You raise an interesting point, tumblr user hrafnaun, completely based author of Sick (complimentary) Ghost Western AU.
It IS weird that only one Papa has been covered in guuuuuuuu:
As far as I can tell, all Papas except Nihil have an aversion to being goopy. The closest we get is Papas I & II, who both seem to enjoy digging for gold:
(Secondo also stuck a Sharpie up his nose but I don't feel like looking for the picture. He takes the silver medal for this extra effort.)
The next closest any Papa gets to guuup is Terzo, pictured here with a food item which I used to know but have forgotten. I thought it was pickles? But I guess not? Is it mustard? Sauerkraut? Who knows? All I know is it looks guuuupy.
After Terzo's Jar of Mystery Guuuuuuuu we get to Cardi and cake, which isn't guuuuuupy, but frosting is a kind of guuuuuuuuuuuuuu so it gets partial credit:
Then we hit the liquids:
Alas! Not very guupy at all.
And then we get to this disappointment:
This man should be slimy. He should be nothing BUT guuuuuu. It should be slopping off him every second he's onstage, but no, he just wants to play-act as a Xenomorph without delivering the goods.
THIS IS WHAT WE WANT, PAPA V PERPETUA! THESE ARE THE GOODS!
WHY ARE YOU SO DRY !
This cunt really just stands on top of a well, teasing us with how wet he COULD be.
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Ok wait wait for the wip game so many of your wips piqued my interest... Of course the romulus and remus one seems great, BUT i have questions... "Copia ghost"? As in Ghost the band or as in ghost a regular ghost? 👀 Is he haunting perp? A ghoul?
AND if you allow me to ask about two wips... "in heat"? Am I being horny on main and it's actually a fic taking place during summertime or is what I think it is? 🥵
hello!!!! so I answered an ask about the Romulus and Remus one here if u wanna check it out :3
I had to dig deep but here’s a snippet I wrote a while ago that’s pretty similar to what I have on ellipsus for the ghost copia wip. so the ghost!copia idea is where copia dies at the end of rhrn instead of Sister and he returns as a ghost. in this AU, ghosts don’t exist, so Copia’s case is very special. only perpetua can see him, too. it’s an idea I had knocking around my brain for a bit while I started working on your zenith, my other au. maybe I’ll write it in its entirety some day? idk :3c
and uhhh yes the “in heat copia” is where copia is in heat, it’s kinda part of a another wip (that I finished this month!) where perpetua is in heat. I won’t go into details cuz it’s copvia but uhh yeah :3
For the hungry ask box: when you write, how do you do it? Phone, laptop, something else? Tea, coffee, nothing? Music or no music? Absolute silence or background noises? In public places or at home? Tell the good folks assembled here about your process and personal preferences 🫶
thank you! music is necessary I loop either a song or a playlist/artist for the Mindset. Laptop wherever possible, I have a millennial's instincts. I answer the Big Asks on the laptop too - my thoughts flow more freely this way. Phone is for Talking, Laptop is for Thinking. In winter, decaf tea or coffee (I miss caffeine and it used to be mandatory), in summer, spicy water. I can't GET absolute silence sadly because our air conditioner is possessed and it's summer, but as long as i have the music I'm OK - but if my husband is home and he is playing video or trying to talk to me it Ain't Happening - so I try to write in the other room or when he's not home. Can write at home or in Writing Conducive Public Spaces like a library or coffee shop, but nowhere with a huge crowd. Headphones creating a bubble in this situation is a must.
my AuDHD is crippling so my writing process is USUALLY being Ensnared by a Feeling or a Vibe or a Headcanon and getting into a Headspace with the music on and word vomiting until I have something, then rereading it as if I hadn't written it to edit. But since I'm currently attempting a Long Thing which goes against the grain of everything in my entire being, it's...well same tactics really but having to actually THINK more than FEEL which hurts, and doing it in tiny chunks to appease the little demon that lives in my head and craves diverse stimuli.
Oh and I always have at least three tabs open. The writing, a google for reference, and discord, because while I get in a Zone and don't check messages when the flow state hits, if it Doesn't Hit then sometimes I need to look at things Other Humans are saying in my direction to reorient even if it has nothing to do with what I'm writing
Random gonst question, fandom edition: in what AU that doesn't exist (as far as you know) would you like to see the Ghost characters? (Personally i'd say cyberpunk or pacific rim)
I was immediately so taken by the idea of a Pacific Rim x Gonst AU that all other concepts fell away.
Giggling and breaking out my glitter gel pens to whip up an Antipope Drift Compatibility Chart
All of the Papas immediately refuse to even consider piloting with Nihil.
I could see a scenario where it's the eleventh hour and Cardi and V are all that's left, and Cardi looks at V like, "Okay, fine, I'll do it....................brother (ಥ﹏ಥ)" and they share an emotional moment but there's no time to dwell on it, the Jaeger is warming up and they've gotta just get out there and do their duty.
Anyway it looks like it's gonna come down to Seco and Terzo closing The Rift, humanity is doomed, Primo is so happy,
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What sort of character(s) do/did you play in Skyrim? Do you play with mods or not? Do you have hills to die on? Hot takes? Favourite guilds? Tell me everything that you have to say 🙏
omg thank you! Strap in. Cut because this is insufferably long
I have been playing since shortly after release and the game is 15 years old so I have played every race and every class combination. I've taken destruction mage, conjuration/illusion/stealth mage, stealth assassin, and sword and shield through to end game (that is to say, most if not all major side quests completed and vanilla main quest complete). I've finished Dawnguard with the stealth mage and the sword and board (and other one off alts without completing the main quest), and I know I have finished Dragonborn at least three times but it's my least favorite DLC so I don't remember which characters I did it with.
That's my nuclear hot take by the way. I wasn't a Morrowind fan like a large majority of elder scrolls nerds, so the nostalgia bait in Dragonborn did nothing for me, and it also featured spindly exploding spiders and a large difficulty spike. So. It's not my fave. My other hot take is that I actually enjoy the creation club content and don't consider Anniversary Edition to be a waste of my money. Particularly the fishing quest line (yes really) is kinda fire as you work through it.
I have played a lot with both mods and vanilla. For the fic I have brewing in my head I am going to be going modless but assuming the Creation Club counts as canon - mostly so that Cardi can have the pet Skeever. I put a lot of hours unmodded in on my nintendo switch. I've played it on PC, xbox, and switch - xbox is where I have had the most play since my chronic pain made it so that any game navigable with WASD keys makes the hands and arms go hurty ow ow. First on the 360, then the one, then the one x or s or whatever the new machine is. xbox allows for modding as long as you do it through the bethesda mod download portal (since nexus etc. isn't possible on console).
My essential mods are the follower mods Inigo and Lucien. They have patchless banter with each other so the game is suddenly less lonely and it turns your Skyrim into a Dragon Age (also the mod author for Lucien, Joseph Russell, is an excellent human being who once killed me in minecraft and I am not kidding).
I LIKE to have a perk tree overhaul but I can play with the vanilla one fine and I prefer a lighter one like Vokrii than the bigger more bells and whistles version. I absolutely require a cheat room (since xbox can't do console commands) and something that doubles perk points on level ups. I enjoy one that adds cooking fires to the inns for utility and another that makes pet dogs unkillable (just because dogs should not die). There's this suite of house mods (Seapoint Settlement which also adds the Seaview home, Waterview, Valleyview, and ones in the Reach and Eastmarch I forget the names of) that are very nice and my favorite homes to live in if I'm using the disc space for them instead of living in the Creation Club homes. I also use a mod that unlocks certain racial features - skintones, eye colors, that are "just" for elves or humans etc are now for everyone. Sometimes hairstyles if I'm feeling really adventurous. I used to do a lot of body modding - usually to make the women fat (on PC where you can find that) or at least curvier (what's available on xbox - we hate the whims of horny men who make these things). I don't anymore. It just led to a lot of lag for a character model I rarely looked at anyway. I do still sometimes download a cool armor or weapon to try though. Oh. And I enjoy having early access to a summonable steed of some kind. Not necessary. But a luxury I like. Another luxury I'll install is chooseable thieves guild missions or similar things - nothing that changes the narrative of a quest, just things that make it easier to work around.
Though speaking of mods, you'll notice my mod list is a lot shorter than most people's and it's got a lot of "I like this I don't need it". One of my hills to die on is this: Skyrim is a good game. It's not, like a lot of gamers say, a game that's only good if you mod it to death and back. It's an actually legitimately good game.
I love all of the major guilds in the game and I wish the bard's college had been fleshed out to stand beside them instead of being a single short quest line. Mage's college is the most in need of more narrative love but I don't hate it. The thieves' guild, dark brotherhood, and the companions, are all my beloveds. I have feels and headcanons about the characters in all of them (though the DB headcanons are heavily influenced by the fanfiction of Ao3 author ms_katonic who wrote an AMAZING set of AUs, one being "What if Cicero were the Dragonborn?" and "What if Jarl Elisif were the Dragonborn?", the latter spun out into a Dragon Age crossover that I stopped following once it covered Veilguard just to avoid spoilers).
I tend to default to Bretons and High Elves when I play, though when I started playing I did Imperials a lot. I have made it very far in a character of every playable race at least once, and possibly every gender thereof too. My least played is Redguard - one of my gripes with the graphic engine is how bad dark skinned characters look in most lightings. When I'm not in it for the long haul, just looking to make a character to have fun on for awhile, I do two handed greatsword - I don't think I have ever finished the game on a character who wields that actually, but it's my turn brain off hit things go brrrr playstyle choice so I have made and deleted a lot of those. But the fun isn't as sustainable.
I always roleplay heavily when I'm playing Skyrim! I invest in the character, decide their relationship with the NPCs, tell a story in my head, etc. I get INVESTED. Standouts include Gem-Snatcher, argonian wizard, who is the only one of my playable characters who took Inigo to Sovngarde (I haven't gotten that far in a game with Lucien, I discovered follower mods woefully late). There's Reyva, the dunmer alchemist merchant who eventually become a powerful illusionist/conjurer and married Ulfric Stormcloak (I had mods and was going through a phase). Hrodgar, the nord sword and board crusader who was a stand in for some of my gender feelings at the time - and Nonus Niro, an imperial sword and board character who was very much the same and who I played kind of like a knight. Florent the Breton thief who went blind and became an armorsmith on Solstheim in his old age. Daewen the horrifying high elf assassin who killed Vittoria Vici and then with the help of console commands married her widower and made him babysit her kids while she was off killing an emperor. Anika the nord barbarian who I ended up playing in a D&D campaign with my friends and her trans sister Belle (formerly Janus) the alchemist and the sprawling lore I gave their families. Vogotha the Wise, Orcish master craftswoman and trader who stole her dowry and ran from the clan she was set to be married to in order to start the Wayward Wives Trading Company (she and Gem-Snatcher are Lesbians together). My very first, Aelfscine the breton who married Marcurio and had a janky build because I didn't understand the game yet. Cinxia the pit fighter from Cyrodiil who rose to lead the companions, my first game completion character. I always tell myself a story when I play Skyrim, it's always a long one, and I have a whole army of OCs who live rent free in my head now.
A few rapid fire hot takes: the Forsworn should have been joinable. Yes they're murderous cannibals but they're also rebelling indigenous people in occupied land. I used to have strong feelings on the Civil War - over the 15 years I have had the strong feelings on both sides actually. Now I just side with the Imperials because I hate both sides but I don't want Jarl Idgrod Ravencrone to be out of a job. Serana needs to stay unromanceable and the people who mod to force that need to be locked in a room with the people who mod Dorian Pavus in Dragon Age to romance female characters and the two sets of sinners need to rethink why they want to force a rape victim (Serana) and a gay man (Dorian) to conform to their lusts. I'm not kink shaming (I'm a ship and let ship including all self ships) I'm kink side-eyeing. Speaking of shipping, Ralof and Hadvar are exes and you can't convince me otherwise.
I could go on about skyrim literally forever as Evidenced. I'm happy to say more, or dive into specific topics, if anyone ever asks me again - I am literally stopping now because this post is getting frightfully long
2. Oh no, you have to remove one Ghost song from the discography forever! Which do you choose?
I have a controversial take and it's Prime Mover. I know, I know. I agree it is a banger of a song. BUT.
The Disc Horse
I share the kink the fics are about. I'm not judging any of the people who write it, at all, ever. I support everyone in what they choose to write, forever, full stop.
But do I personally feel weird about seeing the title from a song about the trauma of rape and pregnancy used as a trope and term in fics? Yeah I do.
No more song, that cognitive dissonance disappears from my head. The fic wouldn't, there's canonical talk of a bloodline and the Papas are hot and in a satanic cult, the non con breeding kink would still exist. I just would no longer have to feel some kinda way about the lyrics "prime mover maternal slave with child of her grave" knocking around in my head when I'm trying to enjoy smut
anyway thanks for asking gonna hide under a rock now
Do you have a world state in dragon age that you consider to be your canon one? If so, please tell me more 🙏🙏🙏 who are your protagonists? What choices did they make? Who did they romance (or not)? Did accidents happen ("I didn't think this dialogue option would lead to that" kind of stuff for example 😂)? Who are your characters' closest friends or favourite NPCs or the ones they have beef with? Their thoughts on templars and mages? If you have pics it's even better I so love to see people's characters!!
aaaaa alas I don't have pictures anymore - I last played my canon characters on a device that doesn't run anymore. my busted old xbox 360 - and the pics have been lost to time. you are such a delightful person to ask me about my nerdy gaming thoughts and feelings
I have a couple of "canon" world states. To tell you the story of my journey through Dragon Age, I'll start you where I started - finding Dragon Age 2 in a bargain bin in a game stop for six dollars with no previous knowledge of the franchise. Legit in terms of bang for buck one of the best six dollars I ever spent. I was completely engrossed in the story and at the time I was working out the masculine side of my gender - so I made a male mage Hawke knowing absolutely nothing at all about the world, and HOO BOY as a mage in DA2 are you dropped in the deep end of the socio-political conflict. I met a dweeb in a sewer who was willing to give of himself to others until he collapsed, missed his cat, and confided in me after we failed to save his ex boyfriend (I found out later you don't get the bi Anders dialogue if you play as a woman which is a Tragedy and a writing failure). How could I not fall in love? I was playing a full "blue" sincerity Hawke, a bright eyed bushy tailed do-gooder. He ended that game with everyone at full blue friendship EVEN CARVER, I just was very careful about who I took on what missions. Again, I had zero spoilers - I winged the approval with guesses based on the characters. Was in love with Anders. And IRL at the time coming to terms with my place in several axises of marginalisation (queer, trans, fat lib, mental health, etc).
SO YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT THE ENDING OF DRAGON AGE 2 HIT ME LIKE A GODDAMN TON OF BRICKS.
Templars can die in a goddamn fire as far as I am concerned, and despite being devastated by his actions on my first playthrough I spared my boyfriend - on subsequent plays I definitely came to terms with my "I am only feeling betrayed because he didn't tell me and let me help him burn down the fucking Chantry" feelings. But moreover I was completely hooked on the setting from then on. How could I not be after a story hit me like that?! Not even touching on such things as Merrill and Fenris' struggles, the debacles with Leandra and your sibling, etc. People can rag on the dungeon design and gameplay all they want but the story of Dragon Age 2 is fucking amazing and I remain on the hill that it's the best in the series.
There weren't any more narrative "Accidents" from that point onward so to speak, I went into every playthrough from then on with a goddamn wiki.
Inquisition wasn't a glimmer in our eyes yet, so I went back and played Origins. My first playthrough I was a dwarf male Noble (and I still love the Game of Thronesy flavor of that Origin, I eventually played them all if not to completion) who wed Alastair to Anora, courted Zevran, and fucked Morrigan for the old god baby. He is not my Canon Event Warden but I still use him for a world state I fondly call "Archers All The Way Down" (he was one) which contains him, my Second Hawke, and any rogue I play in Inquisition (I haven't finished the game as one yet though).
I then spent years playing Origins and 2 over and over. I got very far on a mage in Origins, but I don't consider him canon, and I played all the Origins and Genders. In this time I also played my other occasionally canon Hawke, Mako Hawke, a female East-Asian looking archer who dated Isabella. (I have completed DA2 up to CLOSE to the end several times and done every romance except Sebastian but I have only done the final quest on Mako and Rowan, my first m!Hawke). I use Mako for Archers all the Way Down and another world state I call Bitches Get Things Done which is for all female heroes (more on that later).
I have two equally canon wardens because I essentially have a bifurcated timeline based on which of them is canon - they always give way to Rowan Hawke, the well intentioned male mage, unless I'm playing Bitches Get Things Done. It was in this time before Inquisition that I played my first canon warden. Roger Cousland - male human noble sword and shield man who acts the part of a noble knight but has a rotten moral core and made increasingly sketch decisions until the Deep Roads where he turned on Branka - he found a moral line he couldn't cross there, and carried her shield from then on as a reminder of going too Far. He used everyone, loved no one. He romanced all three who were available to him but ended the game married to Anora purely for power - but he was OBSESSED with Morrigan, is the father of her child, and followed her through the Elluvian instead of clinging to the throne of Fereldan, leaving his world state with a disillusioned Alistair and Anora alone on the throne (this is important in my subsequent plays of Inquisition).
When Inquisition came out I made a male Qunari named Ber'estaar (or something like that), sword and shield guy who dated Josephine, but didn't finish because my old console died and I had to buy a new one, at which point I made - Allie Trevelyan, human transgender woman mage who took advantage of the broken knight enchanter build that was possible at the time but since patched out. She got her happily ever after with Cullen and was besties with Dorian, Varric, and Sera, and she fought for mage's rights while still being mostly okay with the Chantry because she was a naive marshmallow just like Rowan Hawke before her. That world state was Roger - Rowan - Allie. This was all before any DLC for Inquisition came out - I did eventually play Trespasser with her but I never did the Deep Roads one or the Avvar one with her. She genuinely befriended Solas and was betrayed - last time. I hated the egg from then on and he and I have never been friends since. I consider her my canon inquisitor because while I have gotten AS far on other playthroughs, I have never gotten further - the IRL time gating of so many of the objectives and the ordeal you gotta go through to cheat them makes replaying it a slog that I sometimes but not often indulge.
Of course because she shared a game world with Roger Cousland, I had to choose between Alastair and my precious baby Rowan Hawke to leave in the Fade. And this was to me at the time, unacceptable.
So after I was done with Allie I played my second Canon Warden just so I had a world state where I deliberately spared Loghain JUST so I could have him fuck Morrigan and then throw him into the fade later as my Inquisitor. Her name was Lorewen, she was an elven blood mage who opened her heart to no one but earnestly befriended everyone. She made cold ruthless decisions for practicality, not malice or power grubbing like Roger Cousland, and her heart was soft beneath. She's the Warden in my Bitches Get Things Done world state, obviously, but she's also for times where I am not about that fade drama.
And so I have two bifurcated world states that are my "Canon" - the plot line breaks with who was warden and thus whether or not Loghain was spared. Roger Cousland or Lorewen - leading to Rowan Hawke who tried to hold Kirkwall together with a thread of hope and failed - leading to whatever inquisitor I'm playing that time. The furthest I got on another inquisitor was a 2h warrior human male who I played as Allie's uncle, I don't even remember the first name I gave him.
I replayed DA2 thousands of times, I have done every romance, been every flavor of Hawke - my snarky male dagger rogue courted Fenris, my warrior courted Merrill. I never, ever rival or rivalmance. I do not like the toxicity of it. I love every single one of the Kirkwall crew except Sebastian. They were my game Family for awhile. I don't have the same attachment to Origins NPCs, they're Dudes Helping Me on my Quest not Found Family. In Inquisition, I have a stronger bond with the council than the party members - Cullen, Leiliana and Josephine and to a lesser extent Cassandra and Varric (and we don't talk about the egg) have been there with me from the beginning. I ought to replay Inquisition to the finish again someday, again I always end up giving up due to frustration with the mechanics.
In general my opinion of the Dragon Age games is they're great stories but kind of lousy games, and the one I like best I like best because it's the easiest. Origins had absolutely byzantine combat and dungeons. Dragon Age 2 is a blast but a slog, substituting waves of enemies for complexity - so it's the Crappy I like best. Inquisition had great combat but the stuff I found truly fun - the administration of the inquisition, was bogged down by having to wait REAL LIFE ACTUAL HOURS.
While I am praising Dragon Age 2, the DLC for that one is fire AF. My husband and I still quote quips from Mark of the Assassin (purple Hawke's TELL THEM I DIED AT CHATEAU HAINE, the Ham tasting of Despair, etc). Legacy fucked me up with a difficulty spike that felt earned instead of forced. And Inquisition has its highlights - the ball mission managing secrets and social capital between fights is one of my favorites in any game. And the fucking Dawn Will Come scene - I did cry the first time. And Origins - I want to take a moment to highlight the approach to the Broodmother fight where the implication of what happened to Laryn sinks in - I have never had my blood as chilled by horror in a game before or since.
I am petering out of energy for the topic but am happy to elaborate any time if asked more/again. I know I didn't fully answer every question and just sort of took off from the launching pad that was your ask.
