1. In the years following the fall of the Phantom King, Leon and Takumi lead their countries through a changing world. In weighty moments in between, they navigate their relationship with each other.

    Epilogue.

    Or, start from the beginning.

  2. Tags: #Yes I know it's been a long time. #Sorry it took so long. #I did finish this for the readers though. #I might not come back this way again #So I hope you've enjoyed what I've had to offer.
     
     


  3. Finished Persona 5 a week ago or so. Wrote up my thoughts for anyone who’s curious.

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  5. hazeljng:

    INTROSPECTION

    (A drawing I did for another project, but I tuned it up a bit and made the image size not so awkward!)

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  7. Realistically I will probably never finish this. Just felt like playing with colors and composition tonight I guess. And I’ve had Soujirou on the mind.

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  9. ammie-plays-fe14:

    I just finished rereading most of the Fates one-shots I’ve written and have come to the realization that, barring the vampire crack and pregnancy crack, pretty much everything is incredibly sad. Even the fluffy boyfriends h/c is incredibly sad. Actually, I don’t know if it’s h/c so much as just h insofar as the cuddling only serves to drive home mc’s inability to solve his bf’s problems.

    “ammie I don’t think you understand what ‘happy ending’ means” yeah I’m starting to… see that…

    Conversely, though, I think I’ve rarely expressed the full extent of my dark worldview in my writing. “Life in Reverse” is maybe the only story where I didn’t offer my characters some piece of saccharine hope that I don’t honestly have.

    (This is very much on my mind as I try to construct JoW’s epilogue based on what should happen based on what I’ve written while irl I don’t feel half as much at peace.)

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  11. Tournament of Lies: A weird experimental retelling of Radiant Dawn Part 3 where Soren and Zelgius square off in information/disinformation campaigns as they try to break each other’s well-entrenched front lines. Maybe through this they also somehow come to realize each other’s secret identities and there can be some fun with that, and the way they are foils in their attachment to their masters.

    The Red Leaf: since I already gave a serious answer can I just say that my mind went straight to terrible Leif puns and never left

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  13. harblkun asked: made up titles: "A Lucid Nightmare" and "The Quiet"

    “A Lucid Nightmare” is too straightforward for my taste when it comes to a story that’s actually about something horrifying. I’d be most likely to use it as a title for crackfic. Say, some older gen FE characters dream that they’re playing the parts of new age FE game characters, and they’re horrified at all the things grumpy FE elitists are horrified at? ww

    “The Quiet” strikes me as a strangely good title for the big crossover asylum AU I’d been pondering a few years back. The perspective character, and hence the main plot, follows Tinny. She cries a lot. She has a lot to cry about. Her arc involves trying to get in contact with her angry biker brother (Arthur), the only one who she thinks loves her. Getting in contact with someone is a lot harder when you’re as cut off from the world as you are under her circumstances. Anyway, honorable mentions include Henry, who hides his pills and flushes them down the toilet because he’s fucking lonely and the voices he hears keep him company, and Lewyn, who is, ironically, a shrink.

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  15. damoselcastel asked: Title meme: Triple Platinum

    Band AU, except instead of being about the cool rock star life I’d probably write about the imaginary nature of the relationship between star and fan, because when is my writing ever not about the failure of people to connect?

    One-sided Pelleas/Micaiah works well here. I can see the story taking place in that vulnerable period where Pelleas has just been handed a small commercial success he feels like he doesn’t deserve. Micaiah, whose recent work hit triple platinum, helped promote Pelleas and that probably had quite a lot to do with it.

    Now an artist in his own right, Pelleas’s relationship to the Dawn Brigade isn’t that of being purely a fan. But he can’t think of himself as being on their level either. And at the same time he feels like Micaiah must be able to see inside him, given how her songs pierce him (she is not actually psychic in this AU).

    Is “Pelleas is a mess” a story? Idk most of my stories boil down to something like that, don’t they? :p

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  17. send me a made-up fic title and i’ll tell you what i would write to go with it

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  19. allegedgreywarden:

    I see a lot of writing advice, particularly about giving characters flaws. The main advice is “everyone has flaws! make sure to give your character flaws or else it’s not realistic!” And after thinking about it… I would like to challenge this.

    It essentially posits a view of human nature that there are good and bad traits, and that these traits can be neatly diagrammed into separate columns, one set of which can and should be eliminated. It tends to go along with a view that posits character development should be about scrubbing away of “flawed” traits until the character achieves more a higher level of goodness, or else the character doesn’t and falls into tragedy. This is not untrue, necessarily. There are definitely some “flaws” that are 100% bad and sometimes a good arc is about slowly losing them. However, I could call this advice incomplete.

    Consider thinking about it this way. Characters have traits and often whether or not that trait is a flaw is purely circumstantial.

    For instance, fairy tales I read as a child. In some, when an old beggar asked for money on the road, it was a secret test of character. The prince who gave the old man money or food would be rewarded. But in other folktales I read, the old beggar would be malevolent, and any prince who stooped to help him would be beaten, punished for letting his guard down. Now, in a story as well as in real life, either of these scenarios can occur–a stranger who asks for help can be benevolent or malevolent. So which is the flaw? Is it a “flaw” to be compassionate? or is it a “flaw” to be guarded? 

    Trick question–it’s purely conditional. Both traits are simultaneously a strength and a weakness. Either has an advantage, but either comes with a price as well. And whether the price is greater than the advantage depends on circumstance. The same can be said for most character traits, in fact!

    An agreeable character who gets along with everyone will be pressured into agreeing with something atrocious because it’s a commonly held viewpoint. A character who’s principled and holds firm even under great pressure will take much, much longer to change their mind when they are actually in the wrong. A character who loves animals and loves to shower them with affection will get bitten if they try the same on every animal. As the circumstances change, flaws become strengths, and strengths become weaknesses. And even a trait that’s wholly virtuous, such as compassion, comes with a price and can be turned for the worst.

    You don’t have to think about inserting flaws into your character. Your character, even the most perfect “Mary Sue,” is already flawed the moment you give her any traits at all. The problem with Mary Sue isn’t a lack of flaws, it’s a lack of circumstances to challenge her properly, to show her paying the natural price. Your job as an author is to create circumstances in the narrative that 1) justify why these traits exist in your character 2) show what your character gains from these traits and then 3) change the circumstances to challenge her. 

    Make your character pay the price for their traits, for their choices. And then, when challenged, you can make a hell of a story by showing us how they adapt, or why they stick to their guns anyway.

    (via julystorms)

  20. Tags: #writing #this #the key trait of a mary sue isn't overpowered specialness #it's sycophancy