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i'm glad we're almost all in agreement that he could not catch kira, that is correct. he is an intelligent man, but he's not a detective and this is decidely outside his wheelhouse.

whether he survives i think depends largely on which source material we're looking at, the books, the games, or the tv show, but since my honourable friend (i have decided right this moment i'm going to start referring to other tumblr blogs like we're both members of the uk house of lords having a political debate, i think this is an affectation that could really catch on) has elected to depict the tv version, i vote 'does'.

not because the tv version is any more skilled, or because the tv writers are any less likely to kill off a named character, but because joey batey's jaskier has a distinctly bugs-bunny-like vibe that makes me suspect that if you threw him off a cliff, he'd bounce.

since it is a rule that holds true across the multiverse that narrative convention is more powerful than any weapon, evil magic, or well-placed falling piano, i am therefor firmly convince of jaskier's ultimate immortality when it comes to kira, or indeed any other supernatural threat.

how this immortality would function would of course depend on the situation - it's entirely plausible that geralt would simply solve the problem himself, it's within his skillset if not exactly his usual style. since we're in tv land, it's also possible jennifer would solve it, since no one gets to kill her best frenemy but her. but it also feels equally plausible to me that the magic of the deathnote simply bounces off him like a nerf dart hitting 6 inch reinforced steel. or that due to his many aliases and the translation confusion over his name, kira is unable to figure out the correct name to write down.

the only scenario i will not entertain is one in which jaskier simply never gets on kira's radar and/or never takes any interest in the case. as a bard he is pathologically compelled to always be interested in and on the sidelines off the primary narrative arc of whatever world he finds himself in. that's just what bards are for.

as such, i put it to you that despite his afformentioned lack of relevant skillset, the question of whether my honourable friend wishes to recruit him to the taskforce is entirely moot. he's going to be there, whether they want him or not. not necessarily in the actual building, but suspiciously close at hand during all the most narratively interesting moments of pathos and tension. he'll be busking right outside, or the new boyfriend of a team member, or happen to stumble upon a vital clue. he doesn't necessarily want this to be the case. the taskforce almost certainly doesn't want it to be the case. but unfortunately, not even the great minds of the kira taskforce can stand against the awesome power of narrative convention and character archetypes.

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Just finished my final cancer treatment! I'm waiting for one last test result, and then I'm officially cancer free 🎉🎉🎉

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i've unfollowed the person who was filling my dash with discourse on the mcu fandom tags change, not because i don't want to see opinions i disagree with, but because the discourse is full of people citing james bond continuity to support their arguments but being wildly wrong about how continuity works in the james bond movies. my desire to not get dogpiled over fandom discourse is very strong, but i don't trust that it's stronger than my 'someone is being loudly wrong about one of my perpetual hyperfixations' pedantry 😂

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On Your Left! — Changes to Captain America Fandom Tags

Hello! In the near future, Marvel tag wranglers will be updating fandom tags on AO3 to separate the upcoming Captain America movies featuring Sam Wilson as Captain America from the trilogy of films with Steve Rogers as Captain America.

To do this, we will be renaming the fandom Captain America (Movies) to Captain America (Chris Evans Movies) and creating a new fandom named Captain America (Anthony Mackie Movies). Both will be made subtags of Marvel Cinematic Universe and Captain America - All Media Types.

In summary:

Captain America (Chris Evans Movies) will refer to the 2011, 2014, and 2016 movies featuring Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter, and Bucky Barnes. 

Captain America (Anthony Mackie Movies) will refer to the 2025 movie Brave New World featuring Sam Wilson and Joaquín Torres. This fandom tag will also refer to any sequel Captain America movies starring Sam Wilson in the title role.

Fans interested in reading about both movie series can include both Marvel Cinematic Universe and Captain America - All Media Types in tag filtering. The current fandom tag for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), which is a subtag of Marvel Cinematic Universe but not Captain America - All Media Types, will also be unaffected by these changes. We’ve included more details of our reasoning below, which better explains why we’re making this change.

Why are you making two separate fandom tags? Can’t everyone just keep using “Captain America (Movies)”?

Despite both having the superhero name “Captain America” and the same continuity, fundamentally the main character has changed between the original trilogy and the new 2025 movie. We also wanted to hopefully make it easier for fans to differentiate between which movies and continuities they’re discussing. Many Sam Wilson fans will likely want to filter for the movie where he’s the central focus; conversely, many Steve Rogers fans will likely want to filter out movies where he doesn’t appear. 

We’re specifically using “Chris Evans” and “Anthony Mackie” in the fandom tags as they’re the most recognizable and consistent aspect of the movies. There’s no consistent set of directors between all Chris Evans Captain America movies, and actor names are much more recognizable than including multiple years in the fandom tags. This style of making fandom tags named after actors is similar to other fandoms on AO3. For example, there are many James Bond movie fandom tags which differentiate via the actors’ names. 

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is also not the only time Captain America has been adapted to the big screen: there’s a 1944 movie starring Dick Purnell, a 1979 movie starring Reb Brown, and a 1990 movie starring Mat Salinger. The current fandom tag Captain America (Movies) is worded in a way that technically encompasses these unrelated movies as well. It doesn’t make sense for these unrelated continuities to share one fandom tag, so we would have changed the existing Captain America (Movies) tag to be more specific regardless of the release of Brave New World. 

Like we mentioned above, fans interested in reading about both MCU movie series at once can filter for both Marvel Cinematic Universe and Captain America - All Media Types.

Why Mackie Movies instead of Brave New World?

The movie title has already changed several times in between promotion and release. It’s also highly likely Marvel will make sequel movies. Formatting the tag as Captain America (Anthony Mackie Movies) prevents the disruption of renaming the fandom tag in the future. 

We will be creating an Additional Tag for Captain America: Brave New World, similar to how there are Additional Tags for Movie: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Movie: Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). We hope the Additional Tag will help fans filter for specific movies within the broader series of movies.

Why does Brave New World get a separate fandom tag while First Avenger, Winter Soldier, and Civil War would still share? 

Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Captain America: Civil War all encompass the trilogy centering around Steve Rogers. While Captain America: Brave New World is also set in the same continuity, the main character and actor has changed, and the role of Sam Wilson has changed from being a supporting character to the main focus.

It’s likely that Marvel will release sequel movies to Brave New World, which will not receive separate fandom tags and would instead also be covered by the new Captain America (Anthony Mackie Movies) tag. We hope that separating the fandom tags now will prevent the messiness of renaming tags again in the future, and also allow fans to filter for works that focus on the specific Captain America they are looking for. 

(From time to time, ao3org posts announcements of recent or upcoming wrangling changes on behalf of the Tag Wrangling Committee.)

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Hey frends. Have you:

- Washed in the last two days?

- Eaten something with actual nutritional value recently?

- Drunk water?

- Fed and cleaned up your pets?

- Taken your medication?

This is you daily reminder to go do all those things x

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I actively seek out terrible movies, I've seen almost everything Uve Bol has ever made, and I maintain a Letterboxd list called 'movies I genuinely regret watching', so this is a subject I've given a lot of thought to.

Super is the most bleakly nihilistic movie I've ever watched, and has a rape scene it plays as a joke because it's happening to a man. Spawn is so visually ugly it's actually physically painful to look at in places. Snyder's Justice League is over 4 hours long, 3 of those are unecessary slo-mo, and all of them are too dark to see what the fuck is happening. The animated Injustice: Gods Among us movie is so lazily written it managed to take one of the best comics ever written about the insidiousness of facism, and make an accidentially pro-facist movie. Performance famously made one of the actors quit acting in response to being in it, and watching made me seriously consider quitting watching movies in solidarity. Peter Rabbit 2: the Runaway has a moment where one of the characters looks straight at the camera and says "imagine if someone tried to make a soulless hollywood CG movie out of a beloved british children's book, wouldn't that be terrible?", and I'm not even joking about that.

The King's Man is so unfinished and incoherent I genuinely don't know how it got released, and watching Fant4stic feels almost exactly like slipping into a depressive episode.

But despite all the many many terrible movies I have seen in my life, many of which dealt me massive psychic damage, if we're talking massive disproportionate rage, the answer has to be 2014's TMNT.

Is it objectively the worst movie I've ever seen? God no. Is it the ugliest looking? Also no. Compared to Spawn, the hideous beige CGI turtles are practically an artistic masterpiece. Is the most morally bankrupt? Considering transformers 4's stance on statutory rape, it's not even the most morally bankrupt Michael Bay movie.

Does it make me wish I had a time machine so I could prevent the original TMNT comics from being written just so they could never inspire this fucking movie? Absolutely yes.

Is there a very real risk that I would just haul off and punch Michael Bay in the face for inflicting it on the world if I were ever the meet him? God yes.

Would I just walk out of the room and never return if someone told me they loved it? I could be on trial and I'd still at least try to just leave if my lawyer told me they liked it.

Do I think the world would be an objectively better, brighter, happier place if this 90 minute soulless heartless piece of low-key racist cgi garbage was erased from existence? Unquestionably yes, and you disagree we can never ever be friends.

I am fully aware my hatred is disproporiate, bad as the movie objectively is, but there's just something about it that makes me absolutely furious.

What would you guys consider the worst movie you've ever seen? Not something that's fun to make fun of, nothing you ironically enjoyed, I mean just an absolutely miserable moviegoing experience that you paid for, hated every second, and wish you had walked out of and asked for a refund.

For me, no joke, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. It did not even feel like a real movie to me. It made me see red! I was SEETHING with anger and annoyance throughout the entire thing, and I cannot for the life of me articulate why. I saw it once in 2012 when I was 15, I remember almost nothing about it now, but it struck a nerve with me like no other movie ever has before or since.

Tell me in the tags, which movie makes you disproportionately angry just thinking about it?

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Man, you know when you revisit some bit of media you liked when you were younger and you remember how much you used to ship something?

I’ve been buying the ‘perfect editions’ of 20th Century Boys as they come out, and I’d totally forgotten how much I shipped Otcho and Kenji. And according the AO3 I’m the only person in the world who does but man, I really just wanted those two to be happy together at the end of the story because they’ve got like 30 years of mutually unrequited pining to make up for.

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a really underrated feature of bg3 i don't see enough people talk about is that it's the only game i've ever played that lets you fully play a gender-fluid character.

as long as you're playing custom character or durge, rather than one of the pre-made origin characters who have their own gender identity independant of the player's preferences, then at any point after the tutorial, you can use the magic mirror in your camp to change your appearance, or your gender identity. (and these are completely sepperate options, i'm obsessed with the fact that identity, overall body shape, voice, and genitals are 4 sepperate options which can be mixed and matched)

changing your gender identity doesn't change anything except how characters adress you, the game never gender-locks anything, which means you can just change it at any point, and your adventure continues on as normal except all the npcs and companions will address you according to your newly chosen gender. also there are 3 gender options, male female or non-binary, and the enby-ness is handled really well. the couple of moments i thought felt a bit odd, i've since played with other genders, and discovered no, it's not the writers being odd, it's a deliberate characterisation choice. Volo calls everyone 'my good fellow' regardless of gender. he's not being transphobic, he's just Like That (TM).

i've played games that let me be enby before, and i've played games that sepperated out appearance and identity, but never one where you could just decide at any point you want to be adressed differently without needing to roll up a new character, and I love it so much.

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Timeloop polycyle portal...

Oh gods, I'm getting isekai'd aren't i

Somewhere out there, truck-kun is hunting for me even as I type this

Dammit, I knew dying my hair blue would consequences, but I thought I'd aged out of the main character danger zone!

The first three words you see will manifest in 2025.

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I started adding this to the tags, but apparently tumblr doesn't want people writing novels in the tags because they're cowards

as it stands in the show, i don't ship them, because i think edrissa deserves better than mal is currently capable of giving her, or anyone. (I do want them to be best friends and go to medical museums on the weekends and eat lunch together in the morgue so they can talk about corpses without the others complaining, though)

however.

it's ten years later. martin is dead. mal has taken a break from the police to work in academia, teaching students and writing papers. he's calmer. he's stable. the nightmares aren't gone, but they're better than they've ever been, and he eats multiple meals without needing to be reminded almost every day.

edrissa is still working in the morgue. she had a serious relationship for a few years, but in the end they grew apart and called in quits, and she's been single for a couple of years.

they haven't seen one another in almost a decade, but gil is finally retiring for good, and they bump into one another at the party. they mean to just catch up, but once they get talking they find they have so much to say. it's not like old times - it's better. edrissa is more confident. mal is calmer, and has a life that isn't just work and his father's legacy. and there's this spark not that wasn't there before, and next thing they know the party is ending and they haven't talked to anyone else all evening

they exchange numbers, but edrissa doesn't know if she should call. maybe she's too old for him? her hair is more silver than black now, and she likes how it looks, but mal has barely aged. if anything, he looks younger without the weight of his father to carry. the age difference between them is the same as its always been, but she convinces herself it feels larger

but she also knows that if she doesn't try, she'll always regret it. even though mal's interest in her back then was as a friend rather than a romantic possibility, she's always thought of him as her 'one that got away'.

and she also knows malcolm bright is never going to be the one to make the first move

however has hasn't counted on mal being a lot more emotionally mature than he wasn't when she first met him, and she's especially not counting on the fact that Dani and Gil saw them together and immediately decided to play matchmaker, or that Gil would get Jessica in on it

so before she's managed to psych herself up to make the first move, mal calls. tells her he knows they're old friends, but he'd always have regretted it if he didn't try, and would she like to get dinner?

she's so shocked she almost forgets to say yes, just sits there silently until mal starts to apologise, but they get there, and she accepts.

the experiment proves replicable. the spark is still there on the first date, the second, the third. they don't run out of things to talk about. the sex, when they eventually get to it, is great

it's not always easy. mal's healthier than he's ever been, but there are some wounds that are never going to entirely heal, some scars that won't fade. And edrissa's got scars of her own, along with a stubborn streak a mile wide

but they work at it. they compromise. they figure out which issues can be overcome with time and patience and which are best left alone. they don't move in together - edrissa has spent a lifetime currating a very specific space, and mal needs somewhere he can retreat to on his bad days. they've both got tempers and deep insecurities and a tendency to get absorbed in their work and vanish for days at a time, but they figure out ways to live with all of them.

their lives grow together, like intertwining vines. they grow together.

and they're happy.

Don’t die. - I won’t. I promise.

Malcolm and Edrisa, for @actuallylukedanes ♡

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17 year old cousin spent the entire 2 hour drive back to Brum from visiting family arguing why she should date a boy from college (originally she asked our opinion, we all told her he sounds awful, this turned out to not the answer she was hoping for lmao) and recounting all the drama there's already been even though he hasn't even asked her out yet, and idk if it's just teenagers being dramatic or just her bombastic storytelling style, or if there really is some 5D chess shit going on in their relationship, but she made trying to work out if this guy actually likes her or is just stringing her along sound like death note level mindgames.

(this for a guy who's biggest selling points are 'he showers, he likes ed sheeran, and he doesn't eat fish'. he is also, i have been informed by her and all her sisters, extremely mid looking, and takes pure mathematics. for reasons I'm unsure of this last appears to be more of a sticking point than the fact that he may just be playing with her emotions.)

i'm now a) extremely disapointed that i won't get an update on this drama for months, since they live quite a distance away and we only see them a few times a year, and b) repeatedly reminding myself that there is no level of abstraction that makes basing a fic on my teenage cousin's romatic life acceptable behaviour. no matter how great the concept of death note style drama and mindgames but the stakes are just that a guy you don't even like that much might not be that into you.

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@wajjs

Alarm cock is this anything

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Happy Hannukah to everyone who's celebrating!

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I got a lovely comment on a fic of mine the other day, but it ended with the reader asking if I'd ever write more for that ship. They'd commented on fic one in a six fic series, and looking at my kudos emails, I don't think they found the rest of it!

Also extra bonus of clicking through, some authors (me included) use public bookmarks to write recs. Chances are if you like my writing, you'll probably like a lot of the same fics as me. I have 205 fics and 892 public bookmarks, and nowhere close to the most prolific writer or bookmarker. That's so much fic to discover! Some of my time faves I've found by checking the bookmarks of fave authors. Some of my fave random I've entered by taking a risk on a fic for a fandom im not yet in because I love the author. You'll have such a good time I promise!

I am incredibly serious right now when I beg you all, please, and if you have Twitter or Tiktok or whatever to please spread the word: click on an author's profile on Ao3.

You want to know if an author has written more? Want to know if they're still writing? Want to see more from them? Want to know if they've written a trope or kink or sex scenario you enjoy?

Click on their name. And look at their profile.

I cannot tell you how many times in the last six months someone has read a new or newer fic of mine and said they (a new reader who has read nothing else I've done) "can't wait to see what you do next!" I've written 50+ fics and over a million words already.

"I don't know if you're still writing..." click on my profile. I am. I literally wrote a 128k+ fic for that ship last month.

"Would you ever do X?" "Please do Y!" I already did. Click on my name and look at my works.

Archive of our Own is a library. It's an archive. Not social media. It is your responsibility to fight back against the laziness that corporate algorithms have trained into you.

Click my author name. Just click it. Just click it.

Before you demand more, or ask if a writer will do XYZ, or wonder if the author still writing, or anything - click on their profile. Click on the author's profile.

I'm not trying to be mean or condescending or anything like that. I'm just exhausted. It's disheartening and frustrating to repeat myself ad nauseam, because someone couldn't take thirty seconds to do the tiniest bit of work to see if I've written lately, if I've written more for their ship, or scan my works to see if I've written what they're asking for. Please. Please. I'm begging.

Click the author's name, and explore before you ask.

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Part 1 is arguably a version of the sethian heresy, and was propsed by various gnostic sects (see the gospel of judas), but afaik no one yet has a name for the hersy of shipping Jesus and Judas.

Based on the naming scheme of existing heresies, and op's username, I propose either pondism or matthaeism

Alternately, heresyshipping

They say judas is in hell because he betrayed jesus but thats actualy a misconception, that was gods plan and so he didnt do anything wrong. Judas however IS in hell because god thinks he made his son gay

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I hope those who celebrates has a lovely Christmas, those who don't aren't too inconvinienced, and everyone who's working gets time and a half 😊

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so much of the experience of being a person who enjoys reading bdsm fic written by adults who know what they're talking about and aren't ashamed to get a bit weird with it is just opening AO3, desperately hunting for anything in your fandom de jour as good as what the stucky writers will give you, and most of the time, failing to find it and resigning yourself to spending yet another evening in the MCU trenches