#it took me four days to read this

[eponastory]

Troy.

But way better.

Rating: M

Legnth: 42 badass chapters (around 260k glorious words)

Warnings: A fair bit of blood, violent war scenes, sex, Zhao being a fucking coward and someone I really hate... and character death.

I can't tell you how much I hate the movie Troy... I hate it. It doesn't even follow the Iliad. Some of the events in the movie add up, but most don't and it's just... awful.

That being said, Annakpok is written way better.

It's more of a strategic war epic in the way that Homer's epic is rather than a full-on romance. Granted, romance is what caused the war in the first place if you haven't touched any of the Trojan War historics. The romance between Zuko and Katara is built up rather nicely and doesn't seem empty like in the movie with Hector/Achilles and Briseis/Andromache. The romance between Sokka and Yue is also not as empty as Paris and Helen in the movie (it's all Paris' fault anyway for choosing Aphrodite's offer, and he's an idiot. I would've gone for Hera's offer... actually, it's all Aphrodite's fault for being the crazed weirdo she is), and it's not even delved into in the Iliad itself, so eh. At least we don't have the lists (Godzilla, the lists of the freaking Iliad is... frustrating) or the very cringe worthy moments of the Troy movie (I hate it so much).

I digress.

This is not a bad review of this story. I love it. It's probably the best version of the Trojan War (without it being the Trojan War and set in the AtLA universe) that really works in other media. It was emotional, suspenseful, and freaking action packed.

Darius, level with me here... are you a history nerd like me who loves battle tactics and uses them in your works frequently? If so, I fucking love you.

The detail in this story is absolutely amazing, right down to the way weapons are used. I love it. Love love love.

I'm not going to give away too much, but I'm glad that the 'horse' was basically a checkovs gun. It works. It really works.

I could go on about everything for days!

But I won't because you guys really need to experience (yes, that's right, experience) it for yourselves. It is gut wrenching, emotional, I fucking want to kill Zhao myself, and Hahn can die five hundred times over for being a power hungry misogynistic idiot (I spit on his grave).

Actually, this story is pretty close to ASOIAF level writing with all its twists and turns.

The one thing that sets this story apart from the main script of Troy and the Iliad is the characters fates.

In Troy, Paris doesn't die, Helen runs away from Troy with him to live another day. In the Iliad, Paris dies. Helen goes back to her husband, who is very much alive, unlike in the movie, and yeah... then you go into the Odessy and several other epics like the Aenid and whatever. But anywho, great retelling of the Iliad/Troy in the Avatar universe.

Please check it out if you haven't already. It's basically an epic.

Story's Verdict: 10/10 turtleducks because I've never seen an author besides GRRM make me hate a character so much that I need to end them myself. I'm talking Joffrey and Cersei levels of hate. Mostly Joffrey... that little shiteater.

[love-3-crimes]

HOLE-DWELLING HOLE-DWELLING HOLE-DWELLING

[damthosefandoms]

every week we have to wait between new pjo episodes is like reliving the year between mark of athena and house of hades. except this time we’re ten years older and still haven’t forgiven rick for that author’s note💙

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

🌸 !!CHAPTER ELEVEN POSTED!! 🌸

Title: Four Walls

Tags: slow burn, domesticity, friends to lovers, smut, pining post sias/pre am era

Summary: Disillusioned with LA and on the heels of a breakup, Alex goes to stay with Miles in London.

[they-didnt-last]

anyone interested in talking about the iconic 2000's middle-grade-bordering-on-ya book series gallagher girls??

[centaur-dreaming]

reading the foxhole court (finally) update: Sooooo you've got the key to his house, the key to his car....whats next Neil? The key to his heart?

[juanitasupreme]

Putting that book down or else I'll finish it tonight

[chenouttachen]

may i finally present to you all, the 'how the hell jeff managed to graduate university' fic, in all her 33k glory! enjoy!

[sysig]

Handplates and haircut and more Handplates after that (Patreon)

[kyouka-supremacy]

Shin Sōkoku - BSD Chapter 105: In the Closeted Room

[milstrim]

(’just in case you were an abusive asshole too’.)

@spagbol99​ you’ve got a lot to answer for

Bonus: this didn’t make the cut just due to comic things but i drew it so now you have to see it regardless

[snowangeldotmp3]

in what ways do robin and nancy help each other???? like what do they give to each other, like new perspectives etc etc. im interested in hearing what u have to say abt it :)

ooo okay okay i have been thinking about this for a whole day and i have Thoughts. they may not be super coherent but pls bear with me.

ok so i think the scene in pennhurst is probably the best example of their relationship. robin's outburst + nancy's surprise at it. even just in a platonic way, not necessarily romantic, robin picks nancy's side. she doesn't crumble. she knows from the get go that nancy is right. and even if she doesn't fully believe it, robin knows what it's like to not be listened to just because they’re women. jonathan did not. (i am not going to get into the jancy argument of s3 becausee they were both right, just in different ways. i'm Not getting into that rn)

i think for nancy, not only does she have a friend again, but it's a friend she can have a genuine connection with? they both have shared trauma, so nancy doesn't have to hide anything from robin. and a friend that believes her. which i think is even more important. nancy is so, so used to not being believed, and here comes robin, who, even though she wasn't 100% sure about nancy's shot in the dark, still believed her enough to trust her hunch in the first place. to have even an ounce of trust in her theories, to not be mockingly called "Nancy Drew," to have someone believe her. i think having that person to say "no, actually, you were right, and you've been right. no, this asshole is not going to undermine you, screw. that." is so incredibly important to nancy. that "we ask forgiveness, not permission," attitude. (robin says that in the rebel robin podcast. it's canon to me.)

i think ultimately, robin is a step in the right direction for nancy healing over the loss of barb. she's letting herself become friends with someone again, she doesn't have to close herself off from friendships anymore. and no, robin can't shoot a gun, but we know she can take care of herself. she's not completely defenseless. but robin is that key, that first step in the right direction, to heal from barb.

and even in case of (hopeful) s5 predictions and whatnot, i think robin is a completely new perspective for nancy in general, and will continue to be. robin is someone who exists outside the boxes that most people fit into, the ones that nancy is actively trying to avoid. i do hope we get a robin coming out to nancy scene in s5, just as a bridge of trust between the two, ya know? (this is just wishful thinking for me, but i also personally would love to see robin come out to nancy and then force nancy to reflect on her own self, too, ya know?)

ultimately i think it's about robin and nancy being/bringing a balance to one another. they balance each other out in a way that neither of them have probably had for a while. AND i think that's what's made them so entertaining as a dynamic, they aren't one thing or the other, they're both way too complicated for that. instead, they bring a balance to each other that either one has likely not had for a long time.

[rosecoloredknight]

cooking and eating quesadillas at 1am slaps

[acourtofquestions]

The white wolf was watching her again.

[arsenicflame]

ive been thinking a lot about my relationship with the ofmd fandom recently, and so i got curious about just how much fic of this silly little show ive read.

i dont have an exact way to figure this out- i dont bookmark things so it really is guessing but heres what i can figure based on my history

the first appearance of ofmd in my history is 370 pages in, on may 10th 2022

now, i can't say every single fic since then was ofmd, but i am pretty single minded in my fic tastes. if i say 50% of those fics are ofmd (a low ball, i would expect at least 75%, i can't recall reading anything else in any quantity) that works out at 3700 OFMD fics in 557 days- or a surprisingly low 6 ish fics every day!

(this doesn't even take into consideration fics ive read twice, three times- i know for a fact theres a couple of Long Fics ive read multiple multiple times)

also- the first appearance of an izzy ship fic is the second fic in! he starts appearing regularly on page 368/ 12 may! i honestly thought it was a little further on than this!!

[chiropteracupola]

dress up nice (and don't get any blood on yourself this time, please)

[collaboration with @dxppercxdxver again. we are still going.]