#i'm whining like a DOG

[wimbledon2008]

buck asking eddie to be his best man at his gay wedding to tommy. you might as well just take out a gun and kill him

[hellonerf]

i know the america and buffalo comic was deleted and shouldn't rly be seen as canon but i rly can't stand how cute ame is here... (crying hitting a plane) I HATE YOU BUFFALO!!!!! the other guys giving him chocolate and candy spoiling him like crazy... he probably looks so young compared to them they're just inclined to do that. unable to say the truth... being pushed from alcohol by the hand. while crying. it's too fucking cute... i can't deal with this. ame's sudden moe is too strong. my head hurts

[lastoneout]

I know it's a nuanced topic and any breed of dog can be dangerous but every time I see people scare mongering about german shepards I think about the first time I took mine to a dog park and how she was having a blast UNTIL she saw that there was a like, barely 1 y/o mastiff in there, and despite how badly that poor guy wanted to be her friend she had absolutely no idea how to process the very new information that there exist dogs who are bigger than her, and spent the entire time we were there standing on a picnic table looking desperately confused and occasionally whining at me to help her.

[incorrect-koh-posts]

You said "which is a tragedy in its own right as far as my tastes are concerned, but I digress", but I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this. I hope it's okay to ask, but what kind of fics/pairings would you like/prefer to see emerge from the fandom?

Of course it's okay to ask, dear anon!

Personally? I'd love to see more variety. One of the chief reasons why I enjoy reading fan fiction is finding new things I like - perhaps some pairing I hadn't considered before, some batshit premise or crossover that turns out to be actually brilliant, or maybe a cool genfic that explores previously unseen sides of a character or character dynamic that people don't write about very often. I'm not really the kind of person who seeks out fic based on specific tropes. Once I've read a story with a certain trope in a fandom, it's pretty unlikely that I'll go and read another one with a very similar premise, unless I really enjoy the author's writing.

So what I'd be excited about seeing in the AO3 tag would honestly just be: something new. For instance, a sapphic Sibylla/OC fic would be such a fascinating read (as would be anything at all that explores Sibylla's character a bit more). Or a Saladin-centric fic - sign me the hell up. I'd adore finding something for Godfrey or Imad, and we all know a new Tiberias fic would have me foaming at the mouth. I'd also love an interesting and/or wacky AU (and I'd write one myself if I had the time). Make it Jane Austen and let Baldwin have a gentleman suitor, while Sibylla elopes Lydia-Bennett style with Guy, and Godfrey and Raymond grump about in the Navy. Write a daemon AU (as in His Dark Materials) in the canonical universe. Or throw them all into the 21st century and let Reynald send Saladin threatening messages via fax.

I know the KoH fandom is much too small to engender the sort of variety I'd ideally like to see, and it's only reasonable for writers to sort of double down upon the fic premises and tropes that have done well in terms of hits and comments in the past and write more of the stuff the majority enjoys. As far as taste goes, I'm aware I'm the complete outlier here, and I really don't mean to antagonise anybody with this post or insult their writing or reading preferences. I'm glad your fics are doing well, folks, I truly am - it's only that I'm very likely not the target audience for them. Sometimes I just wish I weren't the only freak in the circus, lol.

(The post anon is referring to is this one btw.)

[coockie8]

I 100% understand the sentiment behind the "if you're cold, they're cold. Bring them inside." concept, and I'm certainly not disagreeing with it for certain animals, but like... I'm a domesticated hairless ape... My dog has a built-in fur coat. Not really the same thing lol

[teddybeartoji]

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[hxhhasmysoul]

wouldn't it be nice if the author of the fics finished them. the author is me.

[babydillpickle]

no i cAN'T binge rewatch the untamed right now i have to defendmyfuckingthesis i don't have TIME for a breakdown i don't i DON'T

[momo-de-avis]

My upstairs neighbours have dogs. I know this because I hear them. I hear their paws against the floor, and I hear barking, and right now I can even hear whining. I am using plural here -- dogs -- because they are the ones who said they have two. I wouldn't have known that.

I have never seen these dogs. They're real, you can hear them very easily, but I have never heard them taking the dogs out for a walk. I have never heard the dogs on the buildings hallways or stairs. I have seen the neighbours several times and yet I have not seen either of these dogs. I have no idea what they look like.

This is just so utterly bizarre

[practically-an-x-man]

the overstimulation is real

[transgender-catboy]

it appears I have woken up sad

[xannerz]

roblox death noise

[thelastspeecher]

I finally forced myself to make a very late lunch (anxiety and stress kill my appetite and I've got those in spades rn) and in the seconds I'm distracted, the young dog with no health issues sneaks off to eat the food of the elderly dog that needs a special diet and has a special supplement on said special food, all of those components expensive and specific to her needs

yeah dogs you're not really helping me out with the whole reducing stress and anxiety thing I'm trying to do today

[indiegame]

i just napped for like 4 hrs. uh. hello.

[monty-glasses-roxy]

I'm wondering if maybe Roxy operates on the same principle of dogs that say you can't sit down without the dog being present at all times. Like does Cassie sit down literally anywhere and Roxy materialise next to her? It's not that she's desperate for attention or anything, it's just instinct to want sit next to those she cares about or something, ya know? Like if she really wants attention too, she'll do something to get it as well, but what if she operates on the Rule of Dog that dictates you can't relax or take a breather without Dog also being there?