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finding pictures of sir pat and sir ian being adorable for chapter seven is also killing me because old cherik makes my soul ache they better gtfo themselves in the altered timeline because there wasn’t that amazing handholding scene in that monastery about lost time for just any reason frickers

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hello good x-folks on my list, what fics are you mostest proud of? i’m going to dig into y’alls archives because i want to give back for all the support y’all have shown me, and i know i’m gonna like what i find. but i want to know if there’s a story y’all want a flailing comment (or twenty) on :D :D crossover, slice of life, idc. gimme!!!

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me, reading fic at 1am: I need to leave a comment showing my appreciation of this fine content!

me:

me: *types “STEVEN!!”, presses post*

me: yes exactly perfect nailed it

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Rules: Complete the fifteen questions and tag ten others who you follow but you want to get to know more! I can’t recall if anyone’s done this yet -- if any Cheriks haven’t, please do so! 8)

Tagged by @gerec

Name: Emily (Em, Lina)

Age: 35

Country: USA

Favourite colour: Emerald Green

When you made this blog: 2013; I’ve been on Tumblr since 2010!

Follower count: 944

Choose a superhero power: Super-Strength (but not TOO strong!)

Favourite drink: Earl Grey Tea

A song you love right now: Ocean (feat. Dave Gahan) - Goldfrapp

Dream career: Creative Works Consultant

Dream vacations: Korea, Japan, New Orleans, UK, Guatemala

Hogwarts house: According to every test ever, in the entire world, a Gryffindor that thinks she should be a Hufflepuff.

Favourite character of the week: Connor from DBH and Charles Xavier from X-Men Alt-TL Movies are my victims of the moment uhhh my muses! :);;;;

How you like to keep your hair: Taper cut w/ a side part

Christmas or Halloween?: Christmas!

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just little writing anxiety things

I’m re-reading WTW on my kindle app to mark things I need to edit when I have more time and like. I’m so embarrassed about some of these typos and dangling leads. Like, today I learned that suddenly Erik has his briefcase but I decided he didn’t and I forgot to take that out. I can fix that right now, at least... it’s important because when he gets it back it’s a Gentle Plot Point. And a trigger for another flashback since Erik’s POV is lousy with them.

I hope everyone forgives me for it -- I do edit, I swear! I even take breaks before I go back to the story, and I generally read it on my phone as I can process things differently there.

I also hope it’s obvious that I’m changing the “voice” between Erik & Charles as much as possible and not suddenly forgetting common grammar and flow rules. They have drastically different thought patterns and I have to do a LOT of editing on Erik’s to make his more forthright and to-the-point. And clearly forgetting the concepts of space and time in the process.

...I just remembered I have a great app (Voice Dream) that I bought ages ago that has some great text-to-speech options if you load a *.doc or *.pdf into it. OMG. I used it last December to listen through my NaNo17 project, but also -- I can listen to fic again. Even if it’s a little stilted at times, you can find some really great voices for a little extra cash that are way more natural.

ANYWAY, post to say: I do my best to edit, but things always slip through. Blehgh!

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I know I have so much reading/social stuff to reply to everyone! I’ve just stretched myself a bit thin apparently:( Still writing though—that’s good, right?

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detroit become hyoomans

i went into dbh thinking it was just a game about a twink robot and his old man who chase a rebel leader with a blond boyfriend + really heavy-handed metaphors about civil rights & discrimination and probably dumb choices on female characters

what i got from dbh is that the gameplay was some of my favorite (usually i hate QT events), i was delighted/surprised by it having THREE playable storylines!!!, i like the old man and twink robot but i also want twink robot and rebel leader to kiss?, still some weird choices with female characters (north’s endgame was ??? where did my blow shit up girl go ???) + yeah those were some PRETTY heavy-handed metaphors all right at the end there though i’m glad they had black/black-coded characters saying some of the things said but! but. gosh guys find other words for certain topics yikes-o

so i love hank/connor, which i know is a Problem for people, but also connor/markus! and north/markus but he’d never be comfortable with the way she LOSES HER ENTIRE PERSONALITY in the last part of the game. also kara/luther clearly but i wish we had more dialog between them like they had at the end where he’s like LOOK UHHH WE’RE GONNA DIE and she’s like NAH, because, also yes. (the whole KARA WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT ALICE thing kills me though) also another pairing which shall remain nameless because it’s Really Bizarre and no one else ships it, i’m sure, no don’t ask me it’s m/f and i’ll leave it at that

i do like how the Best Ending is supposed to be one with the most moral choices but a few that were like SELF PRESERVATION YO

but ALSO hank anderson was totally a punching-nazi antifa motherfricker and i love him.

so what i’m saying is that fandom confused me but what i got was a much better game than i thought, that i enjoyed playing and interacting with critically, because everything is flawed as fuck, also i cried like ten times, The End

Also I Made A Playlist

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wtw behind-the-scenes!!!

So, as we all know, we have two seconds of footage in the film of Raven & Charles getting along and being cute together rather than a little or a LOT fussy, so it’s hard for me to go back to the source material and get Inspired for them being chatty and stupid together.

LO AND BEHOLD, BENEATH THIS CUT, I SHALL SHARE WITH YOU MY DARK SECRET TO GETTING INTO THE MOOD TO WRITE THESE TWO IDIOTS AS FRIENDS & SIBLINGS... MY DEEP WRITER’S RECOURSE... (AND ALSO A HINT INTO THE WEIRD SHIT I WATCH ON YOUTUBE...)

BUT ESPECIALLY