Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

i actually don't mind the aggressively plain and downright retro navigation/design of fanfiction.net

where they upset me is when they removed the ability to highlight/select text. probably to keep twelve year olds from plagiarism temptations but like. that's. that's how i read on the internet. that's how i mark my place! it's the digital equivalent of a finger along the page!

i mean you can still do it if you go into the mobile version but it does make me mildly disgruntled.

consistently both amazed that i remember the strats after 4-6 months away (if not more, since around christmas i basically was there just for the event), but also kinda dismayed that it seems like i'm the only one remembering the strats in some of these fights

@InspectorCaracal WHOOSH I CURSE YOU WITH PLOTBUNNY

@InspectorCaracal a lot of "well this is awkward"

"katara did you forget you're literally the chief's daughter. you're like a princess"

"YEAH, OF LIKE, FIVE PEOPLE, AANG! I THINK MORE THAN FIVE PEOPLE LIVE IN THE FIRE NATION!"

bonus points if she comes prepared for everyone to hate her but it turns out the vast majority of the fire nation love her a la Princess Diana and she's just like "oh my god this is so much worse actually"

@InspectorCaracal YES EXACTLY

especially because even if zuko realizes it, you know that fool's going to immediately jump to CONCEEEAL DON'T FEEEL

but also zuko is the last person to know what is going on with zuko at any given time. the rest of the gaang will be "so when's the wedding date" while he's still "whaaaat nooooo there's no way she likes me!! it's just IMPOSSIBLE" right up until katara grabs him by the collar and kisses him and Zuko.exe Has Encountered A Problem And Needs To Close

though honestly the last point deserves several fics in and of itself, i'm just not that good at writing political intrigue

i mean even masquerade is like

ok so vader's fighting for the good side now

how fucken awkward is that gonna be for everyone tho

like sure the rebellion is the heroes but also. just imagine having this known war criminal casually sitting in the mess hall with you. imagine having to serve him mashed potatoes. oh man. there's so much juicy bits there

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