#(there was nearly no reception)

[finelythreadedsky]

 On one level the book is about the life of a woman who is hardly more than a token in a great epic poem, on another it’s about how history and context shape how we are seen, and the brief moment there is to act between the inescapable past and the unknowable future. Perhaps to write Lavinia Le Guin had to live long enough to see her own early books read in a different context from the one where they were written, and to think about what that means.

-Jo Walton

[phoenixyfriend]

I spent a good fifteen minutes in that spot just watching the whirlpool activity.

Anyway. That's the real-world Great Naruto Bridge that I assume the manga version was meant to be a reference to.

[yume-fanfare]

wait no wayyyy i missed the anniversary of the first release of clown crown. where were YOU on march 5th 2024 when the checkmate anime advanced screening happened and the clown crown booklet first started circulating

[katya-goncharov]

just got sent an angry email by my dentist for not paying at reception after my appointment, but. i just genuinely didn't know i was supposed to pay, seeing as it was meant to be a FREE nhs check-up

[icarrymany]

if thanos and nam gyu were women instead they'd be the best characters on earth actually. i yuri-fy them with my mind

[pokemonruby]

update about commissions.

hi everyone! i just wanted to put out a little notice regarding my commissions. i will be keeping them open since i could still really use the help until i can find a potential employer, but i may have to extend the general completion period as i am trying to enter into a writing competition! the deadline is late october but i'm expected to pump out at least 50,000 words by then and trying to micro-manage everything has been stressing me out big time, so i may have to be more flexible henceforward.

it was originally slotted at a month and i feel like if it's in the lower range i can definitely still churn something out by then but i do sincerely apologize if there are any delays. i'm also intending to see a doctor soon about my carpal tunnel since it is admittedly worsening by the day and there are some periods when i can barely use my keyboard. 💀

but i still greatly appreciate any measure of support and i will do my absolute best to repay that generosity!

[fallloverfic]

you writing the only alucard x olrox fic around saved my life just so you know. i don't know what i'm going to do obsessed with a ship with two fics NFNFNDNNFGNND but thank you thank you so much, that was lovely 😔🙏 i'll forever conjure it in my mind when i want to think of them and how cunty they would be together as a couple.

Aww thank you <3 <3 <3 I had a lot of fun with it (their dynamic is so delicious), and I'd like to write more of them. I already have a couple ideas, it's just unfortunately de-prioritized behind some other things. I wrote them interacting more today, though, so they're definitely never far from my mind :3 And I have... thoughts about Alucard in a sequel to You reluctant demon. But we'll see how it goes. Originally I played around with making You reluctant demon a dual Mizrak/Olrox and Alucard/Olrox fic, but I'm not sure how well that'd work for the story, hence the standalone canon divergence Alucard/Olrox fic.

I did see there was a new Alucard/Olrox WIP up by someone else, so we're at 3 fics (I know the first one came out before the shows did, but still XD), and it looks like the fandom is slowly growing :D And you can always try writing something yourself! Or doing other fanworks! And even just letting people know in Ao3 comments or elsewhere that you like their work is a great start! It really encourages us to write more! I know the wonderful reception my fic had has definitely kept the pairing in mind for me :3

[daincrediblegg]

Oh yeah hi everybody

[osddakito]

i wanted to share my favorite tags before 413 ends for me today. june touches the hearts of all!

it gets better

[marshmellowtea]

sorry for the barbie movie haterism tonight every so often i remember how badly it pisses me off

[pipedreame]

went into the mountains yesterday for a wedding and got such a bad elevation headache i only got like a true 45 minutes of deep sleep and then woke up at 5:45am with a fucking beetle on my arm and one on my PILLOW and had a meltdown about it. haven’t slept since and i’m just waiting to pass out from exhaustion sometime soon.

[wellnoe]

Hi I hope all is well!! Forgive me if you’ve already been asked a variation of this question but I was just wondering if you were in charge, how would you have brought Jean back (the second time)?

I recently reread Phoenix resurrection and I find it so odd that they brought jean back into the fold so late, although I’m p sure she wasn’t allowed back due to editorial?

It just made sense to me that she would come back after AVX, after all she talked about pieces that were missing in Endsong, and the phoenix was plenty broken up after that event. Hope this isn’t too convulated!! 😭😭

it's not convoluted! unfortunately this is a period of comics i am just soooooo unfamiliar with! i read phoenix resurrection pretty separate from almost everything going on at the time, i still haven't read endsong, i've only read parts of avx and the aftermath based on whatever caught my fancy. so this question is pretty far out of my wheelhouse.

[fingertipsmp3]

That last post just reminded me of something honestly mind-boggling that that friend did

[chaoskiro]

Vertical limit pod updated!!

Welcome to chapter 23 people!

We are ushering in a new being and new fun little editing things. I had to hunt for nice static for this one and had a lot of thoughts about the ghostlyness/unghostlyness of it. I had fun, I hope you will have fun listening to it!

Go listen!!!

[snail-day]

You can do this, Satoru. It’s just your wedding. Just the day you’ve been dreaming about since the moment she first smiled at you. Just the person you’re terrifyingly in love with. Who’s about to walk down the aisle and change his life forever. A day he's been dreaming since he first met you

He’s standing at the altar, trying to act normal. Cool as a cucumber. Like his knees aren’t locked and his palms aren’t sweating through his white gloves. Fidgeting with the cuffs of his dark tux every two seconds. Trying not to cry. Trying really hard not to cry.

His baby blues are not looking at the double doors. Nope. Not even glancing. He’ll cry if he does. He knows he’ll cry.

And then the music starts.

You appear.

And he’s a goner.

His breath punches out of him like someone knocked the wind from his lungs for the first time. You’re there. Radiant. Soft. Shining in a way he doesn’t even think the sun could compete with. And you’re crying. Oh god, you’re already crying.

He panics. Internally. Loudly.

Don’t cry, baby, please don’t cry, he begs in his mind, like he can will the tears away just by loving you hard enough. Your bottom lip is wobbling. Your hands are clutching the arm of your dad a little too tightly that his poor father-in-law is wincing. You freeze halfway down the aisle. Staring at him, practically on the verge of sobbing.

Satoru doesn’t hesitate.

He moves before anyone can stop him, taking long strides right to where you’re standing, wide-eyed and trembling. The officiant laughs under their breath and says something like, “Looks like the groom’s meeting the bride halfway,” but Satoru barely hears it. His entire world has narrowed down to you.

“You okay?” he murmurs, cupping your face with both hands, his thumbs rapidly brushing your tears away. You sniffle. Nod. Barely.

So, obviously, he does the only thing he knows how to do: he teases.

“Didn’t know I was marrying a crybaby today,” he whispers, smiling crookedly, voice cracking just enough to betray how close he is to sobbing.

You swat his chest, laugh-wheezing through your tears, and he swears his heart nearly gives out. He wants to kiss you so badly, but it’s not time yet. Not technically. So instead, he holds your hands and walks you the rest of the way down the aisle, like maybe if he stays close enough, your nervousness won’t win.

He doesn’t remember the vows.

He doesn't remember the rings, or if his voice shook when he said “I do.”

But he remembers you. Every second of you. The way your fingers squeezed his like you were scared and excited all at once. The small little hi you spoke during the speech about you two coming together. The way your smile finally broke through the nerves when he mouthed mine during the ceremony.

He’s pretty sure he blacked out for the kiss. All he knows is that when it happens, the world goes quiet. All that’s left is you and him and the overwhelming realization that he gets to love you for the rest of his life.

And later, when he’s holding your heels in one hand and you in the other, dancing barefoot on the reception floor under fairy lights, he’s still chanting the same thing in his head he did the moment you walked down the aisle:

Be good. Be good. Don’t cry. Be normal. You’re married now. This is real. Don’t freak her out.

But also?

Holy shit. She’s mine.

[nerdie-faerie]

I'm travelling home tomorrow, I've only just wrapped the presents I'm taking with me and yet I still haven't packed a single other thing 🙃