#also this fanfic was very well-written!

[ryssbelle]

Poppy for N2 au, it took me so long to make her design cuz I didn't really know what I wanted to do only because I feel like her design is pretty perfect.

But then I just thought about fun outfits to give her or outfits that I would find comfortable if I was wearing them and it all came together.

Poppy here is pretty much the same as here movie counterpart, as nothing really changes on her end of things other than having more insight on Branch through his brothers, and through Lief. Shes also a bit more understanding a bit earlier on because of it but it doesnt do much to change her own character arc I would say.

Bonus

Part of Poppys design was based off a design I had made for previous rulers of Troll Village/Tree

Namely Queen Protea who I designed as Poppys grandmother

Named after the Protea flower which part of her design is based off :D

In the context of this Au Protea was the one who conceptualized the tunnels while her son, King Peppy, was the one to follow through after her death

[cluescorner]

I cannot imagine being a Damian stan right now. You've got both Zdarsky's bullshit (where he clearly doesn't give a shit about your boy) and The Boy Wonder (where Juni Ba clearly gives so many shits about your boy) coming out on the same day. The whiplash must be insane. I hope y'all get some nice warm soup for your efforts jfc

[thebestusernamepossible]

Literally going insane, might have to write fanfic for the first time in 2 years because the people™️ do not get my favorite female characters like I do and I feel the insurmountable urge to write her. I’m going to bite drywall why don’t ppl see her complexities. PLEASE STOP WRITING HER ETHIER AS DOMICILE MOM OR BITCH (or just for shipping) she is so so cool please guys please.

Also while I’m here, fandoms tendency to shove women in the ‘pure powerful goddess who can do no wrong’ box and then proceed to never give them an actual narrative role other than like ‘supportive’ or ‘took out a few background guys’. Like why DOES this incredibly badass and complex female character just get shunted into doinging some cool flips, getting praised about it (she’s the strongest fighter, so feminist wow) then never getting actnowleged as a 2 dimensional character.

I saw this a lot when I was in the Batman fandom, particularly with Cassandra Cain. She is a highly complex and interesting character, but in fandom she’s kind of shunted to ‘Badass therapy dog who takes care of the men’. Because even on the slight chance her backstory is brought up it’s always never delved into and mostly used to make her etheir more tragic and in need of support on a surface level or to let her be compassionate with the men characters who get their actual problems foucused on. It’s a unqiue kind of frustrating because it’s like almost letting the cool female character be cool, but it’s more like the idea of a badass women is shoved in your face, maybe joked about (or if we’re lucky she gets to beat up a few bad-guys), but ultimately treated like a cardboard cutout. Interestingly this actually isn’t entirely a female character thing, it’s also common with like old grandfather/grandmother characters and the elderly in general. But it’s usually badass women from what I see. :/ Why can’t fandom explore their stories (people do but why is it so much less), why can’t they be the prtags of cool AUs or time-travel fix-its, or crossover events

Idk I think I’m just frustrated, and I typed out more than I thought I would. Also Ive seen what happens to some other posts complaining about fandom misogyny, so please know if you’re a TERF, fuck off you have no place in this discussion. We will never agree, and frankly all of these points apply to canon Trans Women characters. Don’t say shit ill fucking end you.

[dysfunctionalcreature]

ok I've never posted proper fiction writing on here before but here's a melancholic drabble I wrote about what might've happened if Hilbert survived and if the Hephaestus crews wore dog tags.....

Dog Tags (Deaths of your former self)

Doctor Alexander Hilbert doesn't have a clue how Captain Lovelace found their old dog tags. Something tells him they shouldn't even be on the Hephaestus anymore, the SI-5 should have scrubbed away all evidence of his old crew years ago.

And yet, one afternoon Lovelace shoves her way into his lab, her neck jangling with seemingly five sets of dog tags. He stares in confusion as she shoves one at him, the name on it reads "SELBERG, ELIAS".

"Found these in a box in the storage room. I don't know what the hell they were doing there, but here-" She says as she flicks the dog tags - his old dog tags - closer when Hilbert hesitates to take them. He grabs them after a moment and tucks them into his pocket.

"That's everyone?" He asks, gesturing at all the chains floating around her throat.

"Yup." She says briskly as she turns toward the door, it seems this conversation is done.

But she pauses in the doorway for a moment, barely long enough to notice, wonders to herself, "Does he want anyone else's tags? Does he care? He had been close with- No, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter for a second what he wants or who he might miss in his own fucked up way. He doesn't deserve any of them." She leaves quickly.

A few very near-death experiences and one very uncomfortable spaceship flight later they're all back on Earth. Goddard hasn't killed them, and they've gone through enough interrogations, signed enough paperwork, and been threatened about the consequences of revealing what happened enough times to finally be allowed to return to society.

He still has his dog tags, though he's not called "Alexander Hilbert" anymore. A new name, a new job, start again, try again, pick up the broken pieces and keep going again. He still has the dog tags, "HILBERT, ALEXANDER", "SELBERG, ELIAS". Dmitri never got his name inscribed in metal and looped around his throat in-case he died. Nowadays he doesn't know if that was a blessing or a curse.

He's not sure what to do with the dog tags. If he was a poetic man he might take them to the coast, any coast, and throw them as hard as he could into the ocean. If he were a sentimental man he might bury them, maybe even find his way back into Russia, trace his way to that small graveyard in the smaller village where his family lies, bury his old selves next to them.

But Dr Hilbert wasn't poetic or sentimental, and neither is he, so he doesn't, it would be a ridiculously impractical waste of time anyways. But, Dr Selberg had his moments of poeticness, and Dmitri Volodin was nothing if not sentimental, for better or worse.

So he does think about it, about traveling to the coast and throwing his dog tags into the sea, no less cruel and deadly than the void of space. He thinks about burying them in cold frosty ground, stumbling his way through a eulogy he can half remember fragments of his mother reciting. He thinks about it, walks through the steps in his head, plans it out, precise as a dissection. But he doesn't, won't, can't act on any of it.

So he keeps the dog tags with him, tucks them into a little bag which he puts in the small pocket on the duffel bag he hasn't let out of his sight or grasp since they returned, full of his surviving research, his most and only prized possessions.

He isn't Dr Hilbert anymore, or Dr Selberg, he won't ever be either of them again, but, he'll keep them with him for the moment. Not indefinitely, he'll dispose of them at some point he promises himself, he must, but not yet, not soon, he'll keep them with him just a bit longer.

[thatisratbehavior]

i am FERAL i am GAY i occasionally get fixated on literary classics(?) but thats OKAY

[spooky-alien]

omg aisle 10 sounds so familiar ... Do you remember anything about it you can share with me? I randomly thought of a bunch of old creek fics recently (tension tighter than a loaded gun, nonrefundable) and enjoyed going down memory lane

omg aisle 10 sounds so familiar ... Do you remember anything about it you can share with me? I randomly thought of a bunch of old creek fics recently (tension tighter than a loaded gun, nonrefundable) and enjoyed going down memory lane

Honestly I was researching bc I found fanart, it's a creek fanfic from like 2012! There's an entire wiki page about it

UPDATE!!!

Ffn was down when I posted this and since then aisle 10 has been up again, so here is the link to that

[saviourkingslut]

not to be about opera again but to be about opera again. as an art form it has the reputation of being super stuffy and something for snobs who don't know how to have fun only but honestly this was one of, perhaps even THE main theatrical entertainment for centuries. i wish people knew how hard these things can go and how engaging they can be. like characters kill and die and fight wars and (almost) commit human sacrifice left and right. characters fall in love they mourn they're ecstatic they cry they're furious it's an extremely dramatic and emotional art form! and i understand that opera does not appear approachable bc of the general conventions of the art form but i promise old works can be fun and engaging if you go watch them with some preparation beforehand (reading the libretto helps) - not to mention not all operas are old bc there are so many modern operas which engage with topical events! also the music slaps.

[katyspersonal]

:(

[bookwyrminspiration]

???

GIRL WHAT!!!

[cowboy-robooty]

okay. calling all yandereheads. does anyone know any stories that has a yandere but like they have a sidekick (that doesnt really want to be their sidekick but is forced into it and decides to make the most of their situation and ends up acting like a silly friend to them) and at first they hate their sidekick and want their ass dead but keep em around bc their sidekick helps them stalk their crush but then the story does a switcharoo where the yandere realizes sidekick is their #truelove and goes yandere for sidekick

[firendgold]

Hi,

What do you reckon Harry’s post-canon relationship is with Albus Dumbledore’s portrait(s)?

Hi! For the short answer I would say "they infrequently communicate and are on pretty good terms, for a man and a portrait".

It's strange, but I never imagined Dumbledore having any other portraits outside of the Hogwarts one. Not because he didn't deserve them or people didn't want him to be everywhere, but because I feel like to the end, his first priority and interest would have been staying within Hogwarts' walls.

It's why the Cursed Child ideas of him being in at least... three places?... and wizads using his name as a Merlin-level prayer/expletive barely 30 years after his death made me go "uhhh. NO". And not just because Dumbledore's portrait being in Harry's office makes one of the CC conflicts not make sense because the chapter where they 'settle their differences' would have happened years earlier. (Unless I'm recalling that wrong.) The authors may be better at understanding Dumbledore in some aspects than 90% of the fandom, but they did NOT get that right. Dumbledore wasn't even deified like that when he was alive. Lots of people would soften him postmortem, sure, but there'd be shit-stirrers like Rita too even long after. His death would have been seen in a similar way to real historical figures. You don't see anyone (sane) deifying Thomas Jefferson or Martin Luther King Jr. (I'm sorry, I don't know enough about UK history to name relevant figures...)

But back to the question!

Harry came to a place of understanding Dumbledore and choosing to trust his motives and plans relatively quickly in Deathly Hallows (a few months), but I do think that he would still be working things out once the dust settled and Voldemort's lackeys were all rounded up. I think he probably wouldn't visit a lot. We know he didn't go back to Hogwarts to finish his education for some effing reason, so I could see him dropping by the office after Hermione's graduation to chat. Then I could see Harry not talking to Dumbledore's portrait again until he was about to get married or have his first child. Just kind of sharing milestones with him without getting too close or personal.

Some of this might be because he still wouldn't be sure (in a world where CC doesn't happen) whether or not Dumbledore loved him or not, even though he now knows that Dumbledore had hope that he would survive since Goblet of Fire. I think the answer to "does Dumbledore care about me" is a far more important question to Harry than the fandom's "did he know I would die and set me up to walk the path Voldemort put me on". We all know the answer to the latter already. Harry cares about the former.

Harry also knows that portraits are a mere shell of the people they're painted for. You notice the way he and Sirius don't pay Walburga Black much mind in year 5? If we go by fanon, Sirius should be overcome with Angst instead of irritation every time he has to put up with her, but he isn't because he knows it's not her. It's just an impression of her left behind to comfort (or confound) the living.

Harry, who by the end of the story has faced death more profoundly than most people alive, does not need the same kind of comfort or reassurance that other characters might glean from portraits. It's why he doesn't ask for talking pictures of his parents, why he doesn't chat much with the headmasters' portraits, and why we only get pangs of sadness from him seeing Dumbledore's portrait for the first time in year 6 and a few reassuring lines from him to Dumbledore's portrait in year 7 after everything's over. Harry's already talked with the real version of Albus and said everything he needs to say. In my opinion, the rest of his life would just be checking boxes until they get to meet properly again.

[lightdancer1]

Every time I see a 'Tara cheats on Willow with Buffy' scenario:

Which is a surprising bit, I just think that if you want Dark Willow to have an entirely valid axe to grind and to be pushed with the straw that breaks the camel's back in Season 4 or 5 that's exactly how you'd get it. Willow forgave Tara pretty swiftly for the events of Family......because in the end there was no literally smacking her in the trauma button with a sledgehammer. This scenario, after the way things ended with Oz, would 100% be that.

Though if I wrote it, it'd be the same casual 'secrets for me, transparency for thee' standard Tara kept up and biting her and Willow just shrugs, moves to L.A. and stays there quite happily and leaves the Scoobies to themselves in Season 4 and avoids the whole Dark Willow thing entirely while being drawn into everything with Angel Investigations instead thinking she was out but whoopsie.

Since it's also Willow I see her doing this in radio silence and deciding to repay the same treatment with compound interest and one fine day her friends just realize she didn't show up for a while and then she's in Los Angeles doing her own thing and leaving people to the mess they made in Sunnydale. Would it be an entirely rational response? No. This would reopen old wounds with someone who really didn't handle them well in the first place and as Willow gains the power to do increasingly greater damage without the Hellmouth to screw with her magic, she'd have no real reasons to go back to Sunnydale at all.

Doesn't mean the Scoobies would just sit back and accept this or that either Buffy or Tara would admit that maybe it was playing with fire to do this in the first place given canonically Buffy has the self perception of a rock and Tara at multiple points is a shameless hypocrite, though her own bad actions never went to 'destroy the world in a suicidal spasm' levels as Willow's did.

[cyndaquillt]

'Ranveer Khan of India' such an interesting name, very likely is a mishmash of two Bollywood actor names (Ranveer Singh? Ranbir Kapoor? + SRK? Aamir Khan? Salman Khan? Any other Khan) but also on the level of Gauri Khan's name with connotations of inter-religion/community family situation that I'd really like backstory about

[marklikely]

the results of that "is fanfic a book" poll have shown me one thing and its that this site never graduated past that absolutely insufferable phase in 2013 where everyone acted like every book is the single most sacred thing on earth

[quatregats]

Also in unrelated news I have channeled my hatred for Hornblower receiving ~Visions Of The Future™~ into an AU in which Hornblower is literally a sibyl and I am using it to further all of my delightful and horrific Hornblower agendas <3

[whomst-the-hell]

the fact that the marauders fandom treats altyd, an explicitly au fanfiction, as “canon”, referring to it for characterisation + background characters like grant, who is at this point just a character and not an oc, inspires both joy and frustration to me daily

like on one hand that’s hilarious

on the other hand i dont like altyd