#i could talk about this for ages

[thief-of-eggs]

My Roman Empire is the first-come popularity effect on fanfics, and how easily amazing works can be lost when you sort by kudos only.

Hear me out- the most jaw-dropping, heart wrenching, soul satisfying fanfic can be posted for a fandom/ship and not have anywhere near the amount of kudos that the top fics have, even if the top fics are mid in comparison.

The reason for this is because the top fics are often the ones that were posted during the height of the fandom/ships popularity. And while they were certainly amazing for the time, and while they’re nowhere near bad fics, they might not be the actual best in the fandom/ship, even if they appear at the top when searching by kudos. A lot of kudos on the top fics are old kudos, which stay there forever and ever and add to the immortality of fics posted during the height of popularity.

When looking for new fics in fandoms/ships, I like to look for those lesser known ones through either A) sorting by “date updated” and clicking “complete works only”, then scrolling to see the more liked fics. The diehard fans in each fandom will be on top of new fics posted, so if, on average, finished fics in a fandom currently get around 100kudos, but you see one with 300, that must be a relatively good fic in the fandom (one that you never would’ve seen if sorted by kudos, especially if the top liked ones have 3k plus kudos)

Another way is to sort by kudos while adding a date range to your search. Depending on how many fics get posted a month, you can search for the past week, past months, past 6 months, etc, and sort by kudos to find the top fics from that time period.

I’ve found so many beautiful fics this way, especially for fandoms that lost popularity in recent years. And I do want to be clear- this is no hate to the top liked fics in fandoms! So so many of them are well deserving of the kudos they have- they got popular for a reason after all!

BUT, this is a reminder that there are OTHER fics out there, beyond pages 2-3 of most liked kudos!! Low amount of likes is NOT a determining factor, so long as the lower liked fic is from more recent times.

So, once you’ve plowed through the first few pages of top-kudos fics- turn to the newer ones!! There are beautiful fics just waiting to be found, I promise you <3

[llitchilitchi]

tentacles/vines

11/10 underrepresented kink

[problemduetest4life]

An AFTG&ASOIAF fan🥺🥺

After reading TSC I was so heartbroken about Elodie’s introductions and death that I kept making up ASOIAF escenarios for the Moreaus.

They are like a noble house from Dorn (exotic foreigners). Jean has been in the Night’s watch since 14 alongside Riko (who is sent away because no one loves him in King’s landing) and Kevin who is a ward of Tetsuji’s. Elodie is currently stuck in King’s Landing in a hostage situation like Sansa’s🥲

Wait I'm obsessed with your vision. I can totally see Riko being a bastard from a noble house (this language is so insane for anyone no acquainted with the series LMAO) and yearning for a claim on something. The Night's Watch instead of The Nest is so crazy, but I LOVE IT. Kevin being a ward to fits so perfectly.

I've been saying how Zane is Theon coded because he does something horrific to try and get ahead and gets punished for it intensely (Theon gets sympathy from me though, Zane not so much).

Elodie being a hostage :( she's like Sansa or Mycella fr

Also, if Kevin, Riko and Jean are in the Night's Watch I almost want to imagine the Foxes as wildlings.

ty for sending your ask this is actually EVERYTHING

[seraphdreams]

i need to milk kazutora's cock and balls dry. sorry

no, you’re so right :( a guy that pretty needs to be ridden until he’s crying and shooting blanks

[decimatlas]

Zelda Klein, drawn by the lovely @braeveries ♡

[weasel-b33]

https://www.tumblr.com/weasel-b33/745174541167378432/modernisheddie-and-theatrereader-eddie-in-his

OK THIS GOT ME THINKING

Imagine you and eddie were together for a while but broke up due to all the trauma of the upside down and then you get casted as JD and veronica. IMAGINE THEM SINGING 17 AND REALISING ITS LITERALLY THEIR SITUATION

DUDE IM SICK. I AM TOTALLY NORMAL ABOUT THIS.

17 is truly their song. like “yeah, we’re damaged. badly damaged.” like yes bitch you just almost died bc a psycho murderer was trying to take over the world??? and they just want to be normal and live normal lives. BC THEY ARE ALL KIDS (truly 17 reprise is like all the kids after they defeat vecna bc they did and no one died just trying to be okay and “normal” after everything)

imagine reader singing fight for me for the first time to eddie and them both just tearing up…bc they were so close to staying together but all the trauma they went through pushed them apart. and reader is BEGGING eddie to fight for her this time. likeeeeee

[gerrykeay]

im not putting this post into words. beams into your mind The Parallels

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[aalghul]

once again thinking about jason as duke’s robin. he’s ~4 years younger than jason, and that puts him at 8-12 during Jason’s time as robin. that’s prime time to get attached to your local kid vigilante before your own life goes downhill.

and if we try to keep duke’s meeting with bruce in zero year + duke’s age (so he can remember the meeting and hold that conversation with bruce), he has to be around 8. if he starts following batman through the news at that time because of the mess that just happened, the robin he sees is probably jason. I’ve literally connected the dots

[welcometogrouchland]

Extremely bad batgirls comic I made featuring Steph's sex life and Cass' ability to read everything but the room

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Ghouls night out

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[linseedling]

The Ruin and Renewal

[silusvesuius]

baby👶 drawings. these are very dear to me rn.. 2nd pic is my Nelavis with @barvin0k's Varonur 🩵 last one is a baby bosmer and snow elf, hairiest of them all. although the bosmer was meant to be my girl Barletta too lols

[canidaezy]

how do transmascs not want to kill themselves all the time honestly

[1800-lemon-boy]

I’ve seen a few headcanons (especially in fics) that Will solace actually is naturally brunette but when he was claimed by Apollo his hair turned blonde (weither it’s over time due to sun bleaching or straight away).

And I just wanted to say I love this so much purely because of how heartbreaking some of the implications can be. 🤗

It’s never happened to any Apollo campers before, Will doesn’t know why it had to happen to him, his one sense of normalcy taken away so quickly, his one connection to his previous life- gone.

Will starts to pick up quite quickly he’s not like his other siblings, he’s can’t write and is average at archery. But he can heal, better than anyone else can.

He was different from the start, he was claimed differently, and his gift was different too.

And while still struggling with what to do, at the ripe age of 12 he’s now in charge of a cabin full of kids younger than him, because he was the oldest to survive.

Just imagine how the plague powers would also affect him. Apollo himself said that it seemed Will had gained all of his good qualities and none of his bad.

How would this 15 year old feel that the same hands that can heal can cause harm?

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[mechanoize]

bw au. jazz cat & prowl bird :P

[rosefires20]

My brainrot today is thinking about just how incredible for a character Eowyn is.

Genuinely. The series might not have many female characters but the ones we do get go so fucking hard.

To me, Eowyn is literally the definition of defining being a woman for oneself. She rejects the roles she is given despite acknlowdging the importance and its mostly because she knows part of the reason is that she is a woman.

The reason why she is obsessed with Aragorn isn't because she loves him but because she wants what he has. She wants the freedom and courage and bravery that Aragorn has at every turn. She literally has multiple conversations during the Two Towers about how what she fears most is a cage. All this girl wants is the freedom to be and not be forced into a role. The best thing is that she literally gets that.

The segment of Return of the King about Eowyn and Faramir is literally about her piecing together what she truly wants. She doesn't want Aragorn. She wants freedom and the ability to choose. Faramir does nothing but encourage that in her. Their love story is literally one of the healthiest love stories I've seen in a long time because at the heart of it, their love is a place to return home to for both parties. Both go off to lead and help their people for a considerable amount of time before returning to each other but that does not diminish their bond. Even Faramir, I believe, falls in love with her bravery and dedication to her loved ones. The reason she went to Pelenor Fields and Gondor with the troops of Rohan was because she had things she wanted to fight for. She wanted to fight for herself, her people, and her loved ones. She is the one who protects Theoden after he is killed so that his body gets the treatment it deserves. She encourages Merry and helps him go to the battle because she sees her struggle in Merry. They feel helpless standing around when there are things to be doing.

Let's also not forget the fact that she was around Grima Wormtounge just as much as the King was. She was exposed to the same poison and awful words that eroded the king. It's even implied that her care for him is part of the reason why Theoden was savable when Gandalf showed up. She had the same power and bravery as everyone else even if she didn't see it in herself.

Then at the end of the day, SHE decides where she wants to go and what path she wants to walk. She walked the path of a warrior. The path of a princess/ruler. The path of a caretaker. But in the end she decides which elements truly mean something to her outside of gender definitions. That is what makes her character so incredible to me. In this she literally kills one of the biggest enemies in that battle with such a badass line.