#everybody read this story

[tshortik]

Starscream aka my beloved backstabbing millions of years old cockroach

[starflungwaddledee]

*ahem* *cracks knuckles* *rolls shoulders* *taps mic*

Galastruck.

and i promise i’ll write 'i love you' with my fingers on your sleeping hand and when that fox howls i’ll howl with it in its cries i’ll find an end

🩸 happy valentine's day! 🩸

*✩˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ valentines shipaganza masterpost ✩˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ ⋆˙⟡

static images for the above animation!

[cowboy-robooty]

im not going to lie i have an illuminati type theory that fanfiction has gotten so fucking bad recently as yet another consequence of the pandemic

[seabiscuits-us]

all half things

rating: E

chapter: 2/2

word count: roughly 9k (too lazy to check exactly)

preview:

“I’ll get your finger off your chest when you calm down so we can figure out what to do.”

“‘We’? There’s no we, Rio. I think you’ve helped enough.”

“Fine,” Said Rio, not moving, not pulling her finger back. They made eye contact and held it. From her periphery, she could see Agatha’s teeth scrape against her bottom lip. Her throat bobbed. The air in the classroom was suddenly very thick, “Go figure it out on your own, I’ll stay out of your way.”

“Fine, I will,” Agatha spat back. Either Rio’s ears needed tuning up, or her voice was a little strained, “And you’re uninvited to watch a movie. Offer rescinded forever.”

[cepetriwrites]

Meme for latest HOTD fic I’m reading:

Viserys looking up down from heaven hell watching his two oldest children who he forced to get married have toe curling hate sex next to his still warm corpse

Called Rhaenyra your only child in front of Aegon, now he’s giving your only child the good ole Toe Curling Cervix Crushing Hate Sex 3000 special by your emaciated corpse.

The rest of the siblings hearing some… oddly specific noises coming out of their fathers bedchamber where Aegon and Rhaenyra inside “mourning” their father

The Queen and the Prince Consort by @franzkafkagf on AO3

[cherryspicedchai]

Happy late holidays with that got dayum dress

[kyu-piddy]

Celebration time 🎉

Happy 100 followers everyone! Thank you all for following my silly side blog, and for enjoying my work! To celebrate, I made a lil quiz to match you with one of the housewardens. Originally I wanted to do all characters but that would be a humongous task, so if this one does well, I might do a vice-house warden one later on.

Happy quizzing!

[yellowocaballero]

Reading 'Solo Leveling' (a webtoon/webnovel about a guy who uses a game-like interface to level up and fight monsters and become ridiculously OP and the coolest and hottest guy in the whole wide world) really proves something to me that I've thought about.

The goal of a story is to achieve what it wants to achieve. Different genres have different certain marks the story should achieve. If it doesn't hit those marks, it's not a good example of the genre. In a lot of was it's not even a good story - it doesn't entertain the audience in the way that they want to be entertained. A romance novel isn't a bad story because it doesn't feature great action scenes, but neither is it a bad story because it doesn't delve deep into the sociopolitical implications of neocolonialism. Does it make the reader feel happy? Is it cathartic? Is there a happy ending? Then it's a good romance story - even if you think stories shouldn't need happy endings.

The 'satisfaction' of stories like Solo Leveling is the fact that is very entertaining to watch a guy be super powerful and mow down bad guys and have everybody around him go "WHOAH that's a cool guy". Maybe it's cool because you're projecting, or maybe you like great action scenes, or because you like 'underdog gets powerful' stories. It's a power fantasy. That is the goal of Solo Leveling, and so long as I'm going "WHOAH COOL", then it's a good story. And Solo Leveling is the example of the power fantasy video game dungeon OP protag. It does those elements, it executes them competently, it's a good story.

This is the third of these types of stories I've read more than 5 chapters of. The first was Omniscent Reader's Viewpoint. And baby. This is no ORV.

ORV a big reaction to Solo Levelling in a lot of ways, since Solo Levelling was very genre defining and influential, and it's hard to write these OP stories without having a relationship to Solo Leveling. It's like the most popular webtoon out there. The OP hero, the gaming interface and rules, the gods fucking you up, power fantasy - they're all checked off by ORV. It doesn't subvert them much. You watch kdj pull one over on a shmuck and you're like HEY YA BABY and you watch him utterly decimate some schmuck and you're like WHOAH COOL. You like ORV, basically, for the same reasons you like Solo Leveling. They're the same genre and in a lot of ways the same story.

But ORV has driven me nuts and after a while Solo Leveling has gotten boring. Because ORV has a fantastic supporting cast that puts the MC's OPness in relative perspective. Because there's cool action scenes with different teams, of different dynamics, giving freshness to each chapter. Because you get to see kdj slowly implement some nuts gambit of the course of the entire arc and when we finally hit the end point where it all comes together it's FUCK YEAH. I'm leaving out the actual depth here. But ORV and Solo Leveling do the same thing, except ORV has a great deal of other story elements that build into the main 'point' and escalate the satisfaction, joy, and intensity of those points. You don't read these OP hero novels for the supporting cast. You read it to watch a dude be cool. But ORV's supporting cast - and, like, the fact that they're actual characters, even the women - gives us a lot of other smaller 'hey yeah!' moments, gives it buildup, makes the OP moments meaningful, and gives a grand climax and huge satisfaction when kdj does what the SL guy did by himself. And the supporting cast is only one example of this. A story is a good story if it accomplishes its point, but a story like SL will never really deliver its promises nearly as well as ORV could. Not because ORV is deep and has """themes""" or fucked up shit like that. The 'WHOAH COOL's are just better. Because ORV knows why stories are good and what makes a good story.

Anyway I'm fucking begging you I have tears in my eyes this is why your fic needs more than the hot ship of the day I promise it won't detract from the ship it will make the ship BETTER but you have to get WHY you like these homosexuals so much and it's NOT just because they're CUTE sometimes there's OTHER REASONS THAT ARE IMPORTANT LIKE THE WOMAN YOU'VE BOOTED AND -

[natjennie]

media about people who aren't there. shows where the most important part of the story has passed. the idea that we persist after we're gone, we impact people we've never met in ways we can't fathom, so much so that we become the main character in a story we aren't around to hear. media that creates characters with intrigue, with connections, with relationships, with goals, with dreams, with life. and then they disappear. they are phantoms, projections, idols without agency in a tale about them. you know what I mean?

[neostellarjpg]

nnot an art request but im going crazy you hve the best homestuck takes ive ever seen i feel like my soul has been cleansed cos you can actually articulate things i havent been able to even grasp i feel like i UNDERSTAND NOW. why this comic has kept such a place in my heart even when the world hates it so much . thank you. i love davepeta now also

this made me Grin and Smile so big and wide!! im glad u can get something out of my rambling :3 revisiting homestuck with an actual developed non-tween brain and some media literacy has been so epic and fun. there is so much to this dumbass comic. there's a good reason people are still making meta posts and fanworks for it years after its ended

[cool-thymus]

A thank-u illustration for @malifiquemakes and her awesome fic "Like Oil for Leather" 💛

This fic is very hot and sexy, but it's also incredibly tender! (Chapter 10 my beloved <3) And in addition to delicious obkk there's Obito and Runt, his precious little pup 🥹 they stole my heart, so here they are!

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

when I want to write something self indulgent to give me all the angsty and cuddly hurt/comfort feels but I can't because I end up feeling guilty because I'm seeking after feels that I feel in an inappropriate place because my mom told me one time when I was 15 that I shouldn't search that out or it's probably sexual sin but it confuses me because ALL the feels happen that way for me even if it's entirely platonic and nonsexual and so I don't know if it's okay to want to write to that because apparently all pleasure of any sort, even over platonic stories, is sexual or comes with a possibly probably sexual feeling and I also am having a hard time figuring out what's genuine conviction from God and what's just my anxiety/OCD/perfectionism/fear of failure

[cocktopic]

i think my fatal flaw is that i truly believe that no matter who reads it literally everybody can benefit from reading orv. like even tho it’s such a simple message the thought that no matter what I am Loved and Important and i Will survive no matter what was smth that hit me so hard especially in the context orv does it (trying to be spoiler free) making me feel Seen and helped in a way that no other media has. idk. i love kim dokja so much guys

[maryasmorevna]

also. my 🔥 take about the nosferatu (2004) discourse is that the movie is so "vague" (intentionally, i presume), ambiguous, and archetypal that everyone's projecting their own personal biases and preferences onto it. that's why multiple interpretation coexisting is and must be possible

[vepaluiron]

What is your interpretation of Lireesa Windrunner, the mother of the three most angsty elves ?

I particulary dindt liked how she is in the book of sylvanas, i prefer more how uninspired-poet weote she. But what does you think ?

i hate to disappoint, anon, but i don't have any particular opinions about lireesa because she's not really a character in her appearances. she's a plot device to explain why the windrunner children, specifically alleria and sylvanas, ended up the way they did. maybe if she was ever given her own content and made a full character i would have thoughts about her but as she is now, i think the way she treated her kids explains a lot about why alleria and sylvanas have the complexes and the familial relationship they do.

i haven't read many fics with lireesa in it so i can't really speak on her fanon portrayal. the book also released years after a fanon version of lireesa was created so in my mind they're two separate beings and are, in a way, incomparable.

thank you for the ask!

[e-louise-bates]

I will admit that it never occurred to me that I would need to check the history book that claimed to be scholarly to see if it used references and footnotes, because how could a book be a scholarly work on history without such things, BUT NOW I KNOW BETTER.