I Just Randomly Found An Old Epilogue Scene To My Smoker Fic That I Forgot To Add In Before Posting The

i just randomly found an old epilogue scene to my smoker fic that i forgot to add in before posting the final chapter 🤓⁉️ so im gonna go post that and hope no one notices

When y’all are writing is there ever a point when you’re like “if someone does not lose their mind over this specific bit right here then what am I even doing?”

i so often think about the utter lack of innovation in tamriel and then i remember. every game Shit Happens and it's so goddamn world ending and terrifying (um hello? ancient dragon god is coming to eat the world?) that like yeah after surviving that i'd just be happy with my wagons and horses and crops and 50yrs of life expectancy.

i saw a post the other day that was like “you’re telling me it’s been 200 years since oblivion and nobody has invented anything new? in real life we went from horses to cars in 200 years!” and to be totally fair to that person they were 100% correct and that is an oversight but to be fair to the people of nirn i think if actual hell opened up and blew up like half of the major cities on earth that would probably stall innovation here too. like just to give them some credit they did experience a world-ending catastrophe and i don’t know how many of us could see the sky crack open and flood out a bunch of actual satans and then have like. joe biden turn into a dragon and fight satan and then still be like, “so anyway, automobiles.”

wip wednesday but not

when i first started writing miraak i kinda gave him a thicc gym boy build. hefty but with abs and all.

now that i've seen the light (and he's been out of apocrypha for 5 yrs, his body has finally changed for the first time in 5000 yrs) i've been giving him a powerlifter build with thick arms/shoulders and TITS and a strong but softer torso. somehow it just genuinely fits him so much better (though it's not like anyone could tell in my writing how different it is) in this way he still occupies a large amount of space and is very physically intimidating, but when he's relaxed he's comfy to hold or snuggle, and when he holds people they get the bonus of his strength and relaxed softness. and i think tharya who really enjoys hugging/holding his waist (which is NOT tiny, this man is a rectangle) bc his shoulders are usually too high would enjoy the little ability to squeeze :3

(his butt is still big and perfect. it will never change, nor will his thighs, which are also big and perfect and strong and)

Let's talk about Smoker's weapon of choice.

I don't see this talked about much, but Smoker's choice in weapon (a MASSIVELY OVERSIZED jitte tipped with sea prism stone) is SUCH a statement.

Consider the history of the weapon in Edo-period Japan. It was a crime to carry a bladed weapon, so guardians of the shogun's palace turned to the jitte to arm themselves. A jitte became a symbol of honor and carried the weight of an official badge. Knowing Oda, Smoker didn't arm himself with a weapon bearing that kind of history accidentally. It's an integral piece of his design that reveals the nature of his character.

But what I find even more noteworthy (and decidedly more impressive, not to mention funny) is that Smoker's weapon of choice weaponizes his own Achille's heel as a Devil Fruit eater. That tip of sea stone could easily be turned against him should someone overpower him and take control of his weapon. The fact that Smoker doesn't give a shit and fights with it anyway tells us a lot about him, namely that he's so fucking confident in his abilities that he doesn't think anyone will be able to take his weapon away.

Long story short, no matter how strong you think Smoker actually is, Smoker's weapon of choice tells us he has enormous fucking brass balls, and really I love that about him. 🧡

i just listened to the entire jekyll & hyde 1995 musical on spotify and like...i'm obsessed. one of the best things i've ever listened to?? like EVERY SONG? THE CONFRONTATION?? the lyric writing is insane, the score, the SAME dude singing jekyll and hyde but sounding completely different...i'm mindblown

i own the book and have planned to read since forever (esp after listening to this omg) and was wondering if people know of any good movie/show adaptations (musical or otherwise) of jekyll & hyde? and GOD DID THEY EVER RECORD THE CAST ON STAGE??? I CAN'T IMAGINE HOW COOL THIS IS ON STAGE