#Story time in the tags

[fandomsandfairytales]

OooooOOOOOOO this is fascinating! So much ANGST.

I was not directly tagged but I count as someone who wants to join 😉

Possible spoilers for the next chapter of "but for the look in his eyes" under the cut, for anyone who sees this post who cares. (Probably no one, but just in case XD)

It all clicks together for Tyelpë. 

Mairon had looked vaguely familiar to him, as many Ainur did, for they often wandered throughout the elven communities and cities of Aman. But now, he could put a name to the face in his memories from the handful of times he had walked through Aulë’s forges with his father.

Mairon had been a Maia of Aulë.

Since he had defected to Morgoth, the Noldor had begun to call him Þauron, but Tyelpë hadn’t connected the whispers at the parley with this Maia.

And although Tyelpë could recognize him now, Mairon looked somewhat different than he remembered. Maybe it was because it was so long ago that Tyelpë had seen him, or maybe it had something to do with joining the Enemy, but Tyelpë felt sure that he would have remembered those piercing golden eyes. [something about a restless aura]

Wasn’t he one of Morgoth’s higher-ranking servants? Tyelpë wishes he’d paid more attention to discussion in camp of the Enemy’s forces and followers.

Anyone who wants to join in, feel free!

WIP Whatever Day

Thank you @queerofthedagger for tagging me! Here's a (very rough) snippet of an untitled one-shot that came out of nowhere and has been rattling around in my head the past few days:

“Invitation?” This is the first Maedhros has heard of it.

“You were…away,” says Maglor, guilt coloring his words. Away, Maedhros knows, means that he had gone deep inside his mind, deaf and blind to the world around him. “Right after Thangorodrim fell. I did not want to disturb you.”

“Show it to me,” Maedhros demands. 

Maglor does. A small letter, their uncle’s neat handwriting across it. Eönwë wishes to speak with you, it says. To offer peace and a way forward. Come to our camp, nephew. Please. 

“Peace,” snarls Maedhros, “does not mean a Silmaril.” He’s heard such a foul promise before. 

“It could,” Maglor insists. 

“You were going to go by yourself?”

“Yes. Just - just in case.”

In case it was a trap. In case the whole camp of grieving, angry elves turned their swords on the remaining Sons of Fëanor. In case Eönwë’s judgment was cruel instead of benevolent. 

“No. Absolutely not.”

“Nelyo - ”

Maedhros can see it. The iron around his brother’s wrists, the gag shoved into his mouth. He can see his brother forced to kneel, stripped and beaten in the bottom of a ship - so similar to the mines beneath the mountain, dark and stinking with very little air to breathe - then thrown at the Valar’s feet. No mercy, not for kinslayers like them. 

They do not deserve it. Maedhros knows that. But - but - 

But just because such harsh judgment is deserved does not mean he will allow Maglor to be put through it. 

“No,” Maedhros says again, and he grabs Maglor’s hand. Hard. “You will not go and parlay with them.”

You will not go and face danger in my place, he thinks.

You will not be punished for our sins, no matter how great the evil it is we have done.

You will not leave me.

Tagging: @lordgrimwing @dreamingthroughthenoise @camille-lachenille @echo-bleu @tethysresort @tathrin and anyone else who wants to join in. No pressure, of course!

[exhaustedwriterartist]

I may be tired and delusional, but I'm still alive and kicking.

[simsmedievally]

At the recreation center, Elyas bumped into a childhood friend, Stacius Harris. They were inseparable as children, but as teenagers, having to transition into the harsh world of adulthood, they had lost contact. Elyas had met Sarah, and knowing he had to do what was expected of him he married her. But he felt he needed to tell her that he... didn't experience romantic feelings for her that way.

There was only one person he'd ever felt that way for. And seeing him again, all those childhood feelings came rushing back to him. Sarah said she would be for him no matter what, even when he told her that he preferred men, so he knew she wouldn't fault him for this.

But he couldn't help but feel the guilt weighing on him. Not only was he betraying Sarah, who he loved like a best friend, but he was taught these feelings were wrong. A moral failing. He could suffer serious consequences were he to act on them, even if Sarah accepted him despite it.

To put it simply, he was in a bind.

[fandomsandfairytales]

Happy Birthday, Max Way! 🥳

The cookie was delicious, albeit more sugary than I remembered that type of cookie being. 😂

@thegreenleavesofspring look, I celebrated Max's birthday! I was going to draw a motorcycle on the card but there wasn't a lot of space and it would've been fairly complicated. I really liked including the star, though.

[iguessitsjustme]

I'm bored so two truths and a lie time - hair edition why the fuck not

Is it strange to do a two truths and a lie about my hair? No idea. I'm gonna do it anyway.

[fandomsandfairytales]

YESSSS THIS CAME UP ON MY DASH AGAIN

This is SO COOL THANK YOU

Update: A couple things I discovered in checking out the code/script—

Two people left feedback 2 and 3 weeks ago (that is, 2-3 weeks before 5/2/24) saying the script wasn't working, even with deleting and reinstalling it. So I'm going to try it, but it may not be usable, we'll see!

A user figured out that there's a bug where if you're posting or editing a fic of your own, the script will add some random text to the bottom of the fic text entry box. However! There is a fix—another user put detailed instructions on what to change in the code so that that bug no longer happens: check out that fix here.

Update #2: The script works for me, yay!!!

It's super helpful to be able to just...take notes either as I read or when going back and skimming through. Also, it tells me how many characters I've used up in the box, so I don't have to make one whole comment and then divide it up into chunks, which is often what I end up doing XD I've used it for comments on one or two fics so far, and I love it.

In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

[crowkip]

yeehaw, baby!

[hugs-and-stabbies]

The self-awareness on this guy 😞 someone pls send him an "are you bi?" quiz STAT

[muppetfreak]

Mr. Riordan, it is truly a pleasure getting to experience your second draft.

[aalghul]

once again thinking about jason as duke’s robin. he’s ~4 years younger than jason, and that puts him at 8-12 during Jason’s time as robin. that’s prime time to get attached to your local kid vigilante before your own life goes downhill.

and if we try to keep duke’s meeting with bruce in zero year + duke’s age (so he can remember the meeting and hold that conversation with bruce), he has to be around 8. if he starts following batman through the news at that time because of the mess that just happened, the robin he sees is probably jason. I’ve literally connected the dots

[scissorcraft]

bam! post-canon mirabelle design! i'm slowly working through the family :3!!

[fandomsandfairytales]

Y'ALL MY COPY OF TCOR GOT HERE THREE DAYS EARLY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I'M SO EXCITED TO READ IT

[fandomsandfairytales]

IT'S ME

hyperfixation sucks I think just a little too hard about a guy who isn't even real and I could start crying any second

[hypnoticmoth]

Some sketches of Vox’s life after he lost everything, as he tries to get his life back together (and eventually his fellow Vees)

The sorta context is here ~

[asteraws]

my clown college grad project from december last year 🎪

[okthatsgreat]

fake screenshots of a dating simulator where it becomes extremely obvious that the romanceable characters murdered the previous protagonist and are trying to hide it from you