@iodhadh
Fey creature of many names. A machine that makes stories. Relentlessly Songxuexiao. The god of poets has two hands: the dextrous, the sinister. they/them // 🔞 // ao3.org/users/iodhadh // 🪦🕊️ // tchy.ca // art: svetlacreates
I’m operating on the assumption that Isabeau is wearing some kind of practical historical undergarment under their armour/etc. that the game doesn’t actually have because all the undergarments are too modern, and it’s just in the evening when they’re wearing casual trousers they’re not bothering.
Isabeau simply removed their underwear (it was the only way to be tits-out on a body with boobs).
I do think the exchange itself merits its own page and not merely a mention on the Songxuexiao ship page. 🤔 Not invested enough to create an account and make one myself though.
Aaaa this looks so cool!!!
They brought us a surprise little birthday dessert and we did somehow find room to put that away too.
Update: he fucked up that lobster real good.
Time to go to the seafood restaurant and watch my husband absolutely fuck up a lobster. 🦞
Okay the exchange is listed as a notable fandom resource on the page for Songxuexiao, just without my name attached, I'm satisfied with this.
I'm also listed as the originator of the dwarf-related exchange I ran for one (1) event in DA fandom back in 2018. SURELY the Songxuexiao Exchange merits greater mention than Children of the Stone.
Poll on tumblr: Searching your url (or past urls), are you mentioned on fanlore.org?
Me, merrily searching myself: Surely there will be nothing, I don't think I am significant enough for—
Me:
Me: Why the fuck is there a page for Ariane/Finn and why the FUCK am I listed as a notable fanwork for it.
Immediately below this on my tl is two other people complaining about discord going down lmao.
RIGHT lmao like no I don’t hate any of my OCs, not even the villains/antagonists. Characters are just one piece of the toolbox of narrative. Do you hate the hammer because it strikes the nail? No, we’re ACCOMPLISHING something here that we wouldn’t be able to do without those tools!
Yeah exactly and I do think this style of interaction with the text comes out of superhero/comics fandom. Fully and sincerely: I blame the rise of the MCU and superheroes going mainstream for the proliferation of this attitude into other fandoms where it completely doesn’t apply.
I feel like both of these are permutations of the idea that there’s a True version of the character that is Real in some way—that anything done to them (or that they’re “forced” into) constitutes actual harm, that there’s a real version of them that the reader can intuit from the author’s fumblings.
Like, “[character] could have been great if the writer didn’t hate him.” Or “[character] it’s not your fault your author doesn’t understand you, they could never make me hate you” and then the things the author “doesn’t understand” are like. Directly contradicted by the events of canon.
Interesting interaction here with a phenomenon I’ve observed where some people sincerely seem to believe (whether they PROFESS to believe this is another question but this is how they act) that there’s a metaphysical “true” version of characters outside of canon and authors are merely interpreters.
I am sorry to tell you all this but merely counting syllables is not enough to make a poem scan. You also have to count stresses.
This has been bothering me to an irrational degree for several days. Yes I am aware that I am an extremely specific person. I assure you it is just as annoying for me.
Poem going around tumblr which a user has specifically re-translated in order to better preserve the scansion, tone, and rhyme scheme of the original, except the new translation they did fucks up the scansion in a really jarring way in one of the lines and kills me instantly.
Alex is showing me True Grit (2010). Mattie Ross you are perfect to me. Mattie Ross you are the girl of all time. Mattie Ross I would die for you.
Round double layer cake with a pale peach buttercream, dotted all over with blueberries and a few sprigs of rosemary.
Cooling rack of twelve cupcakes with a brownish blue colour. They are decorated modestly with pale peach buttercream and one peach slice and three blueberries each.
A close up of three of the cupcakes, to show them off.
A closer shot of the cake from a more side-on angle, showing the frosting around the side as well as the top.
Happy birthday (early) to Alex, I spent literally all afternoon in the kitchen. 🍽️
16. It's a standalone piece! It leads pretty directly out of canon, and disappears into myth at the end. No plans for a sequel or continuation.
It's the usual Songxuexiao codependency/existence in their own world slightly removed from those around them, dialled up to the extreme and given free rein with animalistic instinct and violence. The ways in which the world can corrupt you.
15. Imagery/themes: The body horror and brutality of a physical transformation is a big one. The ways in which being changed or having unique traumatic experiences can isolate you, such that the only other people you feel understood by are the other people who experienced it with you.
14. I have a whole playlist of vibes for it, but the primary one is the song the title is from, Vampire Smile by Kyla La Grange.
13. Research: Mostly on the specifics of animal traits they’ll be developing with the monstrous transformation, and a bit of body stuff, but otherwise it’s mostly all things I already knew. I’m also using some research I’d done previously on dual cultivation and human cauldrons.
12. I’m most excited to write the scene where Xingchen figures out who Xue Yang is, the scene where Xue Yang tells him about the fake night hunts, and the scene where Song Lan arrives in Yi City. I just love to write emotionally fucked up confrontations. 🥰
Who exactly do you propose I tell that to and what reason would they have to listen to me, a nobody, who is not Irish and doesn't have any professional connection to historical manuscripts? Because, like, I'm game to try, but I doubt it would be all that productive.
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Omg PACIFIC RIM AU!!!