#i don't know what's happening.

[discoloveangel]

I'm the kind of person who doesn't like it when masculine adjectives are attributed to women, and I hate masculine stereotypes, like "she is my boyfriend" or "daddy" or calling girls "Oppa" in the K-pop community. But for some reason, Wan feels like a husband to me. She's Pleng's husband, and I don't know exactly what that means, but in the most positive and sexy way possible, she totally gives me husband vibes, and this has never been a thing for me before.

[meyerlansky]

💖, 🥘, and 🎥 for "there's a whole in my soul" as a series!

💖 Which of your fics is your pride and joy?

objectively it should probably be vvf since it’s my Only completed longfic and it’s a good one! it’s got a good throughline with the theme and the development etc etc. but i literally have not stopped rereading dctc(tc) since i posted it. at least four times a week i reread that fucking fic. i have never done this with any other fic i’ve written.

🥘What wip are you most excited about?

all the mota ones. right now the dctc(tc) sequel and collarfic are jockeying for first place, but i have between two and five more wips in progress [depending on how you count installations in a series] and i am trying SO HARD not to wring every shred of enjoyment out of this fandom prematurely because i REALLY want to see them all through

🎥 Pick a fic and I'll tell you the song I imagine playing during its movie trailer.

I MEAN OBVIOUSLY A BASTILLE SONG! flaws is maybe a little too soft and nice for them though, and i fully picked the line because of the soul part, though it could work in a soundtrack dissonance way. icarus would also be really good! [em and i are just sitting here listening to bastille’s discography now what have you DONE]

questions/emojis from here!

[quick-drawn]

my brain malfunctions whenever vishkar is mentioned, even in the slightest —

[kaijudyke]

life update i am now instagram mutuals with three members of the il sistina cast of cats

[spacewasnotagoodidea]

Bro, I posted a fic on ao3 a few days ago, expecting nothing but it blew up! I didn't check my email for 3 days! Then

💥 BOOM 💥

30 kudos!

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[perrieedwards]

i feel like people are skimming over the uk riots in a way that makes me want to tear my hair out. muslims in the uk are in active danger. immigrants in the uk are in active danger. refugees in the uk are in active danger. people of colour in the uk are in active danger. asian communities in the uk are in active danger. black communities in the uk are in active danger.

there are massive far right riots throughout the country right now and people like fucking elon musk and nigel farage are inciting it and still have a platform to speak. people have used three young girls deaths, people's genuine grief in southport, to try and gain traction for their own racist bullshit and it's working.

a lot of refugee charities have been forced to close leaving many people without support, homes, funding, food, etc. if you aren't able to donate please consider sending a message via the conversation over borders campaign! it will send a hopeful, welcoming letter to a refugee in the uk. there is also a guide to staying safe here.

please do your own research and donate to refugee charities, anti-islamophobia charities, mosques who are trying to rebuild after being destroyed, counter protesters, here are some i've heard positive things about but the list is extensive; southport strong together (support for the southport victims and their families), southport mosque rebuilding, riot repair fund, middlesbrough vulnerable residents, nasir mosque rebuilding, hull help for refugees, bristol welcomes migrants,

[mroddmod]

they are like puppies. 2 me

[ayo-edebiri]

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse + text posts

[krysmcscience]

I have some questions about karaoke night, Alex Hirsch. Very Important Questions. Which I will happily scream at a poor hapless baby triangle who can have no answers for me, and possibly also does not have object permanence yet.

Follow-up that is I guess suggestive, but let's be real here, Bill's a fucking triangle:

Dude slipped right into his birthday suit, lmao

this is so stupid :D

Anyway, I don't care what anyone says, this brilliant individual knows what's up - Bill is absolutely way more of a monsterfucker than Ford could or ever will be, full stop.

[tossawary]

This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

[maines]

AGATHA ALL ALONG | 1.08

[bug-s0da]

'ziska zaturday

[ghoulgist]

watching the jerma house flipper tournament fucked off my gourd on pain killers.

[iamanartichoke]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -

I am fine with "the audience" -

downloading my fics

printing my fics

copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics

sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3

making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss

doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc

I am not fine with "the audience"

doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity

feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever

Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.

Enjoy the fandom things.

[literarymerritt]

Thinking about Them 🥺

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