#I put so much heart and soul into them

[llemon-soda]

akishinji... they literally mean the world to me

[sketchy-tour]

Okay listen I got distracted while working on my ask doodles. BUT LISTEN THIS IS SO SELF INDULGENT cause I was listening to an early 2000s playlist on spotify and realized... Reboot Wally would so be a blink 182 fan. And you SO know he would sing that mess at karaoke. A dork. I love him.

Reboot AU belongs to @/bloodrediscream (Man I do not need to tag them for just my silly doodles.

I WILL HOWEVER tag @kawaiialeisha because I feel like you'd appreciate this

[windsweptinred]

I have infinite awe and respect for people who just do their own thing in fandom. Who ship two random crossover characters (that makes sense to them and them alone) with all their heart. Or obsess over that one side character no one else cares about. It takes a will or iron and a volcanic passion to keep that creativity and love alive, without other people feeding it with equal enthusiasm, ideas and praise. And to not fall into a spiral of fandom negativity because often, they must play alone in their sandbox. They just love and craft and there walks a fandom hero my friends.

All the hats off to you, you amazing, wonderous types. 

[writer-room]

Rewatching the earlier, and even pilots episodes, of Ninjago are so WILD man. First of all, you notice all the things that are just plain forgotten about or pushed aside in later seasons. Kai originally being the main character, sure, we all know that one, but Cole was heavily implied to be, or become, the leader of the Ninja, that was Cole’s thing. Zane was automatically described with having a sixth seer sense, when nowadays it shows up very, very infrequently. Lloyd used to basically be the Avatar, does anyone remember that? This kid was just the Avatar.

And then you remember the silly things. Like how the skeleton army was once a threat. Like...the skeletons. We battled a giant snake, smaller snakes, robot armies, sentient video games, Garmadon a billion different times, the Overlord, Oni...and the skeletons used to be a worthy adversary. The skeletons.

Did you all remember that Cole’s earth dragon used to...breathe earth? I’ve been forced to remember. Rocky used to breathe earth as a form of attack. It was shown through brown swirly wisps in that beautiful, incredibly shitty 2011 effect. The Underworld used to be implied to be the place where all dead people went, or at least the bad ones. We never heard of a Departed Realm. Do we remember the time Cole had a scene that was a direct parody of Michael Jackson? I sure do. Genuinely the highlight simply because I don’t know how to describe the emotion I felt upon seeing it.

[randaccidents]

TBH I'm kinda a little in love with the variant of religious Soul I ran with for my drabbles.

Like.

Soul who is religious. Who believes that they are all sinful for not being able to form Whole. Soul who worships dutifully daily. That's pretty normal.

Soul who sees the arguing as an ongoing sin. Soul who is so scared of some perceived judgement or punishment from Harmonia for their inability to get along. Soul who is so worried for and cares so much for his Heart and Mind that he actively punishes himself in some form of collective repentance for them. Taking on their sins as his own and bleeding for them.

Soul as a jesus figure in his own right, paying for Heart and Mind's failure to work shit out in blood and tears. If they won't repent, someone has to save them.

His blood for their eternal salvation.rand.hc

[11oh1]

[wrathfulmaiden]

since i cant upload the photos to tumblr, please view them on google photos. here is my 2024 look-book which i probably shouldve done at the end of 2024 and not the beginning ( sorry for the repost ).

enjoy and feel free to ask questions.

[shizunitis]

I think half of this fandom got wife-beamed by Shen Yuan, any comments on this tumblr user Shizunitis?

i acknowledge no such events, myself. i don’t need some narrative device or convenient trope or genre convention or whatever to fall in love with shizun. i’m sure there are people out there whose affections needed some prompting or a helping had to get going, but. like. couldn’t be me.

it’s not about the wife beam. it’s not even about what i want from shizun, or in what light i see him, or what he’s done for me, or any of that. it’s the very core of him, the tangle of contradictions and avoidant, endearing paths he takes in his navigation of the world around him, how he clings to it and the people around while adamantly claiming he isn’t.

he fucks up, and he’s snarky, and he’s a bit out of pocket at times, and that’s the most endearing part of him. the acting and the self-reprobations and his own wisdom, which he always overlooks or bats away, and the fumbling and the way every one of his action betrays just how easily his mask can crumble the more he’s made to fight for what he cares for, and how at the end of the day between his own pride and the love guiding his every action, it’s always the pride that he discards first.

also, he’s got a case of rejection sensitivity that would, and does, put both binghe’s and mine to shame.

a wife beam is, in itself, a… filter? i’m not sure how to put it, but a wife beam is too… inauthentic. as the reader hitching a ride in shizun’s brain (which thinking about makes me feel faint and like i’m about to burst with joy and entirely not normal about the whole thing) it’s kind of… impossible, i wanna say, to be fooled by its effects in any meaningful way.

it’s like putting on glasses just a bit different from your own prescription (guess who’s sleep deprived and doesn’t know how to put words together again. you get no prize and you have to feel sorry for me)—the shapes are there, but the exact definition of what you see is not right. the “wife beam” is not doing justice to shizun’s true self.

shizun is shizun. shen yuan or shen yuan as shen qingqiu, whichever, it’s the core of him that matters, and the wife beam makes him seem too… ideal. too untouchable. it’s like cling film. bothersome and unhelpful outside very specific circumstances and we all know shizun doesn’t belong in the kitchen. where he belongs is for me to think about while laying on the floor at 10am on a friday.

or, put in another, more obnoxious way:

this here is a naturally occuring phenomenon; every binghe loves every shizun, and i’m not about to betray the cause or turn away from my nature.

rate this for coherence i give it a solid 6.5 right now. i did a great job, considering.

[reineyday]

oh man not me crying over this week's skip and loafer 😭😭😭

[cosmereplay]

Uh you got any more of those... Gender.. cosmere fics..?

That nb kaladin and lift fic was so good pls

✨✨DO I!✨✨

An Early Ideal, An Unexpected Truth by TrishHankins

Rated Teen, 17,000 words, Oathbringer, CW suicidal thoughts

Transfem Elhokar, nonbinary transfemme Adolin

This fic follows an alternate canon and it has a thoughtful and loving portrayal of Elhokar's transition to Kari that doesn't shy away from difficult topics. And it has a happy ending!

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Perceptions of Self by Wandering_Channeler

Rated General, 1000 words, Oathbringer

Nonbinary Nightblood

Nightblood wants to try to understand pronouns and gender, and asks various people to explain. This one's funny and sweet!

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Series: [slaps cosmere] this baby can fit so many gender by werealldreaming

(only visible to logged in ao3 users), 4 fics, all rated General.

Transfem Kaladin; nonbinary Vivenna; transmasc Spook; nonbinary Lift.

Short and impactful moments throughout the cosmere, I'm linking to the whole series so you can read them all in one sitting.

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Unto Themself by freoduweard

Rated General, 1000 words, Oathbringer

Nonbinary Renarin?

A mother has questions and worries about her child, who may face many challenges as they grow.

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Self-Soulcasting by TrishHankins

Rated Mature, 18,000 words, WoR canon divergence

Transfem Kaladin

Kaladin ends up in Kharbranth to finish her training, and happens upon a young woman who is in training as a scholar. Spats, pins, and friendship (maybe other things too?) ensue. It's a smart and tender fic that takes great care with characterization. Also it has amazing epigraphs from an in world book about gender and transitioning called Self-Soulcasting. So good!

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An Edgedancer's Tale by Susanoko

Rated Mature for violence, 22,000 words, set in Alethkar without references to canon events, CW well-marked descriptions of self harm/suicide

Transfem OC Radiant

Thalkum is a ranked duelist in the city of Rashir. His overbearing father wants him to compete harder, and something inside Thalkum breaks. Fortunately, he...she discovers good friends and a spren named Willow, who help fill the cracks. This fic is quite dark at times, which makes the moments of celebration shine all the brighter.

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Urithiru Pride by Wandering_Channeler

Rated General, 1000 words, references RoW

Nonbinary Lift

Just a fun crack fic! Dalinar and Szeth are not invited but just about everyone else is!!

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I want to learn to love the way you love by taleisinlefay

Rated Explicit, 6000 words, no spoilers iirc, CW oblique references to past sexual abuse

Transmasc OC

Taleisin and Kaladin confess their love and have gender affirming sex. Just very sweet

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And of course the ones mentioned in the replies to that original post:

A journey of self-discovery by Wandering_Channeler

Rated Teen, 19,000 words, canon divergence around RoW era

Nonbinary Kaladin, nonbinary Lift

Kaladin unexpectedly finds a community, and they help them figure out what's been feeling off.

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A Strapping Young Man by whoreship

Rated Explicit, 5000 words, modern AU

Transmasc Renarin

Renarin buys sex toys and figures out how to use them in a way that gives him gender euphoria. This fic has such a special place in my heart

[lovethatmakingcoffee]

actually, y'know what. I love women and girl characters that murder. Who manipulate. Who makes mistakes. Who say the wrong thing in a conversation when comforting someone. Who judges people prematurely. Who don't have all the facts and acts on them when felt cornered. Who rages against the machine. Who attacks the innocent who they deem guilty. Who are reckless. Who are angry. Who fight and kill for the sake of it. Who become a monster. Who are the beast they sought out to destroy. I love women's wrongs every god damn day. And she can slice me in half, whether or not she is a parallel to another man. Cause I find that awesome, hot, cool, fire, and pretty bombastic. Cause I love it.

And I wouldn't be writing such characters if I didn't love them that way with all my heart.

[radgeorgie]

had an amazing interview yesterday.... was told I'd know by Monday.... but it's alleged they DRUG TEST and I just bought 6 packs of weed edibles 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[yuridovewing]

Feel like one of the best ways you can convince someone that no, villains with compelling motives that have sad backstories are not terrible writing compared to straight up born evil villains who just want to kill everyone and be done with it, is to tell them that Warrior Cats writes born evil villains constantly while literally preaching “That’s how evil works, you can’t CHANGE, you’re either touched by demons at birth or you aren’t!” and it blows chunks

[depressedtheatrekiddo]

BUT IT WAS NOT YOUR FAULT BUT MINE AND IT WAS YOUR HEART ON THE LINE I REALLY FUCKED IT UP THIS TIME DIDN'T I MY DEAR? DIDN'T I MY DEAR?

And it's Robin "I cannot seem to keep friends" Buckley.

And it's Remus "You saw me. You saw that." Lupin.

And it's Wayne "I don't know how to do this" Munson.

And it's Ballister "I'm not your dad" Boldheart.

And it's Irene "I have to go" Adler.

[lepertamar]

i hate………it when my loves’s patterns look like they are mere expressions of a preexisting and underlying platonic ideal i Actually love…..there was a post i saw asking if ppl had any kinks that they only had specifically in the context of doing it at or with one specific person, the implication and responses suggested this was very strange and unusual and it made me realize……nearly .all my kinks are like this—i do not have a kink for x, and merely want someone who is able to fulfill it. i have a kink for ‘doing x with this one specific person who is not interchangeable with any other person on earth who has ever lived.’ same with broader contexts of relationships—i don’t want to be looking for someone who fits Into a preexisting slot for me, i am not into a particular 'type' of thing and looking for real things that can fill—or mimic, live up to, sort of approximate—that role. that is not me! that is so not me!

sure there are obviously some patterns but that’s different, that’s only after the fact. the encounters are what create the pattern in me in the first place. my loves — in ideas, stories, etc — are not ‘oh this is an Example of the preexisting Thing i want’. they are things that i encountered that caused some kind of reaction in my electron bonds that cause me to stick to it and become a slightly different shape, and sure some of that is only possible because of what i am, but mostly it’s that once i have encountered this thing that reshapes my electron bonds and sticks to me, then i also become capable of sticking to similar things, or completely different things i wasn't able to stick to before, sometimes due to convoluted associations, often transcending the association after a bit and connecting with the other things independently of it. i have a really really hard time not reflexively — even just in my own brain—‘justifying’ my loves and patterns by trying to make up an underlying preexisting Empty Slot in the way other people do — trying unthinkingly to explain and come up with ‘a type’ (preexisting) that this one singular particular one-of-a-kind thing or person is just a mere example of/fitting candidate for—but it’s a lie when i do this. it’s lying to myself, and lying to others. i think i have done it on this blog before. but it’s ugly, and untrue, and not me.

[pyreshe]

tbh, as someone who writes a female oc who isn't available for shipping, lemme just say that if u write a canon, esp white fav popular dude canon, with the caveat that people who follow u there have to show the same interest in your oc (or even underloved canon female characters!) or u won't play ball? I love you, love your energy, I hope u find 20$ on the ground soon, and that your partners adore your character as much as u do 💖