#LOL SORRY TAG CLOGGING AGAIN

[ternterntern0]

gift art for my friend who is very nice to me

[chimerahyperfix]

Run down your list. You are currently on your way to intercept the King, before he gets to the house. Whenever he gets there, it’s a bloodbath; metaphorically and physically. How many more times do you have to see everyone get frozen? See the King smash those who stand before him? You can’t see it again, you can’t you can’t you can’t, so you sneak out to face him instead. If he can’t get to the House, no one has to die, right? Simple as that. The endless night of his approach hangs right over Dormont, so you have to catch him, NOW.

You make a pit-stop at the Favor Tree anyway. It’s tradition at this point.

You did… something, here. Before you started looping. The hypothesis is that whatever you did at the Favor Tree caused the time loop you’re trapped in. You know you wished, a ton— at least ten times, or maybe twenty? All in as many different ways you could think of. Stretching outside the realm of how you know to wish. The desperation drove you to doing random things in hopes it would save you, and— well, it kinda has? You’ve doomed yourself for everyone else’s sakes.

That’s all well and fine enough, you rationalize. One person for many. Who knows what’ll happen if he actually takes the House; you don’t want to find that answer out.

The Favor Tree is huge. It’s a nice tree, lots of leaves, lots of shade. You could probably climb into its branches and never leave, get trapped in a web of tree bark and leaves like a cage, birds and squirrels and other such animals as your jailers. Maybe that wouldn’t be too bad. You could try that, next loop, if you failed here. You know you’ll fail, because nothing has worked so far. Your mind flashes with images of blood-stained floors, of screams both by and for many, many people. Hands reaching to you, hands reaching out.

Breathe. The memory fades away. Your hands curl into fists.

You depart, to fight the King. To stop the King.

———————

The King is very tall. A couple stories high, you’d reckon. He towers over you, the trees and everything else. The clearing you’ve stopped him in is very close to the House. Too close for comfort. Shouldn’t have stopped at the tree. Everything is swamped with the scent of burnt sugar.

He looks down at you— do you look like an ant to him? One singular ant? Wouldn’t that be interesting. A single blockade to the anthill, standing its ground. One mistake and he’ll turn you into a dark stain, or an icy statue. One mistake is all it’ll take for him to rip through the House like paper.

The Craft Bomb is heavy in your pocket. The backup potions, seven or eight of them, all in little tossable vials, toxic and burning and acidic, weigh down the other pocket of your lab coat. You remember drinking at least three of them. They all killed you. Painfully. Curse your desk for not being clean before you started looping. If you’d just taken a few minutes before you wished, so many deaths would’ve been avoided…

But that’s not important now. The fire in your throat, as imagined as it is now, still hurts. Your voice has taken an odd rasp to it now, the consequences of toxicity and blind reaching for water forever etched into your very being.

“How have you done it?” The King asks. You can’t see his eyes, past his endless, wild mane of hair and his gauntlets covering his face, but he sounds both confused and enraged.

You don’t answer, instead brandishing the bomb you worked so hard on. You made it in record pace, this loop. It too reeks of caramel.

The King simply moves a hand. You know what’s coming, and you move before he does. The curse of being so, so tall, is that you’re faster. The bomb goes flying, and you toss the potions all in one go for good measure before skittering out of the way. The King lunges for you as the bomb explodes, sending waves of fire and craft energy everywhere. Blinding, deafening. Its force knocks you to the ground.

He still moves, though. Not enough. Damn. Maybe you need two bombs… do you have the materials for a second one? You hope, as he swings his giant gauntlet down onto you to mash you like a bug, that he sees the weird shade your eyes have taken lately. A pair of blaring, dangerous warning signs.

You’re not scared anymore. This has happened many times.

You still scream.

His attack hits, and through the veil of absolute agony, there’s a tug on your stomach. Back to the drawing board.

[xolbor-art-creator]

HI... i love kazumi pov fics & i'm a sucker for timeloops... what're you cooking up boss!

I'M ACTUALLY REALLY GLAD YOU ASKED ABOUT WHAT I'M COOKING!!! I love Kazumi pov fics AND I'm a sucker for timeloops too, so here's a short explanation to some of the things regarding this AU

So it starts off like canon, Mishima gains three votes in the pink room, and as he gained the most votes his collar starts to burn just as expected, his head tilts backwards off his neck, and Kazumi Expires. Except, Mishima has an odd dream where he talks to a certain suspicious looking fellow, suddenly Mishima wakes up again.

Now Mishima's got to find out how to get his student and hopefully everyone else out of the Killing Game somehow, but also has to deal with the loss of certain things he didn't even realize he had to worry about losing, and the possible cost of the Loops and also a certain friendly 'policeman'.

I'm considering making this an ask blog or an actual full fic with multiple chapters if I ever get out of writers block, but I might just keep it as just an AU I post art about sometimes.

[nightfuryblue19]

aaaaaa

[sydmarch]

ok you wanna know how I IMMEDIATELY knew that evrart fucks? it all comes back to this alfred molina interview from frida:

[outfoxt]

ok so according to the results from this poll the drawing games will be held at 18:00 CET on 7.1.24! i'm really sorry to everyone who can't play due to scheduling conflicts; hopefully we can organize another event where more people can play! the game will be hosted on the blackbox viewing party discord (send me a dm if you want to play and are not in that server)

[sanguinala]

some quotes i cannot stop thinking about from recent lifesteal streams: 

“i can’t get therapy because how do i explain twitch and youtube and the lifesteal smp to a therapist? and how twitch chat says stupid things that make me really, really angry. but also that chatters coming over from youtube are different from regular twitch chatters. and worst of all, how do i explain mapicc?” - princezam

“you should sue mapicc for cyberbullying and make a video called “i took my minecraft enemy to court in real life” - poafa

“i’m going to be honest, ro’s build is ugly as shit but i could never tell him that... oh wait is he watching the stream?” - mapicc 

“please don’t be lying to me” - mapicc to bacon (bacon was, in fact, lying to him)

“zam actually started trying and in the most absurd base i’ve ever seen” - mapicc sort of dragging subz’s eclipse federation base, RUDE

“these mfs are pissed” - spoke leaking the current mental state of duality duo to jaron after bacon, clown, leowook et al. ruined their plan

“i’m scared of having more allies, i just want to cling to subz” - princezam (wholesome?)

[ceiling-karasu]

Alongside the ear issue, I’m also looking at scaling back the muzzle masks.

Like looking at these:

And maybe turning them into something like this

Or even this (don't mind my pencil draft)

Might actually a good change.

I don’t think I need to worry about the hands as much. Outside of episode one, they only have four fingers and it feels like half the time the ‘thumb’ and ‘pinkie’ are the same size in the show.

[allyriadayne]

Hi I saw you also love Aegon (TGC charm is definitely working there not gonna lie) but there is also other reason for my sympathy for him; you know even though writers did everything to make people hate Aegon and root for Rhaenyra this didn't work with me and I am just dying to have a talk about him. I have been thinking about him after being literally barbequed by Meleys. Alicent reaction to seeing him in such terrible state. In book it was said Helaena never visited Aegon while he was lying in bed with maesters surrounding him and Aemond being a regent but after episode 10 I am sure Alicent will spend most of her time in his room. Just imagine Aegon waking up, seeing her, telling her 'mother I did what was expected of me (what Alicent expected of him) and fought Meleys and Rhaenys and they are now dead, I have suffered great wounds because of it, are you proud of me mother?' I am in tears, their dynamics is so precious to me, I know many people say Aemond and in future Daeron will be her favourites, but her relationship with Aegon is one of a kind and I think every eldest child can relate to it in some way. Aegon's shoulders carrying his mother's expectations, doing everything she has asked to, knowing it would never be enough, it never evoke such praise as with Aemond, but doing it over and over hoping this time mother will appreciate his trying, that she would know how hard he tried for her and will acknowledge his doings, will tell him that she is proud.

And then I think of him returning to King's Landing after Sunfyre killed Rhaenyra. He is her firstborn and yet he would be the last one because the rest of her children would be dead at this point. I think Aegon before his death will realise that the only one who was there for him, would fight for him, even challenge Rhaenyra ascending the Iron Throne and putting whole 6 kingdoms at the verge of war (so also going against she said to Rhaenyra, going against upholding the kingdom) was Alicent.

Tom saying Aegon thinks his family hates him and just imagine after his return to King's Landing he is informed his brothers died fighting for him, that his mother suffered a lot as prisoner for him and only then he would realise how much they loved him, what things they did so he could still wear the crown and win against Rhaenyra and blacks. Going from thinking your family hates you, then seeing them dying for you, facing cruel treatment as prisoner, to having a clear proof they cared for you all along and now most of them are gone and the only one left by his side (because there is no other place she would have been) is his mother. Sometimes I think it was always Aegon and Alicent against the whole world. How am I not supposed to be emotional about all of this?

Hi!! thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with me :) I agree with you there, aegon and alicent have such an unique dynamic that i myself can't help but being drawn to it too. he's her firstborn and therefore all her hopes and expectations rest on him even if he doesn't want them at all, or that she can't seem to like him (he's a sexual predator and alicent sees herself in his victims). to crown aegon means she will have reached her (her father's) end goal so she must push through it, make aegon fit to be king no matter that.

oh yeah, the positive reaction he received when he was being crowned will definitely play into their relationship because he'd want to maintain it and please alicent at the same time. though he's selfish and entitled, that he wants to please alicent in this way doesn't mean he's /only/ doing it for her, he's doing it for him too because being king affords him much more power than he has as a prince, over his family, alicent, the whole kingdom. as you say, it will be delicious when it's alicent who stays with him after fighting rhaenys and meleys. i think for him it will be a more concrete way to understand she does care for him.

and yes, at the end, canonically (!) aegon is thinking a lot about his family and what they did for him, he did commission those giant statues of aemond and daeron lmao. "Sometimes I think it was always Aegon and Alicent against the whole world. How am I not supposed to be emotional about all of this?" soo true, aemond is in the riverlands, helaena dies (rip), daeron is too far, they are effectively the king and queen in king's landing. they are the ones who had all the weight of the succession and the kingdom in their shoulders. for sure, i like to think that while aegon was an asshole to everyone, he reached a sort of understanding with alicent at the end to go through it together, as the last ones. her war became his war, and everyone died for it.

[weirdsht]

Ohh I love the one with a reader that tears up unintentionally LOL. What if reader touched lots of onions in the kitchen without anyone knowing and then gang found them, and then reader tried to wipe away their tears but it only got them tearing up more. They try to explain that she isn't really crying but failed lolol

Is this fluffy enough haha

(i need to be comforted i will genuinely cry if one of them comforted me)

Clogged Pipes - LoTCF & Reader

notes: There's no way for anyone to enter the kitchen without Beacrox catching them so I made do with using poor Choi Han as the medium

tags: no gender specified for reader, chaotic, everyone bullies Choi Han

English isn’t my first language so there will be grammatical errors

Pls don't repost my work anywhere without my permission

Constructive criticisms and any kind of interaction are more than welcome

Requests are open and welcome

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You were just trying to take a bath, but as you opened the tap no water was coming out. Which leads you to go downstairs to inform someone of the situation. As you walk down the stairs you see a black blur followed by… white balls..?

Oh, it’s Choi Han getting kicked out of the kitchen once again.

Behind him is Beacrox. No, not Beacrox. Rather, an insane number of peeled white onions are thrown by Beacrox.

Whoosh!

A white onion is coming your way and you instinctively catch it with both hands. No one seems to notice you though, as everyone is busy doing their own business.

Thump!

Choi Han crashes into you making you let go of the onion you were holding. Because of the impact, tears unknowingly gathered in your eyes.

“Oww…”

“_____-nim? I’m so sorry!”

Choi Han helped you stand up and bowed. Apologizing for bumping into you.

The mention of your name caught the attention of everyone within earshot, including Cale’s.

“What are you doing here? I thought you said you were going to stay in your room for a bit?”

You were about to answer the redhead when Raon suddenly shouted.

“Choi Han! What did you do to _____? Look they're crying because of you!”

That caught the whole villa’s attention.

“Choi Han why are you bullying– Oh my, what did Choi Han do for you to tear up so much?”

Rosalyn tried to joke but stopped in her tracks when she saw your eyes.

“Wait no. Choi Han didn’t do anything this was just from the impact– owww”

You raise your arms to wipe your tears as you try to explain what happened. However, as you did the sting of the onion got to your eyes and made you tear up more.

“Choi Han just how hard did you slam into _____-nim? Look they can’t even raise their arms without crying harder.”

Cage bullies the poor swordmaster.

“I told you to look where you were going.”

Was Cale’s additional scolding.

“I’m sorry…”

“Wait no I sniff I’m not crying because sniff of Choi Han. It wasn’t his fault sniff.”

You tried to explain but the sting in your eyes and the aroma of the onion surrounding you caused you to cry even harder.

“You’re lucky _____-nim is so nice they’re willing to cover for you.”

Beacrox’s gruff voice said as he stepped out of the kitchen.

You can barely see what’s happening. Eyes stinging so hard from the onions and tears. It felt as though someone poured liquid chilli on them. With your mind in a haywire, you forget that there’s still one step left before you get off the stairs.

So when you stepped you didn’t take that into account and expected flat ground.

Fortunately, Choi Han was near you and he has quick reflexes.

Unfortunately, Choi Han's hands have also touched peeled onions. He was trying to peel and slice onions in the kitchen before Beacrox caught him.

Getting close to Choi Han’s oniony hands just made your tears form faster and larger. You were crying so hard from all these onions that you were hiccuping.

However, since no one knew it was because of the onions they thought Choi Han didn’t control his strength when catching you.

“Ya Choi Han be careful!”

Cale exclaimed, unable to hide his feelings. If Choi Han really did hurt you then you must have a broken bone or something.

“Tsk tsk tsk”

Ron clicked his tongue in disappointment while looking viciously at the swordmaster.

Poor Choi Han didn’t know what to do. He made sure to control his strength. But was it still not enough?

“No guys. I’m hic o-hic-kay. I promise hic.”

There’s absolutely not one person that believed you. All of them thought you were just trying to reassure Choin Han. 

Even the man being bullied by everyone did not believe you.

“Oh no _____-nim! Please you don’t need to try and convince everyone that you’re okay for my sake!”

Choi Han looked at you pitifully and tried to wipe your tears with his hands.

And oh my god did your eyes sting harder than they ever did at the contact.

…You just wanted to inform everyone about the lack of running water and take a bath…

[wings-of-ink]

Hehe, sometimes it's nice to be kept on your toes until the twist has come and all angst gone in a second right??

I'm sorry for clogging your ask box, no pressure for answering ofc, I'll just leave my ask reaction here politely!!

MC coming to RO with a pout. "We have a problem. Huge problem", and holding their lovely face in their hands, "We haven't reached a daily kisses quota yet!"

And then starts showering ROs face with it, attacking!!!

(we have to repel angst amiright)

LOL, you are correct again, Anon. And now worries about living in my inbox, it’s warm in there, and I’ll come around to feed you when I can.

Very cute ask answers below:

Oswin:  Very embarrassed, very down to kiss too though. Several kisses in, he’s a bit overwhelmed, “Just how many is this quota!?” He breaks out into laughter before long and there is a very high likelihood of MC getting pulled into his lap for the rest of the day.

Zahn:  Meets the energy with no problem. They are so good at kissin', especially when there’s a quantity to satisfy. They want to kiss aaallll over, just to be sure the quota is thoroughly met.

Duri:  “You’ll have to work for it!” *plants a quick kiss on MC and runs away* MC and Duri basically play kiss-tag for the day, laughing like kids.

Rune:  Sits there with a sour look while being showered with kisses, the longer it goes, the harder it is for them to stay grumpy. They give up and kiss back, but slowly and all over MC’s skin - sweet and sensual. MC is a person they savor above all else.

???:  Grabs MC and gently pins them, keeping his very tempting lips just out of reach. “Quality over quantity, my dear.” MC is taken and breathless by the time he is done.

Thank you for the ask, Anon! ^_^

[fallowtail]

So curious what you thought of last night's Ghost episode! I LOVED Trevor's tenderness with Escarghost (lol) but wasn't a big fan of the Isaac storyline. Plus, it was a reminder that the writers really aren't revisiting H-money---even when he thought he was being sucked off he didn't seem to have any sort of special goodbye for her or register her as anything more to him than the other ghosts are, and Hetty was kind of rude to him most of the episode.

Long reply incoming because I have a lot to say about the current status of H-Money and you gave me an excuse to think about it >:) Loved it, but I love all the episodes- there really hasn't been one I've walked away from disliking outside of a some "aw, I wish they had done that differently or gone into it more" disappointments here and there haha. Shelly the Escarghost was a stand out snactor who portrayed this ethically dubious snail very artistically and he is a very good boy who deserves to slowly rotate his way up the shaft over the next few days. The Isaac plotline did fall a little flat for me but I don't hate it at all and I am genuinely really interested to see where they're going to go with it. Hetty and her desire for appliance erotica may be one of my favorite moments of the season, lol, and the Jay & Pete shotgun argument is delightful.

(read more because this got a little long and i don't want to clog the tag)

Re: H-Money, I don't see it that way personally, but I also view them as a ship a bit differently than it seems the current main consensus/desires for them has turned into this past year- I do not personally think they are currently secretly in romantic love with each other, and are still at the stage where they're still working through realizing and understanding that they're actually friends and that they genuinely care about each other and do have things in common. Him not having a monologue for her specifically doesn't ring as anything that "dooms" the ship or whatever to me personally- if anything I think him pronouncing a deep affection for her or having anything meaningfully specific would be pretty out of character at this moment- their canon relationship isn't the same as what their fanon one is, the canon one is going muuuch slower and is not really as standardly romantic as people seem to want it to be, which, don't get me wrong, I love the fluffy fanon stuff, I really do, I've written some of it and encouraged a lot of the others!- but their canon-dynamic of ["enemies" to friends with benefits to exes to girlfriend/boyfriend to "exes" to friends with benefits again to exes again and now back to friends who are maybe sleeping together again (no idea! could be, could not be, i love the mystery!)] is endlessly more fascinating to me and I do think it's something important to keep in mind that what the show is doing with them is not the same as what the fandom is doing with them haha. Hetty was rude to him, but, well, that's just...Hetty, her social skills despite being a socialite are...not the best, and I do think she actually was genuinely trying to express interest and empathy for him, just in a very...Hetty-like way, lol. Hetty is rude, Hetty is blunt, she makes inappropriate comments, that's just inherently part of her character and mutually part their relationship, even- like yes, she makes the comment about his dog being wormfood by now ("sorry, your dog is 35 years old, my bad" absolutely killed me) but it followed a scene where she is gazing at him very empathetically and tenderly and giving him space to be vulnerable with them about his guilt and grief, and gives Alberta a scolding look for commenting about his friends body dumping him, lol. (For a toss of hope for you that is not just me going "I don't see their relationship the way other people do" LOL a lot of their current interactions are very interesting to read into if you want to read it through the lens that they're sneaking around again, because this sort of behavior is exactly what they were doing last time!) Keep in mind this is only episode 6 of 22, we have a long way to go just yet, we're not even at the half way point! Thank you for the ask & I hope any of this makes sense <3

[tetraandtheapples]

stares at you and fluttering my eyelashes

i like your silly words a lot they're very yummy and delicious

Oughghrgrg first askkkk....... Oughgghhhhhghrg RAGHRR

Thank you so much..... Just generally but I actually got a lot of surprise support from many people (3 of them! Woaw!) from my Swapdream ramblings..... Swapdream makes me TWEAK RAGHGHG

I want to reply to all of them but it's been wayy too long since I've used Tumblr..... I want to harass people about Swapdream because they reblogged my reblog but I don't think that's good Tumblr etiquette LOL. But I also don't want to leave them on "read"!!! But I also also don't want to reblog their reblogs because the post was kinda long and I don't want to clog up my own blog GELP. Maybe I should just make a post with their posts as screenshots, tag them and leave my responses there LMAO. Structured......

GOughg sorry I'm very quickly coming to the realisation I am a huge huge huge yapper when there's no character limit HEHAHA. Again TSYM HEHAHAHA bats my fluttering eyelashes back at you...... twinkle twinkly!

EDIT: I just realised. This ask probably wasn't about the Swapdream ramble but instead about the "Killer megalovania" thing. I'm just very Swapdream brainrotted cries SORRY (I still very much appreciate your support!!!! I'm just not used to the fame.... heh.... twirls hair)

[nastasya--filippovna]

Hi! Your blog was recommended by a fellow mutual. Do you mind, please introduce me to "Around the world in 80 days"? Spoilers are fine, I don't usually watch something without seeing spoilers 😆

'Ello 'Ello 'Ello!!!

Indeed my good sir you have come to the right place. Since you have asked sit back and enjoy because I will now most certainly yap. Also I am really sorry for taking this long to answer but I have so many asks in my inbox it gets hard to answer all of them on time and my queue is literally clogged rn.

I don't know if you have watched the other adaptations of this book but this one is brilliant (unlike the others). In fact the magic of the series is that the show makes the book actually good! As a person who comes from a country colonised by the brits when I first read the book something about it felt off. Turns out it was the heavy dose od colonial gaze! And the movie (the Jackie Chan one) did nothing to fix it. Also both the movie and the book get a lot of cultural things wrong. The series however fixes it. I love the way it celebrates and respects the diversity of cultural experiences, where indigenous peoples in every country are shown as for lack of better word 'the good guys' and the colonisers as 'the bad guys'!

There's this scene in India where the village chief (who is a woman) just ends the feigned British superiority right in Phileas Fogg's face and the beauty of it is that he accepts it (instead of wanting to assert some toxic white guy masculinity). So the writing is immaculate.

Also I saw a lot of people for saying it made the story too woke. Heck yeah it did. If saying racism sucks, making the main romantic plot between a white woman and a black guy and showing women as the smart and strong ones at every turn (like when they are in Arabia), saving the men, and the men as compassionate and not toxic and macho, and ending classism is woke then yeah!

I really liked the fact that they erased the romantic arc with Phileas and Auoda as seen in the book that was so deeply disturbing on so many levels (white guy saves Indian woman from oppressive patriarchal structures in her oppressive backward society by marrying her. how wonderful! /s Mr. Fogg can we take a minute to talk about the oppressive treatment of women in your own Victorian society!) Love that instead they made him to the old man father figure to the two main leads. Passepartout is the lead! And how wonderful to have a black person play the romantic charismatic lead in a previously heavily white story. I like the romantic plot they did give Phileas tho. Beautiful, tender, heartwarming and a lot more in character with how the series version of him is!

The crucible is again wonderful. I love how the rewriting fixed A LOT of the problems with the book's plot. It gave the story a purpose. Phileas's actions have a deeper purpose not just a white man's gamble. Passepartout's actions have a deeper reason. Not just some dim-witted side character who's tagging along for the joy ride. The crucible is not just some policeman going after them for no reason whatsoever. It's far more complex than that. The villain has deeper motivations (wink wink @spiteful-summer-of-sixteen !) that are intertwined with their backstories.

Can we talk about the acting!!! AMAZING! All round brilliant performances. Also pretty people everywhere! Leonie Benesch has my heart! And how pretty is Ibrahim Koma!! David Tennant's hair in this thing deserves a whole sperate award. That moustache is supposed to look bAd. supposed to. But he's making it look GOOD! how?

Cinematography. wonderful. Filmmaking and direction. Immaculate.

Full of wholesome scenes that will make you cry from the warmth of it all, and sad scenes that will make you cry from the tragedy of it, and silly scenes that will make you laugh so hard that you'll be having tears in your eyes.

10000000000/10 would definitely recommend. In fact I will sneak into your house and make you watch it! lol jk.

Did I miss something???!! I don't think.

[flowersforbucky]

Do you have any general advice for someone who wants to post their writing but is scared to? I write a lot. But I have never posted on tumblr or anywhere else. I don't know why but I'm so nervous to.

had to add a keep reading link because i ended up rambling way more than i originally intended to 😅 sorry if this isn't helpful or isn't the kind of answer you were looking for but here's a summary of my experience with writing/posting on tumblr and some general tips -

i completely understand being nervous. i feel nervous every time i post my writing. i'm always worried that people won't like it, that it'll flop, etc. when i first tried posting bucky fanfiction about 5 years ago, and when i posted eddie munson fanfiction a couple years ago, just about everything i posted performed really poorly. i had a couple pieces that did alright but for the most part, just about everything flopped. and it was very discouraging, i would let it get to me too much for sure - i'd wonder how other people got their work to get so many notes so easily when nothing i did seemed to help.

so when i started writing/posting for bucky again a few months ago i was really nervous, since i hadn't had much luck in the past. i decided to give it a shot anyway, and told myself that i'm doing this for fun, and if people like what i put out then great, and if not then i wouldn't let it get to me because at the end of the day i'm doing this for myself, because i want to.

everything i've posted for bucky the last few months has surpassed my expectations, truthfully. i don't really know why all of my one-shots have performed so much better this time around than when i first tried to write for him back in 2019 - maybe my writing has improved? maybe i'm just getting lucky and posting at the right times? maybe it's the fact that i write more smut than i used to and the fandom seems to love that? maybe a little bit of all of those things? i'm not 100% sure, but i'm happy to give you some tips that i think work for me, at least.

also disclaimer i definitely don't think i've been doing this long enough or am a "big enough" writer within this community to even be giving advice LMAO but since you asked!!

i usually post on wednesday or friday evenings and i've had good interaction on both of those days, however fridays have been the best and i think i will be sticking to friday evening posts for the most part in the future

i usually post between 7:00 - 10:00 pm eastern time, most often around 9:00 pm - if the time you post doesn't seem to work well, try a different time with the next post

tags tags tags! add the most relevant tags first, and avoid adding tags that are irrelevant. so when i post for bucky i add tags such as the following: bucky barnes x reader, bucky x reader, bucky barnes, bucky barnes x you, bucky barnes smut, etc

write a brief summary for the piece that will draw people in but not give tooooo much away. also always give appropriate warnings

use the "keep reading" feature. to be completely honest, if someone posts something that's 500+ words and they don't use the keep reading feature, i'm instantly going to get annoyed that it's clogging up the feed and scroll past it lol. i personally like to insert the "keep reading" link a couple paragraphs into my fic so that people can read the first tiny bit of it and (hopefully) be interested enough to click the link and keep reading.

don't be afraid to reach out to other writers in your fandom and initiate friendships. i know this can be super intimidating because they usually already have mutuals that they are close with but what's the worst that can happen with trying? most people here love making new friends/mutuals and want to be supportive of new writers, though i know it doesn't always feel like that. not everyone that i've followed/interacted with has followed me back but a lot have!

tease snippets of upcoming fics before posting them (and make sure to add a bunch of tags so more people see) to help people get excited, draw in new followers, etc. pick a few lines of dialogue, or a specific paragraph or whatever, that you're particularly proud of and screenshot/copy & paste it and post it and basically say hey here's a snippet of an upcoming fic! i don't always do this but i like to on occasion

lastly, and this piece of advice won't necessarily help your writing perform well notes wise, but i think it's important to remember: write and post what YOU want to write and post. this is a hobby, this is supposed to be fun, and you are not getting paid for this. if you don't want to write smut, DON'T write it just because it's popular and you feel like you have to. if you don't want to write reader inserts and prefer OCs, then write an OC. if you prefer writing one-shots and drabbles over multi-part series, then write one-shots and drabbles! of course readers are going to have their preferences and that's fine, i have my preferences when it comes to reading fanfiction as well, but it's not your job to appeal to every reader out there. it's your job to enjoy this hobby as much as you can and write things that you're proud of.

[atla-confessions]

I've come to vent about my relationship with Rozin of all things. I must warn that this is NOT anti Rozin confession! There's literally nothing wrong with this ship, but...

For a long time I thought it was the only genuinely good and interesting ship out of all ATLA and LOK ships. Despite having little to no screen time, I was nevertheless hooked by Roku's and Sozin's dynamic. And how could I not? Childhood friends turned into bitter enemies with all the angst and heartbreak it entails? *chief kiss* Rozin just had that kick that other ships didn't have to me. I mean it in the nicest way possible, but everything just felt bland and boring in comparison. Most likely because I'm a drama queen who loves screwed up stuff. In my head and private notes, I would make Rozin WORSE, I would add things that didn't happen in canon, that would NEVER happen in canon, that would plunge those two into a new dark abyss I made just for them. In my head and private notes, I would make Rozin BETTER, I would give Roku and Sozin a chance to reconcile, to learn from one another, to finally have a relationship they couldn't have in canon. I would come up with crazy AUs, one of them even became a baseline for my main crossover story.

I mean it genuinely that this ship was IT for me. And it was like that for 5 years...

Until it just... Wasn't anymore.

The overall ATLA fandom, unfortunately, doesn't share my sentiment. The arts and fics and hell even meta posts that would examine Roku and Sozin's relationship was extremely rare. All those things I did with Rozin privately ? That was basically all that I had. I kid you not, Rozin felt more like a fandom joke, than an actual ship. The ship tag was clogged with the same repetitive "haha, Roku and Sozin were exes" "haha, Roku and Sozin were gay" shit. A joke that was repeated over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. With no changes, no new punchline. It was funny the first couple of times, then it lost the punch, then it became annoying and then... those jokes became enraging. I was becoming SICK of them.

I would much rather have there be no new Rozin posts, than the ship tag being cluttered with. the. same. shitty. unfunny. repetitive. joke. At least the lack of content would motivate me to actually share the AUs and hcs I made in private. It would be a challenge, a drive. But, the fandom is dead set on seeing them as "just angsty exes, lol".

Oh, but that's not why I decided to write here. You know what I'm about to say. The upcoming Roku centric book, that, of course has scenes that are almost hand-crafted to pander to Rozin shippers.

I know I should be excited. I should be happy. My ship is finally getting attention! Getting official interaction since, what? Over a decade of NOTHING?

But, I felt nothing.

At first.

Then, when I realized that I felt nothing I felt... rage? Sadness? Despair?

I used to LOVE Rozin. What happened? I should be excited. Why am I not?

It has been 5 years of that. Of Rozin being worse than nothing. Not even a ship, but an inside joke among ATLA fans. I would've been fine if the book interactions contradicted my hcs, I would just make new ones or change the old ones a little. But, I got tired. At this point, I feel nothing for the ship. Maybe annoyance. I definitely think I don't like it now. And it's sad. It's almost tragic.

I love Roku and Sozin as characters. And I used to love shipping them, as another way to explore and study them as characters. But now, I think, I will just block Rozin tag and dismiss any ship context if I do happen to start posting my ATLA fan art again and people would ask of I shipped them or not. I don't. Not anymore. If you really want a ship content with them, well, I suppose I have my OC x Roku ship, but, I'm certain no one would be interested in that, so I'll just keep it to myself.

Sorry for the long rant. Sorry that it sounds so dramatic or pathetic. But, I feel better after writing everything here. Maybe I can finally leave this all behind.

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