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People sorting ao3 solely by stats and only clicking on fics with a certain amount of kudos or comments, you will not survive the winter, nor the summer, nor at all, *brings out knife,* run
#ao3#fanfiction#because if everyone thinks like that then so many fics that might be great get buried and fall into the void#someone has to read it with no hits or kudos#not to mention sometimes people just have wildly different tastes so you don't know unless you look at it yourself#i put a bunch of exclusion filters and then go by summary and tags and open all the ones that sound interesting to me#if they're bad well easy enough to move on#but lotta good ones hidden in there with not a comment in sight and i must change that#knife tw#?#tw knife mention
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Bruce is actually really attractive, and I have enough reasoning to make a list
He's:
Tall (. Tall enough to hit his head on the vault doorframe)
Long-legged
Has a straight nose bridge
Has high cheekbones (more noticeable in 2nd pic below)
Has a strong jawline
Sharp eyes, but they aren't small (plus eyebags if you're into that)
Overall, he has strong, attractive facial features
Has broad, refined shoulders. You can tell he works out (or he did, when he was alive)
Even has a thick, muscly neck
He has MUSCLE. Is SCULPTED. NOICE. VERY NOICE. (nice arms. Nice shoulders. Nice neck. Nice legs. Nice butt-)
(There are actually panels where you can see some of his muscles. Other than those already shown here, he's got bricky thighs-
-and in the panels where we first get his name dropped, he's got those shoulder blades too-)
The one time we see him smile, and he actually has a scary one
Has small, kinda sharp pupils, and his eyes remind me of a cat. We only ever saw him tense or defensive, so his resting/listening face is really cute
Other than the physical appearance stuff, he also:
Takes shit without batting an eye (patience, knowing it's just how Kudo is, etc)
Kudo being all "Cut the crap Bruce and give it to me straight", after Bruce tests his blood and is rightfully Concerned because they just faced AFO
Put up with Kudo's experimenting and testing over Yoichi's transferable Factor
Did ya'll see the look on Kudo's face when he realized he had Yoichi's Factor/will? Kudo was going to start in nonsense and Bruce just dealt with that.
Also something I noticed when looking back at the images here; Bruce has bandages on his arms in the void. But not when he faced AFO in the sewers.
Were he and Kudo cutting their arms open in their experimenting over Yoichi's theory? Is this why Kudo has two gauntlets instead of his one? Why we never see his bare arms in the void? That he always keeps his arms down so there's no slip?
Is smart enough to run blood tests, plus has enough common sense to pick Shinomori as his successor
He picked a guy who avoids society, has an Ability to detect danger so he can always stay away from AFO, is also a coward so he's never going to go throw himself into danger, even without knowing instinctively he stands no chance, etc.
Meanwhile, Kudo chose Bruce, who he played Hot Potato Yoichi with; but he did also trust Bruce, and put the only pure combative Ability in OFA through Bruce.
These two made their choices based on what they valued and saw the Factor needed.
Is logical, analytical, and calm.
He tried advising Midoriya on their Abilities in One For All, especially his own.
Midoriya then tried ignoring him about using Fa Jin for the first time, but found he was right, thinking: "Dammit!! I had [Lady Nagant] right where I wanted her, but... ugh! The Third was right. My parallel Quirk processes are all screwed up!" (ch. 314).
Plus, when Midoriya fixed his processing mistakes, Bruce was analyzing the way he reached his new conclusion. Pure facts, no bias, very calm, just saying it as it was.
We never see him panic. When he's caught by surprise in the sewers by AFO, Kudo, and Yoichi's little bubble event, he immediately reacts. He doesn't falter, he just knows he has to do something right now.
Was more willing to listen than Kudo to Yoichi's beckon, and probably was just following Kudo's rejection of Midoriya
While we don't see Kudo's face, we see Bruce's eyes when Yoichi calls on his heroes. Bruce was more open and receptive, or at least more impacted.
Bruce was also the one to start talking, while Kudo just kept quiet.
He actually communicates a lot
When Yoichi called them to support Midoriya, Bruce started talking to paint a picture of why they thought the way they did, so Yoichi understood where they were coming from.
(Though he seems to beat about the bush sometimes, since Kudo spoke up to be direct on how they couldn't just put their trust in some starry-eyed teenager. Plus, when Kudo tells him to just tell him what's wrong [double Factors])
When Midoriya first used Fa Jin against Nagant, Bruce came out just to tell him he knew what he was trying, but that Midoriya wasn't ready; and Midoriya found he was right. Midoriya just didn't want to listen to him then.
He asks Kudo for clarification after finding Kudo had two Factors in him after the sewer incident ("Just to be sure, All For One didn't touch you, right?") Kudo knew him well enough to go "stop beating around the bush and tell me", so Bruce was probably gonna start with questions, theories, and trying to understand everything in general, before saying "yeah you have two Factors. Don't know why".
Is strong-willed and loyal.
He followed Kudo, even to death, carrying on the cause he started until it ended with him.
Plus, when talking about how AFO needs a strong will to override OFA's own, we first see Bruce, Kudo, and Yoichi.
AFO couldn't steal OFA because the will was too strong for him, and that was back during Banjo's time. Since Shinomori never actually tried opposing AFO and just hid, we can assume the first Three (Yoichi, Kudo, Bruce) already had an accumulation of strong willpower that made OFA un-stealable. Those three are a strong enough foundation, and the main wills, that the other users just become bonuses.
Kudo, also saying that Midoriya needs allies with the same will and drive as him... hey Kudo, you're talking about yourself and your old allies, aren't you? That's why you look at Yoichi and Bruce when you say this.
Not only is Bruce attractive, but he's got good character. THE END.
#yes this is a bruce appreciation post#am i biased? yes. am i right that he has these features? also yes.#hes actually a very attractive person. hes got all the right features for it#plus hes smart (some medical knowledge) is really loyal strong-willed and patient#he puts up with kudo SO much#from being bossed around to taking home yoichis brother to whatever the heck kudo made him do to figure out OFA's transfer properties.....#i didnt think much of bruce originally#then i started doing resistance fic stuff and now hes a fave#hes a little blorbo#that i throw in terrible situations for my own entertainment#used his scary smile for comedy purposes#like when he made a kid cry once. or when a meta child was afraid of him so they bit him#has patience to deal with kudo and co. but also. has enough bite to snark them. is how i like writing him#oh? background character? well lemme just *picks him up* EXPAND ON THAT-#fic stuff: he tries making a good impression on a girl and kudo is ruining it immediately#he doesnt know what to do because the two always banter#kudo: fuck you#oc: fuck me yourself you coward#he sees through a rose-lens that kudo is trying to rip off his face#appeciation kinda turned analysis in general#bruce#kudo#yoichi shigaraki#bnha#mha#spoilers#boku no hero academia#my hero academia#NOT YOICHIS BROTHER. i meant Yoichi / AFO's brother in a prev tag up there but theres too much tags i dont wanna rewrite to fix that#(image limit and tag limit)
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Chapter 110 is 13 pages long welcome to hell!!! so in a lot of ways this is just more fuel for a theory that I've had for a few weeks now, that's only gotten stronger with each recent season 5 episode, which is that the last episode of the season is gonna end on 110, and that Asagiri/Harukawa and Bones have been collaborating to make this happen, specifically because it's a major turning point that would be the only good place to end the season on.
When we started getting especially long chapters again (like from 25-35ish pages, with the exception of 107.5, the last two being some of the longest we've ever had), at first I just assumed that Asagiri/Harukawa got freed up from some other obligations they'd been having to cause the extremely short/half chapters, like promotional stuff for the anime/Beast movie, or working on light novels. But then 109 happened, with the "supposed" death of Dazai, and heavy emphasis at the end on how literally everyone is at their lowest point right now, and I got to thinking. 11 episodes is a strangely specific number for an anime season -- why not 12, or 13, or even 10, like you'd usually see? Why have we gotten suddenly gotten two 35 page chapters out of nowhere, that's almost unheard of at this point? They're both beautiful chapters, don't get me wrong (as always), and maybe A/H simply just didn't want to cut them in halves because they felt like the full emotional impact wouldn't hit/that there were no good cutoff points in them, but you can't deny that it's surprising, after all the shorter chapters we've been getting. Why has the anime been going at such insanely breakneck pacing for the most part ever since around the Sunday Tragedy chapters, even more so than it has in the past? So much so that it feels dangerously close to overtaking the manga?
Well, maybe, just maybe, it's because..... Asagiri decided a long time ago that whatever happens in 110 is the only point that feels "season finale"-worthy enough, in an arc that still isn't anywhere close to being completely wrapped up, and so both the manga and the anime have been specifically coordinated to reach that part within 2 and a half weeks of each other?
I've seen a lot of people now think season 5 will end with 109, and as much as my sadistic side would find that hilarious, I honestly don't think they'd do that and realistically don't want it to happen; it'd be so cruel to cliffhanger the anime for years like that, and just doesn't feel like a season cliffhanger BSD would do, a series that is ultimately hopeful and uplifting. Seasons 2 and 3 had a positive, conclusive ending; the only reasons seasons 1 and 4 didn't was because they're technically not really full seasons of their own, and are more like the first cour of another "season" that also came out that same year (seasons 1 and 2 both aired in 2016, so they're more like one big season, and seasons 4 and 5 have both aired this year, so they're also more like one big season, again taking into account how episodes 12 and 50 are not satisfying finales like episodes 24, 37, and hypothetically, 61, are). I really can't see season 5 ending with Dazai and Fukuzawa's supposed deaths, Sigma being unconscious and maybe close to death, Atsushi being vulnerable and limbless again, everyone we love still vampires, and the entire world being basically doomed; that's just too depressing and not like BSD at all. However, having said that, if it doesn't end there, there really isn't any good place to end the season before that, either, that feels in any way satisfying or like a finale at all. And so, to me, that only leaves after 109: chapter 110.
I think things are really gonna turn around next chapter. Like I said, everyone is at their lowest point right now, it cannot possibly get any worse, the framing of Dazai, Fukuzawa, and sskk at the end of 109 is telling us that; this is the time for the heroes to finally start winning again, with Aya being so close to pulling out the sword, and for all the thematic reasons other people have talked about to death that I don't need to go into here again. This upcoming chapter being so short again makes a part of me wary of 110 being "the one", so to speak, I won't lie, but at the same time, it's very possible that it needs to be that short because that's all the final episode of the season will be able to reasonably fit in, since it's already gonna be VERY close if they do make it all the way to 109. And at the end of the day, I don't doubt at all that Asagiri and Harukawa can make these the most monumental and game-changing mere 13 pages ever if they wanted to; a chapter does not at all need to be extremely long in order to be an important and impactful one, even if short ones we've gotten in the past haven't felt the most important.
An additional thought I've had, though this is much more crack territory than all this already is, is that since we know from Anime Expo that a Stormbringer movie at some point is highly likely (judging from Asagiri's reaction when someone brought it up), it's possible that chapter 110 and thus the final episode will involve the long-anticipated return of Verlaine and/or Adam, or at least some other major reference to Stormbringer, that would naturally and smoothly lead into a Stormbringer movie to explain things to people who haven't read the novel. It would make a lot of sense, especially since the s4 OP has the Old World sign behind Chuuya, which might be a hint that this has been in the works ever since seasons 4/5 were first in planning with Asagiri. We also know that Dazai and Chuuya's voice actors apparently struggled to record their lines together this season, which probably relates to 101 and possibly 109, but it could be 110 too.... I could be very wrong, as I'm no expert on this kind of thing, but I kinda doubt they would bring Chuuya's actor in for just the vampire growls, and Asagiri placing heavy emphasis on Chuuya's importance this season in that one interview gives me the impression that he's talking about much more than just 101/109. But that's the least solid evidence I have, that's just mostly based on vibes I get.
So basically, I think a lot of factors -- the unusual episode count, how close the anime is to catching up to the manga with three whole episodes left, the seemingly arbitrary recent chapter lengths, and the climactic events of 109 -- can tell us that 110 might be a very, VERY big deal. Again, there's of course no way this arc is anywhere near close to being finished, with so much left to address and resolve, but since it is currently incomplete in the manga, unlike the previously adapted arcs, if the anime was going to adapt it at all, they'd have to find a place that feels satisfying enough to end this season, knowing there won't be more anime for a long time after this, and so I think they specifically planned for that, from both Bones' and A/H's sides. 10 episodes might not have been enough to reach that point, but 12 or 13 might have been too many it wouldn't have been if Bones actually decided to slow down and let the story breathe the way it needs to, but this post isn't meant to criticize the anime, so maybe 11 was just right. And maybe Asagiri and Harukawa specifically pushed to make recent chapters longer than usual, in order to make sure that the manga reached the story content in 110 the monthly release right before season 5 was to end.
Is this just copium? Absolutely. Am I going to look like an absolute clown in two days when this post ages like milk? Probably. But the evidence is There, so let me just enjoy my delusions until Sunday, okay 🥂🫡
#bungou stray dogs#seriously call me a clown and point and laugh at me if I'm proven wrong all you want#but I really feel like there's solid evidence for this#either s5 isn't gonna reach 109 at all (but I seriously cannot fathom where you would want to stop before then) or they'll go beyond it#if they really do end it with 109....... well i'll give Bones kudos for having the balls to do that ig lol#maybe i'm underestimating (overestimating???) them idk#also just to clarify I don't wanna make it sound like I think Asagiri let the anime/Bones dictate the manga's pacing#like I'm sure these were his/their (him and Harukawa's) own decisions first and foremost#not that (if this theory is true) the anime had a major impact on how the chapters were split and that it-#-would have been extremely different otherwise#i'm pretty confident in that Asagiri does not do anything with BSD he isn't comfortable with#and he doesn't let anyone tell him how to write his story#I just feel like he worked with Bones to make this near-simultaneous release happen#BUT if this is the case I don't feel like it had any major effect on the writing/final product that is the manga#like the last handful of chapters have been so incredible#so I at least am still perfectly happy lol#(i mean i'm devastated and a nervous wreck but u know 🫡 in a good way lmao)#anyway 110 in two days please let this theory be true because I need some fucking hope already#please let Oda show up as Dazai's guardian angel to help (see what I did there-)#it would be the perfect way to end the collective season that is 4/5 with s4 beginning with Oda and now ending with Oda#Asagiri are you reading me are you picking up what I'm putting down please please a ghost Oda is long overdue please-#Oda Verlaine Adam just GIVE ME SOMEONE ALREADY 😭😭😭#MAYBE EVEN A TASTE OF THE FYODOR BACKSTORY TO TIE INTO HIM BEING IN ANIME UNTOLD ORIGINS. THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS
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do u write fics… and where could a poor heynhay fan find them…
do I have a secret ao3 yes but have I taken every step to keep it confidential from my awesome cool online identity also yes.
#also I haven’t posted anything in like half a year#I should crank smthn out writing is good for the creative muscles….#I’ve seen one or two mutuals of mine give kudos on a fic and im like…… do they know#ask#OH! but you could read my fic I wrote for the vld travel zine. that one’s public. just uhhh scroll way down on my blog#it’s here somewhere#well all my fics are public but this one’s publicly credited to me
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Going to sleep, but first, I just remembered the way the animators worked with Brooklynn's hair in Camp Cretaceous, gosh, this detail was fantastic:
#her part goes from all pink to reaching about her chin#to going well past her chin#to shoulder-length#and the black that's growing in...ugh they thought of it in the art department and they WENT WITH IT#also kudos to the expressions in this show#like...oh they're so good#absolutely in love with the eye-flick and then the angry snap in the first one#though I'm GREATLY amused by the “Brooklynn Hair Tucked Back” skin they have in the second one#like...she clearly doesn't actually tuck the hair back#the model already has it behind the ear#but the optical illusion of having that side away from the camera#brooklynn#jwcc#camp cretaceous#jurassic world: camp cretaceous#they both did and didn't have to do that with her hair#........thinking about how she might have reacted when she cut it after the island#as in...when she cut it did she think about how the hair changed with her?#how cutting the pink from her hair was cutting pieces of herself that grew on the island?#wonder if she kept it#or if she was just practical enough to be “it's hair it grew la-dee-dum whatever”#also wonder if she redyed it asap because the redye was done with Daniel Kon's Mantah Corp supplied stuff#there's probably fics about it#anyway#it's bedtime
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Thinking once more about the F/F AO3 stats issue. Really struggling with the urge to write "issue" there too, LOL.
I know that call-to-action doesn't always go well, and that I exist as a drop in the bucket compared to millions of Tumblrites & AO3 users. But the curse of seeing yet another post which discusses how horri-bad these stats are, when the differences within the individual fandoms is often so manageable. It drives me insane.
There's a couple versions of these "wow, M/M fics are more popular and that's bad because of X issue" posts that have screenshots of laughable disparities. Stuff like 500 more M/Ms than F/Fs. That is a genuinely amusing number, because with the help from a fraction of the thousands who share any post like that, this very scary gap would cease to exist.
So, anyway. I'm considering some sort of fandom roundup wherein I have folks vote on a fandom with F/F to M/M "disparity" which I will then run a "break the ratio" event on. Encouraging people to write fics until the ratio evens. IDK, is that something that people would be interested in? I could be crazy but this rubber room squeaks and I think the rats are talking about me.
#Textual.#ao3 writer#ao3 stats#Somewhat polarizing opinions in the club. Refer to my previous post about this as needed but myyeeeghhh. It really is nutty.#The number of posts & subsequently people who just point at the ' 'problem' ' with slack jaws. As if nothing can be done.#I literally write F/F all the time. I write fics about ladies getting nasty as well as fics about cryptic lass flirtation. It's fun.#My formative years were spent as a baby dyke. Be serious & take responsibility for your role in fandom. Talk about your favorite F/F fics.#Share them. Post them. Put kudos on that shit. Comment so the author feels good about writing more. Every time you share those dumbshit#posts about stat breakdowns and inter-fandom disparity. You have effectively told an author that their efforts to write a cool F/F fic are#worthless or pointless or meaningless because the raw numbers are immutable. Do you understand that? The actual tangible impact?#' '5092 M/Ms to 3074 F/Fs is bad!!' ' You are literally looking at 3074 fics tagged with F/F. How is that not so cool. Go comment on them???
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Moment of signing the security agreement with Germany
#🥹❤️🥹❤️🥹❤️🥹❤️🥹❤️🥹❤️🥹❤️🥹❤️#this is such a huge HISTORIC moment#especially after the past and what we did to ukraine#you have to understand that something like this never ever existed before in the germany ukraine relationship#this is BIG#we said as long as it takes and ukraines victory and we mean it#this also means were not going to pressure ukraine again into a minsk whatever#also nice to see ze so happy ❤️#after the very hard weeks and months and the depressing second half of 2023 this is a well need good news#and france will follow today#ze has all the reason to smile today ❤️#also on step closer to integrate ukraine in eu and nato until their officially part of it#and we even gave ze a big military package in addition#with lots of stuff they really need#germany you can be so motherfucking awesome if you want#some (!!!) kudos to olaf#mostly kudos to baerbock and pistorius and makeiiev and everyone in their teams who worked for that#same for the Ukrainian side
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played “slay the princess” and I’m thinking about monolithic again
#it is unfair how one of my favourite pieces of literature is a 100 kudos mcyt fic that only 4 other people can understand#and like. it isnt even my favourite because it involves hypno/xb. it is so well written it made hypno/xb one of my favourite pairings#and i cant even share it to people outside the fandom because it uses so many mine/craft mechanics#upcoming reblog with all my thoughts#also play slay the princess its so good#hhf
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i personally thought that the crow reboot was, sadly, pretty shite.
however, i do reckon it could have been good.
imo, the bare bones weren't completely terrible. i don't mind a fresh take on things—i welcome it, actually, as long as it's done well. but this wasn't. it just didn't hit the mark as it really failed to capture the essence of james o'barr's masterpiece and unfortunately the whole thing felt, honestly, almost boring.
if only they'd given us a bit more meat to sink our teeth into with the whole hell/purgatory/demon angle; shown us more of a time-skip montage with eric and shelly's relationship (it felt much too rushed for me to care in the way i wanted/needed to); if they'd managed to get the right mix of vibes... bc what we ended up with was just a bit off, like they kinda overshot and everything felt simultaneously too much yet not nearly enough, somehow.
overall, it just didn't manage to execute the majority of aspects well enough to pull off a decent version.
maybe a different director could have done better with the material? or maybe too much was scrapped in the edit and ruined what might have been? or maybe the adapted story just wasn't strong enough to begin with? who knows.
you know what i do know, tho?
that they managed to get one thing very, VERY right:
THEY LOOKED 100% SHIT HOT OMFG
costume design: Kurt and Bart, 2024.
#kudos also to the make-up dept (too many to list!)#wish dumblr would let me upload more than ten images bc there are so many great stills#bill skarsgård#fka twigs#the crow 2024#they looked so good#and were both great#sadly it just wasn't strong enough of a film#oh well#least they were pretty lol#ALSO#the music was great#the crow#kurt and bart#film review#cassidy reviews#all-or-nothing-baby#the crow 2024 spoilers
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i think. everyone should stop reading my most popular fics that aren't really that good and start reading the ones with 18 kudos that are significantly better
#this is about (just wanna be) somebody i'm proud of#yes i had fun writing it. but it's REALLY NOT THAT GOOD#also i cannot stress this enough: that fic was a fluke#it's NOT a good example of what i write. guys i'm so much better at the angsty character study fics#i promise i actually can get proper characterization. i had to sacrifice some of that for the light-hearted stupid cheesy premise#alas#no one in fandom actually cares about characterization#ngl sometimes i even wonder what the point of writing stuff in-character is if the flat#'characters reduced to a single trait that they may or may not even possess'#fics will ALWAYS end up being more popular than the ones with good characterization#anyway i know why the 18 kudos one is so low. it's the mcd tag. AND it's a gen fic centered around a character no one cares about#i wasn't expecting that one to do well#but it does suck that like. my most popular fics will never actually be my best ones#it's the same with bsd but THAT'S a whole other story#that's the phenomenon of everyone reducing bsd to the skk show and not giving the time of day to fics centered around anyone else#do u guys realize there are SO many other INCREDIBLE characters and dynamics????#like i was doing that bsd fic rec event on twt and almost all of the fics recced were skk#meanwhile i was searching for anything NOT skk bc idk other ships and characters deserve appreciation too??#and i don't even read much skk bc it's so hard to find anything that's. like. ACTUALLY good.#anyway. i don't actually care if you read somebody i'm proud of#but i hate that that's like. one of my most popular fics by a longshot#i have stuff that is so much better that people won't even glance at bc it's not tagged with the most popular m/m ship in the fandom#hello grace here
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ngl my first reflex was to check the wj tag before even thinking about watching the London M9 reunion..... welp
#widojest#personal stuff#kudos to all the lovely people keeping this tag alive btw#i miss the good ol' days when we were all looking for tiny details and interactions ahhhh#miss you guys hope you're doing well#we'll always have traveler con
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made this when i heard the ros finale dropped and forgot to toss it here they call me a dumbass o(-(
hi hello, it's been a long while since i posted here and i think i'll call it quits about now for this blog
i'm not super active on any tumblr/twitter accounts these days but my handle is @aureminate if anyone wants to see art once in a blue moon
right now i don't know if i'll deactivate roomofshitposts or just leave it up, or i guess if anyone wants to have the handle they can send me a message?
and that's all from me, goodbye !!
#room of swords#hira speaks#i had to distance myself from the fandom (discord mostly) cos of health problems and also just server-internal issues#but that's water under the bridge now and i hope the discord is still active and doing well#last i checked it seemed to be going pretty smoothly with the new mod team so kudos to them!#i look at the ros tag every so often and y'all holy shit#the art y'all are posting is so nice auguahughugh#gonna miss this blog but i really have nothing else to post and besides i don't have the same#passion for ros/webtoons that i used to especially because i didn't really enjoy the direction the story went in towards the end#BUT that's all personal gripes. and i'm happy to see the tags are still alive + people are having fun with it !!#congrats to toon and their art assistants/ghosting for carrying through to the finale#and thank you for the shoutout in the afterword :]#to anyone still checking this blog: feel free to message me for my discord if y'all wanna keep in contact/chat abt things#HOW LONG ARE MY TAGS OH HOLY SHIT#i feel like an old man on a rocker on the porch reminiscing on the good old days#peepaw is going back to retirement now goodbye o7
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saw a post on my dash that was like "where is X fic about X thing, it NEEDS to exist where is the fic i will pay in kudos!!!"
like no. pay in comments and by pledging ur undying loyalty to the fic author or dont pay at all. kudos mean nothing for someone pouring their heart and soul and time into something that they're posting for free on the internet. give feedback. be loud about how much u love something. dont just slap a like on it without saying what u liked about it.
#random reagan rambles#i mean listen#kudos are all well and good but as a sole metric they are DEPRESSING#they are depressing by themselves#posting a fic or fan art is like leaving it in a void and hoping someone shouts back#it's dark and it's lonely until the stars come out and start speaking about what they like about a thing you created#COMMENT! ON! THINGS!#REBLOG THINGS!!!!!!#JUST DO IT!
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Idk about other people but I’m always a slut for that old man and I think you got amazing taste so pls rec anything you like anywhere
I think you will find that my taste is actually kind of garbage but like, in a fun way that makes you go "wow really???" rather than being so embarrassed for me that you can never look at me again. of course that would be fine too haha you know, don't yuck my yum etc but I will try to put together my unfuckable old man rec list right here, right now, and we can all just live with that
(mostly because titling a post makes me cringe it's too much attention, and I'm a stereotype)
These come from a section of my actual Fic Rec List, which is massive (by my standards), lives in a googly doc, and is much more embarrassing. this list generally won't include any ship stuff and if it does, i will say so. mind any and all tags.
This section is titled: The Redemption Narrative (lol)
1. Empty Nester - egomaniac (THE WHOLE REASON I MADE A NEW LIST. BRO AND NANNA!!!!!!!!!!!! also bro/grandpa, aka “he fucks that old man”, but not the most important part to me, because as good and tragic and hurtful as their relationship is in this fic, it is dwarfed, to me, by the kindness shared between Nanna and Bro, which once again, to me, is the Crown Jewel of the whole story. PLEASE read this please if u have time A++ endorsement)
2. dualshock desertbloom (the whole fucking series. i hardly need to say why, you should just know by now. i call dd dirkfic, because it is The Dirkfic, u know??)- geometrician (🔶)
3. sun’s angle - dellaluce (they can orphan it all they want but i never forget. very old, but never GETS old, u feel)
4. Hexadyne Meetings - Saesama (the rarity of bro and nanna fics could absolutely destroy me but i really like the interactions between all of the guardians in this one)
5. Flop, Flutter - cthchewy (technicality, big nasty soulless bro yikes sorry)
6. The Estrangement Thing - NoBrandHero (there’s a theme here listen to me don’t be doubtful it’s worth the trouble, there is brojohn in there, which is not my thing at all, but it is NOT relevant to what i like about this fic, and i think if u read it, u will realize that immediately lol (*i am not including second best even though that fic is literally my favorite ds fic ever because it is NOT bro centric))
7. cold front off the pacific - drow_sy (i actually read this bc geometrician bookmarked it lol but it punches down on u and i like that)
8. insect clockwork - SORD (aka, if it was written pre-2013, i’ve read it)
9. Flashing Lights and Raisins - RadioMoth (the strider manpain tag exists for a reason)
10. Hide - Plajus (OG post-sburb type shit. we love to see it)
11. Blackout - lantadyme (bro strider sick fic. Wrow. old shit. I don’t even know how i have held onto these for this many years.)
Things that don't quite fit into the category necessarily but It's MY List Not Yours:
12. signs at sundown - geometrician (I don't need to say it, do I? I think we understand, I do think that. Imagine being canon together with you favorite author. Imagine it. Wow.)
13. No Homo - Laurasauras (bro/dennis. yes, dennis from gamebro. yes, it's good i've said it before i'll say it again. i'm into it, i think you should be too.)
14. flash - problemsloth (this shit is just. absolute chef's kiss to me. i don't know how else to explain it. young bro. he's perfect, and perfectly dreadful)
15. play ball! - spacepuck (this is a johndave fic but it has this very stressful atmosphere around bro and dave that kinda fucks me up and also, delights me beyond reason. it tastes like summer to me. sandlot lookin ass. an old favorite)
#this list is. shorter than it could be and longer than i meant it to be#this is by no means a Full List there's lots of other stuff out there#rabid raccoon rehab is for everyone obviously#and i am not a person who reads a ton of ship fic so if there are good fics that also have ships in them i probably just haven't read them#lol sorry about that#sloth has a brodad that's on my to-read which i think will probably be added to the actual doc but at this time i have not read it#i want to say i take recs but the truth is they will probably end up in the shameful pile of Marked For Later that grows taller and taller#every day that passes by#well anyway i just wanted to talk about empty nester like an insane person so#i want to say u can just like. plug in all the things i have excluded on ao3 for bro's tag and then sort by kudos and these will pop up#but the truth is that i have also been dragging some of these around with me for literal years and there is a Reason they are top kudos'd#to me#anyway yeah okay sure whatever sorry this is just. hells of embarrassing it's all homestuck it's all bro related sorry#for non bro centric fics consider begging on ur knees or it will never see the light of day#actually i think you'd have to pay me or weasel your way into my server. it's not happening is what i'm saying#ANYWAY OKAY FINALLY IT IS DONE
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Finished entry 65.
I’m going to need 2-3 business days to recover
#Holy shit.#like I was enjoying it up to that point#but 65 was just#on a whole different level#seriously I could write a whole video essay on Tim’s operator induced hell sequence ALONE#incredibly well edited too. Disorienting as all hell. Genuinely made me really nauseous and uncomfortable.#and then the hospital bit?????#dude the guy who plays Tim fucking killed it#Like I really felt like I was watching someone have an honest to god meltdown#it was so uncomfortable and raw and so so good#just. Kudos man.#Sophi watches marble hornets#marble hornets
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How does one go abt rewriting a fic that’s already posted and in progress on ao3? Like are yall just editing the chapters right there or taking it down and reloading it or what?
#finally logged into every email account on my phone and got a norif for grave and weep. it’s at 500 kudos now after like a year of#inactivity. someone wished if it’s happy second birthday. I’m a lil emotional#I don’t want to overhaul it at all I just want to actually change the sentences + add some scenes to chapters#bc the old writing is… well I am certainly better now lol!#I would like to get to it this year. on top of the everything else. it’ll feel good to finish it#I just wanna clean up some chaps#but then is it like rude to do that without having a backup of the og somewhere?#honestly at some point in the future I might take it down bc I want to make a comic based heavily on my oc storyline in it#but that’s future comic Mina’s problem lol not mine#ramblings
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