#sunflower asks

Thanks Sal!! 🫂 *tries to take helium flower. Misses and watches it float away into oblivion*

...Anyways!

Here, have a Satellite Chapter 13: Test Flight Pt. 2 sneak peek!

I was not super paying attention to tumblr today because I was busy literally making a list of sex scenes I like and trying to drill down on what makes them appealing to me (thanks @luvwich for the exercise, which is here), and then talking about all that with my best friend (who is a writer), so I'm a little bit like, "Wow I sure did find out a lot about myself today!" but I'll try!

It seems like there was some drama in the Mass Effect fandom and I usually ignore all that crap but someone gave me a sunflower so I wanted to say that I really welcome when people criticize aspects of a piece of media that I like -- and criticize it viciously! You HATE that character that I love? Awesome! Why? I love talking! We are bonding right now! And I'm probably learning something about you and about the story! -- and I really dislike when people are doing this and then they cross the line into making ad hominem attacks about people that disagree with them.

my beautiful wonderful friends @planets-collide and @guiltyspam got me #myfivey!!!

he's fallen flat on his face five times this morning. just like the real fivey

I really like “retellings of the whole game story with my oc/pc” as longfic on principle, and if I didn’t have to spent 40 hours a week at work and multiple additional hours upkeeping my life in other ways, I’d read them all start to finish and leave comments on every chapter 🫰

that said, I think anyone out there writing these fics specifically out of a desire to engage with other fans might be setting themselves up for some heartbreak and it makes me sad to see people feel let down over their retelling-longfic not getting those really encouraging responses, or feeling like this is somehow a marker that their writing isn’t good enough to engage with.

like it’s definitely not you, babes. it’s just that this choice of narrative device is one that few grown adults have the time to engage with from multiple authors, which inherently limits the number of potential responses.

new ask game send me a 🌻 and ill just tell you whatever the fuck i want

Because I can't decide anything for the life of me I'm rolling a d4 for categories. 1 = monster/cryptid fact | 2 = fact about me/opinion I have | 3 = Miss Fortune lore | 4 = some ridiculous gossip in MF's voice.

I rolled a 3 so you also get some Miss Fortune lore!

Let's see...I'm trying to steer away from more angsty/heartbreaking details soo... Once Miss Fortune became the main attraction of their brothel and was given the biggest suite of rooms, they had a very spacious closet that doubled as a dressing room. Floor to ceiling shelving with one of those ladders that glides across the shelving to reach all the stuff up top.

Over their tenure there, they managed to collect more than 50 wigs of all different styles and colors, though only two of them were blonde as they felt their complexion was not suited for such light hair. They preferred black or unnatural colored wigs. They also had more than 100 pairs of shoes, most of them high heels, and hundreds of dresses, at least half of which they sewed themselves. They had drawers upon drawers of costume jewelry as well.

And yet...personal effects? Almost none. They had a single set of black masculine clothing for the rare times they could sneak out of the brothel, two satin robes that had been worn until they were threadbare, and a single pair of slippers in a similar state of overuse.

Friend, I am having a ROUGH time with writing right now. i have had this big project (TM) consuming me for this past month and things were flying high until I hit a series of bumps:

I reached the nebulous, less-planned second half of my story which was coincidentally also the part I was looking forward to the most.

I was away from home for two consecutive days and thus unable to write.