#IF YOU SAW ME RB ON THE WRONG BLOG YOU DID NOT

[doomedcousins]

1 naturally. of course

2 i think she likes to watch ants and while she watches ants she likes to think about hurting people

if anyones curious aboit my oc i would love to answer asks please send me asks about mmy oc. i love smallpaw

[floweryfandomnerd]

I love finding random OPs of posts on my dash have me blocked because I clicked on them by accident

[skittlespizza]

HALF LIFE TUMBLR SIMULATOR:

🌐 breenofficial follow

This is your daily reminder that we do in fact see your internet history. Please refrain from looking things up such as "breen leaked feet pics". Thank you.

🗨 combineofficial follow

To add on: please stop looking up "Metrocop x Reader", thank you.

🪄 c17-mp2901 follow

whoever keeps stealing my rations from the breakroom owes me AT LEAST six days worth at this point.

📀 c17-mp183729 follow

Its happening to you too, 2901? I thought it was just me...

🔆 c17-mp89388 follow

This is a reminder that we work hard for our rations and it's kinda fucked up to steal people's hard work... idk if its just me but why is it normalized to make fun of Civil Protection?? We're just doing out job.

@combinefeedback can you fix this??

💠 combinefeedback follow

Hello! Please email us at combinecomplaints@theoverwatch11.com to submit a formal complaint.

🍻 bcalhoun follow

Lol

🛡 the-resistance follow

Double agent of the week has been announced! Special thanks to @ bcalhoun for his hard work. He has reportedly stolen weeks worth of rations from the City 17, District 6 breakroom, thoroughly demotivating the metrocops :).

🟠 gfreeman-fan follow

Looking for a roleplay partner! I'd be roleplaying my BlackMesa!OC, Jamie. I'm okay roleplaying with BlackMesa!Ocs or Gordon Freeman. Breen roleplayers please do not interact!

🩵 breen-defender follow

What's wrong with breen?? /gen

🟠 gfreeman-fan follow

What do you mean what's wrong with breen?? U literally support... ☹️☹️ blocked and reported.

🛡 the-resistance follow

Gordon Freeman fanart drawn by @gfreemanlefttoe!

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🔬 eye-kleiner follow

Wow! 😍 Most Accurate Drawing I've Seen Yet! Amazing Work, gfreemanlefttoe!

🪼 justice4cremators follow

THE FUCKING USERNAME I CANT.

🍻 bcalhoun follow

As someone who knew Gordon before all this... kinda wild ngl.

⚓️ a-d-vanced follow

My dad literally worked with Gordon I can't imagine how he feels knowing gfreemanlefttoe is a real username.

🔭 elivance388 follow

It's funny asf.

🪨 lazlo-greatest-mind-of-our-generation follow

DNI: Breen defenders (wtf is wrong with you), Gordon Freeman x Breen Shippers 😭😭, Resistance snitches, if you work with the combine AT ALL (THIS IS MY BLOG OKAY??), antlions, if you own any headcrabs as pets. They're literally exotic creatures wtf is wrong with you..

⚓️ a-d-vanced follow

[dog_picture.jpg]

Here's a selfie with my pet dog!

🚫 alyxvancehateblog follow

I literally saw him attack a combine soldier yesterday...

⚓️ a-d-vanced follow

And???

🚫 alyxvancehateblog follow

Kinda weird ngl...

⚓️ a-d-vanced follow

Ermmm in literally neurodivergent and a minor 🤓

📘 real-history-facts follow

Today, 10 years ago, the Resonance Cascade happened!

🧠 brmy-md follow

Who remembers x files... 😭😭

☢️ stalkerk follow

Rb with what you miss most about pre combine life

🎶 dmmeformusic follow

Predictably, music...

🎁 cindyc follow

Holidays...

🐱 catlover2882777 follow

Cats@

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🍻 bcalhoun follow

WHICH MUTUAL REBLOGGED THIS I HAVE ALL CAT TAGS BLOCKED PLEASE TAG YOUR CAT PICTURES. JESUS CHRIST.

🔭 elivance388 follow

WHO FUCKING DID THIS.

🫐 ocubbage follow

hehe

⚓️ a-d-vanced follow

CUBBAGE??? WHAT???

🌐 breen-grub follow

Username change. Gfhhhh 👍

🍻 bcalhoun follow

Who hacked breen again?

🥬 cgreen follow

Lmao

🗨 combineofficial follow

PLEASE STOP WRITING BREEN X METROCOP STORIES. THANK YOU.

[lovediives]

eyeballs emoji for um EVERYONEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nat.

well. i guess this is gonna be a TWO PARTER THAT ILL HAVE TO RB TO SPLIT UP!!

i love fanservice. genuinely but only if its a man who is old. LIKE GENUINELY WHAT IS THE POINT OF HIM BEING SHIRTLESS? (its for me)

guys dont judge me for being insane. but the game literally rewired my brain and the way he looks here. well okay. shut up. maybe im the problem. but like hes so scrunkly. cute. i want him. here

nao better then me. i would have pulled down his pants and showed him a real your turn to sh- sorry.

the way he looks here is just genuinely so pretty. like i wanna kiss him so BADDDD I HATEE HIM SO MUCCHHH. LIKE THE LOOK OF SURPRISE. THE WAY THE LIGHT SHINES ON HIS FACE. i wish i was immune to men with pretty lashes.

oomfie you know i dont have much to work here. but do you remember when i was in call watching this scene and it made me look gay as fuck? this is why this screenshot is here. reminds me just of that.

dont look at me. i dont. i dont know what to say. like i hate how stupid his grin is like hes so smug about it to. like do you have any common decency. aieeeee

BYE THIS IS SO FUNNY. strangely enough he does not make me wanna kick him like a puppy. i think he genuinely looks very sweet here and i like to drink tea with him and smile :)

this post is getting so long. but know that when i saw THIS i knew that was bae. this was pookie and she was going to stick around for a LONG LONG TIME (shes still holding on STRONG) god i love how he hair makes it looks like tails. the way she holds herself. everything about it. A MOTHERS SLAY!!!!!

tweaks. you just had to be here. when i see this. its like the angels above came down above to tell me that i deserve nothing but joy and happiness LIKE WIFEY WANTED TO SEE ME AND WAVE AT ME!!!!!! i lauve u princess i lauveeee u. shes so cute here. i wanna twirl my fingers in her hair and giggle and laugh with her. and then she picks me up and (woah lets pump the breaks there)

you IDIOT FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE GOING TO FALL IN THE WATER. but youre so cute about it like what you trying to impress me or smth <3 cause its working. like eek a boat ride with him could save my life. his little quote that comes after it. like he knows what hes doing and he knows its working.

i say this from the bottom of my heart. if they gave him top surgery scars here and confirmed him to be trans. he'd be top there. something about him is so f/o core and gender at the same time. like hes so cute. plus he looks like kaira. which makes him a bit hotter.

this is where the clones would go but theres four of them SO WE'LL ADD THEM AT PART TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

i know i posted this already but dear lord this is literally rotting my brain in real time. i unironically need him.

the pose here is just funny. like let it go old man. youre no longer hip with the kids. (but i love how smug he looks here like what the fuck is wrong with you <3 youre about to LOSE)

NO COMMENT NO COMMENT NO COMMENT NO COMMENT NO COMMENT this blog is for EVERYOEN (18 and up only) but i am FUCKING CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!

the little wave here is really cute.. eek. ignore the blood and the knife. but it makes him so playful and funny. like can we frolic in the fields my love

Bro TAG ME IN!!!!!! TAG ME IN!!!!!!!!!! when i was born i did not ever think i would ever wish i was a key. and yet HERE THE FUCK WE ARE!! she looks so cute here and its so weird. i love her tired little eyes and fucked up smile.

i think im at a point where i just am tweaking but idk hes kinda hot. like do you guys see what i see? no? can you lie and agree with me anyway?

THIS LONG ASS POST........ IS ABOUT TO GET LONGER IN PART TWO!!!!!!!!!!!! HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON OOMFIES!!!!!!!!!!

[accidentalblaseballreference]

this is on megan ito's grave stone

req'd by @rubyrevenger

welp unfortunate.

can we loot the body?

text: ohh he sploded

[wyllyoumarryme]

sending this as an ask instead of a reply just in case 🤞🤞

the post about being shadowbanned is on my dash! idk how exactly shadowbans work, but the other day when you had responded to my one post, I had had tumblr notifs and saw notes on the post, but it didn't show me anything. only reason I ever saw your response was bc it showed up while scrolling! also, coming to your blog, last post was a rb from 4 days ago, but it doesnt show who the rb was from??? it seems super weird, I hope it all gets fixed soon :(

I see this thank you!! Yeah its super weird :(( I don’t know what I did or how I messed up. Hopefully support will respond because Ive not gotten a single email that anything was wrong with my blogs.

[sapphire-weapon]

Whenever I see you having an exchange with another blog all I can think of is why do you do that to yourself lmao… when a blog is brave enough to directly reblog you and start shit it means they feel confident enough in their clique to back them up (even if they’re wrong) and boom you gained five hostiles… I’d just ignore their asses… they’re literally ganging up on you like it’s hs.

As far as I can tell, no one came to this person's rescue. But either way.

I'm a bad role model in fandom. I don't practice what I preach. I tell you guys to just block and ignore people, but something like this happens, and...

I don't always respond. If someone RBs one of my posts and disagrees with it in a very mild way, I normally just let it go unless it's something like when that person took a meta post of mine and used it to go off on an unhinged rant about how Leon is a misogynist -- and I only responded to them because I did NOT want my words misconstrued like that and I didn't want people to think that that's what I was trying to say.

And I was going to just let this one go, too, but when I saw them post a piece of concept art where Leon had brown hair and said "he's blonde here" I just.

I saw that and I just kind of looked at the screen helplessly and went "Oh, no. That's objectively funny." And I couldn't not just paste the colors back at them. And they got so mad. And then it got even funnier.

It's like when that weird friends group decided to get all asshurt at me for calling Leon old, and then I dug through their blogs and found out that they were all women older than me with blogs that were filled with nothing but posts and reblogs calling 27-year-old Leon "Daddy" and I pointed it out and they all IMMEDIATELY blocked me.

That was my favorite thing.

I'M JUST A PERSON

I HAVE WEAKNESSES

I WORK IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY, I'M USED TO SHINING SPOTLIGHTS ON CLOWNS FOR THE SAKE OF JOY AND LAUGHTER AND SCHADENFREUDE, I CAN'T HELP IT

I would love to have someone reblog one of my posts and give a comprehensive rebuttal to it with reasoning backed up by evidence from the canon and not just "Capcom said/Capcom never said" and/or "I'll just interpret it how I want w/e" but in the time that I've been posting about RE since 4make came out...

it has only happened once.

Unfortunately, the conversation never went anywhere, but I would LOVE to have more in depth, nuanced conversations about interpretations of dialogue and theming and imagery.

But all I ever get instead are dopes who don't know what the color brown is or think that an ad for an Airsoft gun is canon. So if that's all I'm gonna get, I'm at least gonna make it funny.

[shittydrawnsollux]

TA: whyyare you apologizing kk you 22tupiid fuck.

TA: ii dotn care iit doe2nt hrut that bad ed cant egt me that ea2iily.

TA: ii dont wanna get anythiign el2e ii ju2t want you.

CG: SOLLUX, YOU OKAY? WELL I MEAN LIKE, OBVIOUSLY NOT BUT. YKNOW WHAT I MEAN? LIKE DO YOU NEED ME TO GET YOU ANYTHING?

( @awfullydrawnkarkat )

TA: ughhfnbjfbnjbibrbn kk eveyroen keep2 telliifn me two kii22 people wnd iigot iin hte clo2e wiith ed and ii ju2t. ugh!!!!

TA: iim tiirreedddd and my head2 two fuzzy two care riigth now btu can tou liike get over here 2oon.

TA: ii mii22 you.

[bywons]

didn't you reblog copyhanni's callout post saying thank you and all too huh the switch up is crazy i mean good for you if you've learnt from this but :/ no hate but i saw a user make a reblog about how wrong this was and apologized and made it clear but you or even some other people just switched sides so efficiently it's a bit disappointing? i know you mean good but this all is rubbing me off the wrong way

anyway sru i really mean no hate just wanted to get this off i wish you a good day ahead

hey anon,, ur v right i did! it was the first thing i saw in the morning, it was tagged as important too. but back then i didn't read anything from the post, all info i could gather was that maybe someone was insecure of their age in the platform and wanted adult blogs to stay away from them, i rbed that post cuz sometime in th future my blog can have suggestive things too.

but then i actually read the whole matter, saw the ss and stuff and understood my interpretation was wrong. i was on no side from the beginning, i only support what's right, it's just that i failed to read the copyhannis post and reblogged it right away cause i thought it was important like that, if i see i'm tagged in any imp post on my moots blog i rb it right away!

i get it anon, i hope i could make myself clear!

[4giorno]

i finished this drawing i started a while ago, trying to figure out how i imagine danny to look

[artemiseamoon]

PSA

Okay, so everyone gather around, we need to talk about something, well a lot of things. I sat on this a while and was just not sure if I wanted to post this or just deal with it in private. Multiple topics under the cut.

As we know, interaction is terrible on this site now and 90% of people are using it like instagram or twitter. scroll, like, scroll, like. For the love of god, this is tumblr, not instagram or twitter. Please, if you are new here, keep this hellshit enjoyable and listen to creators and other users when we offer suggestions.

New here? read this | and this

Now the topic of reblogs. YES there are some creators who don't care about this and love to shout "no one owes you anything" and everyone is entitled to their options and feelings. That being said, there are many creators who DO CARE about this, me included.

There are many creators who are negatively affected by shitty and no interaction. We love what we do, so will we still do it without you? yes. But we chose to share here because we like sharing, we also like the interaction, we like the community. We do write for ourselves, and because we love it ( so please stop saying that as a generic response when a creator is venting, even if you mean well, it's still not helpful).

We are sharing works FOR FREE with the public and there is nothing wrong with wanting some interaction and reblogs, it's nice, it's a sign of appreciation, for some it boosts our morale as we offer up our babies for public viewing. I know for me, I have been very impacted by the way people use this site now, it sucks, it depresses me. Will it make me stop writing? Never. Will it make me consider keeping my work private at some point and just write in my own little corner of the world where my work is no longer free to view, yeah maybe. This place used to be so inspiring, and that is gone. Sure, some will disagree and that's okay. My blog, my option, my post.

So, when creators are like " hey it would be nice if you reblogged or interacted" it is not us begging, it is not us being babies, it's not us being ungrateful, it is not us disregarding shy or anon readers, its not us saying “wah you owe me!” - its us asking for something that is a great gesture of appreciation for the content you consume, FOR FREE. We are not asking for payout or to praise us, just show some signs of life people. That like button is in the same place at the reblog one, use it. Don't want to mess up your page aesthetic? Well you could make a reblog account. Those are great. I have two of them to support writers.

Am i saying you should reblog everything, no. So don't even bring that up. Reblog what you like. Help it get seen. Likes do NOTHING on tumblr aside from say "hey cool" or “liked this” and there is nothing wrong with that, just if you want to step up your game, reblog it, comment, interact. Have you ever seen a fic on your dash, one someone else shared and loved it? Well, do you know how you saw it? because someone reblogged it. A like did not do that. reblogs = exposure and fic circulation. The fic/gif set/art lives on in a bigger orbit!

Addition: reblog accounts are a thing! Many people do them. It’s an easy way you can keep your page however you want, but still reblog (means share, circulate) the original authors work. You do this by making a Sideblog and can dedicate that to reblogs only. I do that too! I have more than one RB account that is only dedicated to sharing other ppls work.

Now, the next topic...Updates

In the last month I have received lots of messages like "when is so and so being updated" "are you finishing ____" but on these same works, as I'm busting my ass, no one comments, no one reblogs and there's like 4 likes. Many of these messages don't even start with a greeting either.

Sooooo if readers are so ardent to see something, if you are actually reading it, if you want to support the author, how about showing some signs of life? Even if you just go anon and throw a bunch of emojis in their mailbox, that's good too! You can stay anon and be like " hey i really am enjoying that fic" - trust me, you will make the author smile.

One of the issues with this liking only thing is we can't tell if our work is actually being read or valued. And it sucks. Honestly, I don't look at my notifications for likes anymore, I don't. It's discouraging and it feels like no one is reading anything, just blankly liking it as if this was instagram or twitter. Could I be wrong? Sure. Of course. I mean I like stuff to find it later in the day so we have systems right? But this is just me venting on my own page so I'm holding the mic...

All of this is to say, don't demand updates from creators. If you like something, great. If you are excited, great. We love it! I love a well intentioned message from someone excited for an update. Tone matters, don't be a dick, don't be entitled, don't be rude. A creator is sharing their work with you FOR FREE, shit if they want to take 5 months to update, let them take 5 months. if they want to drop it for now and write in a totally new fandom for a bit, let them live.

So, do we love your excitement for updates? YES. But don't be a dick about it, don't demand it. And when said work is posted, how about you hit that reblog button or leave a comment or send some keyboard smashing excitement to their mailbox as a "yay its here, thank you creator"

Now, minors and sketchy looking blank accounts…

We are tired. I AM TIRED. I have never in my life had to do so much followers-list maintenance and I took a break because that shit is exhausting. Please, if you are a minor, do not follow adult blogs, stop ignoring our warnings. if you are a blank blog, take some time to not have a sketchy looking blog. More on this topic in this post.

Next…Complaining how there is no new content

YES there is! Some of you only read works by big blogs and only read their work on certain characters. So no, you can't complain there is nothing new for you to read. Many people do not give other writers a chance and only go to 1-3 blogs as the “be all end all” for a fandom or said characters. There is nothing wrong with favorites. That’s not what I’m taking about here. Branch out, there are so many writers, so many creatives, so many stories. The big and popular blogs are not the only ones who have stories to tell and share. Give other people a damn chance.

Okay, that's all I have to say. If anyone is sick of hearing about any of this, I don’t care. You can filter it out or unfollow. All this needs to be said, so I said it. Not just for me, but for all the creators who are frustrated. And trust me, many, if not most are. Some have left already for the above reasons, plus other reasons. This place could end up without content, slowly, eventually if creators continue to leave. So many have already.

Another topic is inner fandom drama but I’m not gonna touch that. Just be kind to each other, don’t be an asshole. Try to keep these spaces enjoyable. For many of us, this is out little escape.

Arte

Writing round up / hiatus news

[beforus-against-real-justice]

oh iii love beforus culliiing!!! because iii'm flushed for my culler!!! other than that iiit's weiiird and iii don't liiike iiit!!!

iii love buckets and paiiiliiing my culler!!!

[fandom-space-princess]

I posted 1,887 times in 2022

That's 288 more posts than 2021!

194 posts created (10%)

1,693 posts reblogged (90%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@synesindri

@tuometarr

@godsprettiestprincess

@midamdotlivejournaldotcom

@quicksilver-castiel

I tagged 1,871 of my posts in 2022

Only 1% of my posts had no tags

#q - 1,416 posts

#spn - 789 posts

#art - 729 posts

#midam - 142 posts

#sam winchester - 119 posts

#fsp speaks - 108 posts

#gabriel - 86 posts

#lucifer - 74 posts

#michael - 66 posts

#dragon age - 62 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#there is nothing that says 'i am trapped in a narrative which has circumscribed me in every way possible and from which there is no escape'

I sent 5 gifts in 2022

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I will remember the first time you kissed me—you apologized—you said, I am sorry, destroy me as I am, but I want to kiss you before I am killed, and I said to you why, and you said, because I have only once met someone so utterly willing to burn for what they believed in, and I loved him on sight, and the first time I died I asked of him what I now ask of you

I kissed you and later I would kiss him too before I understood what you were, and all three of us lived to regret it—but when I am in Heaven I will remember your mouth, and when you roast down in Hell I think you will remember mine

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

112 notes - Posted March 19, 2022

#4

Periodic reminder that it is possible (and important) to treat other people in fandom with respect. Even when they interact with works of fiction differently than you do. Even when they feel differently about your favorite characters and stories than you do.

128 notes - Posted July 8, 2022

#3

crown prince of heaven

206 notes - Posted March 11, 2022

#2

yeah, no, I totally saw her at the devil's sacrament. it was very nice actually. nothing like a community event to really bring people together 🥰

263 notes - Posted June 17, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

For your amusement, may I present: my first-ever uquiz. Let me assess your place in the universe and assign you an x-coded y-girl ism, archangels edition.

(If you take it, please rb and tell me how I did, whether I got you all wrong, etc etc. I want to hear your thoughts!)

329 notes - Posted February 5, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

[dazzling-dollyz]

Ugh, great. Tumblr is making me sad now too lol.

I knew there were terfs and radfems, but I didn't expect there to be SO MANY. You just see transmeds, radfems and terfs literally on NEARLY EVERY POST trans women will talk about their experiences, even if it has NOTHING TO DO with them, even if they're asked to not interact.

I straight up saw and had to block a bunch of radfems and terfs on here calling a nonbinary person a NARCISSIST just for talking about their experience exploring their gender identity over the years, and saying they just "wanted to be special". ????

Then I saw them dunking on another trans woman who was talking about this phenomenon transphobes often do where they project their feelings of cis men onto trans women (which I think was worded very well and it helped me really understand why a lot of transphobia occurs, and I'm super thankful she could explain it in a way that made sense), and all the comments were misgendering her and calling her crazy and delusional, and acting like she was forcing them to be into her when literally all she was saying was just "don't lump us in with how you feel about cis men cuz we're not the same and not even all trans women experience sex the same way". She never, at any point, demanded you be into her, she just asked to not be treated with disrespect. And I don't understand how all these radfems act like they get to tell her she's wrong when, hello, you're not trans? She is?? She knows the trans experience and other trans people? Who are you to act like you get to police that?

It just makes me really fuckin depressed and anxious, especially thinking about all my trans friends and my partner who probably have to deal with disgusting people like this, whether they're transfem, transmasc, non binary, etc. Radfems don't care - they just want a reason to hate on someone and use them as scapegoats and it sucks. It fucking sucks.

They even tried to speak for bi women when it's like? No?? I'm a bi woman and I'm not a transphobic jerk?? As someone who's a bi girl and is also afraid of most men to an extent, I'm not going to use my past trauma in order to be hateful because 1.) That's a shitty thing to do, 2.) Even if my nb partner had a dick i would still love them all the same bscause they are kind, caring, and listen so much better than anyone else I've been with, 3.) You're not going to solve misogyny with even more misogyny and bigotry.It makes me so fucking afraid even if I'm a cis woman because, damnit, I just want my fucking friends to be happy without hateful people like this.

Hell, I even saw them accusing CIS WOMEN of "not being real women" when they didn't approve of them. I saw some blogs rb some shit like " 'some women don't produce eggs--' are you sure they're real women?" And that just made my fucking blood boil. Because it just fucking PROVES they don't care about women. If they did they would understand plenty of cis women want kids, plenty of them want families but can't have them, plenty of disabled women aren't able to produce eggs due to their illnesses, plenty of women from other ethnicities like Hispanic women might have features they consider masculine like more visible body hair (something that, as a Hispanic woman, made me feel very icky and gross until I accepted body hair was not a gendered thing, no matter how much society pushed it to me as one.)

And I will never, ever understand how you would push these stupid expectations on women everyone, trans and cis alike, when you know damn well how fuckin hard and painful it is to constantly be forced to meet society's standards. If you REALLY want "liberation", why are you oppressing people even further? If you really want equality, why are you beating people down? Why are you forcing us all to fit in boxes?

They act like they're so woke and big brained to hate on trans people like this but really, they're just hateful and contributing to the hate non-men everywhere have had to endure for ages just for not being men. And I will never, ever accept someone that does things like that as a feminist.

You are NOT a feminist if your activism is limited only to women you personally like and approve of.

[northerngoshawk]

I posted 1,561 times in 2022

That's 827 more posts than 2021!

226 posts created (14%)

1,335 posts reblogged (86%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@northerngoshawk

@chocomd

@flameohotwife

@itsmoonpeaches

@thinkingisadangerouspastime

I tagged 1,380 of my posts in 2022

Only 12% of my posts had no tags

#self rb - 348 posts

#that's my queue - 197 posts

#northern answers - 131 posts

#northern asks - 102 posts

#flameohotwife - 97 posts

#chocomd - 86 posts

#northern speaks - 84 posts

#aang - 61 posts

#itsmoonpeaches - 59 posts

#that's my q - 57 posts

Longest Tag: 135 characters

#but it must be amazing to be able to write a fic that changes so many people's minds about a character and/or fill a hole in the fandom

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

where we’re meant to be

Rating: T

Word Count: 1.6k

Summary: Katara and Aang were captured. They escape, and this is how they did it. Complete with fluff. Rated T due to implied violence/torture. Oneshot.

She flinched as a wave of heat rippled through the air, searing her skin. She could hear the raging inferno racing towards them from behind, and in the corner of her eye she could just make out flames licking the walls. When she inhaled, she got a lungful of hot air and smoke and coughed, the raggedness grating heavily in her chest. Over the roaring fire, she could just make out the shouts of the guards as they scrambled to find their missing prisoners.

Keep going, she told herself. Don't stop. Don't let them catch you.

(don't let them take him)

Her breaths came in short, harsh pants as she hauled the unconscious form alongside her. His head flopped like a doll's with every jerking step she took, his body limp and heavy, warmth dribbling from his skin onto hers. If she didn't hear the ragged inhales right next to her ear, didn't feel the puffs of breath that stirred against her skin, she would've thought he was dead.

(he almost did die)

Don't think about it. Don't think. Just go.

Read more on AO3 or FFN

41 notes - Posted May 14, 2022

#4

see the sky and sea (and remember me)

V. soul (灵魂)

Story Summary: Sixteen-year-old Katara was about to partake in the most important ceremony of her life: a rite of passage through the human world as a dolphin. But then everything goes horribly wrong, and a boy sacrifices himself to save her. She brings him back to life with magic, but at costs not even she could've imagined. AU based upon the movie 大鱼海棠. Multi-chapter.  

Chapter Summary:

Just as Adlartok, Katara, and Sokka were growing in their own ways, so too were the storms plaguing the land. Downpours that once rarely lasted past two days could sustain themselves for weeks at a time. The rolling thunder booming overhead increased in intensity, and the roiling storm clouds had darkened to a near black that worried even the White Lotus. During one such stormy day, Katara had dashed towards her room after an onslaught of freezing rain disrupted practice with her mom. Automatically, she went for the spot where she usually Adlartok: a niche she carved out herself, placed down on the ground and behind the door so that when someone walked in, it would hide him. She got to her hands and knees and eagerly pulled out the bucket. But when she peered into it, all she saw was water. No. Panic slammed into her chest, knocking the air from her lungs. No. - When Adlartok goes missing, Katara and Sokka embark on a rescue mission.

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52 notes - Posted July 23, 2022

#3

The screenshots are real though so yeah if y’all are gonna go defending a liar then wow

Tell you and that artist you reblogged from- if Ian was “Federally Unrecognized” then how could the live action cast him without knowing and thinking he wasn’t indigenous? He lied ok

61 notes - Posted January 17, 2022

#2

Aang-centric & Katara-centric Fic Masterpost

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147 notes - Posted February 2, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Let’s talk about Katara.

Let’s talk about Katara, who had been born to a culture already decimated by the war and bloodshed and violence, who had been born the last waterbender of the Southern Water Tribe because the Fire Nation took them all.

Let’s talk about Katara, who had to watch her mother die to protect her, who had to watch her father leave with every man left in the tribe - and with him, many of those who were keeping the Southern Water Tribe’s cultures and traditions alive.

Let’s talk about Katara, who had to watch her own brother become obsessed with surviving and fighting, who pushed again and again and again to teach the younger children how to fight, until all that the tribe’s culture became is fighting and surviving.

Let’s talk about Katara, who had forgotten (and how everyone had forgotten) what it means to have fun until Aang arrives (“Don't you see? Aang's brought us something we haven't had in a long time: fun.”) because the war took that from her and her tribe and all they remember is how to fight and survive.

709 notes - Posted June 2, 2022

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LOL I’ve noticed that too! Not trying to call anyone out, but I saw a post where someone was calling out our first go-around for giving him the title of “oblivious protagonist” and I saw someone rb with “no it’s just the time loop making him smarter!” …….that’s…ok. I understand it was probably a joke, but still.

I fully acknowledge I saw Jonathan as a clueless protagonist the first time around when I read Dracula back in 2022. That was my bad, I started Dracula Daily late so I skimmed the first part of the book and didn’t really absorb him as a character with genre awareness. I look back at most of my first posts with shame because of that. Don’t get me wrong, I still saw him as a character with a ton of personality and smarts, I just couldn’t fathom *why he was there* (for his job, Nova) or why he didn’t read the warning signs (he says goodbye to Mina on day two, Nova!!!!!!!).

I’d like to consider myself someone with good reading comprehension skills, but to be fair to me and the rest of us, there is a lot to absorb in Dracula. It’s not exactly a “light read”, at least I don’t think so. It is a book that deserves several rereads. I’m glad we do something like Dracula Daily so we *can* go back and be like “hey so Jonathan actually does know what kind of book he’s in and we kind of mischaracterized him the first time we read Dracula Daily.”

I think we got so absorbed in “queer paprika dreams” and “lizard fashion” that we didn’t fullu appreciate Jonathan’s smarts and honestly, why would we? In 99.9% of horror movies/books, the main characters are, at best, suspicious there’s something wrong and, at worst, completely oblivious. Jonathan himself is portrayed as such in every Dracula adaptation ever, if they bother to give him enough of a personality. I know I projected that “horror protagonist is oblivious to what’s around him” onto him, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what happened. There’s also the mob mentality. If one person makes a funny meme…

And I’m not saying everyone read him this way. In fact, I’m sure there’s plenty of people who read him the way he is and either didn’t blog about it, or we didn’t listen because we got swept up in the funny memes about him being oblivious. So shoutout to anyone who did that, sorry you weren’t heard!

I think part of the reason why some want to blame it on the time loop is because you know who else misread Jonathan Harker? Movie producers who make Dracula adaptations. They too probably read the book once, didn’t get Jonathan’s character at all (read: less than us), and made him into what we have today. So I can understand wanting to distance myself from that.

In case it’s not coming across correctly, here’s what I’m not saying:

People who make time loop memes are bad (they are quite funny when done right, to me at least)

People who mischaracterized Jonathan are bad (I was literally one of them!!! And I still come across people who do so, usually first-time readers. Almost like there’s a pattern…….)

Movie producers are bad (they ruined my blorbos but I have hope)

Horror protagonists being oblivious to the horrors around them are bad (usually there’s a good reason for it).

Here’s what I am saying:

Have kindness for yourself and others

Rereads are good!

Spread awareness that Jonathan is Genre-AwareTM

Own up to not reading Jonathan right if you’d like. I don’t think anyone’s going to judge you for it. I won’t!

We may not have gotten everything right about him, but we did better most of the producers!!! We still understood his kind and honest nature. I’d say that’s far and away better than most adaptations can say.

Finally, it’s not fair to our good friend Jonathan Harker to just blame it on the time loop. By saying that, you’re kind of invalidating the way Stoker wrote him. Again, I get it’s a joke and this is a fictional character we’re talking about but…I really don’t know, it just feels important.

Seeing people trying to excuse their past shallow readings and mischaracterization for Dracula with “it’s actually because of the time loop changing things! I was right the first time too!!” as if the time loop posts couldn’t get any more obnoxious……