#full disclosure i have not read these fics

[gerec]

cherik where one of them is blind? 😳

Here you go, Anon; hope you enjoy :D

Through His Eyes by DotyTakeThisDown

Charles Xavier was born blind. When he was young, he would catch glimpses of the world from the minds of others but he didn't want to be intrusive. Not until Erik finds out and offers to be his eyes.

Home Together by kageillusionz

Charles was born blind, but that does not stop him from falling in love with the new boy in his class. Based off the Brazilian film: 'Eu Não Quero Voltar Sozinho' or 'I Don’t Want to Go Back Alone'.

Listen to My Heart (Only with the Heart Remix by IreneADonovan

Erik loses his sight. Charles is the neighbor who reads to him.

Borrowed Eyes by kenisle

Instead of ricocheting the bullets, Erik splits them into pieces, a bunch of which go flying into Charles' face. He's permanently blinded, but at least he has Erik to see for him.

Theme and Variations: War by ninemoons42

Erik Lehnsherr is a musical prodigy and a man destined for great things and great stages. But his life is shattered by a terrible accident that leaves him blind and trying to find his way back to his life, his music, and his place in the world.

Then he meets Charles Xavier, an agent of Section 8 of the Military Intelligence Directorate of Providence, and he finds himself listening in to clandestine radio transmissions and clicking Morse code, and these sounds are part and parcel of a war that can only take place in the shadows and the hidden places of history.

Let Me Be Your Eyes by terrae

Erik has to take a sculpture workshop, however, he doesn't think it's fair that Charles Xavier has to take it, too, considering he's, well, blind. Then he gets an idea.

Streets Are Uneven (When You're Down) by Anonymous

Charles is blind and needs someone to give his guide dog the attention it deserves while he struggles through the last weeks of working on his thesis/grading assignments during final etc. Luckily, his friend Moira knows just the right person. Enters Erik, who's not that happy to be on dog walking duty, but he did owe Moira a favor, so...

[terresdebrume]

Sometimes you read a fic that's like

I can't genuinely say it's not a possible way this character (or these characters) would act but I don't think it's very likely and also I really really really don't like it

Like yes your characterization makes sense, internally, but admitting it makes my teeth ache

[marnz]

every autumn I enter a state of mind where I need to be knitting something cozy while listening or watching something spooky. this always manifests in me knitting a giant project while watching teen wolf and quickly descending into madness. Once spring arrives I wake up from my sterek fugue and try to shake off it, asking friends to please give me my rabies shot next September to avoid this happening again. But it cannot be avoided. Recently I have been watching one or two seasons a year, truly stretching it out, and I do NOT know what will happen once I finish 6b and, god forbid, the movie. What will I do? Who will I become?

[andypantsx3]

🚨guys mermie's work is in a podcast!! 🚨

Anchor: http://bit.ly/3qFZjww Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2YhCQtL Apple: http://apple.co/3auXXy4

[hamandeggbun]

Fanart of @unpretty 's incredible Squirrel Girl fic If This Kra-van's A-Rockin'...

The moment I read this bit the above image popped into my head fully-formed and would NOT leave me alone!! The entire thing is so so good and funny and hot please read the entire thing go go go

[riseninsaturn]

idea i had while i was walking home from school today was to write a fic that’s a “case study” (wordplay incoming) about a character, either apollo or phoenix or klavier i haven’t decided’s, experience with dissociation. and the concept was that the fic was an OC case (there you go) where it goes from news release to the trial’s conclusion, with events in between, but the entire telling of the process was largely disjointed and details kind of came in and out of “focus” because it’s intending to display the strange surreal nature of being on the fringes of reality and something decidedly different. 

i think the idea is interesting but ultimately would take a lot to execute-- for one, writing an entire case myself, which isn’t something i’m particularly good at as i’m not very good at concocting entirely original ideas. but at some point if i want to try out that kind of experimental writing style i may give it a go! 

[le-jardin-inculte]

t

drives me insane that so much of the tristamp plot is driven forward by meryl. them interviewing vash? meryl ties him up & drags him to JR. staying in JR? meryl. following vash after JR? meryl. meeting ww? meryl. following onto the steamer? meryl. getting info on the Plan? meryl

she's rash, she knows what she wants and she will seek the truth and justice no matter what — she's young and a newbie and doesn't know how to quit and doesn't understand the dirty crevices that truth brings with it but she will.

[tatterings]

Halstarion headcanon of Halsin's love

Obviously, NSFW under the cut... but my headcanons of Halsin's intimacy style with his vampire love. <3 full disclosure i have not proofread this lol

Warning - minor mention of Astarion's trauma

(EDIT: If you like this content you'll definitely like what will be in future chapters of my current Halstarion fic!)

Halsin is the ultimate soft tender dom. Checking in for Astarion’s consent with a head nod or a raised eyebrow. Any tenseness he feels in Astarion’s body, any time Astarion’s eyes glaze over or stare into the distance (because trauma is not something you heal from after having sex once on top of a grave, it's not magically gone. It takes time and healing so this still happens occasionally), sexual intimacy is paused/stopped. Other intimacy is an option, to give Astarion a safe, soft space. For example, he would whisk Astarion away to a bath and climb in with him, lathering bergamot-scented shampoo into his hair, massaging the vampire’s scalp and neck. Or he would pull a blanket over them both, and pull Astarion to his chest and read aloud from the book they’re finishing together.

There’s absolutely no way Halsin can sit still; the man has trouble shifting into a BEAR with passion. He would buck his hips against Astarion’s teasing. He’d grind on the bed as he opened his lips over the pretty pink tip of Astarion’s throbbing cock and lapped at the sensitive slit at the tip. His hands would be in so many places at once seeking stimulation and movement. Most of the time, he’d have one hand reaching upward, fingers interlaced with Astarion’s fingers. Because, he knew, two squeezes meant slow down. Three meant stop. They’d never had to say it verbally. Halsin just knew.

He’d be absolutely down for letting Astarion take him. He’d encourage it. He wants his heart to experience all of nature’s pleasures, including being top. He’d cede control to Astarion willingly, freely, whenever asked and more. His generosity knows no bounds.

He’d be a filthy talker in bed with his vampire love; but a sweet one. “Can you come for me, Astarion?” he’d say, intentionally edging his partner at first, until: “My heart, let yourself feel bliss; one more time, come for me my dear one.” And “My darling Astarion, you’re sweeter than the ripest blackberries, the purest honey,” as he uses his wide tongue to lick Astarion’s spilled ecstasy from his pale lower belly.

Speaking of talking, he’d be so full of praise for Astarion. Astarion, who had experienced only insult or hollow praises about his body, finally experiences someone speaking to him in earnestness, in love.

He’d kiss Astarion’s bite scar, running his tongue and lips over the pinpricks. Reclaiming a mark of slavery and instead nibbling in the same spot out of love. Removing the stigma, the pain from the bite, to replace Astarion's association with a mouth on his neck with ecstasy, pleasure, and consent.

An aftercare CHAMP and I’m not talking like bdsm stuff, which might or might not be something Astarion is into, but even just general sexual intimacy aftercare. Halsin would still focus on making Astarion feel good about his body for more than just sex. He’d lay beside his vampire and rub the pads of his fingers on Astarion’s back, massaging his lat muscles, sore from pulling his short bow. Braiding his white hair in French braids, just to take them out and braid them again. Always, of course, offering his neck to Astarion after any particularly vigorous lovemaking so his little pale love is in tip-top health.

Also Halsin is just fucking super smart and would protect his smaller lover and make sure Astarion isn’t harmed when Halsin takes him. He’d formulate some sort of lubricant that also has healing potion qualities, so any potential lack of preparedness is a non-issue.

Halsin’s so intuitive, that when he is inside his lover, he would know precisely when he is at just the right spot. He would have 0 complaints about moving only an inch or two at a time, back and forth, to almost unbearably focus on Astarion’s prostate, no matter how agonizingly tempting it would be for himself to bury himself to the root.

[joelstummy]

A Great Honor | minotaur!joel miller x f!reader (18+)

A Monster-Fucking Oneshot

summary: when the lure of glory drives you to take the life of a legendary beast, you quickly discover that you’re about to receive more than you bargained for. Warnings/tags: [18+ MDNI] monster fucking, dubcon/noncon but reader is into it, hentai physics, hella fucking size!kink like wowowowow, oral (f and m[onster] receiving), magical pheromone precum, PIV, PIAbdomen???, hella extreme tummy bulge like WOAH, fingering w/ giant finger, breeding!kink, v brief notion of lactation!kink, horn-sucking, knotting, cum gush, lowkey misogyny, immortal monster superiority complex, gratuitous descriptions of monster cock and balls, big slutty minotaur with his big slutty monster cock, reader gets scraped up at the hands of the monster but nothing severe word count: ~5.1k author's note/disclaimers: ✨Full disclosure, this is much less about Joel being a minotaur as it is me wanting to write a minotaur fic. I am essentially just using Joel as a visual rather than as a character. So if you don’t give a shit about Joel, you can still read this as a generic minotaur fic and have it make complete sense. I just invite you to imagine Joel as a minotaur if you’d like. ✨If you are any kind of medical professional or biological expert or are simply a stickler for anatomical accuracy in fiction and you would be unable to look past the horrific liberties I am about to take with the capabilities of the human body, you may want to skip this one. We’re firmly in “Hentai physics” territory with this shit. Anatomy laughs in the face of Minotaur cock, I don’t make the rules (I do and I did and I won’t apologize). ✨We’re also playing reeealll fast and loose with Greek mythological concepts here, so if that’s going to grind your gears then please…cry to your therapist about it, not me. We’re not reinventing the wheel here, it’s simple monster-fucking. If I want to give him magic precum, I’m giving him magic precum. Don’t think too hard about it. 

Only Available on AO3

[tinyluminaryzombie]

Non Exhaustive Jily Recs: Hogwarts Years

Pre-Jily

Evergreen and Pine by @tinyluminaryzombie - 1K words

Sirius and Lily friendship while they’re both pining

Full disclosure I wrote this 🙈

Lily Evans is stuck in a closet with Sirius. All Sirius wants to talk about is exactly what she's trying not to think about: James Potter. Or: A seven minutes in heaven that's more like seven minutes of sweet sweet interegation ft. Lily and Sirius.

The Dog You Feed by @january3693 - 100K words (25 chapters)

Lily getting close with the Marauders. Lily and Sirius friendship. Pre Jily and Wolfstar. TW abuse (Sirius)

Beautifully written and love how it shows the evolution of Lily’s friendships.

When Sirius ran away from home he went to live with the Potters, but before he made it there he wound up lost, alone, and hurt in Muggle London. With James out of the country, Peter stuck at home, and Remus trapped by the full moon, it’s Lily Evans (who hates his guts) that Sirius is forced to turn to for shelter and more advice than he could have bargained for.

Jily Get Together

A Dog in Stag’s Clothing by @lynxindisguise - 4.8K words

Great James and Sirius prank. Jily and Wolfstar get together

So funny and sweet and cute!

In which Lily is bad at feelings, Remus loses all powers of observation, James is clueless, and Sirius has to do some waiting.

Erasmus Lovegoods’s Guide to Brewing Love Potions by @thelighthousestale - 5.3K words

Love potions, humor, and love confessions

Mixes in the potion instructions in a really cool way and is such a fun read!

How an accidental explosion in NEWT-level potions finally forced Lily and James to confront their feelings.

Through the Rain by @bookeatingbean - 6K words

Vignettes of Jily at Hogwarts

Such a well rounded and beautiful story!!

James and Lily's first kiss, and the story behind it. There's some fluff, some character study, and some good old fashioned angst.

Accidental Magic by @missgryffin - 9K words

Jealous Lily, love confessions, first kiss, first time

Hot hot hot hot hot hot!!!!!!!!

What else is there to do after confessing feelings in the middle of the night than spend a lazy Saturday in bed?

i would drink a case of you, darling by treacherous_talks - 13.4K words

Pining Lily while she’s friends with James plus seventh year / first war angst

Such a good how did Lily and James go from friends to more fic!

James is like seventy-ish percent certain that Evans is trying to make a move on him. But that thirty-ish percent doubt isn’t worth the risk of ruining the friendship they’ve worked so incredibly hard to develop. So he spends his days in blatantly enforced ignorance. Lily doesn’t know how much more obvious she can be. There’s only so much fluttering eyelashes and touching-his-arm-accidentally she can do. She can practically feel her brain cells dying every time she twists her hair around her finger. So she finally accepts that Potter won’t make the first move, and takes it upon herself do so. Sirius is just here to enjoy the fireworks. (And outside Hogwarts, the world grows ever darker.)

As If By Magic by @annabtg - 34K words

Seventh year Jily

Awesome multi chapter with so much pining!

Lily Evans, Head Girl, is starting her seventh year at Hogwarts. Alongside her, Head Boy James Potter, who has always had a crush on her yet has given up all hope of winning her over. But between working together, sharing fun times with friends and getting through the darker moments that come with living in an era of war, things between them are bound to change...

New Year by scaredofclouds - 92K words (14 chapters)

One year in life of Jily + all the Jily feels.

It’s on fanfiction.net but i love this fic so much and it’s definitely worth venturing from ao3!

Lily Evans is planning on seeing the New Year in alone, then just getting through the rest of the year with as few problems as possible. Unfortunately for Lily Evans, very little in her life is that simple. Still, what difference can a year make? 1977 through the eyes of L & J.

Established Jily

Fireside Chats by @kay-elle-cee - 1.7K words

Lily and Sirius friendship. Slight angst + family drama.

So so good and I love their friendship!

“He’s still upset, then?” “Evans,” Sirius starts, and she can hear the disbelief in his voice. “You uninvited him to Christmas with your family. Yeah, he’s still upset.”

[thetragicallynerdy]

Okie dokie, I ran out of spoons Friday after making this thread on twitter BUT finally have the time to copy it over, here are a bunch of my recs!! I've got an older list of OFMD recs over here (most of which are Jim-centric in some way, several of which are also on this list), but it needs to be updated, so here's some of my favourite TealOranges and Garlic Soup recs!!

Disclaimer: this is by no means all of the TealOranges & Garlic Soup fics I adore, it is merely the ones that I a) already had on a twitter list, b) had in my bookmarks, c) remembered because my memory is terrible. Anyway, here are some fics I love!!

1) Two by the wonderful @nevershootamockingbird!!

Suck the Rot Right Out Of My Bloodstream - Jim/Olu. Post S1, this fic is about Jim on the Kraken's ship. It's beautiful and sad and I fucking adore this fic, it is one of my all-time faves. Jim+Frenchie+Lucius friendship!! Super sad and yet hopeful!!

there's orange juice in the kitchen - this is the sweetest Jim/Olu sick fic, I have read it so many times and will read it many again, it's just lovely and so perfectly Jim/Olu

2) Some Say Its A Blessing by @swallowtailed

Jim/Olu. This is another Post s1/Kraken era fic. Jim and Olu are soulmates who feel each other's pain. The fic explores them meeting, on Stede's ship, post-s1, and reunion. Gorgeous hurt/comfort, lovely imagery, the fic that I like to say made me lay down on my couch because I was Having A Moment.

3) I have two for you by @yerbamansa, all of their fics are amazing but I especially adore their Jim/Olu stuff!!

The Revenge Ranch series - a lovely character-based series where Jim and Olu go out west to work on Stede's farm. Trauma and healing and tenderness.

The Way Things Are Going - God. This fic y'all. It's one of the rare long TealOranges fics, and it's also SO GOOD. Post-apocalyptic, Jim and Oluwande on a roadtrip to save the world (kinda, in a low key way), full of hope and finding new ways of living and lovely Jim/Olu (with hints of Garlic Soup polycule along the way).

4) Another author with two I'm going to rec - @oluwandesorange!! Camp has a ton of amazing tealoranges and garlic soup fics, so here are two of my faves!

All Things Grow, a t4t Jim/Olu 'The Bear' AU. Hot smut and GREAT gender vibes and did you know 'Yes Chef' is a gender-neutral phrase??

Wherever We're Together, That's My Home - a lovely sapphic tealoranges fic. Roommates Jim and Olu, falling together in the best of ways.

5) Yet another author with multiple fics!! @alfalfairy is one of my all-time fav Jim-centric authors, please go scroll through her Ao3 if you haven't before. Three of my faves are:

Drink Of the Feeling Of Quiet Again - this is a post-canon (S1 specifically) fic where Jim returns to St. Augustine to care for aging Nana. Trauma, healing, and gorgeous Jim/Olu. This is one of my favourite OFMD fics.

Till Human Voices Wake Us, And We Drown - this is a series in which Jim is a merperson, but like, the scary kind XD It's SUCH a fucking good series, the installments are all easy reads, highly recommend giving it a try!!!

Bitter Like Whiskey, Sweet Like Wine - A long pre-series fic that follows through into Season 1. Ahhh, I just love this exploration of JIm and Oluwande meeting and falling together. It's not finished, but still well worth the read.

6) Tenderness, Above All by @jackuntiljune

Fuck, this fic is SO GOOD. It's a long plotty hurt/comfort fic that switches between Ed/Stede and Jim/Olu. Hornigold, now a pirate hunter, captures the crew. If you're a whump fan, this is the fic for you!!

7) Make Your Peace With Weariness and Let It Be by @anirondack

@anirondack - this is a stunning Jim character study, starts at their childhood to post-s1. Absolutely gorgeous writing, weaves in catholicism beautifully. Imo, a Jim/Olu must-read. https://archiveofourown.org/works/38584641

8) @anabsolutetwat is another of my fav Jim/Olu writers - go check out C's Ao3 if you haven't!! Two faves are:

How To Get Away With Murder Before Summer Vacation - this is a long modern au where Jim is a highschool teacher who is trying to kill Alfeo de la Vaca. Lovely Jim/Olu relationship.

It Has To Occur Organically - a silly and cute little Jim/Olu in which Jim tries very hard to get Olu to hold a knife between his teeth, like he did in the raid, organically. I love this one, it's peak dumbass Jim Jimenez

9) Be Gay, Do Crime by @ophelia5wims

A heist fic!!! Oceans 8 style, but gayer. This one has a really solid Jim/Olu b-plot, and features amazing badass Jim and sweetheart Olu. I really enjoyed it, it was a lot of fun.

10) Another fav Jim/Olu series is Mintpepper's Oluwande/Jim Collection - 5 fics, has one of my fav Jim smuts of all time, lovely h/c and character studies.

11) orange & teal by @owlinaminor

this is another series! It's an early one in the fandom, and fuck, this series is so so good. Both Jim and Olu POV, I adore how Jim and Olu are written in this series SO much. Canon time period, explores backstory and more.

12) Made A Promise When I Left For The Coast by @aletterinthenameofsanity - this is a very long (40+fics) alt S2/post-s2 Jim/Olu/Archie & Lucius/Izzy/Pete series. I've only read a couple, but what I have read was fantastic. If you're looking for a really meaty series, this is it.

13) Here Be Monsters by @clairegregoryau

This is a really long Ed/Stede centric fic, but it has a fantastic (and substantial) Jim/Olu b-plot. Long and plotty, involving treasure hunting and the siete gallos. Action hero Jim!! Jimenez family secrets!! I listened to the podfic (by kninjaknitter) which was A++

14) La Jayaera by ladymixerlot

Jim/Olu, A Fast and Furious AU, Olu is a private detective and former street car racer hired to investigate Jim's gang. Wonderfully plotty but also character-centric, slow burn galore. I loved this one.

15) Both of Them by @halfeatenmoon

A Jim/Archie smut one!! Jim/Archie fucking after cutting off Izzy's leg. Very hot, very bloody, captures both of them so well.

16) Leda House and the Kraken 'Verse by @dragonmuse

Jim/Olu, the Drag Queen AU. I fucking love this series. It's primarily Stede/Ed and Lucius/Izzy/Pete focused, but gorgeous exploration of other characters. Bring Me A Higher Love, the Jim/Olu backstory one, is my fav.

17) Like Pearls In A Pod by squidcats

Garlic Soup Polycule. Archie and Jim go on a mission to 1) find Zheng a gift 2) stop whoever is making hot topic shirts of Jim's face. It's hilarious and very sweet!

18) Daybreak by QueerCanonCo

A fucking gorgeous Jim/Olu poem, it's a quick read but will linger with you for a long time. Folks who've read my latest fic know I'm a sucker for Oluwande as the sun metaphors, and this poem leans into that BEAUTIFULLY

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ALRIGHT that's the end of this first round of recs!! Please expect more recs from me in the future, I am going to be trying to rec at least one new fic that's NOT on this list during the entirety of Garlic Soup Week!!

Other folks, please feel free to add on or self rec, I love learning about new fics I might not've found on ao3 or might have forgotten about!! Aand if you're on this list and I didn't tag you, please let me know and I can do so, it means I couldn't find you XD

It's Fic Rec Friday!! With TealOranges & Garlic Soup Week just around the corner, what are some of your favourite TealOranges and Garlic Soup fics? Let's spread some love for older fics!!

[widebrimmedhatsblog]

A-Z fourth wing fic recs

Per @greeneyedwildthing's A-Z challenge, I wanted to share some fic recs that fit the prompts!! I have (almost) one for every letter of the alphabet!

A: An Entertaining Inconvenience by @shipmistress9

B: Birthday Wishes by @essjaywrites

C: come ride on me by @softodettes

D: Drunk and In Love by lostinthehaze

E: i don't have one :(

F: Full Disclosure by SowenElf

G: Gentle Kisses and Cautious Touches by crabbyturtle/@sexypantsriorson-na

H: Heir Apparent by @maethologies

I: I can't wait to make a million more first times by @littedidyouknow (honorable mention, MY fic: In The Heat Of It All )

J: I don't have one AGAIN

K: keep quiet (nothing comes as easy as you) by @skyfallscotland

L: let this be enough by heartvu (tied with also L: let me carry the weight of your world by mistedglass)

M: Make-out Scene - Chapter 12 of Iron Flame - Xaden's POV by @disn3y-land

N: Not Sick by Mint_chocolatechip

O: Our Own Little Show by Starfall_Spirit

P: pilgrimage by revelationinthelightofday

Q: queen of the castle by anastronomicalsmile

R: Reprieve by Cee_Darling

S: So Pretty by VoidMyWarranty

T: Thunderstorms and Sunshine by @tegantales

U: nothing to see here!

V: void of all composure by @justallihere

W: when the flames burned green the dragons danced by @heartfeltletters-written

X: any of the xaden POVs would work! I just didn't grab a link LOL

Y: you will be healed and come back again by xenceterra

X: and no z!

If you have recs for any of the ones I missed, feel free to let me know!! I tried to only use each author once, but consider each mention a blanket rec for all their works! I'm only adding fics I personally have read to the list.

[spockandawe]

Double edit: actually, that's enough of that.

Edit: I was expecting maybe thirty notes tops. This is a surprise, and one that doesn't delight me. If I hear about any harassment stemming from this post, I'll be more pissed at the harasser than the person this is about.

God. Dammit.

I hate this, let's just out that out there! I'm unhappy that I'm talking about any of this, I'm unhappy there's an issue that's come up at the intersection of media preservation, respecting authors, and one of my favorite book series. And I'm unhappy that I've censored the names in the screenshots I'm about ti post! I'm not happy that I'm helping to slide consequences away from someone who thought this was an acceptable thing to do to a modern working author. But I'm even less happy this is something that happened in the first place, and I'm VERY unhappy the original post has been deleted without a whisper of accountability or apology.

And here's a partial screenshot of the IA page, which has since been removed. I get the excitement to share something you love with a new audience. This isn't the right way to go about it.

First, if Martha Wells' patreon is still in place, I encourage everyone in the strongest possible terms to go sign up for it. It'll charge you one dollar. I've been a member since probably 2018, and I mistakenly believed it was locked to new members (it's labeled 'Currently Closed To New Patrons') until I had reason to look it up last night, when I tripped across this reddit post from earlier this year.

Now. I was looking it up because of this sudden patreon message:

Even if the patreon goes away, I still recommend that people sign up. Explore the stories! They're very fun! Even though the patreon has been dormant for years, I've loved having that repository in place.

In fact, in the interest of full disclosure, what kept me from immediately reblogging last night is that I've felt the same archival urges! I bound a hard copy of these stories earlier this year, and let me quote my own words from that post:

I live in a state of perpetual low key stress over the impermanence of digital media and that goes extra for sites that aren’t designed to work well as archives. I hope, desperately, that someday Martha Wells publishes more raksura, maybe even including these stories! I will buy it immediately. No thoughts, wallet empty. I own all her other raksura books in literally three formats, fingers crossed that by printing this, I can actualize a formal official printing of these stories by the author 😂

So. Archiving, yes. But especially with a living, working author, I would never DREAM of posting a public free-for-all with IA and mediafire links. My most charitable interpretation is that OP thought it was fine since the stories were "free," even though the writeups acknowledge that access costs a dollar. Ao3 is also free. Reposting someone else's fic is still understood to be a dick move.

Last night i was left kind of stunned, and I was hoping to see some kind of response from op this morning taking responsibility, and was... disappointed to see that the post was just deleted. The IA listing was deleted too, and I hadn't actually looked up the mediafire post yet but I'm guessing it's also been nuked. Out of curiosity, I wanted to see if there was anything more in the comments, so I found a surviving reblog. And there was!

So I'm writing this post because I'm... frustrated. Taking down the files is a good step. Posting them publicly was a worse step, but hey. I still more than understand if Martha Wells still deletes her patreon. I don't understand what sending her files of her own stories is meant to accomplish, but whatever. Ascribing a profit-driven motive is driving me up a wall, though. She's financially stable. I read her email, and what i see is frustration that even though it only cost a dollar to access 62k of her work through her own chosen location, control of her writing is being forcibly removed from her. I'm sure that seeing copies sold by third parties wouldn't help, but I don't think that's the root issue.

This is a fandom-heavy website, I'm sure most of us have seen posts about not reposting art when you can share directly from the artist's blog. I've seen posts about stop copying your ao3 faves over to wattpad just because you like reading there better. At a fundamental level, I read the message from Martha Wells as a deep frustration at having no way to share her creative work without someone removing control of it from her hands. And I don't know if there's any way to really take back that damage.

[mars-syndrome]

sooo if ur somehow stumbling across this randomly nothing about this post will make sense unless youve read this fic https://archiveofourown.org/works/57909193

but hey, that promised bingge pov post! (full disclosure i am writing this before ive written the sqh scene so some info may be repeated!)

binghe was aware of sy’s nature from the very beginning. he knew it was demonic, but meng mo was the one who let him know about the concept of demon dolls and how theyre created. when he chose sy for qing jing, he was fully convinced it was actually a demon doll with sqq’s exact soul/copy and wanted to get ahead of whatever revenge he and/or yqy may be planning.

meng mo also told him that since sqq’s been dead yqy had probably used his own soul to help ‘create’ sy so both of them were hesitant to use their dream manipulation incase it let yqy know something was up since they could be spiritually linked and lbh’s half demon status was unknown plus he’d be the first person yqy would want to blame. while he wouldnt use dream manipulation since it was spiritual based, he would use the blood parasites as insurance since it was fully physical.

upon meeting sy, he began to have doubts about whether it was sqq’s soul. hence the fungi mission. he used that mission to judge just how human or demonic sy’s body is and also gauge his reaction to not being affected by the spores if his body was demonic to tell how “in the know” he was. when sy was genuinely confused and just accepted whatever explanation lbh gave him, he concluded sy knew absolutely nothing at all and shifted his focus to actually making sy care for him.

his confrontation with yqy after the fungi mission was basically yqy and lbh trying to psych each other out about how much the other knew. it ended with lbh implying he knew what was up, that he could reveal yqy for colluding with demonic cultivators and/or demons, and that he wouldnt let sy get found out unless yqy does some shit bc hey, thats his disciple. so up until now (chapter whatever this is linked on) they’ve operated under a strained truce that yqy stays away from sy and lbh wont reveal them.

for lbh getting close with sy was just a fun little side project. after all, a little sqq who adored him more than anything in the world? sqq would be seething and rolling in his grave. it doesnt hurt that sy was so earnest and cute either and him being on the peak made nyy happy so he was fine with getting some revenge like that.

in the fic’s og pidw, this grows into lbh desperately craving affection and validation from the kid who looks so much like his shizun who withheld it. he’ll grow codependent with sy, but the relationship stays very much master/disciple. on some level he’s aware that though sy does genuinely care for and admire him, hes playing out a role to receive lbh’s protection.

but in the fic our sy, earnest and naive, found the jade pendent.

this is bingge, two decades removed from the abuse he suffered. he’s had two decades to get stronger, to realize the world bends to his whims. to realize no matter where he goes he’ll have women falling over themselves to get into his bed but none of them will ever truly love him and what they give him is shallow. to realize he’ll have men envying him and wishing him harm just for being better. this bingge doesn’t have mobei-jun or any wives to share even the illusion of closeness or companionship with. he has nyy yet she’s been relishing in her role as da-shijie and hes happy for her truly, but he’s been alone in the bamboo house for 20 years.

when bingge meets sy!sqq in svsss who shows him just two days worth of normal domestic kindness, he immediately wants to leave with him. so how would our bingge feel with our sy, who he’s had unrestricted access to for 2 years, who holds genuine affection for him with no ulterior motive, who admires him openly and unashamedly, when he returns the very symbol of his happiness and the last bit of true love hes ever felt?

“precious fake jade indeed” he said

this fake sqq, this flawed copy of the man who tormented him, gave him back this fake pendant that he held most dear, that he lost hope of ever getting back again.

was that not symbolic? did that not make shen yuan his as well? did that not make shen yuan another symbol of love for him? did shen yuan not hand himself over to binghe when he handed over the pendant?

he begins objectifying sy almost. this was his person. obviously if sy was defective for yqy’s purposes, then wouldnt it make sense for sy to have been made just for lbh? after all, who else could cherish and protect sy like he could? yqy let him out of his sight long enough for him to becomes lbh’s so he wasnt fit. sy cant look after himself. only luo binghe could.

the mission he took just after sy’s 16th birthday was to track down the demon clan responsible for sy’s creation and learn more about it to see if he could sever and/or work around yqy’s connection. as soon as he learned everything, he returned and used dream manipulation (after he figured out it was safe) to walk through sy’s memories like svsss bingge did to sqq. he realizes sy’s memories are gone, he and meng mo conclude it was probably an error in the connection to body and soul bc of the nature of demon puppets. but hey, a wins a win. sy has no affection for yqy and the fact sy is loyal to only lbh remains unchanged.

speaking of, he should probably make sy his head disciple officially so yqy cant make any accusations about lbh’s inappropriate closeness to his disciple, no matter how true they are.

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#what's yuletide?

Yuletide is an annual small fandom fanfiction exchange that's been running since 2003 in which people write fanfic for their assigned recip for that person chosen character(s) in the fandom that they have been matched up in and all gift fics are revealed on Christmas Day.

Yuletide defines a "small fandom" as a fandom that has less than 1,000 completed works of at least 1,000 words in English posted on Ao3. So while Welcome To The Table has more than 1,000 works posted, it does not have 1,000 completed works of 1,000 words or more and in English hence why someone could nominate it as a fandom for Yuletide although by autumn 2024 when nominations open, I do think as a fandom we will have become too big.

Fanlore has a much better and longer article of the history and links to notable stories.

OH HELL YEAH CLOSE TO 2K LET'S GOOOOOO

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I really love your changeling dev au 🤌✨️, i was thinking does this make dev the youngest in fairy world ? then that means there is a fairy who accidently had a baby but beacuse of da rules, it cause them to give it to dale as a gift? Im sorry don't know how the gifting works 😅

Okay, first off. Apologies for the late reply. Writing the fic on top of work and other plans took a lot out of me.

On to the actual question! To be honest, I hadn't actually thought too much about Dev's origins regarding who his actual fairy parent(s) would be. So let's brainstorm now, shall we? I'll be putting this under read more, because it got kind of long :')

Full disclosure, I never watched the entirety of the original FOP, especially after Poof/Peri was born, so I don't have a full grasp on the canon lore. I know before Peri, fairy babies were against the rules for thousands and thousands of years, but I guess I kind of assumed that after the dam was broken, they just kind of let fairies have babies whenever they wanted again--especially considering there's a "fairy shortage" in the later episodes (that's my understanding, at least, from what I've read. Again, I've never watched the later episodes, especially not the really later ones with Chloe). Even if this wasn't necessarily canon, I consider it canon in my head, especially since I like seeing people's OCs who are younger fairies born after Peri! Just gives more possibility for world building, I guess.

Regardless of the above, however, I think I'm leaning towards going more the route of Dev being an especially unique case. As I mentioned in my previous posts, Dev was given to Dale as a sort of compensation for Dale's lost childhood, where a fairy could have intervened and helped him escape Vicky's wrath, but he was just somehow overlooked. As I mentioned as well, I see this as a sort of cover-up that would have been handled very high-up in the fairy hierarchy, possibly by the Fairy Counsel themselves. Not only is giving a human a Changeling Baby an outdated and frowned upon practice that they want to limit the number of fairies knowing about, but I also think they'd just want to hide the fact that they so largely failed Dale (and the other children who worked with him) to begin with. They can't let the populous know that their all-powerful and all-knowing leaders screwed up like that, so instead they'd rather just pay off those affected in secret, and pretend like it never happened.

(Does this imply that there might be more changeling kiddos out there that were given to the other kids who suffered under Vicky alongside Dale? Maybe. I'm probably not going to ever expand upon that myself, but if that piques anyone's interest, feel free to build on it yourself!)

Based on this line of thought, I don't see this as a scenario where Dev was born first and then they decided to give him to Dale afterwards. I think Dev would have been created specifically for Dale. We've seen that fairies can reproduce like humans do through birth, obviously, but since they are magical creatures, who's to say there aren't other methods of creating more of their kind?

A fairy's human form appearance isn't completely detached from their natural form appearance (based on my own headcanons which are based on those created by @bunnieswithknives, who originated the 'natural form' concept I'm using in this au, for context), so in this case, in order to create a child that the world and probably even Dale would truly believe is his own flesh and blood, they'd have to create a fairy who would have traits that resemble Dale's. Maybe it was even a process of using magic combined with something of Dale's, like a lock of hair or something like that, to create a fairy child that to some extent really is related to Dale, although less in a "biological child" sort of way and more in a "slightly-modified-by-magic clone" sort of way.

I guess that's all just a really long-winded way to say: I don't think Dev has fairy parents! He's just a product of magic, and the closest thing he'll ever really have to a technical parent would, in fact, be Dale. I hope that's not a disappointing answer, haha.