#makemesay

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So uh, I can’t say I have no idea why people are asking me this, because obviously I do, but just to be clear this is not in fact that part that’s my area?

Anyway - to my very-invested-in-certain-blues-and-their-business knowledge, all of Aitim Neli’s children and niblings are completely fine and exactly where they’re supposed to be, and none of them have been um, kidnapped by (ex?) reds to blackmail Afen Kisantami. Or something.

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Rational thoughts me: oh, yes, what’s happening in the news can effect the fic people write, like other cultural surroundings! It makes sense that people are processing/getting ideas/getting ideas off each other and so we see this uptick in ‘Anitam invades somewhere’ as a plot point. And naturally while real-life invasions are horrific and focus should be on those on the ground, in fanfic-.

Fanfic-reading thoughts me: yes good give me these “we have a giant orbital laser/super genetically enhanced greys/radio control of all insects/whatever” ‘negotiation speeches’ I would like many more of those thank you.

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Well, if isn’t the season of ‘I am such and such blue’s secret lover and they paid for me to get a credit and have their secret baby!’ fic. 

(Or, depending on what you’re into, ‘I am such and such blue’s secret child and they’re paying for me to have a credit and have their secret grandbaby’, of course!)

Hereby accepting recs to brighten up my springtime :D 

(on my end, from some previous years:

Probably going to be rereading who else but you another few dozen hundred times this year. 

From Around the Corner finds some... interesting ways to deal with the usual inconvenient lineality problems. 

And on the more humorous side, Just One Thing I Haven’t Told You features the entire cast of Crossing having ended up in this situation! (And some pretty excellent political shenanigans to go along with it all!))

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[for makemesay] noticed you were getting drama so here's a bunch of pictures of ~our favorite~ [link goes to a collection of gifs people have made from aitim's interviews and campaign ads. some of them are edited so that colors are brighter or lighting is better; most of them catch really, really nice smiles.]

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aaahhhhhhhhh

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!! 👀👀👀

🔥🔥

💙💙💙

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anyway!

There’s the ask content I want to see, folks!

(Thanks anon, that definitely brightened up my ask box and made my day :DDD)

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oh my stars tag your dead babies people!!

I will happily cry one-handed over the horrible induced miscarriage and the exclamation point to all that time in the evil genetic science lab and all that, I just need some advance notice!

(And, you know, not everyone’s into the one-handed crying, let alone on this topic. Tag. your. fucking. work.) 

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Selinde's government was trying to phase in the Voan system except it wasn't working cuz changing systems is hard and the Voan system sucks. They were holding on because of dumb uneducated purples but then the food crisis happened. People were so mad at Voa that they voted them out of office except that then a bunch of people who thought they'd get a baby didn't. Then they voted some of them back in, but a person they voted in switched sides. They've voted in a new government each year since.

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In the future I would prefer, um, more politically neutral type descriptions? That also don’t randomly insult people?

But, thank you for the info!

*does year counting*

Is the continued upheaval thing still about child credit systems or is something else-all going on?

(Is the system they’re attempting to replace just a credit auction or…)

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Kink meme: Dressing up

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So in fic this is actually not so much my thing, mostly because my description->image mapping really doesn’t run at all. I just end up staring going ‘so what was it again’, or just skimming past.

Fanart is great though! And tv, and public appearances, of course. (You know what’s hot? Robes; those are hot.)

Also one of those things I do sure enjoy doing myself! Swish swish :))

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Kink meme: Blackmail

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You all read my mind! :D

(Or, you know, my blog).

The best is when it’s something that shouldn’t even be the kind of thing that gets you in trouble - if anything, it’s the opposite. But it sure is, and someone knows, and you can’t let it get out for yourself or the mission…