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[domoz]

I got taken by the ghost and wrote a scene of a fic (Tobiizu arranged marrige au) from Tobirama's pov and since I probably (maybe???) wont rewrite the whole fic from someone else's perspective... consider this a little preview/bonus for that

Tobirama sighed as Hashirama smoothed out his hakama for what must have been the tenth time.

"I had always known I was going to marry for political reasons, anija. If it's in service of peace, it's as good as we could have hoped for."

Hashirama looked no less distressed at his reassurance, though Tobirama wasn't entirely sure why. It may have been that he was worried over his brother -- which was sweet, if tiresome -- or it may be that this peace wasn't coming about at all how he dreamed it.

It may be that he knew, or could guess, Tobirama's own dim view on the subject. That this peace would not last -- wasn't supposed to last.

Likely, he didn't believe that Tobirama himself wouldn't be it's downfall, which stung but was not an unfounded concern. If he was attacked, he would defend himself, and that would ruin everything just the same as if he had been out to break peace himself.

(He does want peace though, truly. He'd found it hard to believe in after their brothers had died, had often felt it pointless if they weren't there to enjoy it, but buried beneath those old walls and hurts the desire was still there. And now that peace was here, tenuous as it was, he would keep it.

Or at least he would try his best.)

"I wouldn't have made you" Hashirama protested, now having moved on to smoothing down his hair again. Tobirama knew he wouldn’t have, knew that in any other circumstance had he protested a match, Hashirama would have called it off. But this was hardly a normal circumstance.

At his silence, Hashirama sighed, "I'd always kind of hoped… Maybe you were some kind of secret romantic. I mean, with your soft spot for kids…"

Tobirama snorted. He would hardly call himself romantic, but he'd hoped whoever he married would be able to respect him. Maybe even come to understand him.

Izuna may be able to provide the former -- he wouldn't have survived against him so long on the battlefield if he didn't -- but any dreams he may have harbored for the latter were well and truly dead the moment the daimyo made his decision.

"Well, you know there's still a chance…" Hashirama dithered on, "After all, my marriage with Mito was arranged!"

As if he had forgotten. His brother smiled at him, brittle as it had been since this marriage was ordained.

"Who knows what the future may bring." Tobirama said flatly, though it seemed to appease his Hashirama well enough, as he finally pulled his hands back to himself.

Let Hashirama hope for the future if that helped him. Tobirama will look to the present. And right now, his goal is to make certain he and his clan get out of this nonsense alive.

[rafterdarkr]

why are all these modern aus for the Odyssey set in a high school. where's the retelling where Odysseus is just a guy lost in an airport who keeps missing his connecting flights home due to a comical series of delays and disgruntled airline employees

[roboticnebula]

Pros of re-reading your own fic

a good time;

Has exactly the tropes you like and the characterization you want to read;

Gratification: yes you did finish a thing and yes you did do good;

just a very fun time all around.

Cons of re-reading your own fic:

Is that another TYpO

[michameinmicha]

Stumbled upon this random ship (in a fandom im not active in myself) that has like 150 works on ao3 which are all from just two people gifting each other fics about this pairing back and forth and theyve been doing it for 3 years... i think thats true love probably

[balrogballs]

i'm a writer irl (can't say who because my agent would rightfully put me into a blender and press the button if i go and out myself as "balrogballs") and honestly the funniest and most humiliating incident of my life was the time my finished manuscript triggered a plagiarism flag with the publisher for two lines of prose in my literary fiction novel...

.... which was word for word similar to a paragraph in a certain explicit work on FFN starring elrond and his batsman from the hobbit films, aka that one elf that looked like he ate panic attacks for breakfast (i forget his name but it's Figwit II) where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment.

and if you think i had to sit in front of one if the biggest publishing companies in the world and admit that it was, in fact, me who wrote the fic where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment in order to avoid being wrongly flagged for plagiarism, you would be absolutely correct.

(yes they published the book)

[mycroftrh]

Far worse, in my opinion, than the famous “he wouldn’t fucking say that” is “he WOULD fucking say that, as part of his facade, but you seem to think he would mean it genuinely”

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[jamjoob]

great heavens i haven't posted in a while

[potofsoup]

Oh look, it seems like there's a Republican-led movement to purge voter rolls in the lead-up to the election! It's almost as if your vote matters and they don't want you to vote! Anyway, I whipped up a quick map (based on this) that shows when the voter registration deadline is in each state. There are a few deadlines coming up in the next week or so.

If you live in a state that regularly purges voter rolls for infrequent voters (the orange ones in the first map), or if you moved recently, it's good to check if you're still registered to vote.

Vote.org makes it super easy to check your registration: https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/

Just put in your address and DOB and they'll tell you whether you're registered. (And they give you a quick link to register online if it turns out that you're not! Only the 9 states in white on my map don't have online registration, and for those they provide instructions on how to do it via mail or in person.) If you want an extra verification, find your state's election website and double-check there.

So yeah, give yourself peace of mind -- do a quick check. :)

[bebx]

"undoing this character's death would take away his sacrifice and character arc" girl I don't give a shit. I'm bringing him back through the power of ao3 fix-it fics and there's nothing you can do to stop me x

[ladydorian]

[whatsnewalycat]

Made this for u 💝

[yeehawpim]

a comic about fix-it fanfics

[chodzacaparodia]

It's frustrating that you can come up with the plot of an entire fic in just a few seconds, but writing it all down can take anywhere from never to forever.

[bettydice]

writing dialogue for Astarion in like a normal text editor is very difficult actually because it feels like all his dialogue should be created with WordArt