#//IF ITS NOT RELEVANT TO THE TAG DON'T FUCKING PUT IN THERE!!

[mechahero]

//Trying to look through tags only to be hit with pictures of people's chests and junk

[osamid]

an interesting (unpopular? i think?) soukoku opinion i have is i don't think dazai was oblivious to his feelings towards chuuya, like ever. i understand WHY people interpret dazai as having trouble identifying and reckoning with his emotions; i'm not knocking it! there's plenty of evidence to suggest that and also i think it fits with his actions. HOWEVER. for me dazai is the most fun when he's deliberately suppressing and neglecting his own feelings. dazai realizes at the tender age of like 15 that he's at least infatuated with chuuya, and his first instinct is "well how do i compartmentalize that. how do i make sure this doesn't interfere with my plans and our job at the mafia." and then he compromises with his emotions by keeping chuuya close but not allowing himself to seem too affectionate or "trick" chuuya into liking him back. i think this version of dazai is most compelling to me because then the struggle isn't "get blockhead dazai to realize he's in/can love" its "get blockhead dazai to realize he's allowed to indulge in love" which is much more fun, especially when you have seven (or even more, i don't think this mindset would be limited to chuuya) years worth of distancing himself from his own emotions to contend with.

[gachaparadise]

ahhh the Penacony leaks are really coming in now.

*chuckles* I'm in danger.

[james-stark-the-writer]

The Boys is the Undertale of superhero media

[loathsomespider]

theres this function that content warnings serve that i think is really, really underappreciated and its not just as a warning for those who wouldnt want to read it, but as a function of like. acknowledgement that you are writing about said topics, like. i'm pretty laissez-faire about putting content warnings on pages of my comic but i know for certain there is stuff i'm going to have to tag very thoroughly.

and like. i think people would be more receptive of content warnings and be more willing to if it wasnt something slapped on to satisfy "pearl-clutchers" or "antis" or whatever phrase we're using to talk around the phrase "triggered sjw" today, but acted as an extension of a summary or elevator pitch, like.

a content warning can be extremely valuable in building a confidence that an author is knowing what the fuck they're doing, which is way, way more relevant to a text than literally anything else, like. im not against reading a story where sexual assault or something similarly gnarly happens, but i definitely don't want to read someone pissing and shitting their way around sexual assault like an idiot and someone saying "hey im going here" is a great heuristic for whether someones a fucking idiot or not

[prettyboykatsuki]

cw for ; cheating like really bad cheating dskfsk, mind games, bisexual reader (its relevant!!!), emotional sadism, yandere in the most uncomfortable flavor, and sexuality fuckery.

readers gender is intentionally left neutral!!. @p00pdev1l tag for my beloved.

You can feel yourself starting to cry again.

You have a headache. The noise of the izakaya is flooding out into the streets. Even with alcohol and cigarettes and other distractions, you can't help but feel like you're about to throw up. The dry-heave works itself up to your throat, and you smoke a little to shove it back down.

You were careful this time.

When you hear footsteps walk themselves next to you, and see nice black dress shoes from your gaze is downcast - you already know it's Suguru.

You feel yourself getting sick again. Your voice is hoarse, scratchy with pain and tears. You're unimaginably angry at him, and you're sure if you were a little drunker, you'd take your pocket knife to his throat.

But the words don't come. You're so frustrated you just ended up crying again, hiccuping. Something falls onto your shoulders, a jacket that smells like cologne.

That wakes you up, makes you turn your head to one side. Your heartbeat is hard and loud, and your anger is the only thing in your body. Your seething, all hard lines and rage.

"What the fuck is wrong with you?"

He shrugs. "It's cold. You'll get sick."

"Don't act like you give a single fuck about me, you psychopath."

His reaction to that is cold. Makes your blood run cold. "Call me whatever you want but don't say I don't care about you."

"Fuck off, Suguru," The feeling of his name is intimate in the same way knives are. Sharp against the roof of your mouth because of the smooth way the syllables slice. The familiarity of a cut. "Go inside and fuck off. Go be with..." Your words trail off.

"I'd rather be out here," He assures, then shrugs. He joins you in smoking, but you turn your gaze back to the pavement so you don't have to look. "She'll be fine without me."

There's a lot of things you don't understand about him. What you understand least though is this. How long has it gone on? How long did he plan on doing this?

The first time Getou stole the girl you loved from you, you're nearly too heartbroken to stay friends with him. It was your first real crush. A girl in the same year as you. You loved her. She smelled soft like roses and put her head in your lap. You managed to confess to her despite yourself at the end of your second-year.

She was your friend, still - even as she let you down gently. Told you that she had a boyfriend now. He was your friend, actually.

The first time it happened, you thought about cutting your ties with Getou. He didn't pretend to be apologetic to you, said she was cute and he liked her. He didn't say he was sorry.

Instead he said: "You shouldn't be with a girl who could get over you so easily." And leaves it at that.

You almost got physical with him, you remember. Gojo stopped you.

Over the years, the incident becomes pattern enough to recognize. The first is a mistake, the second a frustrating coincidence. The third time it happens you do get into an altercation. Each time Getou confronts you he says the same thing. That if a girl really loved you, she wouldn't been with him so easily. If a girl really loved you, she shouldn't have been so easy for him to persuade.

You think abut killing him. It's so frustrating, so humiliating, so painful it nearly puts you in therapy. The fourth time in happens, you try to cut him off but you can't. Your lives are so tied together you can't avoid seeing him and for whatever reason he can't leave you alone.

When there's no one you're interested in, he's your friend after all. That's the strangest part. The part that makes the least sense, that he acts like your fucking friend when he does that to you but he does it again and again and again. It hurt less when it was just puppy crushes. Eventually you grew numb to it. Gave up on love for a while.

When you meet Mikoto, you don't make the mistake of showing your interest. You especially don't show it around Getou. On the job, a sorcerer from a branch in the Nara prefecture who's recently moved. A nice woman with black hair and soft eyes, you seek her friendship first and don't let yourself indulge in anything more.

You don't dote on her more than friends. You don't show your feelings off. You don't tell anyone, not even Gojo whom you tell everything, or Shoko - who you tell when you don't want Getou finding out. You bury the feeling of love in yourself and hope they die there. You hope she ends up with anyone but you, or you in some miracle.

You fall in love with her because it's who you are. Getou shows up with her at your gathering the minute you begin to accept it.

If he doesn't hate you, it must be something much stronger. Disgust or pure disdain. Something stronger than hate must drive him to do this so perpetually.

It's not even something you can tell anyone. What do you tell girls before you go out with them? What do you say to people when they ask why you and him act so odd?

There's nothing to say. Nothing to explain. It's so fucked up that you wouldn't even know where to begin.

Your voice is trembling as you take another drag of your cigarette. "How did you know?"

He laughs a little. "You make it obvious."

"Why do you keep doing this to me...?" You ask, defeated. Broken, maybe. "....I really loved her."

Getou shrugs again. You can tell even if you don't see it. "She was the same as the rest of them. I'm doing you a favor."

"Do you even like her?"

He takes a drag of his cigarette and looks at you a little longer than you expct. "So-so."

"I hate you," You give up on everything else, letting your cigarette fall to the ground. Your voice is shot. "You're fucking horrible. Just leave me alone. Please, please just leave me alone."

There's a minute of silence there. He stamps his own cigarette out and sighs. "You should come in. You'll catch a cold." You don't reply. He sighs again. "I'll buy you a drink."

You break down in tears all over again.

When you're in highschool, you date Satoru for a week.

Suguru remembers this. It's one of the only things about his highschool experience that feel standout. A defining moment of his youth, where the two of you try it just because everyone says you should and neither of you really like it. You end up being friends again, laughing it off after it happens.

But he hated it.

There was a pit in his stomach the entire week. Even though you barely dated, and only really held hands as a joke - Suguru hated it. You kissed Satoru too, you confessed. He was a decent kisser, but you didn't feel much.

It was a joke of a relationship. Still.

He remembers too, the first time you had your first real crush. Up until then, you'd really never thought of anyone else. There was no one for Suguru to care about. But he remembers exactly when it happened, and where - how the four of you were slacking off in the storage room, passing around Shoko's cigarette. He remembers the way you got embarrassed telling them about her. How you could barely keep the smile off of your face.

The first time Suguru steals someone from you, it's during highschool. It wasn't because he had really wanted her. He hated her. Hated how she smiled at you and hated how innocently she spoke. But when he stepped closer to her, she blushed.

It was to get her to fall for him. And that wouldn't do, he didn't think. How could you like someone with so little resolve? When she couldn't be even a little loyal to you?

He asked her out on a whim that time. But he saw how angry it made you. How your eyes were wet with tears and how much you hated him in that moment.

How much you thought of him. Have you ever before then? Considered him so much? Suguru didn't think so.

It becomes an obsession, Suguru can admit. It didn't really matter who it was, though it'd been mostly girls. Anyone you showed interest in. Anyone who caught your eye. Suguru got their first and you always, always looked so miserable about it. Like a puppy who can't get on a couch, he thinks.

He prefers when you've already been with them. He prefers knowing that your skin has touched theirs. The parts of you that linger in their life become Suguru's so wholly. When he can smell your scent and taste your cigarette smoke. It'd be better if it was you, but there was something gratifying in this.

In the roundabout ways of finding you. Of seeing pictures of you in their phone, or of tasting you. It's like being with you, even though it's never enough. Always wants to make him break you more.

He likes when they cheat on you with him. He likes when it's just after. They get some cheap thrill out of it. Suguru can entertain it even if it disgusts him.

It's the only way your shirts end up in his closet. The only way he can smell your new shampoo so deeply because you share it. They think that he must hate you. He's sure you think that too.

But that's not it. He couldn't hate you. All the people he's ever fucked, he's tried to find evidence of your intimacy with them. Kiss marks he didn't leave on their skin, clothes they don't own, music they wouldn't normally listen to. You would. They're all yours.

He'd ask about you to them. Often. Listen to the parts of yourself that you'd been trying to keep secret from him.

He'd take it all by force and discard them all afterwards. That was all he wanted. You were all he wanted.

He liked seeing you angry with him. Liked seeing you cry and weep. Liked that you couldn't go anywhere or love anyone without thoughts of him following you and haunting you.

Satoru thinks he should just ask you out already. Suguru doesn't think he's broken you down enough. You need it to hurt a little more. You need to think of him a little more until you can't love anyone else.

Suguru wants to see you hurt a little more. Until you're so broken you're really begging. When he brings her with him today, you react even worse than he could have hoped for it. He shivers a little thinking about it.

He's getting closer to really breaking you, he thinks.

He looks at you now as he puts out his cigarette, broken from his thoughts.

"You should come in. You'll catch a cold." You don't reply. He sighs again. "I'll buy you a drink."

Suguru turns around to leave after he says it. Goes back inside. Before the door of the izakaya closes again, he can hear the way you sob so desperately.

He smiles at that. Just a little.

[sanjisboyfie]

one piece smau: vacation edition

— strawhats being a cute friend group once again

— male reader, everyone having the tiniest crush on him too but thats only if u swuint (im a very selfindulgent writer sorry)

— also i imagine robin, franky and brook to be older than the rest of hte crew, but not like crazy older. its probably not really relevant, but like mid twenties insead of their thirties and forties LMFAOA the rest of the crew is young twenties

liked by ._.[name], princesanji, and 10k others

dni_nami: pre-7hr flight question, how long until we all start killing each other? everyone place your bets

tagged: ._.[name], freeluffy, and princesanji

uso_pp: we barely made it through the airport without losing luffy, so i'm placing my bet on one hour.

[liked by ._.[name], roro.zoro, and 20 others]

-> dr.law: i'm surprised you even made it through airport security....

-> freeluffy: TOORRAOO YOU SHOULD'VE COME IT WOULDVE BEEN SO FUNNNN!!!

-> dr.law: hard pass. good luck everyone else.

._.[name]: i think it's gonna be fine !!! what's the worst that can happen tbh

-> dni_nami: i could list 100 reasons why this is gonna go bad and all of them involve luffy.

-> robinkills: [name]'s right, i think this trip is going to be very fun !

liked by roro.zoro, robinkills, and 11k others

freeluffy: [name] rented bikes for us, but he won't let me drive :/

tagged: ._.[name]

SUPERCOLA: good job [name] for saving his life, much appreciated

dni_nami: i'm begging you two to not crash and make the expenses of our trip go up even more

-> princesanji: always thinking logically, nami, this is why i love you so much <333333333333333

roro.zoro: pick up some sake otw back

-> ._.[name]: yesyesyes we all know thats the only reason why you came anyway, i'll pick some up

-> roro.zoro: what. no way. i definitely wanted to be sat on a hours long flight next to luffy and be living in a small apartment with all of my friends who dont know how to speak quietly and wont let me sleep even when its already early morning. what. i am so excited to be here.

-> uso_pp: alright we get it please stop

liked by princesanji, SUPERCOLA, and 8k others

robinkills: thank you [name] for winning me the prizes :)

tagged: ._.[name]

._.[name]: anything for you robin <3 aka the person thats keeping all of us sane right now <3

princesanji: HOW DARE THIS BAFFOON STEAL YOU AWAY ROBIN PLEASE LET ME TAKE CARE OF HIM, I WILL MAKE SURE HE NEVER BOTHERS YOU AGAIN

-> uso_pp: when is sanji going to accept the fact that [name] is actually apart of this friend group and that he is also more favored by the women we interact with

-> ._.[name]: dw usopp he only puts on a hard front, he ltr begged me to room with him so he could cuddle w me at night. he's just being shy rn

[liked by dni_nami, roro.zoro, and 40 others]

freeluffy: [NAME] [NAME] DID YOU GET ME THEONE I WANTED TOO??!?!?! REMEMBER I SHOWED YOU

-> ._.[name]: yes luffy :) we are otw back and i have the one you asked for as well.

-> SUPERCOLA: [name] the absolute goat in dealing with luffy and his absurd requests so the rest of us dont have to

liked by freeluffy, roro.zoro, ._.[name], and 9k others

uso_pp: morning debrief where we all share embarrassing stories, like how [name] almost stripped completely naked drunk last night because an ice spice song was playing on the karaoke.

._.[name]: alright genuinely why the fuck did that have to be the caption you put on the internet for the whole world to see

-> roro.zoro: no dont be embarassed [name] it was funny watching you try and copy her signature pose

[liked by dni_nami, robinkills, and 90 others]

-> dni_nami: don't think about even crossing me in the future, i have a video of the whole thing bby

-> ._.[name]: GOD FORBID A GUY HAS FUN

skullnsoul: i found [name]'s dancing and singing quite endearing

-> ._.[name]: thank you brook :') you're so sweet

-> skullnsoul: yes, although i feel like you're much too old to be wearing underwear with hearts as the print, [name]. i suggest buying new pairs of boxers :)

-> ._.[name]: what the actual fuck

liked by princesanji, uso_pp, and 11k others

dni_nami: i really wish you could hear sanji cursing [name] outin this photo

tagged: princesanji and ._.[name]

._.[name]: me when im literally following the instructions that hes telling me and i somehow still get yelled at

-> princesanji: do you even understand hwo cooking meat works? everyone would have gotten salmonella and food poisoning if i didn't teach you how

->._.[name]: yelling is never the answer sanji

-> freeluffy: I THINK [NAME]'S COOKING TASTED REALLY GOOD

uso_pp: they acc cookeedddd tho like our food was so tastyyy

[liked by princesanji, ._.[name], and 9 others]

robinklills: sanji almost shoved [name]'s head into the griller, it was funny

-> ._.[name]: HE WHAT ??!?!?! I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE THAT HE TRIED DOING THA TWHAT THE FUCK

liked by princesanji, ._.[name], and 12k others

roro.zoro: [name] told me to post this photo he took.

tagged: princesanji and ._.[name]

dni_nami: awww look all the boys finally getting along

[liked by robinkills, uso_pp, vivi, and 50 others]

-> princesanji: i would have much rather been in your presence my queen, i love you so much

-> ._.[name]: sanjii give up the bit for fucks sake

uso_pp: where was me and luffy's inv ??? ig its like that now ....

-> roro.zoro: you guys were playing mermaids in the pool at the apartment and explicitly told us to not interfere with your serious business

-> princesanji: and then you started getting mad at us for invitig you again right before we left

._.[name]: damn zoro u lookin mad fine in this photo shiiiitttt #smash

-> roro.zoro: i need you to make sure your door is locked later tn or else i cant promise you will wake up the next day

liked by dni_nami, vivi, roro.zoro, and 12k others

._.[name]: thank u nami for the photos

tagged: dni_nami

._.[name]: btw nami made me post this w that caption so it could "scare away the hoes"

-> dni_nami: im doing them a favor, they just dont know it yet cuz ur fucking insane

-> uso_pp: LMFAOAO

purrrona: can i bite it?

-> ._.[name]: BITE WHAT?????

-> purrrona: so is that a yes or a no?

-> uso_pp: professional dick rider alert !!!!

roro.zoro: why is your thirst trap the first thing i have to see when i open this app

-> ._.[name]: why are you acting like you weren't the first person to like this post???

[liked by dni_nami, robinkills, and 57 others]

portgasace: WHY THE FUCK WAS I NOT INVITED ON THIS TRIP?????

dr.law: id also like to thank nami for the photos

[not-poignant]

Hi Pia!

I've been reading a bunch of your works over the last couple of months and I hope it's okay if I throw some thoughts/questions at you!

This feels really forward, but have you ever written anything with voyerism as a kink? And if not, do you have any interest in it? TIP is the most recent thing of yours that I've finished and that scene where Augus watched Mosk & Eran... hot. Twas very hot. I think about it a lot lol.

As for the Underline universe, how far into Blue and Gold are we? Like percentage/fraction-wise? Or is it still up in the air? I know we have an end in sight for Black now and it makes me wonder.

I'm so nervous about the next couple of chapters of Black. Gosh I love the fluff rn, but I am so scared for the whole Henton/Crielle mess to come back. I genuinely forgot that Henton was gonna be relevant and I looked at the tags recently and audibly went 'oh shit.' This is not a question, I just want you to know that I am Scared.

I have so many questions about Silver but I am trying to restrain myself bc I know you must keep your secrets. Just please know I think about them. Could I ask what Augus and Corbyn's ages are? I'm fairly certain they're not gonna be 80 but I work as a CNA and I've started thinking about their dynamic as a cute old couple at a facility and it makes me giggle a little.

If you're still doing the OC asks thing, would you do #10 for Arden? I know you've gotten multiple asks about him in Underline (which makes sense why you wouldn't want to put him there), but I'm curious if there's any other scenarios you'd want to put him in?

I'm the anon that asked for more about Caleb and I just. Am fighting demons not to literally put 1-25 for him (I love mean tops)(And he is still in his mean to faber stage)(will he ever not be? that's not a actual question) I just...his and fabers dynamic is my kind of hurt lol (i wonder how he'd feel about having a tiny fanclub?)(i can support his buisness pursuits or something)

Now that I look all of this over I am sorry but also not sorry this is probably overwhelming. Feel free to skip over whatever or answer some and come back to it. Just know I am thinking about your characters like... too many hours in the day. I need to get back to laundry lol

Whoa holy fucking questions batman!

I shall do my best anon I am intrigued

This feels really forward, but have you ever written anything with voyerism as a kink? And if not, do you have any interest in it? TIP is the most recent thing of yours that I've finished and that scene where Augus watched Mosk & Eran... hot. Twas very hot. I think about it a lot lol.

Voyeurism, yes! Particularly in one of the later chapters of The Beast that Chose Its Own Bridle where Felix and Murtagh watch a kink scene live, and Murtagh edges Felix during it, while quietly talking to him, until Felix is basically begging to come.

Otherwise I'm not writing it often mostly because many of the bottoms I write are either a) too insecure to perform for others or b) it's just not a direction the story is going in.

I don't really write exhibitionism at all, but there are elements of voyeurism around, Falling Falling Stars had some non-sexual and hints of voyeurism overall re: Efnisien, Kadek, and Arden.

I'm fairly certain the Strange Sights universe has elements of both (exhibitionism from Augus, voyeurism from Ash and Augus towards each other). Especially the follow-up sequel, where Ash asks Augus to masturbate for him.

Eversion probably has the most in terms of people watching Connor. In fact the very first time we ever see him in a sex scene, it's at a BDSM club where literally someone is just there to watch him get off, and he meets his dom while both of them watch someone else endure a flogging, and Connor is - similarly to Felix - played with while watching the scene. There's also the threesome between Luuk, Hank and Connor later, where it's clear that Hank and Luuk are both enjoying watching each other as well as Connor. So I would say Eversion probably has the most!

It's not something I write often, but it's around! (two of these fics are over at my thespectaclesofthor AO3 account!)

As for the Underline universe, how far into Blue and Gold are we? Like percentage/fraction-wise? Or is it still up in the air? I know we have an end in sight for Black now and it makes me wonder.

No idea re: Blue and Gold, though I know neither of them will be anywhere near as long as Black. To the point where I'm hoping to wrap up Blue and Gold around the chapter 35-45 mark. But hope is a fickle thing, and it could be earlier, could be later. They were never designed to be stories that had huge development arcs or anything, they're pretty much done once the characters have bonded successfully / shared a successful heat. Both stories end before Underline the Black starts in terms of in-world timeline!

I'm so nervous about the next couple of chapters of Black. Gosh I love the fluff rn, but I am so scared for the whole Henton/Crielle mess to come back. I genuinely forgot that Henton was gonna be relevant and I looked at the tags recently and audibly went 'oh shit.' This is not a question, I just want you to know that I am Scared.

You should be : )

I mean, it'll be fine!

Well, both of those things can be true, lol.

I have so many questions about Silver but I am trying to restrain myself bc I know you must keep your secrets. Just please know I think about them. Could I ask what Augus and Corbyn's ages are?

They're in their fifties! I haven't gotten exact ages on them yet, but I know that if Alois complains about being old around Corbyn, Corbyn is just going to smile tiredly at him.

If you're still doing the OC asks thing, would you do #10 for Arden?

10. What's an AU that would be interesting to explore with your OC?

Honestly, I feel like his story is "closed." I don't really know how to explain this, but with some of the characters I write, I hit a point where I just don't need to write them again. Eran is the same.

I think it's telling (to me) that in all the stories I'm writing after Falling Falling Stars, each one of them is literally revolving around *another* character that isn't Arden (whether it's Gwyn, or Kadek, or Dr Gary). That doesn't mean Arden isn't around, I just have no drive to tell a version of his story again.

Some characters stay open mentally, and others sort of mentally go into the 'I'm done' space. Gwyn and Augus took forever to kind of walk into the 'I'm done' space (and they're still not fully there)! - Arden was there immediately after Falling Falling Stars was over.

Also they kind of choose that space? I stay open generally because I like writing AUs a lot, so it's like a weird sense of like a character walking away from me, vs. me being like 'I'm tired of you.' Arden walked away! He was happy, lol. So I literally have zero other story ideas for Arden and I think he'd be mad at me for trying to think up any.

I'm the anon that asked for more about Caleb and I just. Am fighting demons not to literally put 1-25 for him (I love mean tops)(And he is still in his mean to faber stage)(will he ever not be? that's not a actual question) I just...his and fabers dynamic is my kind of hurt lol (i wonder how he'd feel about having a tiny fanclub?)(i can support his buisness pursuits or something)

Anon I promise you that you're not the only one who cares about Caleb!! Also I love this douche guy, can't wait to show more of him!

If you limit yourself to like 3 questions from the meme each time, you can send more asks! I still have a few to get to in general. :D

[bewareofchris]

I've been on the writer's tag again.

Listen guys.

Nobody owes your fanfic anything. I know that you want validation and adoration and those are both completely normal things to want. But this obsessive demand for comments over kudos and reblogs over likes is A Problem.

I won't bore you with tales of yore where we literally punted our fiction into the world with no idea of how it was being perceived by others because the only way to know if anyone even glanced at it was by the incredibly inaccurate page counter on our shitty geocities page.

(But that was a thing and it's semi-relevant to my point.)

A lot of you are growing up in a era of social media and viral marketing. You are babies of the influencer age, raised on the myth that if you can just get enough attention you'll get famous for something. I don't mean 10 million followers on insta famous but famous in your specific sphere.

That will not happen for you.

Not because people aren't reblogging your shit or writing out loving comments but because it's a myth. The idea that if you shame, beg and cajole enough people into interacting with your creation you'll access some serotonin high and ascend to a greater state of being is also a myth.

Here's the truth:

Most writers do not know how the majority of their audience feels about their fics. Those very few novels that you see on booktok, X (former twitter) or wherever else you get your writing news represent an infinitesimal portion of stories written and books published.

Most writers do have writing buddies or trusted members of an inner circle that they share their writing with.

For most fandoms, fanfics are so plentiful it's like going into a mall sized grocery store that sells only apples and then demanding the customer review every apple they touch.

For those few fanfics that you see that have an outrageous number of comments there are three possible explanations: 1. that person is what we used to call a "Big Name Ficcer" and they have amassed a following through consistent production of whatever that fandom is into, 2. that is a fic so long you have to sign a waiver to start reading it and despite the fact it was started seven years ago its still getting updated, or 3. that person is writing a viral fic in a fandom that is presently on fire.

Your self worth and self esteem cannot be tied to writing and posting fanfiction. It might be a fun outlet or you might be looking for your viral moment, but either way the moment you start weighing your worth as an author or creator based on what a bunch of strangers on the internet think of you is the moment you give up on yourself.

Social media has brainwashed you into thinking that you must be recognized and rewarded for the things that you put onto the internet. Or maybe it hasn't brainwashed you, maybe you just want to get a comment because you worked super hard on something and you feel like if you can't even get one decent response then its all been wasted. (I.e. you've been brainwashed into the feeling that you need the validation of strangers for happiness purposes.)

So what are you going to do about this?

Get off the internet. I don't mean permanently. I don't even mean literally. I mean take yourself out of the spaces that reinforce the idea that you need validation from strangers to be happy. Stop going on the social media sites for a few days (or a few weeks). If you've got a friend in fandom that you share fics, headcanons, ideas or anything with start chatting with them about something you want to write. Invest in them, in what they're doing and their opinions and how they react to your creations.

Put your shit on the internet like you literally don't give a fuck about anyone's opinion. Explain nothing about your writing choices. Put warnings, no more than 5 tags and drop that shit into the world like a newborn giraffe. Then ignore it.

Teach yourself to seek validation from your accomplishments: write a slightly longer fic, write a fic in a different genre, write a fic in a different rating, write a fic in a different fandom.

Find an actual friend that you actually interact with whose opinion you know matters because you agree on the important stuff.

Stop begging strangers for compliments like a cartoon hobo shaking a cup for coins. You're better than that.

[blkkizzat]

Hi you’re such an amazing writer and great smut writer!! I was wondering if u had any tips on writing smut cus I wanna start writing it too! Do u have tips on dialogue/action/pacing and being descriptive 😭 it’s harder than it looks!! Ps your suguru bumpy car ride is one of my fave fics!! And I’m excited for sadako!geto 😘😘

hey nonny, pookie tysm ur too sweet! im so glad you enjoy my perversions enough to ask me for advice kcjhdscjkhsdb 😩🩷🙏🏽✨

also sure idk if these will be helpful but these are things that help me:

smut:

i think the cardinal rule of smut writing is if it doesn't make you horny, re-write it until it does. lol.

i am a very visual person so i like to close my eyes and imagine the scene before i write it. not just going through the motions either. if this is me, reader, what am i thinking, feeling (both physically and emotionally).

5 senses (touch, taste, smell, sound, sight) should be covered. not every action needs all 5 but if you are describing something you should at least be hitting two of these. " tears falling, you cry out as he enters you slowly" is fine but "blinking away tears you hiss from the overwhelming stretch of his girth entering you, even slowly, proves to be too much" is better.

sometimes i need a boost and if you partake then a few puffs from a weed pen or a glass of wine (im partial to bubbly) will put you in the MOOD lmfao.

*note i dont think you need to have experienced something to write about it, sex included for any virgins however in lieu of that, with anything you don't have experience in, you need to do research to make it believable.

dialogue:

use dialogue to tell us/reiterate who the character is. you can tell us the character is nervous but then its highlighted by the stuttering, rambling, etc of their spoken words.

break up long dialogue with descriptions. this is also a pacing tip. also can insert memories, i will have readers have a whole dialogue and in the middle their will be a relevant memory to give context and insight to the character and their motivations.

using subtext to explain character feelings, you dont have to be so explicit with dialogue all the time. instead of a character saying "im so fucking mad at you right now," use "alright" your voice is clipped, flipping your hair over your shoulder you go back to your task at hand, not even sparing them another glance.

i rarely use explicit dialogue tags now like "said, spoke, cried, yell" i will still use them but ill weave into the description that follows. ex instead of "please stay!" you cried—i would write—"please stay!" your lip quivers as tears gathered on your lashes.

action:

the last subtext tip also helps with action too, alot of times its what we see that really enriches the dialogue so "show" dont "tell".

this is also a pacing tip but during high action/intense scenes using shorter sentences helps express the urgency. although it all depends as long sentences/paragraphs too can help build tension, slowing down descriptions/actions during the climax (lol non sexual) of a scene builds anxiety/thrill.

explaining emotional reactions of heart racing, sweaty palms, etc, is just as important as physical reactions (even tho these are physiological actions they still are emotion driven).

pacing:

besides the pacing tips above in the other sections i think the biggest pacing issue i think people have is adding in details, actions, etc that don't inform your story. everything action/thought you take time to elaborate on that your character does, should be relevant to their motivations, story or characterizations. if it doesnt apply to one of those then cut it out. (note: sometimes it does apply and needs to be cut out and moved another section if its making a scene go on to long)

edit your stories, i know some people post and go and thats fine. everyone has different goals. some just want to get out thoughts and go. however, pacing can be hard to effectively capture on the first go so you will need to reread at least once to ensure your fic is properly paced.

editing leads into eliminating redundancy. often i will write something where i expressed an emotion/feeling then did it again a paragraph or two down the line just in a different way. unless that feeling is evolving, its redundant. redundant doesnt mean the feeling isnt applicable in both places, it means ive already established this feeling/state of mind in my story and it isnt needed both places. this can be one of the hardest things to identify or even fix. however i think my fics are 100x better when i do.

descriptive:

i think people fall into one of these buckets, 1) having the inclination of being overly wordy descriptive or 2)not being descriptive enough. i am the former, so my issuing is editing is pulling back and giving emphasis on somethings but not others. if you arent descriptive enough you will have to decide where in your story its important to give emphasis.

use metaphors that make sense to the person speaking or narration style. you wouldnt use overly flowery language for example if you were writing how sukuna is feeling about something lol.

hope these tips were helpful!

[chrismerle]

so, like, I am perhaps a little overly-protective of Veilguard, because I am genuinely very fond of it and a LOT of the complaints I see about it fall into the following categories:

'I am bitching about things that have been present since Origins, but I am very conveniently only taking issue with them now and acting as if they are unique to Veilguard'

'I am bitching about things that I claim haven't been addressed/explained, except they actually have, they just aren't super relevant to the main plot so Varric or Solas didn't turn to look at the camera and address it to my liking'

'I am bitching about how the game is messy but conveniently acting like it's UNIQUELY messy when in reality Dragon Age as a series is a goddamn mess'

'Taash is blunt and kind of awkward but seems largely unbothered by their own bluntness and awkwardness. I find this to be an unpleasant trait and anything I find unpleasant in a person is bad writing.'

'I am incapable of recognizing the difference between bad writing/game design and things that I personally just don't like that much'

and I think all of those categories of complaints are fucking stupid, and I wish the people bitching in such ways would either find some fucking whimsy and just appreciate the game for what it is, stop torturing themselves with a game they clearly don't like and aren't going to like, or at the very least have the good manners to stop putting their ass-hurt-y whinging in the main tags.

that said, I do have some legitimate criticisms! I am not just irrationally praising every element of the game.

you can't really talk to your companions in the Lighthouse. there are a few "scheduled" conversations that take place as cutscenes, but you can't just walk up to them and bug them to talk for the most part, like you can in previous games. hell, I would've been fine with the Mass Effect 3 method, where you just walk up and press the 'talk' button and they spit out vaguely situationally-relevant dialogue until they eventually tell you 'not right now, Rook.' but instead you're largely limited to just listening to your companions bond with each other by eavesdropping on them, which is relatable to me because I'm a nosy bitch and any conversation happening around me is no longer a private conversation, but isn't really what I was hoping for.

I don't think Minrathous and Treviso should have both been facing the exact same threat. like, I can buy that a merchant city with a couple handfuls of assassins and no army could be brought low by one dragon. but if the militarized techo-mage capital of The Country Where Everyone Does Dangerous Magic can't hold off ONE DRAGON then that is no longer a me problem. the excuse that was given was that it was circling the city from the air, raining death from above, but the archon's palace is its own long-range weapon, and most mages are also their own long range weapon. Rook rocking up with two additional fighters should not have been required to turn the tide in Minrathous against ONE DRAGON. Minrathous should have been facing a much larger threat than it was.

Varric really needed more ambient dialogue. I guess the devs didn't expect you to actually poke your head into the infirmary that often? 'cause the poor guy only seems to have like five canned responses that he gives. and as funny as it is that 90% of the time he was asking me when the last time I slept was with deep suspicion, it got a little old.

I ran into some audio and camera weirdness. with audio, it only ever happened with banter while running around, not in cutscenes, so I don't think it was my headphones. voices would get really crackly suddenly. and for camera, it wasn't, like, game breaking, but the camera did occasionally just whip itself around to face the opposite direction with no input from me. mostly when I started using the long range attack, but once while I was shimmying through a crack in the wall.

it's a little weird that Rook can't engage more with/about the faction they're part of. like, my first Rook was a Veil Jumper, but Bellara still had to explain basically everything to him, when it could have instead been her explaining it to Rooks of other factions but having a conversation about it with a Veil Jumper Rook. or at the very least some sort of 'Bel--Bellara--BELLARA. I know how it works.' 'Oh! Right! Sorry.'

and then there are some things I just personally wasn't a huge fan of:

I could have lived very comfortably without ever seeing the Mass Effect 3 readiness rating ever again. but there it is. you have to do ... so many side quests ... if you want to keep all of your companions alive. so many of them.

most of the armor is really ugly, in my opinion. my first Rook spent the entire game running around in the N7 armors (the version without the coat was his casual outfit, since my private running joke was that he only ever had time to take his coat off before he had to go put out more fires). my current Rook has been running around in the brown leather duster coat the entire time. I think it's because they're all kind of over-designed? a lot of them would be perfectly fine if they got simplified a bit. whoever dressed the Lords of Fortune, you need help, most of their outfits are so fucking ugly.

I know it's CONVENIENT when you use the same button for basically everything but the 'interact' button and the 'jump' button being the same means I tried to pick something up and then accidentally yeeted myself off a cliff or into a volcano so many times.

they nerfed my archers, man :( I mean, I kinda get it. I was an archer once in Inquisition and was so over-powered. archers got to be so fucking cheap in Inquisition, especially if you specialized as an artificer. it was great. some of the most fun I've ever had playing Dragon Age was being an explosive archer in Inquisition.

the Inquisitor's class should have been one of the previous choices we could carry over. in general, I don't care that it was mostly a clean slate, but we should have at least been able to specify if the Inquisitor was a warrior, rogue, or mage. let us actually see them in combat at the end.

I ... don't think I really had a point to this whole ramble. I just have a lot of Dragon Age thoughts and feelings and only a few Dragon Age friends, and I can only babble at them so much before I feel like they'll wanna break my keyboard with their brains.

[anti-rq-gumi]

I'm sorry I can't 8e a good folken. I'm transa8led and transharmed and want to take my eye and am the victim in a cona8usive rel8ionship. I wish I could 8e 8etter and 8e accepted 8y this community.

It must be hard. I've seen your attempts to interact with other antis, expressing what you believe in on your own terms, like how we do, and get next to no response or validation. I admire your persistence. You may have gone about trying to better yourself in some flawed ways, but that doesn't take away how you have put in effort.

I'll do my best to give you some pointers.

Members of the anti radqueer discord server I'm in have claimed that you've groomed not just one, but several people, and also that you're attempting to do that again now. These are obviously some very serious accusations. I've tried to find information on this but most of what's currently available online are old callout posts that ignore any sort of nuance to your actions. A few of your posts address that nuance in throwaway sentences. I recommend making one centralized post addressing all that - it might give some of my fellow antis some insight into what you regret, what you don't, and what you're currently doing.

Your experience with BIID is something I completely believe. Your identities of transabled and transharmed are real feelings, and you're not a terrible person for feeling that way. Scores of people in both the anti and radqueer communities have experiences similar enough to you that those terms you identify with exist. I get the impulse to act on those feelings. It isn't exactly the same for me because I have depression rather than BIID, but on some level I understand the desire to self harm. I understand that breaking out of that sort of pattern if you're used to it and you want it is extremely difficult to do.

What being anti radqueer means to me and my mutuals is doing our best not to cause harm. Not to harm ourselves and not to harm other people. That's the foundation of our community. You might've noticed that a lot of my tags are stylized as anti- something accepted among radqueers I want to discourage due to its harm. From what I've seen of your current beliefs, you're already part of the way there. You just have to take more steps in order to reduce the amount of harm you're causing in your own life. And if you need help doing that from professionals or relevant resources that's okay.

I did see your reply to my conabuse masterpost by the way. Your usage of a safeword and clear communication is genuinely really good. Much better than most conabusive relationships I've seen. Really only one thing stuck out to me.

"4ND 47 7H3 3ND 0F 7H3 D4Y, 1F 17 15 48U51V3? WH0 FUCK1NG C4R35. 1 D0N'7 W4N7 0U7, 1 D0N'7 N33D 0U7."

(Plain text: "And at the end of the day, if it is abusive? Who fucking cares. I don't want out, I don't need out.")

We care very deeply. We want victims of abuse to become free of it and eventually recover as much as they can. You seem to be safely enjoying the between-BDSM-and-conabuse dynamic you have, so I won't push anything on you, but please keep in mind this is the general attitude of the group you want to join.

[icepip]

general discourse talking below

its something that i noticed today with the "discourse" im involved with currently, and has been a trend with every other discourse crusade: the lack of tagging and triggers. the people who make these call out posts always post uncensored/unedited screenshots of the content they find disturbing and always use every popular tag they can think of for visibility and reach. however, not only does that go against tumblr's tos (only using relevant tags), it also negates the effort the original poster put in to clearly label their content.

every writer i've come across has warnings and tags clearly stated, especially for dark content. this is helpful because of the filtering system. if you search general tags, then you might find writers you don't know and therefore couldn't block before seeing their content. but there's a very easy way to filter certain tags or phrases in posts so that you don't see something you don't want to see. posting a screenshot does not have that same affect. by taking a picture of content you deem harmful or morally unacceptable and posting it without labels, you are also participating in that harm.

if i'm posting writing for ship x and you don't like ship x, block the tag. i specifically tag for characters, ships, and any other content warnings that are relevant so that it's easily found for people looking for that content, but also so it's just as easily avoidable. by blocking the tag, you will not see my posts if you're searching for character a. and if you were to go to my blog to look for content, you would see posts containing ship x hidden from view.

though the filtering and blocking system is far from perfect, it's pretty fucking good at doing exactly what you ask of it. so even if you want to call out certain content, please at least tag it accordingly. you may very well be causing more harm than good to the people you're trying to protect.

[lousyglitch]

No one asked but here's how I'd bring back Gallifrey, address the timeless child and still keep the thematic relevance of its commentary:

We know nothing about the doctor's original people other that they're near a portal and can regenerate naturally, so keep that. Don't make them a godlike super-dimensional species, just a civilization with a neat biological defense mechanism that lived near some dimensional rift. The doctor isn't some special chosen one, just a curious kid that happened to fall in the lions' den.

Say that at some point the time lords managed to find them and colonized their planet. Maybe that part of their history wasn't in the matrix because it's too secret or whatever. Gallifrey got access to the rift and just ruled over those beings for eons. Over time and with a lot of killing, the planet became mostly populated by descendants of gallifrey who still feel oppressed by the mainland, but also see themselves as superior to the native species.

When gallifrey got wiped out in the time war, maybe one of the things that contributed to their downfall was the fact that they weren't just fighting skaro, they were also fighting multiple colonies that were using the instability of the time war to free themselves from their colonizers. Make it clear that the time lords are just as supremacist as the daleks, they just prefer to conquer and exploit than kill everyone. They don't find the daleks morally disgusting, they find them uncouth. They prefer their sense of superiority coated with opportunistic politeness.

Make the new planet rule most of the universe. They built an empire when gallifrey got wiped out. They're now crossing the rift to expand their empire to our side of the universe. Maybe they got access again when Sutekh was scratching the walls of the time vortex. They're the new villains, and they seem unsurmountable. In case the analogy isn't completely obvious, the time lords are the british monarchy (as always) and the new empire is america.

They seem more modern than the time lords. Their decor isn't as tacky, most of the people living in the main planet don't see them as oppressive or even an empire, but for the natives, and for most of the rest of the universe, it's very obvious. There's a resistance forming inside, a movement by natives and allies to take their, uh, land back, if you will. But the empire dismisses them, and mostly worries about the "real threats" - go wild: Skaro. Mondas with super updated Cybermen that can teleport and shit, the pantheon, hell, whatever the fuck swarm and azure were supposed to be. Make them all fight the empire.

I know, it's not an action show, you can just imply that they're fighting while the doctor monologues through debree or tells us about how the hallways they're reusing for the 400th time are inside a cyber-armada spaceship or something. The important thing is that they all try to fight the empire and fail.

Then you bring back Gallifrey.

The timelords are now back, in an universe that barely remembers them. With no real status or power, desperately clinging to their perceived position through overvaluing ancient rituals and artifacts. A collective ego held together with bloated arbitrary ettiquete. The new empire completely owns these shoulderpadded dorks. They're pathetic and we can all see it. They barely even understand the post-time war, post-flux universe. Everything changed. Political affiliations, cultural norms, even time itself. They're silly little relics, a tourist attraction, clowns in embarrassing robes.

They try to fight the empire and... lose miserably, obviously. Get put in their place. The empire's got tech that can shut down rassilon's stupid glove with a single gesture. So they try to get the doctor to fight for them. Maybe the master / missy tags along. They offer the doctor everything - an army, a bunch of sci-fi weapons, the goddamn moment if you wanna get wild. But timelord tech isn't getting them out of this. Instead, the Doctor goes to the empire's main planet, finds its native people, his people, and helps in the revolution. Ideally he isn't the main star of it or anything, it was happening anyway.

The revolution wins, obviously. They have people inside the empire's ranks, they know their enemies, they were being underestimated in every step, and, you know, they regenerate indefinitely. None of the anti-regeneration techniques work on its originators. They're thoroughly made of life. "If you represent death, then surely I must represent life." They do what no one else in the universe could, and demolish the empire from within. The victory must come from the oppressed, or it's no victory at all.

It's doctor who, so most of that would have be crammed in the finale. A two-parter if we're lucky. But I think it could work. After that you have new story possibilites with the doctor learning more about his people as they rebuild, maybe taking susan! Meanwhile, you got the time lords pulling stupid stunts to regain relevance. Plus, you know, the usual stuff, fighting CG ostriches with blackbeard, uncovering a conspiracy in a reality show in pluto and whatnot.

There! A new dynamic that's not like the last 20 years of modern who and not quite like classic who either. New possibilities for commentary and thematic relevance. Is this me just coping with not having time to write a whole fanfic? absolutely. This ended up like 3x bigger than I expected and I need to work oh god oh no

[anothergameofwickedgrace]

This was fun to write. Stolitz smut! Woo!

Pairing: Stolas x Blitzø

Word Count: ~1,900

Relevant Tags: Public Sex, Established Relationship, Fingering

AO3 Link

"Stolas and Blitzø are on a date at a movie theater. Unfortunatly.

Much to their shared chagrin, the movie is awful and extremely dull, so Blitzø decides to make things a bit more interesting for the two of them."

Please Silence All Cellphones

Stolas and Blitzø sat in a darkened movie theater, cozied up in one of the rows near the back. They were watching a period piece that Blitzø (reluctantly) agreed to attend. A period piece that Stolas (regrettably) picked out.

It had been, how to put this.... Incredibly Fucking Boring. And bad. Just...bad.

The plot was confusing yet contrived, the pacing terrible, the story full of plot holes, and the acting subpar at best.

Stolas was leaning propped up on his elbow, cheek resting against his palm, bored as all hell. He was very much considering suggesting that they leave when he felt a hand snake into his lap.

He picked his head up, turning to look at Blitzø, who was currently pointedly "watching" the movie.

Blitzø's fingers glided their way down the front of his pants, slipping between the prince's thighs.

Stolas's legs parted for him unthinkingly. He slid down in his seat, hips shifting so he was more or less sitting on his tailbone, allowing Blitzø's hand to reach its target.

Stopping near his tail, Blitzø wriggled his fingers into the fabric so he could rub and prod at his entrance through his pants. He kept at it until Stolas started fidgeting in the theater seats. He could feel the owl's eyes on him. He turned his head to look at him, a smirk on his face.

"You're not watching the movie. You're going to miss all the good parts."  Blitzø teased, voice quiet.

"I think we both know the best part of this movie is going to be the end credits." Stolas whispered back.

Blitzø snorted, amused.

"So you don't think this is a cinematic masterpiece?"

Playing on the screen was a wordless scene of people staring forlornly out into the distance that had gone on way too long.

Stolas just gave him a 'are you fucking kidding me' kind of look.

"Hey, you picked it." He shrugged with a grin.

Stolas just quietly groaned.

"Don't remind me."

Blitzø snickered, sliding his palm back up the front of his pants and up to his lower abdomen. He slipped his fingertips under the waistband of his pants and flicked open the button with his thumb.

"Blitzø. I really don't think this is a good idea." Stolas hissed in a whisper as the imp's hand slid lower, under his pants but above his underwear, his fingers rubbing against his cloaca, moisting the fabric of his panties. He tried to ignore the rising arousal Blitzø's touches were causing.

"Why not?" He whispered back.

"Because we're in public? In a movie theater? And you know I have a hard time keeping quiet."

"It's not like we haven't had sex in public before. And I do know. That's what makes it fun." He flashed him a devious little grin, pressing a digit teasingly into him, barely more than the tip, still over the thin fabric.

"That's different. There were walls between us. There's a difference between a bathroom or closet and a movie theatre with other people."

"Guess you're gonna have to try harder to keep quiet then." Blitzø replied nonchalantly.

He tucked his hand under Stolas's underwear and circled his entrance with a finger, coating it in his slick, before slowly pushing it inside of him, all the way to his last knuckle.

Stolas squirmed, biting down on his lower lip as the intrustion sent heat coursing through him.

"Sadist." He huffed.

"You say that like it's a bad thing, Mr. 'Oh Blitzy! Hit me harder! Hurt me more! I want you to leave a mark!'." Blitzø teasingly mocked, doing his impression of Stolas and batting his eyelashes up at him.

A demon from a few rows down shushed them, Blitzø's voice having gone a bit over a whisper.

Stolas shot him a look, at both the impression and the volume, and Blitzø just stuck his tongue out at him, a shit-eating grin plastered on his face.

Blitzø pumped his digit in and out of him, rubbing up against his slickened inner walls. He faced fully forward toward the screen, pretending to watch the film as he stroked and fucked him.

Stolas did the same, or at least attempted to. He tried to focus on the movie instead of the way Blitzø's finger moved inside of him.

The character on the screen was monologing. Monologing about...fuck knows what. It was so generic you could probably apply it to a multitude of different topics.

It was baffling how there were still people genuinely interested in watching this.

And it most definitely was not enough to distract Stolas from jolts of heat and pleasure Blitzø was sending through him. He felt him slip another finger inside of him and bit his tongue, trying to keep quiet.

Blitzø was moving his fingers in such a way that Stolas was not only finding it hard not to make a sound, but also to keep still in his seat. He looked over to the imp, whose eyes were back on him, and the licentious expression on his face certainly did not do Stolas any favors.

Stolas clamped a hand around his mouth as little whimpers threatened to spill forth from it. He wasn't sure how good of a job he was doing at smothering the noises down. He was thankful there were no other demon's in their immediate vicinity.

Blitzø slipped his fingers out of Stolas and replaced his right hand with his left, turning his body towards his boyfriend. He draped his arm over the back of Stolas's seat and carded his fingers up through the feathers at the back of his head.

"Blitzø—" Stolas warned in a don't-you-dare kind of way, knowing exactly what he was up to.

It was a futile attempt however because just as soon as his name was out of his mouth, Blitzø grabbed a fistful of feathers and yanked his head back.

Stolas made a small strangled noise and pressed his hand back more firmly to his mouth, muffling a keen whine, his eyes screwing tightly shut.

Noticing Stolas had closed his eyes, Blitzø, in one smooth motion and with fingers still inside him, climbed up over the seat rest between them, landing himself in the prince's lap, the hand in his feathers moving to pull Stolas's hand from his beak, replacing it with his mouth.

Stolas moaned quietly into the kiss, placing one hand on his cheek and the other around the back of one of his horns. Blitzø's hand movements were getting rougher, and, thereupon, Stolas's abilities to keep quiet were getting worse.

He gasped into Blitzø's open mouth, caught off guard, and Blitzø took that opportunity to readily shove his tongue into his mouth.

Breaking their kiss, Blitzø removed his fingers from his boyfriend, bringing them up to his lips and popping them into his mouth. He smiled at the taste of him and thoroughly coated his fingers in spit before slipping his hand back into his underwear.

"You should really wear a skirt next time." Blitzø suggested with a smirk, pressing two fingers back into Stolas and fluttering them. "It'd make fingering you much easier."

Stolas swallowed down a noise, hands dropping down to the seat rests.

"You are assuming there will be a next time."

"I mean, you said this was a bad idea but you haven't exactly stopped me." He kissed up Stolas's neck, to his ear, voice low and tantalizing. "Don't pretend that you're not getting off on this. It doesn't matter where we are or if there's people around. You just want that needy, dripping hole of yours stuffed. Even at the risk of getting caught."

The prince bit down on his lower lip. Blitzø wasn't necessarily wrong, but Stolas didn't want to give him the satisfaction.

"I don't have to dignify that with a response." He dodged.

"What's the matter, Pretty Bird?" He purred, tail swishing as he teased him. "Nothing you want to say to that?"

Stolas felt another one of Blitzø's fingers join the others. A groan caught in his throat.

"I bet you'd let me fuck you right here." Blitzø nipped at his neck, shifting his hips so his hard-on was pressed against Stolas.

Stolas's hands gripped tightly around the arm rests of his seat, talons scraping the plastic.

"Bet if I told you to shove your pants down so I can shove my cock in your ass, you'd do it." He sped up the movement of his fingers, fucking into him faster.

Stolas wasn't so sure of that, but the mental images the Blitzø was painting were making him creep close to the edge. He bit down on his tongue, jaw clenched tight, as noises threatened to spill out. He was pretty sure his face was flushed purely from the effort of staying silent.

Blitzø could tell he was getting close. Stolas's chest was rising and falling rapidly. His body was tensed as he fought to keep down any noises. He just needed a little push.

"Just imagine my big, thick cock ramming in that tight little cloaca, pumping you full of cum."

Stolas's thighs were shaking as he tried to remain composed. He was doing a pretty good job until Blitzø curled his fingers just right. And just like that, he was falling past the precipice, pleasure radiating out from his core.

A loud moan broke free, and, at the same time, the sound of an explosion sounded from the theatre speakers, pretty effectively drowning it out.

...When the fuck did this turn into a war movie?

Blitzø slapped his free hand over Stolas mouth as quickly as he could in attempt to muffle the rest of his moan. He felt Stolas squeeze and shudder around his fingers, hot fluid spilling down them and into his palm. Once he had come down, he let his hand drop from Stolas's face.

"Well that was awful convenient." Stolas huffed out, drooping forward and resting his chin on Blitzø's shoulder as he tried to catch his breath.

Blitzø carefully pulled his hand free, doing his best not to drip Stolas's climax on to either of them. He lifted his hand to his mouth, casually licking his palm and his fingers clean.

He turned around in Stolas's lap to turn and faced the screen, and Stolas adjusted his head to rest between his horns from behind, minding his spikes.

"The fuck is even happening in this movie?"

Stolas looked up at the screen.

Whatever battle was previously there was gone in favor of focusing on an extremely bland relationship between two characters with exactly zero chemistry.

It was painful to watch.

"Honestly, I could not care less." Stolas admitted.

Blitzø just laughed quietly.

"You wanna dip?"

"Very much so."

Blitzø slipped down from Stolas's lap, standing up and adjusting his still snug pants.

"Wanna go grab a bite?" Blitzø offered his hand out.

Stolas just gave him a mildly incredulous and amused look.

"I think we should maybe swing by the palace first. So I can get a change of clothes?" He looked down pointedly down at his crotch.

"Riiiight. Right. That's, uh, definitely a better plan."

Stolas smiled and fastened up his pants, taking Blitzø's hand in his own and lacing their fingers together.

"Come on, Blitzy. Let's get out of here."

"Fuckin' gladly."

The two of them walked hand in hand out of the movie theater.

"Maybe next time we should check the reviews of the movie before we go." Stolas suggested.

"I don't know..." Blitzø looked up at him with a mischievous smirk. "I had fun."

"You're incorrigible." Stolas chastised.

But he was smiling.

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research tangent! scp x wh13

so this is something a little bit different than what i normally talk about. i'm putting on a different cap today. ok little nerd moment thats been living rent free in my head for days. ive got an antistatic bag on my desk thats been sitting here for a while and i noticed something familiar

that sure as hell looks like the scp foundation logo

which got me really thinking. so its very obvious to me that the scp logo takes inspiration from this iso or ansi symbol. but whats even more odd was looking at the timeline of the scp wikis birth. im a zillenial (god i hate that word) so my childhood was watching markiplier play scp:cb, scrolling the old wiki, fucking with cleverbot. fun stuff like that. i was still a drooling idiot. when sci-fi renamed to syfy. but i remember the switchover and not being allowed to watch eureka because there were some "goddamns" in there. but i was allowed to watch warehouse 13, in spite of steve's existence. i was way too into the steampunk and lore of warehouse 13 when it was relevant. so much so i had a fucking farnsworth ringtone on my lg shit phone and i thought it was the coolest thing. i'm also still gay as hell for h.g. wells and her fit.

but anyway anyway. the premise of warehouse 13 was finding dangerous "artifacts" that imbued special status affects on people and to neutralize them with "neutralizer grid polyethylene static bags" as they say. their motto being "snag it. bag it. and tag it." or something to that effect.

what im getting at is that warehouse 13 has a similar premise to the scp foundation, but more mainstream comedy and less psychological horror. there's a tangential link between wh13 with scp via anti static bags and the symbol. so i looked into this a bit. through cursory searches, i didn't find anyone really talking about this other than a similar premise. so i looked at timelines. in july 2008 the scp foundation wiki (idk which one) was started, while wh13 piloted on july 2009. with a year delta, it seems clear "who stole from who". but wait. writing, pitching, and filming takes quite a while. is a year really enough time? i can't find any trademarks registered by universal nor any evidence of a canadian filming license. so this is where i stopped typing on my phone and started researching. the waters are a bit muddy, so bear with me. wh13 was co-written by a handful of people and rewritten as well. but the original plot was announced by sci-fi here in october of 2007

according to wikipedia (the free encyclopedia), inspirations for warehouse 13 include the x-files, raiders of the lost ark, something called moonlighting, and this show from the late 80s and early 90s called "friday the 13th: the series". i'd never heard of it, but it shares the vaguest premise with both wh13 and scp to keep bad artifacts away from harming people.

well what about the scp wiki? when did it form? well it's complicated. (i'm sorry for my poor cropping, it will happen again)

the scp wiki itself states that the original scp came from 4chan and that a lot of original organization happened on 4chan. indeed 4chan is the source of famous scps such as 173

posted on june 2007 is the original lore post about 173 and can be seen as the beginning of scps. which pre-dates the announcement of wh13. i don't know about you, but how fast you could go from trolling 4chan to a pilot script? at this point "some government authority retrieving dangerous magic embued items" was not a previously done idea and was indeed original. the x-files kinda did this before with balancing larger plot arcs with mini plot supernatural occurrences, not all aliens. but nothing about being an authoritative group that comes in and cleans up super natural mishaps. nah, mulder and skully just stayed in the basement or took an occasional road trip to see a whistleblower. i honestly love scp far more than wh13, but i'm going to be the devil's advocate and not give the new era spin on an old idea to the scp wiki just yet. 173 is an scp, but the idea of scps is not fully laid out yet. the thread was also deleted days later and thus only lived in the minds of active forum users of the time as fan derivatives were made. so there was a period of time where the fandom had started to form, but no official wiki existed. the semi official scp wiki formed in january 2008. later than the announcement of wh13 but before the pilot of the show ever aired in july 2009. so it's always possible the writers were 4channers and yoinked the idea. again, it's so fascinating how close in time and narrative the scp wiki and wh13 are. i personally doubt the writers were on 4chan at the time, but neither the wiki nor the show writers exist in a vacuum. i think it all warrants scrutiny and there's no smoking gun saying who inspired who, or if it's absolute coincidence. that is unless some ogs from the scp wiki or the writers of wh13 are able to speak on it. i'm curious what other people think.