"And then I make it dramatic, emotional, and gay."

Hello, I'm Sif. I'm a writer/artist whose been in a number of fandoms over the years. I love birds, chaos, and rambling for 12 hours about the many ideas I have. A03 - Ko-Fi - FAQ Sidebar image is by hiding-in-the-vault. Icon by me.

[the-final-sif]

FAQ

“Who are you?”

I’m Sif (she/her/they/them)! I’m a writer, an artist, and I will literally never stop talking. I have an African gray named Cecil, and I love him very much.

“Where can I find you?”

Here on Tumblr, On A03 as Rosae or Sif  - Or on the dreblr discord server

Discord is the fastest way to get in contact with me, asks on tumblr can get eaten and DMs on tumblr are weird for me. I'm not active on any other platforms

“When will x/y/z update?”

I don’t know. Don’t ask me or leave comments pestering me about updating things. I have adhd, and fanfiction is a hobby that I do for myself, so I work on things as I’m able to. My focus is fickle and I tend to jump from project to project, because that’s how I have fun. When it comes to my hobbies, me having fun is the whole reason I do them. Pestering me just makes me want to do it even less. Seriously.

“Can I send you asks about x/y/z? Do you mind talking about x/y/z?”

I'm not going to be upset about any ask sent in as long as it's in good faith, but that doesn't mean I'll answer every ask I get. If I don't answer an ask, it means that I wasn't sure on an answer, I'd answered the question before, or I just didn't feel like it. Odds are it's nothing personal, if I have an issue with someone or something, then I block.

That all being said, I don't answer questions asking for personal information of any kind unless it's something I've publicly discussed. I also prefer that people do not use tone indicators in asks, or if you must, please use full words and not acronyms. I'm pretty good at reading tone in text to begin with, and I run under the assumption most asks are in good faith.

“Can I use your idea/headcanon/etc in my fic/art/etc?”

Yes! People are always welcome to use my ideas/headcanons/etc with credit. You can create stuff set in my AU/make your own takes on them. All I ask is that you don’t copy my stuff word for word (ie reposting), and give credit if heavily referencing my works. You do not need to ask my permission to use my stuff as inspiration, but if you do create something 100% feel free to tag me/send it to me! I love seeing this stuff!

“Can I repost your fic/artwork/headcanon/etc?”

Probably not. I’m okay with my chat posts and non-fictional PSAs/advice posts being reposted to other platforms (with credit). For anything else, I do not allow reposting unless you ask me first (that being said, I do sometimes give permission when asked, it just depends on the post and platform you want to repost on). Translations and Podfics are absolutely fine though!

“Will you tag (specific trigger) or (spoilers)”

Probably not, sorry! I’d like to say that I could, and I try to tag major triggers & spoilers when I remember to, but again, ADHD means I tend to be pretty scattered brained and my tagging is pretty inconsistent as a result. I don’t want to promise to tag stuff when I know I’ll probably forget at some point.

“Do you take requests/commissions/art trades/do collabs/have a ko-fi?”

I do not take formal requests or requests for unrelated fandoms/characters/etc. I love talking with people and discussing ideas, but that’s entirely on my own terms. You can still always ask me about my AUs or offer specific ideas, but if I decide to write anything for it is all up to me.

I am not currently taking commissions, but I do take them every so often when the mood strikes. I already work to support myself, and as I’ve said before, fandom is a hobby for me, so I prefer to spend that time creating things at my own pace. Since I get people asking about it, I do have a ko-fi but please don’t feel obligated to send me anything.

Art/fic trades and/or collabs are a solid maybe at any given time, depending on what I have on my plate. Hit me up on discord if you want to talk about it.

[stabbydragon]

"Love/sex is what makes us human" Wrong. It's the obsession with rectangles. look around you and count the number of rectangles you see.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#looked up and thought ‘that can’t be hard’#and then my eyes widened with horror as I realized the sheer number of rectangles everywhere#I’m . I’m horrified

It's a good shape!

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

undoubtedly my like. third most favorite thing about silksong is how undeniably woke it is. for lack of a better term. not to unironically call something woke but like. if someone tried to argue with me that hollow knight was woke, i would probably stare at them like they had two heads. like, yeah, ok, there's pronouns?? but you can't really boil down a game as nuanced and expansive as hollow knight into as slim of a category as 'woke'

but if someone tried to argue to me that silksong was woke like there's literally nothing i can say about that. i can't argue against it. and honestly i don't want to. yeah silksong is woke. i think if a misogynist tried to play silksong they would get an allergic reaction and be vaporized on the spot. and it's awesome.

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

like i remember hearing about a reddit thread where someone was going "there's a new game dropping soon and everyone's really excited about it and i'm really excited about it, but... the protagonist of the game is a WOMAN :( and i just don't really want to play a game where the main character is a WOMAN... any advice?"

and he didn't SAY the game was silksong to be fair. at least not in the body of the post. but that was the only game dropping soon that matched the description, and so everyone in the comments was like "you mean silksong?? the game about BUGS? the game that's about BUGS? where you play as a SPIDER? the BUG GAME? about BUGS? you're mad about BUG women? women who are BUGS?"

and like. that was funny even before the game came out because that's just a crazy thing to say. but THEN silksong came out AND it was woke, and it drives me up the wall. i laugh so hard i get sick. i think every one of that guy's fears came to pass in that video game, and they were all executed in the most nuanced and gorgeous and least ham-fisted way possible. he honestly might be dead. silksong might have simply killed him.

[omegasmileyface]

Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling

The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

HOLY SHIT

[definite-human]

"The Montana court separately declared that transgender people constitute a suspect class under the state's equal protection clause. In legal terms, a suspect class is a group that has historically faced such severe discrimination that any law targeting them must meet the highest level of judicial scrutiny to survive—the same standard applied to laws that discriminate on the basis of race. [...] The practical effect is sweeping: any Montana law that singles out transgender people will now face strict scrutiny, meaning the state must prove the law serves a compelling interest and is narrowly tailored to achieve it—a standard that laws almost never survive.

"Because the decision rests entirely on the Montana Constitution, it is insulated from the U.S. Supreme Court. Under the principle of adequate and independent state grounds, the federal Supreme Court cannot review a state court's interpretation of its own constitution, so long as that constitution provides more protection than the federal one. [...] What this means in practice is that Montana's transgender residents now have a constitutional shield completely independent of the Supreme Court of the United State’s decisions."

(emphases mine)

[simply-a-dream]

“don’t take it personally” how would you like me to take it then? professionally? romantically? academically?

[creative-anchorage]

[suriandtaal]

[the-true-heir-of-stars]

@silent-knife-fan I wish it was me.

[silent-knife-fan]

...

[silent-knife-fan]

[zhoudadudugongjin]

Look I love unconditional devotion love stories as much as the next person, but there's really something so deliciously raw about conditional devotion.

I have served you and I have loved you for decades, but I will not give up my principles for you. You cut out part of my heart and took it with you down that path that you insist on walking, but you walk it alone. Even when the bleeding, gaping hole you left in my chest kills me, I will not follow you.

[zhoudadudugongjin]

me everytime one of my seemingly non-specific homoerotic text posts breaks containment

[inthefallofasparrow]

[bewbin]

PROUD TO ANNOUNCE that i will be doing my laundry today. Thank you for all those who helped me get to this point in life #stayhardunlessitsdownysoft

[bewbin]

beeen seeing alot of notes of people saying this inspired them to finally do their landry. i am filled with so much emotion that i might finally fold the landry i did a few days ago. maybe

[ckret2]

getting scambot messages from random accounts that clearly used to be normal active blogs is sad enough. you know that there used to be a real person on that blog until they were tricked into handing their password to the digital fae.

but it's an entirely new level of tragic when somebody you've actually spoken to gets turned into a bot account. it's like peeking at a zombie apocalypse through the window and realizing one of the shambling corpses was your friend.

and then the zombie catches sight of you, lurches up to your window, and shouts through the glass that they accidentally reported your account to tumblr and you'll be deactivated unless you click this link.

RIP to the blog that used to DM me to tell me they liked my new chapters. Their last known words spoken before being turned, 17 hours ago: "Ggs!" They were praising someone's deadlift.

[ckret2]

the message they tried to get me with is probably the same message that got them, so for anybody who hasn't already been warned about the signs of a zombie account:

if you get something like this ↑ they're gonna follow up by instructing you to contact tumblr support on discord and give you contact info; or they're gonna link a website that looks sort of like tumblr support and say you have to email them; or any variety of "you must now contact tumblr, here is how you contact tumblr."

whatever they send you, it Does Not lead to tumblr. it leads to the master zombie that bit them and inducted them into the ranks of the undead, and will bite you the second they have your email and password. i might be confusing zombies and vampires. anyway,

it's easier to fall for these messages because the blog doesn't LOOK like a bot blog, because it ISN'T a bot blog. it's a normal person's blog that got accessed by a bot, meaning the blog's content CLEARLY looks like a real active user when you click on it. and yes—it might even be a blog you already know. sometimes bots like this go down a blog's DMs or reblogs and message people they've previously interacted with.

they got one of my treasured followers, and they can get you too. don't fall for their tricks. know the signs.

[lizbot]

No wonder she looks like a stick if she doesn't eat.

[the-final-sif]

I know I have previously bitched about how bad Steam is at selling me video games but I cannot stress the absurdity of me going into the "capitalism" tag, hoping for a simulation grinder of some sort and the second highly feature game steam attempts to show me, and I am not fucking kidding, Call Of Duty Black Ops 6 from fucking 2022. I have FPSs blacklisted on steam. I closest thing I have played to an FPS is slime rancher. Steam, please, I am begging you to get your shit together.

[theoiandtuna]

Silksong does some interesting stuff where Grand Mother Silk is not a queen nor a goddess but a monarch and a god. And although Lace is literally the monarch's daughter, she's not a princess, but a knight.

I just think that's pretty neat.

[ratatosks-silly-reblogs]

and hornet is not a huntress, but a hunter. which is also neat

[the-final-sif]

And notably, Huntress is a thing that also exists. That's the name of a bug you meet. Karmelita's heart is the Hunter's Heart too. Huntress are a thing, but it seem the difference may not be a gendered one. It might be a matter of purpose or simple preference. But I do find it interesting that Hornet is consistently recongized by others as a Hunter specifically. Not just a warrior or weapon carrier. A Hunter. It seems to almost carry a particular meaning or status with it?

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

one of my favorite parts of working on cradle is harping on shakra as like. a vehicle for horror. and like obviously there's a parasite situation and that's not so great if you're the thing the parasite is gonna put eggs in but like BEYOND that-

isn't it crazy how shakra sets up calling rings for herself?? is it not crazy how shakra can set up a ring in the kingdom of music- in the HAMLET of BELLS, WHICH RING ALSO- and the second she hears the unique pitch of HER ring, she'll just. come back?? where was she? how far away was she? doesn't matter i guess. here she is. it's shakra.

we've seen the way that hornet picks up trails because we use it as a mapping system for a couple of quests. hornet will find an item of importance- a recent item of importance, mind you- and pick up the scent. then she'll carry that scent with her for a little while, until she has to find the next source of it.

but shakra can seemingly follow significantly older trails for a significantly longer stretch of time. what is she even smelling?? we don't ever see her master's beads until we're seconds away from actually running into her. she tracks her master through hunter's march. i would imagine that pheromone trails are more common than blades of grass in a place so heavily dominated by ants. how did she pick up a trail in a place like that??

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

"your sword made a sound that sounded slightly different from all the other sounds, so i just flew over absurdly quickly. what did you need" girl you are the scariest fucking bug on earth

[the-final-sif]

While Shakra's hearing is good, I don't actually think she's tracking her master by scent, she uses trail to refer to what seem to be primarily physical signs

"These root-woven roads show evidence of my master's passage. A thrice-crushed bug, gouged wood, score-prints of sharp claws passing. Small signs that only I can read. Though the trail is cold, it eases me to know she is still within this land."

This is the most detail we get on the topic in shellwood, it seems like she's primarily looking for signs of battle. Given that the pilgrams don't fight, and her master's rings are a unique weapon, this makes sense for tracking purposes. It also makes sense that Shakra struggles to track her master in the wormways where physical signs would fade faster.

So probably not refering to a scent trail given she never reference scent at all in her dialogue. But wasps do seem to have very keen hearing. When Shakra thinks her master might be in an area, she sings asusming her master would hear her even against howling winds. She also fucking hates that one sinner's road bench for being loud. Sensory nightmare for poor Shakra. Please get better at the parkour Hornet this is so bad for her.

[acidgums]

I'm an absolute slay the spire noob but I'm having a good time with the freaks 👍

[senblades]

Why do you stay?

[nonaferatu]

This would have had me crucified on tumblr 10 years ago but maybe we are ready for this conversation now:

If you are a socially anxious person, you have to socialize. Your panic/anxiety attacks will only get worse and trigger more frequently if you constantly avoid contact with The Public. Not saying that you need to be a social butterfly- but there is a genuine problem with not being able to order your own meal at a restaurant. And it cannot be solved by always having someone else do it for you.

This is a PSA to about 3/4s of the Portland Youth populace

[nonaferatu]

everyone who reblogs this and is like "I ordered my own tea this week" or "I only barfed once when I had to give a presentation'- you are doing amazing sweetie. Have patience with yourself, you are relearning a skill so difficult that people get 4 year degrees to do it professionally.

[amphibianshaped]