#(that I will never write)

[marshmallowwitharubberband]

Only slightly connected to my previous post, I would love to read an AU where Meng Yao ends up in Yunmeng after being rejected by Pig Guangshan the first time .

Madam Yu, contrary to popular belief, is not a classist bitch, merely a bitch. So, since there are no rumors about Meng Yao that affect her, specifically, she can appreciate how intelligent and efficient he is and he quickly climbs up the ranks, maybe from servant to full-fledged disciple. Maybe Mme. Yu could even use him as a way to "compete" with Fengmian and his "golden disciple" WWX (Poor Jiang Cheng lol). Or maybe Meng Yao could convince her to utilize Wei Wuxian's talents to her advantage, instead of having him as an emotional punching bag. Maybe he and WWX could have a similar relationship as he has with Nie Huaisang in canon.

Meng Yao's talents for diplomacy and conciliation could help the Jiangs a lot, actually.

MY could have been good enough at gathering intel to prevent the Wen ambush and maybe mitigated the levels of tragedy of the attack on Lotus Pier.

Maybe, with Madam Yu's backing, Madam Jin could have come to... not like him, but not despise Meng Yao as much.

Heck, the three of them could even conspire together to get rid of Jin Guangshan.

I don't think that would make Meng Yao magically good, but having his hard work and talents actually appreciated would be good for him.

Having someone powerful openly defending him for once would heal him a lot. And I do think Mme. Yu would be as protective of him as she was of Yin Zu and Jin Zu.

(Also, like, the mommaest of momma's boys having a dommy milf on his corner? heck yeah)

That and, with his enterprising mind, maybe he could have encouraged Wei Wuxian's inventions to make the Jiangs as filthy rich as the Jins and as powerful as the Wen, but with far better PR.

[casa-delle-galline]

Fanfic Idea: Season 2 Izzy going back in time and meeting his Season 1 self. Chaos ensues.

[artemisdesari-blog]

A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

[tanjir0se]

Disclaimer these are just a small sampling of some possible writer traits I’ve noticed either in myself or in fics I read. Also consider a rb for sample size !

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[gh0sdae]

On how they still think curly tried to commit with the crash:

[reem-reem-0]

Please take a few minutes to watch the video and read this post.

I am writing these words after losing hope in everyone… except for you, my friends. Tumblr has a very large number of users, estimated in the millions . That’s an enormous number! But imagine, with all those of people, how would you feel if people saw you and ignored you? You’d feel deeply disappointed, right? Or maybe you’d even wish for death.

Have you ever wished for death? For me, I feel like I’d rather die than be ignored by everyone. If I wasn’t in desperate need of help, I wouldn’t ask anyone for it. I really need help.

Imagine for a moment that you have a small child you love dearly, and you’re forced to watch her suffer in front of your eyes. This isn’t just an imagination for me; it’s my reality. My family and I live this pain every day.

The Rafah crossing will open its doors for travel a month from now. If we do not collect enough money for all of us to go out, we will be forced to separate and the family will be dispersed. Please stand with us and do not allow us to separate and our family to separate. We all want to get out of here.

Please, be our hope. Be our voice. Be the ones who save us from despair. Don’t ignore us. Donate, even if it’s just $5 .

There are so many people reading this post right now. I beg anyone who sees these words to donate if they can, and if not, to share this post. Please, don’t leave us behind.

Be our family, or think of us as members of your own family, and save us from this suffering.

No matter how small the amount, your help means the world to us. And if you can’t donate, share this post and add a few kind words to inspire others to help.

Thank you so much, everyone. I wish you all the best.

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[birdy-babe]

Blitzøs entire life spent being unwanted. So he adapted, and learned how to be something needed, something to be used.

Which is why I think he firmly believes he is being used by Stolas. He simply cannot fathom a different reality, one in which he is wanted for once in his life.

[piece-of-pierce]

Danny picked up some traits from his parents. He got his mom’s flexibility and reflexes, his dad’s love of anything chocolate flavored and abnormally great cardiovascular health. The trait they both passed on (to Danny AND Jazz) is an intense need to learn everything they can about what they don’t like.

Jazz remembers what it was like when Uncle Hammond passed and Aunt Alicia got different. She’s terrified of her own emotions effecting her like that some day, so studies psychology like there’s no tomorrow.

Jack and Maddie bonded over their shared fear and death and resulting desire to learn everything they could about it.

Danny can’t stand clowns. They’re dishonest and hide who they are behind heavy makeup and outlandish costumes. Freak show kicks that dislike into a full-on phobia though, so he goes all in on learning everything he can. How does clown school work? What are the requirements to be a clown? What rules do they have to follow? If he knows their limitations, he knows their weaknesses. He will not be caught off guard again.

That knowledge sits in the back of his mind like a comfort blanket. Every so often he’ll dip back in and research if there’s anything that’s changed. He wants to keep on top of any information about his greatest enemies.

Finally, he manages to graduate high school with a 2.7 GPA and 31 on the ACT thanks to his Math and Science scores (and a carefully managed brawling schedule with his rogues). Thanks to those, he managed to get a partial scholarship to Gotham U for Physics and Engineering. He still isn’t sure how he managed that, but he’ll happily take it.

What he won’t take is this FALSE Clown trying to cause trouble right before finals! He’d kept on top of his shit all semester and wasn’t gonna let anyone kidnapping him and some other people off the street get in his way.

Later, the Bats manage to find where the hostages were held because one of them waved down Robin. As in, all the captives had gotten free and when they found the right warehouse, it was to one young man berating the Joker.

“You’re nothing but a modern rendition of the town fool!”

[umblrspectrum]

i love learning cursive just to write text for exactly one character

[marshmallowwitharubberband]

MDZS x Dunmeshi AU where Wei Wuxian became the lord of the dungeon to protect the Wens. Lan Zhan (and by extension, Lan Xichen) are half-elves and their mother was the human (a lot of potential for family angst here).

Nie Huaisang would be, like Senshi, a dwarf who refuses to conform to dwarven customs and Nie Mingjue is running himself ragged trying to keep him from being expelled from the dwarf clan. Or maybe they're ogres, that would be fun

Jin Guangyao is another half-elf who is just desperate to be accepted by his elven father.

I need the Dafan Wen to be gnomes. Idk why it just kinda suits them

And the other Wen would be evil gnomes, perhaps.

The Jiangs should just be tallmen because why not. Jiang Cheng would be the one with the monster obsession due to his inferiority complex.

Maybe Wei Wuxian could be a beastkin in his first life and the whole dying and coming back could have sepparated his beast and human souls.

idk, it would be fun to explore.

[corkinavoid]

Tim, internally: I need to make sure my family doesn't start the shovel talk the moment we appear, I can do this, I just need to introduce him the right way

Tim, walking into the dining room, hand in hand with Danny: Bad news, Damian's grandfather stole my spleen four years ago. Good news, my boyfriend of six months returned it to me yesterday and even installed it back!

Danny, the picture perfect image of innocence: Hi!

The Batfam, who knew nothing about the missing spleen or the mere existence of a boyfriend in Tim's life: wh-

[bishy437]

he won

bonus:

[noodles-and-tea]

personally i think the funniest way of explaining anything off about the reported timeframes in your au is to have both stan & ford being absolutely terrible with time

stan being like damn the 50s sucks & little ford going its the 60s???? & ford going ‘nearly 30 years ago’ and fidds being like ford you’re like 30 that doesn’t make sense

I love that so much

[tariah23]

The manga industry, especially JUMP, needs to hurry up and do away with weekly scheduling for mangaka. There needs to better regulations put into place for their health and safety because this is pitiful. Two weeks - monthly updates should’ve already been the standard for the manga industry at this point. These money grabbers will only continue to put the lives of these artists at stake for the sake of capitalism unless some serious changes are implemented.

[thetownsendsw]

See, funnily enough in one of the earliest primary sources on Arthur he’s specifically noted to have Three Wives, all named Gwenhwyfar somehow. One human, one fairy, one giantess. Early early Arthuriana goes hard.

Now, really that’s less polyamory than it is good old fashioned bigamy. But in the version I’ve imagined telling for years now, the Gwens all had their tacit dalliances with other members of the round table, which the fey and the giant found perfectly to their liking, if annoyingly clandestine. The Princess of Gwent over here only showed her ass by being Christian and uptight about the whole arrangement and utterly failing to be subtle once she finally takes up with Lancelot. So Arthur’s forced to make a big show of punishing her to preserve his Christian Honor (read: keep all these goddamn warlords from thinking they can shank him because the two are related some-fucking-how), knowing full well Lancelot would swoop in and save the day, only for the damn changeling to take the whole thing seriously and start a civil war!

Quoth the Dux Bellorum: “Fuck’s sake I wave a giant glowing sword around and I’m somehow the only one here with any subtlety.”

Stories that would be improved by polyamory:

Dracula: it's basically a novel of kitchen-table polyamory already, but this way someone might actually kiss Jack Seward.

A Midsummer Night's Dream: just let them all have an orgy at the end. I feel like they'd be into it. Puck's invited too if he wants.

Bridget Jones' Diary: why force a choice between Mark and Daniel if there was the option to have both?

Any Arthuriana: less cheating, more honesty, fewer duels, more snogging, everyone's a winner.

Stories that would be made worse by polyamory:

Wuthering Heights: dear God do not give Cathy and Heathcliff a reason to drag more people into their terrible relationship than are already involved.