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all im thinking about is soft konig.... him just taking comfort in ur presence....and you take comfort in his....
#konig#something about men who are super strong and big and nigh unapproachable#but then they are soft#and THEIR presence is comforting#bc you feel protective#but you are most likely softer#and then they find comfort in yours#cod mw2#give us more lore pls
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the mighty nein - critical role
this is a place where i don't feel alone. this is a place where i feel at home.
#also with softer vibes. i offer They#every silly little brainheart found family deserves a to build a home edit#the mighty nein maybe most of all. thats my family#also the lyrics deliciously well suited to m9.#when jester pulls that. stupid tarot card for fjord. home or traveler. and there's a carnival wagon. and veth says Thats Us! . them#i just think about . the tower is their home the xhorhouse is their home the lavish chateau is their home the balleater. the mistake.#the nein heroez. veth and yezas apartment. the dome. fjord and jesters living room floor.#a bar with a silly name on rumblecusp#also like. the song has stone and dust imagery. gardens and trees.#the inherent temporality of life and love and how that holds no bearing on how greatly people can love. im losin it okay.#ive been making this edit for days straight with my computer screaming at me for trying to shove 143 episodes of cr into a 2min20sec video.#crying becuase. theyre a family do you get it. they were nine lonely people and most of them had given up on seeing their own lives#as something that might be good. something that might make the world a better place. and in the end they're heroes.#and it doesn't matter if no one else knows because They know they're heroes. and they wouldn't've believed that was true when they met.#rattling the bars of my enclosure. to be loved is to be changed#posted on twitter and want to get in the habit of posting here too bc.#general reasons but also bc . i have noticed some of the ppl liking/sharing it are also ppl who shit on my ops by vaguing about my posts#which is in general whatever but does leave a funny taste in my mouth.#critical role#the mighty nein#cr2#caleb widogast#caduceus clay#jester lavorre#fjord#veth brenatto#yasha nydoorin#beauregard lionett#mollymauk tealeaf#my posts
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imelda
but she also sounds the friendliest when calling ravenclaw
[ dress ]
#hogwarts legacy#hogwarts legacy fanart#imelda reyes#hogwarts legacy mc#fanart#everett clopton#amit thakkar#i actually found it endearing when she called out 'ravenclaw' to me on the last course; it sounds like she has given you a pet name#and when we thank her over her subtle compliment; she started gulping her words; i always have subtle attraction to tsundere denial trait#can u hear it; how the last 'slytherin' word on 'slytherin vs ravenclaw' was so spirited#tho on the word 'ravenclaw' the tone gets softer; so it might not accurate to depic her doing that much yelling#still it made me think imelda has the most beef with ravenclaw xD which is f u n for me#when we finally came to the third course that no one came to; i can see how imelda would be happy to see us#i love how our mc also speaks out their concern about it as if they are worried about imelda#our mc is so kind hearted#i love how calming the low pitch male voice is; every time it talks my heart soars
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Too tired for words
Waaagh sniffs sobs hhh.... cries sniffles sniff... wahh... starts rolling on the floor crying...... wahgh
#i genuinely bettered how i draw optimus ! i understood his face better#i changed the eyes' position and shape and git how his eyebrows work and how his face is shaped#i almost sobbed at the. the jaw or what is it called#the cheek shape? what the fuck it's so sad#his big brows made me sigh loudly like ah ahh 😞#but the most important thing was the little thingies at the eye bottom#i would call it eyeliner but it's disrespectful#it's tear streams. Engraved into his eyes sharp#AND RATCHET#i haven't drawn his eyes open once#because there's just something that i can't reach right now.#there's just something about his optica that i cannot grab right now#the art of prime book stated that his eyes were made to be softer than everything else#like he may seem blocky but the eyes!! they tell you he's soft#i need to study them#because if i do not do this#i will never understand what's here and what I can't understand about them#the big eyebrows#and the soft eyes underneath that i right now do not understand how to make soft#also they were supposed to have earphones but i couldn't figure it out#transformers#tfp fanart#margosher arting art#tfp#transformers fanart#optiratch#tfp optimus#tfp ratchet#ratchet tfp#optimus tfp
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Maybe
"You're a dickhead"
[Softly] "yeah, I love you too"
will be our always.
#i need to be logged out of my account im spiralling#i miss. I MISS HIM. I MISS HIM. THE SAVED THE MOST PSYCHOLOGICALLY DAMAGING BIT FOR THE VERY END#THE ONLY TIME SIMON SOUNDED SOFTER THAN DANIEL WAS WHEN HE TOLD HIM I LOVE YOU TOO#MY CHEST IS CAVING IN LIKE AN OLD HOUSEEEEEEEE HELLLLLPPPP
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Okay, breaking my principles hiatus again for another fanfic rant despite my profound frustration w/ Tumblr currently:
I have another post and conversation on DW about this, but while pretty much my entire dash has zero patience with the overtly contemptuous Hot Fanfic Takes, I do pretty often see takes on Fanfiction's Limitations As A Form that are phrased more gently and/or academically but which rely on the same assumptions and make the same mistakes.
IMO even the gentlest, and/or most earnest, and/or most eruditely theorized takes on fanfiction as a form still suffer from one basic problem: the formal argument does not work.
I have never once seen a take on fanfiction as a form that could provide a coherent formal definition of what fanfiction is and what it is not (formal as in "related to its form" not as in "proper" or "stuffy"). Every argument I have ever seen on the strengths/weaknesses of fanfiction as a form vs original fiction relies to some extent on this lack of clarity.
Hence the inevitable "what about Shakespeare/Ovid/Wide Sargasso Sea/modern takes on ancient religious narratives/retold fairy tales/adaptation/expanded universes/etc" responses. The assumptions and assertions about fanfiction as a form in these arguments pretty much always should apply to other things based on the defining formal qualities of fanfic in these arguments ("fanfiction is fundamentally X because it re-purposes pre-existing characters and stories rather than inventing new ones" "fanfiction is fundamentally Y because it's often serialized" etc).
Yet the framing of the argument virtually always makes it clear that the generalizations about fanfic are not being applied to Real Literature. Nor can this argument account for original fics produced within a fandom context such as AO3 that are basically indistinguishable from fanfic in every way apart from lacking a canon source.
At the end of the day, I do not think fanfic is "the way it is" because of any fundamental formal qualities—after all, it shares these qualities with vast swaths of other human literature and art over thousands of years that most people would never consider fanfic. My view is that an argument about fanfic based purely on form must also apply to "non-fanfic" works that share the formal qualities brought up in the argument (these arguments never actually apply their theories to anything other than fanfic, though).
Alternately, the formal argument could provide a definition of fanfic (a formal one, not one based on judgment of merit or morality) that excludes these other kinds of works and genres. In that case, the argument would actually apply only to fanfic (as defined). But I have never seen this happen, either.
So ultimately, I think the whole formal argument about fanfic is unsalvageably flawed in practice.
Realistically, fanfiction is not the way it is because of something fundamentally derived from writing characters/settings etc you didn't originate (or serialization as some new-fangled form, lmao). Fanfiction as a category is an intrinsically modern concept resulting largely from similarly modern concepts of intellectual property and auteurship (legally and culturally) that have been so extremely normalized in many English-language media spaces (at the least) that many people do not realize these concepts are context-dependent and not universal truths.
Fanfic does not look like it does (or exist as a discrete category at all) without specifically modern legal practices (and assumptions about law that may or may not be true, like with many authorial & corporate attempts to use the possibility of legal threats to dictate terms of engagement w/ media to fandom, the Marion Zimmer Bradley myth, etc).
Fanfic does not look like it does without the broader fandom cultures and trends around it. It does not look like it does without the massive popularity of various romance genres and some very popular SF/F. It does not look like it does without any number of other social and cultural forces that are also extremely modern in the grand scheme of things.
The formal argument is just so completely ahistorical and obliviously presentist in its assumptions about art and generally incoherent that, sure, it's nicer when people present it politely, but it's still wrong.
#this is probably my most pretentious fanfiction defense squad post but it's difficult to express in other terms#like. people talking about ao3 house style (not always by name but clearly referring to it) as a result of fanfic as a form#and not the social/cultural effect of ao3 as a fandom space#you don't get ao3 house style without ao3 itself and you don't get ao3 without strikethrough and livejournal etc#and you don't get those without authors and corporations trying to exercise control over fic based on law (often us law) & myths about law#and you don't get those without distinctly modern concepts of intellectual property and copyright#none of those things have fuck all to do with form!#anghraine rants#fanfiction#general fanwank#long post#thinking about this partly because the softer & gentler versions of fanfic discourse keep crossing my dash#and partly because i've written like 30 pages about a playwright i adore who was just not very good at 'original fiction' as we'd define it#both his major works are ... glorified rpf in our context but splendid tragedies in his#and the idea of categorizing /anything/ in that era by originality of conception rather than comedy/tragedy/etc would be buckwild#ivory tower blogging#anghraine's meta
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okay his outfit has really been bothering me for absolutely ages so here. bastard man.
#warhammer rogue trader#pasqal haneumann#pasqal rogue trader#when i say its been bothering me. know i am too well informed about fabrics and sewing#so i need it to make sense. it cannot be one layer it just doesnt make sense#and [youre seeing my madness now] it SEVERELY bothers me when tech priests dont wear canvas or leather#i am sorry they are NOT going around in lightweight cotton. and have you seen how much oil stains they do not wear velvet or silk either#most insane hc ever: i dont think theyve reinvented polyester yet in 40k. i just cant see it#its like any other oddly specific fabric lost through time#archaeotech yet to be figured out..........#anyway pasqal wears thick leather abel wears stiff canvas thats worn out through the years to be softer
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does anyone want to join me on the aventurine/argenti train. it's got all the perks of being as funny as any other argenti ship - especially given the random absurdity of their first meeting. what the hell was argenti doing in the depths of the nihility? who even knows anymore man. but like also i think it has the potential to be really sweet?
aventurine hasn't let anyone In since his sister died. he's long since forgotten how to Trust, and Love, and how to BE Loved. and this, combined with enormous amounts of survivor's guilt and trauma and being treated as an object, has really done a number on his self-esteem. he doesn't act like it (because he's learned that it's dangerous to be vulnerable; it's the one gamble he's not willing to take), but 2.1 gave us that glimpse into his inner dialogue and it is Bad in there
between his conversation with acheron, the note veritas left for him, and finding a sense of closure in the apparition of his younger self, he's on track to becoming better. we can see it in the way he pretty much immediately reaches out to the trailblazer to get some things off his chest once he gets his phone working again. and the way he's accepting what is basically a form of therapy from the doctors of chaos. but his self-hatred has been building up for years, and it's going to take a long time to unpack and unlearn all of that
so like, in comes argenti, right? he's a loud show-off, but he is SO earnest. he sees the beauty in everything and everyone. he's kind, and gentle, and so full of love. he also comes off as a bit... lonely to me? he's spent so much of his life chasing after idrila's shadow, and only catching a glimpse of them in his many near-death experiences (and isn't that something to think about...........). he's not like, secretly miserable or faking or anything - i think his exuberance is 1000% genuine. but humans are social creatures; everyone wants and requires at least some form of closeness and intimacy. to have a love to pursue in This realm... someone he can see and hold without needing to have one foot in an early grave . i think that would be good for him. that's all
anyway, it's clear that argenti was pretty enchanted by aventurine
like yeah that's kind of just how he talks normally but !?@,%&#& that's a lot of awfully romantic things to say about one specific person out of the several you apparently rescued (??????? god i love this guy he makes no sense. literally why are you even here bud). it seems that aventurine's more subdued state left an impression on him too, and well wouldn't it be pretty in character for him to start popping in randomly... as he does, because he can apparently just go wherever the fuck he wants. to check on this sad yet oh so beautiful peacock.. to try to bring a true smile to his face... to show him how kind and beautiful the universe can be......
i think aventurine might have a hard time laughing off offers of comfort and company and the beginnings of a courtship if it comes from someone like argenti. this man couldn't be disingenuous if he tried. he doesn't wear his heart on his sleeve as much as he rips it out of his chest to show you. it'll be a learning curve regardless - aventurine is too used to needing to constantly prove his worth to keep anyone around and to keep them from hurting him
but do you see it. do you see the vision. do you see how Sweet this could be. aventurine is about to receive more roses than he'll know what to do with
#i spent enough time on this that i think i can...#honkai star rail#argenti#aventurine#aventi... argenturinenope i hate this one actually#avegenti. dude i don't know don't ask me i'm just the messenger#like can i just say that what most ratiorine shippers are trying to squeeze out of that would be better found Here.#i don't mind the ship as much as i used to. veritas is kinder than i gave him credit for. i can even enjoy it if done right#but like#? veritas may be kinder than i originally thought but he's not that kind.#he's harsh truths and tough love. he started to soften after aventurine's unexpected death sentence and he has the potential to soften more#but guys i don't think a ratiorine relationship that takes place so soon after the events of penacony or god forbid BEFORE-#is going to go that smoothly#veritas has his head pretty deep in his own ass. it's going to take him a bit to get that out#he's more likely to hurt aventurine and send him right back into his defensive shell than he is to actually help him along his recovery#and/or aventurine is likely to dismiss any of his attempts to be more forthcoming with his feelings because of his perceived dislike for hi#and just how their working relationship always was Before#if you want to talk about that and the messy struggle to be better for each other after they stomp all over the other's heart#i'm all ears man.#but if you want something that's softer from start to finish and not so stressful... listen to me. argenti and aventurine is where that's a#i think both options are appealing tbh? in their own ways
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Description of the primary documents:
Image 9/document 1:
a book of hours. Thomas Becket's name is erased from the calendar of saint's days
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Cromwell's arms in the book of heralds after his fall. 'X's show where they've been crossed out
Image 21/document 3:
'questions to be axid of thomas cromell'
in henry viii's hand, the heading to a list of questions regarding the Cleves marriage
Image 26/document 4:
Cromwell's letter to the king from the tower
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His parliamentary attainder
#this is well ugly. but we move!#I don’t foresee the ‘you can choke’ being well-received. but it’s in specific reference to his ‘low birth’ and how flagrant he was#about it and how little he seemed to have cared?#I got way too carried away w this#and thus continues my doing quote boards for Thee most unpopular Tudor figures#I did one of Henry and ngl I’m tempted to do another#(when I say unpopular. that’s like. within reason. as in I’m not gonna be out here doing one for thomas seymour. or richard riche. ya ken?)#also this was a bit annoying to make because the fucker sat in the same position. facing the same direction. in the same outfit#with the same expression. in every portrait of him ever#which does not lend itself well to this sort of thing#(altho actually tbf i do think he has a softer? expression in the miniatures than in the main Holbein portrait)#also on the real that medal is incredibly well made. they even managed to do some wee curls poking out from under the hat#to get that kinda detail with just hand tools...#phew#also cowboy carter is a banging album and if you havent listened to it you should#thomas cromwell#the tudors#wolf hall#also i did put one positive/happier quote in there because well. outside of wolf hall i dont think people do know as much about#the good things he did and tried to do#he's incredibly complex to put it mildly
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Just...soft and gentle Everlark.
Cradling one another, careful but comforting caresses and deep but gentle kisses. All the meaning and love behind all of it. In the bed and out.
These two are just so filled with love for one another and they show it.
#I tend to like the softer more gentle side of things in general so most of my ships fit that. But Katniss and Peeta def are king of that.#And if you disagree that's fine! Just my view of it#Everlark#Katniss Everdeen#Peeta Mellark#The Hunger Games
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that moment when, in your heart of hearts, you know that 95-100% of your readership simply is not pronouncing your protagonist's name correctly
and you also know, in your heart of hearts, that it is entirely your own fault for naming him that. lmao
#I know you probably aren't pronouncing phaidros's name right because it took me like an hour to pronounce his name right#between the research and the practice and the roman version of the name cluttering up results#disaster#oh well#the d sound in particular is very different from how english speakers might expect#the simplest way to explain it is that 'phaid' sounds like the 'feath' part of 'feather' in english#that should get you most of the way there lmao#like... it's a softer sound than you would expect...#the thing that helped me most was finding the pronunciations for phaistos (in crete) and daidalos (...the guy)#pasiphae is not easy either lmao#aitnists
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we talk a fair game about hating AI on here but there's that one extremely obvious AI made reylo fanart that keeps floating around from time to time and a lot of people have fallen for it and reblogged it and the person behind the account makes a ton of other AI art using disney characters and i try not to get annoyed about it because at first glance it's kind of convincing if you don't know what to look for but i think as a whole we need to get better about recognizing AI art if we're saying we're not going to support it. idk. t
#and if you like AI art sure whatever that's fine this isn't for you reblog it idc i'm not your boss#the person who posted that reylo art also has 'fuck your pronouns' in their bio so that makes me not sorry about saying this fyi#leigh speaks#reylo#i'm saying this for the folks who are against AI and probably didn't realize that “”“drawing”“” is not what it seems to be#my friend sent me an instagram post the other day with some “real” photos of some new aurora borealis that was super rare and special#and in the entire set of photos about this supposed new amazing phenomena the mountain range was different from the last one.#and it was obviously fake too just looking at it. and i pointed that out to him and he was so surprised! lol#like my guy did you look at this for more than five seconds?#AI has a few specific styles at this point: the super photorealistic is the most obvious bc it just looks like HD disney 3d graphics#then there's the softer slightly more painterly ones that can be trickier to pinpoint if you don't look at the details and anatomy#then there's the really insidious (and not as popular one): the 2d art#and no matter the subject the style is usually consistent. and if you visit deviant art for even twenty minutes you'll get really familiar#with them all because it's fucking rampant there >:/#anyway part of this is also fueled by the fact i was at Micheal's earlier and found a Romantasy coloring book and guess what?#the entire thing was AI made. the entire fucking thing. and boy did that put a dent in my brow.#this also applies to dramione but i see more AI art of them on instagram than on here
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What is the thing from your past (behaviour, thought, etc), after having had your sexuality Oh moment, that you look back on and go 'oh yeah, I should have known' 🤦🏽♀️?
#for me it was that I always disliked kissing men with stubble#I did not like that prickly feeling on my lips/mouth#preferring my partner to be clean shaven#and thinking how it must feel softer and smoother to kiss a woman#but that 'I wasn't attracted to women' therefore I didn't try to kiss a woman to see what it was like#because ew#but then I realised that I felt this same kind of 'ew-ness' about being with a generic 'woman'#as I did when I thought about being with a generic 'man'#and vice versa#and so therefore I realised I was probably bi/pan and most likely on the ace spectrum#-> as in not very attracted to either gender#but I could be if I met the right person#and also kissing women might be preferable to kissing men#(this post is brought to you by the recent developments in the 911 universe#and by my current desire to be able to kiss a woman to see what it would be like)#insert: ink saying it's so gainful#what were the signs™ for you?#also...#happy ace awareness day
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squish ramble
this probably isn't gonna make much sense bc I'm kinda sleepy but I just. I love them so fucking much. we just called for like an hour an a half and for those moments everything else disappeared. all the stress, all the worries, it all seems so much lighter just because I know I have them in my life and we can talk about anything. that feeling of complete ease and comfort when we're together, even if it's over a patchy phone signal, there's nothing else in the world that could replace it. the feeling of being seen and heard and understood entirely, the knowledge that we have each other and we're going to be okay. I know we're still young, but I hope we have this for the rest of our lives. I think as long as I have them, everything else will be alright. I love them and I love loving them, it's the best feeling in the world <3
#I wish I could take away all of your worries#but at least we have each other to lean on#it's the way I've been looking forward to the call all day. the way I could talk to you for hours about everything and nothing#the way being in your presence leaves me with this warm glow in my chest that makes everything a little softer#the way you give me courage to keep going and the way you calm my over anxious brain#(these days I imagine the moment I get to see you again constantly. whenever things get rough I imagine seeing your smile again#and being enveloped in your hug. not that I'd ever admit it though)#I think its the small moments of confirmation that get to me the most actually#when you said it was fantastic talking to me#or when you said you missed me too and your voice got soft#or your excitement when we plan our life together next year#those small moments of 'oh <3'#I know you're not *in love* with me back but in those moments I think maybe you love me. sometimes I think that's better <3#like yes I want a qpr and sometimes I want more#but if we have and love each other in whatever way we can I think that's more important#and I know for a fact I'm the luckiest person in the world to have this :)#god I love you#the future scares me sometimes but for now? I'm basking in your glow and that's all I need#I absolutely cannot wait to see you again. final stretch now!!#queerplatonic yearning hours#cosmo rambles#queerplatonic#aroace#aromantic#platonic love#loving hours
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lowkey annoying how the same people who say “wesker would not say he loves you” and accuse people who say that of making wesker ooc are the same people who genuinely think he’d kill you for interacting with him, which is also ooc
#like shut up shut up shut up y’all only like him cause he’s hot and you have no actually regard for his character#y’all r so annoying thinking in his general life he’d be genuinely disgusted at a normal human interaction#no he wouldn’t kill you the second he saw you he’s not an impulsive person#y’all only think that because he’s weird as fuck in re5 and you base all your opinions on him strictly on that game#did you forget the part where he literally fucked some girl from edonia ??? and had a partnership with her ???#people who genuinely think he acts like his re5 self in his general life do not know his charcater at all#and it’s so genuinely frustrating to see him so out of character in that way#also people wanting wesker to comfort them does not mean they think he’s a soft little baby man#it’s called having a comfort character#of course the character is gonna be softer#people who go ‘he wouldn’t comfort you he’d kill you in a second’ are the most insufferable people#shut up and let people have a comfort character#i could rant for hours about how wesker is perceived so wrongly by other wesker fans#well.. THOSE wesker fans that r annoying asf#oh lawd#(they just think he’s hot and have only seen him in re5)#daily reminder wesker would not kill you the second you spoke to him 👍#he prob doesn’t know you he has 0 incentive to kill you#like why is he being characterized like a sensitive angry man#why would i ever want to associate wesker with a real man#no thank you
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i feel like your roman candle; misty/nat, 8k, explicit
written in response to a series of tumblr erotic prompts (since i ended up getting many more than i was expecting, i have combined the ones that fit!).
prompts used: caught masturbating, torn lace, against the wall, fingers (@igotreallyreallytiredofmyoldurl), “do that again”, hair, panting, love bites, taste, restrained, desperate, tease, on the edge, and in public (if you squint)
read here on ao3
#mistynat#misty x nat#nat x misty#otp: you should be thanking me#otp#yellowjackets fic#mine#wordles#~~#this was supposed to be a short break fic! like 2k! CLASSIC me honestly#me writing mistynat: and unstoppable force (two of the most complex characters i've ever loved)#meet an immovable object (my complete inability to write established relationship fic)#(also classic me is choosing to make my first published nat pov fic when she's in her WEIRDEST SOFTEST headspace. i sure love a challenge!)#fyi i do intend to write more prompts since i still have a good handful of mistynat ones i'm inspired by#but i'll pick at them when i need another break from this long fic#ALSO ALSO gotta scream about how happy this title makes me. tfw you're looking at the band you KNOW you wanna use#(angelfish is like. PERFECT. for softer s2 nat amiright)#and you find a line that works on two levels SO PERFECTLY like. god that's the STUFF
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