#it was the segue into this all

[plastic-l0veee]

"I think I'm ready for a relationship. "

Oh I'm SCARED now. Bro really dropping hints like they're WEIGHTS, GODDAMN.

[sapphicpipedream]

picturing aaron minyard as a medical student on his pediatrics rotation and one patient being a teenage boy with cuts and bruises all over his body. he sees the boy’s mother hovering over him, fussing over him and ignoring her own split knuckles and black eye as the boy explains to the cops how his father had beaten them. maybe he sees himself as a young boy, bruised and bloodied at the hands of his own mother. maybe he realizes that a mother’s job is to make sure her child is safe and maybe he understands that tilda beating on him was deserving of andrew’s rage. maybe he sees a boy and his protecter and finally recognizes his own.

[mashmouths]

what? oh yeah i'm a huge swiftie :) i loved "a modest proposal" and though "gulliver's travels" was really context-dependent, once you parse it it's a truly brilliant work of satire

[a2zillustration]

Does croissant and gale get married in your story?

It's certainly something they plan to do!

But not just yet.

🥐 Croissant Adventures Masterpost 🥐

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

you cannot tease wei wuxian and hua cheng hunting for funsies and not show that to us??? it has to go one of two ways right? either an absolute visious blood bath where everyone cowers in fear or the equivalent of a teenage girl's slumber party. both??? both.

Hunting each other for sport is the keystone to a fun slumber party

[captainjonnitkessler]

Breaking my hiatus to find refuge from my conservative coworkers. Loudly talking about how "both sides are bad, they're preying on our division so we won't notice when they fuck us over!" And then immediately and without awareness pivoting to "and now the extreme left is talking about CRAZY ideas like taxing the rich and letting men compete in women's sports! Thank God Trump won't stand for any of that!"

Send strength, it's already been a bad day and if I encounter one more obstacle I'm setting this place on fire with all of us inside it

[pastafossa]

Hi, let's talk gatekeeping fanfic. First, if you bully teenage girls out of the fandom for writing like teenagers who're still learning, you are a terrible person. Because you were that teenager. I get some of us fic writers like to pretend we came out of the womb clutching a bloody, sticky 250k word in-depth character study fic that would rank in the top ten most kudos'd fics in the fandom ever if only our eyeballs and coordination were developed enough to transfer it to a screen, but that's a massive pile of horseshit, and you know it. You wrote with mashed paragraphs and mispellings and clunky dialogue. You used the same tropes you like to mock young writers for. So maybe have a flashback and then chill.

And just in case you don't care about that, you're also literally shooting yourself in the face, because a TON of writers (which often includes you) generally follow this trend:

Get excited about a character or fandom when you're younger and/or not a Leveled Up Writer yet

Decide to try writing fanfic for the first time

Bang something out and excitedly post it

Either get good or helpful/encouraging reactions that make you want to keep keep writing, or you get a bunch of sneering comments about teenagers by grownass gatekeepers who, for some reason, feel smug about mocking excited novices who're trying to write a fun story, thus chasing you away from writing.

And there's where you fuck yourself over if you pick the shit-covered Door #2. Because a writer can't improve unless they write. Oh, you might not see the effect immediately, but after a few years, the fanfic scene will die down as writers move on to less toxic spaces (or give up entirely). And you will have no one to fill the void. YOU are the reason you'll get less fic. Imagine mocking and making fun of a new piano player whose first song on piano is Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. "Ugh, I hate this basic teenage crap, are you just banging on keys? Come back when you can play Moonlight Sonata."

I literally do not give one single shit if you 'approve' of some teenager's (or adult's!) fic. If they're happy creating the equivalent of a cake with a stick figure design, that's awesome cause they made themselves a cake they enjoy. Alternatively, they're practicing making cake and no cake is perfect the first time, unless you learn something, in which case it's served its purpose and is a great cake due to fulfilling that purpose.

Tell you what - you want to gatekeep? Here's who you can gatekeep in fanfic:

Plagiarists.

There. Go nuts.

And if you're a novice writer, be it teenager or adult, deciding to try writing fic for the first time, please, please don't let them tear you down. Please don't stop writing. Don't stop learning. Don't stop creating. Don't stop being so filled with love for a story and its characters that you have to create just so you can breathe a little easier without your words and story filling up all that space around your lungs. I promise you, I promise, that every single writer you love has been at where you're at now, and the only reason they write like they do now is that they kept going, kept trying, kept writing. People will talk about talent but it plays a far smaller role than you think - this is 90% practice. And that means you can learn this.

You can do this.

So do it.

[simplydnp]

Taylor Tomlinson! Yes! That joke is DAN!

i've mentioned it so many times in my tags, i love that joke so much

barring the bit at the end of her story (cause i don't see a ring changing things), the joke is Very dan imo.

if you're unfamiliar, here it is

[rainbowresurrection]

Had a dream that Spock happily killed 50 crew members in a particularly bloody shenanigan and it was simply cut from TV after it aired creepy-pasta style

[fallenclan]

this is so fucked crow lost both his older siblings right after being consoled by them

yeah its. a little devestating. but he still has family and friends alive, dont forget :) i've seen a trend lately of people saying "oh x's loved ones are dead, you should kill them so they can be happy" and i'm. not a fan of it. people can still be happy even though they've lost people, and wanting someone to die so they can "stop being sad" is very different from wanting someone to reunite with their loved ones 👍 btw

[absurdumsid]

I’m in your head, Sid. Your favorite number is 34.

(/j)

not exactly but i thought it would be funnynasjcn

[arbitrarygreay]

The Anacostia-Alder-Biddies-Camarilla fight from 2x10

The smiles of anticipation! Anacostia and Alder not only enjoy a challenge, they're glad to be working together, after a season of being at odds.

The biddy played by La Nein Harrison grabs a Camarilla soldier and the rest of the biddies swarm in

Anacostia grapples in close quarters against a combat knife and finishes with a throw, mirroring M's fight with the Camarilla in 2x4

Alder first using a shortened scourge length in close quarters and then retreats to create space to swing it more fully, despite the Camarilla's speakers dampening its powers. It's unclear if the Camarilla soldier closer to the camera was able to cut the scourge with his knife or not.

Alder kicks away one soldier and then binds the arm of the other with her scourge, allowing her to take that soldier's knife, slit his throat with it, and throw it into the other soldier that she just kicked.

[larrylimericks]

26May23

Lou’s set leaked but none could predict All This Time and World Class Megamixed; Blue/green, rainbowed and gay, Then he went on to slay A 1D tune penned by his nemesis.

[peaches2217]

Dammit Peaches why do you keep stopping in the middle of sentences before giving WIPs a break

What does Peach have plenty of time to do

~~~

FOR POSTERITY: this work was finished and published! Read it here!

[mymarifae]

if you're wondering how i'm taking mizu5

the answer is "badly"

[a-sketchy]

hm. "sorry for bringing it up" or vague "sorry for what i did", or both...? this is really interesting... especially kanji's "*sigh* eh, whatever", which is exactly the response of being the bigger person when faced with a vague half-hearted apology. this definitely isn't a satisfying payoff for the campout, but it's something, more than i was expecting, and im not entirely sure what to make of it