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Hi! Do you still doing prompts?
Yes :) The policy and readme for it is at manicintent.carrd.co. However I have one in queue right now and I’m less free than I used to be, so it might take longer than before for me to write it (maybe a few weeks, depending).
Are you still in the John Wick fandom? Asking with hopeful eyes.
I watched the latest film, but nope, not in the fandom any longer :)
Are you still in the Ghost of Tsushima fandom? (Currently replaying this fantastic game and stumbled upon your Art^^)
Sadly no, that was a while ago ^^ I also have fic up on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/users/manic_intent/works?fandom_id=44774119 if you need more content though! Thanks for your interest :)
...This.
Frankly it’s because I wrote fanfiction for 20+ years (since I was 15, whew!) that I ever honed my craft, discipline, and confidence enough to get published. I have an agent, 2 novels, 1 novella, and over 30+ short stories out today, been shortlisted for awards, and had short stories in Year’s Best Fantasy etc anthologies because of writing fanfiction and the fans who read and commented on my work. Seriously, without the community, I’d personally never have even gotten far enough to be confident to try.
But even if getting published is not your end point, even if all you want to do is have a bit of fun, the act of writing is still valuable. So just keep at it.
And you’re never too old to publish.
My favourite thing about the D&D movie is it never stops trying to be a D&D movie even down to the most minute, unsung details. There's initiative order gags (I'll go last!) there's rolling a 1 gags (setting off the trap on the bridge by inexplicably just walking up to it) there's stat gags (nobody had high enough Intelligence to be in danger from the Intellect Devourers). Almost every spell is identifiable, from Xenk using smite to Sofina whipping out Finger of Death. Simon's character arc is about his self-confidence being tied to his mastery of magic because Charisma is the spellcasting stat for sorcerers. The era of movies based on games being afraid of their source material is over.
And the second best thing about it is that none of this makes it inaccessible to newbies who have never played the game, it works great as a pulp fantasy story, with a truly great mix of genuine character moments and humor. It takes the subject matter seriously but also embraces the absurdity of living in a world where a cat could fall down your chimney then turn into a young woman and walk out your front door.
I want everybody who’s calling Ken a Trophy Husband to know that he’s actually a Trophy Boyfriend, because when Ruth Handler invented Ken in the 1960s, she was adamant that he would never marry her and instead be her “handsome steady”, so that Barbie remained a figure of independence for the little girls and was never put in the position of housewife.
Her house is hers. She bought it and furnished it with money she made in her own job. In STEM, in politics, in healthcare, in fashion, in academy, in customer service. Her credit card is in her name (women in the US couldn’t have their own regardless of marital status until 1974). And it’s all pink and fashionable because femininity and badassness aren’t mutually exclusive. No matter who you are, you can be anything.
That’s why Barbie’s slogan is “you can be anything”. Teaching these ideals to little girls is why Barbie was created. Empowering women and empowering femininity is the original meaning of the Barbie doll. It’s not that you have to be all this to be a woman, but if you are all or some of this, you too are awesome.
And somehow pop culture deliberately changed that narrative. Sexualised, bimbofied, and villainised her, when she actually isn’t responsible for the impossible beauty standards — people are, she’s just a stylised, not-to-scale toy like most others.
Men are frothing because he’s just Ken and I guess they were expecting her to be just Barbie, but that’s exactly what Ken is. Canonically. A badass woman’s himbo boyfriend.
This movie has the potential to change the way we collectively see Barbie radically into what Ruth Handler’s intended, I’m so very excited
In times like these, what good would a conscience do me? Or anyone? Traitors forfeit their lives. It’s a cruel law but it binds us together in this cruel world. And it works.
Prompted by John Wick 4, I went back over your JW4 fics and they are as lovely and amazing as I remember!
Any chance that you may write more in this fandom?
Hmm, I don’t know at this point...I’ve been finding it harder to write since the pandemic. We’ll see ^^
Fandom: Like a Dragon: Ishin!, Yakuza 7 Pairing: Saito Hajime x Zhao Tianyou Rating: E A/N: Zhao and Kasuga transmigrate into the Bakumatsu era after a Peking Duck accident. Spoilers for some parts of Ishin. Excerpt:
The last thing Zhao Tianyou thought before the Peking duck oven exploded in his face was that curses are real. What were the fucking odds, eh? How had something like that even imploded, a booby trap? All because Kasuga-godsdamned-Ichiban joked that he was fated never to eat Peking duck, saying that the world always intervened to stop him. Hearing that, Tianyou had opted to challenge fate, and here they were.
Death fucking hurt.
Then it didn’t, but only for a heartbeat. Tianyou sucked in a lungful of water before he somehow clawed his way to the surface, gasping and spitting, flailing for a good minute before all his ruthless childhood swimming lessons caught on. The world stank of fish and rotting refuse, dark enough that disoriented, it was by sheer miracle that Tianyou somehow clawed his way ashore. He vomited water until he was hacking up bile, dazed. The hell? How had he gone from exploding ovens to drowning? Blearily, Tianyou looked up—only to find himself staring down a handful of approaching men.
It wasn’t their air of menace that caught Tianyou’s attention but their clothes. He gawked. All three wore mismatched rags in a style that looked right out of a historical film. Dim lanterns backlit them against a slum, lashed together out of rotting wood and best wishes. Chickens clucked somewhere in the gloom. Tianyou risked a glance around, bewildered. No city lights, no distant traffic sounds. As to his clothes—Tianyou blinked as he pulled at the long hem of a filthy kimono, which had been a fine set before it’d taken a long dip in a dirty river. It wasn’t one of his. Tianyou didn’t own any yukata or kimono—it hadn’t been his style.
“This is a joke?” Tianyou guessed, staggering to his feet. He winced—his head throbbed, but he stayed upright. “A film set?” Though, why would some director kidnap the ex-leader of the Yokohama Liumang clan for a film? They could just ask.
There's a poll on twitter we are losing in :(
I like to think that we would lose against Daenerys, though. In fact I like to think that C&A would lose against pretty much anyone in Game of Thrones. They are too nice, too trusting and occasionally too sane.
We managed to win! :)
But now we are against Gandalf o.o!
Nobody beats Gandalf. Especially not a differently competent demon and an equally competency challenged angel.
We managed to beat Gandalf!😱 And now are against 'The Mandalorian and Grogu':
Also, from their pages :):
No. They won't. That would be much too silly.
reminder that if (when) both dream and aziraphal & crowley win, they’ll be pitted against each other for the final…
which side will you be on mr Gaiman…
I will be rooting equally for both sides.
And on the bright side, my (so far) failed predictions of doom will finally be justified for either Crowley and Aziraphale, or for Dream, as they reach the semifinal. And then there will be the final to go, and then we will finally, gloriously, lose properly.
The time has come 👀, vote here.
“The leader of the Yokohama Liumang. They call him Zhao.”
sooo. zhaomaji became an inside joke with some of us in the yakuza server im in and i dont even remember why. they will bully me if i do not post this
sometimes i say things on twitter and then make a little graph about it
have u seen john wick 4 👀 been re-reading all your john wick fics after watching numero 4 two days ago..... the feels..... 😭
Yes I've seen it ^^ It's a fun watch overall, especially the Donnie Yen parts, but was probably longer than it should be during some sequences. As to whether I'll write fic for it, I'm not sure... I don't really like the post Movie 2 worldbuilding, but we'll see :3
