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[askerian]

Look at me spamming people with random babble. You guys know why? NO ONE IS ONLINE TO SIT ON ME AND MAKE ME WRITE IS WHY.

° One week before the end of the month and I still haven't written any teamwork. One of these days (NOT TODAY) I'mma just gonna make a LJ post and... idk, every time someone comments I have to post them what I wrote since the last comment, or something. Maybe that'll motivate me (or maybe i'll be too busy answering comments to actually write XD)

° On the other hand today I wrote a bit of Lone Wolf and Pilot, the GW thing with bonded telepathic wolves, which is boring as fuck and mostly setup for the INCOMING CLUSTERFUCK bwahaha go killer go, but still, I have two complete scenes before that and maybe I could post them here or something. I remember when I used to spam you guys with all my scenes fresh from my bleeding and battered fingers. Maybe I should get back to that. >__>

° I also worked a lot on an illustration for the fic! I... pretty much traced an official pic of heero and duo and then added wolves in it. *cackles* I'm really not taking it as ~art~, it's more like an edit, but wow my fingers. Also I wish I knew how to make fake screencaps because it'd look really fun if I could copy the anime style, but every time I've tried to learn I was just... yawn lasso tool oh hey a butterfly, and the skill stayed unlearned.

I also started a pic with Heero and Duo and their merlin and crow daemons for that OTHER alternate universe with GW people having speshul soul pets. Self, what are you trying to tell me here... oh right! i should totes be illustrating the Gundams as Dragons verse. Yup, that must be it. Augh, illustration ADD. I think I just want Gboys and ANIMALS. >_>;

° In Homestuck news I'm a bit scared of the popularity of that Big Robots AU to be honest. XD; I was only planning to do their meeting at first, a sort of This One Gundam Episode Where Two Enemies Are Stuck On An Island At Night trope, and then the bunnies wanted to know what next and now, crap, I have to figure out more badass stuff to shove in that plot (AN ACTUAL STRUCTURED PLOT WOULD ALSO BE NICE), but so far I mostly have random telepathic shenanigans and Gamzee being terrifying and also John and Karkay using contrived nanomachines-related excuses to suck face. Which is always fun, I admit, but hmm. And now a ton of people like it, and they're all "i can't wait to see where you're going!!!" and uh okay, self, it's cool, most of your fics are done with that seat of the pants approach to storytelling ANYWAY! *makes self breathe*

° Re: Back to the Garden, so far I have two scenes. One of them is ten FIFTEEN pages of Karkat Is Nosy And A Mother Hen And Pale For Everyone Ever, and the other one is about eight of Gamzee Is So In Pity With Tav And Karkat Awwsocute And Also A Really Creepy Motherfucker. No trace of action or politics or adventures, apart from some silly forest wanderings.

So i'm like "That's a lot of pages! I should post them as a preview!" and then I'm like "that's a lot of pages where NOTHING HAPPENS BUT LOTS OF TALK" and the next scenes are going to be actionny and reveal more plot stuff so I'm thinking if I want the chapter to feel balanced I should just wait to have the complete thing or else chapter 2A will feel REALLY slowboring...?????

but aaaaaaaaaaawannapostsomething. ;^;

° wanna post somethiing

° but nothing is complete why

° because i haven't completed anything is why aaaaa

° aaaAAaAAAAAAAaaaaa

° and in conclusion, aaaaaaaa.

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[askerian]

The moon thing just made sense to me somehow. I dunno, I like it. u.u And yeah, so long as the green one was there Doc Scratch would have his hooks in the new universe and just no. D:

Do we ever get to see what happened in the village, or are you skipping over that whole scene aside from scattered flashback snippets?
I dunno, it depends on whether John gets a scene but I don't think he will. I kind of didn't want to write it in full because all it is is yay let's walk into that villaa... ageokayno why is there a terrified/furious mob of people this is not helping with calm and productive and friendly discussion. There'd be no interaction and just a lot of "... haha well let's slip away unseen and keep walking then" from John who'd stonewall everyone about his emotions, and he had scenes last chapter already so let others have some! and if I stayed with Karkat POV he'd just do a lot of fretting over him -- even more than he's doing here, I mean. The chapter already starts being human-centered, Karkat keeps worrying about their comfort and what's going to happen to them in the future more than about the trolls', I didn't want to make it worse. (then again if they're pretty much home there's less of a reason to worry for the trolls. but still.) Snippets might happen anyway! I kinda want to find a way to get Jade to hear Vriska attempting to initiate a feelings jam on that very topic. XD I'll have to see how well this works, it's not high priority.

(I am not sure whether he'd be more upset by them mocking him or them being understanding and/or pale back.)
XD He'd be super upset for both, but the first, well, he's used to embarrassment. The second one would change his view of them as self-centered assholes and so change their dynamic which, being new, would be full of uncertainty and tension-making, and he might have to break their hearts by being all sorry i am a moirailed troll and make things hella awkward and sad -- so if he had to choose, please hand over that helping of public mortification.


:D :D :D

You look down in time for Karkat to flop around and headbutt you in the shoulder. He has the most adorable round horns, man, there is no way he could put any kind of serious hurt on a brother with those. Might bust someone's nose if he's lucky, but he never is. The universe granted your brother the gift of perseverance, and if he got things the easy way just by standing there he'd never get to show it off. Guess the universe had to provide things to rise against, too. Things shine brighter in the dark.

You kind of want to cuddle him.

"You hug me and I'll make you regret it."

Karkat's eye is cracked open, glaring at you. He looks like a wet purrbeast. You grin. It's pure magic how he gets you so well. "Aw, could never regret getting my cuddle action on with you, brother."

He goes all red in the face and splutters and bats at you, and it makes the daymares slough away, like just knowing he's not scared off (and still pale for you) is enough to shed them right off your thinksponge.

"... You are the most -- most shameless flirt I've ever -- ngh."

nghghghghgh my paleTP. Seriously the Gamzee scene turned out like a manifesto. XD

[edenfalling]

*curls up happily in the extra fic snippet* D'awww, they are soincrediblycute!!!

...Hey, speaking of manifestos, are you ever going to make that post about your Homestuck ships and why you ship them? I for one would love to read it. :-)

[askerian]

Hmm, the pairings post thing... I used to have those notes/sentences going around in my head but I didn't write them down so I've forgotten how I was planning to go at it. But sure, I'll try! ^_^

[edenfalling]

:-D