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Miss Holloway's Story

Summary: This is the story of Miss Holloway and her past, in her own words. You will learn about the history of Hatchetfeild, the Hatchetmen, the Witchwood, the children, the Black Book and the Waylons. You will learn about the sacrifice Miss Holloway made to try and keep everyone else safe

Warning: General Hatchetfeild weirdness and unusual formatting

f̸̗̎o̴̖͐r̵̼͌g̸̝̿e̷͈̅ț̶́ ̷͔̈́f̷̣͝o̸̱̾r̴͍̿g��̰͝e̴͇͆t̷͓͠ ̵͔̎f̵̔ͅo̷̯͋r̴͕̓g̵̼͂e̸̲͆t̷͇̍ ̴͎̓f̶̻͑ö̵̩ṟ̷̛g̷͓̾ẹ̶͆ṫ̶̘ ̸̥̉f̷̛͚o̵͈͝r̵͍͠g̵͉̿ḙ̷̈́t̴̠͒ ̶̯̓f̶͇̅ỏ̸̻r̵̭̅g̸̩̈́e̸̻͝ť̵͙ ̶͖̒f̴͉̉o̸̘̍r̷̨̕g̶̭͗ę̶́ẗ̷̲́ ̵͕̂f̴̨̚o̷̗̿r̵͒ͅg̴͕͝e̸̘͝ṭ̴͠ ̷̹̓f̸̛͜ö̵̡́r̵͖̈́g̴̤̉e̷̛̙t̸̡̅ ̷͍͝f̷͇͝ȏ̵̘r̴͈̿g̶̲͆e̸͍̋t̷̤̽ ̸̹́f̶͎͋o̴̹͛r̶͆ͅĝ̴ͅe̵̺͊t̸̘͒ ̸̜̿f̶̭̐o̵͈̿r̸͓̀g̴̮̒ē̷͉t̸̐ͅ ̴̣̒f̸͖́o̶͕̕r̶͉̒g̴̪̚ȅ̸͓t̸̲͌ ̶̗̈f̶͎̿o̶̼̓ŕ̵͓ǧ̶ͅḙ̸͐t̵̰̿ ̵̃͜f̶̙̿o̴̖͊r̶͇̐g̷̣̍e̸̳̿t̷̜̔ ̶̣̒f̸̖̓ŏ̷ͅr̷̳̿g̵͙͗e̵̩̔t̵̤̔ ̴̤̓f̵̯̿ò̸ͅr̷̦̚ḡ̶̞ḛ̵͝ț̷̄ ̴̢̏ḟ̵͙ȍ̷͖r̶̡̄g̸̭̅e̴̢̔t̵͌͜ ̷̰̾f̵̪͆ỏ̷͎r̵͇̚g̶̗̔e̸̮̔t̸̟̓ ̶̢͗f̵̮̔o̵̙̿r̸͎̅g̸̼̊ḛ̵̾t̶̘͝ ̵̻̅f̵̝͌o̸̲͂ŗ̴́ġ̸̪e̶̟͝t̶͖̄ ̶̟̊f̷͍͊o̶̲͒r̸͍͊g̴̛̲e̴̬̒ṯ̴̈́ ̵̙́f̸̋͜ọ̵͝r̸͉͛ḡ̷̡è̸̠ț̴̊ ̷̥̽f̵̘̋o̷͋ͅr̴̰̍g̸͎̈́e̸̗̓ṱ̷̀ ̸̳͋f̴̫̎o̴͔̕r̶̯͆g̶̺̒e̸͎͝t̵̬͋ ̷̙̋f̸̣̀o̴̢͌r̶͕̓g̴̠̐e̷̤̿t̸͉͝ ̸͖̑f̴̖̋o̸͔̔r̷͕̀g̵̩̓e̷̟̓t̶͈̚ ̷̬̉f̵̪̓o̷̼̚ȑ̵̮g̵͈̉e̷̙̍t̷̟͘ ̴̛̱f̷͍̽o̵̼̓r̷͋͜g̶̺̊e̵̫̽ț̶͝ ̴̢͝f̴͚̆o̷̔ͅŕ̵͉ǧ̶̦e̷̞͝t̵̖̄ ̷̳̅f̵̟̑ỏ̵̜r̸̩͒g̴̩͗e̸̼̋ẗ̷̞́ ̶̔͜f̴͈̐o̴̜̔r̴̻͌g̸̘̃e̶̡̓t̴̏ͅ ̸̮̂f̷͖̽o̵̲̎ŗ̵̂ğ̴̤e̷͖̾ṱ̴͌ ̷̺͝f̸̡̊o̸͖̕r̶̥̕g̸̝̋ě̶͍t̶̪̐ ̶̤͘ḟ̶̬o̶̦̐r̷͇̒g̶͇͌e̴̺͘t̸̙̅ ̷̀͜f̴͂ͅo̴͎̒ṟ̴͒g̸̰͆ě̸̮t̶͔͊ ̷̰͆f̸̨͑o̸͙͝ŕ̷ͅg̷̤͛e̶̤̽t̶͠ͅ ̶͔̀f̶͖͋o̸͖͌r̷̝͠g̷͙̈́ë̷̼́t̸̳͘ ̴͇͆f̶̢̔o̵͈͗r̸̤̕g̵̛͕ḙ̴̽t̴̨̽ ̶̩̄f̷͑͜ö̶̲́r̴̖͂g̴̠̾è̶͔t̶̨̂ ̴̖̕f̶̘́õ̵̬ṙ̸̙g̸̲̑e̵̙̕t̸̘̆ ̴̦̊f̴́ͅơ̴̰r̸̳͊g̴̡̋e̶̛̦ț̵̓ ̶̼̉f̶̼̕o̶̠̿ṛ̸̅g̸͚̓ë̵͙́t̵̬̓ ̵͖̈f̷̨̏ŏ̷̼ṛ̴̅g̸̖̑e̷̘͋t̵̹͂ ̵̤͊f̴̼̏o̶͍͒r̸͓̾g̶̘͛e̸̪̽t̸̢̔ ̶̡͝f̵̳̂ó̵͍r̶̟̀g̴̖͠ë̵͈́t̵͕͗ ̷̹͂f̷̠̎o̶͈̓r̶̘̓g̷̘̅e̴͈̿t̴̟̂ ̸̡̽f̸̣͆ọ̶͒r̸̝̋g̴̭͂e̴̙̐t̶͉͋ ̷͔̇f̸̜̂o̷̢͆ŗ̴͐g̸̤̍e̷̠̍ṫ̷͜ ̷͍͌f̵̢̀ò̴̹r̴̯̾g̸͇͛e̷̦͛t̵͉̽ ̶̼͝f̵̼̌o̵͖͗r̸̝̍g̴͙̈ē̷͈t̷̞̋ ̶̄��f̵̫͒ò̸̢r̶̲͊g̴͕͂e̶̬̐ţ̷͆ ̴̜̇f̵̘͝o̶̫̓r̷͔̐ḡ̵̖e̷͓͒t̸̥̑ ̴͖̑f̸̝̀o̴̫͛r̸͎͠g̶͉͝e̸̗͘t̵̯́ ̸͙̋f̵̳̈́ő̵̙r̷̝̀g̷̡̓ë̴̥́t̶̩̓ ̷̮̕f̵̧̀o̵͆ͅr̷̈́͜g̸̞͛ȅ̴͙t̷̨̉ ̷̜̕f̶͓̀ȏ̵̫r̶̪̉g̶̡̽e̸̟͝t̴̞͘ ̵̗̽f̶̼̎ơ̷͚r̵̓͜g̷͕̈ḙ̷̈t̶͖̂ ̷̗̾f̷̻̄o̸̡̅r̵̗͂g̴͉̀e̴̼͝t̸̳͗ ̶̰̅f̷͇̀o̶͙͊r̸͚̕g̴̠͊e̷̠̾t̵̟͠ ̸̞̍ ̵̰͗g̷͕̎o̸̠͌n̷̥͠e̴̠̽ ̷̳͊g̸̨̕ô̴̖n̷̘̄ẹ̷͋ ̸̙̈́g̸̯͘o̷̗͝n̶̖̋e̷͉̍ ̷̜̏ĝ̴̲o̸̺̐n̷̮͝e̶̺͘ ̵͍̆g̷̥̕o̴̤͂n̸̬͂è̴̬ ̶̡́g̵̛̭o̶͚͗n̷̦͘e̵̥͑ ̴̞͝g̵̪͑ō̸͖n̶͚̎ē̵̯ ̶͍̕g̷̩̋ǫ̸̍n̴̳̊e̴͔̎ ̸͇̔g̴̿ͅọ̴̀n̸̻̊ȩ̷͛ ̵̢͛g̶̀ͅö̷̬n̶̓͜e̵̫̒ ̵͗ͅg̴̹͒o̸͕͝n̴̞͝e̵̗͝ ̷͉̇g̴̫̋ő̶̗ṇ̷̏e̷̜̋ ̸͚̃g̴̗̏õ̷̧n̴̡̿e̶͉̎ ̴̰̅g̷͓̽o̶͔̿n̸̤͒e̵̩̿ ̷͔͛g̴̩͋o̸̤͠n̴̯͠è̸̟ ̵̗͝g̷̹̐ó̴͚n̷̈́͜e̶̘͘ ̸̣̓g̶̹͑o̶͖͋n̸̘͒e̸̗͌ ̷͕̂ĝ̵̙ó̶̭ñ̷͍ë̸͕ ̴̑͜g̶͉̾o̶̙͆ñ̴̪ẹ̴͐ ̵͚̈́g̸̝̒ȍ̴̞ṅ̸͙ë̶̱́ ̶̯̊g̶̟͐o̷̘̔n̸̗̄ȩ̴̽ ̴̨͛g̷̲̽o̴͎̐n̵̲̽e̶͍̚ ̸̦͝g̴̹̚o̷̗̾ṋ̷̃ḛ̵́ ̷̱͘g̷̼̅o̸͔̅n̴̨͝ē̷͍ ̴̱̿g̶̫͂ỏ̷͓n̷̡̈e̴̮͌ ̸̫̇ģ̵͑o̸̜̐n̷̈́͜é̶̪…̶̆͜…̸̣̚…̸̜́…̸͚̆…̵̭̽…̴̹̽…̶̣̚ ̸̟͝l̸̩̎o̴͚͘s̶̩̍t̴͇̄ ̷̯̒l̴̑͜o̵̻͘s̶͙͆t̴̘̊ ̷̍͜l̶͔̾o̸̰͐s̸̬͊t̸͔͐ ̴͎̒l̶̙̋o̷̡̐s̵̠̓ẗ̸̜́ ̶͍̐l̵̛ͅo̶̺̚ŝ̵̻ţ̶͑ ̷̋͜l̵̨̍o̸̗̐s̶̯͝t̶̳́ ̵͍̀l̸̬͛ó̴̗ş̷̛t̴̼̂ ̶̨̔l̷͇̂o̴̲̽s̵͒ͅṱ̵̈́ ̷̡̋l̵̘͘…̵̩͑

It’s okay. I know you won’t remember this. I know you’ll forget again and again and again. But you’ll keep asking because you'll forget that you've forgotten.

̵͖͠b̷͓͐ľ̶̩a̷̜̐n̸̺͆k̵̡͋ ̷͉̚b̵̖͒l̵̲̂a̷̮͝n̵͕̆k̴̮͘ ̸̭͗b̴͓̎l̸̯͆â̸̯n̶͍̄k̴͚͋ ̴͉̓b̴̨̋l̷̪̇a̶͍̿n̵̹̋ḳ̴͊ ̵͎̇b̶̡̂l̵͔̇a̸̯͘n̵̩͝k̵̠͝ ̴͕̍b̵̥̽l̶̬̆a̴͓̽ń̴̗ǩ̴ͅ ̴̫̿b̴͈̆l̵͛ͅa̵̮͑n̷̻͋k̶͔̓ ̴̣̓b̷̯̆l̵͔̋a̸̲͝n̴̻͆k̵̡͋ ̷͍̕b̷̩̿l̷̰̕a̸͋͜n̶̝̈ḳ̷̈ ̵̇ͅb̷̰̆l̵͉̃a̸̙̎ň̴ͅḳ̵͑ ̴͎̎b̷̰͋l̵̜̄ä̶͓́n̴̦̓k̴̼̎ ̷̦͊b̷̦͠l̸̘͘a̶̝̎n̴̻̅k̵͈̿ ̵̖̏b̴̲͠l̷̠̍a̸̺̐n̵̗̎k̴͌ͅ ̸͎̈́b̸̙̈́l̴̘͂a̵͙̕n̶̬͝k̸̾͜ ̸̹̂b̴̰̈l̶͇͐ä̸̟́n̶̤̏k̴̩̉ ̷̻̕b̷̼̕l̴̘͋a̷̮̚n̸͔̍k̷̪̆ ̷͎̑b̸̡͊l̷͙̀ǎ̸̬ń̴̥k̶̦̐ ̵̞̋b̷͈̉ļ̵͝a̸̗͝ń̴̰k̴̼̀ ̸̱͐b̶̻̀l̷̘͛a̴̙͂n̶̟͑k̸͉̀ ̷̢̋b̴̟͐l̶̙̀ȃ̶̹n̶̹͗k̵͙͆ ̶̣͠b̸̜͌l̸͈̋à̷͎ṇ̸́k̴̙͋ ̴̩́b̶͔͊l̷̩̄ą̸̽n̶̺͠k̶̖̓ ̷̲̃ḇ̸̒l̷͖͑ǎ̸͜n̵̲̎k̷̦̋ ̷̱̓b̶̟̾l̵̢̆ȧ̸̧n̶̢͒k̶̞̋ ̴̜̃b̶̖̓l̶͈͋ȧ̵͖ñ̶̹k̷̻̀ ̵̱̃ḅ̸͘ḷ̶̽ả̸̗ń̸͜ḳ̴̅ ̵̟̏b̵̢̕l̷͎̔a̵̠͐ǹ̶̘k̸͖̓ ̶̡̒b̸̖͠l̶͙̋a̴̫͆n̴̠̐k̶̜̏ ̴̫̾b̸̨̽l̷͉̈́a̴̞͌n̷͔̐k̷̠̓ ̴̣̇b̵̖͐l̵̦̾ǎ̵͓n̴̂ͅķ̵̃ ̸̫͆b̷̲̃l̵͕̾a̵͔͛ṇ̵̓k̵̰̽ ̶̠̓b̴̳͒l̴̢̀ā̸̼ņ̶́k̸̺̄ ̷̖̔b̵̢͛l̸͔͊ǎ̴̺n̸̙͘k̵̝̓ ̷̣͌b̸͙͗l̷͓̆ȧ̵͓n̸̜͆k̴̳̓ ̴̳͘b̴̻͑ĺ̷̩a̷͙͠n̵̝͝k̸̮̍ ̴̳̿ḇ̸̎l̶͖̆a̴̬̓ṅ̶̳k̷̗͘ ̴̨̃b̷̪̈́l̸̘̅ā̵͉n̸̫̔k̵̫̇ ̵̪̊b̵̪̆l̴̢̀a̷̳̚n̵͇͠k̴̙̉ ̴̨͋b̸͚̐l̷̼͐ä̵̭n̸͔̔k̶͖͘ ̷͔̿b̸̻̈́l̴̾͜á̵͔n̷̯̓k̴̡͝ ̸̠́b̶̫̉ḽ̷̔a̸̦̽ǹ̶̞k̶̦͐ ̵̻̈́b̸͈̓l̸̮͘a̷̢̍n̸̞̈k̵̪̕ ̶̞̅ḃ̴͇l̶̺̽a̵̦͝n̸̦͐ḱ̶͓ ̴̳́b̷̞̿ḽ̶̈́a̸̠͝n̸̗͝k̴͔͊ ̶̖̽b̷̝͂l̷̼̽ȁ̸̠n̴̹̏k̷̝̋ ̶̝̌b̸̗̃l̵̙̈́a̸͚͋n̶̳̿k̷̭̇ ̵̫̌b̶͙͒l̶̬̈́a̸̝̐n̷̦̑k̴̪̽ ̵̩̃b̵̻̉l̵̑͜ḁ̷̊n̵̗͘k̶̡͝ ̵͖͗b̸͉̋l̶̼̀ȧ̶͍n̴̪͠k̸̬̎ ̵̲͝b̸̞̈l̷̗̏a̵͕͌ń̸̥k̷̘̀ ̸͈̓b̷̝̑l̵̯̀ă̴̻n̴̦̏k̵̟̕ ̷̱͂b̴͔͌l̸̼̐a̸̺̾n̸̰͑ǩ̵̬ ̸̫̔b̵̳̑l̵̥͗a̷̬̋ń̷̪k̸̦̏ ̵̧͘b̴͈͋l̷͉̋a̶̯͛n̴̘̐k̶̥̃ ̵̀͜b̵̲̈l̵̟̈́a̷̓ͅń̵̝k̴̖̅ ̶̼̕b̸̭̿l̸̢̚a̶̼͋n̶͉͘k̸̺̽ ̶̨̔b̵̪͘l̶̖̚a̸̤͆n̷͓̊k̸̙̓ ̷̥̉b̸̬͝l̴̄ͅá̴̬n̸̹̿ķ̶̉ ̶̯̄b̶̦̓ĺ̵̹ȧ̴̫n̷̗͋ǩ̶̩ ̸̰̿b̴̛̯l̷̳͒ȁ̵̻n̵̢̎k̸̝̋ ̷̫͘b̶̩͊l̸͙͐a̵̹͒n̸̳̍ķ̸̋ ̸̝̓b̴͍͆l̴̼̀â̸̱n̴̦̉k̷̪̈́ ̷̰̕b̶̯͆l̴̂͜à̵͙n̵̛̠k̷͕͝ ̷̧̾b̴̳̓l̷̗̑a̴̟͊ṉ̶̂k̶̠͒ ̵̹͐

It’s okay.

̴̡̑ṉ̷̌o̵̩̓t̴͚͊h̶̤͝i̶̯͝n̸͙̕g̷̰͠ ̷̯̔t̵̠̉o̷̩̿ ̴͖̾š̴̟e̴̘͝e̷̦͊ ̷̖̿h̴̯̓e̵̖̔ṛ̴͒e̸̘͊ ̸̧̋y̶̝͝ö̵̠́ũ̴͕ ̴̰͊w̸̖̾ỏ̷͕n̶̮̎’̵̭̐ţ̴̅ ̵̜̈́r̵̦̎e̷͖͠m̸̗̓ẽ̸͔m̴̞͘b̴̗͋e̷͖͊ṙ̷̡ ̵̲̋a̷̩͒n̶͔͝y̴͚͝w̷̮͒ă̶̧ý̵̟

You know me right now, in this moment and that’s enough. You don’t believe the things I’m telling you this time around. Last time you did but then the thing that made you ask was far more extrema. It doesn’t matter that you don’t believe me this time. The times when you do believe, you understand why I had to do it. You accept me every time, even when you don’t believe.

̴̯̚a̴̟͐l̷͉̐l̵͕̐ ̷̲̃g̶̗͛o̵͍̾ṋ̷́ė̵̘ ̴͉͒Å̴̰A̴̼͝A̶̬̐Ā̶̭A̵̻̽Ä̴͚́A̵̟͋Ǎ̴̹A̴͙̎A̴̲͝Á̵̡A̴̭͆A̸͚͒Ä̴̠́A̶̳͗Å̷̰Ă̴ͅȦ̴̩A̷̲̕Ă̶͎A̴͈͒A̷͇͆À̶̲A̷̗͛À̸͚Å̵̠Ả̴̭A̵͚͌À̷͕Ä̵̜́A̴͚͘A̵̪͆A̶̙͂À̵͉A̵͚̅Ȁ̵̝Ạ̵̇Å̸̖A̸̹͝Ä̵͍́A̵̮͊Ȧ̴̠Ã̵͖A̸̤͑A̷̚͜A̷̢͂À̷̯À̴̠Ạ̷̔A̶̡͘Ǎ̵ͅA̷̯̾Á̷͖A̴̹͌A̴̱͒A̵̪̓A̸̗͐Â̶͜A̶̞̕Ã̵͓A̵̧͆A̶̺͘Ǎ̴̠A̷̩͝A̶̯͆A̸̺͛Ạ̶́A̵͇̎A̴̫̋A̴̎͜A̵̧͌A̷̲̕A̴̘͝A̵͓͌Á̶͙A̸̳͒Ḁ̶̒Ȃ̸̖A̶̹͆Á̴̤Ā̸̯A̴̛̰A̵̡̚A̶̛̱A̸̬̅Ḷ̶̅Ȯ̴͖N̸̯͝E̸͖̕L̸̂͜Y̴̗̕-̴̹̿L̵͉͋O̴͎͒N̶̨͋E̶̮̕L̶̙̋Ÿ̵̖́-̵̘͆L̷̦̀Ö̸͖́Ṅ̸͚Ẹ̵̈́L̵͇̆Y̶̙͗A̴̝̔A̷͖̅A̶̱̅A̷̝̎A̷̳͂A̷̪͐A̷̟͊A̸̻̓Á̶̢Ȁ̷ͅA̷̟͌A̷̳͑A̵̞͒A̷̦͒Â̸̖A̷̻̎A̵̠̐Ä̸̻A̵͎͝A̵͂ͅÄ̶̠́Ȧ̶̳Á̶͇A̶̘͝A̴̻̍A̷͔̅A̷̱̓A̴̹͋A̷̯͛A̶͉͊Ä̶̧́A̵̲͒A̵̧̐A̵̖͝A̸̭̔Ä̵̰́Ả̷̹A̸̹̚Ä̷̡A̸̻̅A̶̟̿Ä̶̦́A̴̫̕A̴̟͝Á̵͓Â̷̩A̷̞͌A̸͕͛Ã̷͓A̷̛̘A̴̝̍Ǎ̵͍Á̶̜Ả̶̪Ă̴̼A̷̼͆A̶̬͌Â̵̞Ȧ̶̖Á̸̜A̸̜̕

It’s the sacrifice I had to make.

Ḁ̴͛A̷̛̜A̶̟͑A̷̫̍A̵͎̍Á̶̬Ą̵͌Ǎ̷ͅȦ̵̦Ǎ̶̙Ǎ̴͍A̸̻̅A̴̺͠A̵̓ͅA̴͎̽Å̶̼À̴̳A̴͕̋Á̷͈A̶͓̐Ã̸̤A̴͔̕Â̶̖A̷̟͂A̵̪͝A̶͕̒A̶̯͂A̴͚̓A̴͇͗A̶͚͊Ă̵̗A̵͚͐A̷͕͗A̴̼͐A̴̛̦Ä̵̯́A̵͍̅A̸͝ͅĄ̵͘A̴̩͆A̴̖̋Á̸͚A̷̤͠A̵͙͠A̴̙͆Å̵̼A̷̞̍Ā̴̻Ȁ̶͖Ả̷̦À̵̮Ȁ̷͇A̴͉͊A̷̗͘A̸̯̅A̸̟̽A̷͈̋Ḁ̸̅À̴͓A̶͇̕A̷͒͜Ä̵̳A̵̝̾A̶̠͝A̷̤̎A̷̻̓Â̶̺Ã̷̱A̶̗͋A̴̡̔A̶͇͆Ȧ̴̖A̷͓̍Ą̵̈Ä̸̤́A̴̭̓A̷̼̚Ȁ̸̹A̶͙̅A̴͜͝A̴̾ͅA̵̯͘Å̷̪A̷͉͝A̴̯̓A̵̖̎À̸̘Ȃ̸̙A̶͓̎A̴̗͘Ă̵̫A̵͉͊A̶̟̐A̵̮̋Á̵̪A̸̲͂A̶͕̅Ḁ̸̑A̷͕͐A̷̱͘Ă̸̯A̸̦̔A̵̠͌A̵̙͝A̴̩̍A̷̤̾A̶͎̿A̷̤͆A̵̞͌Á̷̧Ä̸̻́Á̷͔Ā̷̼A̵̪͛A̷͈͒Ạ̸̀Ä̷͉A̴̳͑A̶̧̐A̴̹̽À̴̰A̶̕ͅÄ̸́͜Ả̴̫Ä̴̞Ă̸͇A̷̘̿Ā̸͎Ḁ̵̈́A̵͓͘Ḁ̸͛Ą̵͝A̷̤̔A̸͙̽A̴̗̓A̷͇͐A̶͙̕A̷̩͊Â̴̭Ă̴̳Ã̸͈Ả̷ͅẢ̷̺A̴͈͝A̷̟̋A̴̠̓Ȁ̴̫A̷͕͒Â̴͖A̴̮̍Ȃ̶͙A̷͜͝Á̷̘A̸̙͗Å̵͎A̴̫͝A̷̰͆Å̷̦A̵̧͂Ḁ̴̔A̷͈̓A̸̭̋Â̵̳A̵̬͆A̸̙̚A̶̘͋Ả̸̝A̴̻̽Á̴̢A̷̙͝Á̴̲A̷̢̾A̵͈͝A̶̿ͅÄ̸̻́A̵̦͂Ḁ̸̉A̵̮̒A̷̧͛Â̴̜A̸̜̎Ȁ̷͚Ä̶̦́A̴̦͛Ȧ̷̰A̸̜̔ ̵͑ͅĪ̵̹ ̵̺̚ṉ̶̅e̴͈͌v̵̛̟e̴͇͗r̴͈͝ ̶̩͊s̴̥̏t̸͉͝å̸͙ý̸͎ ̶̢̒d̷͓͗e̶̪͗a̴̪̕d̷̬͌ ̸̼͌T̶̅ͅh̶͍̐ȅ̵̞ ̷̙͌p̶̢͋r̵͎͠i̴̦̽c̷̋͜ȇ̵̞ ̸͈͌w̸̮̽a̶̠̚š̶̬ ̶͖̽h̶̝̕ī̵̳g̸̯̋h̸̺͗ ̴̉��b̸̦̄u̶̗͗t̴̟͘ ̷̜͗İ̴̠ ̵͚̒s̷̩͐ẗ̷͇́i̶͚̾l̸̖̂l̷̩̾ ̵̭̔t̴̼̃h̷͍͑i̴̟̒n̵̙̓k̷̙̑ ̸̹̕i̵̅͜ẗ̶̟́ ̷̱̋w̴̜̾a̶̺̐s̶̰͛ ̶̟̅ŵ̴̰o̶̞͑r̴̥̀t̵̺̚h̵̻̕ ̷͚̚i̵̔ͅt̶̞͑

It was worth it. This world is worth it. You are worth it! I know you’ll forget all this the moment I stop talking but I hope some part of you remember this, ‘you are worth it!’ All the pain, all the loneliness, all the sacrifice; it’s all worth it because you are all worth it.

̴̳̓f̵̫̈o̴̝͌r̷͚̿g̷̙̀ȩ̵͆ẗ̵̩́ ̴̂ͅf̷̰̈o̵̞̚r̸͓̔g̴̝̾ĕ̴̫t̴̨̄ ̶̜͗f̵̯̄ỏ̶͔r̵̼͗ǧ̵̨ḙ̷̓t̸̤̓ ̴̠͌f̴̡͐o̵̻͒r̴̗̃g̵̩̈́e̸̲̔t̷͔̂ ̸̙̿f̶̙̃ő̶̡r̴̡͌g̸͎̃e̷͉̎t̷̖̑ ̶͎̾f̵͈̾ò̶̹r̷̪̀g̴͈̚e̶̞͋t̴͙͗ ̵̬̅f̴͍̕ǫ̸̈́r̶̘̈́ǵ̷̩e̶̡͊t̴̡͠ ̷̙̒f̸̧͝ö̸̗́r̷̜͒g̵̫̓ḙ̴̔t̸͈̋ ̷̄͜f̵̡̓o̵͙̿r̸̩̐g̵̤͛e̷̛͜t̴̞̍ ̸͇͊f̸̜͆o̵̢͝r̵̰͐g̵̢̃ê̸̳ṫ̶̤ ̶̭̊f̴̼̓o̵̹̍ȓ̸̮g̴̩͠ẽ̸̱t̵̟͂ ̷͓͂f̴̣͐o̶͕͋r̴̗̔g̷̲̋ę̶̚t̴̘͆ ̶̙̓f̶̞͝o̵̮͊r̶̩̒g̸͚̿e̴̤͂t̸̲́ ̵̳̍f̷̟͝o̴̬͌r̷̜͂ǵ̴͙e̷̛̜t̴̘̆ ̴͓̚f̸͕͛o̴̩͊r̶͓̈́g̸͚̅e̶͎̅ẗ̵̰́ ̷̣̐f̸̝̽ö̵̞́r̸̪̽g̷̫̅e̶͈͠t̴̥͑ ̸̣͒l̴̉ͅo̸͎͛s̵̭͒t̷̙͑ ̶͔́f̴͖̓ȯ̷̖r̷͈̄ĝ̵̞ȅ̵̟t̵͖͝ ̴͖̈́f̴̰̌o̶͖̍ȑ̷̪g̸̯̏ę̵͠t̴̡̕ ̶̠̃f̸̤̐o̸̖̕r̵̜̾g̷̬͛ë̴͍t̷̡̒ ̶͓̽f̵̪̏o̸͚͋ŕ̵̗g̵̨̀e̴̹͠t̵̼͑ ̵̮͒f̶͍̍ö̴̺r̵̼̋g̴͚̏e̶̦̔t̵̨̀ ̷̭̌f̶͇͐ỏ̵͎r̴̤̓g̵̡̑e̶̢̊ţ̵̉ ̶̲͋f̷̙̕o̶̞̓r̸̭͝g̸̛̣ḙ̴̃t̶͇̚ ̶̞͒f̷̧̓o̴͙̚ṟ̵͆g̵̞͝e̶̳͊t̷͔̊ ̵̩̿f̶̰̏o̷̳͌r̸͚͑g̵̬̈́e̸̱̔t̴͒͜ ̷̰̄f̶̮̈ò̸ͅȓ̷̳g̵̫̎ĕ̶͓t̶͍͆ ̴̥̀f̵̗̈o̷͍̒r̴̼͒ǧ̴̩e̶̐ͅť̵̹ ̸̩̌f̷͔̐o̵̫̔r̴͉̐g̸͇̀e̷͇̐t̷͖́ ̷̖̀f̷̖̊o̴̫̒r̶̆͜g̸̻̈́ḙ̸̀ṯ̵͋ ̸̣̎f̸̃͜ò̷͓r̷͔͝ġ̷̟ę̴͋ẗ̵͈́ ̸̲̈́f̵͝ͅo̷̻͌r̴̖̎g̶̭̽e̷̪̽t̵̰͗ ̸͔̒f̸̳͛o̷̧͗ṙ̴̝g̶͈̈́ë̴͙́t̶͇͝ ̵͙͝f̷̻̐o̴̯̔ŗ̸̄g̸͔͋ẻ̵͚t̵̟̅ ̵̟͐f̷̡̀o̴̞͘r̶͚̿g̵̗̿e̶͉̽ẗ̷͕ ̵̛͇f̶̬̋o̸̹͒ŗ̵͝g̴̬̎e̵͓̿ṭ̵͊ ̸̗̃b̸͕͝l̵͓̚á̸͇n̷̪̓k̷̊͜ ̸̘̕b̸̡̍l̴͈̍a̶̗̋n̷̘̾k̵͙͠ ̴̥̃ḇ̶̍l̴̜͛ả̸̭n̴͎̾ḵ̸̅ ̷̠͒b̴͍̔l̸̲̐a̶̼͘n̴͗ͅk̴̟̃ ̸̪̆b̶̙͝l̴̐͜ǎ̶̟ñ̷̙k̷͕̇ ̷̝͆b̵̞͑l̸̥̐a̶̳͝ǹ̵̤k̴̥̿ ̸̨͑f̷̳͐ȏ̸̜r̷͎͌g̴͓̎e̵͈̐t̴͙̆ ̶̟̿f̸̫̉o̸͚̔r̸̗͝g̶̱͠ê̶̱t̵̲͘ ̵̯̓f̵͔̌o̸̯͐r̴͕̚g̶̰̃e̷̩̚t̴̼̃ ̵̳͌f̸̭̓o̶̱̚r̵̺̃g̶͚̃ë̵̙́t̴̘̅ ̵̞̿f̴̨́o̸̲͗r̸͚̍g̷̡̓ȩ̸̈t̶͇̎ ̷͓̎f̸̭͝o̵̞͝r̷͇̐g̵͚͠ȩ̴̿ṫ̴̼ ̷͖̓f̶̩̀ò̷̘ŕ̸̬g̵̦̍ě̷̲t̴̩̐ ̴̓͜ǵ̴͇ó̸͚n̵̼̎e̶̹̍ ̵̻͘g̶̟̒ọ̶̄n̶̦͋e̵̟͌ ̸͔̈́g̴͚͒o̶̥͗ń̴ͅe̵̽͜ ̵̫̆ǵ̵͈o̷̹̔n̵̗̈ë̶̙́ ̵̼͌f̵̲͝o̵̹̾r̵͙͂g̵͉̿ê̶͎ț̸̿ ̷͉̀f̴̙͠o̷̰̊r̷̮̾ǵ̵͇e̶̝̋t̵͌ͅ ̷̜̕f̶̰̀ơ̴͕r̴͎̒g̸͓͝e̷̛̺t̵̞̅ ̵̼̚f̶̭̍ȏ̵͚r̶̝̈́g̴͚̎ė̵̤t̸̖̀ ̴͍͗f̷̧͝o̵͉̕r̴͎̄g̶̞͐e̸̱̚ẗ̸͓́ ̷̮̑f̸̧̑o̸̲͂ŗ̸̀g̵̰͊è̸͈t̷̘͂ ̴̛̝f̶̙̅ọ̶͒ȑ̵̲g̸̬̑ḛ̶͆t̵̘͠ ̶̪̋f̷͔̀ò̷̺r̸̪̃g̸̝̃ė̴͍t̵̯͝ ̶̭̕ ̷̱̽G̸͇͘O̶͉̔N̸͔͆E̷̺͝

I’ve told you everything now. I’m going to stop talking in a moment and you will forget again. It’s okay, really it is. I’ll always miss this times when you really know me but it okay. You are worth it.

̴̙̏G̴͙͠o̴̤͂ó̷̹d̶̞̽b̵͎̉y̴̞͛è̴̩ ̵̱̏ä̵̟́g̶̭̍a̸͇̒ị̴̈n̶͇̽

… and that’s my story.

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dumb frat boy - TEASER

🌙 starring. Lee Donghyuck x afab!Reader

🔮 preview. “I’d ask what you want me to do to you, but I did some research last night, watched some of that Hentaid shit you were talking about. It’s a lot of bondage, isn’t it, Angel? A lot of… creampies. You’ve got a thing for being held down and filled, huh? I guess…” he lets out a small laugh, “I guess I’m a little shocked, seeing as you’re so sassy with me. Guess you just want someone to put you in your place. What is it you called Johnny? A good daddy dom? I might not always be a dom, but for you, I can make it work.” 

tw/cw. yandere/stalker sub themes, ‘unknown’ caller, he’s horny, mentions of porn/masturbation, weed/alcohol use, unprotected sex, oral (m/f receiving), deep throating, face fucking, nipple pinching/nipple worship, fingering, dirty talk, praise, hyuck has a thick cock, cum/fullness kink, creampie, etc… I pet names: (hers) Angel (his) baby.

👹 rating. 18+ explicit I wc. 9.1k

🍭 aus. uni/frat au, yandere subthemes, Halloween, etc…

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“Burner phone, baby.”

“And what would be the point of getting a burner phone just to call little ol’ me?” you sigh, relaxing against your pillows and pinching the bridge of your nose in annoyance. 

“Why so serious, Angel?”

“Jeeze, dude, if you’re going to do the whole creepy caller before Halloween cliche, at least stick to your character.” You can’t believe he’s quoting Health Ledger’s Joker at you now. “Who are you even trying to be? Ghost Face is so last Halloween, we all know Johnny knocked that shit out of the park. A copycat sequel is just… early 2000’s.”

“Okay, let me drop character for just a second,” the man on the other end of the line sighs, and you giggle at how his voice modulator emphasizes his own exasperation. “Think, horny telephone guy.”

“I wouldn’t call Ghost Face particularly horny, he was just a nerd.”

“I’m not Ghost Face!” he insists. “Scream came out in the mid-nineties, think earlier than that.” 

“What, am I supposed to be some kind of horror movie expert?” you scoff. 

“Fine, I’ll just tell you,” the guy sighs. “Have you seen Black Christmas?”

“Never even heard of it.”

“Fuck,” he curses. “Well, don’t go watch it, it has some cult following but it’s not even one of my favourites- the reason I chose the dude from that movie is because he’s a horny little fuck and calls a sorority house and some shit- and also, don’t look up the second movie, I don’t claim the sequel.” 

“Wow, I love that you chose a character based purely on horniness and not if the movie is even good,” you giggle.

“Well, Johnny took the best slasher caller! What was I supposed to do? Go all ghost child from The Black Phone movie?”

“What’s The Black Phone movie?”

“Ethan Hawke? Horror veteran, who plays the hero author in Sinister, turned bad guy in the 2021 film by the same director?” 

You let out a whistle. “TBH, dude, it sucks Johnny got to Ghostie first last year, because I’d bet money you know more about horror movies than he does.”

“I one hundred percent do!” 

“Okay, so back to the point,” you laugh. “You’re calling me as this horny dude from some Halloween Christmas movie- for what?”

“To talk to you?” he suggests. “To uh… be horny… at you?” 

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Let Free The Curse of Taekwondo: Things you didn't notice #1

Isn't this another K-BL where I'm internally squealing because of every single detail? You bet it is. You can read my other meta/cultural detail/Korean language posts for Love for Love's Sake, Time of Fever, Grey Shelter and Boys be Brave on my pinned post or hashtags^^ (I really need to organize it under one singly hashtag tho...)

I already talked about how impressed I am with the fact that this series has done their preparation job well, with props, settings, language, history etc.

It is about a countryside/small town in Southern province of Korea - because a lot of characters use satoori (southern dialect), almost all of them except for the main two guys. There is also a distinct contrast/conflict between 'fancy Seoul rich guys' looking down on 'Southern town'. Juyoung even was surprised Dohoi doesn't use satoori.

To which, he responded with 'You'll be uncomfortable if I use it". And Juyoung said there are plenty other uncomfortable things around here, beside understanding/listening to everyone using other accent xD Confusing Gaga translation errors, we meet again!

Actually, it's interesting because Dohoi's name is written 이도회 in Korean, which typically would be written as 'Dohoi' but pronounced as 'Dohwe' (think of surname Choi that is actually pronounced as Chwe), yet in the first episode I clearly heard them actually say 'Dohoi', letter by letter. Now I wonder if it's also related to satoori... I wish I could speak it, it sounds so cool tbh.

He actually said 'I'm not in a good condition', meaning his physical form. What do you mean, mood, when was that ever an excuse in sports..?xD

By the way, what is it with boys trying to get closer to other boys by buying them unusual ice cream?:') Okay, garlic sounds more weird than red bean one :D

Also, I tried to find the Hasong town they talked about but failed - maybe because of incorrect transcription or maybe they made up this town based on Uiseong - a small town close to Daegu which is famous for being the most famous garlic town, they produce a lot of it and garlic fame would be seen everywhere - so who knows, I bet they allude to this when Juyoung said 'why can't there be a vanilla garlic ice cream? It's like a collaboration!'

Another thing, I thought the time of this series was somewhere around 1990s-2000s (because I watched a movie in similar setting that was called 1997 year but they still used pagers, now that I think about it). It was also still the time where teachers could use physical punishment on their students, it's heavily highlighted but I don't actually know around what time they stopped... Probably in Seoul, they already were getting rid of it but in small towns it was old-school teaching, which is again why Dohoi tried to tell Joyoung out of it.

I'm not familiar when small laptops and phones appeared in Seoul but I think the series is actually somewhere around 2005-2010! Which would make sense, Juyoung got the 'cool' flip-phone and a laptop with Windows XP (released in 2001) but small town is still far from that, as they use landline house phones to make a call.

He also has mp3 player and as other tumblr folks figured out, he was listening and dancing to Jewelry song released in 2005 :)

And another thing that convinced me about the time era... the final scene!

Do you want to know why at the end of Ep 1 Dohoi smiled and laughed and ran to Juyoung even after so many exhausting days and neverending small miseries and a new loud housemate?

Because Juyoung not only came to pick him up with an umbrella in the acid rain, he also reenacted the famous umbrella scene from the classic romantic K-drama called "Temptation of Wolves" (���대의 유혹) which was released in 2004! To make Dohoi laugh.

(Yes, when Juyoung intentionally put the umbrella down and the camera cut the shot to the framing when the umbrella slowly lifts up, showing smiling Juyoung, I was like 'you did nooooooot' xD)

(last screenshots taken from @heretherebedork post, I'm sorry I am very lazy and cannot take a good screenshot for life :'))

So that was already our very first romantic teasing-implication!

Another cute thing: optimistic Joyoung wrote a diary entry into the fake old Korean "Facebook" (they had Cyworld instead) to share his first selfie with Dohoi:

"[Excited Shin Jjuyoung]" (typing in a popular back then teenage style) "I miss you guys... But here it's nice too hehe ^___^ Come to play with me!! Together with my friend Dohoi too~~!"

Aren't they the cuteestttttt? I mean, this dynamic is not new but I love how unique the setting is. And I can't wait to watch the second episode, I'm waiting and savoring the first one for now but I'm going to make notes about other episodes as well so stay tuned! If you reply/comment in tags, I will put you in my tag list^^

Tag list: @benkaben @pickletrip @troubled-mind

[gothwineaunts]

I tried my best to replicate the post that Tumblr ate earlier.

It’s not as good but you'll get the jist I think. :’)  

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Hi again! I wanted to follow up on my post from yesterday. I’ve been mostly offline since then, and I feel much better now, especially after seeing the thoughtful responses y’all left. Where did you all even come from!? I don’t think I’ve ever posted this account anywhere, haha. But thank you so much. I’m horrendous at taking a damn compliment but I read all the replies and reblogs and I’m just incredibly humbled. You all brought up my mood a lot and highkey made me feel sane again. I’ve been so confused at why everyone in the WEBTOON comments seems to be so mad all the time, it kind of does my head in if I’m being honest.

But please don’t worry about me or Flynn. Or about Nevermore! We’d never change the story to fit what we think the commenters want us to do, for a lot of reasons. The most important of which is. If we had to do that, I think we’d rather just stop making it. What they seem to want is a story we’re not really interested in telling.

Wholesome wlw is a wildly important thing to be able to find if you’re looking for it. That really cannot be overstated. Until very recently, queer characters have been subjected by popular media to a disproportionate amount of anguish and violence. So the concept of seeing two women just, living a safe and fulfilling life together? I get why people want to see that so badly. And there’s so much beautifully written aspirational content for queer audiences out there now, and I’m pleased to death over it. But the thing is, it’s just not what we’re making.

Nevermore was always intended to be a dark gothicky romance with horror elements. Like Wuthering Heights, or Phantom of the Opera. Because those were the stories that always inspired us when we were young. Bloodsoaked stories of melodrama, intrigue, grief, and passion. Those stories would captivate me and get me asking all kinds of questions. Why can’t the Phantom be a beautiful woman? Why does Christine have the agency of a desk lamp? Why can’t sapphics have something cool like this?

So we decided to make it. Nevermore is not a wholesome romance. It doesn’t try to be. The point was never to explore sapphics having a healthy and (heavy air quotes here) “normal” relationship, like heterosexual couples get to have in real life. We already have that, together, Flynn and I. We live it, everyday.  In Nevermore, what we wanted most was to explore a sweeping sapphic romance full of danger, like heterosexual couples get to have in fiction. That’s why we love those kinds of stories so much, because of how divorced they are from the mundanity of real life. They’re fantasies.

I know that I'm preaching to the choir, aha.

But my point is: if you go to a hardware store to order a cake, you’re probably going to be disappointed. If what you crave is aspirational wlw content, there are so many bakeries you can go to that will give you exactly what you’re hoping for, and more. I especially recommend Muted by Miranda Mundt. It’s also on Webtoon, it’s completed, and it’s free to read.

And please know that I’m not saying to stop reading Nevermore, just maybe to adjust your expectations a little bit. We don’t sell cakes here, but I am pretty sure I've got a few 12ft tall skeleton lawn ornaments in the back if you're interested.

[naomi-nana]

bofurin and romance tropes . wind breaker

just as the title says, bofurin and romance tropes.

featuring : umemiya, sakura, kaji

cw : fluff, gn!reader, probably ooc

a/n : since there isn't many wind breaker fics right now, i'm gonna make one since im obsessed with the characters! if this goes well, maybe i'll make a second part:D

UMEMIYA HAJIME . friends to lovers !

the two of you first met in café pothos, when you were helping out kotoha since it was pretty busy that day. he was the one that noticed you first and came up to you with a huge smile on his face. he didn't say anything and only stared at you for a while, which makes you think that the leader of bofurin is a freak. but you talked to him anyway.

and that leads you to being friends with him somehow. and because of that, he won't stop bothering you whenever he got the chance to. "name, look! my plants are looking so beautiful under the moon today, hahaha!" he showed them off proudly at you. you only nod your head with a smile on your face. "that's great. but, why are you taking me to furin at night? surely this isn't because you want to have a bbq party with me."

"do you want to?!"

"just tell me what you want, ume."

he chuckled and looks over at you with sincere eyes that makes you feel weirded out. not because you're disgusted by him, but because he usually looks at you that way whenever he has something serious to say. "say, are you alone right now?" you tilt your head to the side at his question. "what do you mean? i'm with you right now."

"haha, sorry. i should've been more specific. i mean, are you single?"

SAKURA HARUKA . clueless and flustered !

"stop doing that!" sakura glares at you while his whole face glows bright red. suou and nirei only watches from the side as the interaction between you and him goes on. "doing what? i'm not doing anything!" you put the bandage on his injury. the three of them had just gotten back from a fight in the town. and apparently, sakura jumped way too early into the fight and got injured because of that. which is why you're trying to put bandages on his arms right now. keyword, trying.

"could you please stop moving?" you grab his wrist with your hand to make him stop running away from you, but it only makes it worse. he's now screaming like a crazy guy. "hey! get them away from me!" he stares at suou who only smiles at him.

"i-i think we should help him before he passed out from the amount of affection name is giving him." nirei whispers to suou, which earns a hum from him. "hmm, you're right. but this is way too amusing to watch. i say we wait a few more minutes."

KAJI REN . talkative and quiet !

kaji is known for being a person who's easily angry. well, he might look calm, but the second someone or something pisses him off, he's really scary. which is why people often run away from him. not the people in furin though, including you, who came from a different high school. of course people think you're weird, acting all smiley besides him while he's 'ignoring' you and listening to his music.

but, in reality, he actually hears whatever you're currently saying. "kaji, did you hear? apparently that new coffee shop is closing because they didn't sell well!" you crossed your arms together as you looked at kaji with a dissappointed face. "how sad, i really liked how their coffee taste!" kaji only nod at what you said, and didn't say anything back.

you noticed that he didn't say anything and decided to just shut your mouth, since you think that you're bothering him a little and you don't want him to get mad at you. but then, he suddenly stops walking. "what's wrong, kaji?" you noticed he stopped at the coffee shop you were talking about. he took off his headphone and opened his mouth to speak,

"do you..want to buy coffee?"

naomi-nana. do NOT repost, do not use,(with or without permission), do not reccommend or talk about my works outside of tumblr.

[miharuhebinata]

do you mean twilight princess, in which she held a sword exactly once in a flashback and pretty much immediately dropped it in surrender? or wind waker, where she forgets how to use a sword the second she turns into princess zelda until literally the final battle 🤔? and i genuinely can't think of whatever other time you're referring to that she apparently uses a sword. spirit tracks? ok i'll give you that one, i guess, because phantom zelda is pretty badass, but other than that.........??

"ummm actually it's a good thing that zelda plays differently from link, because link has the triforce of courage so of course he fights and uses swords! meanwhile zelda has the triforce of wisdom, so obviously she's going to find more clever ways to solve her problems teehee ;)" hey did you guys know you can still be excited for the game while also acknowledging it's pretty fucking shitty of nintendo to act like zelda is incapable of picking up a sword in a mainline game.

[a-moth-called-mof]

No actually I'm going to say. I honestly think that was such a satisfying and fitting epilogue for something as unqiue as the dream smp. Maybe its vague about certain things and maybe it wasn't a picture perfect happy ending but it felt so satisfying, not just because of the original shit nuke ending and the way the server originally just slowly faded (although that contributes) but also, because it's a representation of the dream smp itself saying goodbye to its fans. Jack being the point of the view character is so fitting because he's been there since the early days and it makes it so that for once, we get to see C! Tommy from someone else's point of view without his own perspective offered. And that's so fucking impactful. When C! Tommy asked Jack where he'd been and that he hadn't seen him in a long time, he was talking to C! Jack sure but he was also talking to the viewers themselves by extension. The image of C! Tommy silently standing there and treating Jack, the point of view character of the viewers, like an old friend is so haunting and comforting in a way words can't express.

And then there's just the entire theme of grief and moving on that's present throughout the entire thing? C! Jack and Tommy both reminisce about how much the SMP impacted both of them. They look on at C! TECHNO'S HOUSE as they talk about how despite all the shit it put them through, a part of them misses it and longs to be back there again because there were things there that were fun and that meant something to them. It's so fitting on a metatextual levels. The characters are reminiscing about the SMP's old days "before everyone left" and so are the content creators through the characters but also, so is the audience. The viewers. The old fans who clung on. The fans who who didn't. The fans who, despite everything the server put them through, still wanted to tune into a livestream for even a chance of seeing it again.

I just feel like the stream represented so many of us. When C! Jack says he didn't like the person he was back then but that doesnt mean he was bad, I just feel like that encapsulates so many of us during the pandemic. Like many (I think?), I used the dream smp as escapism. I was in a really bad place and I was avoiding most of my irl friends. I hate who I became during those times. But also. I had so much fun. I would tune into streams every day and scroll tumblr and the fandom made me feel so happy and included and I loved the inside jokes and I loved the characters and I loved the streams and I loved everything and a part of me still misses that. I was avoiding everything in my life and I was so isolated but I was so full of excitement and bliss and fun when I would tune into those streams. I've kinda spent the past 2 years lowkey hating who I was. But this stream, C! Jack's line and reflection specifically, genuinely made me realise that maybe I shouldn't idk view my old self so negative and that he (who I was) was probably just trying his best during a tough time even if his choices weren't always the most functional. That I've improved and that that's okay and good even. And that maybe just because I like who I am now doesn't mean he was bad.

Idk there's also something about C! Tommy telling C! Jack he might never see him again and C! Jack telling him that that's okay (also again image of C! Tommy looking at the viewer's point of view and telling them he'll probably never see them again...). There's just something about growing up and how you kind of lose contact with some people and how that's normal and it's okay and it happens and how that ties back into some of the dream smp's themes about growing up. But also there's a bit of grief there and that's okay. Idk there's something so visceral about the last piece of media about the dream smp literally being about grief and moving on and about how the characters literally say goodbye to eachother after everything but also about how that's okay. Idk I wonder how many people feel similarly

To conclude this, I feel like the moment in the stream that hit me the most was CC! Jack being happy he let go of the manishroom (and the server by extension) and that he's moving on but then later saying "I didn't like letting go of the mushroom. Felt like I wanted to cling onto it forever" and something about that just hits. Idk there's something how the characters both feel such a unique pain and longing for the old times in universe and how that reflects how the audience and streamers themselves feel and there's something about how I genuinely don't think something that wasn't as accidental and beautiful and messy and painful and earnest and flawed and unique as the dream smp could ever capture that feeling. And I think I love it for that. And I think I love the epilogue for representing that. And I think the dream smp said I love you and goodbye to its viewers with that epilogue and I think I said it back.

[stormsbourne]

alright listen

I know we're all having an evaluation of how eagerly we believe people who present with even the slightest air of authority and frankly good! we all need to be less credulous of people on the internet who tell lies.

but I think there are also other lessons to learn from james somerton. namely about his raging and blatant misogyny, which I've often seen similar forms of in fandom and on this specific site. to paraphrase bombs himself in the ctrl alt del video, if you see shitty behavior within your sphere, it's important to recognize it and try to fix it instead of rejecting it and asserting that no REAL members of the ingroup are like that. and nerds have a misogyny problem. including tumblr. so let's reckon with it.

do you append "white" or "straight" to your comments about women even when those things have little to do with the topic being discussed, just to make your comments seem more legit? (and no, m/m shipping discourse does not give you a ticket to say it's all straight women -- it's fictional characters, james.) do you often theorize about how (hurriedly appended "straight/white/cis") women are responsible for a problem in fandom, nay, all problems in fandom? have you made up a guy based on a single post that annoyed you and extrapolated to say that all (appended signifier to make it ok) women in fandom are like that? do you see women as uniquely fetishizing, uniquely stupid about politics or social issues, uniquely annoying to talk to? do you assume when there's an issue, even a real one and not the fake ones james made up, that a woman is probably at the root of it?

all of this still applies to you if you're a woman. it also applies if you're gay or a person of color or trans. being an oppressed group doesn't mean you are immune from sexism, and sexism is still rampant in everyday life for pretty much everyone.

your shipping and fandom discourse isn't immune from this. no, I'm not talking about how not enough people like yuri. I'm talking about how women who like "bad" ships like r*ylo or whatever are seen as open targets for harassment. how women who are into "bad/problematic" fandoms are seen as idiots and enablers who deserve what they get. how there's an attitude that women who like shitty bad porn must think it's good, must be too stupid to know better, and must need to be handheld and taught about good, acceptable fiction. I've already talked a lot about tumblr's complete refusal to admit that fujoshi wasn't a term coined by delicate japanese mlm to complain about evil women (and I wonder if james contributed to that idiotic concept), but the way I've seen people assert that women into m/m must be straight, must be stupid, must be lying about their identities, must be hurting gay men in real life in addition to wanting some anime boys to kiss ...

I've seen how some of you people talk about amb*r h*ard, is all I'm saying, and I've seen what you've tried to do to dozens of female creatives that, for some reason, you've decided deserve to be taken down or taught a lesson. I've seen the descriptions you use. shrieking, bitchy, whiny, uppity, shrewish, karen (don't get me started on how karen has been turned into an easy excuse for misogyny). you're not bystanders to what james did and is doing, you're a part of it. sure, you might not have the nazi fetish, but you've said things about women that put somerton to shame.

just a thing to keep in mind while the plagiarism discourse is ongoing. somerton is a shithead for many reasons but this is one that's important to remember because I think people often treat misogyny like a lesser crime, a smaller concern, and it's not. just think of what laws are passing and what views popular movements have of women and then, for one moment, consider that maybe your reflexive need to blame women or pick them apart might have been influenced by the Society In Which We Live.

[ask-whitepearl-and-steven]

hi! i found your au a while back, but i didn't know how to use tapas so i kinda lost track of your comic only to find it on tumblr again

i. don't know if this is the right place to be sending these kinda messages or i'm oversharing but! uhm. sorry in advance! and here goes-

i. haven't been having a good time lately but when i say your comic i ! it was a surprise! and a really nice one

i threw myself back into reading it- took me a few hours to get through all of it and

i'm really glad i did! genuinely! it's . really well written and i adore it so much. and your art style is really inspiring. i mean, i know it's based off the show, yes, but it makes me want to go learn and study from the show and like look through all the art

it's just really beautiful to look at and i teared up a few times while reading (bit emotional at times)

it's just. an entire experience, you know?

tension! dread! all the little references and details like steven mentioning that he could try to make children/gem pets and the "at least people actually like jokes". it's a funny moment in the pilot! this gotcha! hah! steven made the joke!

but here it's tense and harsh and just something that makes you pause

i love how you write stuff

it's funny and pulls off so many great jokes whilst also staying grounded and heartbreakingly beautiful

it makes me want to wail. to reach into the screen and tell the characters that they deserve so, so, much. to yell at them, sometimes. to do all kinds of things

it makes me want to paint and draw and create and it's just

really, really, inspiring.

i want to be able to create like you can one day. to make storylines and character designs and all kinds of things. i want to make people feel the rollercoaster of emotions you made me feel

and i'm going to work towards that! (well. after my exams are over, at least...)

sorry that this got really long! it's just really really amazing to see this and .i had to express it. steven universe means so much to me and sometimes creations like this just remind me just how much i adore this show

thank you for making this (alternate) universe!

thank u so much

genuinely, the fact that you took the time to write all this out is incredibly kind of you, and it really means a lot to me

thank u

[unforth]

Alright not to like liveblog my breakdown on main but yesterday was a really bad day after a really bad, like, 4 months, and I've hit a bit of a breaking point and one of the only things in my life that can give is running @mdzsartreblogs , @tgcfartreblogs , @svsssartreblogs , @erhaartreblogs , @tykartreblogs , and @cnovelartreblogs , so that is what has to give. It's been a 99-out-of-100 days thankless job. A small number of people do say thank you and yall I appreciate you so much (HUGE shout-out to the artist I met at Flamecon who gifted me a zine when I said I ran these blogs, @bonesblubs you rock) but I have never done an act of fandom labor simultaneously this labor intensive yet this invisible before and, uh. It sucks. I spend an hour or more a day on this every day, if it's under 2k hours since I started the first of these in September 2020 I'd be shocked. And I do it because I love it but doing it means I don't have time or energy to do other things I love. And I really don't want to just quit, but I can't keep this up.

In a last-ditch effort to try not to just give up, I'm making the following changes:

1. Only watching one tag per fandom for the MXTX fandoms. I am going to check *only* #tgcf, #svsss, and #mdzs. Artwork posted to any other tag, I will not see unless a mutual reblogs it.

2. Reduced tagging (even more). I'm only going to tag characters and maybe overarching au type (eg, "modern au," "fantasy au"). I'll no longer tag creatures. I will continue to tag the same common trigger warnings I already tag.

3. If a work's appearance doesn't make it obvious what it is AND the tags aren't clear, I'm not going to reblog. I can't keep spending 5 minutes or more trying to figure out what I'm even looking at, scared that if I guess wrong the artist will get mad at me for mistagging their work. If I do reblog, I'll tag only the artist name and/or whatever else I can identify for sure.

4. I am no longer going to follow #link click. The fandom is just too big. I've started dreading checking it. If I was more into it and less busy I would make another spin off just for it but neither of those is true. (The art is so good, I hate to do this, but. If you love link click, highly recommend the main tag, lots of great stuff there.)

5. I will no longer tag any non-cnovel content in the art/post. Like, if someone draws, idek, Xie Lian and Marinette from Ladybug, I'm not gonna put any tags for Marinette, just for Xie Lian.

6. Basically if I run into something hard to tag or confusing or unclear, my new policy is I'm not gonna fricken bother.

I think those are everything but idefk, I cried for 3 hours last night and got 4 hours of sleep so I'm mostly fueled by exhaustion and desperation right now and my memory is even more fried than usual.

How artists can help. This is obviously all optional. You do you. But since some people might want to know what would make my life easier, I'm sharing. I'm not claiming I feel entitled to dictate how people fandom or anything like that.

1. Put the tags for the character(s) and ship(s) early in the tag list.

2. If you make art for a fandom that isn't one of the big ones (right now the only big danmei fandoms on tumblr as far as I can tell are the MXTX fandoms and maybe 2ha) I am begging you to use my tracked tag #cnovelartreblogs

3. Do mdzs art? Tag #mdzs. Do tgcf art? Tag #tgcf. Do svsss art? Tag #svsss.

4. Not only artists, but everyone, *please* stop tagging fandoms not discussed and/or depicted in your post. It's gotten to be stupid common for people to blanket the danmei fandom tags with posts only about one fandon (like, svsss-only works also being tagged mdzs and tgcf and 2ha for some damn reason). This isn't about just my sideblogs tbh this is just fandom etiquette that seems to have been forgotten or never learned by many. Tagging unrelated fandoms isn't "reach," it's annoying. People go into the #mdzs tag to see mdzs, not whatever not-mdzs stuff people have decided to tag for ~reach~, and seeing the same post in 8 tags, none of which it's related to, is so damn irritating, and makes scrolling the tags looking for content that IS relevant take that much longer. Knock it off.

Okay. I think that's as much as I'm prepared to meltdown where everyone can see. Thanks in advance everyone for your understanding, and apologies to everyone about to see this 8 times as I reblog it to each sideblog.

At least I'm not tagging it to everywhere. 🤣🤣🤣

[lelengerine]

now playing... "show and tell"

pairing | basketball varsity!chenle x artist!reader

synopsis | draw a pretty boy and perhaps he'll come to you.

genre | just literal 3 am fluff thoughts, bball player chenle slight brainrot, no specific prns are used (lmk if there's anything i've missed!)

wc | 0.9k

notes | so... i'm back and it's been a long while 😄 kinda forgot about tumblr for a sec but i hope you guys still remember me TT i was pretty much in a slump + acads were crazy, however!!! i am back!!! somewhat!!! likes and feedback are always appreciated (also new post layout yayy)

m.list

the air inside the school’s gymnasium has always felt humid as it clings to your skin like a damp blanket. the place has the distinct scent of sweat — entire buckets of it actually — while the occasional skid of sneakers on the rubber floor sends involuntary shivers down your spine. it’s hardly a place one would choose for peace of mind, yet here you are, perched on the bleachers, busily drawing on your sketchpad all because of a boy.

honestly, you wouldn’t be willingly subjecting yourself to this either if he wasn’t so… pretty. he sported vibrant orange hair that matched him well, the tips sticking together from the sweat on his forehead. his cheeks were flushed from from the heat, but that didn’t bother him one bit as he energetically ran around the court. but it's his smile that captivates you the most, its brightness rivaling that of the sun, his eyes forming playful whiskers as they crinkle into crescents — a sight you've translated onto the pages of your sketchbook more times than you’d like to admit.

how were you supposed to turn down drawing someone like him as an art student? one that’s in an art slump no less.

curse all pretty men, you tell yourself as your pencil scritches over the surface of your sketchbook.

you weren’t even acquainted to him one bit. in fact, you’ve only learned of his name around a week ago? it was zhong chenle if your memory serves you right.

your friend had told you he was the famous ace of your school’s basketball team, mostly for being able to make shots from such large distances. she was shocked you weren’t even aware of the boy when he was usually the talk of the entire student body, especially during the time championship season rolls around.

hell, you don’t even care much for the sport, but he’s making you second guess that too with the way he moves so effortlessly — like he was made to play this sport. perhaps you could understand the infatuation many others harbor for him… just a tiny bit.

you continue your sketch nonetheless, stuck erasing and re-drawing a certain line that doesn’t want to bend in your favor. it seems to have taken all of your focus, as you don’t even register the sound of footsteps approaching you. a tap is placed on your shoulder, and you turn around to find the exact boy you’ve been drawing for the entirety of his varsity practice.

“is that supposed to be me?” his words are laced with intrigue, accompanied by a gentler smile than you're accustomed to, yet just as captivating in its own right — wait. why is he even here talking to you? peeking at your drawings no less?

“nope. it’s not.” you lie through your teeth without an ounce of hesitation, flipping to the cover of your sketchbook faster than he utter out another word.

“please, who else even has orange hair here?”

“who said the person i was drawing was even real? for all you know, he could be an anime character.” you counter, trying to deflect his curiosity.

“yeah, totally explains why you’ve been hanging out here more lately.” he retorts, raising his finger in mock admonishment, his playful smirk betraying his teasing tone. “don’t think i haven’t noticed you, cause i have.”

“what are you? some security guard keeping records of the people who come to the gym?” you muse, meeting his gaze with a hint of amusement.

he leans in a bit closer, voice lowering conspiratorially. “well, maybe I've been keeping an eye out for someone who appreciates my... what should i call it? anime character potential?”

your heart skips a beat at his proximity, but you maintain your playful demeanor. "oh, is that what you're calling it now? i just needed a little inspiration and the confines of the art room weren’t doing it for me.” technically what you said is true, he doesn’t need to know that he’s actually the main reason your artist block has subsided.

his grin widens, a playful sparkle in his eyes. “inspiration, huh? well, i can guarantee you'll be entertained with me around.”

“you don’t need to keep me entertained, i do that already on my own.”

“oh yeah? by watching me?”

“you just want to fuel your ego, don’t you.”

“maybe a little.” his eyes smile, voice taking on a teasing lilt, "what else have you been sketching lately? any other anime characters i should know about?"

you laugh, a nervous pitter patter dancing in your chest at the prospect of sharing more of your work with him. these were your prized possessions after all. "oh, you know, just the usual. random doodles here and there."

he only beams at your response, leaning back slightly as if to better admire your reaction. "well, i’d love to see more of your usual sometime. maybe you could show me what else you've got hidden in that sketchbook of yours."

the invitation catches you off guard, and for a moment, you're at a loss for words. "uh, sure. yeah, maybe sometime," you stammer, mentally kicking yourself for not sounding more confident in front of him.

but before the conversation can continue, a shrill whistle cuts through the air, signaling the end of chenle’s supposed water break. he glances towards the court, a regretful expression flickering across his face. "looks like i’ve got to go," he says, pushing himself off the bleachers and standing up. "but hey, don't forget about our little art show-and-tell date, okay?”

hold on, did he just call it a date? "hey, wait a moment-" you try calling after him, yet he's already disappeared onto the court. that wasn’t anywhere close to a proper invitation, but your heart flutters at the thought nonetheless.

fine, you conclude to yourself — if it’s a date he wants, then you suppose you could spare some more time for him.

[somerandomdudelmao]

sitting on my hands, silently screaming because I can't stop thinking about the connection between Casey and Raph and about Casey discovering said connection and So, to temper my hype, I decided to try and find as many Casey-Raph parallels and possible Raph-sourced influences on Casey: (forgive my formatting I am not used to Tumblr) 1. Casey being able to easily mimic Raph's growls, despite having no memory of learning (note: more obvious b/c it happened so recent. though, based on the fact that the other turtles were surprised by Casey making the noise... did Raph teach him?)

2. Honestly, just Casey's protective nature in general? Casey works so hard to protect his family (learning how to carry his much-bigger-uncles, caring to their needs when their vulnerable without question (i.e. tot Leo and Donnie), literally any time he's concerned with the turtle's health))

3. (Slightly-iffy BUT:) Being very conscious of his strength/fragility of others - - which might be a tad silly to say when all his family is bigger and stronger than him, and there is already another connection in that to Leo, but I cannot get Raph ever admitting "I'm the strong one, the big brother, so I need to protect and take care of you guys!!" so I'm calling it a mix of both Raph and Leo

4. The way they hold/cradel the tinies is very similar (note: there might be more reflections of this category but I honestly can't tell b/c most characters are bigger then Casey)

5. Another different, fun pose where they mirror each other pt.3 (except its very obvious)

6. Krang-ified Casey looks a lot like Krang-ified Raph; from the right eye (our left) to the tentacle right arm (our left) to the clawed left arm (our right) to the spikes. too many similarities for me not to at least point it out.

7. Casey and Raph being attacked by (proportionally the same size to them) Tiny Donnies and getting absolutely bodied.

8. This specific expression - - a possible common trait in just adoring cute things? (note: need more data to find this out, cus I did find a similar expression on Donnie, and we can't really see sparkles in Robot!Raph's eyes, but there was one from the show that's rather close.)

... did I over look into some traits that can maybe be explained other ways? probably. did I miss some parallels? definitely, this series is littered with them. but this AU has me by the throat and we are getting backstory on MY favorite of the turtles, so I need to cope somehow. (This is also my first ask. Idk if I'm did it right. I hope it goes through, and at least someone sees it.) (Message to anyone who sees this: HYDRATE OR DIEDRATE, BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T HAVE A DONATELLO WHO WILL REVIVE YOU.)

What a wonderful research

[olderthannetfic]

I accidentally killed my own desire to write, and I need some advice. To be really blunt about it, what's the point of writing? When I would spend lots of time laboring over making a good story with a plot and characters who were in-character and connecting all the dots narratively so payoffs were satisfying, my reward was dead silence and virtually no clicks. I posted some mindless smut to my side account one day and got more hits in a day than most of my other works combined got in a year. I know, I know. "Write for ~*~yourself~*~" is the common response. It's the "be yourself!" of writing. It's supposed to be a magical phrase that'll make everything okay. But... I don't like knowing that something I spend months working on won't be read by anyone while something I write in a car while bored got thousands of clicks. I don't like making something I'm proud of and then no one ever looks at it. That's not fun for me. It's not fulfilling.

For a solid decade, I've tried to ignore how the level of interactivity in fandom is falling. Fewer comments. Fewer kudos. No comments in the bookmarks. You put your tumblr and Discord in the AN and get a handful of asks and one person who adds you, talks to you twice and then ghosts you. Most of the comments are "well, actuallys", made even more annoying by them being wrong as opposed to actually correcting an error. I avoid fandom drama, wank, and infighting. I don't engage with things I know will make me unhappy. I try to be happy over in my own little corner. I comment on every single work I read. I want people to enjoy fandom. I used to.

Some dumb smut I wrote in 40 minutes gets five times the hits of the writing I'm most proud of, and it gets it in just under three months. I am not a great smut writer. I haven't stumbled onto an incredible talent I had that makes it so the issue is that I'm so amazing my smut brings all the boys to the yard. People just don't like what I write and put effort into. It's very likely that despite 20 years of writing fic, I suck at writing. And people enjoy my writing most when they don't have to put up with anything substantial and can just skip to the sex.

So for the last eight months, when I write, I just sort of give up. Close the Word doc without saving. No one will read this. No one cares about this. There is no fan eagerly awaiting every update like I await updates from my favorite authors. There's not even someone saying, "update soon!" Close the Word doc. Delete old WIPs. There's no point. I do not tell stories worth reading. I used to. In the FFN days people genuinely enjoyed my work. I'd never have had an opportunity to do the 'I won't update until I get 3 reviews' thing because getting that many on a chapter was usually something I'd do overnight. Post before bed. Wake up. Read the reviews before school. I peaked in high school, I guess.

And now I'm just sort of lost. I still have lots of ideas. Ideas for fics fall into my head all the time. That's never been a problem. What I don't have is any motivation to write them. What's the point of writing? If no one else is reading, I guess the point would be so I could go back and read my own story and have fun with it. Write for myself. But I can review the story and have fun with it in my head without writing it down. It's substantially faster and more importantly, isn't incredibly depressing.

So, at the risk of definitely being calld the second-coming of True Art Anon or a troll or validation-seeking or haha mentally ill haha... what's the point of writing?

--

Okay, so write porn in a car while you're bored.

Look, you can whine all you want about my response, but what you've written here is blatantly about depression.

Lots of people in fandom are still interacting. And no, it isn't just on fics that are objectively written to some pro fiction standard or whatever. Teenagers still breathlessly review poorly spelled cracky masterpieces about this year's big anime and so forth.

Yes, there may be reasons why you in particular are in a slump when it comes to fandom friendships or "plz update" comments. We can talk about that. But this ask is all gloom about fandom in general. That's not realism: that's you having a problem.

--

As for why a person should write: because the actual hours you spend doing the writing are fun.

If they aren't pleasurable in some way, find another hobby.

--

But if you want an answer to the age old "Why did my 5 minute fic get 1000000x more asspats", I've seen meta about this for literally decades.

The most likely reason is that the fic we write quickly and without much thought often feels fresher and more fun. The things we labor over endlessly can feel overworked. Even in cases where they don't, they're often heavier subject matter or more niche subject matter. On top of all that, we just care more, so even a high level of feedback doesn't really feel like enough for the effort and care we put in.

--

Do you really need me to tell you why you don't feel the same as in high school when things were fresh and new?

Go read up on combatting burnout or dealing with post-college anxiety or managing stress in a dead-end job in your 30s or finding meaning in your 40s or whatever is going on.

Everyone goes through fallow periods in fandom and in life.

Feeling reinvigorated has to do with internal factors and some general life circumstance stuff. It doesn't have that much to do with number of kudos. That's just the surface trigger for a mood that was already there.

[theminecraftbee]

the "how to write a rec post or masterpost" post

i promised this a few days ago, so here it is: my brief guide on how to pitch yourself or someone else on tumblr to other people in such a way that they might actually click on it! this is what i've found is the most effective way to format a set of fic recs or your own masterpost will typically be, at least to me. this is meant for when you're listing multiple fics in one post, typically intending to help a reader choose one they want to read!

the biggest thing to remember is a rec post or masterpost is a tool for a potential reader. therefore, you want to include the information they need in the easiest-to-read way possible.

first off: if you are trying to list or rec more than one fic, do not use the tumblr 'link' embed function. like, you CAN, but ao3 link embeds get ugly when you have more than about one of them. instead, do an in-line link, like this! this will make a longer post much easier to read.

next, with each link, include the following information: a brief summary (it doesn't have to be the same as the summary/pitch you used for ao3, and probably shouldn't be; instead, a one or two sentence description of what the fic is about is best), the fandom it's in, a sense of the fic's length, and rating. (note that you DON'T need to include all the tags and trigger warnings--if someone is intrigued enough to read it, they'll click on the link, and from there they will see the tags and trigger warnings. this should only be enough information to get someone interested.)

finally, ESPECIALLY if it's a rec post, include at least one sentence about why someone should read it. why are you recommending it? this is different from the summary; if a summary of the fic is "joe hills gets stuck in a time loop", the sentence about why someone should read it shouldn't be "haven't you ever wanted to see joe in a time loop?"

the point of rec posts--and indeed promoing on tumblr--is that people trust word of mouth more than they trust a random summary. so give them that word of mouth! if it's a rec post, say something like "it's a fic that made me cry", or "i never thought i'd laugh so much at a fic until i read this", or "the character-voices are on point", or "i stayed up all night reading this". if it's your own master post. include something like "this might be the fic i'm the most proud of", or "this one is great if you like joe hills and enjoy tragedy", or "this one was an experiment in style". something that is NOT just further summary of the fic, but instead describes a good reason to read it!

so, for example, an entry in my own hypothetical master post might look like this:

to convey a certain brilliance, hermitcraft, T, 21k. joe hills and zombiecleo slowly, and through many death loops, drag their way out of their collapsed base to try to survive after a lunar apocalypse. this is the second hermitcraft fic i ever wrote and i wrote it before we knew how moon's big would end, inspired by super hostile; people still tell me it has some of their favorite joe characterization.

and an entry in a hypothetical rec post i might write could look like this:

the sky weighs heavy tonight by mawofthemagnetar, hermitcraft, T, 79k. an ensemble fic in which a plane being flown by keralis and zedaph crashes, and in which the world is still recovering from the scars of a deadly war. i LOVE snake's writing, and this fic was basically designed to capture me specifically; it has cool worldbuilding, body horror, PLANES, a really cool aircraft investigation plot, one of the best-executed ensemble casts in the fandom, and a fun tone! it's a fairly easy read even given it's length, too; if you haven't read it, you absolutely should.

my only remaining recommendation is that if you're writing a LONG fic rec post or a LONG masterpost, you organize it by categories. these categories can be whatever is most useful for you--by relationship tag, by fandom, by ship or not ship, by genre, etc., it's mostly just to make scanning through the post a little easier.

and hopefully this is helpful for some folks out there! if people are interested i can also do one on "how to promo my individual fic", i also have observations and opinions on that.

[3lsmp]

"The canary curse and why I absolutely hate it" - an in depth tumblr post by celebi 3lsmp (in a state of covid sickbrain) (with assistance from my friend fern)

Hi. as many of you know, i fucking hate the canary curse Jimmy headcanon. It sucks. I hate it here. but have you ever wondered WHY? Celebi, WHY do you hate jimmy solidarity canary curse headcanon. WELL LET ME TELL YOU !!

In general I try not to be a hater, fandom spaces generally hate unpopular opinions so I keep my mouth shut but Ive decided today I have the audacity to argue my case. You may think I'm being a nit-picker with this but. hear me out.

For starters, IN MY OPINION, a lot of the fandom has forgotten what the real story of the canary in the coalmine is. Canarys were used in coalmines in the 1900s to aid coal miners in recognising when harmful gasses were within the cave and when the canary would collapse and die they would exit the cave to safety. While yes, Jimmy does run out of lives (permadie) first in 4/5 seasons of the life series, he doesnt actually die first. He permadies first in 3rd life, but doesnt lose the first life! This honour goes to scar with the grian creeper prank. In last life, the first life lost is Grian! in Double life it's . technically Tango. In Limited life it's Skizz, in secret life it's Martyn. So would their deaths not be considered omens of death also?

Secondly, Jimmy's permadeaths are often considered "omens of the end" or "omens of future tragedy" which, have you watched the series? have you watched the seasons? were they not tragic from the start? This idea almost implies that the life series isnt tragic until Jimmy dies? Which I do not like. Jimmy has plenty of tragic moments to his own character before his death.

This brings me onto the fandom's "woobification" of jimmy. If you take nothing away from this post other than this I will be happy, because people need to be more aware of the fact that he is completely being infantalized. Jimmy is an adult man. AN ADULT MAN. He does not need to be saved from the big bad curse of death or the "coal mine" or anything. Just because he sucks at minecraft does not make him a sweet little baby bird that needs to saved. You wouldn't treat Bigb, or Ren or Martyn like a wet kitten in a cardboard box because they die a lot. Shockingly, other people suck at minecraft in this series too. Have you seen Joels traps? is he the canary of the tnt minecart? are we gonna make him a sweet little baby bird too? No, we aren't. Jimmy is an adult man with balls. treat him like one.

Lastly, creating this headcanon which entirely around Jimmy's death, to me, erases the importance of the things he did when he was alive within the series. Would the Flower Husbands have gone to war against dogwarts if Jimmy hadn't burned the dogwarts flag in front of Ren & Martyn? Would The southlands have ended the same if Jimmy hadn't robbed the life from the lifeswapping ritual? Jimmy has more impact in his story than his deaths. He is not a character who dies off to further 3L! Scott's arc, he is not the silly background comedy of the southlands and he is more than just a death curse.

TLDR : use your brain and be more creative and please for the love of god free me from canary jimmy.

also im sick of everyone being birds. where is the flavour. where is the variety.

[meatballlady]

It's time for the fandom to start Looking Where the Furniture Isn't

For a bit of background, one of my irl professional responsibilities is to identify and avoid making undue assumptions. There are a LOT of things that we humans assume. We assume that terminology means the same to other people as it does to us. We assume everyone has the same context of a situation we do. We assume that we aren't missing any information.

We operate on the information we have.

There was an ask before season 2 aired asking whether many of the plot points had been revealed by the clips (which almost all took place during the first half of the first episode). Neil's response was something like "oh you sweet summer children you know nothing yet." And boy was he right.

Neil Gaiman is a master of controlling assumptions. Just look at his Tumblr askbox replies.

Here's a few s2 examples of assumptions we all made (as I'm starting a rewatch):

Why did Crowley do the (very fun and distracting) apology dance? You might say it was because he walked out on Jim, but he never specified, did he? And Aziraphale was surprised that he proposed they would hide him "together"

How did Shax get a rumor about something going down in the Up (presumably) before Gabriel even went downstairs?

Did Jim need to bring Aziraphale something other than the box? He never actually specifies; Aziraphale just assumes it's the box.

Why did Aziraphale assume Maggie could feel [Michael, Uriel, Saraquael] arriving?

Why does Aziraphale say Heaven would notice even a small miracle? Crowley is seen doing a miracle before their large miracle (traffic light), and later Aziraphale makes the guy leave the table at the pub

To go deeper:

Are we assuming that characters are telling the truth? Example: "Miracles don't work like that," "[Extreme sanctions] was just something we said to frighten the cherubs" etc.

Are we assuming that nothing of note happened between apocalypse v1 and s2? (ex. the claims that Crowley didn't tell Aziraphale about the trial in heaven despite him referencing it in s2s1) What if we the audience are just jumping in near the end of this story?

Are these assumptions correct? Or are we just working with the information that we have?

Now that I'm looking for it, there's also SO many corrections of assumptions (usually for the sake of a joke, but still) (these are just the ones that happen while I type them out while watching e2):

"Can I be a blue one?" "You haven't annoyed me yet" "But can I be?"

"You recognized [Michael, Uriel, Saraquael] those people who were in the shop just now?" "Of course, they were in the shop, just now!"

"oh my god!" "blasphemy, angel, that's not like you", "no, oh, my god"

Many of the themes were about hiding things in plain sight: the kids (and kids), Jim, "aim for my mouth but shoot past my ear." Clue (1985) was heavily referenced in the lead-up. The whole point of that film was looking at what was going on elsewhere. Looking where the furniture isn't, you might say.

The more I watch s2, the less certain I am that any of it makes sense on its own.

I'm currently combing through it to see if there are any discrepancies with where people are (easiest example is when Crowley just disappears from the bookshop while they're reviewing the Job story). It'll be a lot of data and might not lead anywhere, but I'll definitely share once I finish looking into it.

I will also honestly admit that these things are all circumstantial, and I could be going insane. But they just keep cropping up all over the place. I've got a lot of time before S3 comes up and I intend to investigate the furniture. And try to not make assumptions.