Same feel. Want to talk?

As someone who constantly wonders how women dealt with periods when reading historical fiction, this is encouraging.

I think it's "Days of Nightmare" by EK

Also there's plenty of crossover fanart arguing the point too

My @rurokensecretsanta present for vertigosight, who for some reason Tumblr is not letting me @ . Thanks, Tumblr. Anyway, it’s Kenshin and Tomoe themed tileable patterns!

I didn’t just choose any old Japanese traditional design for the background. The pattern is called yagasuri, and represents the fletching on arrows. It is associated with good luck, or more specifically repelling bad luck. It’s also associated with weddings, and it’s said that this is because like an arrow that’s been fired, the wife does not return to her family. Well... in Tomoe’s case, she ain’t returning to anyone. Poor girl. RIP

The plants associated with each character are a camellia blossom and a Japanese maple leaf. Tomoe is often depicted with camellias. In Japan, camellias represent love and good luck in romantic endeavors... But for samurai and other warriors, it represents bad luck and death, since a camellia drops all of its petals as once.

As for Kenshin, the Japanese maple leaf represents beauty and tranquility, the changing of the seasons, and the passing of time. Although it generally has good associations in general, in anime the presence of Japanese maple leaves (especially falling ones) is often a symbol for ends of phases, or death.

On a side note, I would also like to recommend, if you haven’t already heard it, the song The Last Revolver (also sometimes called Good-By My Lover) for a Kenshin/Tomoe theme song.

But I like seeing your art.

tbh it's more for the peace of mind of everyone else besides the mages that have to go through it.

oh, i definitely get that. it’s more about power and control and the “safety” of others than for the mages themselves. when honestly, they’re just making things more dangerous in the long run. 

imagine, harrowings (if done at all) done at the same age for everyone. a good six months to prepare with an established enchanter. fadewalking together so that they get a true understanding of the fade and the dangers it holds. especially for the spirit healers. 

but then they’d run out of tranquil to run their stores and sell their wares i suppose. 

10. Favorite trope/element/scenario in fic?

I’m a major tool for characters drinking alcohol for some reason, maybe because the story can go in so many directions. Fandom always wants it to be some kind of hysterically cracky funtimes party, but my experiences with alcohol, even the ‘funny’ ones, are much darker, so I personally prefer taking a more serious approach to those kinds of things, especially with characters who have a lot to deal with. Most people want to believe that getting drunk can erase all those bad things but it’s very contextual for most people; most people literally cannot actually displace themselves from their situation even when they’re drunk. So I make it at least marginally interesting, because I have no interest in making Hange drink a bottle of ketchup because she’s drunk. (I have no sense of humor, in other words.)

I’m trying not to reuse other answers for similar questions. I kinda dig damsel in distress shit, though the damsel doesn’t have to be a woman, and the story doesn’t have to be a romance. Hell, the story can be about someone rescuing a cat and I’ll probably dig it.

I guess the biggest thing for me is some aspect of realism in the story. I want the progression of a relationship, or the level of relationship the characters are at, to be believable and consistent in how it’s presented and in the direction it’s moving. I really dig slowburn relationship ‘fics because I like watching two characters get closer and closer and mean more and more to one another until one day they’re kind of like: oh, and there’s a realization. But if it’s not presented well, it fails really hard, and unfortunately it’s easy to ruin a good slowburn story by rushing or pushing ridiculous, unbelievable tropes into the story that don’t work for the characters. But when it’s done right--oh boy do I get invested!

12. What turns you away the most from a fic?

The same thing that makes me want to flee an RP faster than anything: OOC characters.

It’s bad enough if the characters act OOC within the story, but oftentimes even the story’s premise is OOC. Before you write a story, or RP a scene, you have to sit down, you have to toss out shipping goggles and your biases for cute tropes and scenarios, and you have to think to yourself: is this in character? Just because the concept is cute doesn’t mean it’s in character. Just because your overactive imagination can picture it doesn’t mean it’s in character. 

Writing that isn’t technically the best can be overlooked. It’s also an easy fix because it’s pretty objective in terms of being correct or incorrect. But characterization? Man, I’m here to tread about the characters from the canon, not your fluffy puppy version of them three AUs and twelve shots removed from the canon.

18. Favorite angst fic?

This one. (tw: extramarital affair, also it’s rated E.) Not many of my followers will be able to read it, I think, as it’s an FE7 ‘fic, but holy shit did that ‘fic do me in. I just reread it for the nth time and it still hurts. But it’s a great read if you like FE7. :)

31. Do you read AUs?