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Chonk

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I lied, I have another notp

Angus x Nacha

No hate I just don't see it or really get it

Granted, I hc Angus as gay so that's part of it, but even if I didn't it's just not my thing

Selenne x Nacha for life baby!

I don't usually have otps and notps, and while I have favorites I kinda vibe with most ships in the tnmn fandom

That being said I do have one otp and one notp

My otp is Selenne x Nacha, I think those two are such an underrated couple and I love seeing them

My notp is milkbread. I feel like Francis and Nacha aren't together for a reason, things probably just didn't work and that's okay. While there are artists I like that ship milkbread, and i do enjoy their art of it, personally it's not for me

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Writer's block dangling over my head.

Fallout 4 is slowly tightening its grip on me.

Want to write Danse fic.

Must resist.

Must. Finish. Current. Work

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I got distracted writing out a brain worm for the therian AU I got an idea for

I'll work on wayward tales again I promise TvT

Also I might post the brainworm to make up for the wait

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purge of 2002? of 2012? what ARE those?

Oh, how quickly the past is forgotten. 

They are part of the reason A03 is a thing now. Not the whole reason, but part of it. 

The Great Purges of 2002 and 2012 are when ff.net got a wild hair up their ass about THINK OF THE CHILDREN and nuked any fic posted on there that was explicit. Thousands upon thousands of nc-17 smutfics were lost.

It’s what led to the creation of alternate hosting sites for smutty fic…AdultFanfiction was the one I went to…but thousands of fics would never be recovered. 

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if you're worried about the new ToS for AO3, please remember that you are primed to distrust because of the way politics are intertwining with the internet right now. remember to look into definitions yourself, fact check, and look through the logic lense before jumping to conclusions.

AFAIK right now, the update clarifies terms that have already existed. it's not changing as much as it is clarity-rewriting. i'm still looking through the legalese (law student, i'm learning as I go) and I will be checking in again later, but don't despair.

however, don't get lax. download fics, connect with the authors, build out your communities. comment and bookmark and save, and please don't stop writing.

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Readers, make sure you have all your favourite Ao3 fics downloaded.

Writers, make sure you have copies of all the fics you have posted on Ao3.

I don’t want to be alarming, but things could get really bad really fast. OTW shared this today on Twitter, and I'm a bit worried about it 😅

Ao3 is a non-profit organisation. If they have to start paying taxes, I have no idea what will happen.

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You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

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— David Cronenberg, Consumed

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I promise I'm not dead guys! Just took a break from writing and also stuck on where to go for the next tale

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Keep your priorities straight: post fic.

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Got an idea for a tnmn therian/alterhuman AU

If I do write it, I don't plan on adding major OCs or doing a reader insert, but I do wanna have Frangzzack (Francis/Angus/Izaack) ((pre-established)) and also Selenne x Nacha (also pre-established).

I think it would be Francis, Anastacha, and maybe Steven centric too

Anyway, here are my basic ideas n stuff

Things could always change

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Basically what I mean by therian AU is that there are fantasy elements and therians will be able to use a sort of magic to physically shift their form to that of their theriotype(s)

I have a few ideas for characterization and backstories written up already as well as the cast and their theriotypes

Francis: a coywolf born in a religious town to human parents. His ability to shift was taken from him during childhood, and he has struggled with feeling incomplete for most of his life. He wasn't expecting Anastacha to end up being a therian, but he's doing his best to help her

Anastacha: has her world pretty much turned upside down when she finds out she's a jaguar. Frightened and confused at first Francis and the others are able to explain what's going on and guide her best they can. She's not sure how to go about explaining it to her mother or if she should. She was also iffy about Selenne, and it seemed they couldn't quite click at first

Izaack: a horse that burdens himself with protecting others due to his size and strength as well as a desire to be like his moms. One of them, who was a grizzly bear, died helping others flee a forest fire, his other mom, a red fox, owns a sanctuary near town where many therians can shift or even live safely. He sends her money to help pay for it

Angus: a red deer that is friendly and talkative, and can shift just fine, but he has a hard time finding his inner animal, letting loose and running wild. He was also born to human parents who accepted him, and grew up in the city with no access to the forest. His parents well-meaning protectiveness also kept him in the city, afraid he would get shot by a hunter or killed by a predator (which is reasonable). As a result he doesn't display a lot of deer-like behavior either since he was raised by humans to be human for his safety. Because of this Mclooy had a hard time figuring him out, but the old man got it eventually

Selenne: she's a tiger, kind hearted and gentle, but also fierce and vengeful, she and Izaack share a similar complex being two of the largest in the group, though she is also simultaneously much more feared and hunted than he is. She's the main person guiding Ana alongside Francis since she's also a big cat, and she's also struggling with how to tell Nacha about her identity. She and Ana are able to support each other a lot due to their shared struggle and bond

Elenois: a fennec fox and druid/witch in training. She finds herself a little out of place among larger animals like the others and hates feeling like she needs protecting cause of it, so she trains with magic to make up for her physically small size

Steven: after having strange dreams about flying for years (which his father always disregards), he discovers he's a falcon. His dad kept the fact that his mother was a barn owl a secret in an attempt to protect him since his mother was killed by poachers. He's very sore about it and it causes a rift in their relationship

Mclooy: not therian, knows that Anastacha, Angus, Izaack and the Sverchzt twins are, and has an inkling about Francis but can't quite pin him due to his inability shift. They don't know he knows, and he does his best to keep Steven oblivious

Afton: not therian, antagonist (don't think I'm going to go full on villain considering game lore but maybe), has suspicions about the others, probably wants to study therians since they already do stuff with aliens and artificial life, so why not

Theriotypes and therianthropy aren't genetic, though it's more likely for therians to be born to other therians. Some can have multiple, and they all have some magic in them due to the nature of their souls. Some train with it more than others and are able to do more

I've also hemmed and hawed over whether or not they can still talk when they shift, or at least if humans would understand them when they do, other therians still would if they couldn't

Wolfwalkers is a big inspiration for this if you couldn't tell

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From the notes on Lonely Hearts:

With the upcoming presidency I would like to give all readers FULL PERMISSION to download both of my fics, as well as any other I may write. Hell I ENCOURAGE you all to do this. I'll even allow reposts so long as credit is given (please don't harass anyone who doesn't give credit though, simply inform me if possible and I can ask on my own behalf, or be kind and polite when asking if you cannot inform me and don't escalate if you're met with refusal)

Queer media and communities are going to be under fire starting 2025, don't let our voices and work be choked out and erased

No matter how grim things may get, remember you are loved, you are supported, and you are wanted <3

I wrote a fic

Didn't want to post it on my main blog cause I didn't want people I know irl to find it, and I didn't want to open asks on my main blog either

Also I feel like a more focused blog will be better for info dumping and in case people want to follow for something specific instead of the random stuff I do on my main

It's a Francis/nb!reader fic that uses Y/n, and it's rated mature for graphic violence and strong language

I update every two weeks on Thursdays

I also have a playlist to go with it:

Summary and chapter 1 sneak peek below

Summary:

Being the child of a doppelganger and a human isn't easy, but you managed to survive this long by keeping others at an arm's length and blending in. You were certain you had a good thing going when you got the position as doorman for an apartment complex, until a certain milkman manages to hit a weak spot in your emotional barriers. His suspicions about you are rising, when you suddenly find yourself the caretaker of a young girl who is also half doppelganger.

In your new predicament, you are faced with a choice: learn to come out of your shell and trust someone, or keep running and instill your fear of the world into another young mind.

Torn between the need for human connection and your survival instincts, one mistake could result in you and the kid being on the receiving end of a DDD cleaning protocol.

Chapter Summary:

After years of struggling to get by on your own and find a place that would not only accept you, but would also fit your needs, you finally found the perfect one. Now you, Y/n L/n, are the full time Doorman of Wayward apartment complex

Sneek peek:

If there was one thing that always stayed the same with you, it was that you always ended up alone.

From the moment you were born you were an anomaly, with a doppel father and a human mother, you felt torn between two worlds you never quite fit into your whole life. The constant fighting between your parents tore you apart, and you wondered how they met or even had a child with how often they fought.

Your father would try to instill in you the blood lust of the doppelgangers, teaching you how to alter your appearance to lure in humans or infiltrate the places they felt most safe. Doppels were ruthless, persistent, territorial, and united under one objective: to wipe out and replace humanity. You didn’t share this objective, never having the heart to kill a human. When your father forced you to eat one he had killed, hoping your first taste would awaken the hunger for human flesh buried in you, you had retched it all up when you got home before crying to your mother.

You did have that hunger in you, but the innocent librarian your father shoved down your throat didn’t satisfy it. You could still sustain yourself just fine on human food, but at the end of each meal it would always feel like a part of your stomach always remained empty, no matter how many seconds or thirds you went back for until you were sick. You even tried eating the rats that scavenged the allies and cellar in desperation, but with that not working you had no choice but to learn to live with it, and soon the pangs in your gut became just another constant in your life.

You would never forget the day you learned how to satiate it.