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[rhiandoesfandom]

Tip #4 from someone who's written over 100k words of Helluva Boss fanfiction:

As someone who is notoriously bad with my own timelines, If you're gonna have a timeline, map it out somewhere lol. In notes, somewhere else on your document. TRUST me, if you don't map it, you will forget it and then have to reread all your chapters to figure it out lol.

[setaflow]

The dichotomy of Brennan helping with ability score rolls for newer players:

Titan Takedown: Preps high-level base stats for the cast, with everyone having a 20 in their two most relevant ability scores and no one really having a genuine dump stat (no one's character has below a 14/+2 modifier in any ability), which allows the players to play to their class strengths and not have to worry about fucking up as much in a shorter, tighter campaign.

Fantasy High: Ally Beardsley rolls a 4 for Kristen's Dex and has to live with with the consequences of that for 6+ years

[rystiel]

stanley, 17, freshly kicked out with a sense of hope that had yet to fade

[johnnyshrine]

★ 123 // “Take the next best step and pray.”

[oh-no-its-bird]

Ok so everyone say thank you to @kirabasai for infecting me with the thought of Commander Fox getting zapped from starwars to naruto

Mitsuki and Fox clone solidarity,, I know Mitsuki only exists in Boruto but I don't give a shit so now not only is this a dimension travel au it's also a time travel

Somehow both Fox and Mitsuki end up in normal naruto canon, and work together bc uhhhh. Reasons, I dunno.

Fox gets zapped first to boruto, probably through spooky Palpatine sith shenanigans that don't actually matter. But he's only there for a second, with just enough time to knock into Mitsuki before he's zapped again into naruto— accidentally bringing Mitsuki with him.

Oops.

He actually feels kind of bad ab it. Or like, as bad about it as Fox can feel, bc he's Fox. But then he learns Mitsuki is a clone and it isn't just awww shit he accidentally kidnapped some kid but aww shit he accidentally kidnapped a Shiny

Head in his hands, he didn't ask for this,, he was a good boy,, he did his job so diligently,, he hid all the bodies and killed all the people Palpatine told him to,,, literally never done a thing wrong,,,,

Fox winds up with Palpatines lightsaber somehow, and over the course of the story it kind of becomes his. It freaks the absoloute FUCK out of literally any sensors, it is radiating legit evil over there and Fox is holding it like it's no big deal (bc he can't sense shit and is kind of numb to sith energy anyways)

Fox also has a blaster and I am definitely thinking ab the comedy of like. A gun in Naruto. It's a gun. It's a gun that moves fast as light. No one knows what a gun is and Fox is going to get SO much milage out of just having a weapon he can aim places without people realizing what it's ab to do (shoot you in the fucking face)

If someone were to pry into Fox's mind they'd actually have a really awful time of it, then probably walk face first into some nasty lingering sith mind fuckery stuff. Bad experience, 0/10, Fox is very happy w how it turned out but also has no idea why he got that effect. Either way, keep ur nasty ass mind fingers to yourself

Also, Fox speaks Basic. Not Japanese.

I'm thinking he has some sort of standard translator chip that allows him to communicate, but it sometimes translates the stuff he says weirdly. For example, from everyone else's perspective, he keeps introducing himself as Kitsune.

Which, for obvious reasons, doesn't really go over that well with a lot of people in Konoha when he gets there.

He's also visibly foreign and keeps being mistaken for being from Suna

So anyways, Fox and Mitsuki first fight bc like. Hey!! You fucking kidnapped?? Me???

Mitsuki gets the jump on him bc shinobi kid vs guy who doesn't know what a fucking shinobi even is

But then they're able to kinda talk it out and like, look neither of them know where they are so... truce?

Ok so now the fun part:

Fox has no fucking clue what's going on.

From his point of view, he's on... some kind of semi primitive planet. Doesn't remember how or why, but he's here now. So standard GAR procedures; find a way to contact home base. He has his normal gear on him, but no deep space radio, so he'll have to just... make one. Fuck, ok. If he can find the parts, it's doable. All command class clones are taught the basics of how, just like how they're taught how to assemble a blaster from scraps.

But from Mitsuki's point of view, they time traveled.

Mitsuki's POV is the only reason Fox knows there's smthn seriously up, but he's not exactly gonna go "aha! Dimension travel!" On top of it all

Now here's the thing. They're in early naruto canon, some time after wave arc.

Mitsuki only knows chunks of history, and only what has been taught to him second hand from school, Orochimaru, and very very occasional stories from Sasuke or the rest of team Taka

(I feel like Suigetsu especially would have fun telling all sorts of stories)

Not... all of these stories are completely accurate. And even if they are, they're often dumbed down to be easily understood by children— think that one Boruto episode where they put on some sort of silly play about the sanin (which was adorable btw and also fucking hilarious. Actual war criminals son learns about war crimes in class and everyone is just cool happy magic of friendship about it. Amazing.)

So now Fox is learning these fuckin third hand stories from Mitsuki, who literally learned it from the villains of many of the stories, and there is some SERIOUS biases going on

They go to Orochimaru for help.

Local scientist, parent of child (= dependable?) Best source of tech for potential radio + blaster repairs if needed. Fox can trade information to him if needed, it seems like a good choice.

It is not a good choice.

Orochimaru is like nearing the heights of his insanity, and I think it'd be real fun if he decides Sasuke is cool and all but a man from the stars??? A man literally made in a vat to be the perfect example of human physique???? Who's also resistant to many forms of corrosive chakra????

New perfect body alert.

Mitsuki is cute but Orochimaru isn't really in a parental sort of mind set, sorry <3

Mitsuki is going "Huh!! My parent did say they had a pretty severe midlife crisis..."

"Kid I think this is a bit more than just a midlife crisis."

Anyways, then they escape and continue to fuck around trying to build a deep space radio, which at this point is Fox's only hope home which also means it's Mitsuki's bc maybe the jedi can help with the whole uhh... time? Thing?

I'm thinking that after the thing w Orochimaru goes to shit, they're both a lot more wary of the fact that Mitsuki's information may not be the best.

After Oro in terms of figures of power and safety, almost everyone else is either a child, not born yet, or their current location is unknown— except for good old dependable ✨️ rokudaime Kakashi ✨️

Ok so picture this. You're Kakashi, sleeping peacefully in bed after a long day fucking with your students (who you're still very conflicted about having) You wake up to a presence in ur room and there's some fucking snake kid leaning over ur bed going "Hatake-sama—"

You freak out.

Knives may be thrown.

The snake kid has a very angry looking, foreign adult man body guard.

This is so fucking suspicious.

The snake kid says he's a time traveler, and that you are the eventual Rokudaime and also the only person he knows he can trust 100%

This is so fucking suspicious.

So obviously, Kakashi plays along then turns around and reports the fuck out of their asses to the Hokage.

Yeah, Fox doesn't really know what he expected. If some random kid showed up looming over HIS bed in the middle of the night, said he'd be the next chancellor and they know bc they're a time traveler and also pretty please help me build a deep space radio so I can go home— well, he wouldn't report them to Palpatine because not even he's that sadistic. But he'd probably toss them into the cells for a minute, if only because it was one of the only perks of his job

Or, well, for that analogy to work it wouldn't be a deep space radio, because he was used to space travel. It'd have to be something wilder— like an interdimensional radio. Haha, good one. Like that existed. God, imaging having to try and make one of those, that'd be insane. Fox would just kill himself at that point. Good thing he doesn't have to, right? Right?

Anyways mid adventure, they bump into Jiraiya who is fucking horrified to recognize Orochimaru's way of smiling in Mitsuki and gaslights himself into thinking he HAS to be wrong.

I think its Jiraiya who finally helps them out

[doueverwonder]

“Average Pope has eaten 18 hotdogs in his life” factoid actually just a statistical error. Average Pope has eaten 0 hotdogs in his life (due to being alive before their invention). Pope Leo XIV, who is from Chicago, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

[sharkneto]

I've been rereading Joining Together and I just thought about Number being there when Claire is born! Not there as in there-there but there as in not in the future.

And now I can't stop thinking about it: how does Five find out about Claire? Did he even know that Allison was pregnant? I can see him finding out he became an uncle because of celebrity gossip, or because one of his siblings found out and someone tells him. Does he get to meet her when she's a baby, or does that only happen after Allison's divorce (and the apocalypse)? I'm so invested, I can't stop thinking about this. Anyway, all I know is that Five would be a great uncle!

...would you believe me if I said I've never actually thought about Number and Claire? What a crazy oversight on my part, how has this not come up in my brain in the five (!?) years I've been thinking about him

The thing is, anon... Five I think is bringing the energy and drive to be a great uncle. Number? He... hmm... Critically he did not spend four decades of his life missing his family and dreaming of this little niece he missed getting to meet, that little fantasy has not lived rent free in his crinkling psyche as a carrot at the end of a very long, brutal stick.

The energy Number is bringing is, upon learning Allison is pregnant, is "On purpose? Why?" He and his Allison are not close, he was not invited to her wedding (nor were any of the siblings), he's met Patrick maybe once before or after the marriage and was not nice to him. He very aware they're all fucked up why the hell would any of them be having a kid, does Allison even know what you're supposed to do with a kid, have fun fucking them up (he rants at talks to Viktor about this over drinks after finding out. He'll also blurt this to Allison, when he gets the announcement, which does not endear him to her and being more involved in baby planning/visits).

He'll go through the most basic uncle motions - send Allison something for the baby shower he did not get an invite to (partly motivated by spite for not getting an invitation), congratulate her when he gets a text from Ben about Claire's birth and sees the announcement in the tabloids (he lost his Personal Birth Announcement privilege with his bad response to the pregnancy announcement). But despite them being on the same coast (Allison in Hollywood, Five in Seattle for grad school), they aren't making casual visits to see each other. Allison is busy making movies and she doesn't need Five around being a dick about her perfect family (and doesn't need him to make her feel guilty about the Rumors she is in denial about). Five is busy doing physics and not worrying about the end of the world and what do you do with kids anyway? If they see each other at all it's because one is in the other's town and they feel obligated to see each other. You have to remember this family is still a disaster and estranged, and they will not all get together except for weddings and funerals (and the only wedding that's happened in the family they were not invited to).

Like Five, Number isn't going to really meet Claire until after Apocalypse Week, and even then he's not going to be as involved an uncle as Five will be to his Claire. He'll love her, he'll include her in his People I Must Keep Safe circle, but it'll be a more casual Uncle-Niece relationship, more driven by Allison being in better contact with the family than Number's want to uncle. Number isn't as tied to his siblings as Five is - he does have his own life going on outside of them, he's not going to stay hanging around the Academy when everything finally settles. This is actually one of the most critical spots in which they are different people. Does he feel bad about the estrangement? Yes, but it's easy enough to tamp down and keep with this other mixed, guilty feelings about his messy relationships with his siblings.

[pencilofawesomeness]

How to Raise Your Dragon Slayers [HTRYDS] Update Order List

Okay! So I used to have a reading list for this series waaaay back when I was dumb enough to think all of the extra non-arc oneshots and such would be okay to dump in a single collection, but now the series page for htryds is arranged in a good reading order for anyone jumping into the series, so it's all well and good. (If you're new here or doing a reread, the AO3 order is good!)

However it has come to my attention that my way of writing extra stuff out of order makes it (understandably) easy to miss updates after a while of not reading (or just missing an email), as most of us frequently do while reading things. So the solution!

Here is a list of the series in the order I posted it: (I will update this as I add to the series)

The Order of Update List

Of Dragons and Fairies [August 2020 – January 2021]

The Pillow Fort [September 2020]

Wendy Drabble: X778 [October 2020]

Laxus Drabble: X788 [December 2020]

Laxus Learns Dragons Are Real [December 2020]

Acnologia and Gildarts Level a Mountain [December 2020]

Dragons’ First Christmas [December 2020]

Meeting Mystogan [January 2021]

Natsu’s Secret [January 2021]

Plight of a Guildmaster [January 2021]

The Eighth Tower [January 2021 – April 2021]

Rising Thunder [April 2021]

Dragon and Child [April 2021]

Birthday Bash [April 2021]

Anna [April 2021]

Death in the Family [May 2021]

Loke [May 2021]

Sting Drabble: X779 [May 2021]

To Join a Guild [May 2021]

Twinkle Little Star [May 2021 – August 2021]

Natsu Drabble: X781 [June 2021]

Virgo’s Key [August 2021]

Twinkle Little Star: Aftermath [September 2021]

Twenty Four Hours [September 2021]

Laxus and Makarov Finally Talk [September 2021]

A Few Times Rogue Found Something in the Woods [September 2021]

Before the S-Class Trial of ’82 [October 2021]

Lucy Meets the Guild [October 2021]

Mudball [October 2021]

Lacrima Born [November 2021]

Acnologia and the Svit [November 2021]

Mystogan and Jellal [November 2021]

Demon Tales [November 2021 – December 2022]

Stanley II [April 2022]

When Dragons Dream [January 2023]

What Cannot Be Healed [February 2023]

How to Hide from your Heart(filia) [March 2023]

Where You Run To [March 2023]

Growing Pains [April 2023]

Taking Stock [April 2023]

Changeover [May 2023]

Erik’s Umpteenth Forced Recruitment Spiel [May 2023]

Runaways [June 2023 – March 2025]

Snowball Fight [June 2024]

Stronger For [October 2024]

Changeling [November 2024]

Fairy Meets Dragon [March 2025]

Rainwoman, Rainwoman (Don't You Cry) [May 2025]

[mercilessflowchart]

For @starryeyedstray!! Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

Inspired by Trinity's PM700!

[lizbethborden]

I've seen multiple posts in this vein obviously referring to Chappell. It's totally fine in terms of criticizing her centering of nonles and male people in her worldview (as I have argued in the past, this is a natural outgrowth of her embedding into "queer culture," where male worship and lesbian hatred are the cost of doing business), but do you think this/any other person has like... Listened to her music? None of these women make music in Chappell's genre. She is a pop artist in the Lady Gaga/Madonna mold. Tracy Chapman is ummmmmm. Not that. And it kind of turns the critique a bit nonsensical because there ARE no lesbian pop artists in the exact mold Chappell is using. Arguably Hayley Kiyoko and King Princess preceded her, but, again, they're not exactly in the same mold. The literal only through line you could argue for, with regard to the folk artists cited here, is "The Giver," and that's one song, it's country pop, and it arguably has more in common with Carrie Underwood than any of the above artists.

[a-sad-mage]

How well do you think gender and sexuality is accepted in Slugterra? Like is there equal rights laws surrounding trans, gay extra? Because I have an idea of a trans character and a gay couple but I wanted to hear someone else's ideas for inspiration. Like with jobs is it like the show don't tell rule, like in war? I'm just curious to hear your ideas.

I think it's like a non-issue

Like, you have some people that are like, 'okay weird but you do you I guess' or you know something along those lines.

Its like, a running thing in the Fandom(at least here on Tumblr) that Blakk Industries, dispight being an 'evil' company, is inclusive as shit.

I mentioned it once, but I have an interspecies oc couple for Slugterra, an Elf, and a Moleinoid. What i didn't mention what that they were both women, lol, and as of the cannon timeline, they are on the older side, like 60-70. They both run a club and have two adopted human kids, Blite(yes, that Blite) and another oc which will remain unnamed for now because spoilers- but like, no one bothers them about it? And if someone did their kids, even though there adults now would go feral on their behalf.

Overall, the Caverns don't have the social issues/pressure the Surface would when it comes to stuff like that. There is no reason to be strung up on who kisses who or how one chooses to present themselves!

There are people who literally make their whole personality one type a Slug (*cough* Shockwire *cough*) so what if your trans, or gender fluid?

Live your best life ✨️ and don't turn evil, it's tempting but you'll probably end up in Stalagmight 17-

[foodsies4me]

Because I'm always in desperate need of rec, I'm throwing some numbers at you too: 1, 4, 6, 11, 13 and 14 !

Recommend a fic that lives in your brain rent free.

The Message by cat_77: Magnus gets a voicemail from Alec, something about it sounds off.

4. Recommend a fic that is over 50,000 words.

One step ahead by apathyinreverie: Magnus and Alec meet before the beginning of the series. We see how things could have changed as a result.

6. Recommend a fic that does something cool with format or structure (epistolary, social media, 5 things, non-linear, etc.)

A five-times fic that is sweet and dives into the whole parabatai bond (or what it could have been), one platonic cuddle at a time.

Platonic Cuddles by Scribblesnpaws

11. Recommend a fic you think is a hidden gem/deserves more reads.

Let me love you (the way you deserve to) by Bohemian (Linguam) A short one-shot about Malecbeing soft and fluffy and communicating.

13. Recommend a fic you've re-read multiple times.

Not a fic but a series, but this one I've reread so often it's ridiculous.

Angelus ex Machina by Blue: I love the take on the parabatai bond and on nephilim in this. Just so good.

14. Recommend your favorite fic.

In Loco Parentis by PNGuin. An Alec is good with kids fic, must I say more. Alec being good with kids is my kryptonite.

[abitofouterspace]

Aftg is just as addictive as it was the first time I read it

[oh-no-its-bird]

Back on my starwars bullshit, do u guys think if I will it into existence hard enough, my 'commander Fox (+ 1 (one) accidentally kidnapped Mitsuki) end up in early natuto and kind of do an awful job at deciding what to do and who to trust' au will write itself? I hope so. I really hope so.

[bluesidedown]

Gratitude time

[jackie-noff]

Extraction of cracked infected Canine.

Infection caused the Apex of the tooth to develop an almost mushy consistency.