#jaelijn

[sugarbabywenkexing]

Hi there! I seem to vaguely remember that it was you who set up / manages the Blake's 7 AO3 feed blog to tumblr - just ignore this if I'm wrong and sorry to have bothered you! If you know who does manage the thing, please let me know. Otherwise, if it is you: I noticed that since the tumblr updates, a bunch of things in the feed posts broke, like all the links which is probably the most important part of the feed. Is there any way to fix those?

It is me! The links are quite important, so I'll try and get that fixed. Thanks for letting me know!

[foreignobjecticus]

I know it's a black cat so it should be the other way around, but my first thought for this /696019523001843712 was "Avon put a basket on Vila for... idk. Reasons."

AHAHA YES

Doesn’t even need reasons. This is just perfect anyway.

Equally valid is: Vila put a basket on Avon and as soon as he escapes, Vila is *dead meat*. lololololol

[souljellied]

I'd be thrilled if you picked up your B7 fics again! I was sad to see you drop out of the fandom back when and would love it if you felt inspired for it once more!

y'know I was just looking at my prompt list the other day and thinking it's about time I finished those WIPs! CL got my heart again, and recently KP, but I am going to put some time aside for a B7 canon review sometime in the new year :D (also thank you for the encouragement, this is so nice to hear!)

[foreignobjecticus]

So... I've seen you tag several posts now with "oh, this was finished back in August '21" and the important question of course is: are you secretly a time traveller?

They're onto me - run!

Ahahah but actually these are the perils of working in travel - you’re always living about a year ahead. Even reading this ask, I had to look at my calendar AND stop. Wait. Yes, the computer clock is correct. Good. (The work I was avoiding was making brochures for 2022 so you can see why I'm living in the future.)

[certified-diplodocus]

Same re: CR#2 - I'm kinda excited to be able to keep up with a campaign live, though! I never would have caught up without a fresh start, since I do kinda want to watch/listen to it all and only discovered CR in the first place when they were 100 episodes into the second campaign. I'm still planning to catch up on the Mighty Nein on the side, but I'm also excited for what's to come!

Yeah, I'm writing (for a given value of "writing") a CR1 fic, so I told myself I could only start Campaign 2 when the fic was done, to prevent distractions... which worked about as well as you'd expect. Self-denial is a poor motivator.

But yeah, watching a campaign live is gonny be interesting! Something else to obsess over while waiting for Saturday D&D to roll round.

[foreignobjecticus]

I don't know if it helps, but as someone who's done their fair share of trope reversals for consent-related tropes, I have found that the way to resolve these is to give both persons involved back their full agency. I have little experience with hanahaki, but "I would rather die than lose this" is agency, as is "I'm not important enough to die for", as is "the disease relies on not saying, but convincing the other person the love is genuine". It relies on it being explicitly mutual, though.

Ask continued:

And actually "he would never believe me now!" is actually character conflict material for the non-hanahaki person, too, that would be fun to resolve. I think perhaps that the trope works better with unexpressed love than it does with actually, really unrequited love, because I don't believe in falling in love because someone else loves you either, nor is "the person is literally dying because of you" the ideal situation for that. Anyway.

Good points! And good food for thought along with @acitymadeofsong ‘s observation that these kinds of fics do kind of work better as small things/drabbles.

I definitely think the properly unrequited love thing turning into actual love is the real believability-killer; it’s gotta be unexpressed love.

With these points in mind, approaching a new re-write this way may well fix the things that were holding the original fics back! Good conversation! (I’ve wanted to post our @hadescavedish hanahaki since we wrote it in October so now I’ll have a third crack at it later. Say it with me again? After RnF)

[foreignobjecticus]

4. for the OTP asks - you know which one. ;)

Excellent let’s go Egrorian/Meegat WAIT. No. Dear god no. Let’s not do that. Avon/Vila thank you!

4. How would they describe each other to loved ones who haven’t met their partner yet?

Ho boy this one made me have to think outside of the box! The trick being most of the characters know each other already.

I actually sat on this ask for a few days because I initially was going to respond to it with a mini fic based on a hc where Avon meets someone close to Vila but then, as well as that not QUITE being the prompt, I found out that the character’s name we picked was actually in a fic I was recced so I’m glad I didn’t because I’d look like such a rip off monster ahahha. 

(I do enjoy how Avon introduces Vila in Powerplay. Avon, you’re such a bitch.)

Avon:

“You want to know what Vila is like? And you’ve not sustained a blow to the head? Well, you might wish you had after you meet him. He’s a Delta, around my height, less hair than sense, if you can believe it. What does he do? Oh, not much usually. He can pick locks and crack safes though, remarkably well. We do keep him around for something besides emptying bottles.“

I think however Avon speaks, even to loved ones, he’d probably have a hard time being directly complimentary. He’s built up a walls for everyone, regardless of how close they are, and he’s not just going to lower them and get all mushy when speaking about Vila (even if he is definitely crazy about him). 

Vila:

“Anyone special? Uh, actually, there’s this guy... Avon. Maybe you’ve heard of him? He’s a really good- yeah yeah! Kerr Avon! Yes, really! He’s such a wonderful technician and- wha- yes, but- that was ONE time. He’s changed now. Kind of... well, we won a bit in Freedom City so he doesn’t need to do that kind of thing anymore. Of course he’s not just after me for my money!“

It’s hard to describe your boyfriend when he’s a well-known criminal and the Federation’s #2 wanted man (forget Bayban). Vila would be conservative when speaking about Avon, but honestly - get a few drinks into him and he will GUSH about him.

I hope these fit the prompts okay! It’s given me too many ideas I want to run away with and marry ahhhhhhhh Thanks for the ask!

[dickspeightjrs]

jaelijn replied to your photo “Dumped this on all my other social media so I thought I’d do the same...”

Congrats on graduating and all the best for the future!

thank you so much <3