#1 down a few to go!!!

[icewindandboringhorror]

(also feel free in the tags to clarify Why you made the choice you made!! :0c)

[lionbearfox]

irminsul incarnate

[christiangeistdorfer]

GRAHAM HILL with his son DAMON HILL during the 1967 BRITISH GRAND PRIX

[barksbog]

it´s honestly so hard for me to even finish 15-30h games let alone 100h+ games because i get maybe 2-3h a night to game and the pacing of most games makes that feel extremely frustrating.

at this point i´m begging for more 1-6h games

[moldy-flowers]

Sakura and her comically oversized axes

[foreverfearlessred]

why am I not even surprised that Charles had a samurai suit of armour in his living room why is that so on brand for him

[bunnyboy-juice]

does me being a scientist make my sluttyness on here hotter?

[undead-moth]

I know I've been on about this for a while now and I'm being a hater but you're telling me SydCarmy was "always meant to be platonic" even though there are two seasons of writing making use of tried-and-true explicitly romantic tropes, themes and writing signals, and SydLuca is going to be romantic because...he was nice to her on screen for a few minutes?

I don't even care if people ship SydLuca, or if they just prefer it, but you can't honestly tell me that you believe Carmy was always meant to be a friend but Luca is an obvious love interest.

Just because Syd and Carmy haven't kissed or confessed their love to each other doesn't mean that isn't very obviously the direction this show is going. The Bear has already shown you who is endgame. It has shown you every episode of the show so far.

Honestly I really don't think The Bear fanbase understands this show or cares about these characters or the story being told here, which is unfortunate because this show is shockingly well-written in comparison to most shows right now, and we should be so grateful for it but all we're doing is complaining that the writers led us on by not making a ship canon fast enough. It's just. Sad.

[marinsawakening]

I really do strongly dislike the very idea of the 'downfall' timeline. Like it can be fun to play with a version of OOT where Link up and died, there's definitely some interesting stuff to be done with that, but I really hate that the 'downfall' timeline is something I have to consider canon despite it making infinitely less sense than simply interpreting OOT as a prequel to ALTTP. No 'if Link died' qualifiers, just as is. Since OOT was very, very obviously based on the backstory explained in ALTTP and all, y'know. Not everything fits 1:1, but that's par for the course with LOZ games, and the ending of OOT very specifically sets up ALTTP.

So it's just deeply, deeply irritating to me to have the 'official' timeline say 'yeah actually that ending did not set up ALTTP. ALTTP happened in a completely different version of the ending than what you saw', like. I really despise how that paves over the history of OOT and the franchise as a whole for the sake of some remote semblance of 'timeline consistency'. Playing ALTTP and then playing OOT and realizing OOT was basing itself on the backstory from ALTTP was a really cool moment for me and it pisses me off that I'm just supposed to pretend the game I played didn't pre-date ALTTP at all and instead some nebulous parallel version that we never saw in-game was the REAL precursor to ALTTP. I don't care how much it messes up the timeline I'm not doing that.

Literally who cares if Twilight Princess, Wind Waker, and ALTTP all co-exist as wildly different OOT sequels. They can take turns. They can exist in a quantum state. Or they can exist in three different timelines the exact way they do now, I don't really care how people choose to interpret it on an individual level, I just don't like it when people treat the 'downfall timeline' as the presumed canon when, going by the actual games of OOT and ALTTP rather than the Hyrule Histoira, that makes very little sense.

[redhoodie1723]

the imaginary carlos and charles beef that some fans are convinced is going on is giving Netflix DTS trying to convince us that charles and sebastian were mortal enemies that prayed on each other’s downfall nightly

[restinpeacesensei]

traditional style 💖

[sysig]

Coding woes (Patreon)

[sporksaber]

I have now read two (2) fics where Kakashi marries Zabuza through old clan traditions involving fighting as a proposal, and now I'm just thinking about kisaita again.

Non massacre au, to start with.

Itachi is so stressed out with his clan. Under no circumstances does he want to marry any of the women the elders are trying to set him up with. He's taking constant missions to avoid being home but as more time passes he gets more and more pressure trying to keep him in the village.

Kisame meanwhile, after a wHile of missingnining it up, is having a very not good time. With the unstable political situation in kiri the hunter nin have been going hard trying to get the legendary swords back, and he's tired. He misses village life. He doesn't want to do this anymore.

Enter itachi. They cross paths while he's on a mission, end up fighting together, and then itachi and kisame get drunk together (as one does). They commiserate about their personal struggles of the moment and then itachi's like wait—

I see two birds between us. I have one stone. 1+1-1x=0, the solution equals you should marry me, right here right now.

And kisame like the fuck do you mean?

And itachi is like yada yada yada, ancient clan traditions still valid in the leaf due to respect for historic clans, blah blah blah: simple set of seals, spar, bang, become legally married. You get citizenship and I don't have to marry a woman.

And kisame's like fuck it, ok.

And so itachi pulls up with a new giant blue husband and his clan elders are pissed.

[queer-omens-in-the-archives]

Have you noticed your style change over time?

Hi!! Thank you for the ask. <3

We haven't really noticed that, no -- we're aware our older fics don't read quite the same as our more recent ones, but we don't tend to notice the changes happening in real time and would struggle to pinpoint exactly what changed.

Part of that is plurality-related. We don't all write the same to begin with -- actually part of our editing process now, especially for longer projects, consists of getting as many of us rereading the text as possible (separately over a period of time and/or together at the same time), so we can smooth out differences where needed or (more rarely) exaggerate them when warranted (e.g. for added character flavour in subjective narration). In the past we didn't go through that Collaborative Smoothening step, and we did a lot less editing to begin with (we same-day wrote-and-published a lot), so many of our older works are more clearly One Guy's Writing. We can usually tell who based on the way they're written, but this isn't style evolution so much as like... us writing differently at baseline.

Part of that is that we have two types of approach to writing: either we write so rarely that too much time passes in-between for us to remember our previous writings clearly, or we write so often that any overall changes are too gradual for us to notice. Nowadays it's more the latter -- with the MelloNears, we've been writing/editing at least a few words every single day since November 1st, in mostly the same two AUs/series, so we're not really seeing the style evolution that is probably taking place because we're standing too close to see the big picture.

[fanfic/author ask game]

[moreaujeans]

actually goign to hate myself so bad tmrw

[cultivating-wildflowers]

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