#hoooo boy okay here come the character tags

[clerichs-xi]

nothing to see here, just the party rogue reporting to the party tactician after a scouting mission... being that close and shirtless is mandatory. for party morale of course.

[witchlingsandwyverns]

Hellooo again from your secret Santa!

I have ideas coming together so I hope you don’t mind if I pop in for some more questions!

You’re a big reader - do you have any foundational fantasy books that hold a special place in your heart? Like Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, Mists of Avalon, Wrinkle in Time? And if so, what do you love most about them?

You mentioned gardens - tell me your ideal fantasy garden to wander around. Is it messy and wild and covered in moss? Full of strange special plants from around the world with magical traits? Is it filled with hedges trimmed to look like dragons?

Finally, if you were Rhys and buying Feyre her first Solstice gifts, what would you get her?

HOOOO BOY YA ALREADY SPOILING ME I CAN TELL BY YOUR QUESTIONS WOW

Okay just wow where to begin

BOOKS

Foundational fantasy... hard to say since I'm only really now getting into High Fantasy/the foundational epics typical of the genre (I never read lotr till this year, but grew up with the movies - discovered Philip Pullman late, couldn't get into GoT, etc) but some long time favs inlcude:

- Tamora Pierce (lioness/wild magic): characters are fun, spunky, and challenged by circumstance to weigh what they value vs what must be done. The romance! The action!

- Howls Moving Castle: I loved how protagonists can be flawed and petty and stubborn but those things can also be strengths in the right light (I have the same feeling about the Mistborn cast) not to mention that underlying truth of sometimes you don't want to do a thing but you have to and you'll be better for just doing it idk I really hope this makes sense

- you mentioned Mists of Avalon! I took Arthurian Lit and loved it so anything that takes an old myth and spins it, I'm am here for

- (do you know how hard of a question this is for me?)

This is only what I could squeeze in frame. Books were one of the very few things i collect? Hoard? And have been hoarding since Ive had my own money. A lot of fantasy I think of as 'foundational' is whatever I could get my hands on and shaped how I read the genre. Cinda Willaims Chima. Patricia C Wrede. Bruce Colville. Niel Gaiman. Piers Anthony. Terry Pratchett. Could literally talk for hours. But I love characterization/character dynamics and tropes (whole tag: "takes a hit of the good shit tropes") omg this got so long I'm sorry I hope this is helpful I just really want to do your questions justice

GARDENS

(I'm sorry in advance I've worked at a plant nursery and as a florist assistant so bear with me!)

Dream garden: wild and colorful! Anything that attracts pollinators (half the fun is watching bees and butterflies and birds appreciate what's been grown) and smells nice! Jasmine lavender honeysuckle, I think gardens should still look like nature (wild, balanced between flowering and evergreen) but also a sensory experience. Moss!! For!!! Days!!! Old stone/brick work! Statuary! Swings to sit on in the morning sun with coffee or at night with the bats and fireflies! (I once got to walk in Central Park in the rain and stumbled across the Shakespeare garden and I straight up was in heaven. The sound of rain on leaves. The walking paths.)

BACK TO YOUR Q: Hedges are for kissing behind. Plants with healing properties are a magic of their own. Growing things ARE magic. But if that dragon statue was enchanted or the sculpted siren in the fountain sang when the sun hit the water just right? I WOULDNT BE SAD ABOUT IT. 🌻

FEYRE

For our our first solstice I would give her a space to paint or read in depending on her fancy. A space to be creative in with lots of light and windows. With warm drinks on tap for the late nights she wishes to stay up late chasing that creative buzz. Conveniently soundproofed for music to jam to while painting late at night... or maybe other late night activities with a certain high lord should he also need an escape or she needs a model (ahem 👀). Maybe it's near a garden or within walking distance of a view of natural elements to inspire her. Maybe its filled with plants and canvases and brick walls to hang other artists art on. I know Rhys has gifted her similar things in cannon but as a fellow creative, it's the dream.

EDIT: MAGIC CHAIR!!!! SHIFTS BETWEEN THE PERFECT READING CHAIR OR PAINTING STOOL! COMFY NO MATTER HOW YOU SIT IN IT

(Dear lord this got long, I hope it helps!!!)

[inkbwush]

Oh yeah, nd since all of these characters have shown up in-fic now, here’s some reference sheets for a bunch of characters!!

[flowerbloom-arts]

Muddler please :3

EEEEEEEEEEEE okay let's do this!!

First impression: "Oh wow I can't believe the 90s series missed up his name- OMG BEST BOY"

So it all started back when I joined the fandom in September of 2020 and I was doing some very rudimentary research on the characters to make fanart and such, and that involved looking up wikifandom articles on the characters, including Joxter and Muddler. I clicked on Muddler's name from Sniff's wiki and read through it and I was very hooked until I read this line:

“However, he is a very enthusiastic person filled with love for both his belongings and others.”

- Muddler's fandom wiki

And I metaphorically slammed my hands on the metaphorical table and declared Muddler my best boy, and that's why the obsession got rolling and how I came to be as the first and active Muddler simp of the Moomin fandom.

I personally latched onto Muddler very hard and I was in a bad place at the time so I picked him up, held him above my head and ran with him beyond the desert horizon, into the orange sunset while howling and yodeling gleefully with mania.

Impression now: "M. What have I done."

He is both my baby boy and my husband but I don't like saying it that way because it sounds super weird without context or fandom mindset, but it's the most apt way of describing my relationship with him as a character.

I'm sure my content of him and my unhinged ramblings in the tags of those drawings tells you alot about how I feel about him but in case you need a summary: I need a hug from him and him specifically, I crave it, in fact, but I also wanna pat him and kiss his forehead gently to say that everything is going to be alright.

He is my number one favorite character, he is my Joxter as much as Juddler is my Snufmin.

Favorite moment: Hoooo gosh how do I pick... I haven't really thought about a favorite moment with him as much as I think about him alot, weirdly enough. I guess my favorite canon moment with him is from the 90s series where Joxter as asks M- Fuddler, how he sleeps on all his "useless junk" and he simply replies:

"These are all my valued possessions!"

And it's really iconic to me, it's like, his version of Joxter's "I don't understand signs!"

It barely answers the question posed to him, it's said so casually, and it characterizes him very straight-to-the-point.

Idea for a story: Oh body I'd be here all day to list all of the story ideas I have. My first one I ever had about him has a buddy-roadtrip adventure between him and Joxter on their way to Moominvalley for the epilogue of Memoirs.

But one story idea that I guess would really push his character would be one where Sniff makes a deal with Stinky or something, it turns into a monkey's paw situation where Stinky steals other people's stuff, it gets to Muddler and Muddler goes absolutely insane trying to find the thief going as far as to create a very elaborate trap for the thief and when he is just very irrationally angry and erratic. When he finds out why Stinky's been stealing he is absolutely pissed at Sniff but rather than taking it out of Sniff he takes it out on Stinky by kicking him out and telling him to give everything back or else, and then Muddler sits on a cliff to have a mental breakdown about his behavior.

Unpopular opinion: I think Muddler suffers from the same infantilization problem that alot of anxious or autistic and nice. Like yes of course he's cowardly, of course he would run away from danger, of course he's not the brightest bulb in the box, of course he would cry at any slight perceived against him, but his cowardice and disposition of being overly emotional comes from a place of deep trauma and fear of pain or rejection rather than the childish naivety.

Favorite relationship: I'm stuck between his relationship with Hodgkins and Joxter for this one. One is a very sweet but somewhat upsetting story of an orphan getting adopted by an emotionally distant and neurodivergent uncle and partially failing to take care of his nephew and the other is a love story that makes me soft as the woolen clouds that covered the deck of the Oshun Oxtra.

Favorite headcanon: Muddler is intersex. It's an original headcanon I came up with and it's mostly baseless aside from his terrible posture, layers of clothing and ability to reproduce with a woman, I just think it creates alot of possibilities and interesting facets that would explain some things and make things more interesting.

[ineffablestardust]

oh thanks :) this is gonna be fun~ (sorry I’m late!!) Thanks @flopsy-art​

favourite colour: purple!!!! kind of clear from the colour of my blog tbh lol

last song you listened to: UrbanAngel1999 by Thomas Headon (the one from heartstopper haha)

last movie you watched: UHHH not sure, haven’t been watching many of late... probably my rewatch of Into the Spiderverse?

last series you watched: Heartstopper (and it shows lol)

sweet, spicy or savoury: I tend to go for sweet (I definitely have a sweet tooth) but I love spicy and savoury just as much !!!

coffee or tea: tea all the way !!! I’m such a slut for tea I did my chemistry project in high school on the caffeine levels in tea (I also adore traditional chinese tea) tho I can drink iced coffee and the occasional caramel latte

three ships: gonna just go ahead and put the main shipping ones for now, otherwise I’ll be here all day (multi-shipper alert)

but uh, dinluke (but like. minus the toxicity y’all I’m in my own little dinluke AU bubble okay), codywan (tho I do ship obitine too, bi obi for the win), wangxian (the danmei pining got to me ok, plus I speak chinese I know exactly what those fuckers saying when they confess and so help me why is chinese such a romantic language y’all fr)

first ever ship: oh boy I’m going to be exposed here HHHHH

ok fine: Jack Frost/Elsa (yes the fucking animated characters okay) (I also now realize Elsa is a bit of a lesbian but case in point, I was like. 11, okay?)

OR Percy Jackson/Annabeth Chase but idk which came first, probably Percabeth iirc (thank god)

currently working on: The Starlight Path (my dinluke prince Romeo and Juliet war AU set in the Clone Wars kinda) and possibly a Wangxian one shot who knows

favourite clothing item: uhh probably this purple pair of skirt/pant bottoms I got from Myanmar while I was there doing touristy things when the whole situation ... wasn’t as bad. but they’re flowy and fun and don’t really feel like pants when they are kinda pants? I wish I bought two tbh I only own one

comfort food: too many to count, my first ever one was Mac and cheese, and then it evolved into Laksa, and then it evolved into pineapple tarts and so like. idk currently would say all three

favourite time of year: not sure, autumn seems nice tho but this is coming from someone who had never rlly experienced Seasons until I moved out so still unsure (how do y’all do it like. you have to track the weather everyday, shit sucks y’all tf?)

favorite fic: oh boy I love so many, but this fic in particular has like. impacted my writing style and just my life in general it blew my mind and made me feel like there was so much you could really experiment with in terms of metaphor and pacing and style and like, muah

it’s Spock/Kirk and a Star Trek fic

I will warn y’all tho... TW: it gets pretty intense from around chapter 212 onwards. There are TW openings to chapters that are potentially triggering. Obviously as much as I love the fic it’s not without it’s faults and I’m more than happy to point it out if need be.

it’s: Observations by anon_j_anon on live journal and hoooo boy did I not do anything else but consume this fic for weeks y’all when I picked it up it’s 300 chapters of jaw dropping narration, like to the point that you can see Spock’s character growth from the writing style itself as it changes? just fucking delicious fr

passively tagging @ourpolestar, @merisscatteredbooknook​, @that1libra​ and anyone else who wants to join !

[unsettledreads]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Peter Parker/Tony Stark/Venom Symbiote Characters: Peter Parker, Tony Stark, Venom Symbiote Additional Tags: hoooo boy okay here we go, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Dark, sadistic tony Stark, Alien Biology, Alien Sex, Shameless Smut, Breeding, Intersex Character, Double Penetration, Sadism, Masochism, non-explicit consent, Venom Symbiote (Marvel) Eats People, Possessive Venom Symbiote (Marvel), Hungry Venom Symbiote (Marvel), Don't Like Don't Read, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat means Don't Like Don't Read, Alternatively: No Bitching I Warned You Summary:

Venom is the alien monster who lives inside Peter Parker, but in the love triangle Peter and Tony and Venom have built together, sometimes it's a little unclear which partner is truly more monstrous.

Or

Peter Parker has a BAD IDEA and Venom makes it come true- with Tony's help.

[unboundbnha]

hoooo my god. this is for ME

for me. for godzilla. :’) 

➤ rules; make headcanons of you and a character of your choice, be it sfw or nsfw.

Thank you so much for tagging me @spicyness​! I’m gonna SKAJHDSKJ. HHHHH. This is everything? Fuck I just want a purple boyfriend 😫 this will be about Shinsou because I like him a normal amount :-)

First off, I’m a pain in the ass. My sense of humor is wack (it’s basically just ‘annoy my friends and loved ones’), I’m always fricken TANKING The Mood (because it’s funny and I physically cannot resist making a Funny if the opportunity’s there), everything turns into a game unless you make me stop wink wonk. Shinsou seems like the type to snort in amusement and roll his eyes at my dumb antics, and I appreciate that! If I could make him legit laugh I’d die happy. (I am also emotionally savvy enough to know when to draw the line though, don’t worry. It’s just, man, my idea of fun is ‘LET’S ROAST ‘EM’)

I love cats. I’ll lose my whole mind over them. They NEED head kisses. Shinsou also likes cats. He also needs head kisses. That’s it, that’s the bullet point

Being open and honest and genuine is important to me. I believe most any relationship (friendship or otherwise) can work if you’re willing to communicate and empathize with the other person: I would 100% be willing to hear Shinsou’s shit, and he seems like he’d be a good listener too. I’m also good at logicking things through and he seems like he’d appreciate that. Likewise, he seems like he’d do the same for me, and as long as we stayed humble and weren’t looking to be offended (I don’t Do That -- he’s a Cancer -- love you, Cancers -- so it might take him a minute to get on the same page, but he’s emotionally smort and cares about me so I think he’d be willing to work at it) then we could help each other through emotionally hard stuff with hard truths. Plus, I’m a super honest person: if he was in a relationship with me he’d probably be pretty secure in knowing I wouldn’t hurt him on purpose. If past shit comes up with him, I’ll talk to him. Talking’s the good shit, y’all: utilize patience and empathy and you’ll be so well off!

I also battle, with a big fucking sword, a lot with mental health stuff (LMAOOOO WHO DON’T!!! YEET). I used to struggle with agoraphobia and still deal with anxiety and depression. On top of that, I have something like chronic fatigue -- I’ve been calling it chronic fatigue because I’m fucking tired, all the time. My top energy levels are like a 35% on a fantastic day. I really like the idea of this boye seeing me melting into a puddle, face down on the carpet, and bein like “how’s it going down there? you okay?” and the answer being obviously no, but him just like. Man I dunno. He seems like the kind of person who’s tired, but who can live with it. I can’t! When I’m tired, that’s it babes! I hit a 0% on my battery and I’ll collapse! So I just, hhhh. Don’t laugh, but I like to fantasize about him bundling me up and into bed. Thinkin’ about Birthday Snoot by my good friend @lord-explosion-baku​ and melting, okay?? OKAY???? I’m soft, the truth’s OUT, FUCK! I want to be taken care of like a sad but pampered cat.

(Please read Birthday Snoot I still cry over it)

Also I’m gross and struggle to shower often enough because it’s exhausting so bein given a gentle bath? oh MAN. Hands softly running through my stupid, terrible hair...asking me about my day and if anything happened that triggered me feeling this bad...just....the tenderness....the gentle affection.....being loved even when I’m at my lowest. Being cared for when I can’t do it myself. That’s a legit fantasy y’all. We out here!

I love to SNOOZE. I love being COZY. You bet your sweet bippy I’m gonna sprawl over a couch and take up the whole thing. Shinsou’d better be willing to snuggle the fuck up. I’ve got great squish which I personally feel like’s great for cuddling: I’m like warm taffy. How better to gently seep into every crevasse of your Favorite Person while enjoying a cozy cuddle?

Listen, everyone fucks hard with Shinsou calling his S/O ‘kitten’, and I agree (def have written leetle -- HOO -- leetle scenarios with that nickname because wow) but I get all wibbly with the idea of He calling me ‘Angel’. A joke at first because, like, guys, I’m really nice. (I know it sounds bad when people say they’re nice and LSDFLKJDF I AM, OKAY. I’ve worked on it. Cultivated the skill of kindness! Being kind isn’t easy, and sometimes you just wanna go apeshit, but I’ve worked hard to improve upon myself! Yeet!) But I also just really fucking love being annoying. I simply cannot resist the urge to sneak up behind someone and poke them in the ribs. I rib-poke while in the deep depths of making out too, I’ve tanked the mood a lot so picture my dumb ass Pink Panther’ing behind Shinsou, prepared to be Evil while he’s, idk, making breakfast or something, and before I can commit a Rib Crime he uses his hero training and fast reflexes and honed senses and all that good stuff to snatch my wrist and ask “what’re you up to, angel?” the answer is nothing, because he’s killed me by being sexy and fast and hero-y, and he’s probably actually killed me by startling me into collapsing like a fainting goat

He gets the deep stuff. Unfortunately for everyone and especially myself, I’m a Thinker with a capital T: it never fucking stops. I had an existential crisis for like three years in a row because of course, but I feel like he knows what it’s like to get lost in your head. Working each other out of panic attacks because holy jesus the universe sure is fucking huge huh? We’re not even a blip on the radar in the history of existence and we’re gonna be dead basically tomorrow aaaand that’s why we’d be good for each other, because I feel like we both have coping mechanisms that keep us from spiraling too bad, and we could share them with each other.

I also so fucking admire his drive, but it makes me angry that stupid fucking hero society would discriminate in the first place. 

Oh, yeah, that’s another good point: I’m hella mad about 98% of the time and I work hard to hide it! Because innocent people don’t deserve to get yelled at! I feel like Shinsou’s smart enough to sense when I’m about to pop and he can be like “heyyyyy...you wanna talk this out constructively instead of getting into a public brawl?” and I’ll be like “NO but I’ll do it for you because I love you” and then we get pizza.

Because I’m fine and balanced and stuff, I made a quirk for myself if I was in the BNHA-verse, and basically I can get stronger at the expense of higher thinking skills and will turn into a weapon of mass destruction against whatever I’m pointing at (ugh, that’s so sexy. Fuck I wanna be a big spooky buff as shit monster thing), friend or foe, so Shinsou and I would work well in tandem because if I got too rowdy he could use his quirk and get me to calm down! Keep me from accidentally doing a murder! Nice!

Okay this is nsfw so if you’re under 18 DON’T READ IT. I’LL CALL YOUR PARENTS. GET OFF MY BLOG. 

Relating to the point above, QUIRKPLAY. Mind control me into stuff I want to do but am too awkward to ask for, please and THANK you. Also, Shinsou’s a top. Gotta be, and thank god for it because I’m certainly not. I’m not happy about being a fucking bottom, because my first and most powerful personalty trait is ‘be as annoying as possible to the people you like; don’t let them tell you what to do.’ Can’t make it easy on myself, nope. Anyway, I want the appearance of being a top without the responsibility because damn, gotta be like, suave and shit. Gotta plan stuff. I don’t like that! I do that enough in real life and I don’t like it there, either! But whatever. I’m a brat and I feel betrayed by my coochie for it. But Shinsou’s a top and he’d tease me for being Fucking Terrible, and suddenly I wouldn’t be so mad at my coochie. She has her reasons.

I...like Shinsou for a lot of reasons, but a really big one, for sure, is that I feel like he can communicate about the important stuff. He likes to tease, but he knows when to be serious too. I’m really wack about being close and intimate with people and I have, hhh, special requirements to be able to sleep with them, and I feel like he’d both be able to respect AND honor that. Like, run through the rest of the BNHA boys with me here: would Bakugou be able to be completely cool, calm, and collected while still teasing, but knowing where to draw the line? Todoroki’s closer maybe, but he’s not as people-smart (which is also a big thing for me). Confidence (or at least the appearance of it when it’s important), respect, communication, listening and respecting what I ask for even if it seems wack -- Shinsou has that, and god is it attractive. 

Also, mind control. 

Also, his capture weapon. 

Also you know this motherfucker is kinky as shit. Thank the good lord.

Also, sexy-slow makeouts with his long, nimble hands running up my outer thighs to squeeze my waist -- teeth on neck, stolen gasps of breath -- 

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I feel bad because all of this, fuckin, WALL of text is pretty much ‘this is what purble boy can do for me’ and I don’t say a lot I’d do for him, but if I got someone like him I’d go to the end of the earth for them. I may be a perpetually-sleepy bitch, but one of my best -- and worst -- character traits is my unwavering loyalty. I’ll be 110% down to kick anyone’s ass who insults him: he can fight his own battles, but he shouldn’t have to over some dumbass with a big mouth and a little brain. Making him smile and laugh, oof, be still my beating heart. Words of encouragement when life gets too much. Genuine thanks for his help, whatever it may be. Hugs, because we’re both touch-starved as fuck and he deserves gentleness, dammit. He doesn’t seem like his love language is receiving gifts -- more like quality time and words of affirmation? Maybe physical touch? -- but I’d still get him little things that made me think of him, that could help him in his day to day life or maybe just bring a smile to his face. We could rescue each other at social conventions, have dates to the humane society and play with cats. Support each other through our depression days, prove that even having a brain that’s mean to you sometimes doesn’t make you unlovable. Man, idk. The whole thing’s soft and makes my heart go doki-doki. Hitoshi Shinsou is an extremely good person and god damn I’d want to show him I appreciated him and existing at the same time as him. He deserves love and kindness. He deserves someone to kiss every knuckle of his hand. He deserves hugs in the kitchen and blankets being pulled over his shoulders when he falls asleep at the desk. He deserves only good things, and I’d be honored to give them to him. 

HHHHH.

Okay! If you made it to the end of this, congratulations! You don’t actually get anything, but boy oh boy you have a lot of information about ME now! Aren’t you delighted? Heh. So! You tag people for this stuff, and I’m gonna tag @lord-explosion-baku​, @bnhascribbles​, @perpetual-bed-head​, @russianonion​, @weebsinstash​, and last but certainly not least, @usernamekate94​. Tell me about Monoma, Kate. Tell me.

[risualto]

1, 2, 4, 9 & 27 for the Salty Asks

1. What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get? Well, in Pillars, there aren’t really any.  Honestly, most popular ships in my fandoms are usually pretty justified.  Like even if I don’t really ship it, I understand where they’re coming from.

2. Are there any popular fandom OTPs you only BroTP? Not in Pillars. In other fandoms... Hoooo boy here’s hoping this doesn’t get in the wrong tags: Cl///erith (FF7) Zu///tara (ATLA) Whatever the ship name is for Cad and Fj-rd in CR (I have nothing against the texblade but I don’t want this in the tags by accident) Wido///jest (CR) (*note: I totally understand this ship, but it’s just not my vibe) Shee///los (ToS) Dimi///lix (FE3H) (*same as above, though I like the fandom version of this ship better than canon) Hope///rai (FF13) (see #4) Honestly there’s probably more but here’s the ones that come to mind immediately.

4. Do you have a NoTP in your fandom? Are they a popular OTP? Hop-///rai from FF13.  I just.  No.  I know they’re popular; I’m pretty sure it’s even mostly canon in the Japanese version, but it’s just.  No.  Look, they only actually were alive at the same time for like a couple of months, and at the time, he was 14 and she was 23, and then the next time they met, he was like 300-something and still stuck in a 14 year old body.  Like.  What the fuck.  I greatly appreciate the dynamic between them, but it never read as romantic to me.  It read as familial. 

9. Most disliked character(s)? Why? Literally everyone in Fruits Basket.  Not a fan. Hmmmm there are plenty of characters I dislike, but I’m going to just go ahead and say literally all of the faction leaders in Deadfire.  Fuck those guys.  Particularly the VTC and RDC but I don’t like any of them because they feel very one-dimensional and unreceptive to the narrative. Outside of that, Solas from DA.  Fuck that guy.  I don’t have anything against people who like him, but he is absolutely responsible for so many terrible things and shows 0 remorse for it, choosing to gaslight his own people instead.  I’m not okay with that. There’s more, but I don’t have the energy to explain all the salt right now.

27. Least shippable character? There’s probably a bunch, but I’m going to go with Albert fucking Wesker because I’m salty about him in particular right now.

[orangeflavoryawp]

Author Interview

Tagged by @riptidemonzarc, and dude, thank you for thinking of me for this.  It really made me think about my 12+ years of work, lol.

Name: orangeflavor

Fandoms: Hoooo boy here we go.  Just counting ones I’ve written for, instead of ones I also read, my biggest contributions have been to Game of Thrones, Mass Effect, Dragon Age and Naruto, but also X-Men, Star Trek, Lodoss War, Sailor Moon and Harry Potter years ago.

Where You Post: Ao3, FFnet, and here

Most Popular One-Shot: By kudos, it’s ‘The Warmth of Wolves’ (Jonsa, Game of Thrones) but by hits and bookmarks, it’s ‘Teeth’ (Jonsa, Game of Thrones)

Most Popular Multi-Chapter Story: Oh, across the board it’s ‘Wool and Tallow’ (Jonsa, Game of Thrones)

Favorite Story You Wrote: Oof, okay, uh, this is gonna be hard, so I’m going to give you favorites for different categories - 

My favorite one-shot is probably ‘Reckoned from One Midnight to the Next’ (Kaidan-centric/Shenko, Mass Effect), which is weird, because Kaidan isn’t even in my top five characters to write in ME, but it just worked so well in this story to get into his perspective.  ‘Reckoned’ is a poetic-prose study of grief following Shepard’s death over Alchera.  I fucking loved exploring that style, and I got to really delve into the daily difficulties of learning to live after loss.  It’s just... god if you read anything of mine, please, read that.

Favorite multi-chapter (though I have very few anyway, hahaah) would be between ‘Rocks and Shoals’ (Kolyat/Oriana, Mass Effect) and ‘Moiety’ (Gen/multi-ship, Mass Effect).  Rocks and Shoals is just so emotionally exhausting to write, it really digs deep, and it’s the slowest of the slow burns I’ve ever attempted to write.  The poor thing has been sitting untouched for too long, but it might be the dearest fic I’ve written.  It’s taken so much out of me, and it’s challenged me so much, and it’s got probably my favorite ship in the verse (and the closest thing to OCs I’ve written in fanfic).  Kolyat and Oriana are my precious little shits, and it’s been an honor to share their story.

Moiety is just super fucking fun to write, lol.  It’s a 100-word drabble series, which is great for training yourself to write economically - to say everything you want to say, in the most powerful way you can say it, in as few words as you can say it with.  It’s got some gut-punches in there alright, and it’s been a great exercise to keep my descriptions tight and my themes focused.  It’s also got that poetic feel to it for a lot of chapters, and I write original poetry, so that probably has something to do with it being a fave.

On the whole though, my favorite collection of stories for any one single fandom would have to be my Jonsa fics for Game of Thrones.  Maybe that’s because they’re my most recent and so my style is as evolved as it can be for the moment, and I’ve honed my skills well enough throughout the years to be able to say that about these stories.  But also.... I’ve never written for any one ship quite this much before.  And I mean never.  I’ve been so inspired recently, and I’ve become quite proud of my work actually.  I enjoy these fics.  I get so much out of writing for Jonsa, and sharing in this fandom.  This is the best of me yet. 

Story You Were Nervous to Post: Oh def my first explicit smut piece ‘Teeth’.  But it had an amazing reception, and I’ve since had the courage to post more smut, so this ended up being a great experience, honestly!

How You Choose Your Titles: I don’t usually choose a title until I’ve written most, if not all, of the story, and that’s largely because I don’t always know the exact theme I’m exploring until I’ve gotten through enough of it.  Then I choose a specific word or image that works as a symbol in the piece, something that can represent the theme on a whole, in a pinprick focus kind of way.  I don’t like general or abstract titles usually.  I need something concrete, often tangible.  I need something that you feel like you could turn over in your hand and go ‘hmm’ about.  If that makes sense???

Do You Outline: AHAHHAHAHAHBDJBFJSLAknvdkngnn

Fuck no, I’m a disaster writer.  We write by the seat of our pants and die like men.

Complete: 82 stories, almost entirely one-shots

In Progress: 7, though 2 of those are 100-word drabble series and 2 more are longer drabble series, and they’ll probably always be WIP as I’ll add to them when the inspiration strikes.

2 more are on indefinite hiatus until I find the drive to finish them (possibly never).

And the last one is ‘Rocks and Shoals’ which will always be slow going but best believe that baby’s crossing the finish line at some point, even if it takes years.

Coming Soon/Not Yet Started: A Season 7/8 AU and fix-it multi-chapter for Jonsa, Game of Thrones - quite possibly my greatest challenge yet, my albatross and my tour de force all at once.  Halfway through and fucking loving it.

Also, I haven’t started it yet, but I’ve had an idea for Hunger Games kicking around my head for the better part of three years and by damn am I going to write it one day.  Perhaps I’m just building toward it.

Do You Accept Prompts: Yes, but no guarantees I can fulfill them.

Upcoming Story You Are Most Excited to Write: Previously mentioned AU Jonsa fic.  Let me tell you.  LET ME TELL YOU.  I can’t even articulate the depth of my excitement for this fic.  I’ll be blasting it for days once I finish it.  You won’t be able to escape.  I will smother you all with this fic, I’m telling you right now.  Be prepared.

Tagging @ladyalice101, @tacitwhisky, @sailorshadzter, @amymel86, @theoriginalsuki, @missfaber, @szajnie, @kadaransmuggler, @goddesstiera, @joufancyhuh and any others who want to do this!

[liobi]

Rules - Fill out the thing; tag some people you’d like to know better. I got tagged by @trisshawkeye

A little bit long? so more under the cut

Four ships ah man, only four? I’ve got an entire naval fleet and I can only choose four? Okay so i’m gonna stay away from the ones Triss did soooooooo here we go. Samidare/Yuuhi (Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer) This was one of my first big OTP’s because These Fucking Losers have uh. Some issues. Literally the moment Yuuhi falls in love with Sami is when she says that she’s not gonna let the bad guys destroy the world because SHE’S gonna be the one to destroy the world. There’s some mutual attraction in the beginning and it’s great to see them grow as people in a way that compliments the other (and also stops them from going into the worst ends of their personalities)   Adora/Catra (She-Ra) Adele’s Rolling in the Deep starts playing in the background. Look. I’m not gonna feel guilty about this ship because it’s a very gay ship that has a lottttttt of tension in it. I like the way they played off each other, keeping the other in balance in the first two episodes. And then after that they just bring out the fucking WORST in the other because there’s just so much history and hurt (some warranted, some not) between them that it’s a big confusing knot of (the way i read it) love and hate and regret and longing and GOD do i live for that. Eliot/Quentin (The magicians) Speaking of regret and longing. Spoilers for season 4 of the magicians. That show fuckingggg betrayed me because it gave me two characters that absolutely adore each other, accept that the other is a flawed human being, but nonetheless one who is deserving of love (even if they don’t see it themselves) and then. Basically stated that it was going to be a thing, canon, endgame, but immediately killed off one of the characters in a way thatthey’re claiming isn’t undoable (and then this season gets into time travel shenanigans in order to undo the death of the straight white boy who is literally everything that is ever criticized about a straight white boy character). Anyways i just gotta remember that they were in a canon poly relationship for fifty years and raised a son together and died happily of old age and i’m just gonna live with that.  Marinette/Adrien/Kagami (Miraculous Ladybug) LOOK, ML IS JUST THAT FUCKING GOOD ON ITS SHIP GAME OKAY??? So- SPOILERS FOR SEASON 3 FINALE There’s this fucking moment where Marinette gets out of a pool filled with ping pong balls and her hair is down and both Kagami and Adrien look over at her really fondly and call???? Her beautiful???????? And then later with the ice cream man of love he says that the three flavors that represent them CAN be mixed but it’d be tricky and require a lot of communication. LOOK OKAY I GET ONE POLY SHIP ON THIS LIST AND THIS ONE KICKS MY ASS. 

Last song “Grrrl like” by Dope Saint Jude! I watched Kipo recently and damnnnnn is the soundtrack good so this song immediately got added to my “songs to get murdered to” playlist. It’s got a low key but extremely energetic feel to it, also bass boosted as fuck so hell yeah. Take two; Death is the road to awe from The Fountain’s soundtrack. More on that.... next!

last movie So when i STARTED this post the last movie i’d seen was The Fountain, but NOW It’s Midsommar which sure is a movie. The Fountain; I actually watched it twice, and once was with Triss themself so. I really like it!!! the visuals are stunning, the soundtrack is amazing (death is the road to awe has been one of my top soundtrack tracks for YEARS before i ever even saw the film) and I really like it as an examination of coming to terms with death and how it intersects with love and loss. It’s a film with a lot of layers (just like Aronofsky’s other films. Or ogres) that’s hard for me to really parse out but the chemistry between the leads is great and just. It’s a good movie!! Midsommar; Oh man what a movie. Out of the two i definitely liked The Fountain more! Midsommar is very pretty with a very fae-esque feel to it’s color palette, and it was interesting that it was a horror-ish film that took place nearly entirely in the light (and had some subtext about how light doesn’t exactly mean things aren’t hidden). Personally it was a hard film for me to deal with just because of my own history with things like cults and manipulative abuse, but hoooo boy. It’s also a film that deals with loss (of self, family, the self that you give to people and don’t get back, etc) and the role death plays in life, but honestly I think Aster’s other recent film Hereditary tackled it a bit better. Also films that did it better in 2019, The lighthouse because holy fuck, that film.

Reading Aside from far too much manga? Right now i’m reading various collections of old love letters, folklore, and ideally starting House of Leaves at some point. RPG books don’t count in my mind, but the books i’ve read RECENTLY have been both Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom series (which is one of my favorite works of fantasy but THAT’S a whole post of its own) and Jeanette Ng’s “Under the pendulum sun” which is a gothic novel dealing with fae and faith.  If we want to talk about the manga i’m seriously reading, it’s gotta be Blue Flag. It’s a highschool love story about how things are confusing and murky and everyone is trying to figure out who they are and how they relate to each other ALSO IT’S QUEER AS FUCKKKKKK

what food are you craving right now? Oh man, i could really go for some lasagna I guess I’m supposed to tag four people? uhhhhhh @m-azing, @xekstrin, @massochecheichei, and @acidandhoneypots. If y’all wanna do this go for it! If not, hope you have a great day!!!!

[yaz-the-spaz]

Hey I have a question, nothing to do really with your current convos but I had seen this video about zayn being forced out of the band. I personally don’t believe this because of all the stuff he was going through with his mental health and his ED but the video was saying how naughty boy was paid off and that the zouis fight wasn’t them it was management . They also touched on the subject of zayns contract almost ending and how he would have to pay like (cont)

How he would have to pay a shit ton of money to get out of the band ..which could be total bs idk I have no idea how that works. After googling tho I found like a tweet from naughty boy saying like “zayn who” or something like that. Also how like at the Asian awards he was with Preston which was weird cause Preston works with 1D and zayn was seen with him even after he “wasn’t suppose to”??? I couldn’t really find anything tangible. So I just wanted your opinion on the whole z being forced out

hoooo boyyyy, so this is a complicated question and i would recommend taking a look through my zayn leaving tag after reading this and i’m probably not gonna address every single thing you mentioned here just cause i feel like a lot of it has been talked about ad nauseam and you’ll probably see quite a bit of what i mean when you read through some of the stuff in the tag though i will try to address as much as i can, but i do fully believe that zayn’s departure was not all of his own choosing. emphasis on ‘not all’ because as i always say we’re all speculating here and ofc have no idea of the details of what all actually went down or how it played out but my current standing at the moment, having marinating a lot on the things he’s said and the way he said them over the years in addition to the events surrounding it all (the e.d. and visible weight loss, anxiety and depression ramping up, etc.) and just his character in general, is that if he wasn’t altogether forced out against his will and if it really was his own decision to leave it was because he felt like he had no choice (and therefore was essentially still forced out to some degree imo), whether because he was given some sort of ultimatum or manipulated somehow or felt like it was the only way to save himself and his relationship or what-have-you.

this ofc is gonna get wayyyyyyy long i already know, so putting the rest under a read more…

first off we’ll start with the bit you mentioned about having to pay to get out of the band. if you look at this all from a legal standpoint, there were a ton of contracts that were still in place (marketing/commercials, public appearances, events, the tour/performances, etc.) with the expectation of the participation of the band as a five-person unit, not to mention the contracts up the yin yang they would’ve had with the label and mgmt in general ofc. all of those contracts would have presumably included zayn as a still-standing member of the band at the time, and necessitated his signature/agreement in some shape or form to comply and fulfill whatever obligations those contracts entailed. those don’t just go away overnight. let’s say there were around half a dozen major companies if we’re being modest (i’m sure there was more than that but we’ll just go with that for example’s sake), that they still had existing/standing contracts with to do appearances and endorsement deals or events with. you can’t just call up half a dozen huge companies and be like ‘hey, yeah remember that contract we signed last year where we promised all 5 members of the band would show up to fulfill that obligation you wanted? well, we’re gonna have to cancel, so yeah what do you say we just rip all those up, pretend it never happened, draw up all new contracts for a 4-person band instead, and we’ll call it even?’ hell no. those companies/people are gonna be pissed as hell that they’re not getting what they’re paying for and are gonna want a shit ton of money for nulling/violation of contracts, the paperwork alone would be a mess (a la harry’s joke in the four interviews), not to mention the probable souring of what i’m sure were some long-standing business relationships. all of that is gonna be a huge months-long legal mess, involving lots of lawyers, lots of money, lots of sour feelings all around, lots of legal in-fighting, and back-and-forth paperwork, etc. then you’ve got the contracts zayn had with the label itself (and by proxy, mgmt) which presumably would have included his contractual agreement to finish the tour, be involved in any future albums obligated in their record contract, make appearances, do promo, etc. all of those contracts don’t go away overnight either. so the idea that zayn just woke up one morning, decided to leave, and hopped on a plane and that was that is pretty ludicrous imo esp when you consider all the things a contract can force a person to do even at risk of their mental and physical health (take a look through my contracts tag for more on this and/or look at rebecca ferguson’s situation for example). and even when you look at it from the flip-side, from sony/syco’s pov, when you consider all the things they’ve done just to keep people beholden to their disgusting shitty contracts, it’s absolutely mind-boggling to me how anyone would think they would just let zayn, 1/5 of their biggest money-making enterprise, just up and walk away without suing him up the ass and without any kind of repercussions (just look at kesha, for example). so yes, i fully believe that whether it was fully zayn’s decision to leave or not, he would have had to pay a fuck ton of money and legal fees and go through a fuck ton of shit to get out of all those contracts, and they would not have let him go that easily unless they were getting something they wanted out of it

(and side note: i think his $10 mill drop* in networth compared to the other boys shortly after he left, shows all that pretty clearly too) 

on the matter of him still appearing with 1d staff, that’s honestly the biggest proof there is that he was still connected to the band and to syco/sony even after he supposedly “left” and also a big part of what fueled the rumors/theories that he might still be coming back at the time. because, if i remember right, he was still listed officially as like a share-holder or partner or something in 1d’s business ventures for like a year after he left and also a ton of other legal/business-y stuff. if he had really cut all legal and monetary ties (and contracts) with 1d and syco/sony and every person or company associated with them within those first few days after he left as was claimed, WHY was he still publicly listed as a partner in all of 1d’s business enterprises over a year after he had “left”? why was he still employing/working with people on 1dhq’s payroll months after supposedly severing all contracts with them and everyone related to them? if he really had cut all ties and was completely alone and removed from everyone in 1d and 1dhq as he claimed in interviews and even in his book after the fact, then how was it he was still using 1d’s same security guards and staff? you’re telling me the company he just went through this huge public nasty legal and monetary battle with and violated a shit ton of contracts with to get away from is now totally a-okay with just letting him continue to use their employees? nah fam. literally nowhere in the business world is that believable. if i was with some company for five years, and then just up and quit in the middle of a huge project and cost them a shit ton in legal fees and violated all sorts of business contracts and company rules on my way out, they’re sure as hell not just gonna let me walk right back in and borrow one of their employees for my own private use

as for the zouis twitter fight, considering all the heaping evidence we have of 1dhq abusing using their accounts for nefarious reasons, it’s not at all far fetched to me to think that that fight could have fabricated, esp cause the quote on quote “feud” between them (and between zayn and ot4 in general) really only played out through twitter and print media, and personally i just have a hard time believing anything that plays out strictly through those mediums esp so publicly and also a hard time believing that liam and louis’ friendship would have remained so steady and seemingly positive/strong whilst louis publicly shat on liam’s best friend/boyfriend (depending on what you believe) over social media, though i mean it’s all a matter of opinion, and i’m in no way trying to force you to adopt my point of view if you believe their rift was genuine, that’s just my take on it

anyway, all that said, it has just never made sense to me that he would risk all the monetary and legal blowback/repercussions (not to mention the isolation, public ridicule, and and uncertainty/instability of starting all over with his career and contracts and business connections, etc. all of which one would think, if anything, all the stress of which would only make his mental health worse not better) that quitting the band would entail, especially mid-tour. like why not quit during the break they’d just had a couple months before? or wait it out just a couple more months esp knowing (which i’m sure he did by then) that the hiatus was coming up? and all this happens right before they’re about to go to the very countries that he has the biggest fanbase/the biggest connection to (middle east and northern africa - predominantly muslim countries) for the first time in their careers? it all just seems very fishy. and i also just don’t think he’s so callous as to have left them all high and dry like that in the middle of a tour unless there was some degree of manipulation/enforcement involved, but again that’s just me. take all this as you will and take a look through some of the stuff discussed on those tags i linked above and you can make up your own mind, but feel free to come back here if you have more questions or wanna talk further about any of this, and i hope this long rambly ass dissertation of an answer (sorry lol) finds you well :)

[ao3-feedshance]

Nothing breaks like a heart

by thatsformetoknow

‘What- what are you doing here?’ He asked, voice croaky and raspy from all the crying and lack of use.

‘No one’s heard from you. I was worried.’ Shiro said quietly, taking a tentative step forward.

Lance felt his anxiety spike at the movement, stumbling backwards to get away from him, hissing as he felt the glass crunch under his bare feet.

Shiro’s eyes widened as he looked down to Lance’s feet and the glass on the floor, taking another step forward, frowning in concern.

‘Lance-‘ He said, worriedly and Lance’s breath was coming quickly now in panic, stumbling sideways instinctively, because, fuck, why was Shiro coming towards him? He didn’t want Shiro anywhere near him.

He barely even heard himself cry out softly at the pain as more glass lodged itself into his feet.

Words: 2542, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Lance (Voltron), Shiro (Voltron)

Relationships: Lance/Shiro (Voltron)

Additional Tags: Getting Back Together, Post Break Up, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst, Also fluff, Mild Injury, ft. nurse shiro, Lance steps on broken glass, hoooo boy there’s a lot of tears, but they’re okay in the end

source http://archiveofourown.org/works/17294327

[6ubble-gum]

more tag shit

tagged by @herdustisverypretty hoooo boy lets see if i can put on another shitshow

1. A pairing you initially didn’t consider but someone changed your mind?

OHHH BOY okay....that’s definitely gotta be aokise lmfao I’m very malleable so with all the aokise talk i’ve been having lately i’ve been like SHIT maybe it’s a good ship after all OTL

2. What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom? What fandom was it? 

Inuyasha probably. I’ve been in the fandom for like....seven years or so? Which doesn’t sound like a lot but I was extremely sheltered as a child lmao

3. Your favourite fandom {for the people, not the thing you spazz over}?

Um...in general I have a negative opinions on fandoms so I really need to think about this one. Let’s go with the small but sweet Galko-chan fandom, and the equally small and equally sweet Tanaka-kun fandom. Both are probably great because there’s not that many people in them so there’s no massive wars over pointless things

4. Are there any fandom popular ships that you don’t like or just don’t get? Alternatively, are there any typically overlooked minor ships that you think are really underappreciated?  (hay this one i made up myself lol)

So many. The first that comes to mind is Soukoku, I’ve never liked the pairing and I can only see them as reluctant friends at the most. For the same fandom I once again admit I’m Chuuatsu trash and I will protect this tiny raft of a ship until I die like??? Anything that would horrify Dazai I am here for honestly

5. What was the first thing you ever contributed to a fandom? 

My first fanfiction was in like, 2012 or 2013 and it was Bad but people back then didn’t know bad things when they saw it so I was fine lmao

6. What’s a popular romantic/sexual ship that you can only ever see as a brotp? (also me!)

Aokaga honestly. People loooove their rival hatesex relationship but I can literally only see them as Best Bros who occasionally punch each other

7. If you had the chance to make your OTP canon, and your NOTP very clearly stated as ‘definitely not canon eVER’, how would you express this in your ‘new canon’? (i’m on a roll)

Now immediately I got the idea of erasing Kuromomo BUT it’s already been established that Kuromomo is not probable in the least soooo I’m gonna have to go with Sasunaru/Inosaku and Sasusaku. I’d make Sasunaru 100% canon and possibly Inosaku too if I could and I would completely erase Sasusaku from existence since I have despised that ship since I was twelve and my distaste for it grows every damn day and I just want it to Leave

8. Which character is Daddy Material? (there’s always at least one, admit it)

Nijimura. Just...Nijimura.

9. Character you relate to and why? (please share all tragic similarities)

Honestly probably Kuroko. I’ve been told by multiple people that I’m extremely difficult to read and I don’t show emotions the way my peers would like me to, and I too am forever salty about the people who have wronged me and will never ever be Over It

10. As either a reader, writer, or both!, what’s your favourite fanfic genre and/or tropes? Are there any you always stay away from?

I love fics with a power imbalance tbh. Like, one half of the OTP is a ruler and the other is a peasant, or one is significantly older or more influential in the social system. There’s so many ways it could go and I really love stuff like that. I typically stay away from coffee/flower shop aus because theyre so common and all seem to play out the same way but, I’ve enjoyed my fair share of them in the past

11. Opinions on omegaverse (in any and all forms, ranging from early spn fics, to the surprising amount of BTS/kpop fics, or have you tried the Japanese manga take on omegaverse - or even…. Life From the Ashes)?

Ohh man. That’s tough. That one x-files fic fucked me up for life so I’m gonna rate that a -10 on a scale of 0-10. It’s messed up in a messed up way and not in an “oh, cool” way. I do however shamelessly enjoy the manga take on it, most of the time. My favorite form of it is the kind that doesn’t include a slough of physical changes, even though it would probably make more sense that way. Idk there’s just something about “man basically becomes woman after presenting as omega” that really rubs me the wrong way lmao

(I’ve filled my quota of tags for the week so I won’t be tagging anyone lmfao I just really wanted to do this one OTL)

[hazycatgirl]

LETS TALK ABOUT HOW MIND NUMBINGLY STUPID THIS WHOLE THING IS!

Okay so basically this theory is your average “x characters were a figment of y characters imagination”  Much edgy such angst.

But taking it apart, and thinking logically none of this works. 

Okay so first of all the big one.  “Angelica has schizophrenia and bipolar because she was a crack baby” 

First of all.... this is so incredibly offensive and lazy. If you’re going to fucking give a character a mental illness you should research it first.  There is SOO much wrong with “this character has a mental disorder because their mom was doing drugs”. A lot of mental conditions have strong genetic factors.  So it’s more likely that either both these conditions run on Drew and Charlotte’s side of the family.  She wouldn’t have only gotten them from crack. 

Or  Angelica could have had a thyroid condition,  studies have shown that thyroid conditions have a link to bipolar disorders. Furthermore.... one has to wonder, why is bipolar disorder even necessary for a ‘she made them up in her head all along’ thing.  Bipolar disorder can have extreme highs but it is a MOOD disorder. 

Hi I have Type II Bipolar Disorder.  It has never led me to make up figments of my imagination that I literally believed were reality.  I mean I don’t know about anyone else. I don’t know where this is coming from. It just smacks of extreme ignorance of mental disorders and more than a little bit of ableism.

As for schizophrenia  if Angelica really had schizophrenia as suggested in the video it would have kicked in between her  teen years and early twenties. 

(https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/schizophrenia-booklet/index.shtml) 

So if she died of a drug overdose when she was 13 like this video also suggests.  None of what the video creator suggests is even possible.  In the original Rugrats series, Angelica is 3... and maybe 4.  

So this would mean that she would be experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia at three years old.  That is frankly impossible. 

 So that’s the big thing.  There are other major nitpicks I have with this regarding how on earth Angelica KNEW about all these babies and children dying.

I will give them Tommy. He was her cousin and thus they would likely sit her down and explain that her cousin died of stillbirth. And she could have heard some details about the others from eavesdropping.  

But there’s no way she could fully understand what it means that her mom’s friend had an abortion, and there’s no real reason  for her to care beyond “oh that’s sad” 

Only Tommy would probably hit her hard.  

I think the creator of this video seems to forget or overestimate the ability of a three or four year old to understand all this fully. Other than her mom dying when she’s young (again probably too young for it to have much of a lasting affect if she’s 2 years old or younger.)  There’s nothing in her life that explains WHY she would be so driven to cling to this fantasy of having these babies as friends?

I could maybe see if as a pretend game.  but not something so completely serious that she would hold on to it for so long. 

Now to Dil.  Hoooo boy I have a lot of strong “fuck you” feelings toward the creator here. Supposedly Dil is the only baby to have actually existed and at some point Angelica hit him and gave him brain damage that would cause him to be mentally unbalanced and ‘retarded’ as he grew older. 

In All Grown Up Dil is never shown as stupid just odd. He’s nine years old and he’s kinda weird. 

A lot of 9 year olds have a weird or “”random” phase. Dil shows no signs of being mentally deficient. If anything you could make a case for him having Asperger Syndrome.

Second.  how does Angelica hitting him cause him to be “messed up”  much later? My youngest sister  took a tumble down half the stairs when she was around 2 or 3.  And now?  She;s a straight A student who’s won tons of awards. If a tumble down stairs isn’t enough to affect a kid’s brain when they get older, why would a three year old girl hitting them be enough? 

So really when I think about all this , this whole theory just falls apart logically. When using mental disorders in your stories, please do research.  And what’s more... please don’t use mental illnesses ad dark shock value.  People with mental illnesses deserve more respect that that. 

(please feel free to message me if you want this to be tagged with anything else.)

[ao3feed-voltronlegendarydefender]

Nothing breaks like a heart

read it on the AO3 at Nothing breaks like a heart

by thatsformetoknow

‘What- what are you doing here?’ He asked, voice croaky and raspy from all the crying and lack of use.

‘No one’s heard from you. I was worried.’ Shiro said quietly, taking a tentative step forward.

Lance felt his anxiety spike at the movement, stumbling backwards to get away from him, hissing as he felt the glass crunch under his bare feet.

Shiro’s eyes widened as he looked down to Lance’s feet and the glass on the floor, taking another step forward, frowning in concern.

‘Lance-‘ He said, worriedly and Lance’s breath was coming quickly now in panic, stumbling sideways instinctively, because, fuck, why was Shiro coming towards him? He didn’t want Shiro anywhere near him.

He barely even heard himself cry out softly at the pain as more glass lodged itself into his feet.

Words: 2542, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Lance (Voltron), Shiro (Voltron)

Relationships: Lance/Shiro (Voltron)

Additional Tags: Getting Back Together, Post Break Up, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst, Also fluff, Mild Injury, ft. nurse shiro, Lance steps on broken glass, hoooo boy there’s a lot of tears, but they’re okay in the end

read it on the AO3 at Nothing breaks like a heart