#maven rambles

[twochildreninamoteldemo]

Girl!Sam winchester moodboard but it's just this picture:

[degenderates]

The audacity of terfs to be saying shit like (misgendering warning!!) "I love ethel cains songs even though he's a male, his unreleased songs are so good and they speak to [x] even though he's a male"

...so u agree? Ethel Cain's music reflects the experience of womanhood, marginalization, and specifically the intersection of those two??? (Where marginalization can mean being a woman, being trans, being poor, being from the south, etc etc) HMMM. I wonder why that is 😐

anyways terfs i hope you explode while listening to hayden screech in ptolemaea!! i hope her scream sends u careening into oblivion!!

[darkalinas]

Really missing the "alarkling" days of the grishaverse fandom. It was an ugly ass ship name but that era is truly unmatched and before there was really any major discourse or just the messiness now</3

[rose022]

i need my men whimpering (and bloody tbh) but my women make me whimpering

[nezumithewriter]

i'm just maven, who you don't know

maven flying solo

[aerticent]

this is so Maven omg like

[hircines-hunter]

I need to stop falling in love with horrible people.

Anyway enjoy Crowe. Quite a lovely little minx.

Whenever i finish this it’ll probably be a long oneshot. Not that i expect anyone to read a Sibbi/OC fic lol

[yellow-faerie]

Anyone want to hear about my HTTYD OC?

[minijenn]

Absolutely bonkers that we're reaching the end of old arc 1 by chapter 5 but that's just how new UF is ig

[goblins-riddles-or-frocks]

Did you like red queen? What are your thoughts on mare and maven? (Both individually and as a ship)

It used to be one of my top ten worst books of all time but then the YA category continued to publish stuff lol. I still wouldn’t say I like it, but it holds up better than a lot of stuff out right now. Like I will give Victoria Aveyard some credit for the first book twist. And generally she made several choices in the series where it felt genuinely shocking considering all the constraints on the age category at the time. It also occupies an interesting space in being one of the earlier entries in the gradual trend shift from dystopia to court fantasy.

But the books are still bad lol. The series was basically a laundry list of all the basic newbie mistakes, and Mare was frankly catastrophically annoying to me.

That being said, Maven is my precious son who has never done a single thing wrong in his life— up to and including killing infants and sending them gift wrapped to Mare.

Anyway the ship is not like… well executed by any means but the core concept is pretty solid. I don’t like care about these characters being together but the basis of jealousy and Maven kind of putting all his baggage wrt Cal, and being the overlooked second son, on Mare at least makes sense. And their scenes were definitely the most entertaining!

[twochildreninamoteldemo]

hello mutuals today i bring u a spreadsheet of ethelnatural occurances (aka whenever ethel cain has posted about spn--or adjacent). included is date, description of occurance, screenshot, and link to the post (if it’s still up). please do not use this spreadsheet to hate on hayden or for any negative purposes. please also do not spread it beyond tumblr (aka don’t repost this link--i dont want the normie gang to get ahold of this lol, again for privacy reasons). this is for insane spngirl daughters to have as a reference only! enjoy<3

[degenderates]

a rant about fanfic writing & popularity.

as much as i talk about the fact that kudos/hits/etc don’t matter, it’s about the community of fandom, the three people who obsess over your work, the creation for yourself and anyone else, the sharing of creativity and storytelling, it’s really hard not to compare yourself to other authors as a fic writer, especially when so much of what fandom does is talk about stats nowadays 😔 like nowadays whenever i get less than 100 kudos on fics, especially less than 50 (which is often) written for the relatively large fandoms i’m in, i wonder what i’ve done wrong. even though objectively i know that it’s about content and preference, a lot of the stuff i write about is very niche and includes stories and headcanons people don’t want to engage with, whether that’s a trans au or a dark(er) au, i still can’t help but blame it on myself, like i’m not that good of a writer. wondering what other authors who started writing in the fandoms i’m in around the same time i did right and what i messed up. i see people around me get recc’ed left and right while i’ve never seen myself on a rec list anywhere, even after writing in fandom for four years (granted - i think everything pre-2020 that i wrote is...not great. but i’m proud of the things i’ve written recently!). it’s not that i think i’m a bad writer. I think i’m pretty good! irl, i’ve been able to do a lot of cool things and get into cool programs/classes because of my writing, but in fandom, i feel invisible.

does anyone else feel this way? i’m sure many do, but most of the time people end up saying “well, my writing sucks” when that’s not truly what they think. they just don’t feel recognized, or given the chance to prove themselves. and i think part of that is the toxic obsession fandom has with stats: kudos, hits, ratios, likes, reblogs. a lot of this is perhaps propagated by readers of fic who maybe don’t write, and don’t realize that the way they talk about “sort by kudos” or whatever’s the most popular can negatively affect the psyche of writers, especially those who are younger and just starting out, but don’t have anyone to read their work, comment on it, build the excitement. i think about those kind of kids a lot. because when i read a story that i think is clearly from someone who has less experience writing, or maybe is new to english, or whatever the case may be, i still give the fic a kudos, even though it may not be the next fandom classic. i still give the little heart. i still leave a comment with something nice to say about it! i wish more people did that. i wonder, too, if social media and the way it’s developed over time, has a role to play in this phenomenon.

anyways, rant over. feel free to reblog with your own thoughts, i’d love to hear ‘em.

[fbwzoo]

Cecil is already feeling better with his pain meds helping! 💜 He's happily taking malt paste now, including taking his meds in it just fine, and he greeted Jack at the cage door last night! :)

We're relieved that at least he's comfortable now, and crossing our fingers for meds to work magic & maybe avoid surgery. Not even for the cost entirely, we already have it mostly set out aside. Just don't want this poor man to have yet another surgery already!

[aerticent]

Elane's chubby I don't make the rules🤷‍♀️

[jm-chrome]

Rereading Red Queen again, my fav book series from when I was younger, and man I never realized how much I’ve missed it until now :’)

Maven, you still break my heart into a million pieces

[yellow-faerie]

I'm having so much fun: I have found a really chill School of Dragons playthrough to watch (and reminisce about that particular part of my childhood 😔) while obsessively creating my HTTYD OC

I'm living the dream I really am