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Mina starting out as an actor and finally getting a lead in a tiny play in a playhouse like, under a grocery store, and Haruka buying tickets for every single one even though it stretches her budget and supporting her friend with flowers

um omg yes????? Haruka sits in the audience even when she’s the only one and gives Mina a standing ovation and a bouquet every time???? 

THANK YOU FOR THIS PURE IMAGERY

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Re: Imaginary Friends bc I can't reply for some reason - WOW this was amazing. Re: Imaginary Friends bc I can't reply for some reason - I'm so invested in Haruka and her family, I just want her to get to be happy! Would honestly love to see the Michiru POV I bet it's fascinating. I'm so worried about you everyone here, amazing job, great atmosphere!

Thank you so much! I might post the old Michiru POV fic to the patreon, if there’s any interest there. 

vassekocho said: This is sooooo good. I love Haruka’s inner voice, the small mistakes she makes, the ways she reminds herself she doesn’t belong (even if she clearly does). Mako and Mina cameos are great, I always enjoy seeing other girls in your AUs. The ending line sent chills down my spine, and as sudden as it is it’s also the perfect open ending to a horror story. Filing this away as one of my favorites.

Thank you! Haruka’s inner voice is really tough for me to write in, and this is by far the longest I’ve done it for, so it makes me so happy to know it worked for you

simplymindspace said: I shall most certainly post my thoughts on this when I have more time later today/nite. But just, DAMN DOC. JUST DAMN.

You’re the only one I can be this forward with BUT IF WORDS FAIL YOU A SKETCH IS FINE

skylineofspace said: I really love the way you build characters in your stories, by putting in details that are off from what one might think as the default of a situation, and then tying them together with a reveal. It works really well for both Haruka being adopted and for Michiru’s goal at the end.

 Thank you so much!! When I started this AU, a lot of my “stock” solutions for Haruka and Michiru didn’t quite work, so in some ways it was really challenging to make my own conceptions of character hold against this setup, especially when we CAN’T see what Michiru is thinking or feeling. But I think I like what I ended up with! 

Keyofjetwolf said: “and another half of my brain, the part that was the worst at math” ACTUAL LOL

THANK YOU I THOUGHT IT WAS PRETTY FUNNY

: MOUSE IS HERE TOOOOO (I now realize that Mouse has appeared a hell of a lot more than I realized, which I feel particularly daft about. STILL. MOUSE.)(Though maybe Ghost Mouse? I’m thinking very possibly. Did Michiru kill you, buddy?)

MOUSE ENDS UP A LOT OF PLACES ahaahah 

GHOST MICHIRU IS LONELY AND HAS WANTS AND DOESN’T REALLY CARE WHETHER YOU SHARE THEM HARUKA I love that you’ve made her dangerous.

I was just thinking about Michiru, and what if she’d spent a hundred years watching and waiting, and finally saw something she wanted? Something she craved. 

“She had the same look in her eyes, and they were even stranger in full color, like they’d seen everything, and wouldn’t tell you, they would just let you drown.” This is one of those lines you come across every now and then, where it’s just so fucking good you kind of want to scream. God.

THANK YOU SO MUCH I LIKED IT TOO

“She was talented and set to marry Mamoru Chiba” WELL I’D PROBABLY FLING MYSELF TOO HONEST

AHAHAH

“Of course we want to come to your giant palatial mansion, holy shit rich kid.” Mina was about as nice about this as usual. ANOTHER LOL

THANK

“Ow!” She threw off the sheet. “Oh my god, I’ve been hit by a popcorn ball but also inspiration. Let’s do some ouija board shit!” Oh my god Minako you fucking idiot, this is amazing, my anxiety just shot through the roof.

I AM SO GLAD. Horror and humor are the two hardest things to write, i think. 

The glass moved again, not waiting for a hand. C..A..T..G..O..T…Y…O…U..R..T…O…N..G…U…E..? –Michiru finally gets to speak and this is what she says. MICHIRU KAIOH YOU ARE DEAD BUT YOU SHOULD ALSO BE ASHAMED

MICHIRU PLS

Man, I have so many ouija board shit, this really sticks with me. I’m glad you went there.

I LOVE TO SCARE YOU SO SO AM I

“Mina’s right. I’ll go into the basement for a pretty girl.” I love this. LOVE this. That despite everything, despite KNOWING better, Haruka’s convinced herself on some level that Michiru’s not dangerous. And it’s such a stupid fucking thing to do, but Haruka – EVEN MORE HERE PERHAPS THAN USUAL – as a goddamn martyr complex and wants to save the fucking world and everyone in it. And she, too, is lonely, and wants to love and be loved, and she wants a girlfriend and god, she’s just SO UNSPEAKABLY STUPID about this, but so understandably, and I adore it so fucking much. If there were one genre that would be yours, I think we’d agree it would be horror. And I love how the person is much at the root of it. Haruka’s being haunted, but it’s her own nature that’s really doing her in here. Those are ideas that are always so present your horror stories, and it makes them just so delicious.

THANK YOU. Yes I feel like horror is personal, and this moment, that sentence, is the linchpin of what I think this is for Haruka. That she can’t leave it alone. Despite everything she knows about MIchiru she feels BAD. She feels like she can save her. And that strange goodness that Michiru, if we could hear her side, could barely understand, well, that just makes her bolder. 

“I don’t know what she wants. But I think it’s me.” WAIT THAT’S IT THAT CAN’T BE IT WHAT THE FUCK HOLLIGAY WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE F

AND YET

Shadowsarefriendstoo said: This is a fucking masterpiece. Those layers add a depth to this otherwise fairly simple storyline in a way that sent actual chills crawling down my arms. Not just in the…spoopy scenes if you will- but those tiny emotions mentioned, the parallel and that lingering sense of insanity are so seamlessly woven throughout the writing. Gah, I just love it. Haunting beyond Michiru’s ghost who was being really fucking extra and creepy as well. Good god, she’s dead and she’s still the more dominant of the two.

Thank you so much!! This means a lot to me, and thank you for reblogging it! 

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awashsquid replied to your post “Can/t”

Wow, this is a bit of a darker take on McCree than I'm used to, but I really like it. I hadn't really considered the mechanics of him in Talon, but going back to what's familiar makes sense, and his conflict over this feels raw and real. Also, I fucking love his cats' names, holy shit, I am 100% stealing that for my headcanons of him.

I got a lot of versions of this comment, and, I confess, I read VERY VERY little OW fanfiction, I mostly play with my GI Joes in my corner and have no idea what the fanon is at this point, but I’m still sort of surprised? Do people just not imagine that rural western americans also have rich inner lives filled with emotional complexity? 

I mean, on another tack, I’m a writer, and expanding a character out of the sketches we’re given in OW (and they really are only sketches) is just a thing you do, you know? 

I DON’T KNOW WHY NO ONE IS GIVING MCCREE EMOTIONAL COMPLEXITY BUT NOW I’M LIKE...SPITE DRIVEN INTO WRITING MCCREE. 

foxwine replied to your post “Can/t”

Your version of McCree is so sad and pensive. I really like this interpretation of him.

Thanks! 

paksenarrion-reader replied to your post “Can/t”

I really like how McCree's world is divided into things he can and can't do, instead of into good and evil

I mean, morality is a pretty difficult and dodgy subject, when we get down to it, and I’ve always thought of it this way--there are things I CNA do, and things I CAN’T, and what they are from the outside is anther discussion altogether

taikuroba replied to your post “Can/t”

This was fantastic!!

Thank you!

paksenarrion-reader replied to your post “Can/t”

oh hi, Shadow Mercy from Exodus is back in another flashback

YES THANK YOU my Totally Original OC Do Not Steal Jewish cowgirl outlaw I was hoping someone would recognize her. 

rhiorhino replied to your post “Can/t”rhiorhino replied to your post “Can/t”

Tracer and her "get-well" basket filled with shit that won't actually heal you but were (ostensibly) things she either thought he liked or had seen him consume is beautiful and I laughed at the description of them all being "cowboy" things. Although what fuckin "get well" basket has anything healthy in it Idk, so props to Tracer for not giving him a giant basket of chocolate and flowers

It’s even better if you know that in my head I had it arranged like one of those “man bouquets” so please picture tracer making this:

rhiorhino replied to your post “Can/t”

Also all my love to Cat Dad Mcree smooching his cats and throwing shade on the other Talon members for side-eyeing him lmao

CAT DAD MCCREE FOR LIFE

rhiorhino replied to your post “Can/t”

Oh man I am SO GLAD I went with McCree! This is great, I love how you're developing his character. He feels like a lonely kind of guy even when he's got a team (who don't seem to necessarily go out of their way to reach out to him the way Tracer did.) He's lonely but he still needs people in his life, or some kind of stability maybe, so he came to work with Gabe-who-isnt-really-Gabe-anymore

Yeah the whole idea of him being unfailingly loyal to Gabe, and when does that break, and how much of Gabe has to still be in Reaper for McCree to stay? How Long before McCree and Tracer just both stand up in front of 76 and Reaper and go “Hey, interesting point! We’re getting shot because of your pissing match, mostly, fells like.” 

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taikuroba replied to your post “Vampire”

The ability to write in someone else's voice is truly impressive!! I love here how Lena's subconscious seems to be trying to warn her, especially since at the end it's clear that she DOES know on some level. Very well done, the doomed nature of Widow/Tracer is such a fascinating read!

THANK YOU IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT and I’m still not 100% happy with the result

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In regards to the WKTD fic: Holy!! Wow! I can't wait to read the rest of this, you're amazing! The amount hinted at here, the layers of rich atmosphere, it's amazing!

Thank you so much for this! I’ve been working so hard on this, and everything you said makes me feel so good about it, thank you, thank you. 

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taikuroba replied to your post: eesh, vet trip cost $170~ but Binx has got little...

That’s good! Poor baby really hurt himself bad :/

It didn’t end up being as bad as we initially thought tho! Doc said it was mostly the placement that was the worst, since every time he walked on it he’d open it up again, but that it wasn’t very deep. Still no idea what he found to cut himself on but I bet you it was some bit of flooring or smth. Binx seems more fussed about the stitches than the wound, the little shit. -A

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taikuroba replied to your post: freeshootingzora replied to your post “We cut...

Any reason?

We’d been growing it out the same way for, what almost 2 years I think? And its def a style we’ll go back to at some point but I missed having short floofy hair to muss. Not to mention its easier upkeep and we’ll get more chances to try different cuts as it grows out without having to worry about keeping the same line each time. -A

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taikuroba replied to your post: taikuroba replied to your post “The pharmacy we...

Niiice that’s the expected haul for used paperbacks tbh. Also Star Wars.

We’ve yet to see a single Star Wars book, oddly enough. Very few of the other old series either, like dragonlance or forgotten realms. They might be in the boxes tho and not on the shelves.