#steinbecks

[anghraine]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! 🔪🔪🔪🔪

Thank you!!!!

KNIFE DAY KNIFE DAY KNIFE DAY

[razingreason]

Quick and sloppy late birthday gift for @steinbecks

[laerugo]

📓 and horizon zero dawn bc i'm replaying it!

!!!!! you're replaying!! just in time for me to possibly revisit this series because I heard forbidden west is releasing onto PC soon so I might be able to replay it for the first time since launch

I had a fic idea some time ago about Aloy getting a warning about Ersa and going off on her own to save her without Erend. she gets to Dervahl's base or whatever and realizes that this situation is so politically sticky that killing Dervahl may hurt Oseram-Carja relations, so she has to sneak Ersa out to avoid threatening relations with Avad, whose help she still needs. I can't really remember if there was a stronger justification for this other than I wanted to see Aloy try a stealthy approach vs human enemies other than slaughtering everyone in sight, and then as she travels south with Ersa, they have to avoid towns and villages because Aloy is paranoid and doesn't know who Dervahl has in his pocket.

this would all be be told through journal entries written by Aloy, for some reason, because the twist would be that Aloy had transcribed their journey south and was now being read by Erend after Aloy had made it to Meridian. there would be daily entries describing Ersa's condition and deterioration as Aloy realized she might die on the way there, and Ersa and Aloy having a chance to actually talk as Ersa realizes she's 1) been kidnapped, and 2) dying a very painful, slow death, but 3) still being taken care of by a stranger who refuses to abandon her. unfortunately though Aloy is not a licensed doctor and her idea of medical care is "just slap some red berries on the wound," so I think Ersa surviving air embolism from her eardrums bursting after being dragged a hundred miles is still pretty low.

sadly "fix-it fic" isn't really my go-to sort of thing, and despite me disliking Horizon's trend of killing sisters I actually do think Ersa's death fits Horizon's theme of "we can't erase tragedy, we can only move forward." so in my head Ersa still dies, but she just makes it back to Meridian and manages to hang on for maybe a few days, long enough to say goodbye to Erend/Avad, and that I think would inspire Erend and Avad to trust Aloy a lot more than Avad just hearing about Ersa passing after the fact. and Erend goes "Oh. this girl I barely met snuck into an enemy base and dragged my dying sister back home to me so I could say goodbye" which I think would make their friendship resonate with me a little more than "I met a girl in some backwater town and immediately started flirting with her."

Put "📓" or some other version of a book emoji into my inbox and I'll explain the plot of a fanfiction that I haven't written but daydream about.

[dxmichelle]

WORDLE 👁️

This fic is still in the drafting stage so there’s nothing officially written yet, but there are two different variations that I could go with. Essentially “friendly competition” in something so simple as a word game does not exist when your last name is Kaiba.

Option 1: Nerdship

Option 2: Gen/Rivalship

Either way, one or both will end up the theme of this year’s Twelve Days of Fic-Mas, so long as I actually get around to writing them this year. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[kuriboh-i-choose-you]

36, 41, 44 :)

36. how many alarms do you have set?

This is the worst question you could’ve asked me 😂 when there is someone sleeping in the same room: three because I’m more likely to wake up on the first one to not disturb others. If I’m alone:

41. you gotta have a favorite beatles song, what is it?

Let It Be ♥️

44. do you collect anything?

I collect many things but I’ll list three! Egyptology books, makeup palettes, and stickers (:

[garuye]

your "pegasus with a bun" art with the is just SO good. The hair! The line work! the perfectly-posed hand with the paintbrush! love it.

Thank you!!! I’m glad you like it!! I can’t express gratitude well with words, so have a little cutout Pegasus!

[kaiayame]

who is your favorite person from california

i was just thinking about you & was about to msg you something

i wanted to answer with something funny so I googled “people from california” and john steinbeck came up first, lol the internet sees what i’m doing. 

it’s YOU *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ

[paladin-kai]