alright what’s up time to LEARN about every single story i’ve read by marsh of sleep. #14 for Communication Breakdown, #4 for Soul Eater in a Pine Tree, #15 for If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, #7 for Throw Yourself At The Ground and Miss, #1 for Brimstone, #2 for Amplify, #8 for QE, #11 for Lodestar. <3

i’d yell at you but i’ve been chatting with you already and you know i’m like LKA;S;AFKJ rofl OK LET’S DO THIS

CB: 14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?

are u even kidding me hahahaha god no ok look, i definitely wrote that fic out of pure, hateful spite. imagine if you will, the year of our lord 2011. standards were lower back then. portal 2 was in high season, everyone writing chell banging human versions of robots. people secretly wished for the world to end in 2012. marsh of sleep was desperate for good SE porn, and then this happened: An Receipt

shortly thereafter i drank an inadvisable amount of rum, destroyed an entire bag of these, and CB was born. forget deeper meanings, i just wanted to flip some tropes and still write something hot without anyone being put into abusive situations FOR ONCE

ASEIAPT: 4: What’s your favorite line of dialogue?
this is probably cheating but i’m the god here

IOTWCS: 15:

What did you learn from writing this fic?

if we wanna be technical, i learned a lot about the layout of vegas between luxor and some golf course south of the strip. i also learned a bit about poetry, greek mythos, christianity, and that i have an undying desire to mix all that shit together to make something else =3

also that i can write fic while sitting on a toilet for much longer than anyone should sit on a toilet

TYATGAM 7: Where did the title come from?
the phrase ‘throw yourself at the ground and miss’ is a reference from douglas adams’s hitchiker’s guide to the galaxy, explaining how one learns to fly.

You must learn how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Pick a nice day and try it. The first part is easy. All it requires is the ability to throw yourself forward with all your weight and the willingness not to mind that it’s going to hurt. That is, it’s going to hurt if you fail to miss the ground. If you are really trying properly, the likelihood is that you will fail to miss the ground fairly hard.

Clearly, it is the second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties.

Brimstone: 1: What inspired you to write the fic this way?
mm, well the source content itself has this really intense, intimate feel to it, and i had been fiddling with 2nd person for a little while, and wanted to give it a go. also i had been an artist for @zxanthe on Synthesis, which was also written in 2nd person, and i really, really love what she did with it. she used it as a weapon for language and delivery, and i wanted to do that too.

Amp: 2: What scene did you first put down?
as far as i can recall, which admittedly is not very far, i think the first scene is the first scene. it was self indulgent, i had no plan, i just wanted to see where the characters would go if they had a weird link that made things awkward. LOL RIP

QE: 8: Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?
yyyyyuuuuup. though the dynamics were reversed. i was a reluctant main tank in a hardcore raiding guild for awhile, and i had an aggressive, math-wielding, statistics-barfing moonkin best friend who dragged me into pvp arenas against my will, or urged me to pick up more mobs than i should and just healed me in between moonfire spam while the other people in the party thought we were trying to get them killed. we didn’t have any romantic subtext, but we were connected in Ventrilo all the time, they were a main fixture in my life for a few years. i never met the rest of my guild, but i’ve met the guilds my other irl friends were in, and saw their interactions and played guitar hero with their raidleader, shit like that. never been to a con tho!

Lodestar: 11: What do you like best about this fic?
honestly i wouldn’t have an answer to this if you hadn’t said it awhile back, that there’s more than just a ‘hey marsh is southern’ coming through the fic, but a reverence. i don’t know how that’s possible, but i really do want to convey my love for the things that aren’t horrific or shitty out here, and when people comment that reading lodestar makes them homesick, i get attacked by the sentimental doki dokis that i otherwise try to ignore.

I DID IT, I MADE IT IT ONLY TOOK ME A COUPLE HOURS lhfg;alkjdah thank you so much sillizen <333

hexane-nightmares:

a friend: when I die, plant catnip on my grave

me: necro atsume

For Quantum Entanglement: questions 1, 2, 4, 11, 12 and 13!!! Please? ♥ (Is there a specific song you had in mind for Maka’s study-dance?)

1. What inspired you to write the fic this way?

I HONESTLY DON’T KNOW. like, i just kind of wanted to use all the prompts for whatever SoMa week it was (or was it NSFW week again? god i don’t remember) in one big fic, and like, idk maybe the collection of words sounded like warcraft or something, i really do not know. but i had just finished another reread of one of my favorite books and i just wanted to write something really, really self indulgent, breaking rules and not holding back on the random ass things i find funny

2: What scene did you first put down?
the actual opening scene. the prompt was long-distance and little did i know that would become the theme of the whole fuckin show, but i wanted an interaction with soul and his FaBuLoUs BrOtHeR, and then their mom called and here we are

4: What’s your favorite line of dialogue?
oh my god, shit i don’t know, every bit of dialogue in QE is just … hahahhahahahaah. off the top of my head, i guess this one:

“Shit,” he blurts, sitting up. “For example: all I’m hoping for is someone chill and who doesn’t get upset about not being done in the butt four days into a relationship,” he pauses here, because Reaper’s laughing too hard for him to continue, “which I think is perfectly reasonable.”

11: What do you like best about this fic?
i think, or at least judging by the response by reviewers, the fact that it seems to hit the nail on the head with the whole long distance friendship thing. like that bone-gnawing longing to be connected to someone who is arguably there in all ways but physical, and you start coping by defining their presence in different ways, like seeing their screen name pop up when they log on, or sitting in your room in companionable silence when you’re both connected to voice chat. it hurts, but it also holds you together. that kind of stuff kept me sane for a few years, and i’m really glad to see that i’m not the only one who felt it

12: What do you like least about this fic?
the fact that i forced myself to use the prompts. it really narrowed my avenues of choice, but now i’m committed so i’m determined to use them. it takes a lot of time though. i’m not good with being locked into shit haha

13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn’t listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?
OOPS I MISSED THIS ONE! this is one of the few fics i have where i don’t have any dedicated playlist. it’s really kind of bizarre for me. i will say though, while writing about soul and his mom in the hospital, i chainsmoked this song.

(maka’s music: nope! i listen to a lot of things many other people would consider terrible, so basically 70% of my music collection could fill that slot easily haha)

thanks for the questions anon! ❤

kaeikki:

ko-fi / commissions / twitter

It’s Halloween talk to me about IOTWCS ❤ for the fic ask 5, 6, and 14 or one out of those

oh geeze HI wow straight for the throat, ok let’s do this

5: What part was hardest to write?
breaking out of the titanic exhibit and the luxor itself. i went through a couple different versions – like one was the group using B*’s ridiculous weaponized prosthetic to blow up the wall of the resort and slide down the glass pyramid like a terrible magic act. but i had already used that trick (the exploding leg), and soul with the open-faced-sandwich chest wound didn’t really help the suspension of disbelief. eventually i was just like, well, maka’s dying and she’s been influenced by harvar, so i guess she’s just gonna go Rambo. which was way simpler and had more meaning, besides. ..t..theoretically anyway

6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?
i don’t really know?? it’s been received spectacularly by the fandom as well as by people who have never seen the series, and that concept is, sincerely, beyond my comprehension. iotwcs is also the fic Boy of Sleep learned about my fandom alias, and he ended up being my biggest supporter in writing, so that’s p special to me

14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?
man ok so like, honestly? while writing it i had no idea what i was trying to learn. it just itched at me the whole time. but by the end of it, i found out where i had been going the whole time, which i guess is something kind of like… despite having no tangible worth or any kind of logical weight, hope in adversity is what defines us as human beings – like, it’s the common denominator, and potentially the strongest motivator, no matter how weird or obnoxious or lost or tormented we are. at least that’s what i’d like to think, anyway. i like stories about people who try. somethin, somethin, courage, etc~

thank you bb

13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn’t listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading? FOR HYBRID THEORY. BUT CHALLENGE ADDENDUM: other than linkin park

silly-twin-stars:

first of all, how dare you. ❤ i’ve been caught. linkin park is the MOST important for hybrid theory!!! literally just sleep with the album under your pillow and you’ll osmose with that Hybrid Theory mood.

but as my old buddy marsh would say, hold on to your pants! because loads of chapter titles in hybrid theory are references to the song that i listened to while writing those specific chapters. so pls accept this humble ‘playlist’ of sorts:

ch. 1 & 2 – Stay The Night by Green Day
ch. 3 & 4 – Reckoner Lockdown by DJ Earworm (Kanye West/Radiohead mashup)
ch. 5 – Gravity Blast by 12insomnia (if you don’t like chiptune i’d skip this one lol. i was a different person in 2012 :P)

chs 6-9 i literally can’t remember, rip me. none of those titles are from songs so idk what i was listening to. the ocean? i lived near the beach. who knows.

ch. 10 – So Contagious by Acceptance (PLEASE i love this song so so so much to this day and it’s still perfect for that chapter)
ch. 11 – Down by Blink-182
ch. 12 – hold on a sec for this one.
ch. 13/14/15 – Alive by Krewella
ch. 16 – Headlock by Imogen Heap

okay here comes the essay on the most recent chapter:

ch. 17 (and eventually 18) – Runaway World by Making April. this is also where the ch. 12 reference comes from, cause that’s the chapter where i started ~sprinkling the hints~. I love this song so much that I wanna puke a little every time I hear it. It’s pop punk trash and corny as hell and not everybody will like it, but it inspires the fuck out of me, and it’s got so many little facets of what I want this story to be. When I was originally coming up with the premise, I listened to this song. When I was outlining, I listened to this song. When I was writing chapter 17 I had it on repeat and I just left everything on the table, man.

so what i’m saying is, at the end of my most recent chapter, i cliffhanged my readers right in the middle of one of the biggest climaxes in the story, in the straight middle of the song that inspires the fic.

god. i gotta update! fuck!

will-cheer-up:

Soul Eater

sefandomselfies:

Grigori Wings Ball 2018

#gw ball #sefandomselfies

The GrigoriWings Ball is a Soul Eater selfie event in which we glow up and everyone can gush over how hot we all are. Because we are the hottest fandom. It is known.

When: October 26th through October 31st, 2018 (ish)
Why: coz we hawt
Where: tumblr, which can be reblogged (with permission from you) to sefandomselfies for posterity.

How:

step one: get in a costume or get snazzy or wear your ratty pj’s, we ain’t judgin

step two: find an date, digital or otherwise! find 30 dates! go stag! u do u

step three: take enough gratuitous selfies to make a cranky baby boomer start yelling about how the world’s going to hell

step four: post on tumblr and tag #gw ball so everyone can see ur badass faces! tag #sefandomselfies if you want to be reblogged!

step five: there’s no step five, just bask in your own hotness tbh

You wanna cosplay? Do it. You and your dates wanna have a theme and dress up together? Wreck it. You wanna just put on hello kitty footie pajamas and flip off the camera? Tell me where you got your pajamas, bro.

This event is open to any Soul Eater fan, contributor or not, active or lurker, old or young. Enjoy yourselves! Feel free to spread this announcement around~

(be gay do crimes)

kenztron:

Doodles from yesterday. Sorry I haven’t been too active. I’ve been awfully busy!