#and all the fixit fics

[creaturetongue]

i know we're all very excited for steddyhands acknowledgement but "love triangle" and "competing for hearts" could also mean a very sad season finale for Izzy and i for one can't wait for the angst and pining that is going to create for fandom while we wait on season 3.

i mean shit the edizzy content I've seen in this fandom is already on another fucking level and now we have confirmation of feelings (platonic or otherwise) between them?? and potential canon stizzy interactions??? we're gonna be eating good

stede ditched ed at the pier and the girlies went insane what are they gonna do when stede has to leave izzy behind during a raid? or when edward doesnt get the chance to say sorry before something unthinkable happens and izzy is just... gone? or has to leave for their own good?

[the-music-maniac]

I've never been able to get over stories where the abused becomes the villain. True of any media that has this trope, really, but especially true of Sephiroth. He makes my heart hurt.

Created to be nothing but a weapon, abused and manipulated and experimented on from childhood. Sent to go fight Shinra's wars for them, desensitized to killing from a young age, but still managing to hold onto his kindness somehow. They made him into a legend larger than life for their propaganda, while simultaneously de-humanizing him in the worst ways, isolating Seph to the point where no one around him, not even his closest companions, even realized that he needed support. There's hints that no one around him really knew his background by the things they say - the only one who was aware of the extent of his mistreatment was his abuser. He was a high functioning individual - who would be arrogant enough to assume that The General could need help? Who would dare?

And I don't blame Angeal or Genesis or Zack for not realizing. Along with them simply not knowing there was an issue that needed addressing, Sephiroth probably kept it from them on purpose - whether by choice or necessity or outside influence or self preservation.

Sephiroth just wanted a normal life too. He didn't like having his picture taken, but endured because he had to, and because other people wanted it of him. He didn't really care to compete for the title of hero with Genesis, even though Genesis didn't seem to believe it. He took care of his troops, and we see in that one cut scene where he failed to save a soldier, that he still got upset over stuff like that. All those years of killing and losing his men to Shinra's missions and he hasn't truly become numb to it.

And then nearing the end, after first being told he's a monster by one of his former friends, and then later spending a week in that library not eating or drinking or sleeping, left alone to his devices because who would assume that the most competent general of their time can be in a vulnerable state, and shouldn't be left alone right now?

After learning the "truth" about his origins, and after a lifetime of systematic abuse, no longer believing he's even human anymore. And then the only person offering him a hand in his darkest moments is the one he shouldn't have taken. But at that point - could you blame him? Whether or not the post nibelheim Sephiroth is truly him or just a puppet for Jenova I'm uncertain about, but the end result is that from start to finish - Sephiroth never manages to break free from the whims of those who wanted to use him.

And because he gave into his worse demons - he won't receive a happy ending. He won't be saved. There's no comfort for him, no opportunity to rest and heal and grow. His childhood wish to live a normal life will never come to pass.

Watching Sephiroth's story unfold is like watching someone drown in front of you while surrounded by a crowd of people. And the one drowning doesn't even scream for help because he's been conditioned to believe that the suffocation is normal.

I will NEVER get over him. It doesn't excuse what he did after Nibelheim, I'm aware of that, but I can't help but remember that people only ever had praise for him while he was burning villages down in Wutai on Shinra's behalf.

It doesn't excuse his actions. But I will NEVER be able to forget all the ways the world failed him first.

[aaabatteryy]

DOES ANYONE KNOW OF ANY LONG BILLFORD FICS THAT ISNT JUST SMUT??????

[anoray]

The Bad Batch Creators:

Oopsie, looks like Tech's dead after all...

Tech Fans:

[caralanavaja]

Man I think Mouthwashing broke something in me. I've been crying all damn day. My therapist will hear about you, Jimmy.

[cashmere-caveman]

ngl i kind of love when media has a designated Unsaveable Guy. like yeah there will be an everyone lives nobody dies au but this guy is still dead

[b0rtney]

Do I write a the 100 fixit fic where John Murphy goes back in time and is like “oh god I hate this shit I CARE about these fuckers now ugghhhh” and the biggest problem he faces is that 1 he has to communicate effectively and without starting fights if his time travel is gonna mean anything at all (and he super wants it to matter if he as to relive all this shit again) and 2 does he try and wingman Clarke and Bellamy (his two favs let’s not kid ourselves) or Clarke and Lexa (who tbh would have ruled the fucking planet if they had more time)

[agerefandom]

Regressor!Adam (Frankenstein) Headcanons

the monster, at first, does not know what age is, and once he learns, he is no more certain of what that means for him 

age is yet another way that he is not right: he is both adult and child, pieces stitched together just like the limbs that move under his control 

his mind works quickly, as if it was ready to grow, but there are gaps and absences, and in anger his mind seems so empty of everything but the blinding emotion 

he watches the family in the forest, watches the generations of father and daughter and baby, and he knows that there is no place where he belongs in this hierarchy 

but he wants, he wants to be held and taught like the child: he tries to satisfy himself with the overheard lessons and the stolen books, but he’s desperate for something that words can’t satisfy, some kind of truer contact

when he reaches out for that, he goes to the elder, prostrates himself at his feet and is called son in a kind and welcoming voice, and then everything goes wrong, his hands red with blood and his feet crunching on twigs as he flees 

he makes dolls out of corn husks and rough twine, cradles and teaches them the same way he wishes someone would treat him, but often the irony, the insufficiency, burns hot in him and the husk dolls fall to pieces in his grip 

reading Paradise Lost, he finds a figure that speaks to him in Adam, but there is no God to give the monster his lessons, to bless him with land to tend and animals to name: he takes Adam’s name as a promise to himself, that he will hold his own Creator accountable 

still, he struggles against himself: the child who wants to beg for acceptance, the child who wants nothing but to scream and tear and ruin, the adult who burns for a colder vengeance, and the adult who sees that Victor Frankenstein could be useful (could give him a family, a wife or a sister, and all he’s ever wanted is a family, please give him a family, he’ll do anything to get one-) 

good weather brings out the child inside, some happy space inside him where he can almost forget all he’s been cursed to never have: instead there is soft moss and warm sunlight and mountain streams that run over his feet, deer in the bushes scattering from his footsteps: but as soon as  storm clouds gather, he remembers his first night of life and his anger comes back to him, drowning out any enjoyment he had 

[gothamcityneedsme]

these are supposed to be getting smaller but they keep growing. a disease.

[c0rpseductor]

i don’t even believe in Emet Lives Fixit like that’s not really my bag i just really like when people draw him with the big scar

[mengyan]

giggling and kicking my feet. so glad someone else is a connoisseur of toxic yuri

new oomfie i am so thankful for your service to toxic yuri nation 🤝🤝🤝 i could talk about weiqian all day. they outsold all other ships of the drama without contest to me!!

[epersonae]

fake fic title for the fake fic ask game!

"i got a beach house in malibu (and I'm probably gonna hurt your feelings)"

Two very different stories came to mind for this:

The OFMD surfer AU that lives in my head rent-free: Ed was a big name in surfing, now is a judge after his big knee injury (hasn't surfed in years, bored of the whole scene), and Stede is trying to learn how to surf at 45. Also, you know that photo of the goth house next to the pink house? Yeah, that's where they live.

ALTERNATIVELY

A deeply fucked up follow up to one of the endings in Back On My Beat, probably the third one; in which Mary and Carlita have just the most destructive affair possible.

[fake fic ask game]

[deesarrachi]

Writing patterns tag game!

Rules: list the first line of your last 10 (posted finished) fics and see if there's a pattern!

(I haven't posted fics in... a while BUT I've been writing a lot that WILL be posted once a certain ball gets rolling. So. Also I'm very sorry, these are literally all from the same verse so we'll see how that affects things lmao.)

The first time Will met Eddie, he wasn't technically Eddie. (July, 1986, Indiana)

2. The turn of summer to fall had always been Will's favourite time of year. (August 1997, Illinois)

3. It started in mid-January, when Argyle had excitedly bounced home from the bowling alley. (February 1990, Indiana)

4. It was remarkable how fast Steve got used to the constant sway of motion required to keep Tasha from melting down. (set list)

5. As soon as the customer left with his tapes, Robin spun back around and hopped up onto the counter, crossing her ankles. (February 1986.01, Indiana)

6. The return to in-person teaching had been more of an adjustment than Steve had expected. (November 2021, California)

7. "Eds, have you seen my extra batteries anywhere?" Steve yelled from the bedroom, hunting through the box on the dresser where he normally tossed his hearing aid batteries when he picked them up. (October 1997, California)

8. Steve's leg was trying to pull the attention from the frankly incredible things Eddie was doing with his tongue. (four attempts)

9. Robin hadn't been able to stop thinking about her conversation with Steve since it happened. (February 1986.02, Indiana)

10. The tree was a surprise. (December 1988, California)

tagging: @yourlavendermenace, @nonimaginaryfriend, uhm.....anyone else who wants to do it ig, go forth and have fun.

(also I think the pattern is how much I just jump right in media res a little bit because I'm terrible at actually thinking up a beginning lmao)

[quackitytheduck]

Who cares if it'll be good get writing girl the fic writing gods are calling to you. It's your time to become one of us.

great point my dear. however i shouldve specified the reason itd be bad is bc i genuinely dont know shit. ive watched maybe 4 morning crew streams collectively i don't know fitpac's respective lore for shit dude

[mikkaeus]

i just finished good omens and. what the fuck just happened. im in shock

[gordopickett]

And If It's Not Okay... (For All Mankind post-s2 fix-it fic)

Chapter 4 is up! ♥♥♥

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And If It's Not Okay… (6552 words) by GordoPickett Chapters: 4/? Fandom: For All Mankind (TV 2019) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Gordo Stevens/Tracy Stevens, Ed Baldwin/Karen Baldwin Characters: Gordo Stevens, Tracy Stevens, Ed Baldwin, Danielle Poole, Danny Stevens, Jimmy Stevens, Karen Baldwin, Kelly Baldwin, Margo Madison, Molly Cobb, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong Additional Tags: Episode: s02e10 The Grey (For All Mankind), canon until it's not, Fix-It, fam - Freeform, Alternate Universe, Alternate Timeline, Jamestown - Freeform, El Gordo, Welcome Home Party, Gordo's weight loss, Injury Recovery Series: Part 1 of For All Mankind Summary: FOR ALL MANKIND S1 & S2 SPOILERS AHEAD I just finished watching season 2 of For All Mankind for the first time, and I am in much need of a fix-it fic, so here it is. Gordo & Tracy fix the nuclear reactor's coolant system and return to the Jamestown air lock. Everything after this is my alternate universe/timeline wherein they both survive and have a chance to face the world (& beyond) together again.