motivational necrosis

Posting things about other things (they/them)

[necronatural]

I made a webpage for all 4 of my mob psycho AUs with all the art I've done broken up into easily digestible sections for the PEOPLE (and for me who likes ordering things arbitrarily)

Contains summary and all art for Masterswap, Curseswap, Cursekid, and Reigen Youko.

[wyrvel]

Broadcast from Erid (20 days transit): 🎵Moon project underway. We found a human. Description matches human, at least. Our new human is very ill. Thank you for biology files, we can provide treatment. Dome is not ready, however. - A very sick Simon is discovered on Erid's moon as the Hail Mary makes its way home.

first bloodymary fic kind of nervous

[galileosballs]

This interview with Ncuti Gatwa crossed my dash again, and I was reminded of how much I like it. Because it makes the rare Third Argument for representation in fiction, the argument I think is the best, and I'm always happy to see it. I quote:

At times, Gatwa’s casting in those projects has been dismissed as an exercise in ‘box-ticking’. Gatwa scoffs. ‘First of all, you don’t know anything about me. Secondly, tick fcking boxes! People need to be fcking seen. What are you going to do, tell the same stories? Have the same people fronting things for all of eternity? Representation and inclusivity and branching out… it enriches us all. How embarrassing. You people with your tiny mindsets – open a book, look out the window and then f*ck off.’ (source)

What do I mean by the Third Argument? Well, I'm not sure I've ever made a post about this directly, but as far as I can see it, there are three main arguments for greater diversity in popular media. The first two are the most common, and they go like this:

It is good for media to be diverse because it is good for people to see people like them on screen. That is, the beneficiaries are marginalized people.

It is good for media to be diverse because it is good for people to see and learn about people who are not like them through art. That is, the beneficiaries are non-marginalized people, who then (hopefully) pass on the benefit by treating marginalized people better.

These two arguments are the source of a lot of debate here on ye olde tumblr. Despite both being arguments for representation, they pull in different directions. What counts as 'good' representation for the purposes of Argument 1 often would not be good for the purposes of Argument 2, and vice versa. Authentic versus sympathetic. Ugly or over-sanitized. You see this debate play out constantly. It's really hard for a piece of - say - queer media to do both at once.

But these debates tend to leave out Argument 3, the one that Gatwa is making above. And that argument cuts through a lot of this debate.

3. It is good for media to be diverse because art needs variety. The beneficiary of representation is art itself, absent any social effects that may or may not be present.

For this argument, diverse stories are intrinsically good. It is good to make art that's not just the same thing you've seen a hundred times before. Putting the kinds of people who don't often make it into mainstream media into your art is an extremely efficient way to make that happen. It's not the only method, but it's a really good method.

For representation to be 'good representation' according to Argument 3, all it needs to be is interesting. A story you haven't heard before, at least not in that medium. That which counts as 'bad representation' by the lights of this argument are stock characters, like the Eternally Patient Mother, the Gay Best Friend, the Wise Black Advisor. Perhaps there was a time in which these characters were new, but that time has long passed. There's no art in pulling a bog-standard character trope off the shelf. Show us a new kind of guy. The world is infinitely diverse. You're not going to run out. Telling the same stories with the same voices for all eternity, as Gatwa says, is boring. Even if there was nothing else wrong with it, this would be. Art isn't supposed to be boring.

And that's why Argument 3 is my favourite. I do want the world to be a better place, of course, and I think art is a part of that. But the main job of art is to be good as art. And diversity in all aspects of the production of art makes art better.

[wyrvel]

read your ageswap lore page and was blown away by how cool it was and then got absolutely blindsided by the last entry being 'mob becomes transgender' im fuckin dying omg love it

Surprise! It was all an allegory for gender dysphoria

[wyrvel]

I procrastinated on this for two years. Wanted to finish my WIPs so here it is

MP100 Cursekid AU Mogami Arc - Mob astral projects into Arataka's body to confront the "curse Mogami" trapped inside him.

Curse Mogami's personality is based heavily on Minori's, as she is ma'am-not-appearing-in-this-AU

[wyrvel]

still redrawing old panels

[wyrvel]

visibly 2-year-old wip

[wyrvel]

[wyrvel]

visibly 2-year-old wip

[wyrvel]

I love your blog and Kurouji is amazing. will we know what his wife looks like? does her name mean anything? how was the senju and uchiha peace with Kurouji, the leader of the Uchiha clan, instead of Madara?

Kurouji doesn't have a wife, and wouldn't have a wife if he became a founder of Konoha. A little flummoxed here since its been 2-3 years did I ever mention a wife

[wyrvel]

hi

I reread the without a softness showing series. It's been roughly 3 years since my last read (according to my bookmarks at least) and God. Do you know the way sometimes you can go back to a fic and it doesn't hit the same? Yeah, none of that. You and Simkjrs both make it so so easy to fall in love with the way you write your characters, and feeling emotionally attached to them.

It was an intimate experience. I genuinely felt a bit like a voyeur, peaking at the events occurring in Izuna's own mind, and into the workings of the Uchiha clan. I think the best way to sum up how I felt by the end of the tulmutous emotional journey Izuna takes us through, is achingly sad. The horrifying experiences of war, and the reality of body-defilement that all the characters living in this world have to endure, most especially the Uchiha clan, that have the threat of bloodline thieves among other things constantly hanging over their heads. The difficult parental relationships, and the complicated sibling relationships too, Izuna's constant need to keep up with all the expectations placed on him as the clan heir, and needing to keep up with Tobirama's monstrous growth rate. The grief, and painful experiences that he has had to deal with, that still have his soul in their grip. Izuna's duty to his clan, the responsibility that comes with being born into power. The depth and meticulous writing of all these issues bring Izuna utterly too life, and convey with them the force of all his strongly felt emotions. The events occurring are full of political underlying forces, and personal aspects relating to each character, and it is so deeply nuanced and tragic that the only word that does not feel too overbearing or incapable of describing the truth of my own emotions is sad. That sadness that comes with the weight of the whole world with it, and leaves pangs of aches. It is extremely hard to not deeply relate to Izuna as a character. The world building in this work is simply amazing. Details for how different clans operate inwardly, intra-clan politics, and intra-clan wars very clearly show how much thought went into fleshing it all out.

Anyways. Moral of the story is I love you, this is amazing and I was writing a much much longer proper review but it got. Deleted. So. Off to write a lil message for Simkjrs. Oh, and I absolutely love Kuroji, and the little interactions izuna had with him at night, and yeah. God I was sobbing. I'll write a proper review again someday.

Thank you for your beautiful message 🥹

Izuna was really a gateway to me for writing really involved character writing. He was conceived as the most volatile possible outsider POV to Tobirama's autism, but once Simkjrs picked up Tobirama, it also became a challenge of making Izuna's behaviour really erratic to Tobirama's outsider POV, particularly Tobirama's very repressed, painstakingly maintained rules and obligations. Trying to make them perfect foils carved new pathways in my brain.

Very little of what Izuna does makes sense, because everything he does is dominated by insecurity and reflexive emotional reactions, and writing a character who is impossible to interpret on the outside that also makes perfect sense to a reader provides you a really awesome pov experience. I highly recommend everyone to try writing an unreliable narrator who's hobby is lying to themselves.

I'm especially touched by how vivid the world is to you because... I did sort of wing a lot of it and patched holes as I went. lol.

[wyrvel]

GREAT GSGW FIC 🙏 thank you

Thank you so much. It is literally killing me that after writing the first E-rated GSGW fic on AO3 which was fuck or die room every single E-rated fic from that point on has been fuck or die room (and all of them slap. to be clear) and im like should i abandon the fic i was writing to give you guys more weird kinks because i could do that

[wyrvel]

just read your fanfic which was awesome. Braun: Don’t know what this sex is like but an entertainer always does their best to put on a good show

Braun: SEX IS ACTUALLY KIND OF COOL AND IM THE BEST AT IT

Kim: *Bleeding profusely* Yeah you did really well for your first time.

(a friend you can't leave)

braun: i understand perfectly. sex is when you give me (ONLY ME) permission to see you broken down and vulnerable and needy and you act like a tart (for me only)

kim soleum: ok no, when friends have casual sex its actually just

braun:

kim soleum: you know what. nevermind

[luxphobia]

girlswap defined by the absence

au by @wyrvel

yeah this au still hasnt let me go

non official dbta playlist

[wyrvel]

i was looking for dead-eyed tsuna rn, and i remember a while back you posted about it so much and had oc sheets and everything, there was a sequel, why is it all gone can i ask?? were u planning on releasing an original novel with the premise cuz i would be so locked in

I accidentally deleted my blog. I am not kidding

I did process it into OCs; its not a good fic at all but making it fundamentally altered my character design and storytelling so I needed her salvaged.

I didn't know how I'd write it though...probably visual novel.

[wyrvel]

love my new comment-induced rereads of WASS. why were they both so fucking crazy

[wyrvel]

Tobirama can keep up with Kurouji's intellectual pace.

Motivational Necrosis

kurouji clan head au again

[wyrvel]

What would a game of Shogi between Kurouji and Tobirama be like?

Dead silence. They both think carefully about their options and are perfectly sedate. They bow and leave without saying anything when they are done. World peace is achieved