with Marie-Laurence whereas Nate is still sort of living in a fantasy.

I wish I could pick my favorite section, but honestly that entire fic is really special to me. its one of my favorite things ive ever written and even though it didnt do numbers like i wanted (lol sorry to be uncouth but i love attention) its really close to my heart.

[satancopilotsmytardis]

Ohh ACBAN director's commentary

I did NOT expect to like working on this one as much as I have! I thought this would be a relatively short one, but once I started writing, it totally got away from me! I also had two options for the ending (no, I will not elaborate on either), but ultimately decided to go with the one I have planned because I thought doing the other would lose the essence of what the story is about. To that end, I literally have a note pinned to my document that says, "Dabi is a cute cat, that's what this story is about" so that I always remember the heart of this piece and don't get too in the weeds with anything else

[thedarkestgreys]

directors commentary for mafia au pls!!

First and foremost, finally getting to write something for @longstoryshortyeah has been truly delightful. 💕💕 She’s been such a cheerleader for my writing over the last two years and I’m eternally thankful for her presence in this fandom. I’d been looking for the right fic to gift her and was so excited for her enthusiasm for this one 🥃

The dynamic between Fexi in this one isn’t one I’ve explored yet and that’s been so much fun for me. I’ve done rivals to lovers on the past but this is a little different from that imo. Not quite enemies to lovers either, but something between the two. I think it works really well with them in this particular scenario, being attracted to one another but not being totally comfortable or trusting yet.

I’m excited to show everyone how their relationship is going to develop going forward! They are still going to bicker and poke and prod at one another for a while still, but the tone will be changing in those moments.

I have a lot planned, we haven’t even scratched the surface in terms of the actual plot yet. I did just up the chapter count but I wouldn’t be surprised to see it move again, not that I’m complaining because it’s a deliciously fun universe to get to play in.

[utahmammoth]

could i have some dvd commentary for 'settled into you'? 🫶

director's commentary ask

ahhh that fic was such a labor of love - which is so strange because its such a grimy nasty fic LOL.

ultimately i really wanted to explore toxic masculinity in that story and look at how someone who is in the trenches of it would interact with their partner both in public and then when it's just the two of them in their home where its "safe" to "drop the act" (even though its not really an act). i obviously dialed it waaay up from what you would maybe "expect" to see in our world, but i like omegaverse for giving a little bit of leeway and a chance to explore those extra-yucky worldbuilding ideas.

ultimately that led me down the path of sidney being very controlling of geno and wanting to have ownership of him. he stops geno from speaking in his native tongue because he doesnt want geno to be saying anything that sid wouldnt approve of, he doesnt let rusty celly with geno because geno is his and (of course) hes very controlling of geno's sexuality and experiences.

speaking of geno i also really wanted to explore the partners of these ultra-masculine guys. what kind of person would choose for that to be their partner? this world is definitely more conservative and warped than ours, but flower certainly isn't as rigid as sid when it comes to gender roles and tanger flaunts that he and cath are very different. so that got me thinking about where geno was coming from and i wanted to make it clear that while (yes) sid holds the outward power in the relationship, geno enjoys their dynamic and feels comfortable in their relationship. he's thriving! he doesn't want a relationship like tanger because he's not like tanger. him and sid are on the same page for nearly everything.

(just as an aside - i dont think anyone picked up on this but during the second sex scene when sid is punishing geno for losing them the game, geno is specifically manipulating sid.

“Sorry, Sid, sorry,” Geno prattles, spreading his legs as wide as he can, like Sid will get stupid from the smell of his open pussy.

sid is the POV character and his narration sort of brushes the idea aside that he could be persuaded by geno's scent, but if you read between the lines, geno gets exactly what he wants [even if sid does control how he gets it].

geno does pump out more of his scent, it does make sid stupid, and it does make sid fuck him. geno asks sid to mark him up [because thats what geno wants], but he does it in a way where sid thinks he's getting what he wants [to show ownership of geno]. and so sid does what geno wants! ultimately geno gets everything he asks for in that scene.)

all of that led to the end, which was inspired by someone in the sidgeno discord saying that omegas should top more often. i really wanted to contrast when they're in "public" vs when they're home, in their safe space. they would never ever do this on the road, this ultimate taboo, but when its just the two of them, they're allowed to be more vulnerable with each other and sid is allowed to want things that he could never ever admit to. its really quite soft in a strange way.

just touching on toxic masculinity again, i wanted to explore a lot of different aspects, which is why rusty is being "indoctrinated" by sid throughout the fic and why tanger is such a sticking point as someone who is outwardly pushing back against sid's ideals.

thanks for asking! i guess i had a lot to say about that fic! everyone in the comments seemed to really connect with tanger and enjoy his scenes the most so sorry i didnt talk about him hardly at all, haha!

[satancopilotsmytardis]

Director's commentary on LOV logging on in general?

This is a series I never intended to make, and I would say this is the one that really acted as a gateway for me to start letting myself get even more out there with my content. Something about how well it was received alongside the general silliness of the concept made me feel like I could really just do whatever I wanted, and people would still probably at least give it a chance, so you can thank this one for paving the way for all of the strangeness that followed!

[utahmammoth]

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Dealers choice!!

eek i never actually get asks for these memes lolol hiiii

need to talk about one of my favorite fics ive ever written - tarnished but so grand which is my natejo bdsm sub/sub infidelity au

i have sooo many thoughts about this AU and genuinely could write like a million words about it but i want to focus in on what @mi-kko-ran-tanen asked about when he first read it

gonna talk about his second question mostly but also touch on the third and fourth:

so nate and jo are really in opposition with each other when it comes to how they view their partners, which was really fun to explore for me.

nate sees himself in that fic as someone who doesn't need a dom, just that it's expected of him to have one and be in a relationship. he doesn't consider himself needing subspace or wanting charlotte to have much control over his life (because he's still carrying such a torch for jo and part of him is still living in that 17 year old innocence of we can still do this). and there's some cognitive dissonance about that throughout the fic because whenever he's stressed or away from her, he finds himself craving subspace and needing charlotte specifically

jo on the other hand.... in my head, marie laurence has been much more of a rock for jo than charlotte has been for nate in that marie laurence was there through the entire montreal ordeal and got him through it in a much more intimate? almost? way than charlotte's needed to help nate through anything. jo relies on her a lot more, or at least he's more cognizant and self aware about how he needs her. he recognizes that the shallow subspace he can get into with nate simply isn't enough and has almost.... moved on? from that thought that like "we're meant to be, we can be together in the end" that nate still has.

that conflict is why there's so much judgement from them both about the other's submission. jo doesnt understand why nate (who is so obviously a sub that there was never any question even when they were teenagers) resists charlotte controlling aspects of his life, and nate doesnt understand why jo gives in to marie laurence's dominance. they're both approaching their relationship with each other and their relationships with their doms so radically different.