#I'm not well versed on the tributes for that particular god

[pretty-dianxia]

There is this state, in my country, that has the most beautiful bodies of water, rivers, and oceans; there, in the open sea, a statue of the Greek God of the oceans was placed.

Most of us looked at it not with disdain, but thinking that we have our own god of the water and that a statue of our god would make more sense. (We have two pantheons, and that region has specifically their storm-rain god)

Guess which state is now flooded and destroyed.

[guardiandragon98]

I've been following and liking a lot of creators' content and realized, hey, I'm a creator too. Might as well share to the Tumblr-verse my big bag of stories. Click the link above to access my AO3 profile.

For those who want to browse my stories per category. Here's my...

MASTERLIST PART 1 - this focuses on all my fics that are part of a series.

How to Train Your Dragon... with The God of Mischief

Summary: After falling off the Bifrost, Loki finds himself not as a pawn of Thanos, but transformed into an ordinary mortal and sent to the island of Berk. Taking on the name "Erland", Loki makes his way in the world of dragons and Vikings alongside the village outcasts - Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III and Zenna Arrowhead Fiersome. And Loki soon discovers he may not be as powerless as he originally thought.

In Order

The Inventor, The Healer, and The Fallen Prince - Prologue, Complete

How to Train Your Dragon... With The God of Mischief - Follows the events of the 1st film, Complete

Legend of The Boneknapper Dragon with The God of Mischief - one-shot

Gifts of the Night Furies with The God of Mischief - one-shot

Riders and Defenders of Berk with The God of Mischief - Follows Riders and Defenders of Berk, Ongoing

Where Ever Your Road Leads, You Can Always Come Back Home to Me - one-shot crossover with Thor films

HTTYDWTGOM One-Shots - A collection of one-shots sometimes set during in-between moments of the films and series in no particular order and just some fun things I can cook up, Ongoing

Sonadow Boom

Summary: An AU of Sonic Boom where Shadow isn't a brooding edgelord, is Sonic's boyfriend, and Eggman doesn't realize he's hired a mole. This has fluff, a little bit of smut, and a whole lotta Sonadow cuteness. Enjoy!

For this list, I'm putting the ratings here as a heads-up. For those who are underage, steer clear of the rated M and Explicit stuff.

Words of Encouragement - General Audiences

Serenade - General Audiences

It Takes A Village to Defeat A Hedgehog - Teen and Up Audiences

I Will Never Give Up on You - Teen and Up Audiences

A Moment of Pure Bliss - Mature Audiences

A Night in the Most Non-Secluded Secluded Jungle Ever - General Audiences

Let Me Tip You with Kisses and A Little Something Extra - Mature Audiences

Eggman The Video Game AU - Teen and Up Audiences

Closure - Teen and Up Audiences

Follow Our Rainbow - Teen and Up Audiences

The Next Great Adventure - Possibly the Greatest Adventure of All

Summary: When a string of garbage can thefts strikes Seaside Island, Sonic and Shadow lead the gang on a search for the thief. What they didn't expect was to become parents to a scared little tenrec with electrokinesis and a troubled past.

Sonic Boom Season 3: The Faith Tenrec Saga - the one that started it all :) Complete

To My Darling Faith - one-shot

Sunflowers for Mommy - one-shot

Love That Lasts Longer Than Paper Hearts - Valentine's Day one-shot

You're My Heroes - Father's Day one-shot

The Tale of the Space Child and the Wind Child - one-shot

In Every Shape, Way, and Form - one-shot tie-in with Sonic x Shadow Generations

Faith's First Halloween - Halloween one-shot

Now All My Stories Have Been Told, Except for One - tribute one-shot to my Dad

The World is Big Enough for All Your Love - Ongoing

Welcome to the Greatest Storm - one-shot

These Are A Few of Faith's Favorite (Fluffy) Things - one-shot

His Purpose, His World - one-shot tie-in with Shadow Generations: Dark Beginnings

We're A Pusheen Family - one-shot

I'll make another masterlist for the stories that don't have any series, though some of them are connected to my Sonic fic series in this list.

Happy reading ;)

[breakaway71]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your five favorite fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers! Spread the self-love. ❤️

This is always THE HARDEST QUESTION oh my god. You want me to choose between all my children?????? Okay...I gave it my best shot... IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER: 1) The Detention Verse (it's not cheating IT'S NOT) Supernatural, Dean/Gabriel, ~43,000 words The small saga of a surprisingly innocent student/teacher AU (I am so stupidly proud of this, you honestly have no idea. A lot of people skipped it both because of the unpopular ship and because, well, student/teacher, but I am so stupidly proud of it.) 2) The 88 mph (take off, last stop) Verse (IT'S NOT CHEATING DAMMIT) Julie and the Phantoms, primarily gen, ~66,000 words A funny thing happened on the way to changing the past... (Easily the best and most in-character thing I ever wrote for this fandom - I set out to capture the band-as-family vibes the show embodied so well, even while changing the entire dynamic, and I was so pleased with how it turned out. The timestamps weren't planned when I started, but the story just doesn't feel complete to me without them anymore.) 3) What Dreams You Seek Merlin/The Sandman, Merlin & Dream, background Merlin/Arthur and Dream/Hob, 766 words Merlin doesn't begrudge Hob that his companion has returned to him. He's happy for his friend, even as he envies him. (It's so tiny, and for something so tiny, I think it might actually be the best thing I've ever written. I love this thing SO MUCH. It's perfect exactly as it is and I never felt the need to expand on it or continue it.) 4) The Lamented Julie and the Phantoms/Animorphs, primarily Reggie-centric gen, background Marco/Ax, ~17,000 words Before he ate a bad hot dog, Reggie spent the last four years of his life fighting a secret war against a race of body-stealing alien slugs. He never quite got around to telling his two best friends. (This fic is a tribute to two of my greatest hyperfixations, and I'm so damn happy with how it turned out I don't think I'll ever be over it. I've written a lot of crossovers in my time, but taking my favorite childhood fandom and my most recent favorite fandom as an adult and combining them like this filled me with so much glee.) 5) Postcards Plane, Brodie Torrence & Louis Gaspare gen, 2,608 words The first postcard arrives when Brodie is two weeks into his physical therapy. Then they keep coming. (This is probably the biggest surprise on this list, but my god, I love this fic. I couldn't even tell you why, exactly. It's quiet and soft - two things the movie is DECIDEDLY not - and I wrote it after only seeing the movie one time, but I think it still manages to capture the essence of these characters so well and it always makes me feel so good to re-read it.)

[farfrombrooklyn]

Conflicted

Homeland Elegies Ayad Akhtar

Alas, this is yet another book that I read a large portion of but did not finish. I'm not sure why. It's strange to set aside a book with so much energy, intelligence, and wrath.

I was deeply engaged in the first section of the book, the story of the narrator’s father. Because this is 2021 of course this is autofiction (or, again, as I like to call it, the new anti-novel), the narrative is the actual story, I assume, of Ayad Akhtar’s real-life father, a well-known heart specialist who came to the US from Pakistan and embraced the go-go aspects of free-market capitalism and, maybe even more so, America’s liberal attitudes about drinking and sex, and basically lived it up until he ran his financial ship aground, and then, amazingly, returned to his high-powered medical specialty as if nothing had ever happened, other than betraying his wife and (briefly, it seems) shattering his son’s expectations of a fully-paid-for, freely experienced undergraduate education.

The father’s story was sufficiently unbelievable that I didn’t find it credible as fiction. In other words, it really had to be true. In particular there is a brief sidestory involving pre-presidential Donald Trump that is awkwardly cartoonish, with a not-particularly-good imitation of the way Trump speaks. This seemed such an odd thing to include in the narrative that I set the book down to google the author’s father and yes, he was, it seems, a renowned cardiologist. To what extent the Trump story--or really anything else in the novel--is true or not, I don’t know.

The stories Akhtar tells sound true, and I don’t mean that as a compliment. There is first of all the story of treating Donald Trump, the upshot of which is… nothing? Or possibly the point is to allow Akhtar to air his grievance that his father voted for Donald Trump, and look what happened, Dad!

Later, Akhtar tells the story of his uncle, a military man who lives in Abbotabad of all places, the city in Pakistan where Osama Bin Laden hid for years, presumably with the connivance of the Pakistani military. The upshot of this story ends up also being to air a grievance: Look how the US screwed up in Afghanistan! They helped the mujahudeen but they fucked it all up!

Then there is the story of a broken down car and a corrupt state trooper (and his corrupt brother) who scheme to rip off Akhtar--who is driving, as I recall, a Saab, and who is extended, instantly, overt the phone, a line of credit to cover the costs by his bank… I think the point of this story was, look what these racist bastards did to me!

Then there was the story of his mother, who had never loved his father, and the story of his aunt, a brilliant academic who is disgusted by Salman Rushdie’s infamous “The Satanic Verses,” the point of which is, I think, well, I don’t know, I think it is a way for Akhtar to work through some of his feelings about the concept of the prophet Muhammed.

All of these stories are memorable, or fairly memorable, which is a tribute to Akhtar’s skills, but they often smack of pedantry: Let me try to get this through your thick heads, American readers!

The book reminded me of--or I should say, it called to mind--Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen,” with which it shares a kind of existential yawp: “I live here, I belong here, why must I suffer these indignities when I have every bit as much right to life and liberty and happiness as you or anyone else!”

But with the Rankine book (for me at least), the accumulation of microaggression after microaggression has a gradually growing power that (again for me, at least) reaches a sort of crescendo of sympathetic despair. In the first pages of “Citizen,” I found myself responding, “Hmm, yes, I can see how that would be annoying, although I’m not entirely sure it’s fair to attribute it to racism…” That, in turn, gives way to, “God damn but that it’s terrible…” to finally a sense of exhausted rage at the torturous drip-drip-drip of racist indignities she describes.

With Akhtar, I didn’t feel that. I think he’s brilliant. But I didn’t find myself throbbing with sympathy for him. Who knows, maybe he would shrug and say he didn’t give a shit whether I care for him or not.

All that said, the book clearly “got to me” in the sense that I reacted to it strongly and remember quite a bit of it fully a month after setting it aside (having skimmed the second half). I will probably go back and read his first novel, “American Dervish,” although as I understand it goes over a lot of the same ground (the cardiologist father, the midwestern youth, etc.)