#intpdreamer

Smacked me in the face as the only words I understood in a whole paragraph and now I desperately want to know the context.

JJFKSJDJS That he was right is in reference to this

scene; my mutual and I were discussing how JM could be an engaging dynamic if the narrative acknowledged their dysfunctionality, especially how Jon's need for Martin to be okay very straightforwardly comes across as him feeling guilty for the deaths of Tim and Sasha and projecting his humanity onto him.

I’m going to caveat that I have written so many words I don’t know if any of these are MOST anything but! They are the ones that come to mind!

🌹 Share your most poetic line.

He could have endured a quiet, wordless death in the grave of our habits.

- from Grey Desert Mythos, “most poetic” is a high bar but I do think about this line constantly. 

🤝 Share a line that introduces a character.

Digging some personal stuff out, but here’s Sentenza’s introduction from my original novel: 

The other man, who has been hanging behind Nia, now steps forward to study the body— tilting his head. His cheekbones are so sunken she could nearly map his skull just by observing him. It's then she notices his left eye is made of glass. 

He catches her gaze just as she has this realization, the narrowing of his right eye giving her a strange reassurance. She looks away, seeking out her notebook to make a sketch of the marks on the corpse’s neck.

☂️ Share your favorite description of an object.

This is breaking the “line” restriction significantly HOWEVER I really enjoy writing gamestyle fic, so from Ch 3 of my mathematician AU to Disco Elysium, Oesterle’s Derealization Claim:

Pet pic for the ask game! (cat is not actually mine, it just lived near my university accommodation, but I hope it will do)

I forgot this was in my inbox! Sorry for the delay.

Lonelyeyes

When or if I started shipping it: I was already aware of the ship thanks to memes, and I found the concept hilarious, so pretty much from the beginning.

My thoughts: Apologies for the homestuck, but they're flush/pitch vacillating. Okay, I love that their patrons are such opposites, and I love the new meaning the mortifying ordeal quote takes when it's about them. All Jonahlias ships have a distinct tragic beauty that Loneyeyes certainly possesses; it is the tragedy that comes when you have a character whose ambition and egoism force him to sacrifice everything he once had in pursuit of a selfish goal and may not even realise what he's lost. Whew. On a more... lighthearted note, the divorce jokes are fucking hilarious; they absolutely do exude divorcee energy, and it's great.

What makes me happy about them: The idea of them getting brunch with Simon and being funky and evil.

What makes me sad about them: I was going to say more about the inherent tragedy of being Jonah Magnus, but then I remembered that Peter died due to Elias's plans, so that.

Elias: Oh, no, my selfishness and hubris mean that I will never again have meaningful connections with others; I am so miserable.

Peter, who literally just died: I'm begging you to think for two seconds and realise which one of us is having the worse day.

Things done in fanfic that annoys me: Hmm, I'm not a fan of Mordechai!Peter, especially since it was jossed.

Things I look for in a fanfic: Good characterisation (I'm quite picky about that) and either humour, angst, or both.

My kinks: I have read only a handful of E-rated Lonelyeyes fics, so a larger sample size is needed. 😔

Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: Both Jonelias and Jonpeter are very good.

My happily ever after for them: Oh boy, I don't think they can have a happily ever after if that makes sense. Both the divorce jokes and more serious explorations of their relationship reflect a kind of instability in their dynamic that I find fascinating and inextricable from the ship. I believe they can be happy together, but not ever after.

Jon

How I feel about this character: Jon! My boy! The only alive main character I care about besides the obvious one! I love him; I love to project onto him.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Ohh, man. In no particular order: Elias, Peter, Michael, Gerry, Sasha, Georgie, Melanie, Tim, and Oliver. I do think some of these work better as friendships, but I have some level of investment in all of these characters as romantic partners for him.

My non-romantic OTP for them: Jon and the Admiral :pleading:

My unpopular opinion about this character: I don't think this one is that unpopular, but it's the closest thing to an unpopular Jon opinion I have: he should go apeshit on everyone who blamed and condemned him during season four, and also on Martin for being insensitive during act two of season five.

One thing I wished happened/had happened with this character in canon: I wish they hadn't gone for canon requited J*nmartin. I believe they work better as friends, and it rubs me the wrong way that it seemed like they were setting it up for Jon to love Martin as a projection of his humanity and as his last original assistant instead of as a partner, only for this angle to never be addressed. Disclaimer: I'm not saying it's wrong to enjoy their relationship; those are just my thoughts. I would have liked to see, at least, some sort of coworkers to lovers to friends arc (because yes, I think they skipped over the "friends" stage and went straight from coworkers to lovers). Actually, this is my unpopular Jon opinion.

My OTP: Hng. Jonelias.