#I'm too old for this nonsense

[doomduck]

Pro: sbs is showing the European championships

Con: it starts at pairs short starts at 9.50pm and women's short program starts at 1.50am

*sobs*

[cecoeur]

[notbecauseofvictories]

very strongly feel that moist/adora is the only actual romantic relationship terry pratchett ever wrote.

[kieran-granola]

After spending so much time joking about it, I dreamed about actual rules for NO FUN ALLOWED, the game that lets you embody antis for a minute. And well, the Friends said I should share this with the world so. There you are!

To draw cards, we've got a numbered list and we're using dice rolls, but if you know how to code I'm sure that's something that could be automated. Feel free to hmu for the full list of Ship Cards, or for the template so you can make your own!

(Here are sample Ship Cards from our deck:)

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Actually, the best part of being a "chosen one" is you don't have to send in a resume and write a coverletter. A magical scroll or mysterious stranger or flock of ravens just show up and give it to you.

[starlene]

I've been seeing a post on my dash where some USAmerican tumblrina feels sorry for the rest of the world because we don't have Halloween, and that we should steal it for ourselves, too.

I just... uuuugggghhh. Dear worried USAmerican tumblrina: please do not feel sorry for us, at least not about that particular issue.

Like. As far as Finland goes (but I'm 100% certain this applies to a bunch of other countries all over the globe too), our supermarkets and our shopping centres are trying their absolute hardest to shove Halloween down our throats. They really, really try. From Halloween themed doughnuts to Halloween balls and Halloween garlands (for our Halloween trees?? I really have no idea), it's all over the place. It may not actually be celebrated to the extent it is in the US, but it certainly cannot be escaped, and as long as there's plastic crap to sell, it's not going away.

If I could, I'd shove all that nonsense into a cargo container and return it to where it came from. But I can't! You'll catch me dead before you'll catch me buying a Halloween themed Runeberg torte, though.

[nikkoliferous]

This is the bully list after what happened to @abby118 . It comes from a famous Loki GIFS creator on tumblr who is also getting harassed & showed in the toxic behavior of this person behind these many alts accounts. Share it with everyone !!

lokilaufeysondiaries strangegodsloki queenofstarsign85 dreamingofimpalas hereitgoesagain067 buckybarnes-winters0ldier themoonsmaven nerdconpp crackships-r-us69 lokisimp89 lowkey-lokid souls-for-fandoms cassius-blackwood fandemoniumfantasies ladylovelyfan2014 lokismilkshake goddessofvictoryy

PSA for people being targeted by any or all of the above blogs.

personally, I am agnostic on the topic of preemptively blocking people (and sharing block lists, for that matter). I don't usually block people myself unless I'm getting directly harassed and they're becoming a distraction/it's the only way to get them out of my notes. with that being said, that's a personal choice of mine, and I fully support the rights of any blogger to block any other blogger for any (or even no) reason. nobody is entitled to read or interact with anybody else's blog.

this should also go without saying in this day and age, but I do not condone nor encourage anyone going to any of the above blogs to counter-bully them. do not spam their posts' notes, do not send them anon hate, so on and so forth. just block (or don't, if you prefer) and move on. not only for your own sake, but because from my limited direct interactions with/knowledge of a couple of them, it's clear that they crave the attention and it only feeds into their self-pitying view of themselves as the perpetual victim (despite them being the aggressors in each instance I've borne witness to). don't feed the trolls, etc etc.

stay safe out there and do what you need to do to take care of yourselves, loki fandom. 💚💛🖤

[quatregats]

Went back and reread some of Master and Commander again and goddamn is that book rich with detail...truly I did not know how to appreciate it on the first (or second) read-through...

[lucaniisdellamorte]

ranting about the da fandom stuff from yesterday a little bit

The game isn't even going to be out for another month and already I'm so exhausted, like honestly exhausted by the fandom. Let me say that if you saw the news yesterday and are disappointed that's fine, if you canceled your preorder that's also fine (I don't think you should preorder AAA games anyway but its not money so)

However I do think there comes a point when it gets to be too much. I know I've seen people like "let us be disappointed, toxic positivity is bad, let us feel this" and yeah okay you're right about all of that but when you're sitting around in discords circlejerking with six other people about how this "means not a single dev on the team actually cares about the franchise" and how this is the "end of the series as a whole" and "how dare the devs make this decision its going to tank the game and prove the bigots right" I think its fair to tell you to go the fuck outside and touch grass.

As bad as toxic positivity is, there has to be an opposite side to that, the sitting and wallowing and steeping in dramatic over exaggerated negativity also can't be good for you! There's a huge difference between being disappointed and cancelling your preorder and then running around social media yelling, screaming, throwing up like this is the worst thing that's happened in the history of gaming. Especially since that tends to rile people up and then they go to harass the dev team which isn't warranted.

I don't know I don't want to invalidate anyone feeling disappointed but I'm so exhausted by people in general constantly jumping to the worst and most bad faith take they can think of and then reacting based off that take. Maybe its not that the devs don't care but more like there are three games worth of player choices they have to account for and that's a lot of choices and variations that might be getting too unwieldy to account for every single one at this point. Maybe they're saving some ideas for the next game, we don't and probably won't know until a much later date.

Maybe I should be used to the over reactions after being in fandoms in general for so long but man if this doesn't just leave me exhausted to my very core

[re-discover-communication]

Vent

The more I keep writing the more I feel I'm straying away from Woodwork's style/quality. Like I'm running out if it, somehow. I feel I'm getting repetitive with the way I construct the sentences and that my writing is getting dull. I've started to keep Woodwork's window open in the browser whenever I'm working on the current fic. I look at it and then I look at Suspirium, at Dawn Chorus, at Pneumothorax that I'm writing right now and I wonder what happened. If it's my perception to be wrong because it's obviously biased, but what if it's not? And the hits number of Dawn Chorus seem to confirm that it's not just my perception. It's been stagnant for weeks and it hurts, considering the amount of time, effort and love I poured into it. I want to write that good again. What happened to me? I hate this feeling.

[ace-and-the-rpg-horrors]

i've headcanoned Rouge as a transgender woman for a while, and today, i had a thought that it would be really sweet if Noel's current outfit used to be hers before she transitioned...

[deadpoets]

RORY GILMORE AND JESS MARIANO Rewind by Faith Zapata

[elminster-big-naturals]

as a bisexual man i am also kinda miffed at only seeing gale paired with femme-aligned people in most of his fics and art, but im scared if i say anything about it ill be accused of biphobia. idk i just feel like gale's been branded The Straight one somehow?? it also doesn't help that astarion is so popular among the tiktok girlies they seem to forget he's bi and painstakingly (pardon the pun) avoid any masc pairings with him. somehow im seriously getting dragon age fandom flashbacks

I'll be honest though, it IS kind of funny when you say you're not interested in m/f content and folk are like "Ah so you're biphobic and you hate women? You're saying women can't have sex with men? I'm being OPPRESSED and SILENCED for depicting women and men having sex?" because they've genuinely convinced themselves that m/f content is like, some long suffering minority and not literally, factually the Vast majority of content in this fandom and most others.

Like, Mary, why do queer ppl who don't care for m/f stuff often get more heat and scrutiny than folk who seem politely disinclined to acknowledge queerness in general? Is the call coming from inside the house, perhaps..?

[queenofbaws]

hey queenie, just want you to know that you are severely appreciated. not only are you just a great friend–your comments make me laugh and i always look forward to what you have to say–but you're an incredibly talented writer and i am always so grateful i stumbled across you and your writing. genuinely your writing evokes such emotion, and no matter whether it's fluff, angst, or character study, i always feel at home reading your fics. thank you for being you 💕

🥹

jdksdhajksdhsAJKDHJKASD QUILLLLLLLLLL-UH you can't do this to me!!! i have a spooky image to uphold over here, and you're making me all wibbly wobbly omgggggg!!! the internet is going to think i'm like, a sap or something if they catch me CRYING IN THE CLUB LIKE THIS!!!!!!!

you are too, too, tootootootootoooooo kind (pretend that doesn't read 'toot' over and over, ok? thanks), and coming from YOU??? someone whose stories have had me on the edge of my seat, gnawing my nails, guffawing like a fool, gasping like a soap opera star, and pacing around my room tearing at my hair to walk off some of the tension???????? genuinely this is the highest praise. genuinely!!! thank YOU for being YOU - all your support, your kindness, the JOY you spread, for bullying all the same characters i do, all of it!!!!!! you truly have nooooooooo idea how much your kindness means to me, OR how much stupid irl crap your stories have gotten me through!!! <3

now if you'll excuse me, i believe there's somethING IN MY EYE 😭 WHERE IS MY HANDKERCHIEF

[janiedean]

believe me I understand working for call centers is hell on earth and I don't wish it on anyone but good grief after the 1000th time you call me for the gas/electric bill at *my parents' house* where I don't even live anymore after I told you nicely ten times that it's not my damned contract you can't ask me to not lose my shit

[randomnameless]

are you still cooking your half nabatean lycaon AU ? If you're interested, there are some fics on Ao3 about him! In a more serious setting though he wouldn't be outed as a half nabatean

I've seen them!

Soon, he will have 10 properly tagged fics on AO3 !

(and i've read them all lol)

I think I can see what fic you're talking about in the "more serious setting" lol, but first let it be a "Rhea blows up Seteth's microwave by reheating a ravioli can AU" or a "WoH storytelling" AU, I suppose fics are fics, and they're both "serious" in their own way.

Maybe you meant "serious" as in the most "canon compliant" - still taking into consideration that we're talking about fanfics, aka, headcanons?

Discussing about headcanons - the way reasonable people do - is much like discussing about your favourite recipe, it's ultimately a matter of taste - You're not saying the recipe of the person you're talking to sucks, but you just say you prefers yours and don't force it on anyone else.

Now, why I don't put carrot in my curries -

iirc in this fic I'm thinking of and you might be talking about anon, the premise was basically an alliance, Willy has to marry a lady to secure an alliance with her father and get Gronder on his side for his future conquest.

If Rhea tells him about bby!Lycaon and marries him, his wedding is annuled, no alliance means more warfare and Adrestia needs more time to gather troops to march on Nemesis.

If she doesn't, the son he and his wife were supposed to have dies in childbirth and Rhea swaps the babies so Lycaon is raised by his dad and his stepmom, no one knows his stepmom isn't his mom, save for Willy himself and the nabateans.

In this setting though, children between nabateans and humans will either be humans, or nabatean, so no half-nabatean hijinks (and Lycaon was born a human).

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This isn't the headcanon I'm rolling with - which prompted this entire cooking stuff lol - hybrid nabateans have more magic/power than humans, but less than full blooded nabateans.

With that being said, in a WoH setting, I couldn't legit see Rhea accepting to part or even to entrust her kid (half or not) to anyone else than her bros/relatives, maybe the trustworthy people of her Church and Willy himself.

But anyone else in Enbarr and its palace?

If the secret is out of the bag, Lycaon will become a dagger (or so she thinks!).

So he stays with his maternal family, or under their care.

Now, what about Willy?

The hc of the 120 bastard kids was just nonsense, but if we supposed Willy fucked like what the real world inspiration for Adrestia of old is supposed to be, I HC Willy should at least have some illegitimate kids.

Regarding the legitimate ones, what if he married someone, to form an alliance, and basically sealed it with the promise that their kid was going to become the next emperor?

It's plausible enough, that Willy survives the potential kid, due to receiving Rhea's crest he ages slower than his kid who might or not get a crest at birth (like the characters we see in FE16!).

With time, the alliance becomes void because hey, the heir isn't inheriting a thing since Willy's still alive and rocking his imperial armor - and looks younger than his own kid!

Should Willy contract a new alliance or would the people who joined him through this alliance bail out realising they would never have one of their people sit on Adrestia's throne ?

Or, even before realising that the "alliance made heir" will never get the throne since Willy can live up to 300 years, I got the idea/HC that Willy, much like your typical FE protag, starts with Bord'n'Cord and later ends up leading an army without needing to contract "alliances through marriages" to gain soldiers.

Both because of personal preferences lol, but also because it creates a precedent : if Willy marries the heir of land A who has 50 soldiers to offer in exchange of the throne, what if he later gets a proposal from land J who has 5k soldiers to offer for the same prize? If A's proposal looks good when Willy starts with 3 soldiers, later when he has 3k, wouldn't J's be better? In that situation, would A be casted away to have J instead?

However, the most serious issue in this "race for the throne" is, well, Rhea herself!

She's the Prophet who can perform miracles, totes call a giant divine beast to help her and is assisted by Saintly people who can perform the same miracles (and also maybe call giant divine beasts on their own?). The CoS has a lot of followers in Southern Fodlan, hell Enbarr is picked as the capital of the Empire because of Seiros' presence.

"300 devout randoms aren't the same as 300 soldiers and the CoS has no land to offer!"

Macuil is the source of magic and brags about it, what if he very relunctantly accepted to teach humans how to use magic, with the first humans he would have picked would have been the ones from the CoS? And we know Cichol's "blessing" makes lands grow more fertile, so while the CoS has no land to offer, the things they can offer are of a different worth.

Sure they're no 300 soldiers, but they bring mages and can create magic users + use magic/stuff to help Adrestia grow, as in, getting more food, healing and what not.

Add to that cocktail half-nab!Lycaon?

Like, there's a kid hanging out with the Saints - who looks like them - and is basically raised by them and hangs out with them, ages maybe as slowly as the Emperor, and is close to Seiros herself.

If there are any doubts about Lycaon's mom in the modern times, in this AU there would be none! Assuming Willy recognises him as his own, well, between heir X born out of an alliance to secure 50k soldiers to get the entire southern peninsula, and Jesus' son...

(hell even if Willy doesn't recognise him, he could still adopt him later on?)

Even if Lycaon isn't officialy in the race for the throne - by his sheer existence, he is a serious contestant, and all the more if the "human" heirs age as humans do, as opposed to Willy, Lycaon and the Saints.

Meritocracy happening means the young (?), martially talented, wise and fair (it might be a joke, but adrestians of old were lusting after nabateans in their stories/poems/songs...) Prince Lycaon has no competition for the throne, and it's not an alliance contracted 90 or 40 years ago that will be enough to push the claim of Prince/ss X over Lycaon's for the throne...

So the only solution to get rid of him is to push him down some stairs, and hope his death will be "natural" enough that people will believe he died of an illness - or maybe enlisting the help of some strange people wearing hoods and being really pale who promised to get rid of "this beast".

But I can't write/finish fics for shit lol, so i'm just throwing stuff here and there.