battlefield terra rambles

[askerian]

Chapter's 2/5ths done and 7 800 words long. Oh, self.

Granted, the rest of what I have planned COULD possibly go by relatively fast, and brand new unplanned little detours might NOT happen, so the chapter clocks in at a fairly respectable yet still manageable in one sitting 12k! Yeah uh that's just not how my plotbunnies work. *hangs head*

On the other hand, telepathic shenanigans, clonesibs being clonesibby, and bro/jack hateflirting. More detours plz.

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Askerian: Dirk extracted himself from his bunk by way of hooking one hand into Dave's bunk's guardrail and reverse-curling himself upward in a boneless, snakelike wave. All 'look at my abs! I do a hundred crunches a day!' Feh.
"Alright, time to go." He nodded to John, and then to Karkat. Karkat quickly looked away and pretended to have been busy with his mess of a bed all along.
Adi: ...and Karkat goes "Damn, that human is fit."
Askerian: the reason John keeps losing at gay chicken against Dirk is that he does not know himself. :-X
Askerian: hahahaha
Askerian: also that dirk is gay, and so he does not chicken out.
Askerian: either he gets kisses by handsome boys, or he gets to win! it's a game he literally cannot lose.
Adi: yeah. He is in favor of gay makeouts with the guy who looks like Jake. No, seriously.
Askerian: =3
Adi: eventually, John will realize that that he, too, is not entirely straight, and Dirk will have some competition on his hands.
Askerian: XD
Adi: and still he will not lose, because John is a good looking boy, let's be honest
Askerian: nah, john is *bashful*.
Askerian: well, not very much, but XD
Adi: awwwwww

mmarycontrary: So, once John knows he’s gay/bi/pilotsexual, Dirk wins by being more willing to do it in public? More extreme? Or does he go for the ultimate taboo and make it downright *AFFFFFFFECTIONAAAAAATE*?

Bahahahaha. Affectionate would possibly be more embarrassing for John than raunchy, because he could tell himself raunchy is just them being crude/disgusting/GUYS at each other in perfect broharmony. I think Dirk merely wins because he’s impossible to embarrass. The man knows and embraces his quirks and kinks, there is nothing to shame him with.

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[lexicology]

I think Dirk merely wins because he’s impossible to embarrass. The man knows and embraces his quirks and kinks, there is nothing to shame him with.

And really, that right there is why Dirk always wins at life, too. It's like he's reached a zen state, but with more deliberately-crappy puppet porn.

[askerian]

Bwahaha yes, exactly. XD Shame is for people not as awesome as he is. (ie everyone else.)

[(Anonymous)]

[I think Dirk merely wins because he’s impossible to embarrass. The man knows and embraces his quirks and kinks, there is nothing to shame him with.]

Have I ever told you how much I love the way your mind works? Because I do. So, so much. <3

I don't think I would mind if it were ridiculously long, actually.

[askerian]

XD aww. ♥

Yes but i want to post it nownownow and i still have more than half of it to write! DX auuuuuuuugh.

[joisbishmyoga.livejournal.com]

*raises hand* We approve of gay makeouts with the pilot who looks like Karkat Jake Dave yes please.

[vehrec.livejournal.com]

Huh well that's interestin-wait, where did this plotbunny that says that Rose should be captured and installed in a horrorterror mecha for the season finale come from? Oh god, that's so wrong, and yet, so right.

[marici.livejournal.com]

....ooooo. Um, handled lightly, yes, to maintain the shonnen mecha tone, but that's fantastic! Rose is captured, and Karkat flips the fuck out (here's where she can add in all of the 'why Karkat thinks death is better than capture headcannon, lightly though, lightly), and Rose is in a huge pinch. There is nervousness, and vengefulness in the remaining pilots, but Rose is cool under fire and lucky, and she knows she has to come home to her friends/sibs/pet alien, so she escapes! But she's still on the alien base, hiding and hungry and scared. Because Rose is magnificent, she manages to come to an agreement with a crossbred horrorterror lusus and comes home triumphant and a tad grimdark. God yes, this is a fantastic arc, and so fitting the spirit of a mecha show. <3 Good comment, thanks!

[askerian]

okay, you now owe me a fan-fanfic with this idea, chop chop get writing.

XDD ♥ this would make for an awesome rose-centered mech fic though. GO ROSE~

[marici.livejournal.com]

...if I wrote this, it would be terrible. If I did, would you beta it anyway, help me deform it into proper story shape?

[vehrec.livejournal.com]

Your idea is better than mine I think. It was coming out of the later episodes of EVA, so a bit of body horror and trauma followed by turning her loose in the horror-terror thing so she flees back to earth and unwittingly unleashes the terrible monster she cannot stop and SAD. So yeah, much better, happier end.

[askerian]

Oh god. XDDD that'd be terrifying.

[vehrec.livejournal.com]

Yes, terrifying. I'm not sure which is more terrifying though, the two kilometer long mass of chitin, tentacles and eyes that spits plasma, or the fact that Rose would be acting as it's directing force.

[inverts.livejournal.com]

i don't think anybody here is going to complain about waiting for a delicious and huge chapter. =9
(did you know that at 4 chapters in, battlefield terra is already longer than my longest complete fic? XDb you are awesome.)

[askerian]

o_o seriously? even your multipart about escaping the feds and stuff? no way, it feels longer! @_@

[http://users.livejournal.com/green_bird_/]

I am a hot mess and I check back every few days to see if you've posted. Not impatient, just excited.

Something's wrong with me- I haven't been this into a fic in a long time. *_*

[askerian]

aww hon! ♥

You win a sneak peak at the start of chapter 5 on account of you're socute. u.u-b

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The boys' bedroom wasn't really big; two bunk beds, a desk under the window opposite the door, cupboards full of civilian clothes and shoes, traveling cases under the lower bunks filled with odds and ends they hadn't touched in months. It was a room mostly for sleeping in, since their staggered schedules didn't allow for much lingering; their other, more prized possessions and random time-wasters tended to be strewn all over the common room.

John wasn't used to watching the room from the floor, but sitting on his bed just made him feel weird knowing Karkat interpreted it as him lounging on a pimp throne, hos optional but expected any minute now.

The alien shuffled past on his knees, brows furrowed in concentration as he carried Jake's old loafers to the far corner, ignoring the human as hard as he possibly could.

Rose had, like a queen of perfect evil, generously decided that the poor shaken alien shouldn't be taken advantage of in his first moment of panic, but instead given some time to settle down and think things through rationally. By that mostly what she meant was "let him stew in his fretty juices until he is cooked all the way through and ready to melt under my teeth".

She'd taken back the headsets, too. Something about installing on-off switches, serious design flaw blahblah. John couldn't talk with Karkat, and trying to help him with whatever he was doing in that narrow corner between the foot of the bed and the wall only got him hissing and bared teeth.

"I am so bored."

Karkat's head briefly popped up over the footboard, just long enough to give him a narrow-eyed, suspicious look, and then he disappeared again, muttering under his breath something John would have bet his firstborn was 'for the nth time, I can't understand you, dipshit'.

(If he'd been planning to have a firstborn, or any bio kids at all, he totally would have bet them, anyways. Maybe it was cheating to bet them since he wasn't? Hmm, maybe he could bet Warhammer's -- no, hahaha, hell no, no betting his mech's anything.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/green_bird_/]

Nesting/pile-making Karkat. Yesssssss.

Thank yoooouuuuu! <3 I will need to make some fanart for this or something. Mmph. <3 <3 <3

[animetriplicate.livejournal.com]

If this goes up over the weekend I am going to come home from a con sleep deprived and read it anyways because yeah.

....I want to come home to BT awesomeness. Sleep be damned.

[midget-arnold.livejournal.com]

Wonder how well gay chicken will go over between Dirk and John once Karkat starts having ~feelings~ for John. >:)

[askerian]

XD bwahaha.

I think Dirk will back off once he notices, he's observant and nice like that, but it'd be hilarious if there was some growling over it. But anyway Karkat would/will be confused if he witnesses anything that looks like srs flirting, because he's persuaded Dirk is ashen for John/Jake.