#This is why I can't write nice things

[imagine-to-be-a-pike]

I will never forgive fandom how unfair it is about Arthur

Dark Merlin It's usually good angst. You know, Merlin had had enough. Dark Arthur? Arthur is a fucking rapist, a monster.

Merlin guilty? Merlin feeling guilty and comforted by the entire cast. Arthur guilty? Arthur doing the worst things possible and someone razing him to the ground

Merlin always gets these nice things. always flowers, courtship, everything. Found family? Everyone comforts Merlin because big bad Arthur. (literally almost every Merlin "found family" is everyone loves Merlin and treats Arthur like shit)

Merlin gets an apology. Arthur? My parents will love me faster than someone will apologize to Arthur in fanfiction.

"suicidal, self-harming Merlin" but Arthur has no right to have mental problems (a whole lot of people have wanted him dead since he was born)

Protectivr knights? Always about Merlin.

Even the fucking omegaverse. Alpha Merlin is a nice calm creature who pretends to be a beta. Alpha Arthur... wild animal, keep Merlin in a cage.

No. Just no.

(forever grateful to those stupid British people that arthur never told merlin he was fat. because the fandom understands that something is a comedy if merlin says it. if arthur it would be ,,abuse")

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

Amphibia is proof that the best character writing tip is to make everyone at least a little bit problematic

[mariyekos]

Crack fic idea: POV of a police officer chasing a robbery suspect who ends up running into DMC to escape/grab a hostage. When the officer opens the door, he finds the suspect standing frozen in the middle of the room, because on the opposite end by the desk, an angry Vergil's standing there stabbing a surprised Dante. This stabbing pretty obviously happened before the robber showed up. It's only through the hand, but the one guy is holding a whole giant samurai sword, the guy getting stabbed has a gun in his free hand, and there's kind of a lot of blood.

The other officer comes in after POV guy. Officer 2 looks over the scene, then starts to arrest the suspect who's still so shocked he doesn't really fight the handcuffs. Once the suspect is cuffed, Officer 2 starts to walk him through the door and tells POV Officer it's time to go. POV Officer is confused, because uh, sir, there's some pretty severe domestic violence going on and he doesn't know if that gun's registered, and even if they ignore all the normal police/violence/safety issues shouldn't they call some EMTs??? Or at least ask the guy getting stabbed if he's okay???? (To which Dante calls out "oh yeah I'm good!" confusing poor POV officer further)

Officer 2 just frowns and shakes his head. "No, they've got this. Right Dante?" To which Dante cheerfully replies with some small talk that makes it obvious he and Officer 2 are acquainted. Vergil gets tired of the small talk and rips the Yamato out of Dante's hand, walking upstairs. And when POV Officer starts to ask something else, Dante basically just waves him off with some sort of comment about how Vergil's just grumpy, honestly Dante kind of deserved that one, he'll admit he was being a bit pushy. And then waves goodbye when Officer 2 says they really need to get back go the station and book the suspect.

As they leave, POV Officer asks what's going on. Officer 2 basically just tells him not to worry, and not to write it in the report. That's just Dante. Dante tries to keep clear of the police, the police try to keep clear of Dante, and everyone's happy. He's helped out on a handful of cases when he just so happened to be in the area, he's gotten accused of some property damage a few times, it all evens out. You just don't mention Dante. City Police actually have a code for it, if they ever absolutely have to. But today they don't, so they won't. They caught the suspect. That's that. The suspect ran into one of the many abandoned buildings in the area and they caught him. Nothing else of note.

Oh, and if POV Officer is worried about the hand, he shouldn't be. The police here have known demons were real for years before Redgrave, and they're pretty sure Dante's one of the nice ones. When he says he'll be fine, hell be fine. Officer 2 has some good stories about him getting shot in the chest and getting tight bacm up, actually...

...

And so a crazy day comes to an end. The suspect's been caught, the streets are safe, and that's that. Nothing else happened. Nothing at all.

If POV Officer starts sprinting in the opposite direction when he sees a certain tall, white haired, blue eyed, blue wearing man when he's walking down the street later that week, it's for no reason at all.

[mylittleredgirl]

i'm so charmed by the letter trapper gets back from his wife in "kim"

louise mcintyre is hilarious actually

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

really frustrating how it seems like these days no matter what I do, if I consume media in any form, I'm either going to stumble or step into sexual sin

[stormyoceans]

finished the boy next world so have some quick random thoughts:

the intro song slapped (not to be blasphemous but it gives me jeff satur vibes)

the blue vs yellow lighting was visually and narratively delightful

i want to raid phu’s wardrobe and steal his entire sweater collection

tee and nalin the only bitches i respect in this house they should have kissed and be an established pairing (THEY ARE IN MY HEART)

[slam dunks achi and rome into the trash can] [kills cir's parents with her mind]

i needed more of dark!cir serving capital letters CUNT

they should have focused more on the fantasy aspects of the story instead of whatever they did with cir’s family like it’s almost upsetting to see how GOOD ep 8 was compared to all the others

having jin actually legitimately honest to god fr be able to read minds no explanation given was such a wild thing to do

choices sure were made in episode 10 none of them good

i said it before but it's worth repeating. i do appreciate this show's commitment to represent different kinds of sexual activities other than penetration. we do need more of that in BLs

MAME's idea of 'romance' is just not my thing im so sorry ;;;;;;;; like. i CAN turn my brain off and enjoy her series but friends. that shit's ROUGH

so many little things reminded me of vice versa it's a miracle i got to the end of the show without walking into traffic

[light-wrath-paradise]

Someone stop me from adding yet another fucker to Chatterbird Corporations or so help me god. Come on I thought we had AliveWorld for this kind of fuckery.

[maryasmorevna]

why are you, as an adult in 2024, still hung up on reylo. why are you still mocking the shippers. why do you believe yourself to be superior only because you dislike a stupid ship from a fucking space fairytale. girl (gnc) get a grip

[buttercupshands]

My emotionally immature ass still doesn't understand a thing of how people can pity characters

Not like I don't try to understand it! I just... Can't? Understand that??? At all???

Like why would you pity a character for their sad backstory or whatever, and poof suddenly a character is pitiful as hell, and suddenly they're understandable because a person can call them a wet kitten under their care

And that's something I can't do for some reason

And again, not like I didn't *try*, it's just a thing I can't understand at any capacity other than 'some people do that to show their affection of that character, that's their way of caring

Granted talking to more people makes you understand them better! Doesn't help much! But it's something!!

[alex-strike-is-transgender]

Tbh I'd much rather your reason for shipping something is just "I wanted to" or "it sounded cool" or "I find it cute/hot" than "there is not platonic explanation for this"

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

jfells making george and bertha get a divorce is literally THE most jfells thing he could ever do to me 😡

[paradoxlemonade]

This creative writing workshop is going to bring out the raging hater in me

[not-poignant]

You’re so cool for writing so much Underline the Black this month!! As a reader, I’m so incredibly grateful. As a human, I’m so incredibly inspired. 🤘📖💛

Ahhhh thank you anon! Omg this is so sweet and encouraging, I appreciate you a lot <333

I'm pretty chuffed about it myself, and it feels good honestly to have the rest of the story mostly mapped out. It's so weird though being so close to the chapter that brings Crielle back into the story! O.O

[rockyroadkylers]

why do i always end up writing seasonally inappropriate things 💀

[lipstickmarks]

me: *wants to write ALL day, literally counting down the hours until I can write*

me: oh boy! Finally time to write! :) *opens laptop*

muse: *crickets*

inspiration: *out of office*

energy: *on dnd*

motivation: *on vacation*

[maybankiara]

no way did i just come up with an original f1 story ahhhh