#but I see nothing but 911 content on tumblr

[periru3]

[pragmatic-optimist]

Reflecting on how our love of [insert fav piece of media source] is crafted— in every sense of the word—by the talented people we find in fandom.

Content creators (fic writers, gif makers, artists, meta writers, and so many others) are a fandom's heartbeat.

Thank you for all you do (or have done) to keep a fandom alive, even and especially when the source content has disappointed. Words cannot express how much you are valued and appreciated. 💕🙏🏽💐

[eddiediazismyhusband]

hey everyone

just getting on here to have a conversation about some things that i need to clear up.

so for starters, i’m going to come right out and say that i’m taking a break from tumblr… lately i have been subjected to seeing multiple thinly veiled posts about me floating around and i cannot sit by and allow myself to be treated like that

that being said, i am taking this break to focus on my mental health; 911 used to be a comfort show to me- somewhere i could just go to and watch whenever i needed to be picked up, because even if the show was still forcing certain storylines/arcs, they at least made some sense for the characters and didn’t rely on completely rewriting and ignoring their history within the narrative.

911 is no longer that for me anymore. tim minear and the writing team have ruined any and all enjoyment i got from earlier seasons due to continuing KR’s trend of completely retconning the narrative while simultaneously blatantly dragging us along by dangling buddie canon over our heads with a stick only to immediately snatch it away at the last second.

today’s “first look” article only further confirmed my suspicions that tim had no intentions of leading to buddie canon.

i see the takes/theories about what the article could mean, but we have made theories such as this every year only for it to not go anywhere; nothing had indicated that s8 will be any different.

for starters, tim is bringing back a known problematic actor to play a problematic character that tim continues to retcon, despite the fandom being outspoken about how insane this is. instead of listening to the fandom, instead he has them continuing to develop their chemistry-less relationship saying that they are going strong.

secondarily, tim wrote out a beloved poc character in order to keep this problematic character around- something that i think the fandom has moved on from a little too quickly

thirdly, we continue to be told that eddie will be making progress each season, yet we never actually see that progress happen, and if we do, never in a way that is actually in character; on top of that, we have fans begging for his character to be ruined simply so that his character arc will be sexualized due to it involving two conventionally attractive men.

this fandom no longer feels like a safe space for me mentally and i hate that… i am devastated at the thought of no longer interacting with my mutuals, but i cannot engage with content that showcases the real-time decline of a show i used to adore before the creators decided to ruin that enjoyment.

so i am taking a bit of my break; i dont know how long nor how permanent of a break this is, but i need to put my mental health first.

until next time (whenever that may be)

[buddiebeginz]

Please properly tag your posts. It's not fair to force Buddie fans to see B / T posts (even anti ones) just because you want people to see your edits.

Your 911/Heartstopper post had nothing to do with Buddie, but you chose to tag Buddie anyway, and didn't even tag T-mmy or B / T so we could filter it out?

(Or Ben / Charlie, for that matter which is unfair to the Heartstopper fans. Don't drag them into this nonsense, please.)

Hate what you want, but please tag properly so the blacklists can do their job.

First of all the post you're referring to this one is tagged properly. It is tagged with the shows it's from and it is tagged as Buddie because the majority of Buddie fans do not like T*mmy. Therefore I made this post for Buddie fans to see it. The Buddie tag isn't just for posts that contain Buck and Eddie but also for posts that are relevant to the Buddie fandom. Not sure if you're new around here but fandom tags have always worked this way on tumblr.

Also my post is not tagged with anything in relation to T*mmy or B/T because even if you tag a post "anti b*ckt*mmy" (minus the censors) it will still show up in the B/T tags. I didn't make that post to attack B/T shippers or to cause drama with them. I made that post to get across some of my feelings about the ship and express them on my blog and to share them with other Buddie shippers.

The post is tagged as Heartstopper because it is a parallel between a scene in Heartstopper and some scenes in 911. Frankly I find your comment about "don't drag them into this nonsense" really rude. Everyone on this site makes parallels from one show to another all the time. You are free to disagree with the one I made but I'm still allowed to make it and have my opinion.

I make it a point to try and only tag my posts with tags that are relevant to the content. I also try and keep my anti stuff out of the tags of people who like certain ships or characters.

I see B*mmy posts constantly where people are down right hating on Buddie and Eddie and that's right in the Buddie and Eddie tags. So maybe start with telling those people how to tag first before attacking me over a gifset with some scenes from the actual show that was literally put in my own fandoms tag.

Also I'm positive you're a T*mmy defender and your real issue isn't the tags it's that you didn't like my gifset which again you're 100% entitled to but maybe just block me next time.

[bekolxeram]

If you see this untagged post, you may be wondering, why I've been posting if I'm struggling with this fandom?

Well, I've indeed slept it off, and realized I do have speculations I want to post before the show airs. There's nothing to be speculated afterwards right?

So I'm just having a one sided relationship with Tumblr for the next week or two. I want you to know there's never any direct hate sent to me, it's just me going to the BuckTommy tag and seeing posts having problems with my overly analytic posts that discouraged me. I've been avoiding any 911 content except direct interactions with my posts, I think it may work for me in the near future.

Just know that I love you all, and I appreciate all your contribution to the fandom, even though I've not been liking or reblogging as much as I should.

[spicyrottingbrains]

I need ppl to pls tag their posts. Have your own fun but pls for the love of God tag your ship in the post instead of using only the character tags. Tumblr doesn't care that the content isn't for me it just knows that I interact with most of the 911 character tags so unless you tag your ship it won't actively filter out for me. I'm not into the bucktommy ship so I've filtered it out so that I can have a good online experience. This post is because of a few specific posts I've seen but it applies to everyone. And I know I've complained about this before but the problem hasn't stopped so here I am again. And this has nothing to do with the discourse. The posts were fine and I'd probably enjoy them if it was about my ship. But it wasn't and I specifically had content about this particular one filtered out so PLEASE tag your posts properly so it can reach the right audience and those who dont want to see it wont see it and then everyone can be happy.

(Also I'm tagging all relevant tags here because again this has nothing to do with the discourse and is just a general reminder for ppl to tag properly so it reaches the right audience)

(And before anyone says block them, yeha the accounts I really don't wanna see I do block, but there are ppl whose content I otherwise enjoy and if they just tagged properly then I wouldn't have to see the post I wouldn't like while I do see the ones I do enjoy. It's not that hard to (again) TAG PROPERLY. Not to say i havent blocked ppl because of their horrendous tagging but again I'm just so tired of it.)

and I say one last time on this post LEARN TO TAG.

[bluemagi]

Re. Jumping ship and multishipping

I've been thinking a lot about this these past few weeks, since a certain hot pilot swooped in and stole my heart. I've seen people giving other people shit for "giving up" and jumping ship, for multishipping or even just for liking and enjoying a character. And it's just weird to me how people are so obsessed with controlling other people's behaviors. Just the other day I saw a TikTok where the creator was saying that people who "jumped ship" to Bucktommy were just fetishising because they want to see two guys kissing. Which is just... a terrible take on so many levels.

I was a Buddie shipper too. I enjoyed their on-screen relationship, I saw the signs that there might be more than friendship, and I hoped that something might happen. But I have also been in fandoms for at least 20 years by now. I've been through queerbaiting, I have been through shipbaiting, I have been through relationships I previously loved being destroyed by what happens on screen. I know that nothing is promised and that we have to have realistic expectations. Our interpretations of things are usually not what the writers/actors/directors/editors intend, and so we can always hope, but we have to know that we probably won't get what we want.

I think I grew a bit bored with the Buddie ship around season 5. I was watching queer representation in other shows, like Tarlos in Lone Star, and I couldn't see 911 ever go there, especially as time went on and nothing happened, there were no obvious signs. I didn't think they would ever make Buck or Eddie queer. I still enjoyed the show for what it was and would watch when I had the time, but I wasn't obsessing over it anymore. I would watch the show and hope that either one of them would get an interesting love interest (I actually sort of liked Natalia at the end of season 6), and until that happened, I would just enjoy Buddie outside of that, in fan fictions and Tumblr discourse.

So imagine my surprise when they finally did it, when they actually made Bi Buck canon. Since Tommy had been on the show before, we already knew a lot about him, and we could also read into the difference between s2 Tommy and s7 Tommy and see that there had been a lot of development there. So yeah, I was immediately interested. The more I saw, the more interested I became. So while I can still love and appreciate Buddie, it is far more interesting to me to have actual substance with an on-screen relationship, rather than having to try to interpret and read into every interaction to see if it can relate to Buddie.

But, back to jumping ship and multishipping. I've been thinking back through my fandom history, and I realized that this is something I have gone through several times before, in one way or another. I started out with soap operas, and in those, everyone cheats and nobody is ever happy for long, so jumping ship back and forth happens. Suddenly a character is killed, only to come back to life several years later. They completely change personalities, they change faces (new actors), so things change a lot. I suppose that might be why multishipping and jumping ship is not really an issue for me. It just make sense that you can change your mind about something when more content comes out. It's sort of like a relationship. You can be happy and in love for a while, or for a long time, but things change, people grow, and suddenly that relationship is not right for you anymore.

So I was thinking back on my previous experiences with jumping ship and multishipping, and I just scribbled down some thoughts on them. Starting with....

As The World Turns - Nuke vs. LuRe

I think one of the first times I jumped ship, was from Noah/Luke to Luke/Reid in As The World Turns. An American soap that ended in like 2011. Nuke were one of the first gay male couples on American day time TV, and if you have the time, please go read about them on Wikipedia, because their story is absolutely ridiculous and overdramatic, as most soap couples are. And since this was in the 00s / early 10s, they barely shared any kisses or intimacy. At certain points we were counting the days between their on-screen kisses, and I think we went 200 days without an on-screen kiss while they were in a romantic relationship on the show, and the first time they had sex, I think they just kissed and fucking jumped on the bed or something. It was just ridiculous. But it was representation, which there was not a lot of back in those days.

Then, my beloved Reid Oliver came into the picture. He was out and proud, he was confident, successful, unapologetic, he was just very interesting. Luke/Noah was young love, riddled with insecurity and drama. Luke/Reid was more confident, more adult. And also, it was an option! Back in those days, there were barely any queer characters on TV, and now there were three guys in one show. At the point when Reid came on to the show, I was already finding myself growing tired and annoyed with Nuke, and Noah specifically. So when he showed an interest in Luke and they began their relationship, I happily jumped over.

I was then punished by the show's cancellation and that fucking train, but that's beside the point.... Moving on!

Days of Our Lives - Will, Sonny and Paul

Now this was a fun one! I remember watching Days back when I was in elementary school. My friend and I would go home together from school and watch it before doing home work. I was better in English and in reading than her, so I would be reading the subtitles out loud to her so she could keep up with what was happening. I think Days actually helped me to learn English much better. So I remembered all the drama with Sami, Carrie, Lucas and Austin, and with baby Will. And it was a bit shocking to me when suddenly baby Will was an adult (or I guess in his late teens) and was coming out of the closet. This was around the same time as ATWT, I believe, around 2010, so again, there wasn't a lot of representation on TV.

Also, side note, this was before streaming was a thing, and I lived in Norway, so we didn't even have access to everything. I had to buy DVDs to watch stuff like Queer as Folk and The L Word.

Anyways, Will and Sonny became a couple, and with that, the first male same sex couple on the show. It was the only real option, so of course I shipped it. I am again reading the Wikipedia page for this couple, and their story is quite insane. They recast the role of Will at one point, and I didn't love how the character changed after the actor was changed. So when Paul came on the show, I was immediately drawn to him. His back story was interesting and the actor had amazing chemistry with everyone. So I shipped him with both Will and Sonny (and both versions of Will, tbh). And again, you simply must read the Wikipedia article about this. It was just pure insanity.

Supernatural – Dean, Cas, Benny

We cannot talk about shipping without talking about Destiel. It is simply not possible. I'm not even going to explain anything, because we're on Tumblr, everyone knows Destiel. So unsurprisingly, I am a Destiel shipper. I can't remember when I first started shipping them, but it must have been quite early. Probably not in season 4 when Cas first arrived, but probably in season 5.

So Destiel is an example where I haven't jumped ship, but instead, I have multishipped. Cas has unfortunately not really had any real love interest outside of Dean. I honestly can't even think of any, apart from that random woman he married when he had amnesia, which... just no, dude. But Dean however, he has had some options, and I haven't hated them.

Lisa, I loved her back in the early seasons. And when he went to live with her after season 5, I didn't hate it. I knew the chances of Destiel ever happening were slim to none, so I could enjoy Dean and Lisa together on screen while enjoying Dean and Cas in fan fictions.

Later, we met Benny. And I immediately loved him. He was so interesting, he had such an interesting relationship with Dean, and I was so mad when he died. Again, Dean was never shown to be anything but straight, so again, chances of anything happening here was also slim to none. But I could happily enjoy fan fictions and content on them, alongside with Destiel.

Other honorable mentions:

I was considering writing a whole section about Robron from Emmerdale, but I realized that I am still so pissed off about that whole thing, so I don't think I'd be able to articulate anything good from that. So instead I will just use this as an example of an on-screen couple that I absolutely loved, but that I ended up hating and abandoning due to what happened on screen. I jumped that ship straight into the ocean, and swam far far far away.

Klaine! The couple that got me into Tumblr in the first place! I loved Kurt from the first season, and I was so intrigued when Blaine came into the show (I was also a huge AVPM fan, so that just made it all the better). And I really enjoyed them together for the first couple of seasons. But thinking back, I think I fell out of love with them quite early on. Their stories didn't hit the same, it got boring. I was actually more interested in Karofsky by the time I stopped watching the show, which was probably part of the reason why I stopped watching. It was quite the unpopular opinion back then. Maybe still? I have no idea.

Gallavich! I loved Shameless back in the day, and Mickey and Ian were among my favorites. But at a certain point, I got fed up with it all and stopped watching. The on-and-off stuff got boring, important things got swept under the rug, and I didn't like the treatment of Mickey. Anyway, I gave up and stopped watching. It was only years later when the show was ending that I caught up and found out they actually ended up together. Which was amazing, but still left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth.

Anyways, my point is that there seems to be this opinion now that if you ship a couple, you are stuck with them for life. Jumping ship, or even multishipping, is seen as a betrayal, as something horrible. Shipping Buck and Tommy apparantly means that we hate Eddie, and that we don't care about the beautiful friendship and relationship Buck and Eddie have. But that is simply not the truth. At least not for me, or for most people I have seen discussing this.

At this point in time, I am going to enjoy the beautiful on-screen relationship that is Buck and Tommy, and I am excited to see where it goes. If that relationship ends, and somewhere down the line, Buck and Eddie finally end up together, I will probably be happy (as long as it is done right, like Oliver Stark himself has said).

[lovecolibri]

Being upset is so valid, I know it’s just a show but WHATEVER, you should allow yourself to feel what you feel! And you should also be allowed to have opinions and share them on your blog lmao I’ll be honest, I have several friends irl who watch 911 and ship buddie and we aallll cannot stand this show anymore lmao and it’s very liberating to be able to speak your mind. Sadly fandom, especially Tumblr for some reason, seems to be hellbent on making passive aggressive comments on people who don’t like what they like? I totally agree with you, if people enjoy it good for them, I’m not gonna make posts about how you have to be stupid to like it cause I don’t think that’s the case?? We are just looking for different things in a show and that’s okay! However I am a blocking machine cause I don’t see the point in reading takes that are so different from mine 😂 but it is very frustrating that any negative comment needs to be censured or you become the devil and also you are not capable of understanding long form of media and also you should stop watching the show hskshdk I have stopped watching the show and I still like to check what happened and I still like to complain, what can you do about it 😂 anyway I hope you’re okay, and take care of yourself! I remember when Roswell made me soooo mad and I had to deal with it alone and it sucked 😔 and you don’t have to publish this if you don’t want to, I don’t mean to create drama or anything, just wanted to be supportive 😂

Hey, thanks Nonnie! I think for a lot of people (I'm for sure one of them, yay neurodivergency), when you find something that's a source of serotonin, it can be QUITE the crash when it stops, and no matter how low your expectations, if you struggle with emotional regulation, the rollercoaster can be rough. Curating your experience is a MUST, and knowing how to manage when your brain tries to get the best of you is also a must! Sometimes that means commiserating with others who are also unhappy (NOT going into the inboxes of people who clearly disagree with you. stop that), sometimes it means logging off and doing something else, sometimes it means reading or writing fic or making content that makes you happy about the thing, sometimes it means not looking at ANYTHING about the thing. At the end of the day, we're all just trying to do what works for us.

As a survivor of RNM, I thought I could handle this but I think RNM got SO bad SO fast that it was always a lot of "here are 3 good things that people will make AMAZING fics/metas/content about and 85 things you will need to ignore or you will start seething with rage". Where as 911 was so consistent for so long that watching it struggle so hard (across the board, not just with Buddie, though that seems to get the brunt of it on the "nearly unwatchable" scale whereas other stuff is more "meh. they could have done this better") has been really rough because there is already so much love for the show built up and we have SEEN what it can be when it's at it's very best. And disliking certain arcs or story choices doesn't necessarily mean throwing the whole show out! There are LOTS of things I love about this show, and I'm not at the point for me where I'm ready to let the show go and I've never really understood the "don't like, don't watch" attitude every time anyone brings up a single complaint. It seems very "you HAVE to love every single thing and choice or you can't watch the show" when most people have things they both like and dislike about pretty much everything! It's okay to not like every single choice! (though if you legit find nothing to enjoy about a thing then it's maybe not for you and that's okay!)

Thanks for checking in! I have a lot of other stuff going on right now so it's very much like "why is this the thing we are focusing on, brain? Why are we allowing ourselves to feel like this? It's a show??" but hey! Sometimes our brains do whatever TF they want and we just gotta manage as best we can. At on the bright side, tumblr has filters! You can block tags! You can block content within posts! this will let you remove certain stuff from your experience without necessarily having to unfollow people. BUT! You can also unfollow people! You can block people! Make your experience what you want! And learn what works FOR YOU to manage your disappointment. Some people are "gotta get the anger out to let it go" people, and some are "gotta find the positive spin" people and some are both or neither. Find what works. Do that. Don't be dicks in people's inboxes, and don't drag the cast/crew into the drama on public sm platforms, they don't plan out the storylines.

[outrunningthedark]

Your blog is a breath of fresh air and I love seeing such nuanced & well-thought out comments about the show. As much I loved 911/Buddie, I stopped watching like 6 eps into s5 bc the BT + overall OOC-ness of the show became too much and didn't wanna put energy into something that was upsetting me. I only know stuff thru tumblr posts and never fully understood what happened w/ lucy and the fallout. was she planned to be a main/B's LI but ppl hated her so much they wrote her outta the show? [1/2]

[2/2] I've seen folks mention that they filmed a lot of scenes with her that got cut? I know next to nothing about her character, and was trying to find a summary of what happened in regards to her/her planned arc from the lens of buddie/tumblr fandom (not just wiki summaries), and your posts are some of the most informational and level-headed content I've seen on here, so thank you for that! <3 Hello, nonnie! First things first: I put together this post from 5x11 -> 5x15 that details AK's deleted scenes and how she was told to set up the BL dynamic. You'll see that Lucy as a love interest was never confirmed, but the show wanted the audience to keep the possibility in their minds. (Cliffs notes: "Sometimes they’re borderline poking at one another. Sometimes it’s flirty…. But is it flirty, or is it poking?") Another quote to back up the will they-won't they angle: While she does move on after [Buck] reveals he has a girlfriend, expect to see them “bounce very quickly between being best pals and having a little bit of sexual tension.” Because that post only went to the midway point of 5B, I can now add that an Eddie and Lucy interaction was also cut from the later episodes (possibly the finale): "...there’s a really nice moment towards the end of the season between Lucy and Eddie and you get to see Lucy gets it.” As for whether or not the plan was to make Lucy a main...AK and Kristen and Tim know the answer to that, but from the onset AK and Kristen spoke about Lucy's future, probably in hopes of endearing the character to the audience over the course of 5B: Reidel also revealed that fans won't meet Lucy's family this season, teasing: "Depending on what happens going forward, though, we'd love to. We make jokes about doing the whole Blue Bloods dinner set-up." Kebbel hinted that if the show is renewed for a sixth season, the plotline leaves room for more developments with Lucy. Peter Krause gave an interview prior to the finale where he referred to Lucy as a new member of the family because, as we found out, the final shot of the season was all the OG firefam + Lucy (+ Ravi, on the opposite side) walking together towards the trucks. But then summer came. AK posted about preparing for her first day on set - a day that just so happened to be the first for s6 production. And then...she wasn't there. She was actually in North Carolina filming a movie (but she sure did have people freaking out for a minute, which was probably the goal). We never saw her on set. The Lucy scene from 6x01 was a "surprise" to the audience. Before and after the premiere Kristen gave an interview where she said she was hoping to bring Lucy back in the second half of the season. This is what Kristen said at the conclusion of 6A: Are there plans for Arielle Kebbel’s Lucy to return to 9-1-1 this season? “I’m not sure yet. We’re still planning the back half of the season (premiering in Spring 2023), so there are some question marks about space and real estate and what the stories are going to be. We’re still figuring that out.”

I don't think it's out of line to say the negative/dismissive reception impacted AK's place on the show rn, but I also think that it's possible that even *if* Kristen wanted to "start over" and act like the BL stuff didn't happen, AK made the decision to distance herself from this experience for now since it did not go at all like she was told/believed it would. (Many will say that Kristen probably thought people would look past the cheating because they just wanted BT to end, and with the way AK was able to discuss her character and Buck potentially having something brewing while he was still going to be in a relationship...yeah, that checks. On the one hand, I want to feel sorry for AK that her boss completely misread the room and had her thinking it was a great idea, but on the other....she did not sign up for another coming-of-age teen drama. People don't want to see that kind of stuff on a show like 9-1-1, especially not from a character as loved as Buck. If she knew anything about the show she could have seen the backlash coming. Do your research, babes.)

[nicholasnelsons]

well the end of season five is here and it definitely has been a rollercoaster. from eddie having a panic attack in the premiere and the 118 fighting off a bunch of animals (with that weird blackout plot lurking somewhere in the background). to whatever 5x03 was, you should go home first, kenneth choi giving us the performance of a lifetime, maddie leaving, and the iconic balcony scene. to fox just accidentally dropping an episode on hulu in the morning, buck intimidating ravi with a chainsaw, hen and eddie partner era, and all of us losing our collective minds over buck and eddie screaming for each other in the hostage bts. to the mavid engagement, that taylor episode no one wanted, and eddie leaving the 118.

to the longest hiatus i’ve ever experienced (but survived thanks to all of a stock giving us content). to the 5b premiere and the lucy discourse that came with it, all of us clocking jonah as a murderer, one of the best 911 episodes to exist aka boston, buck being in the room, bobby saving his daughter, albert’s weird mustache, and the heart of the 118 returning followed by hen and chim shenanigans. to karen and hen trying to catch a thief, the theme revolving around hearts, may having big moments at the call center, and athena and eddie processing their trauma. and most of all to the ethical conflict fake synopsis. may she rest in piece.

it’s been nothing short of interesting these past few months— throwback to ethical conflict day, wrench day, eddie’s house is burning down day, bird eddie day, and whatever the heck all of that was— but we have been So Normal about this show and i wouldn’t want to spend it anywhere else but here. i know i’m forgetting stuff but it has just been such a long season with the weirdest and best takes i have ever seen, and i’m definitely going to need this hiatus to recover because it’s been a lot to process. just a lot. thank you guys so much for such a wonderful season. it wouldn’t be as enjoyable without all of you and this little corner of tumblr and i am so so grateful to come here every day and see all of your posts and silly little thoughts. buck may have been in the room, but we’ve all been in the metaphorical room holding each other’s hand throughout all of this. if you ever miss these characters over hiatus then just remember what timothy told you to do: go write fanfiction.

it’s been fun ! see you all for season six <3

[empressmcblondie]

Depp vs. Heard clarification

Who are you, people of Tumblr, who go around saying things like “Amber Heard won the counterclaim, it means she was abused but cannot talk about it”? Have you actually listened to the verdict? Let me give you a quick rundown since obviously some of you have really questionable logical deduction skills.  These are the Waldman statements which the jury was supposed to consider: 1. “Amber Heard and her friends in the media used fake sexual violence allegations as both a sword and shield depending on their needs. They have selected some of her sexual violence hoax facts as the sword, inflicting them on the public and Mr. Depp.”  To this statement, the jury’s answer was that Ms. Heard did not prove all of the elements of defamation, meaning that this statement is, according to their views and given the evidence, indeed true.  2. "Quite simply this was an ambush, a hoax, they set Mr. Depp up by calling the cops, but the first attempt did not do the trick. The officers came to the penthouses, thoroughly searched and interviewed and left after seeing no damage to face or property, so Amber and her friends spilled a little wine and roughed the place up, got their stories straight under the direction of a lawyer and publicist and then placed a second call to 911.”  To this statement, the jury’s answer was that Ms. Heard did indeed prove all of the elements of defamation. If you look at the content of this statement, what the jury essentially finds to be untrue (or rather, not sufficiently proven by Mr. Depp), is that Ms. Heard and her friends roughed up the place in order to set up Mr. Depp. This has absolutely nothing to do with abuse. I, for the life of me, cannot fathom how the inference you get from treating this statement as true is that Ms. Heard was abused but cannot talk about it? The mental gymnastics some people on here do in order to justify supporting her are mind boggling.  3. “We’ve reached the beginning of the end of Ms. Heard’s abuse hoax against Johnny Depp.”  To this statement, the jury’s answer was that Ms. Heard did not prove all of the elements of defamation, meaning that this statement is, according to their views and given the evidence, indeed true. So, the jury quite explicitly did not believe Amber Heard brought enough evidence to prove that she was both sexually and physically abused by Mr. Depp. The only statement they found to be malicious and defamatory was the statement accusing her and her friends of setting Mr. Depp up. I really am not a fan of the extremity to which supporters of both sides have taken this thing to. However, I definitely am a fan of the truth and of justice. Twisting the narrative to fit your views of reality is precisely going down the path that led Ms. Heard to be in the position in which she is now. Don’t be that person.  

[marjansmarwani]

you know what, i just wanna thank you for being such a nice, positive presence in the 911 ls fandom. i only started watching the show like two weeks ago, but i already feel exhausted from all the negativity. i'm struggling to even be excited for new episodes tbh. all the wank i see (especially toward tk, and you know more is coming with the upcoming drama for tarlos) is zapping so much enjoyment out of the show for me, which i know is silly. you're a bright spot tho, so thanks for that. do you have any recommendations for more nice, non-wanky ppl to follow?

My no. 1 piece of tumblr fandom advice, Anon? Use the block function liberally.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with curating your fandom experience. I don’t want to speak for you Anon but I know that personally I have more than enough stress in my day to day life, I don’t need to come to tumblr to talk about I show love only to find more stress. I’m consistently baffled but the amount of energy people put into hating and complaining about a show they’re supposedly enjoy (and you’re spot on with your observation but that’s another topic entirely) and I do my best to stay out of it. I can’t tell you how pleased it makes me to hear that you think my blog is a place free of that, because that’s exactly what I want it to be.

One of the things that really does help with that is following some lovely people who feel the same way. This serves the additional benefit of saving me from ever having to go into the main tag to find anything, which means I get to miss out on so much of that questionable discourse. I will absolutely rec some blogs that I love and I hope you enjoy them too, Anon! A lot of them are fellow fic writers (we like to travel in packs) or gif makers, so hopefully it’ll help you to find some of the amazing content this fandom turns out too!

In no particular order and with the disclaimer that this is not by any means an exhaustive list, I’m guaranteed to forget someone and there are so many great people in the fandom I haven’t interacted with:

@morganaspendragonss @kiras-sunshine @doublel27 @reyesstrand @actuallysara @dangermagnetstrand @carlosreyess @moviegeek03 @rafael-silva @sunshinestrand @typicaltk @pragmatic-optimist @howtosingit @iboatedhere @reyeslonestar @strandnreyes @tkstrandreyes @tkstrrand

Welcome to the fandom Anon! I hope you enjoy your stay.

[raviposting]

I posted 9,446 times in 2022

312 posts created (3%)

9,134 posts reblogged (97%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@the-maidofmischief

@capinejghafa

@ginnxtonic

@alexisrosemullens

@wyvanvck

I tagged 9,444 of my posts in 2022

#y yo a queue - 5,470 posts

#911 fox - 1,001 posts

#tagged 💜 - 619 posts

#tv: moon knight - 584 posts

#stranger things - 580 posts

#succession - 436 posts

#flashing gif tw - 329 posts

#the umbrella academy - 293 posts

#shadow and bone - 270 posts

#wwdits - 231 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#(and we never saw chris’s crush so there’s no confirmation there’s no statement and that’s just! idk i don’t have the words but i like it bc

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Someone: Hey, you okay? 

Me: Noir had his face and his voice stolen from Soldier Boy both metaphorically with the movie deals and literally with their fight. Soldier Boy not only put him down at every turn, but Noir went from Earving, a clearly outspoken man who wanted to visibly be a Black hero to a masked silent supe who is now labeled as Homelander as “representing all races” because nobody cares enough to know who’s under the mask. Noir dedicated his entire life to Vought out of principle and then because he had to, and partly because of Homelander, only for him to find out it was all a lie. He imagines feeling comforted like he felt comforted as a child, probably one of his last few safe spaces he remembers. The mascots are his way of having friends because nobody actually cares to know him as a person, Homelander is content with having a brick wall to project his emotions onto with no thought on Noir’s emotions, and Noir is just scared and sad and lonely and wants comfort, and he just needs a friend, a real genuine friend. 

Me: Haha nothing hbu :) 

4,439 notes - Posted June 30, 2022

#4

Arthur: Hey bro, what do you want to eat?

Khonshu: KILL HIM

Steven: A bagel

Khonshu: NO! CRUSH HIS WINDPIPE!

Steven: Two bagels

5,799 notes - Posted April 6, 2022

#3

Absolutely love the thought that Marc spent two days LITERALLY killing people and then went back to Steven’s apartment to find Gus the fish dead and presumably went “oh fuck” and started running around town trying to find a goldfish that only has one fin for Steven. I know that man was wishing he could just murder someone instead because it would be easier.

6,141 notes - Posted March 30, 2022

#2

I see our “Colin is draining Laszlo to make him more boring” theories and I see them respect them understand them but counterpoint: Laszlo has always been deeply boring, we’re just realizing it more now as he hangs out with Colin.

He has the horrible band with Nadja that nobody likes, he’s the one with actual human friends where they do? Normal behavior? He runs off and lives a regular human life, Nadja watches his porn and thinks it’s painfully boring, he stops an orgy and ruins the mood by talking about how much he loves her.

Love Laszlo. Dude has been boring since season 1.

8,439 notes - Posted July 27, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Ben when his Sparrow siblings who he’s known for his entire life get horrifically murdered: Oh no. Anyway -

Ben when his deranged Umbrella siblings who he’s berated and known for like two days don’t invite him to the bachelor party:

12,272 notes - Posted June 23, 2022

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[matan4il]

hi : ) coming for the words of my fave meta expert! So I personally watched 911 pretty late (before season 5 started) and I obviously wasn't really part of the fandom at the time but I was thinking how different it was for me seeing friendship between Eddie and Lena Vs Buck and Taylor (before 4x14), the latter making me rather uncomfortable but hey, that's maybe me biased. I'm really interested in your POV, having watched the seasons mostly weekly from I think S3, was it obvious from meta and fandom reactions that LenaEddie were going nowhere romantically and why they could have that sort of friendship when Buckt*ylor clearly couldn't. I'm sorry, I hope I made a bit sense with my rambling xd

Hi Nonnie! Awwww, that is such a sweet compliment, thank you so much, you made my day! *HUGS*

Soooo... I actually started watching 911 before I started writing the weekly meta. I was just anxious about joining the fandom actively (it's the same with most fandoms for ships/characters that I love. I just quietly ship to myself and write meta in my own head). But then 309 and 310 were SO GOOD in terms of Buddie content, that I just HAD to get the meta out of my head or I would explode. So I wrote my first round of Buddie meta for seasons 1 to 3a and thought that this was it, I was done. But then I got such lovely reactions (even though I originally posted my meta on Twitter, which is the WORST website for meta, but hey, like I said. I wasn't looking to become an active part of fandom. The fact that despite that, I got awesome reactions ended up helping me take the plunge and join more properly on Tumblr sometime during the s3 mid-season hiatus). So that's how I somehow ended up doing the weekly meta posts from 3b on.

All that to explain that during the start of 3a, when Lena was introduced, I wasn't active in the fandom, but I was vaguely aware of some reactions, meaning some stuff I'd seen posted on Twitter. IDK how different the reactions were on Tumblr, but I can say that on Twitter at least, there actually were fans who felt anxious about Bosko and feared she was possibly introduced as a Love Interest for Eddie. After all, she mostly interacted with him out of the whole team. These fans very much disliked the character, while some disliked the actress... (if anyone else wants to weigh in on this with fan reactions from Tumblr, please do!)

I think at the end of the day, whenever someone is introduced and seems to connect with one character specifically (rather than with the cast at large), and the fandom already ships that character with someone else, there will be some who will think it's a potential LI and will then dislike the newcomer. It has nothing to do with gender or sexual orientation (which is an accusation that is sometimes brought up), I have seen people disliking a male gay newcomer when he threatened the popular mlm ship just as soon as I've seen people disliking a female straight newcomer.

Whenever fandom doesn't think a newcomer is brought in to be an LI that comes in between a beloved ship, it actually is open and even very welcome to the idea of this newcomer as a friend. Just look at Ravi, for example! When he came in, he became a (weirded out) friend to the 118 as a whole, he wasn't specifically attached to either Buck or Eddie (not until 505, at least, which is about a season after he was introduced in 406, and even then, that only lasted for one ep), so fandom warmly embraced him. Some might ship him with Buck (or Eddie, IDK) but even those who do, they probably do it as a headcanon, they don't think Ravi will canonically become Buck's LI on the show.

Now to add to that, when Taylor was brought back in 408 to be Buck's LI, she also came back with baggage from s2, which is something most newcomers that are possible LIs don't have. Tons of fans did not like what she did to Bobby in 206 and have not really forgiven her for that. Nor was she ever given a proper redemption for it (911 was in a hurry to use her in 208 as a contrast to Ali, so it wasn't interested in Taylor seeking Bobby's forgiveness, and by the time they brought her back in s4, I guess they felt like touching upon that would be opening a can of worms they weren't interested in, so they just glossed over it).

Lastly, I also think it matters how the fans are treated by the show in the course of introducing a newcomer/possible LI. When Ana was introduced in 312, I remember so many people were raging over how stupid the scene was, with its forced attempt to create an "it's fate!" vibe. When the viewers’ intelligence isn’t respected then yeah, that can induce rage as a reaction! I think Lena didn't have that when she was introduced to the audience, and Taylor kinda did ("let the universe come to you," and also just the whole thing where the show acts like Taylor’s actions in s2 didn’t happen, but it’s also blurry enough that I think it really depends on the viewer whereas with Ana, the show resorting to cliches was much more obvious).

IDK if this summarized analysis helps, Nonnie, but I really hope so! Thank you again for your kindness, sorry for the length and please have a look at my ask tag if you're looking for another ask reply. xoxox

[korpikorppi]

FANFICS! Part Two

My previous fanfic post reached the maximum length for a post (or so I was told by Tumblr), so here is the sequel to the list of links to the Untamed - Mo Dao Zu Shi fanfics I've read and enjoyed. As with the previous one, I'll be adding to this post (and reblogging this) every once in a while, and there's also a link to this in my pinned post. And as before, I will also move the previously posted content behind a cut at every update.

A bit of a warning: I tend to like my stories set in the canon universe, so no modern AUs here (ok, I may be persuaded to read some good reincarnation fics, perhaps); this is also mostly Wangxian, but some other ships make appearences occasionally.

And further note for those who venture into the explicit territory: service top Lan Wangji my beloved + in this house we also acknowledge bottom Lan Wangji rights.

So, here we go (again)!

*updated March 8th, 2022*

Love lies beyond words by acrosticacrumpet

Jiang Cheng & Wei Wuxian, general, words: 4 754, chapters: 1/1

post-canon, whump, angst, hurt/comfort, canon-typical dysfunctional relationships, Yunmeng Shuangjie reconciliation, not a completed reconciliation but the beginning of one, Twin Prides of Yunmeng feels, self-worth issues, Wei Wuxian's notoriously poor self-worth vs Jiang Cheng's legendary rejection sensitivity: FIGHT, painful conversations with a tasteful smidgeon of, cuddling & snuggling

Wei Wuxian is struck by a curse that drains his spiritual energy, and makes him allergic to anyone else's. He is going to die - unless he receives energy from the golden core that was once his.

Or: The longest - but not the worst - night of Jiang Cheng's life.

And he sang about the stars by nenyanaryavilya

Lan Xichen & Lan Wangji, Wangxian, mature, words: 29 911, chapters: 1/1

brotherhood, growing up together, canon compliant, canon-typical violence, angst, grief/mourning, this is a canon-adjacent fic so like war and war crimes and all that jazz, desecration of the dead and pining, the usual, Lan Xichen has a no good very bad awful late adolescence and early adulthood, canonical character death

"Xichen has loved his brother so much he thinks his heart might bear him ill will at this point. He will always ache when he is gone, like one of his arms is missing. He will try to soothe his brother’s troubled heart for a thousand years, if loving this boy is what will bring Wangji the most happiness, but it pricks at him like a doctor’s needles to see his brother’s open devotion treated like nothing by its very object."

----

Lan Xichen and the brother he loved and nearly lost.

The stone-filled sea by yukla

Lan Sizhui & Wei Wuxian, Wangxian, teen and up, words: 9 093, chapters: 1/1

post-canon, the juniors, Senior Wei defense squad, a study of the way prejudice and injustice and anger trickle down from generation to generation

He forgets how quickly Wei-qianbei changes faces, sometimes. Like pulling a theater mask over a bruise—color over color, a diversion with the swipe of his hand.

Lan Sizhui navigates a world that hates his father, one endless wave at a time.

The fire lapping up the creek by notevenyou

Wangxian, explicit, words: 66 299, chapters: 6/6

graphic depictions of violence, alternate universe - canon divergence, hurt/comfort, canon-typical violence, injury, injury recovery, blood, respiratory illness, major illness, fever, grief/mourning, Burial Mounds, angst with a happy ending, implied/referenced suicide, hunger and food scarcity, surgery, fix-it of sorts

Wei Wuxian travels to Lanling for his nephew’s one-month celebration alone, without Wen Ning.

Lan Wangji lives with the consequences.

Something yet to learn by Glitterbombshell

Part 1 of Joy in the midst of these things

Wangxian, teen and up, words: 16 188, chapters: 4/4

emotional hurt/comfort, light angst, angst with a happy ending, fluff, Wei Ying would be a Good Teacher fight me

“Wei Wuxian,” the man grits out, and he pauses with one hand reaching for the door handle. The disciple who had come in to speak to Lan Qiren brushes past him and exits the pavilion without a backwards glance. Wei Wuxian turns back to Master Lan, one eyebrow tilting up in question. “An urgent matter has come up,” Lan Qiren says, every word sounding like it’s being forcibly dragged from him. “His Excellency requests my presence. Their current instructor is ill, I was meant to take over classes for today,” he continues, gesturing towards the tiny juniors. He swallows heavily, and the next sentence sounds bitter. Choked. “I cannot leave them unattended.”

Wei Wuxian just blinks at him.

Or, Wei Wuxian is asked (under duress) to babysit a class of tiny Lan cultivators for just a few minutes. A few minutes turns into an hour, turns into two hours, turns into an impromptu literal field trip and now there's an entire class that is weeks ahead of their curriculum, their most junior disciples have apparently imprinted on Wei Wuxian like baby birds, and Lan Qiren has no one to blame but himself.

A lot of edges called perhaps by hansbekhart

Wangxian, explicit, words: 21 922, chapters: 1/1

semi-public sex, public masturbation, mutual masturbation, anal sex, sex in the cold springs, mutual pining, grief/mourning, injury recovery, ethical dilemmas, this story had two working titles, Ethical Edging, and Boners for Justice, it takes a long time for them to bone but they get there, risk aware consensual patience, edgeplay sort of, 20K words of sad horniness, happy ending, just the tip but not the way you're thinking

The funny part is - and it is a little funny, even if Wei Wuxian has no one left to share the joke with - they never have. Not anything. He has never kissed any part of Lan Zhan besides his slim hands; never been even partially undressed with him anywhere besides a miserable, xuanwu-infested cave. It’s always been like this between them, this simmering need, this desperate understanding: a knowledge so deep that it lives somewhere in his bones, that if he wanted to have Lan Zhan he could have him, and if Lan Zhan wanted Wei Wuxian he could have that too. But they never have.

This story uses CQL characterizations and storyline specifically.

One rogue spark in my direction by hansbekhart

Songxiao / Lan Wangji, explicit, words: 5065, chapters: 1/1

threesome, oral sex, anal sex, spitroasting, anal fingering, switching, touch-starved, grief/mourning, sexual healing, the mortifying ordeal of being known, a deep and human desperation for queer companionship, that escalated quickly, emotional noodle eating, Lift Lan Wangji's Skirts Challenge 2020

He’d thought, in Yueyang, that they’d seen something in each other, something familiar. That maybe they’d recognized something in him. But it’s been many years, and many things have happened since, and he’s guessed wrongly at other people’s hearts before. Lan Wangji looks back down at the table, at his steaming, bitter tea. He’ll beg if he has to.

Just in case anyone was wondering who Lan Wangji had been banging before A lot of edges called perhaps.

Linger in the sun by etymologyplayground

Wangxian, teen and up, words: 39 400, chapters: 1/1

case fic, intimacy, curses, canon compliant, post-canon, cuddling & snuggling, getting together, romance, sexual tension, scent kink...m.. maybe?, WWX loves to teach, fluff, this is so long and it is mostly. nonsexual intimacy! you're welcome, scars, sharing a bed, nonverbal communication, HEAVY on symbolism

"Tell Lan Zhan that I'm weeping uncontrollably," Wei Wuxian says to the juniors. "Tell him I'm truly pitiful and he needs to do everything I say until I'm well again."

Lan Congyi is in the middle of carefully holding his eyelids open to check his pupils, but he still obeys, bless him. "Hanguang-Jun, Senior Wei would like us to tell you that he can't stop crying and he'd like for you to do everything he says until he's better." There's a moment of silence, and then Lan Congyi says to Wei Wuxian, "Hanguang-Jun says he already does everything you tell him."

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Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji find themselves cursed, unable to see or hear each other. They figure things out anyway.

*updated January 5th, 2022*

From my heart's ground by orange_crushed

Wangxian, explicit, words: 37 997, chapters: 1/1

graphic depictions of violence, alternate universe - canon divergence, grief/mourning, corporal punishment, canon-typical violence, vomiting, injury recovery, trauma, blood magic, elemental magic, gardens & gardening, resurrection, dissociation, explicit sexual content, first time, oral sex, language of flowers, angst with a happy ending, family, cultivation... literally, arson, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, spiritual coma, self-esteem issues

After a while he can feel a palm against his face, gentle fingers soft and soothing. It’s not real, not exactly: he can tell the difference between a ghost’s touch and a living person’s, between a spirit-vision and an overactive imagination. His education has been thorough. But the beating has also been thorough, so for now he forgets what he knows and leans into it, into the hand cupping his cheek. It’s soft and dry as those forgotten petals, as the touch of a pillow. He can smell wildflowers, can taste blood and dirt. My baby, his mother says, and he closes his eyes. My treasure. He barely remembers the sound of her voice, but the feeling of it is just the same. Just the same as ever.

In which Lan Wangji loses almost everything, plants a garden, and grows a second chance.

Countless roads by SunBlueSun

Wangxian, explicit, words: 5 518, chapters: 1/1

accidental voyeurism, switching, top/bottom versatile Lan Wangji, top/bottom versatile Wei Wuxian, porn with feelings, minor original character(s), love, Hanguang Jun has flowers in his hair

A traveling cultivator finds herself in treed like a cat while Hanguang Jun and the resurrected Yiling Patriarch have sex in a field of flowers and it makes her rethink her entire life.

Only warning I guess is accidental voyeurism and they never find out there was a witness. It's pretty simple and switchy, just boys in love and devoted to each other. (This is CQL 'verse and LWJ is way more of a service top than an unrelenting dom, and naturally there's switching because he's a sweet bottom as well isn't he?)

These colours fade for you only by doodlebutt

Wangxian, teen and up, words: 36 329, chapters: 17/17

alternate universe - canon divergence, fix-it, fluff and angst, angst with a happy ending, everybody lives, golden core transfer, golden core transfer fix-it...eventually, hurt/comfort, nightmares, bed sharing, mutual pining, like really unreasonable amounts of pining, slow burn, as in 'practically begging these idiots to kiss' slow burn, sunshot campaign, canon-typical blood and injury, the horrifying ordeal of figuring things out that in hindsight you REALLY didn't want to know, hand to hand combat with the canon plot, playing fast and loose with cultivation concepts, little sweet baby a-yuan, with a very brief cameo by little sweet baby jingyi

What if, before Wen Chao found Wei Wuxian in Yiling, Lan Wangji went looking for him?

What if...

"Tell me who did this to you."

"Aiya, Lan Zhan, I really don't know what you're -- ah!"

Lan Zhan tugged hard on the blue line that bound them together, and Wei Wuxian all but flew across the room, crashing into the bed with a pained groan and sinking to his knees on the floor. He supposed, slightly hysterically, that this must be something like what Jiang Cheng had felt when he had hit Wei Wuxian with all the force of a biting insect the day after his rescue.

"You have no spiritual energy."

"Haha, Lan Zhan, that's funny, because actually it's just that I --"

"You have no golden core."

This diverges from MDZS canon rather than CQL (so no yin iron, etc).

All the silver moons by milkcrates

Wangxian, explicit, words: 10 007, chapters: 1/1

hurt/comfort, post-canon, getting together, first-time, 10k words of TENDER, let wwx take care of lwj agenda, brought to you by: the inherent intimacy of saying each other's names

"Hey," says Wei Ying. It's the softest his voice has gone tonight, but he's close enough for Lan Wangji to– touch him, kiss him– hear him. "Eyes on me."

Wei Ying, thinks Lan Wangji, always.

And he passes out.

-

Lan Wangji gets injured on a night hunt, Wei Wuxian takes care of him, and lots of feelings are had.

Seldom all they seem by Fahye

Part 1 of Marriage Principles

Wangxian, explicit, words: 24 930, chapters: 1/1

alternate universe - canon divergence, arranged marriage, or rather arranged betrothal, followed by weapons-grade thirst

or, one hundred and thirty-three principles of the Gusu Lan, pertaining to the state of marriage

***

He bows to Wei Wuxian, sword in hand, sleeves falling properly. Wei Wuxian bows in return, and the sect leaders begin the opening courtesies, and for all of ten minutes Lan Wangji is under the impression that he is betrothed to a boy who is perfectly normal and acceptable apart from an unfortunate tendency to fidget with his clothes.

That impression does not last.

Half cloak & half dagger by Fahye

Part 2 of Marriage Principles

Xiyao, explicit, words: 13 171, chapters: 1/1

alternate universe - canon divergence, kink negotiation (of a sort), good Lan boys marry murder gremlins: the saga continues

Jin Guangyao lifts his head and smiles. "I'm considering a problem."

"Can I be of any assistance with it?"

He drops a kiss on Lan Xichen's chest. With the nail of one finger he lightly traces the characters for irony on Lan Xichen's side. "Not this one, er-ge."

The unofficial subtitle to this is: Five times Jin Guangyao failed to get the ravishing he desperately wanted, and one time he did.

Stainless by Fahye

Wangxian, explicit, words: 6 576, chapters: 1/1

sex pollen

"I'm starting to feel," says Lan Xichen, "that this was a counterproductive suggestion."

Wei Wuxian looks down onto the pristine, tranquil cold springs of the Cloud Recesses. Sitting in the water, their bare shoulders rising like dumplings carefully spaced in a steaming-basket, are a large number of Lan disciples.

"They seem to be doing better," he says, encouragingly. "If they--oh, no, I see what you mean."

At the near bank, someone has pressed someone else against the rocks and is kissing them frantically.

In terms of TV show continuity, this takes place halfway through episode 43, just after Jin Guangyao leaves the Cloud Recesses.

I think, I wait, I hope by Littorella, rinsled05

Wangxian, teen and up, words: 4 070, chapters: 1/1

canon compliant, romance, pining, love, love confessions, falling in love

For years, Lan Wangji has waited. Held back his words, his heart, restrained by a lifetime of discipline. And now—now they are married, bound together for eternity, and the dam is breaking, especially with Wei Wuxian gazing at him as if he’s the lucky one, when it has always been the other way around.

Perhaps now is the time.

Or, the many conversations Lan Wangji has with Wei Wuxian in his head - and one he tries to have in the moment.

*updated November 27th*

Waiting for the remedy by Lise

Wei Wuxian & Jiang Cheng, teen and up, words: 13 598, chapters 1/1

post-canon, Yunmeng Shuangjie reconciliation, minor injuries, POV Jiang Cheng, Jin Ling just doing the most, difficult emotional conversations, emotional baggage, Twin Prides of Yunmeng feels and dynamics, awkward conversations

This wasn’t the first time he’d been in proximity to Wei Wuxian, so he wasn’t going to panic over it or anything. He’d finish this night hunt, they’d go their separate ways again, and he’d have a firm conversation with Jin Ling about being an interfering busybody.

It’d be fine.

It is not fine. There's a cliff involved.

Series: No new age by everythingispoetry

Wangxian, Xiyao, Nielan, mature

alternate universe - canon divergence, angst, hurt/comfort, permanent injury, recovery, disability, parenthood, character study, thirteen years of Wei Wuxian's death, growing up, family dynamics, self-discovery, mental health issues, grief/mourning, families of choice, developing relationships

Part 1: The map of days

words: 20 442, chapters: 5/5

Surviving the thirty-three lashes is a miracle. Living after the thirty-three lashes is a curse.

Part 2: Although my mind is young, it is not gentle

words: 27 883, chapters: 4/4

Sizhui thinks about the heroes they've learned about in history class, the heroes of songs and poems. After the dust settles, the stories end and everything goes back to normal and everyone lives happily ever after.

Sizhui looks at his father and knows it's all a lie.

Part 3: Yours in no unique condition

words: 5 358, chapters: 1/1

War and love can take everything from a man.

Lan Xichen never thought he would be one of those to pay the price.

(a study.)

Part 4: The anteroom of golden age

words: 92 285, chapters: 9/9

"I no longer belong to the order of the world."

"Neither do I."

He was a boy, chewing on grass and lounging on the swooning bridges of Lotus Pier, just a blink of an eye ago.

Series: Promissory Notes by kakikaeru

Lan Jingyi/Lan Sizhui, Wangxian, Jin Ling/Ouyang Zizhen, teen and up

post-canon, mostly cql canon, canon-typical violence, that Good Jingyi Content, protect the unlannest Lan at all costs, Wangxian through a Juniors filter, vocal cultivation, Lan Jingyi the marble swan opera assassin of the Cloud Recesses, responsible sect leader Jin Ling, worried parents Wangxian, part 4 chapters are stand-alone stories:, chapter 1: they are so married, chapter 2: all the Ouyangs, chapter 3: you are my dad (boogie woogie), chapter 4: you get a baby and YOU get a baby and YOU! YOU GET A BABY, chapter 5: growing up is hard to do, chapter 6: Lan Jingyi no. 1 locker pinup of the Gusu Lan

Part 1: Anyway, here's Wuji

words: 18 045, chapters: 1/1

The melody gets a little clearer when he breaks out of the trees, and Jingyi changes course with certainty, barreling down the back hill and through the Cloud Recesses, dodging scandalized disciples left and right. He throws open the doors to the Receiving Hall without announcement and bows nearly double, eyes on the floor instead of on the shocked faces of the Mei delegation and the impenetrable gaze of the Chief Cultivator.

"Forgive this disciple," Jingyi shouts, because he's going to get punished for rule breaking regardless. "From the back hill, Hanguang-jun, there is a song in the wind!"

Lan Jingyi comes of age.

Part 2: Take your love and conquer

words: 4 088, chapters: 1/1

"Should we split up?" Zizhen asks. "They could have gone in any direction from here; I'll take one side and we'll meet on top of the cliff unless we find the trail again."

"No." There's protocol now, that as a Sect Leader, Jin Ling needs to follow. He takes a signal flare out of his sleeve, one of his personal ones, where a large golden peony blooms around a central purple lotus. It'll have Carp Tower mobilized in minutes, and probably also call his Uncle out of Lotus Pier if he isn't up to anything else. "We need a search party."

The story of the rescue.

Part 3: Ok, jiujiu

words: 16 384, chapters: 1/1

Uncle's jaw works in the way that suggests he's about to say something irredeemable. Jin Ling, in a move of diplomacy he hopes the Chief Cultivator appreciates, distracts him with spicy food and his favourite subject: the incompetence of his own officials.

"I hear the lakes in the south east are having drainage problems?" he asks nonchalantly, sticking three big slices of braised pork belly into his Uncle's bowl.

Jin Ling just wants to get through the Discussion Conference with his Sect, his dignity, and his heart intact.

Part 4: Grace notes, acciaccatura & appoggiatura

words: 18 580, chapters: 6/?

"Do you think," he asks, as Jingyi slides the guan into place, "that if fate had been different, we still would have met?"

Lan Sizhui has a complicated relationship with the past.

*Updated October 24th*

Hold your tongue and let me love by ilgaksu

Xiyao, explicit, words: 2 820, chapters: 1/1

There are a lot of things people don’t know about Lan Xichen. At least half of them, in Jin Guangyao’s estimation, hide in plain sight. He, as the focus of Lan Xichen’s sole and long-standing regard, is one of them. Zewu-jun’s honest opinions of his fellow gentry are another.

Tragedy is not the end by Hobbsy3

Wangxian, Xuanli, teen and up, words: 358 230, chapters: 67/67

graphic depictions of violence, major character death, People die but they (mostly) get better, alternate universe - time travel, torture, hurt/comfort, golden core reveal, canon divergence from Qiongqi Pass, angst with a happy ending, implied/referenced rape/non-con, because Jin Guangshan and Jin Zixun suck, Jiang Cheng is doing his best, Jiang Yanli fixes everything with soup and a baby, Jin Zixuan gets it together, Yunmeng sibling bonding, good dad Wei Wuxian, good dad Lan Zhan, junior quartet dynamics

When Sizhui, Jingyi, and Zizhen are captured with Jin Ling at the Guanyin Temple, they're sure that Hanguang Jun and Wei Wuxian will fix everything - until Su She stabs Lan Wangji through the stomach, and everything falls apart around them. In a last, frantic attempt to undo the damage Jin Guangyao has done, Wei Wuxian activates a deadly array to send the four juniors back in time, sending them to the morning of Jin Ling's one-month celebration. With the fate of everyone and everything they love in their hands, Sizhui, Jin Ling, Zizhen and Jingyi race to prevent the ambush at Qiongqi Pass and the subsequent fallout, but Jin Guangyao has returned from the future as well, and he has no intention of letting what he wants fall through his hands a second time.

Too gone to stay by Aenya

Wangxian, teen and up, words: 31 858, chapters: 7/7

Wei Wuxian-centric, canonical character death, in non-canonical ways, Wei Wuxian can have a little murder as a treat, canon divergence, canonical character death REVERSAL, canon-typical violence, novel canon, pre-relationship, happy ending

"Seems like it worked,” says a nearby voice.

Wei Wuxian looks in the direction of the speaker with a flinch, the light streaming in from the entryway momentarily blinding. He barely manages to stay upright.

"I guess he wasn’t so useless after all,” the second voice is calmer, and familiar to him.

"Welcome back, Yiling Laozu,” Jin Guangyao says.

or: Mo Xuanyu performs the resurrection ritual while he’s still living in Koi Tower.

Wei Wuxian can have a little murder? As a treat?...

Content warning: Romance by Ariaste

Wangxian, mature, words: 5 911, chapters: 1/1

BDSM, praise kink, nonsexual kink, which turns into sexual kink, WWX's canonical fetishes, kink negotiation, basically a mission to demonstrate to fandom that Kink Can Be Unbearably Soft Actually

Wei Wuxian just wants a little warning before Lan Wangji says nice things.

Lan Wangji just wants to love on his husband, thanks.

Walking Back To You by vesna (mrsronweasley)

Wangxian, teen and up, words: 20 189, chapters: 1/1

hurt/comfort, some graphic descriptions of an injury, getting together, good uncle Lán Qǐrén, wangxian-typical misunderstanding

They bring him in just before dawn. Wei Wuxian does not remember it, not really. He remembers nothing but pain.

Out to get you (to get you) by iliacquer

Wangxian, explicit, words: 41 571, chapters: 8/8

graphic depictions of violence, courtesan!LWJ,  assassin!LWJ, dark lord!WWX, switching, power play, bondage, mention of past attempted sexual assault on a minor, past slavery, happy ending

In order to kill the Demon of Yiling, assassin Lan Wangji pretends to be courtesan. Falling in love with Wei Wuxian is an unfortunate complication.

This is an AU where the Wen clan attack much, much earlier and that has all sorts of consequences for our favourite characters.

Grief kindly stopped by ShanaStoryteller

Wangxian, not rated (teen and up, maybe), words: 5 498, chapters: 1/1

alternate universe - canon divergence, identity porn, angst with a happy ending, POV Lan Wangji, AU after WWX gets dropped in the Burial Mounds, light horror, fix-it

Nothing leaves the Burial Mounds alive.

Always light my way by cqlorphan

Wangxian, explicit, words: 27 473, chapters: 3/3

post-canon, getting together, friends with benefits to lovers, wherein dual cultivation may be counted as a benefit, jealous WWX (a little bit), misunderstandings, mutual pining, pining while fucking, angsty sex, top/bottom versatile, topping from the bottom, orgasm delay/denial, coming untouched, dom/sub undertones, the angsty sex happens in the beginning but they get past it dw, blivious LWJ, archer WWX, smart WWX, porn with feelings, probably at least half of this fic is just that, also warning for panic attacks, angst with a happy ending, dual cultivation

Lan Wangji looks down at his own hands, steadying himself. It is easier to think clearly when he is not looking into Wei Wuxian’s eyes. He takes the scroll from his pouch.

“Research has uncovered a method,” he says. He does not mention the forbidden nature of said research, nor does he elaborate on the method itself. He will not venture to speak it aloud. He hands the scroll over.

Wei Wuxian looks at him for a long moment as he takes it, and Lan Wangji holds his breath, waiting for him to decide. Waiting to see if he is at least interested enough in the possibility of a new core to read it.

He is. He does. Lan Wangji might be relieved, if not for what comes next.

Lan Wangji offers to help Wei Wuxian develop a new golden core via dual cultivation. He struggles to keep his feelings in check.

*Posted August 25th*

Rotten work by ShanaStoryteller

Wangxian, Jin Ling & Wei Wuxian, not rated (teen and up, perhaps), words: 63 907, chapters: 8/8

post-canon, protective Wei Wuxian, protective Jin Ling, POV Jin Ling, Jiang Cheng & Wei Wuxian reconciliation, eventually, reluctant matchmaker Jin Ling, this kid is doing his best, pre- Jin Ling/Lan Jingyi

Jin Ling hadn’t thought to keep track of Wei Wuxian.

Clearly that had been a mistake.

Take my breath away by Tabi_essentially

Wangxian, teen and up, words: 3 387, chapters: 1/1

hurt/comfort, soulmates, POV alternating, this is not a coffee shop AU, canon universe, post-canon, in the future, love beyond death, reincarnarnation (kind of), implied Jiang Yanli/Wen Qing

On a hot, summer morning, Lan Wangji has a vision. Wei Wuxian has some ideas about it.

A civil combpaign by Ariaste

Zhuiling (Jin Ling/Lan Sizhui), backgroud Wangxian, teen and up, words: 19 645, chapters: 1/1

arranged marriage, the difficulty of arranging your own marriage, combs are the best courting gift, overly subtle courting or overly oblivious courtee?, awkward teenagers, teenage drama, Jin Ling has too many uncles, WangXian's weird flirting, Wei Wuxian's avuncular powers, humor

"And,” said one of the pompous ministers, “there’s the matter of a marriage to consider as well!” 

Jin Ling, who at the beginning of that sentence had expected to slam into the very last wall of his patience and lose his temper entirely, paused. “A what?”

Thing was… it wasn’t such a bad idea.

Besieged by Ariaste

Wangxian, background Zhuiling (Jin Ling/Lan Sizhui), mature, words: 11 370, chapters 1/1

companion fic, not quite a sequel, all the bits that Jin Ling missed, WWX POV, Wei Wuxian's avuncular powers, teenage drama, humor, let's interrogate LWJ's trauma, feelings, fluff, WWX believes children are the future, who DOES Sizhui take after?, answer: Zewu-jun, wangxian are so extremely married, you thought you'd seen Married before, this is maximum Married, WangXian's weird flirting, WWX's hunger for family

"Mn,” says Lan Zhan out of the blue one night. He has been playing guqin on the other side of the room without speaking for two hours, and Wei Wuxian has been noodling with some new ideas for talismans for nearly as long --one of those easy, quiet evenings of companionable silence, until Lan Zhan has thrown this enormous tantrum out of nowhere.

(A companion fic to "A Civil Combpaign". Read that one first.)

You'd break your heart to make it bigger by mrsronweasley

Wangxian, explicit, words: 32 542, chapters: 1/1

soulbonding, first time, case fic if you squint, fools in love, soul boning, pining while fucking

"Wei-gongzi? Wake up! Why won't he wake up? Wei Wuxian!"

Wei Wuxian's consciousness comes back as a slow rushing of sound. Voices, movement, something that sounds like fire crackling. It flickers behind his eyelids, so chances are, it's probably a fire. Then a shadow falls over him and he groans as he attempts to peel his eyes open. It's not an easy business—they somehow feel both dry and sticky at the same time, and when he manages to open them the tiniest bit, even the dim light around him feels like blinding sunlight. There's pressure in his chest, but at least his breathing is fine.

He has no idea what happened.

Or, Wei Wuxian finds himself in a pickle--and it involves Lan Wangji.

Vagabond by xantissa

Wangxian, explicit, words: 65 788, chapters: 20/20

slow burn, mystery, case fic, murders, supernatural, angst and hurt/comfort, extreme fluff, those two are so in love it hurts, frottage, oral sex, anal sex, happy ending, badass! Lan Xichen, canon-typical violence

Wei Wuxian comes back to Cloud Recesses after a year of wandering the world, hoping to start a relationship with Lan Zhan. He doesn’t expect to come into the middle of a case of sleeping sickness mysteriously killing people, nor does he expect what follows, putting everything he holds dear on the line once again.

Fanart that made me read this fic.

The absolutely true story of the Yiling Patriarch: A manifesto in many parts by aubreyli

Wangxian, teen and up, words: 19 692, chapters 7/7

in-universe RPF, romance novel, Lan Jingyi's sense of justice, Ouyang Zizhen's sense of romance, featuring a surprise appearance by Wei Wuxian's oft-absent sense of shame, look the ducklings just want their sort-of dads to be happy okay?, and it's not like WWX or LWJ are doing a good job of ensuring their own happiness, Jingyi rejects canon reality and substitutes his own, highly relatable actually, post-canon fix-it, primarily drama-canon with cameos from novel-canon

Wei Wuxian’s hand jolts, spilling a drop of wine onto the tabletop. “Love?” he croaks, then clears his throat and tries again. “Lan Zh— uh, Hanguang-jun, in love?”

"Have you not heard the story?” the other young woman asks, looking pitying. “You must, it is a truly heartrending tale of star-crossed romance and mutual pining — go to any storyhouse in town, everyone has been requesting a reading of this book.”

"There’s a book?” Wei Wuxian says blankly.

In which the junior disciples (namely, Lan Jingyi, Ouyang Zizhen, and a reluctant Lan Sizhui) turn to RPF in an attempt to rehabilitate Wei Wuxian's reputation so that he and Hanguang-jun can get together and get married and live happily ever after. It's... surprisingly effective.

I hope that you will come and meet me by feyburner

Wangxian, mature, words: 28 384, chapters: 1/1

post-canon, getting together, love letters, emotional hurt/comfort, cuddling & snuggling, literal sleeping together, intimacy, CQL compliant, no plot just feelings, first time, two soulmates figuring their shit out, let Hanguang-jun talk about his feelings agenda

The second time Lan Zhan said Wei Ying, come back, Wei Wuxian did.

FANFICS! (previous rec post)

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ok one thing that i did want to touch on is something ive seen a lot in the fandom the past couple of days is watching a show for a ship aka buddie in this case.

this post was 100% inspired by an ask that I read blogged of @reallysmartladymariecurie

i’ve seen a lot of negative posts complaining about people who were either disappointed in the amount of buddie in the show or are complaining about fans who found the show through buddie fan content whether it be on tumblr twitter etc.

without the fandom of 911, alot of whom are buddie stans, the show would not be as popular as it is. having a particular ship is as popular as buddie allows for a stronger fandom and renewal of the show due to high numbers of fans who are loyal to watching a show at a certain time. there is absolutely nothing wrong with watching a show for a particular ship that you like. TV shows are made for entertainment, and if a ship is the main portion of the entertainment that you gain from the show, that’s amazing and you deserve to be happy.

this discourse is related from the fact the buddie is a non-canon gay ship. i guarantee that if people were shipping maddie and chimney the same amount that they shipped buddie before they were canon, no one would have a problem with them watching the show for that reason. but the moment it becomes gay, people start to have a problem with it.

and also you can enjoy show the disappoints you. you don’t have to be happy but 100% the decisions that writers make. thats just not realistic.

i bet that without the buddie fans who are loyal to the show who post fanfiction and fan content and make posts on tumblr and teitter every single day, the show would not be as popular as it is.

i just think that sometimes people on the internet hate to see people happy about things. and that is especially prevalent in non-canon ships.

this was a long rant post but i have just seen so much negative attitude towards buddie stans in the 911 fandom in general on twitter and tumblr lately, this is an inclusive show (for the most part) and people being bitchy toward each other is doing no one any good.