#new or existing bonds!

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

zany to me how these um actually nihilists like to pretend that "um actually love/friendship/cooperation/kindness isn't real bc we evolved that way to benefit ourselves as a species..." um YES? that's also where tool use comes from? that's where cooking comes from? am i supposed to think social bonds & tool use & cooking aren't "real" because they evolved over time instead of appearing fully formed from the ether?

sorry u can't enjoy things. im a superior being twirling a fork in my bowl of delicious noodles whilst staring in adoration at the world

[tennessoui]

wip snippet (avoiding doing hw)

Anakin watches from the safety of his current vantage point as his master turns from the youngling and marches up the stairs leading to the box office. It’s second nature after all of these years to allow his eyes to follow him, but this time he makes himself look away. 

The padawan is watching Obi-Wan go with a look on his face that Anakin immediately knows and understands, having spent several years wearing the same expression as he watched his master leave him. 

He’s walking towards the youngling before he can think it through.

Before he can remember that he’s woefully unprepared for this conversation—any conversation—with the boy. Emotionally and mentally very, truly, terribly unprepared.

“Hey,” he says and the padawan looks up at him. Force, but he’s tiny. “Kid,” he finishes lamely when he realizes that he can’t remember the padawan’s name. Had strong-armed it out of his mind every time someone tried to get him to learn it.

The padawan sniffs. Anakin can’t tell if it’s from offense or the dry air circulating the reception hall.

At least Ahsoka had been fourteen when she’d become his padawan, more…person than youngling at that point.

“I’m not Kid,” the padawan tells him, and Anakin squints down at him. He’s humanoid, with a shock of yellow hair trimmed into the traditional padawan cut and gray eyes. His ears are far too big for the size of his head, his nose is crooked, and there’s a splattering of dark freckles across his face. When he speaks, Anakin can see two gaps in his mouth. Missing teeth. Force, he’s a youngling. Obi-Wan’s adopted a youngling and brought him to the operahouse.

“Right, well,” Anakin begins to say before stalling out. 

He’d just—he’d recognized that look. He’d remembered it. He’d remembered being in the new padawan’s shoes and watching Obi-Wan Kenobi stride away, feeling both lost and a keen sense of loss, as if parts of the gravitational system on the planet had been tugged into misalignment and he was experiencing some sort of weightless falling. It’d been part hero-worship, part desperate desire to follow behind him. To not be left behind. Like if he just waited and watched long enough, his master would stop, turn his head, and beckon him to his side and into his confidences.

[scarycranegame]

guys. guys listen.

if you wanna write and/or post a fanfic but are worried that no one will like it.

do not be worried. at all.

because even if no one else is interested, YOU are. you enjoy this idea. you're passionate about this concept. you should write for YOU, not for potential critics.

and even besides that, i guarantee you that there's at least 1 other person out there who would also enjoy your fic. it's essentially statistically impossible for you to be the only person on the planet who thinks the way you do, and enjoys the themes and ideas and characters and settings that you do.

write it. post it. take pride in the fact that you created something that you value. your fic exists, and that in of itself is amazing.

antis dni, this isn't about you or the graphic threats of harm you send to real people whom you dislike. get a real hobby.

proship/comship/profiction/etc. safe!

[myymi]

nine has absolutely no idea what the hell a chili dog is, he only said he hates them because he knew sonic would take it personally

[theluckiestlb]

as a self-identified adrienette girlie....kinda miss them, ngl.

[kdelarenta]

may god bless the dinosaur that died to make the fossil fuel that was treated to become gasoline in the car that took @intimidatingpuffinstudios to the hospital to be born so that they could write one of my favorite IF dynamics of all time.

[andromacheofappalachia]

Would anyone be interested in a Nesta x Rhysand fic? One that delves a little into the horrors of mated bonds?

[fakesorbet]

thinking So hard about the fact that fabian’s little sibling + figs step sibling is going to be immortal and get to have the rest of their whole life to have a mom who isn’t drinking everyday . they’re going to know who their real parents are while fig had to find that knowledge through her own volitions . im thinking so hard about abnormal things

[evergreen-endo]

my selfship with takiishi literally would not work without endo and the reasoning is chika’s burger obsession

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

for the megumi and the world's most inconvenient custody battle, i just head canon geto and gojo screaming at each other in front of kfc (AGAIN) and the conversation goes something like:

Geto: I HAVE MORE EXPERIENCE I HAVE TWINS AT HOME ILL BE A BETTER PARENTAL FIGURE THAN U!

gojo: THATS MY BABY I CHANGED HIS DIAPERS! HE CAME OUTTA MY WOMB! GIVE HIM BACK!

megumi and the kfc workers are so so done someone get these gay men couple therapy pls

i have so normal feelings for ideas i totally dont think about them every single day.

The funny thing is that Megumi actually have no awareness of Gojo at all during the custody battle due to the intricacies of the binding vow (there's a clause where Megumi has to kill himself if Gojo intervenes at all during the span of the agreement. Geto wanted the clause to be that Megumi has to kill his sister, but Megumi threatened to kill Geto and then himself if he made that the clause. Geto doesn't actually want to make Megumi kill himself, it's just a dead man's switch to keep Gojo from swooping in and ending the entire thing prematurely. There's nothing Geto can do to actually stop Gojo, but he can deter Gojo with the consequences of a binding vow which even Gojo cannot break, and he knows Gojo won't actually risk his son, so he'll let the entire thing run it's course naturally). So it's just:

Megumi: *very grumpily going ice skating with Geto's twins because he's under binding vow to play nice and cooperate with the cult members during the terms of the vow*

Geto and Gojo, squatting behind a vendor's cart: *having the world's quietest and most hostile divorcee bitch fight*

[mathlann]

Love-hate relationship with the Yrliet's spirit stone breaking storyline because on the one hand, I feel like the thing with Eklendyl in Commorragh created a misunderstanding that didn't need to be there but on the other hand....yeah even if I square it she *should* still be able to find a stone and someone to attune it to her. But on the other other hand I think I get what they were going for but the epilogue makes that point unsatisfying.

[carriehobbs]

i always feel so bad for kent during this part 😭

[go-go-devil]

so tell me about your demon's souls player character (no i haven't started it yet but i want to hear about them all the same!!)

Sure thing!

My Slayer of Demons is an Eastern Woman named Chirin, a lone wanderer without a purpose who willingly ventures into the Fog in hopes of gaining great power. She's a middle-aged woman, I'd say in her mid-to-late 40's, and already has graying hair.

(For the record the game doesn't have any names for regions outside the game. I'm calling her eastern because it just calls skin tones North, South, East, and West)

Unfortunately I've been having issues with actually developing her character like I was able to do with Leiurus. It probably has something to do with the level structure of the game and much shorter story compared to Dark Souls, but at the moment there hasn't been much motivation for me to develop her personality

If anything, I'd actually be saving that for my 2nd playthrough of Demon's Souls!

Next time I wanna recreate Chirin as a temple knight, which off the bat feels more in-line with some of the game's themes compared to a lone wanderer. Having someone who devoted their life to a Forgotten God willingly going into the fog to find answers and quell their doubt in faith, only to discover the truth of their "God" in the most horrific way imaginable... That's some juicy angst right there!

Not to mention it would make her relationship with Patches a bit more interesting ;)

[ultrashowtime]

i really do need to keep chipping away at the mad astra origin fic also bc the entirety of of prince and jester to me hinges so much on the fact that astra knows tregear better than tregear knows astra. because astra was friends with a different version of him. and i would love to figure out more about how tregear would feel about being followed around by some guy with fire themes who is hotheaded and blunt and has a strong sense of personal justice [traits he shares with taro] but is also SO different from taro in SO many ways. i dont think tregear likes astra at first. and i want to explore that. but i have to get there first [impossible challenge]

[aideshou]

[ao3org]

On Your Left! — Changes to Captain America Fandom Tags

Hello! In the near future, Marvel tag wranglers will be updating fandom tags on AO3 to separate the upcoming Captain America movies featuring Sam Wilson as Captain America from the trilogy of films with Steve Rogers as Captain America.

To do this, we will be renaming the fandom Captain America (Movies) to Captain America (Chris Evans Movies) and creating a new fandom named Captain America (Anthony Mackie Movies). Both will be made subtags of Marvel Cinematic Universe and Captain America - All Media Types.

In summary:

Captain America (Chris Evans Movies) will refer to the 2011, 2014, and 2016 movies featuring Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter, and Bucky Barnes. 

Captain America (Anthony Mackie Movies) will refer to the 2025 movie Brave New World featuring Sam Wilson and Joaquín Torres. This fandom tag will also refer to any sequel Captain America movies starring Sam Wilson in the title role.

Fans interested in reading about both movie series can include both Marvel Cinematic Universe and Captain America - All Media Types in tag filtering. The current fandom tag for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), which is a subtag of Marvel Cinematic Universe but not Captain America - All Media Types, will also be unaffected by these changes. We’ve included more details of our reasoning below, which better explains why we’re making this change.

Why are you making two separate fandom tags? Can’t everyone just keep using “Captain America (Movies)”?

Despite both having the superhero name “Captain America” and the same continuity, fundamentally the main character has changed between the original trilogy and the new 2025 movie. We also wanted to hopefully make it easier for fans to differentiate between which movies and continuities they’re discussing. Many Sam Wilson fans will likely want to filter for the movie where he’s the central focus; conversely, many Steve Rogers fans will likely want to filter out movies where he doesn’t appear. 

We’re specifically using “Chris Evans” and “Anthony Mackie” in the fandom tags as they’re the most recognizable and consistent aspect of the movies. There’s no consistent set of directors between all Chris Evans Captain America movies, and actor names are much more recognizable than including multiple years in the fandom tags. This style of making fandom tags named after actors is similar to other fandoms on AO3. For example, there are many James Bond movie fandom tags which differentiate via the actors’ names. 

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is also not the only time Captain America has been adapted to the big screen: there’s a 1944 movie starring Dick Purnell, a 1979 movie starring Reb Brown, and a 1990 movie starring Mat Salinger. The current fandom tag Captain America (Movies) is worded in a way that technically encompasses these unrelated movies as well. It doesn’t make sense for these unrelated continuities to share one fandom tag, so we would have changed the existing Captain America (Movies) tag to be more specific regardless of the release of Brave New World. 

Like we mentioned above, fans interested in reading about both MCU movie series at once can filter for both Marvel Cinematic Universe and Captain America - All Media Types.

Why Mackie Movies instead of Brave New World?

The movie title has already changed several times in between promotion and release. It’s also highly likely Marvel will make sequel movies. Formatting the tag as Captain America (Anthony Mackie Movies) prevents the disruption of renaming the fandom tag in the future. 

We will be creating an Additional Tag for Captain America: Brave New World, similar to how there are Additional Tags for Movie: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Movie: Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). We hope the Additional Tag will help fans filter for specific movies within the broader series of movies.

Why does Brave New World get a separate fandom tag while First Avenger, Winter Soldier, and Civil War would still share? 

Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Captain America: Civil War all encompass the trilogy centering around Steve Rogers. While Captain America: Brave New World is also set in the same continuity, the main character and actor has changed, and the role of Sam Wilson has changed from being a supporting character to the main focus.

It’s likely that Marvel will release sequel movies to Brave New World, which will not receive separate fandom tags and would instead also be covered by the new Captain America (Anthony Mackie Movies) tag. We hope that separating the fandom tags now will prevent the messiness of renaming tags again in the future, and also allow fans to filter for works that focus on the specific Captain America they are looking for. 

(From time to time, ao3org posts announcements of recent or upcoming wrangling changes on behalf of the Tag Wrangling Committee.)