#hard4softthings

[darkangel0410]

this might be the best asks of all time bc our DMs are nothing but hater-nation and we are ultimately the correct ones. SOOOOO; 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 12, 16, 18, 19, 24 - i had to ask so many bc your opinions are my FAV lmaooooo but feel free to *not* answer any you dont want!

We ARE always the correct ones - eventually people will realize it 🙄

the character everyone gets wrong

Listen, I have a list of players I'm going to take away from fandom because of crimes of mischaracterization and the list includes, but is not limited to: Matthew (Tkachuk), Jack (Eichel), Trevor, Jamie. Sometimes I swear people haven't ever spoken to a real live boy when they write the convos these guys have in fic

2. a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom

I'll be strong and not turn this into an opportunity for my bottom!Jamie agenda, and instead say: Jack Eichel isn't a top - he wants to be fucked often and well, and would also like a few smacks on the ass before and after, thanks. He won't hesitate to tell whoever's fucking him what they're doing wrong, either.

3. screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

THERE ARE SO MANY WRONG TAKES ON HERE, WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE???? but easily the worst take I see on any given day is every single take about Matt (Tkachuk) and how his dad hates him and how he needs a fake gf because his dad's is ASHAMED of him or whatever the fuck people have decided is the new hot trauma to put him through - they've turned Matt into the fandom crier and I hate it with every fiber of my being

6. which ship fans are the most annoying?

for me, personally, it's any x reader/ yn or whatever writer who doesn't put their shit behind a read more (Also Nolan Moyle is not a dom, like come the fuck on people)

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

Crosby, full stop. I cannot stand the way fandom is with him and I can't even watch him play hockey and enjoy it any more

12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

The Knights. Just. The whole roster lmaooo

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

Rule 63, full stop. I don't get why people write it, why they never put in any actual character work into it when they do, and it gives me homophobic vibes (like in general, as a trope, not a specific fic). Like you change everything about someone, and the way the world sees them, the way it interacts with them, and I'm supposed to believe that every single thing happens exactly the same???? Pull the other leg, it has bells on

18. it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

Alex Turcotte, My Beloved - truly he's so pretty and sweet and plays good hockey and is just someone fandom needs to pay more attention to

19. you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...

I don't do shame, but I do find it kind of funny how much I love a/b/o now because I used to absolutely hate it when it first showed up lmaooo

24. topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

Censorship, 1000% because besides being gross on it's own, it's always dragging purity wank in with it and I've seen so much of that shit, I hate it

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Thanks for asking bestie!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ (choose violence ask game)

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[stardustsea]

Top 5 movies of all time

In no particular order bc cutting it down to 5 is already a crime against my soul but: set it up, inception, pacific rim, top gun maverick, into the spiderverse (I haven't watched the sequel yet)

And special shoutout to iconic old faves: talladega nights, zombieland, so many dcoms, the mummy

Thanks <333

Ask me my top 5 anything

[pepsi-maxwell]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NEIGHBOR!!! (is it april 8th or 9th?) I don't care where you live you're still my neighbor and my closest confidant even tho we never talk i don't give a shit lmao HAVE THE BEST ONE!!! YOU MAKE THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE! CHEERS!!! <3

wahhh THANK YOU!!! it's april 9th for me :D though i'm willing to make it a whole birthday weekend :D

yesss!! we're dash buddy neighbors, and honestly i can't watch a hockey game without thinking "oh hey leo loves/hates/is indifferent to this team" shfjfjfj

thank you <333 and same to you! 😘

[darkangel0410]

i want trevor/alex from you!!! (you can do Cali OT3 if you want!) 🐬😒😚🐕🐇🥄🍭 - and any others if you want!

Trevor/Alex my beloved!!!!!!!

🐬 - Who made the first move?

Trevor definitely - while they were playing spin the bottle, he deliberately stopped the bottle on Alex and dragged him off to make out when Alex started blushing

😒 - Do they get jealous easily?

When they're younger they do, yeah - they're each convinced the other one's slumming it, and are waiting for the other shoe to drop, but by the time they're both regulars in the league, and playing well, they're confident in each other and their relationship and it's not really a problem

😚 - When one gets sick, what does the other do? 

Alex definitely dotes because Trevor turns into the biggest baby when he's sick and wants cuddles from Alex and pats on the back and to be fed soup, and given crackers and everything else he asks for

Alex mostly just wants to sleep so he lays down with his head in Trevor's lap and Trevor plays with his hair and puts on Alex's favorite shows for them to watch

(When it's concussions making ALex sisk, Trevor puts in the darkest blackout curtains he can find, and takes everything that makes any noise out of their room, and puts his phone on the lowest light (just so he can check the time when he needs to), and lays down with Alex and rubs his back, and cuddles him when he needs it, and helps him to the bathroom is he needs that, too)

🐕 - Who is the most affectionate?

They're both pretty affectionate, but I think Trevor's more of a PDA guy than Alex is

🐇 - Who wants to cuddle the other longer in the morning? 

Trevor loves to cuddle, at any given opportunity he's latching onto Alex and wrapping around him like an octopus - especially after they're done fucking, he loves being all sweaty and sticky with Alex

🥄 - Who is the big spoon and who is the little spoon? 

Alex is definitely the little spoon, he likes being surrounded by Trevor

🍭  -What are their nicknames for each other? 

Alex gets 'sweetheart' and 'baby' alot, and he calls Trevor 'babe', 'Trevvy' if he wants to be annoying, and 'sweetheart' when he's feeling sappy

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Thank for asking me about Trevor and Alex!! I love getting a chance to talk about them! ❤️❤️❤️ (otp asks)

[darkangel0410]

1, 2, 5 (necromancer fic), 9, 12, & 13!

1. What fic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never read any of your work? (In other words, what do you think is the best introduction to your fics?)

Ooohhh, this is a tough one, tbh - I think it mostly depends on what they're into, but necromancer au is probably one of the best things I've ever written, imo, and it has some great worldbuilding and a super hot sex scene so you get a little bit of everything that I'm good at in re: writing

2. Go to your AO3 “Works” page, to the sidebar with all the filters, and click the drop-down arrow for “Additional Tags.” What are your top 3-5 most used tags? Do you think they accurately represent your writing habits?

I'M CACKLING, IT'S SIBLING INCEST, A/B/O AND BDSM SO YEAH THAT SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT ALKNFNSKDKAS

5. What do you wish someone would ask you about [insert fic]? Answer it now!

Ooohhh lets see, what do I wish someone had asked me about necromancer au, hmmmm. Well, I was surprised why no one asked me why werewolves eat the old Alpha when they become the new one and the answers are two-fold, really: 1. it's to help stress the fact that werewolves aren't human, even tho they look like them a lot of the time, 2. there's a thing in this verse called 'living memory of the pack' and it's a time of magic that's specific to werewolves that allows Alphas to share memories, i.e. Owen 'inherited' all of Jamie Benn's memories when he killed him and ate his body the night Owen became Alpha; Benn had all of the memories of the Alpha that came before him (Mike Mondano), and so on and so forth. The Pontchartin Pack has an unbroken line of Alphas back to the late 1700s, so Owen, as the newest Alpha has access to every Alphas memories from back then until present day, hidden in a part of his brain until he needs them for whatever reason (the same magic that makes it possible for humans to become werewolves also help him with that).

12. Are there any tropes you used to dislike but have grown on you?

omg you're gonna laugh your ass off, but I used to HATE a/b/o and mpreg 😂😂😂😂 and then one day someone went into the comments on one of peterick fics and said something along the lines of "thank god you don't write any of that disgusting a/b/o fic, I would hate to have to stop reading your stuff" and I was like OH YEAH BITCH and wrote Come Get Me and the rest is history lmaooo

13. Are there any tropes you used to like but don’t anymore?

Hmmm, I'm coming up blank, tbh - maybe amnesia? 😂😂😂

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Thank you for the ask!!!! Answering it was a lot of fun!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

(fic writers ask)

[darkangel0410]

2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 14

sorry so many its only bc im obsessed with you and love your brain! and really genuinely interested in how it works!

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Don't apologize, I love talking writing stuff with you!!! This did get super long, tho, so I'm putting it under a cut:

2) What is your favorite fic of yours?

I mean, the real answer is all of them, lbr, but I'm really proud of trouble at my door (the necromancer au!!) because I love the worldbuilding I did, and it's basically the first case fic I ever wrote, and fight scenes that don't lead to sex!!! And a really good sex scene, too, if I do say so myself

3) What fic of yours do you think is underrated?

Hmmm, there's a couple answers for this, one of which is trouble at my door again, lol, but probably (this one) to the grave - it's an ultra rarepair (Chris Kreider/John Tavares), but I love the werewolf worldbuilding I dit, and sometimes I think about revisiting it

4) What fic of yours were you surprised by how popular it was?

Oh, probably any Tkachuks or Hughes (or Fantilis now, I guess lol) fic that gets over like 20 kudos or more than a couple comments, tbh. I get so much pushback from fandom (anon and otherwise) about writing it that it's always weird to me if they do well in that way

6) Do you outline your fics? If so, how?

I do not usually - for a series, I'll make notes as I go so I don't Joss myself, and if there's a case (so basically, necromancer au and in death au lmaoo) I make notes about it, but usually I just have an idea - what if Thom Bordelau was a necromancer? What if Jack Eichel was a crime lord? What if Trevor Zegras was a werewolf? and on and on forever - and then I sit down and start writing it to see what happens. After a few hundred words I mostly know how I want it to end, and what happens to get there. But I don't outline it the way plotters generally do - I tried before, when I was still figuring out my process for writing, but when I do write done everything like that first I don't want to write it anymore because the story feels told to me then, and my brain's satisfied.

8) Do you take inspiration from real life? If so how do you incorporate it into your fics?

Yeah, some - I think to a certain extent every writer does, we can't help it. As for how it ends up in fics...I think it's mostly little things, like. Someone's favorite song or drink - large iced mocha, extra chocolate from DD baybee (Turcs fave btw) - the way they tilt their head to the side when they ask questions, how impatient they are with people sometimes.

I do bring a lot of sex/kink/bdsm experience to my fic, too, I think - not necessarily in the sense that I write everyone having the same kinks as me, but I've been around kink and dungeons almost my whole adult life so there's stuff I know how to write that I'm not always into, and it makes it easier to have seen it done irl, or know someone who's into whatever I'm writing.

It also means I get a lot of people poking at me, through their own fic or in my inbox, about stuff that I've written, but at least there's hardly any death threats any more, unlike when I first started writing bdsm AUs/fics 😂😂😂

14) What is something you wrote in a fic that you are hoping readers picked up on but you don't know if they did? And/or, what is something that you were excited that readers did pick up on?

Oh this is such a good question - there's a couple, really, one of which is in (take this) to your grave by the end of that fic John's a very specific kind of crazy, and I love when readers picked up on that ❤️❤️❤️ there's also a part in the godlings verse where it's explained why Auston always looks so cranky when he's in Toronto (it's because he's the son of Apollo and he loathes cold weather lol) and I love the couple people who picked up on it 💕💕💕

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Thank you for asking!!!! It was alot of fun!! ❤️❤️❤️ (fic writers ask meme)

[darkangel0410]

get your knuckles bloody for me 👁️🫦👁️ PLS????

Ooohhh that's a good choice!!!! It's part of my werewolf series bleed out for you (heads up if you want to check it out: the first fic is Matt/Brady, but it's tagged and they're not in the second fic at all), enjoy!:

The first time Noah sees Leon after he gets traded to Calgary is during warm-ups when they're in Edmonton for a pre-season game; he skates a little too close to the blue line and Noah turns and bares his teeth at him, a warning growl in his throat.

Leon growls back at him, clearly not intimidated, and Noah's wolf presses against his skin, interested in the other wolf across from them; for the first time Noah feels the urge to fight: to bite and claw, to attack until Leon makes him stop.

It feels like revelation almost and it's enough to make Noah freeze for a few seconds, eyes locked with the other wolf.

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Thank you for asking!!! ❤️❤️❤️ (WIP meme)