#risorambles

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thinking(TM) about using the concept of anemoi—the greek gods of wind who each represent the four cardinal directions of which they came from and the different weathers they bring—and connecting it to the metanarrative of the big four as a group of compatible characters with different origins and strengths...... just imagine borrowing the poetic epithets of boreas (the north wind god and bringer of cold winter air), specifically the ones that call him ‘sky-born, billow-driving’ and ‘(who comes) with lightning rushing’, and using them to describe Jack (at his deadliest)!

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just realized 2022 means both Brave and Rise of the Guardians are going to be 10 years old this year

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Hi, hi! So the other day I opened two (old) email notifications from both AO3 and FFN about comments on my fic (Like A Fist in the Eye, my ongoing multichapter Jarida AU, to be more precise <3) and was especially surprised by how long I have last wrote for this fandom. Both commenters even wondered if I have abandoned my fics in some way, so I feel like I should give a quick update on things while I still have the time to dip back into this blog.

First of all, I am not abandoning my fics! I’m very much still fond of this fandom and will continue to write for it - In fact I currently have 10 WIPs for ROTBTD, six of them even shaping up to be multichapters, so yeah,,, still very much in this big four brainrot until god knows when

However I’m not really in the place to write right now; life has been very much a handful these days (in a good way!!) and I literally have no time to sit down and write about these four blorbos from my shows. I’m thinking three to four months until I’m free to write fanfics again. I might drop in a few more times into tumblr and made updates like this again if I get to make some progress though; hopefully I get to post new stories sooner!

Until then, here’s a Notion screenshot to show my writing progress for LAFITE! Aside from a nameless Jarida oneshot (some of my mutuals would know this one; i kept asking them to proofread some snippets from it lol), this story is my priority right now :) 

My writing style has changed somewhat, I might even say it got better, so I feel like I should edit some stuff from Chapter 1 to suit it better. Chapter 2 is pretty much done, but i still need to do some final editing before having it proofread. Chapter 3 and 4 are closely tied so i tried to write snippets of moods and scenes for the latter all while working on the former; It’s been going pretty slow but so far I’m satisfied with how I wrote it! And while Chapter 5-6 are still nameless and pretty barebones in terms of outline, making it too soon to say anything, there’s a chance that the story might need 8 chapters for it to end well. I’m also thinking of changing the title because i just realized recently how grotesque it sounds in English lmao; hopefully I found a better variant that’s still close to the original phrase.

Thank you for reading this until the end! my fics - and LAFITE especially - got an unexpected amount of love so I feel like I should give back by providing a detailed update somehow. Cheers! 

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absolutely HATE this stage of life where i couldnt retain anything if i dont practice it constantly. i want my japanese comprehension back i want my pretty calligraphy skills back i want my notion formula skills back i want them all back!!!!!!

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please assume at any given moment that I am thinking about at least one of these:

Brave (2012) opening scene where the refined, distinguished queen elinor shamelessly plays hide and seek with her daughter and making silly bear noises to make her laugh despite the few clansmen standing guard nearby

the dunbroch triplets knowing every nook and cranny of the castle and using it to outsmart their father & visiting clansmen despite only being, like, six 

merida scaling the crone’s tooth barehanded and drinking from the fire falls just for the heck of it

“you’re a witch!” “woodcarver.” “that’s why the wisps led me here!” “woodcarver!” “you’ll change my fate!” “WOODCARVER!” “you see, it’s my mother—” 

the first prince breaking his family’s stone engraving with an axe, which also happened to be the symbol of his kingdom vs. merida tearing her family tapestry with a sword, which also happened to be the symbol of her clan

I AM MERIDA FIRSTBORN DESCENDANT OF CLAN DUNBROCH AND I’LL 👏 BE 👏 SHOOTING 👏 FOR 👏 MY 👏 OWN 👏 HAND!!!!! 👏

a freaking bear with a crown enters the room and start gesturing at the triplets to clean up their mess and they immediately made the connection that it’s mom

young macguffin and young macintosh slowly becoming friends in the background

fergus and merida roasting her suitors from their seats

the witch’s mismatched earrings

elinor saying “may the lucky arrow find its target“ moments before young dingwall’s arrow did just that, sealing her daughter’s fate as an unwilling bride vs. merida saying “you’re a beast!” seconds before slashing the family tapestry and triggering the events that will turn her mother into one

baby merida playing with her tiny horse figure in the flashback 

merida as the only one who can tell her identical brothers apart and calling each of them by name even when they’re in bear form

the contents of the witch’s cauldron turning magma-like after getting a strand of merida’s hair

how elinor, in her last moments before fully turning into bear, is probably trying to tell merida that she’s sorry, too

the fact that the first and last scenes of Brave were about a pair of mother and daughter, playing together

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HI DARLINGS

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thinking about how merida, elinor and the witch all fall under the common fairy tale archetypes - the maiden, the mother, the crone - but along the way are given space (limited as it is) to make self-serving decisions that put nontraditional twist on their roles, making the end product absolutely buckwild: a princess who is so desperate for freedom she blindly cursed her own blood, a witch who changed professions because the last time she conjured it marked her as bad business, and a queen who, in her last moments of humanity, became the one to slay the beast who’ve plagued her land. 

like idk man i could talk about this all day

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apparently i have a bad habit of disappearing without giving explanation first... sorry about that. my family tested positive for covid recently, and for the past few weeks i’ve been juggling my studies, mental health as well as taking care of my younger siblings while my parents are in the hospital. it’s not as bad as it sounds tho, things are finally looking up as i’m typing this! we’re all getting better and my parents might come back home some time this week.

however i don’t think i’ll be around here for a while, a lot of things have happened in real life and i’m not sure i can deal with fandom or writing right now. see you guys soon, and take care!