[shave and a haircut knock] Trick or Treat, and happy Halloween! 🎃🧡
(I only just realized your askbox was also open to trick-or-treaters oops)
Welcome!!! Haha yess, I issued an open invitation for trick-or-treaters several days/weeks before halloween, it was possible to miss it :D Thank you for sending one in and I'm sorry for the late response! I have a very short snippet for you from a qijiu-esque Yue Qingyuan piece.
This one takes place post-canon. Yue Qingyuan is having his fated-person fortune read by Madam Meiyin. There's some confusion in what Yue Qingyuan's fate shows vs. what Yue Qingyuan thinks he knows of Shen Qingqiu's death(s).
“Sect Leader Yue,” Madam Meiyin says, purposefully making her voice gentle, “your beloved has indeed passed away, but they never awoke again.”
Yue Qingyuan freezes.
“Perhaps,” she continues, “you have never met your—”
“No.”
The refusal seems to surprise him as much as her. They stare at each other in silence.
Yue Qingyuan, finally, ducks his head. “No,” he repeats, softer. “I have met him. It could never be anyone else.”
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Just wanted to counter the anon you got a bit ago because I've almost the opposite reaction; I haven't even seen the movies but the joy you take in them is so clear in your art that I wind up getting happy brain chemicals just seeing it on my dash! Anyway, thank you for your delightful art and I hope you're having a good week so far. 💖
I SEE YOU ASKING ABOUT THE FIC THAT'S ENTIRELY YOUR FAULT. I SEE YOU.
Anyway, yes, in case it wasn't obvious from the word Trio, this is the OT3 that is ENTIRELY Tea's fault. Literally came into my DMs while working on yet another multiMC verse like "So Zarad is catching feelings for Camyon. Y/N?" and because I am a fool who keeps letting Tea romcom my favorite daughter, I said yes. And now LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE.
Also, because Tea is a fucking genius, it even works in a way that they balance each other and help each other grow and I hate this for me.
@teaandinanity was kind enough to send me an ask, but like a dummy I forgot my ask box was off. I've pasted their ask above and will answer it here!
(tw because I mention suicidal ideation and behavior and depression pretty much right off the bat. all else under a readmore because I am a YAPPER.)
✨️ Out of the comments you’ve received on your fics, what are two or three of your favorites?: Oooh, I've been lucky and received lots of comments that have brought me great joy over the last 10 years or so. I will share two that I've replied to and one that I haven't yet (I'm really sorry, I swear I'm getting to it.)
• A comment on icebreakers, my DBH AU fanfic, from surreyality: “This is exactly what I've been needing to read out of a suicidal (but not dead) post-game Connor. Not even joking, it hit everything I've been needing to see — Connor still not being strictly happy about living at the end (for all that he's alive), Hank's own tendencies being brought up without suddenly becoming the focal point, all the feels involved in y'know Not Wanting To Be Alive, hell you even had an extra point I didn't know I needed: Connor not going home with sudden new dad Hank like everything's peachy. Sjnsjajnsknfjenfn this was good, this was very good.”
(It was very hard to pick just one person from this series, so I hope everyone knows that picking was excruciating! I still read everyone's comments as I'm planning out the second and third chapters. I ended up going with surreyality's because it felt really good at the time I got this comment to know that everything I wanted to get across hit exactly right. My biggest concern with writing that series has been making sure not to downplay depression or suicidal ideation or behavior, and to write both Connor and Hank (who are suffering in different ways) with a level of dignity and respect without one characterization betraying the other. And since I practically inhale Connor-and-Hank-are-family fics, I also didn't want to make it seem like I thought I was better by writing something different. So. Yeah. Lots of relief that I didn't come across as arrogant or disrespectful!)
• A comment on eyewear, my Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V fanfic, from HealerOfLightAndDark: “This. This has made me headcanon that Yuya enjoys glassblowing. He will now have glassblowing as a hobby in all of my stories, even if it's not explicitly stated or focused on. And I'm seriously considering writing a story about glassblower!Yuya. I've already started writing a chapter in my Sea of Love story where Yoko mentions that Yuya has always wanted to try glassblowing, and now I'm thinking about making it more than just a passing comment or a one-chapter focus!”
(This one really stuck with me because I've never had anyone say I inspired a headcanon before. :') So like, that combined with the fact that I loooove this author's works and it's about one of my eternal hyperfixations (Arc V) makes this comment all the better.)
• A comment for birds of a feather, my Harry Potter fanfic, from steloiv: “i've been reading this fic for quite a few days now, i took my time reading it because i've been enjoying it so so much. you wouldn't imagine the excitement i had the first time i saw the premise of the fic and i just KNEW that this was going to be a masterpiece that i would thoroughly enjoy. and wow has it been such a ride!
the writing is honestly very superb, i keep getting immersed in the world and deep inside harry's thoughts. you write the dialogues very well (especially dumbledore's!), i had felt like i've been reading from the hp books themselves. i've loved every bit of every chapter, how fawkes is the unmistakable symbol of dumbledore's affection and love for harry that dumbledore himself couldn't express because, well, he's dumbledore (and he doesn't express himself that well, does he). i've had a huge hyperfixation for harry and dumbledore when i read the books but i hadn't looked for fics about them until now (partly for fear of dumbledore discourse and mischaracterization too), so this was really such a delight! you've shown harry and dumbledore as i had always thought they would be.
i keep on squealing the few times they made physical contact because honestly, i kept on looking for those in the books, and there were SO few of harry and dumbledore touching. i've loved the gentle touches you added in this chapter, and how it seems like dumbledore, this time, had visited harry to enjoy and relax in his company as a reprieve from his headmaster duties (aside from returning the map of course).
my favorite bit was in the last chapter with the notion that fawkes comes to harry bcs dumbledore's loyal to him. and it couldn't be any truer too! i've always thought that fawkes is a physical manifestation of dumbledore's thoughts and feelings (as the books also show), and fawkes visits him because dumbledore himself worries for harry's well-being, so it was bound to show too.
as a side note, i wanted to visit the fic that you linked in the end notes but it looks like the story isn't available anymore? 😭 it looks interesting too.
i'm looking forward very much in what you have in store for the next chapter! book 5 is arguably my favorite book from the series because of the amount of times i've had to reread and reread so much of it. the angst in dumbledore and harry's relationship was the cream on top of the entire book, more so with dumbledore admitting his feelings for harry. i'm looking forward to how the next chapter will progress for them!
i really love the premise of this fic, and it was very very in character for fawkes to visit harry for dumbledore. and it was very fitting too, with their relationship in book 6 having been closer in the father-son sense, so dumbledore himself would've wanted to come to harry as himself by then, also noting with the fact that harry, in TURN has now admitted his feelings and loyalty with him. this was a captivating read, from all the harry and dumbledore drought i've been having. thank you so much sharing this!"
(So steloiv has actually left more comments on my other works too, and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THEM. I love this person. I read these comments every week. I am also a piece of shit because I have not answered any of them yet, but that's part of the reason why I wanted to let them know in some way that I have read their comments and I'm so so grateful for them. The other reason I picked this comment is because it's so hard to find people who like Dumbledore or (more crucially) are fans of Harry and Dumbledore's relationship in the books (even in 2024 when things seem to be getting better and I've found so many more people who love writing and talking about the two of them in the last 4 years). Getting this comment was like someone coming to my apartment and leaving flowers we both like at my door. I'm writing birds because I want to, because I want to leave something for the 14-year-old version of me who was once desperately looking for fics just like this. When other people get it, it makes me feel warm.)
That's all for the first question! whew. now to the second!
💕 What is your favorite fic that you’ve written?: I... I don't know... if I can just choose one. But on the other hand, Paradigm Shift from Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V did spring immediately to mind, sooo it's probably that one. It's one of the only fanfics I ever wrote as something was airing, and I don't ever cringe when I re-read it. I need to find whatever I was cooking when I wrote that. ^^
tagged by uh... tea? I think. dear lord, my brain. @teaandinanity I really do think *snerk*
I shall be attempting Not Boys because there was a "tell me your lady blorbos!" post wandering around but I couldn't figure out how to narrow it down to just a couple so HERE HAVE A BUNCH
no pressure tagging uh... @hanakogames @quilleth, @awaylaughing @twistedsinews @defira85 & anyone else who'd like
Molly Grue [The Last Unicorn]
Cordelia (Naismith) Vorkosigan [tho I am behind in the books]
Evy (Carnahan) O'Connell [The Mummy/Returns]
Grace le Domas [Ready Or Not]
Parker [Leverage]
Guinevere Pettigrew [Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day-movie]
Merrill [Dragon Age 2]
Lois Lane [If she's not in your Superman you're doing it wrong]
Amanda King [Scarecrow & Mrs King]
Murderbot [Not a Girl™️but I couldn't resist; The Murderbot Diaries]
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How would Tristen feel about the MC's relationship with the LIs...? (Especially since she used to have a bit of a crush on Manerkol herself!)
LOL!
Manerkol: Her eyes would flash with the deadly fire of imminent doom and be like “AND YOU DARED LECTURE ME ABOUT FINDING HIM HOT (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻”
Morkai: She’d waggle her eyebrows at you every time his back is turned and then once he turns around to see why you’re laughing, she’d be like 😇
Straasa: She would freaking MOON for Straasa! Like, THE BEAUTY, THE KINDNESS, THE WILDNESS SHE CAN FEEL IS HIDDEN INSIDE HIM-- Jokes that if you don’t want him, she’ll take him off your hands.
Daelynn: OMG, BEST FRIENDS WITH DAE! She wants to BE her and has Daelynn teach her EVERYTHING she knows about being such a Goddess, but also such a pest 🤣🤣🤣
Eledwen: Wants to cuddle with her, and make flower crowns together, and get her tasty food, and sew her pretty clothes--She feels very protective of Elly and would take a bullet for her.
Your demo was such an absolute delight to play! I love that our little group grows into such a fantastic found family (the rice pudding scene in particular gave me feels but honestly every single interaction left me feeling like I understood Hadrian and Alessa better and made me love them more). Thank you so much for all your hard work and for creating such an intriguing world and wonderful characters!
Thank you so much! The rice pudding scene seems to be a fan favorite for sure (◕▽◕✿) I loved having the change to write a more mellowed out Alessa. She'll show that side of hers more and more as your relationship continues to progress, both as friends or as lovers.
For Hadrian, I can't wait to share a more fun side of him. In the cathedral, he was never truly at ease, and faith dominated the conversation. And while that is an important part of who he is, there is a lot more to Hadrian - a fact even he tends to forget.
I think both "hang-out" scenes had a very different feeling to them. Hadrian's somber and heavy. Alessa's strangely freeing, liberating. I'm hoping the next ones will be just as distinct.
