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[1dcommunityficrecs]

Rec List: Supernatural Creatures!

It may be November, and retail stores may already be starting the deluge of Christmas carols, but spooky season never truly leaves us. And thus, for your reading pleasure, we have six critter-tastic recs. We have vampires and mermaids and hybrids and fae, all wrapped up in a One Direction bow.

Read, kudos, comment, reblog -- and enjoy!

Collision by itjustkindahappened (226000, Explicit, Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson)

Mythology/Fairytale!AU in which Louis is a dainty fairy with a temper who wants to be intimidating and Harry hurts people. Naturally, they hate each other. (Featuring Liam, the big and not-so-bad wolf who’s got a thing for humans, Zayn, a human with supernaturally good looks, and Niall, the cupid who just wants his job to be easier.)

Reccer says: It's a classic for me!

I put a spell on you by ElMeiko88 & CC_horan28 (58150, Explicit, Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson) – fic post Warnings: past abuse

Harry is a witch with half a cat's head tattooed on his chest who is desperate to find what he misses most. Zayn is a lonely guardian who wouldn't say no to finding the dog of his life. Louis is a cat who doesn't like... Cats. And who may have other problems of his own to deal with. Niall is a... Well Niall... And oh, look, Liam is a golden retriever...

I'll look after you by ElMeiko88 (15471, Explicit, Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson) – fic post

I mean, when Harry inherited his late uncle's hybrid, he didn't necessarily expect this... Where Louis is a nice hybrid cat who's never lived with anyone but an old man, and who discovers the freedom of living with Harry...

It's time to find your wings again by We_are_the_same (12337, Teen, Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson) – fic post Warnings: Xenophobia, offscreen torture

Louis is twenty when he starts working at the prison. His fascination for supernatural creatures had turned into something most closely resembling loathing over the years.

Reccer says: It's not just a story about supernatural creatures, it deals with xenophobia and its effects

come my love be one with the sea by CuckooTrooke (6461, Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson) – fic post

When Louis falls overboard in a storm, a beautiful mermaid rescues him from the water. They're both kind of scared of each other -- but also both drawn in.

Reccer says: The banter is just so fun, the careful push and pull of two creatures who know almost nothing about the other except that they could kill if they wanted to, and they're undeniably attracted anyways.

Feelin' So Good Right Now by YesIsAWorld (1749, Explicit, Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson) – fic post Warnings:

Louis, a just-turned vampire, enjoys his enhanced touch sensation.

Reccer says: The way the writer focuses on the tiny details, really relishing in them, digging deep into the touch and sight and sound (and all heightened) -- it's absolute poetry

[selfindulgentcompetition]

*Meaning: When did you stop wearing a mask to a majority of your public activities? Wearing a mask when you feel sick or very rarely for specific events/reasons counts as “stopping”

*Edit: This post is about COVID not Autism*

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[cookiesandcantarella-art]

Do you ever think about the absolute euphoria Duck would feel at getting to be human again? I do. I do a lot.

[ID: a stylized digital painting of Fakir and Duck embracing each other as he lifts her in the air. Fakir stands ankle deep in a pond and water splashes around them. A few white feathers float through the air around Duck. She is nude and her hair is down. Fakir wears a simple white shirt with his pants rolled up above the water level. In the foreground, an open book rests upon the dock. Behind them, the clouds are lit with the pinks and blues of a sunrise. End ID]

[cactuscely]

I’m on team Future; no we’re not winning

[wifegideonnav]

that post about putting on the dune audiobook at a party where everyone was on lsd except it was my friend playing the dead flag blues when our group was wizard high in our second year of college

[familyabolisher]

Historical writing nevertheless continued, taking new forms and developing old ones. Probably the form of written narrative most commonly associated with the period 500–700 is so-called ‘national history’: Jordanes’ Getica (mid-sixth century), Gregory of Tours’ so-called History of the Franks, Isidore of Seville’s History of the Goths, Sueves and Vandals, of the early seventh century, Bede’s early eighth-century Ecclesiastical History of the English People, and Paul the Deacon’s History of the Lombards (late eighth century), to which one should add the anonymous early eighth-century Liber Historiae Francorum, the early ninth-century History of the Britons attributed to Nennius and the late ninth-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and other works. Most of these works were written after the close of the time-span covered by this volume but, as they claim to relate the history of our period, they deserve treatment here. These sources were at first considered to be repositories of the age-old traditions of the different peoples of early medieval Europe. Since, in the nineteenth and earlier twentieth century these peoples were regarded as distinct racial units, in line with the ideas of the nation-state developed at that time, such works were seen to represent the foundations of the histories of modern European nations, their authors portrayed as the founders of national historical traditions. The information they contained was held to be reliable, transmitted down the generations, it was assumed, by oral tradition. As attitudes towards the nature of the barbarian ‘peoples’ themselves changed, so the ways in which these sources were viewed changed too. Most have been the subject of intense debate. The nature of Jordanes’ history has come under close scrutiny, and Gregory of Tours’ writing has become the focus of an even larger field of profitable debate, hardly any of which now sees his writings as forming any sort of ‘History of the Franks’ (as discussed above). Meanwhile, controversy has been provoked by the interesting suggestion that Paul the Deacon’s History of the Lombards might have been composed for a Frankish audience. The other sources have also attracted debate and revaluation. Not only are many of these works no longer seen as ‘national histories’, it is also recognised that they may represent instances of other genres entirely: the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, obviously enough, takes the form of a set of annals (Isidore’s History is also written to an annalistic structure); Bede’s is an ecclesiastical history; and so on. Gregory’s, as mentioned, was not written as a national history at all, though quite which – if any – genre Gregory was composing in is a matter of debate. At the same time, the purposes to which these sources were put, using the past to serve political needs of later centuries, were also served by works of many other kinds, never viewed as particularly ‘nationalistic’. The lesson of the scholarship of recent decades has essentially been that to understand these sources they have to be replaced in the contexts of their composition. The political motives behind their composition make them far more contingent, and concomitantly far less valuable as treasuries of ancient fact, than hitherto believed. At the same time, however, they become very valuable sources for the examination of the political culture and ideology of the times and places where they were written: mid-sixth-century Constantinople; early seventh-century Spain; late ninth-century Wessex, for example. These lessons apply to most other sources written in our period.

Guy Halsall, ‘The sources and their interpretation’ from The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. 1: 500-700

[currentlyonstandbi]

it's absolutely tragic to see the reality of how ahsoka felt about her training being nothing more than a legacy of death and war, but at the same time, that was the only thing anakin could teach her in the moment; how to fight and survive in the middle of all that bloodshed

[shortfeather]

I should not be surprised tango is a fellow dnd minmaxer but it was still very funny to hear all his multiclasses being the exact opposite of mine

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

thinking about river clara and yaz who ive taken to calling bluebeards wives in my head bc im normal and how yaz was the only one who wasnt a puzzle first

[biarritzzz]

The fact a nutcase who wanted to kill himself and chose the most painful way to do it (setting himself on fire) claiming he did for Palestine as a way to attract attention and make his craziness noble is celebrated on this hellsite is a clear sign the lunatics are running the asylum.

[confusedfeelsfangirl]

I should have known I’d get hooked on Magnus Archives as soon as my friend described it to me but it was definitely cemented by the fact that MAG 19 started by « We will get to the reported cannibalism soon but let’s start from the beginning… » and my immediate response was « Cannibalism you say ??? 😏😏😏 »… stupid soft horror, eroticism of the supernatural, Hannibal infused brain…

[1dcommunityficrecs]

New Category: Supernatural Creatures!

As we approach the Spooky Season (who am I kidding, we are WELL INTO spooky season), I thought it fitting to pick a thematically relevant category -- I'm too much of a wimp to read horror, but supernatural creatures are right up my alley!

Not gonna lie, this was inspired by someone suggesting Mermaid AUs so I would LOVE to see some of those, but I wanted to open it up even wider. As long as at least one major character in the story is a supernatural creature of some sort, and at least one major character in the story is a member of One Direction, it's eligible for inclusion. Vampires? Bring it on! Ghosts? Why not! Fairies? Absolutely! DRAGONS? To quote Sabrina Carpenter, please please please! Submit them all here.

Please note that while werewolves (or other kinds of shapeshifters) count as supernatural creatures, I personally wouldn't include general omegaverse as supernatural without there being specific werewolf/shifter aspects to the universe. Omegaverse is on the theme suggestion list for a potential future rec category (and while we're on the topic, feel free to submit more suggestions here!)

[mayasdeluca]

Station 19 Season 6 Report Card: Best Performance, Confounding Character Arc, Best Couple & More!

[vang0bus]

ok im gonna say something and some of you might not like it. but sometimes the way people refer to kids and teenagers as "minors" sounds a bit like referring to women as "females"

[tuiyla]

Alright. Okay. Seeing Red. Here we go.

[eggmeralda]

really wanna analyse my blorbos over the years bc there is definitely some Themes