I’m a bit early this week but I wanted to get this particular ask out before I get sucked back into my quilting hyperfixation ^.^ Your characters have a killer headache. Who is taking painkillers right away and who tries to tough it out? Do any of them try something besides painkillers for relief?
Thank you for the ask!! I wish you luck with your quilting endeavors. I'll answer for the core Dresden Crew
Kira is the BIGGEST baby when it comes to head pain so she's absolutely throwing back some painkillers.
Emily shuts off every light in the house and makes herself tea before sleeping it off.
Carter complains for ten minutes, seriously considers ramming his head through a wall, and then finally takes some painkillers after his mother gets sick of his whining and makes him.
Pickle smokes a joint and is shocked when getting high doesn't help. He doesn't even consider painkillers; they do not exist to him.
Allison takes painkillers and then dramatically rots in bed all day despite the fact that her headache goes away as soon as the painkillers kick in.
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Happy STS! I might be bearing my own secrets a little here, but oh well! Your characters are playing a dating game, which archetype are they going for? (ie: the arrogant one, the cold one, the childhood friend, the older man, the shy one, the flirt, etc)
"Old man."
"What?"
Caz looked down at Jade. He was leaning over her and her laptop as she moved the cursor over the dating sim's options.
"I said, I wanna try and bag the silver fox," he went on.
Jade raised an eyebrow at him.
"Is this, like, you relating to someone your actual age?"
"Oh, that's hilarious, Shaw. Look at me, I'm splitting my sides laughing," Caz said drily. "Now, would you just click on him?"
Jade moved her mouse over the cartoon, gray-haired man. A dialogue option came up as the man sneered from her laptop screen.
"Ooh, he's mean too?" Caz leaned far too close to Jade. "Ya know, I don't usually go for guys like him."
"That's what I thought," Jade said. She leaned back in her chair, relieving herself of being in direct line with a vampire's breath. "So, why did you pick him, then?"
Caz leaned over the laptop, using the keyboard arrows to select a line of dialogue.
"Well, I mean, I usually like guys I could break in half," he said. "Sort of the opposite with women. But he was the only option that seemed — I don't know, stern? I always like someone who doesn't take any shit."
He swore in Romanian and stabbed at the keyboard.
"Câcat, how do I pick this thing?"
"Enter key," Jade said. She leaned over the keyboard and showed him.
"Thanks, Shaw," Caz said. "Hey, you've played this before, right? Who'd you pick?"
"It's not important," Jade said.
"Oh, well, if it's not important."
He moved the cursor across the computer screen. Jade shot forward as the phrase "Are you sure you want to quit?" blazed in front of her in bright red letters.
"What are you doing?"
"You can find old versions of the game under 'Saved,' right?"
"Oh, now you're suddenly an expert on P.C. games?"
Jade went for the mouse, but Caz was faster. She tried to think of a spell that interrupted Bluetooth signals, but it was too late. The screen loaded a scene at a nightclub featuring a pale, dark-haired man in a ruffled shirt. One earring dangled from his ear as the animation moved his fanged mouth open and closed. A line of dialogue about only going out at night appeared.
"Holy shit," Caz breathed.
He stumbled back from the laptop with his hands clasped over his mouth. He breathed. He giggled. Then he burst into obnoxious, high-pitched laughter.
"Jesus. Fucking. Christ," he gasped.
"Shut up!"
"Does Violet know about this?"
"I played this before I dated Violet," Jade said, shutting the laptop screen just as the cartoon man lifted his red-filled wine glass. "Not that it matters. It's just a game."
"Yeah, sorry, but," Caz took a breath and wiped his eyes. "It's just funny whenever someone has a thing for vampires. Like, come on, Shaw. You know we're objectively terrible to date."
Jade cradled her head in her hands.
"It wasn't about him being a vampire," she said.
Caz leaned back against her kitchen table. Her cats had wandered over and were sniffing him curiously.
"Oh?" he asked.
"Look, he was the only option that seemed — a little fruity, okay?" Jade said. "I just prefer guys who are also queer. You know how it's easier, sometimes, when someone else is bi?"
"Trust me, Shaw, I'm well aware of that," Caz said.
He opened the laptop and stared at the screen.
"Yeah, I've definitely gone home with that guy," he said.
He shut the laptop and backed away from the table.
"Well, this has been — weird," he said. "I'll, uh, see you when I have to kill someone again, I guess."
"Wait, I thought you wanted to play this?" Jade asked.
"Yeah, that type AB I had earlier isn't sitting right," he said, patting his stomach. "Trust me, it's not gonna be pretty."
He nearly tripped over Ada and Lovelace as he grabbed his hat and jacket.
"Do you need a ride?" Jade asked.
"Nah, I'll just grow wings and fly," Caz said. "Or just — run really fast. Yeah. Used to do that all the time. Before cameras, but — yeah, it'll be fine."
The entire trailer shook as he slammed the door behind him.
~
Caz fell through the door of his apartment. He loosened his collar and took another deep breath. His heart felt like it was about to beat out of his chest.
"It's fine," he said, taking his phone out to send a text. "I'll be fine. Just need to get this out of my system."
"We really need to stop meeting like this."
Caz whirled around to find the tiny Norse god he'd run into at the bar standing in his living room.
"How'd you get here so fast?"
"I ripped a hole in time and space, dear," Loki flipped a frizzy strand of red hair out of their face and flashed that oddly scarred smile. "Now, what's the matter?"
Caz reached in his cabinet and pulled out a bottle of vodka and two glasses.
"Just needed some meaningless sex, is all."
Loki clasped their chest dramatically.
"My dear, sweet draugr, I have a wives and family!"
"Vampire, not a draugr," Caz said. "And you're polyamorous."
"Yes, but you're not," Loki said. They strolled up to his kitchen counter and swiped one of the glasses. "We both know you're far too possessive to keep dating a married god. Now, what's actually wrong?"
Caz took a long swallow of vodka.
"I just got this image in my head of my best friend and work associate pegging me," he said. "And it all started because we tried playing this computer game. One where you have to pick someone to date."
"What were the options?" Loki asked.
Caz told them. Loki tapped a set of painted nails to their chin.
"Well, that's an obvious choice," they said. "Old man, of course."
Hi! I’m trying to ease myself back into writeblr, so here’s a completely random writing ask for you courtesy your local ginger! If the main character(s) of your WIP(s) suddenly learned they were the subject of a fictional work, what would their reaction be?
Hey!
This is an incredibly funny question to me I love it. I'll highlight some of the funnier OC reactions.
Haven would immediately try to kill the creator.
Kira would have a mild existential crisis and then go "well this might as well happen."
Pickle is like "FUCK YEAH DUDE" and doesn't ever think about it again
Emily is in shambles for at least a month over it
Evan would become the most insufferable bastard in the world hes SO annoying about it
Happy STS R! I saw something this morning and decided to ‘borrow’ it for the day - what would the title of your ocs AITA [Am I The Asshole] post be?
A very belated happy STS! (or is it an early STS? 🤔)
Ooh, so I think I've answered this a while back but I do enjoy this so:
Caz Mraz (Something Wicked)
AITA for killing and eating someone in front of the girl I was out with?
I know this sounds bad but let me explain. I (617M) met up with this dame (??F) because I actually wanted to hire her for ... let's say helping with meal prep. Anyway, I thought we might be also hitting it off so I ...
Loki (Those Horrid, Horrid Things)
AITA for leaving my wives behind in two different realms?
Edit: You all can stop telling me I'm TAH, alright? Maybe some of you should get off your keyboards and find a sense of humor
Some background: Me (34NB) and my first wife (38F) are poly and have 3 amazing kiddos (14M, 11M, 8F). I travel a lot for work/pleasure which is how I met my second wife (F28). Well my boss/soulmate/lover (???M?) started to make some very concerning threats about my kids (he thinks they're going to "end the world," whatever that means) ...
Happy STS! Everybody knows at least one incident where their character didn’t do what we wanted them to do. Tell me what happened and how things turned out?
Hello K and happy belated STS!
So I've been thinking about this for a while because I *know* this has happened on multiple occasions. Definitely in Something Wicked, and at some point I'd like to list everything that changed from my original idea for Those Horrid, Horrid Things (though some of that is characters misbehaving and some is suggestions or inspiration from others).
I've been having a lot of The Friendly Visitors brainrot, though, and also a lot of Leech brainrot, so I'll talk about him, because I think this counts:
TFV goes back to a story idea I had when I was, like, 17. And Leech initially was a cis woman who just, like, happened to wear men's clothing and serve as a goon in this vampire gang and never went by a feminine name (which is, of course, totally valid). But around a decade later I pulled out the initial draft, read a section from Leech's perspective, and was just like "this is a man. This is a trans man." And that was that.
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Happy STS! Got a wild one for you this time - which of your OCs would kick someone into traffic in a street fight? Who wouldn't, and why?
This is hilarious to me since I recently wrote this scene:
It was early in the evening, with the blue hint of twilight still hanging in the chilly air. A motor car barreled down the street, scaring off a group of kids as it honked its horn. Leech grabbed Ratfucker’s collar and threw him in front of it.
“Ow!” Ratfucker yelped. The tires left black marks on his jacket and deep gashes on the rest of him. The driver didn’t even stop, just sped away faster from the presumed corpse. Leech snorted.
“What’d you do that for?” he went on, as Leech helped him up.
“You piss me off, Ratfucker,” he said, then threw him back to the cobblestones.
Anyway, yeah Leech and Buzz are absolutely vicious in The Friendly Visitors. Benji not so much. Requin wouldn't want to get his hands dirty. It's what he has Leech for.
For Something Wicked, Jade would say she wouldn't do something like that, but then absolutely would. Caz would say he would absolutely do something like that, and then wimp out at the last second.
For Those Horrid, Horrid Things, neither Loki or Angrboda are above that. Sigyn would say she is but then catch you saying something about her partners and then it's all over for you.
Happy STS! Have you ever regretted creating a character? On the same topic, have you ever deleted someone because they did not turn out the way you thought they would?
Happy STS!
For a while there, I kind of regretted making Nick Valentine, one of the characters in Rot and Ruin, because I accidentally projected WAY too many of my issues onto him, but I don't think I've ever had a character that I was like "I wish you didn't exist" towards.
In regards to deleting characters, I never completely scrap characters or plot concepts. I've perfected the art of frogging them. If an OC doesn't fit where I wanted them to, they kind of just live in limbo somewhere in the back of my head until they get a revamp or I find a different character that can absorb all of the traits and stuff I had for them. Same with plot ideas. They'll sit in my brain until I find a place for them, or I'll just turn them into AU concepts.