#i feel like i'm tag spamming because i'm late to this show

[thisisevenharderthannamingablog]

Korn is the Actual Worst

Nobody is reading these but oh well. Today's very normal thought subject is that we see as early as ep 3 that Kinn when he feels safe is an open, smiley goofball who lunges for Porsche like someone at least a little bit aware that he's drowning.

They never come out and say how long it's been since Tawan, but it has to have been at least a couple of years? (Tay gets an award for sticking by him.) And I'm thinking something barely coherent here about the main house's hyper-controlled atmosphere, all CC-TV cameras and employees who ultimately report to his father, and how Tawan would have killed any sense of refuge even in what should be private areas, so for years no corner of that entire enormous place feels safe. [And he keeps that picture, in case he forgets.]

[I've seen a post or two disapproving of Kinn controlling Porsche's cell phone access, a fair real-world reaction that seems to overlook the fact that in the show-world, Kinn is trapped in this system, too. His family has his phone location tracked. People [mostly Porsche, but still] are constantly bugging rooms, eavesdropping, spying on one another. There is a literal informant in the house trying to have him killed. They all live in a fucking panopticon Korn runs, which is why in order to make real connections with people it has to be somewhere else, mostly Yok's for the symbolism of it all. But anyway, back to safety.]

Nobody is the exact same person with their parents that they are with their friends, but it is obvious that Kinn isn't safe around his father. He's cautious with his words, never shows a real smile, and usually buffers the interaction with alcohol. I get so indignant for him when Korn is reprimanding him in front of Chan, it is literally management 101 you do. not. do. that. For Korn, however, public shaming is the point.

I realized while I was writing up the ep 14 notes that his preferred method relies almost entirely on emotions. He's not a conventional liar in that he's usually not trying to feed people specific information as a means of guiding their behavior (though he does resort to that at the end of the season); it's not the words themselves that matter. It's how he's making someone feel in that moment. Which is why he goes with vagueness and metaphors and cuddly sweaters when he can. [I'll come back to that.]

His episode 1 conversation with Porsche is brief but significant, because he consistently takes this position throughout the season. He wants Porsche dependent on him, and it's not just the quasi-feudal "I meet your physical needs and you give me loyal service" one might expect from organized crime. Korn wants Porsche -- the man he orphaned! I hate him so much -- to have positive emotions about him, see him as a provider for Chay if not for himself. We see it with Pete a little bit from the other side; he's the only one of the bodyguards we ever really learn about, but in the ep 2 fish out of water sequence, he's the fish happy in the bowl. Sure, there's some annoying aspects, but overall it's a good deal.

It's such a grotesque, stunted version of actual connection, but if you can make sure that it's all anyone ever gets...? Once you've established that link, once you are the only source of those positive emotions for someone, you can use it. [Yet another aside: I'm intrigued by Korn's suggestion that Kinn and Porsche go away for a bit, because the only motive I can see for it is that he wanted space to work on Chay.]

Korn probably didn't even read Kinn the riot act about Tawan, just said something like I warned you. Now we have this. They live in a high-stakes world, would have lost face on account of it, lost business, a few people. I'm sure he didn't have to outright tell Kinn what to do about it.

The line that makes me want to stab Korn right through my laptop screen on Kinn's behalf specifically is not the apple speech but the coda: Our family is waiting for you.

How fucking dare he.

Anyway. I like that they trust their audience to figure out that Korn is as bad as his brother; he just prefers a different technique. And I find it interesting that Kinn categorically rejects this approach in favor of shooting someone in the head. (He would suck at it anyway; he can do the cold aloof thing 24/7 for literally years, but he can't fake emotions for shit.)

One of the things I'm mourning about no S2 is that we won't find out if Korn went too far in the S1 endgame. He ended up outright lying a lot as he ran out of maneuvering room. I'd like to know if he got too specific in what he said, told too many straight-up lies that were aimed at Porsche where Kinn could see him do it. Another good reason for Korn to keep his kids isolated from one another is that it reduces the chance that they'll compare stories. I was thinking about writing a fic about this but I might just leave it here - Kim, as the youngest, might have seen this tactic used against other people enough to have figured it out.

[wild-karrde]

Y'all... I cannot stress enough how you need to interact with things in order to maintain a fandom community.

I have seen absolutely abysmal interaction with everything I've posted lately, and it is IMMENSELY disheartening. Of course, I create it for me, but I choose to share it with everyone and want to get excited about it WITH YOU. And it seems that every other artist/writer/creator I know is experiencing the same thing.

If you're one of the people that regularly interact or just have hit a bit of a speedbump lately, then please know I'm not talking to you. I'm also not talking to other creators that have to choose between engaging or creating (and sometimes just don't have the bandwidth). I'm talking to the blogs that ask for more and then never comment or share. I'm talking to the people that sign up for tag lists and then are never heard from again. I'm talking to blogs that spam like but haven't reblogged anything since 2022. Y'all, this site thrives off of interaction. That is how it works. You have to help things circulate, and it is so frustrating to see the entire place in a collective slump. I have been blocking blogs left, right, and center that do not share things, and I will continue to do so. But it is such a freakin' bummer to see the state of things at the moment.

Hell, I started a sideblog for Fandom Friday (@fandom-friday), and have only received a handful of submissions after getting asked numerous times when it would be coming back. IT'S BACK. IT'S HERE. WHERE IS EVERYONE????? I figured after a few months' break, that people would have plenty of submissions stacked up, but that has not been the case AT ALL.

Fandom communities are such incredible places, but it's felt like a ghost town around here lately with the writers and artists just screaming into the void to PLEASE INTERACT WITH OUR STUFF. Please show up for one another because it is so very soul-crushing to watch everyone I know just feel completely disheartened. I cannot tell you how depressing it is to spend hours and hours carefully crafting something, being genuinely excited about it, and get almost no interaction or response other than a few likes and comments.

PLEASE INTERACT WITH THINGS YOU LIKE OR ELSE THERE WON'T BE ANY MORE THINGS TO INTERACT WITH.

[rewh0re]

2:55 AM

Ft. Itoshi Sae

Got this idea and i just had to write it because why not. Anyways. Reblogs + feedbacks are highly appreciated!!

It's late. It's way past midnight and you both should be sleeping instead of sitting on the sofa with your heads in your hands trying to figure out how to get out of the problem at hand. You tried your best to sleep but the persistent buzzing of your phone due to the incoming notifications left you sleepless.

"I thought we were careful enough," you took your phone in your hand, opening Instagram only to be spammed by notifications that said you were tagged in several photos and comments by random accounts. There were also thousands of follow requests from said accounts.

"We were careful. They just get their way every single time," Sae had talked to his manager a few hours ago about how a picture of the both of you had taken the internet by storm.

You were out for a date with Sae after his recent victory. The picture was taken after the date when Sae had kissed you under the street light beside an empty park or at least what you thought was an empty park. When you first saw the picture trending, the fans did not yet know who you were, you were still an unknown person who seemed to be Sae's significant other. Within a few hours however, they had found out your name and your account and since then you were on the receiving side of several hate comments and a few supportive ones.

'Sae can do better.'

'They aren't all that.'

'ugh Sae, leave them and date me.'

And other such comments were plaguing the picture. You got several such DMs too that honestly made you feel a bit down and you weren't feeling your best after seeing these.

But along with these there were also a few supportive comments that asked the people to leave you both alone and show you some respect and that it was Sae's choice who he dated and if he was happy it was enough. These comments made you smile. People could be bitter as well as sweet, you concluded.

"What's wrong with the people commenting all of this bullshit? Don't they have anything better to do in life?" Sae's eyes narrowed as he scanned through the various comments and captions.

"This was bound to be the result once our relationship was made public. I'm not complaining, some people can be weird about their idols getting into a relationship," you sighed as you silenced your phone and kept it on the coffee table. This was definitely not good for your mental health as you already thought about Sae finding someone better, probably some pretty fan of his. These thoughts plagued you at night.

"Don't you dare think about me leaving you or something. Don't you let these petty jobless people make you think that you're anything less than perfect for me," Sae held your hand as he seemed to catch on your troubling thoughts. He somehow always knew what was going on with you. Somehow he could read you like an open book. His eyes told you how much he loved you and how important your presence was in his life.

"I'll try Sae. That's the only thing I can do right now. Anyways, these will die down with time. We should sleep now. It's late," you kissed his cheek as you got up from the sofa and headed towards your bedroom.

You stopped midway through, as you noticed your boyfriend was not following you. Instead, he was still on the sofa and it looked like he was deep in his thoughts.

"Aren't you coming? Let them be, as I said it'll die down--"

"I'm gonna make it public first thing in the morning," he turned around to look at you, a serious look in his eyes.

"Sae..people already know, there's no need to--"

"No no, I'm gonna confirm it in the morning. It's been long enough. I'm not doing this for the media either, I'm doing this because I cannot keep loving you in private any longer. I'm tired of always being so on guard with you when we go out," he interrupted you yet again as he closed the distance between you both, now standing in front of you with your face in his hands.

"Sae.." you started but you honestly did not know what to say.

"Are you okay with that?" He looked deep into your eyes as if he was searching for your answer in them.

"Okay," you let out a little laughter as you pecked his lips and broke away from him. "But for now, please, please come to bed."

And true to his words, the next morning you were tagged on Sae's official Instagram post which was a picture of you kissing his cheek as a small, barely there smile was plastered on Sae's face. You smiled a little at the post, not caring about the incessant buzzing of your phone.

'I love you a bit too much' read the caption.

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

Obligatory, I don't think I'm technically wrong, but I know I could be an asshole, I think I'm justified, I wanna know what other ppl think, etc,

This is mult. fandom related and I'm 25 and have been on Tumblr for approx 10 years so I'm not speaking as someone new to either Tumblr or fandom spaces

AITA for reporting art and fic as spam when it's tagged as something else in a tag I'm searching for?

This applies to many fandoms I'm in not just one so I feel no need to list them since it's not like personal beef or fandom specific drama but basically as I'm sure many people do when I want to see fan art or even the occasional fic for my favorite character I'll go into their character tag via Tumblr search, it's one of the few things I enjoy about this website is it's semi functional tagging and search system. But more often and usually lately I've been finding a lot of stuff in say character A tag that doesn't have character A in it, it's a drawing of character B that's been tagged with the main fandom tag, B, and every other main character. I know its so the art or fic gets more views but it's annoying ESPECIALLY if it's fic because not to generalize but fics tagged like that usually dont have a read more either so I have to scroll past this massive block of text that's not only a fic I'm not interested in, but one that's incorrectly tagged for a character I'm trying to find content of so they're the ones I tend to report as spam the most over art which is easier to scroll past ill admit

Even on ao3 it's a feux pas to tag characters that just "appear" if they're not central to the fic so they already shouldn't be tagging any character mentioned in their fic

This USUALLY tends to happen with people's oc posts as well and nothing against OCs they're just not my thing and if I were in the main tag I'd happily scroll by since I recognize their place but just like the other two I'll notice it's just a drawing of someone's oc or their OC's profile and it's tagged with the full main cast, thus showing up in the character I'm looking for's tag

Or character x readers and character A (and C, D, E, F, etc) will be tagged on a B x reader fic, obviously I have no interest in reading a fic like that especially when again the entire cast has been tagged not because they appear in the fic but for engagement

Also I'm not dumb I filter for fandoms so like if the tag I'm in is just "Steve" obviously I know it'll apply to multiple fandoms like Minecraft or avengers since that's a super nonspecific name/tag I'm talking about deliberate tagging within the same fandom

I also don't report the post if they're like "this is my OC his name is James Bond" obviously that's gonna show up in like the James Bond tag which while more specific would not count as spam since that's still a proper tag that would apply, it's the OC's name that just happens to be the name of another character

So, while I don't feel bad because I find these people annoying since they're obviously tagging things like I mentioned on purpose for attention but on the other hand I feel a little guilty because fan art and fan fic is important to any fandom but just, that is one of the definitions of a spam post is something improperly tagged on purpose

TLDR: I report posts in my favorite character's tag as spam when they don't have my favorite character but are tagged with them because they clog up the actual tag with garbage

[jackhues]

you're not slick - angel's world

NOTE: this takes place during dec/2023 - march/2024

this is a series/interactive au, so feel free to send in any ideas/requests/thoughts you have about this!angel's world au masterlist!!

PART ONE || PART TWO || PART THREE|| PART FOUR || PART FIVE || PART SIX - SMAU (COMING SOON)

verstappen!twin reader x mat barzal ,, f1xhockey

angel.verstappen

liked by redbullracing, scuderiaferrari, lilymhe_ & others

angel.verstappen: life lately :)

landonorris: look at mother slay -> angel.verstappen: i love you son

charles_leclerc: hmm those shoes are not familiar to me -> angel.verstappen: they're not supposed to be

max.verstappen1: what is going on -> angel.verstappen: go away or i'll block you

danielricciardo: my eyes must be deceiving me because there's no way that's a man -> alex_albon: i am so confused rn

userone: WHO IS IT??

usertwo: it's barzy, i'm calling it -> userthree: he can't dress like that? -> user two: it's called the ✨ girlfriend effect ��

redbullracing: i assume you're not too busy frolicking and you'll make it to the vegas gp -> angel.verstappen: first tell max to stop bullying me -> christianhorner: max stop bullying your sister -> userfour: HE'S LITERALLY THEIR DAD 😭

titobeauvi91: well well well 👀 -> angel.verstappen: blocked.

---

THE KOOL KIDZ (+ ONE OLD MAN 👴) charles, angel, daniel, max, lando, alex

charlie alright ange who's the guy

dannyricc we all saw him don't even try to play dumb

maxie stop leaving us on read and answer

son am i gonna have a dad?

angel i will introduce you to him when i want it's a boyfriend not the end of the world

alex but who's the boyfriend? we want to know

charlie i NEED to know ange i will spam you and you know that

angel charlie i will block you and you know that

charlie i'll show up at ur house

maxie even christian wants to know he's been bugging me for twenty minutes lia who is it??

angel you guys will learn eventually for now it's a hockey player and if things get serious serious you will all meet him

alex bring him to vegas

son I'M MEETING DAD AT VEGAS

dannyricc as the only adult angel bring him to vegas

angel ohmygod.

---

angel.verstappen

liked by arthur_leclerc, redbullracing, barzal97 & others

tagged: schecoperez, charles_leclerc, maxverstappen1, landonorris, & oscarpiastri

angel.verstappen: vegas baby

landonorris: mother doing mother things -> angel.verstappen: son supporting mother doing mother things

charles_leclerc: i like that picture, send it to me -> angel.verstappen: sent bubba -> userone: anyone find it weird how close she is to charles... like he's pierre's best friend -> usertwo: she's dating charles i'm calling it! -> userthree: y'all need to calm down 😭 she's known charles longer than she's known pierre liked by angel.verstappen & charles_leclerc

danielricciardo: it was nice to meet the mister -> angel.verstappen: he says it was nice to meet you too

userfour: WHO IS HE??

userfive: checo looks so cute in this pic -> angel.verstappen: checo always looks cute

---

THE KOOL KIDZ (+ ONE OLD MAN 👴) charles, angel, daniel, max, lando, alex

charlie well he was much nicer than i expected

angel did you expect me to pick an asshole

charlie yes

dannyricc yes

maxie yes

alex yes

son yes

angel charlie he's ur bsf

charlie he was still an asshole to you

son i like dad he's my new bestie right after mom

maxie i don't like him

angel we all know that

dannyricc we also know that's a lie

charlie yeah you love him

maxie i'm blocking all of you

---

barzal.97

liked by charles_leclerc, titobeauvi97, marner_93 & others

barzal.97: it's been a minute

userone: NAHH THEY'RE NOT SLICK

usertwo: THAT'S ANGEL I KNOW IT

userthree: who took my mans?

titobeauvi97: nice stars -> barzal.97: thanks i drew them

userfour: who's angel?? why's everyone saying she's with my mans?? -> userone: angel verstappen is max verstappen's twin. he's an f1 driver. angel's made her own name by creating a fashion line called l'acadia. everyone thinks they're dating bcz they've been seen together and have been teasing a partner on their account for a while

charles_leclerc: are those crocs? -> barzal.97: blocked. -> userfive: NAHH THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INSANEEE

[someprettyname]

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BEFORE YOU INTERACT

[ This post is subject to change, everytime i add a point i will reblog it so y'all know ┏⁠(⁠＾⁠0⁠＾⁠)⁠┛ ]

>>> Mira/Nami/any pretty name

Just know that you'd have a special place in my heart of you assign me a unique nickname. That's what my URL and overall blog theme is about 😌 my name is the pretty name hehe :]

>>> I spam reblog often, i have a proper tagging system but just beware of that before you follow me.

When I say spam reblogging i MEAN spam reblogging. Fanarts, analysis, fic (self written and reblogs), interactions with mutuals and others, RPing with blue lockers and/or others, thirsting - EVERYTHING. I DUMP EVERYTHING on here.

>>> Late replies (advance apologies)

If I ever don't reply to something you tagged me in that's because I might've missed it among my other notifs, not because I'm ignoring it. { I try to reply to everything, I love interacting with people. Bear with me, please. } Sometimes, replying to certain things takes me days to a week. So that too. Saying this so you know what you're getting yourself into, i wouldn't want you overthinking my reply time unless we are in a conflict/argument.

>>> SUPER SELECTIVE follow backs.

Sometimes, I love a blog but don't follow it because you might be reblogging stuff I don't want to see on my dash. Just that. No hard feelings. Related to that : If I call you my moot YOU ARE MY MOOT. That's how it is in here, i don't have to follow you back for that. In my mind you are my sweet moot. Period. I'm a believer in "moots in spirit" concept 😌 I don't mind people asking me to be moots, but if I ignore your request please do take the hint. Also, if you're asking me to be moots always send the ask off anon so I can reply privately in case I'm saying no.

>>> DO NOT DM before asking me/until I do it myself.

If I've closed my inbox then comment on any of my post/pinned post to ask me but NEVER DM me before asking me/unless I've given a green flag beforehand. If my ask box is open and you'd rather communicate over DM just shoot me an ask and if I feel like it I'll DM you first. Point to note when you're shooting me an ask for DMing is to be considerate and put the ball in my court rather than making it a yes/no consent question. There's a difference. If you ever DM me without asking and you're someone I've never talked with in DM/discord before then I WILL have to block you. Don't be surprised. As much I'd hate to do that, you've already broken my boundary once and I'm not going to sit and hope you don't do it a second time. I have already compromised once in the past with someone and it turned out ugly.

>>> NOT SPOILER FREE

Don't come at me for not tagging the spoilers.

>>> I reblog NSFW, be warned.

Minors who interact with me, please be responsible. I don't really want to have a MDNI criteria for a few bad and irresponsible cases.

>>> I self ship with multiple characters, do NOT shame me in any way.

Self shipping/thirsting/simping is my way to show an appreciation for a character, it should be obvious that it does NOT reflect how I approach things in real life so when you shame me over it any way (yes, playful jokes included) it puts me in a tough spot. It makes me uncomfortable in my skin, don't do that. Don't be the one who spoils my experience here. I'll ignore such comments, and if you keep doing it again and again know that you'd only be DAMAGING your relationship with me. Period.

>>> Journaling personal thoughts.

This place is my safe space at this point so I'll often write out and post my personal thoughts here. #shitpost - is for general light-hearted stuff/ranting, thoughts that I'm fine sharing with others. #chatter - random passing thoughts (I'm mostly being crackhead in that tag honestly) , not meant for others to see but it's fine if you see and comment on it. Idm. #diary - self explanatory, can have heavy traumatic stuff under the tag, again - not meant for others to see but it's fine if you see and comment on it. Idm. If I don't want people to see something/interact with a particular post I'll mention it in the post!! Another pointer is that I'm a sanatani through and through so I'll post about stuff related to hinduism in general (occasionally), if that triggers you or you're not a believer feel free to block the tags #desiblr and #hindublr.

[fictionkinfessions]

It's late at night here. My brain is recalling fan theories and I wanna address them because like, it also touches upon my canon feelings

So, first and foremost the fan theory: Andrew and Andy are two alters in a single body and I know about it: I love Andy but hate Andrew.

First of all, if that's the direction that Nemlei goes with... Fine. But like, in my canon that seriously was not it. "Andy" and "Andrew" were more of 2 sides to the same coin.

"Andy" barely complained, would do everything I wanted without a complaint, wanted to be with me, etc.

"Andrew" constantly complained, backtalked, wouldn't want to see me, etc.

At least... That's how I saw it. It's definitely more prominent in Decay because well, after that vision I actually started to fear "Andrew" knowing that he tried to kill me once and then my vision showing he would try again, it started making me fear him. Making me desperate for "Andy" to still be there. (Also, it's a fucking great callback to when I yelled at Andrew saying that I would never fear him. No one picks up on that though 😢)

The thing about "why was I so obsessed with Andy but hated Andrew" is like... so exhausting. As I stated in a previous ask, I was just rephrasing his own words against him.

This ramble probably doesn't make any sense, I'm half asleep while typing but maybe *someone* understands what I'm getting at.

-Ashley Graves #🩷🖤

PS to MPC and everyone else who reads this: sorry I spam a lot here. This is a really nice place where I can ramble without being judged even though I'm sure that seeing my tag like 2 times a day can be exhausting. I'll try not to spam too much.

x

[asrielbelacquaaaa]

@kingofthewebxxx asked: - What is your favorite fandom in which you write? - Have you ever started to ship a rare-pair? - What are your favorite ships on here (feel free to tag?) - Do you ship someone’s muses on your dash? - What are the trends when it comes to writing that you adore?

ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɪs ʏᴏᴜʀ ꜰᴀᴠᴏʀɪᴛᴇ ꜰᴀɴᴅᴏᴍ ɪɴ ᴡʜɪᴄʜ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡʀɪᴛᴇ?

hmmmm.. i love them all, and it changes pretty much every week but right now, my favourite fandoms i'm writing is snowpiercer. just because i just started it, watched the show and i freaking loved it (thanks @cculters) and as non-fandom, i'd say it's either the vampire asriel or daesterus.

ʜᴀᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴇᴠᴇʀ sᴛᴀʀᴛᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ sʜɪᴘ ᴀ ʀᴀʀᴇ-ᴘᴀɪʀ?

a rare-pair from the same fandom? not really. though i don't know if that's rare-pair, but i kinda ship layton and melanie in snowpiercer. and as a pair from different fandoms, i guess asriel and jim are quite a rare pair. but once again, they're the only one.

ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴀʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ ꜰᴀᴠᴏʀɪᴛᴇ sʜɪᴘs ᴏɴ ʜᴇʀᴇ (ꜰᴇᴇʟ ꜰʀᴇᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴛᴀɢ?)

with asriel? well obviously, i love the toxic dynamic with marisa (@cculters hello again!). and ours, obviously! i love ships in general, always open to explore more with others.

ᴅᴏ ʏᴏᴜ sʜɪᴘ sᴏᴍᴇᴏɴᴇ’s ᴍᴜsᴇs ᴏɴ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴅᴀsʜ?

@darkstarkiller axel and @doctorserialkiller, they've as insane as the other. love reading your threads and stuff guys. @cculters and @thenightmareofyourdrems now that i finally can read your threads without being spoiled of the show. and many others, but i don't want to spam people by tagging them.

ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴀʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛʀᴇɴᴅs ᴡʜᴇɴ ɪᴛ ᴄᴏᴍᴇs ᴛᴏ ᴡʀɪᴛɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀᴅᴏʀᴇ?

antiheroes and morally grey characters! that's my favourite, and most of my characters are. but also diversity and inclusion, cause GOD DAMMINT that's important and i know i might not write it enough, but i try and i especially love reading it. just like mental health awareness. i try not to make my writing too political, cause i know people aren't here for that but gosh, all the stuff around climate fiction (hence why i'm into snowpiercer a lot lately) or diversity, inclusion and mental health awareness are important people!

[hearts-are-connected]

Tagged by the always lovely @wondrouswendy😊 Thanks for tagging me!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

18 works so far with way too many works in progress. Haha

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

36,578

3. What fandoms do you write for?

My focus right now is on Alan Wake, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Prodigal Son, White Collar, and Resident Evil.

In the past I've written for The A-Team, Resonance of Fate, and Final Fantasy VII.

4. Top five fics by kudos

Fevered Dreams - James "Bucky" Barnes/Sarah Wilson, FATWS Fic

Family - James "Bucky" Barnes/Sarah Wilson, FATWS Fic

Pain - James "Bucky" Barnes/Sarah Wilson, FATWS Fic

Soak away the troubles - James "Bucky" Barnes/Sarah Wilson, FATWS Fic

Mornings - James "Bucky" Barnes/Sarah Wilson, FATWS Fic

5. Do you respond to comments?

I try to always respond to the comments I receive. It's always a joy to hear what others think of my work and I want to thank them for taking the time to do so. I love interacting with my readers.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

They say time heals all wounds is probably my angstiest ending solely because it was written as a tribute to the late James McCaffrey. May he rest in peace.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Fevered Dreams or Until I found you might be my happiest endings solely because I put my male leads, Bucky Barnes and Alex Casey, through the wringer in their respective fics before letting them have their moments of comfort.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I haven't so far, and I'm very grateful for that.

9. Do you write smut?

No, never.

10. Craziest crossover?

I don't really enjoy crossover stories. Only on very rare occasions.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge and I hope I never have to know what that feels like.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Can't say I have.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No, but @pinkomcranger and I throw so many different ideas and story inspirations around, I think we might as well have by this point. Haha

14. All time favourite ship?

Saga Anderson/Alex Casey

15. What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I have a Resonance of Fate story that I've been editing on and off for over ten years now. I keep wanting to post it, but then I fail to do so because I feel I need to rework something.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I feel that my strengths lie in setting a mood and showing silently exploring relationships between characters. My stories don't normally have a ton of dialogue because I love showing relationships through actions more than words.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I'm not that good when it comes to writing deep plots. Most of my stories are basically drabbles, with the occasional character focused multi-chapter fic.

18. Thoughts on dialogue in another language?

I love it, especially when it's a foreign character slipping into their native tongue when speaking.

19. First fandom you wrote in?

Christopher Paolini's Eragon back in 2008.

20. Favorite fic you've written?

Wide Awake is definitely one of my favorite stories. It was my first time writing Saga Anderson and Alex Casey as a romantic pair instead of platonic and I'm really proud of how it came out. I adore writing these two characters.

I'll tag @tllgrrl. Her work is fantastic! (if you've been tagged already, sorry for the spam!)❤️

[yujeong]

Get to know the blogger

Thank you so much for the tag @imminentinertia, worry not about forcing yourself on me, I love it when people tag me in fun ask games ❤️❤️ Last song: Clocks by Coldplay. I'm still riding that high I got from going to their concert, don't judge me. Favourite colour: All shades of red honestly, especially burgundy. Currently watching: My Stand-In. That's it. Ok, for real, I'm so, so bad at watching shows lately. I can barely start new things and when I do, I don't continue watching them, which sucks because I want to watch SO MANY things (Word of Honor, Triage, so many anime, so many movies etc etc). The only shows that keep my attention completely from start to finish are BOC shows, so as you can guess, I am waiting for 4 Minutes with bated breath. Just ask my friends how much spamming about this project happens from me and you'll understand. Sweet/savory/spicy: All of them. It truly depends on what I crave at the moment. Current obsession: Pete. Buying books. Pete. Ottessa Moshfegh. Pete. Oh and Pete. (4 Minutes will become a new one once it starts, I've been going crazy with just posters and teasers so far, so... prepare yourselves folks. I'm about to become a 4 Minutes blog soon lmao.) Current reads: War of the Foxes by Richard Siken, which I've been reading very, very slowly to truly feel the words and truly picture the imagery this man has crafted with his gorgeous mind, and The Symposium by Plato for my workplace's BookClub, which I created hehe. It's... fine (?) so far, I need it to sink in first, the narrative structure is a little confusing hahah. It feels good to read something in Greek though, I'm mostly reading books in English generally. Last thing I googled: "μπορντο αγγλικα", which translates to "burgundy English" because I can't for the life of me remember what this colour is called in English lol. Tagging @wretchedamaranth, @xpi-x-elx, @iwantoceans and whoever else would like to do it 😊

[emeraldspiral]

Thank you for making that post, I'm sick of people implying that sexual predator narrative. There are other problems with Zim's behaviour (some of it mentioned in the post), but that is not it.

And while I'm not a biology expert either, even I have a problem with people trying to force Zim into the standards of human aging, and judge him by those standards.

This is not even exclusively a "Kid Zimmer" problem. A lot of fellow "Adult Zimmer"s guilty of this too. Zim shouldn't be compared to a human adult or a kid or whatever. He is an Irken adult! I like that he is not like a human, and has unique things about both how his society functions and how they are maturing. I feel like the fandom often takes away from this.

It's not like I don't like anything in fanon, one of my favourite fics is about Kid Zim, it has a lot of thought put into it, it's just fandoms nowadays need their headcanons to be canon for some reason and that bugs me a little. AU-s are a thing, like you said fanfiction is already going against canon. And I wish people would do something interesting with Irken ages, besides using it for shipping.

There are other things I want to say about this fandom (lots of people who complain about other people ignoring canon also ignore this piece of canon too) but I'm not gonna say what it is, because I don't need more reason to piss off both adult and kid Zimmers, even if I'm not mad here either with those people not writing that canon-accurately, I'd be probably the party pooper just for bringing it up.

Thank you again for saying what I didn't dare to.

You know I've seen some posts going around with people talking lately about how age discourse can be traced back to the V0ltron fandom. Up until the Kl@nce/Sh3ith ship wars, age discourse wasn't treated like a legitimate social issue by large groups of people. It only became a thing because Kl@ncers wanted to smear Sh3iths as pedophillic, when the characters had no canon ages, because they felt threatened by their rival ship's popularity. There was a coordinated effort by Kl@ncers to bully and harass people until they were afraid to ship anything but their ship, to artificially inflate their fandometrics ranking on tumblr by spamming the tags, and hassle the VAs and members of the production about validating their ship. They even tried to blackmail the show into making Kl@nce canon by threatening to leak spoilers from a BTS tour they had the privilege of experiencing.

Before Kl@ncers, nobody treated cartoon shipping age discourse like an actual social issue and like all moral hand-wringing about shipping it was never about protecting anyone, it was always at its core about people wanting their ships validated.

[marvelouslyalwaysme]

I posted 10,510 times in 2022

46 posts created (0%)

10,464 posts reblogged (100%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@cocoamoonmalfoy

@secretly-of-course

@turtlegirl521

@whiterabbit71188

@thisautistic

I tagged 302 of my posts in 2022

#try guys - 22 posts

#netflix - 15 posts

#ned fulmer - 14 posts

#heartbreak high - 14 posts

#the try guys - 13 posts

#heartstopper - 9 posts

#first kill - 7 posts

#keith habersberger - 6 posts

#tag game - 5 posts

#queer - 5 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#kluas is wild and klaus is kluas but he truely sees ben as a platonic brother even if its not their ben i still dont think klaus would do it

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Literally just found out that paper girls got cancelled...I was mad about first kill I was super sad after the wilds but COME THE FUCK ON!! PAPER GIRLS?!? PAPER GIRLS?!?! I'M SO FUCKING LIVID AND I'M JUST FUCKING SICK OF GOOD SHOWS GETTING CANCELLED BACK TO FUCKING BACK. I was really rooting for paper girls and I got my hopes up but I should have fucking known better. This fucking sucks

17 notes - Posted September 10, 2022

#4

honestly i keep talking about the ned fulmer shit to deal with the fact that i liked him a lot!!! and he's a piece of shit now!!!! it was the same thing when people realized brendon urie was a dickwad like- i feel betrayed man

Ned always was my least favorite (not to be one those but....) and actually recently hes been getting more on my nerves lately (before the cheating was announced) but I still feel horribly betrayed because he was just putting on this fake act so I totally get where you're coming from, I was not not a fan of Ned I guess I felt meh about him as a singular but I am a try guys fan so it does suck it won't be the four no more but he fucked up so what are you gonna do

51 notes - Posted September 29, 2022

#3

I saw a lesbian on tiktok say first kill was worse than Riverdale... Like the fuck maybe first kill isn't perfect but worse than Riverdale??? now y'all are just saying stuff to say stuff

52 notes - Posted June 14, 2022

#2

WHY THE FUCK DID HEARTBREAK HIGH FUCK SO HARD???, THAT FINALE OMFG IF THIS SHOW GETS CANCELLED I'M KILLING MYSELF CAUSE THIS SHOW GETTING CANCELLED WILL BE FUCKING IT FOR ME I HAVE NOT BEEN THIS PHYSICALLY, AND EMOTIONALLY HYPED OVER A SHOW IN SOOOOO LONG, THE PART WHERE CASH GETS ARRESTED I THINK I NEED TO WATCH THAT SCENE OVER AND OVER AGAIN A MILLION TIMES AND THEN JUST MAYBE I'LL BE ON THE WAY OF GETTING OVER IT, I CRIED, I SCREAMED, I THREW UP

70 notes - Posted October 3, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Sorry to all the people who follow me and don't give a fuck about the try guy/ned fulmer cheating scandal and have to deal with me spam reblogging every post I see, I'm trying to stop and I just can't

1,006 notes - Posted September 28, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

[happyk44]

[ID: 1. Tumblr post from @/elytrians: big fan of platonic expressions of devotion actually. yeah we're best friends of course i'd find you and hang out with you in every universe.

2. Tumblr post from @/alterouslyinlove: what if we cuddled for so long we were both warm and we smelled like each other. what then.

3. Tumblr post from @/wlwdaydreamms: i'm curious about what made you [italics] you. [end italics] i'm curious about your taste in music. i'm curious about the way your mind thinks. i'm curious about how your body likes to be touched. i'm curious about your late night thoughts and how they make you feel. i'm curious about every single thing about you.

4. Text reading: You're my best friend, I'll love you forever

5: Quote from S. Bear Bergman's book "Butch is a Noun" that reads: Sure, I have time. I always have time for you. Sure, whatever you need. Whatever you need.

6. Tweet from analog heart @/possumfan777: hahaha dude your friends only like you because you radiate joy and two minutes in your company is enough to brighten their day signficantly lol. they only keep you around because they love you dearly and cherish the place you have reserved for them in your heart lmao

7. Tumblr post from @/killingmyselfbutnotdying dated Jan 28th: "Friends don't look at friends that way" [all caps] COWARD. [end all caps] I look at my friends with awe in my eyes, my chest is filled with love, i'm glowing because i get to be near my friends. I look at my friends and i would give them my everything. [all caps] SO SKILL ISSUE, [end all caps] look at your friends with all the love that you have

8. Digital illustration. In the upper left corner of the illustration is a screenshot of tags reading: #Bestie I [all caps] KNOW [end all caps] those tags were serious #but I can't be sad and sappy right now I ate way too much chocolate #So actually I'll take you up on that can I have a star #preferably a shiny one to add to my collection of shiny stuff #and being /srs y'all light up my dash. Seeing your messages makes me want to spam heart emojis but #I would definitely get asked about my sugar intake if I did that #Mack rbs

There is a small light blue arrow drawn within the screenshot pointing to light blue text written within the illustration that says, "Here, sorry it's late."

The illustration itself shows a dark night sky glittering with stars. An angel stands in the center. Shadowed by darkness, they are illuminated slightly by the large orb held within their hands. Within the orb there is a bright yellow star. The angel's wings are lit blue with the glow eminating.

/end ID]

"I love you , I'm glad we're friends"

[e-rated-beardo]

Time for a tag game- again

Rules: In a new post, show the last line you wrote or drew, and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you like).

I was tagged by @di-42 about... seven days ago? (Oh those sweet days of innocence) and I'm just now getting around to it. If you've already been tagged in this and I'm tagging you again, my excuse is that a week is a long time and I apologise for the extra notification spam. ❤️

This is from Scorn and the Saint-Maker; it would be in chapter roughly 22 (no real spoilers because the only remotely spoilery aspect of this IS TAGGED LOUD AND CLEAR on the fic):

“None of that warm and wholesome rubbish for me,” agreed Anthony Crowley while regarding his warm and wholesome lover and feeling a complex of emotions that was nothing if not exceedingly warm and wholesome.

No way am I going to tag 34 people, so here goes just a few fine folks I follow, with no pressure: @harlotofupdog, @theonevoice, @searchingforakeythatdoesntexist, @depraveddame, @paperclipninja, @quona

Everyone else I thought of tagging has already participated, I'm late 🫠

[kagejima]

Words of Encouragement

As the interaction discussion I monitored this weekend comes to a close, I have been struggling to think of what I can say to help everyone. I pride myself on being good with words when it comes to stories, but I am just absolutely horrible when it comes to advice-giving. I'm still going to try though because I am concerned after what I've seen.

One of my favorite shows is an NBC show called 30 Rock. It's about the head writer for a popular late night variety show and the hijinks that ensue.

There is an episode where the main character Liz Lemon is getting so stressed that she needs therapy. She enlists the help of simple yet sweet page Kenneth to be her therapist, but he cannot handle the pressure of it, so it backfires on her. Liz's no nonsense boss Jack steps in to help Kenneth and says, "Put your mental burden in my mind vice, and I will crush it."

Going into this discussion, I wanted to carry the attitude of Jack's "mind vice", but I will be incredibly honest with you all. The further it went, I became as stressed as Kenneth due to my empathetic nature.

It truly concerns me to see a lot of people being so stressed over something that shouldn't be stressful at all. I have been writing fanfic since most of you were five years old, so this isn't my first time dealing with these stressors. It's just a different website.

Some common themes I noticed in the messages were as follows:

Feeling like a third wheel when it comes to mutuals

Feeling like your writing is not good enough because it is not getting reblogged

Feeling unmotivated because you don't receive a large amount of feedback

Feeling used because of spam likers

First of all, I'm so sorry to hear that there are people who have felt one of these, two of these, or even all four at once. You all shouldn't ever, ever feel this way. You deserve so much more than what is happening.

Second of all, I would encourage those that are writers to go back in the tag and find the handful of reader POVs that were sent in after the event is over later today. All of them made very valid points, and I think they are things that we regularly forget as writers. While, yes, there are always going to be spam likers and ungrateful readers, I believe in the bottom of my heart that probably more than half of them are not that way at all, and I think it's very easy for us to just think they're all the same when we only receive a like.

Thirdly, if I could take ratios away for all of you, I would. But I cannot. I can only give you some words of encouragement of what I've learned in my 18 years of writing fan fiction, so I hope that they help someone.

Notes Do Not Matter

At the End of the Day, You Should Be Writing For Yourself

I know, I know. I know, I know, I know. You're like, "What the fuck, Rae, yes they do."

But I feel like there is an alarming amount of people that are equating their worth as a writer (and person) to how well a fic does. We see how well another's fic does and if it doesn't reach that amount of notes, it's seen in our eyes as failure. Or if it doesn't reach x amount of interactions in x timeframe, we also see that as failure.

You cannot do this to yourself. It will drive you absolutely batshit insane.

And honestly? I completely understand wanting to be recognized for your writing, but you really have to think about it. Do you want 12k notes on every fic you put out? The people I knew that had massive amounts of notes the last time I was writing fanfic-- They were MASSIVELY unhappy. When they did get the interaction they craved, it turned out it wasn't what they wanted at all.

I'm not saying that this will be the same outcome for you, but I implore you to sit down and really think if wanting a large amount of notes comes from a deeper issue, like theirs did.

I don't think I'll host another one of these any time soon because it did take a lot out of me, but I do encourage both parties to step into the other's shoes.

You've done it! You've finished a fic!

Were you happy while you wrote it? Did some time pass and you went "Ohmygod, how long have I been sitting here?"? Did you have a fun time while you did it?

Guess what? You did it.

And by you did it, I mean you've already succeeded.

You made yourself happy writing about your favorite little blorbo (Or, if you're like me, writing about someone else's favorite blorbo so you get a DM going 'GODDAMNIT RAE' two seconds later lmaooo)

You cannot be waiting on interactions and note amounts to make yourself happy. It will not come, I promise you.

You cannot worry about what user 472347294 thinks about your fic and if it's good enough to be reblogged or not.

That kind of thinking will absolutely decimate you.

Your bar should be this now.

"Did I have a lot of fun writing it?"

Then you've done it. You succeeded. That's all that matters in the end is if YOU were happy while you wrote it. If YOU had fun while you wrote it.

Writers-- I get it. It fucking SUCKS to sink hours and hours and hours and hours into something and get literally nothing in return (I am TERRIFIED to post a Sukuna fic because of this). But I'm about to tell you some really hard pills to swallow, and some of you might disagree with me, and that's fine. But I feel like it needs to be said.

Just like we don't owe anything to readers (chapter updates, part twos, etc.), they don't owe us anything. I think it's very easy for us to get into the mindset of "I worked on this for x amount of hours, so you HAVE to give me feedback".

No. They don't. They don't owe us anything, just like we don't owe them anything. I can't find a gentler way to say it, but it's something I've thought of for awhile now.

Instead, what I encourage you to do is pay attention to those that DO leave feedback. Reach out to them when they do, and sort of a, "Hey, thank you so much for reading my fic, I really appreciate it!" Or something along those lines. I was doing that but I have been slacking on it for the last couple months, so maybe it's something we can all start to do together.

Readers-- I hadn't thought about it before about how you feel like your follower count is too insignificant for a reblog to do any good, or how the times that you have left feedback, you felt like you were pushed to the side. And for that, I am sorry.

I know we are always ranting about reblogs and how important they are, but I apologize to those who are trying. To those that do take the time out to leave feedback, you are appreciated more than you know. You are the reason we continue to make content, whether we reach out to you or not.

I also do think it's very easy for us writers to forget that there is an incredibly large amount of content out there to consume, and we are basically making it impossible to keep up with. Tumblr's bookmarking system is just fucking awful (if you can even call it that) so I completely understand where you're coming from.

My advice to you is to keep trying to leave feedback, no matter how small. Hopefully there will be some writers who will reach back out to you and tell you thanks.

To those that are too shy to leave feedback, I would encourage you to leave feedback on your favorite writers fics (Please, for the love of god, stay away from the writers who think that they're better than you because their follower count got to their head. You'll know them when you see them.).

And if you are unsure of what to even say, please drop by (I have anonymous on always!) and I would be more than happy to help you!

There are a few more messages queued for today, but I will probably end the discussion at 3pm EST since I have to work tonight.

Thank you again to those that sent things in. I'm happy that we were able to be respectful to one another and I hope that maybe we were able to step into the other party's shoes and can be more kind to each other going forward.

[awesomenessdoesstuffsometimes]

1. Why did you choose your url:

I made it when I was 10 and used it everywhere, got attached etc . . Tumblr is the only place I haven't changed it to "apollo_ds" cause I don't want my silly mutuals to not recognize me

2. Any sideblogs? Name them and what they're for

Christ I have a lot. I technically own @concorpofficial but it's inactive these days. I rb concorp fan art occasionally. @awesomeness-goes-hhhhh is my more spammy blog, used to be my oc blog before I found out the "ocs" were alters. @blogwhereireblogthingsisee SPAM and I upload resources here for me to use later . @peter-arnell in joke with a buddy. @daily-matt-parappa inactive but what it says on the tin. @ask-nintendo-something used to be an oc ask blog til he showed up in my brain and runs it now. @the-sides-dimension my system blog. I don't like posting sys course on main so it's over there. Not all that though. @making-gender my MOGAI coining blog :).

3. How long have you been on Tumblr?

Uhhh 2020. I was a hermitblr.

4. Do you have a queue tag?

I don't queue. When I am active, the followers will be graced with my reblogs.

5. Why did you start your blog?

I don't remember. I know I had it a while before I was active but I just hanged in hermitblr

6. Why did you choose your pfp?

My pfp used to be a drawing of me/my Internet persona, now it's a drawing of ADSS (who is my persona. But they're an alter too because ofc they are.) and I. Adss on the left me on the right.

7. Why did you choose your banner?

Funny picture of Paul McCartney. It's an album cover I forget which one. The one with temporary secretary.

8. What's your post with the most notes

There's one with like 2 or 3k from when I posted screenshots of hermitcraft chats. I forget which one it is.

9. How many mutuals do you have?

Idk less than 10 but I love them dearly. I'll be honest I don't remember where prev came from but I love seeing em in my notes .

10. How many followers? 150

11. How many people are you following? 554

12. Have you ever made a shit post?

If you think about it.... All posts are "shit" posts ......

13. How long do you spend on Tumblr each day?

Varies from 30 mins to 2 hours.

14. Have you ever gotten into a fight on your blog?

Less "fight" more I say something and pedos and ableists get mad in the replies.

15. How do you feel about "you need to rb" posts?

One way ticket for them to not get any interaction from me. If it's good, a spiteful like.

16. Do you like tag games?

Any and all acknowledgement of me is appreciated and will be reciprocated.

17. Do you like ask games?

Refer to 16

18. Are any of your mutuals Tumblr famous?

Uhh I don't think so but the people here I look up to feel like it to me

19. Do you have a crush on a mutual?

Only minor friend crushes 😭

20. What's the last song you listened to?

You & Me, tally hall

21. What show are you currently watching?

Rewatching dungeon meshi with boyfriend, watching MLP because I'm nostalgic and weak

22. Sweet, savory, or spicy?

Savory and spicy 🥵🥵

23. Relationship status?

JUST HIT 3 YEARS WITH MY BOY YESTERDAY!!!

24. Current obsession?

My always obsession is my video game guys(OLEASE ASK)... My current hyperfixations are dungeon meshi, spy x family, abd ponytown (strike me dead)

25. 9 albums you've been listening to lately?

Ok I'm very passionate

The Age of Plastic - The Buggles - 1980

Damn Skippy - Lemon Demon - 2005

Hip to The Javabean - Lemon Demon - 2004

The Normal Album - Will Wood - 2020

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum - Tally Hall - 2005

Boingo Alive - Oingo Boingo - 1988

Fashion Nugget - CAKE - 1996

I Like Fun - They Might Be Giants - 2018

Mesmerize - System of a Down - 2005

26. TAGGING

I throw this curse upon ye @likethewizardyk @roxiusagi @animaysons @75screamingtoads @bitter-goodbyes @mag139 @fireflycollective @definesupposedtobe

nine albums or songs I've been listening to lately x nine people I’d like to get to know better x tag game with no name

(thank you for the tag @lianhuajing !!)

1. why did you choose your url? uh. it was a play on "rose tinted glasses"

2. any sideblogs? if you have them name them and why you have them. nope!

3. how long have you been on tumblr? I think 2022? i knew about it before, just never bothered to make a blog

4. do you have a queue tag? don't kill me, what's a queue tag?

5. why did you start your blog in the first place? I had some Thoughts about Blue Lock and wanted to post meta for it

6. why did you choose your icon/pfp? uhh Flora.

7. why did you choose your header? Reo is one of my Blorbos and I just really liked that panel of him

8. what’s your post with the most notes? probably the "do you download fics" poll

9. how many mutuals do you have? about 20? i don't remember

10. how many followers do you have? 120?

11. how many people do you follow? 91

12. have you ever made a shitpost? yes. i think.

13. how often do you use tumblr each day? an hour?

14. did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? nope

15. how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ posts meh. some of them are funny i guess

16. do you like tag games? yep! it's nice interaction

17. do you like ask games? i do! but uh. it's a silent empty void here. an echo chamber, if you will.

18. which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous? i have no idea but i see @kingsandbastardz a lot in the mlc community

19. do you have a crush on a mutual? nope

20. what is the last song you listened to? 若梦 by 周深

21. what are you currently watching? i just finished The Double! probably starting on Dashing Youth next

22. sweet/ savoury/ spicy? savoury!

23. what is your current relationship status? single

24. what is your current obsession? The Double,,,,

25. what are nine albums/ songs you've been listening to lately?

若梦 by 周深

如故 by 张碧晨

如初 by 张碧晨

借过一下 by 周深

万物不如你 by 张杰

Our dawn is hotter than day by Seventeen

Hitorijana by Seventeen

my music taste is kinda...i tend to stick to a few artists...

26. tagging (no obligation to do this!) @randomingoftherandomness @good-vs-evo @chrysofightme @bbcphile