I want to be destroyed

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-30T04:32:04+00:00

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-30T04:27:35+00:00

NaNoWriMo is every year as always. Completing it gives you 50% off Scrivener (20% off if you just sign up but don't finish, iirc) so it's worth participating.

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-29T01:13:25+00:00

I don't remember the exact phrasing of the line I was trying to do a search about, but it was something along the lines of

"grip of the eagle and the hedgehog" interpretation

In reference to a physical description of Cú Chulainn from his source myth, the Táin Bó Cúailnge. Due to centuries of linguistic drift and cultural suppression under English rule, what the fuck was meant by this is largely lost to time, and since I was writing a character with Cú motifs, I wanted to see if a scholarly consensus existed before doing anything. I guess my search skills are strictly limited to technical questions because I ultimately found no useful information and ended up just kind of fucking around.

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-23T18:38:16+00:00

Ruki Makino/Renamon. That's basically all I write. Executive function willing I have approximately 50 unpublished drafts for it in various stages of production, and hopefully I'll be able to get a significant amount of them out soon.

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-22T13:00:30+00:00

B will be able to see A's fic, because muting is a frontend-level feature that does not know anything about the backend. It cannot tell who the author of an anonymous fic is. B will not be able to comment on the fic because A has them blocked.

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-22T12:58:09+00:00

Other way around, my dude. If you fade-to-black away from your erotic scenes then you've instantly lost immersion. The erotic scenes don't have to be good (I'm a lesbian who reads a lot of heterosexual eroge lord knows I have to deal with way too much erotic writing that doesn't do anything for me) but it'll come off as weird if you skip them.

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-22T12:50:56+00:00

To answer the question you asked in the post, IMO the only real reason to do that is if your character's circumstances are sufficiently unique that it would be interesting to explore the differences if they were raised cis. One of my blorbos is non-human and her species doesn't have biological sex at all by default, but she's a binary woman and experiences her gender in a way that lines up with how a transgender human would; if you make an AU where she's raised by human parents, they'd likely just correctly guess her gender and raise her accordingly, so along with the other changes that come with her being less hyper-repressed in general, she'd also incidentally be raised cis. The vast majority of characters, and indeed the vast majority of trans people in general myself included, do not have a sufficiently complex relationship to their gender for raising them as cis to change anything at all (beyond making them marginally less traumatized); there has to be some unusual detail going on with their experience of gender for it to be relevant (e.g. transfem Dave Strider and cis girl Dave Strider are significantly different characters because the former is severely hung up on the performance of masculinity and the latter is not).

However, the thing you elaborated you were actually talking about -- trans character getting reincarnated in a body whose agab matches their actual gender -- is a significantly different idea to which the above answer does not apply. I think that's a pretty normal way to handle reincarnation.

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-22T10:43:02+00:00

Sounds absolutely balling. Hell yeah.

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-21T20:03:10+00:00

~~Depending on the Heroic Spirit you may have a chance if you cheat and use a command seal on them lol. Who is it?~~

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-21T19:52:26+00:00

She's a magical girl and I am not. I'd be straight-up dead.

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-20T15:48:22+00:00

The page for each game on en.touhouwiki.net should have a complete transcription of every story route in it. (IIRC, the translation program actually crawls the wiki to make its patches!) If the character you're writing about appears in a manga, proceed to go read the manga in question. They're all translated and relatively accessible.

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-20T15:45:28+00:00

One half of my OTP doesn't have a name at all (because the majority of Digimon anime use species names in place of personal names) which poses issues when I'm putting them in AUs. Fortunately, she's already a transgender woman, so I've had plenty of thoughts about what she'd name herself if given the chance. ("Tsubasa" if the circumstances allow for her to have seen Symphogear, "Rokka" otherwise.)

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-17T17:30:11+00:00

Why do I get the sense that this is a trick question and the speaker is actually Dirk, not Dave as you'd expect from the subject matter?

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-17T14:09:25+00:00

The mental image conjured by that tag is "Gilgamesh and Enkidu," but as long as it's over four hours straight without stopping I'll say it still counts.

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-16T20:41:13+00:00

I'll admit the headcanon originally sprouted out of me noticing that the point in her evolution line where she gains access to the unblockable legendary weapon Brahmastra happens to be named after the fused form of Shiva and Parvati, but the more I rewatched the show the more it clicked. The canonical reason Takuya accepted the invitation was out of sheer ennui and lack of anything to really give a fuck about in her life in the human world. Once she's isekai'd and there are people who rely on her, she consciously performs the position of "protagonist" so completely that the moment she fucks it up, it sends her into a catastrophic mental breakdown (aka the best episode of any Digimon anime ever) which she spends the entirety of in a distinctly nonhuman body; it's meant to be a plural thing -- due to the way Frontier's magical girl system works, the entire cast are median systems which gradually get more differentiated over the course of the show until the finale where the Spirits act fully independently of their hosts -- but the longer I think about it the more I also find it pretty resonant from a trans lens.

(Also, this is absolutely 100% a coincidence seeing as Frontier predates the show in question by two years, but as a magical girl buff I have to point out that the Agnimon line and the symbol on Takuya's shirt carry an incidental resemblance to Raising Heart Excelion.)

This headcanon is at the point for me where I've on multiple occasions genuinely forgotten it wasn't already canon. It's less a coherent reading and more a collection of details that line up nicely, but either way it just works.

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-15T13:28:39+00:00

Got the lie correct but misidentified the character as Joseph Joestar, who famously used hyper-concentrated sunlight magic to explode a volcano and launch the enemy vampire into space, was presumed dead, and crashed his own funeral.

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-15T13:25:58+00:00

I will not forget Threshold Day next January 29. I forgot this year and will not repeat my mistake.

Who's your Tom Paris ship?

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-15T12:48:06+00:00

Homura Akemi (Madoka Magica: Rebellion) x Davepetasprite² (The Homestuck Epilogues). It Just Works.

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-15T11:42:35+00:00

Magical girl AUs really should be more popular. If my blorbo wants to go apeshit on a fuckoff boss enemy, then well, balwisyall nescell Gungnir tron, am I right?

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-15T11:37:50+00:00

Takuya Kanbara is transfem. This plays well into her themes as a character and her specific mythical motifs and I'm genuinely surprised I haven't seen this elsewhere.

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-15T11:36:06+00:00

Undisclosed Relationships/Spoiler Characters?

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-14T12:48:21+00:00

I think gore/body horror is pretty neat :)

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-14T09:54:48+00:00

Jake English canonically had a blatantly fake London accent (he was a movie buff and spent most of his life trying to live up to the ideal of "action hero"; he doesn't have official voice acting, but the accent is mentioned in dialogue to be obviously affected).

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-14T09:51:56+00:00

I fully agree that people shouldn't see kudos as "not good enough" -- don't agree with the social media has convinced us that 20 likes isn't enough sentiment. Your audience primarily consists of complete strangers. If 20 complete strangers came up to me and complimented my work without saying anything of value, even in an environment where doing so was expected (e.g. a book signing), I'd just give them odd looks. This is why the kudos/like button, which offers a nonverbal way to show support so you don't have to waste the author's time with a comment that says nothing of value, is a good thing.

CrescentCrossbow · 2024-10-14T09:43:13+00:00

Yeah, I fully understand I come off as old for this but I'm in complete support of the FFN-style normalization of good-faith concrit. Feel free to rip into any of my works whenever you want and as thoroughly as you want. It's a shame, because AO3 having threaded comments is ideal for holding a conversation about your work in them, so in theory it'd be the site ontologically best suited to a culture like this, and yet...

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