Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

for example - yeah i like zutara but i like it mainly as a "the gaang does their own thing for a decade, then zuko and katara meet up and have a big mutual OH FUCK WHEN DID YOU GET HOT moment"

also the political aspect of zutara rarely gets addressed - how does the fire nation take to this? (how does it work with the rebuilt southern water tribe?)

also also what are the ramifications of the fire nation spending 100 years as a colonial war economy and then having that Abruptly Halt

tbh i feel like most of what that says about me is that it reveals one of my main motivations for writing fanfic is.... frustration, lol

like, an idea might be popular, commonplace, or even canon! but i feel like so much meat has been left on the bone that i have to get in there and ACTUALLY CARVE UP THOSE TASTY BITS for people to dine on

it probably says something about me as a fanfic writer that i am the most delighted by comments expressing that they think the base concept is way too out there, or is very bland, or has been overdone, or is just nonsensical, or usually is something they hate, or should not work, or is otherwise unsuitable

BUT

B U T

THAT I'VE DONE IT IN A WAY THEY ARE ENJOYING IMMENSELY

oh man

those are my favourite fanfic comments ever

maybe my writing brain will come back soon because i need to write another chapter of splatoon/secret world fic, specifically to give a shoutout to the guest who left a comment starting with

"Well, that's quite an ambitious crossover!"

which is the best way anyone has ever said "this is completely batshit fucked you know that right, lol wtf fr tho" to me, and i am ENDLESSLY DELIGHTED by it

@realmaxkeeble a small house.

doesn't have to be more than a 1 br 1ba shotgun house, just one with a backyard to call my own. that's surprisingly doable in my area for that budget tbh.

though this may be queer eye crossover with flying in the fixer upper folks at some point

just a house, fully paid off, and some credit card debt fully wiped out, to give some sense of financial security, because deus ex machina is the only way to get it as a disabled person in the usa lmao

ok ok the dog sleepy is catching up to me, and so is the muscle relaxer

GOOD NIGHT MASTODON

@InspectorCaracal ...........fuck you're right

*FURIOUSLY WRITES NOTES*

(like for real though, for some reason i struggle to categorize like. what types of facial shape bits people have sometimes. so it helps)

@InspectorCaracal he is! but it was a bit frustrating when i was trying to work from daniel radcliffe's face and stepped back and went "......the fuck did you do, drawing brain"

so next time uhhh i'll just look up renner in suits for efficiency? 😂

as long as i'm at this level of gratuitous self-promo i may as well post these links and then flop headfirst into bed

https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1013278/PlaidButterfly is the ff.n, https://archiveofourown.org/users/Harpalyce/pseuds/Harpalyce is the ao3

masquerade is my pet fic, more of it is on ff.n than ao3 because i just kinda cry when i try to port it over out of being mad i can't write more of it but ANYWAY

I WON'T CLAIM THAT IT'S GOOD FANFIC, JUST THAT IT'S... THERE?

and here we go, here's the fanfic's 'cover'

i know once i've done a cover for a fic i'm just like 'whelp that's it, i'm writing it now, i'm doomed, bye everyone, the plot bunny has me'

BIG CW for suicide - empty noose is shown.

very little cw for an obnoxious shade of green i thought was a good idea at the time and my inability to draw short-haired scruffy older auror harry potter without him looking like Jeremy Renner for some got dam reason

HERE, HERE'S THE PICTURE I WENT DIVING IN MY ARCHIVES FOR

voldemort and all his got dam kids that end up in this fic

he doesn't raise any of 'em at all, they essentially existed as 'spare parts'

ok he tried with fr. makary a bit but the lad promptly grew up and rebelled hard in the exact opposite direction and WILL, DANGEROUSLY, IMMEDIATELY, invite you in for tea or a cup of hot cocoa and show you genuine christian charity and love (THAT BOY AIN'T RIGHT - voldie probably)

cw for eye contact

also here's Ginny, Ron and Hermione

ginny could use another latte (full fat milk please, quidditch practice is getting intense for the holyhead harpies)

ron could use either some beard oil or a shave before he blazes past Fixer-Upper's Chip Gaines into Full Lumberjack

hermione could use a shoulder massage and an eyeglass cleaning wipe if you've got one handy

anyway to sell you on this fic

here is an illustration for an eventual later chapter where, after visiting Fr. Makary, aka Makary Riddle, one of Voldemort's kids who rebelled against his dad so hard he ended up a man of the cloth, Auror Harry Potter stops to have a cigarette and a chat in the church gardens with the snake that lives there, Shine-Scale, Hunter Of Voles, Best Frog-Grabber, Protector Of Church Man Who Gives Mice.

but now i have, and basically that means i've run into the "auror harry potter" tag screaming NO! NO THERE IS NO DRARRY HERE! YOU WILL GET YOUR MAGIC DETECTIVE WORK AND YOU WILL LIKE IT! GOOD DAY SIR! I SAID! GOOD! DAY!

ALSO I HOPE YOU LIKE OCS THAT ARE ALL VOLDEMORT'S NEGLECTED KIDS BECAUSE OH BOY I HAVE SO MANY OF THEM.

i expect this to go over like a molotov cocktail

do you know that all this time i've been wondering why this fic wasn't getting any comments on ao3

was because

i had not actually posted it on ao3.

good news: did a write

bad news: did a write so hard, nearly two hours overdue for pain meds,

oh come on there is no way that i've only ended up writing 2400 words, it seems SO MUCH LONGER god

ok ok ok i guess 5 pages is about fair

aaaaaaaa actually doing a write thank fuck