#not a twisty plot

[theprissythumbelina]

So anyway the general plot of A Trial of Dragons is that a rural girl comes across the body of a boy and an injured dragon hatchling. She rescues the hatchling and accidentally bonds with it, so that when soldiers come searching for the boy and the hatchling, she is taken to the capital to be tried for kidnapping, murder, and stealing a dragon. Her trial is presided over by humans bonded to adult dragons, and though she is found innocent of kidnapping and murder, she is found guilty of stealing a dragon, and given to the dragons to pay off her life debt. In the background is an assassination and kidnapping plot against the dragon hatchling.

[idiopathicsmile]

just rewatched the first-ever episode of leverage and let me tell you, the fact that there isn't more leverage ot3 fanfic is a crime. and not the fun, cool kind of crime either

[another-goblin]

(meanwhile in Shackling Prison)

[mariocki]

Una lucertola con la pelle di donna (A Lizard in a Woman's Skin, 1971)

"You dream of having an affair with this woman who lives next door. To you, that woman represents sin, moral degradation. The house next door is a symbol of vice. From what you've told me, Mrs. Durer is not exactly respectable."

"No... she certainly is not."

[vimesbootstheory]

god human nature/family of blood is so fucking GOOD

[creativewhizkid]

i want a cinderpelt SE so bad but only my version of it cuz i KNOW the team will just write about her supposed tragic unrequited "love" for firestar (sorry i dislike cinderfire) and nothing else like if it were up to me i'd love to write about (how in my verison of canon) her relationship with her siblings and how she cured the illness of a clan who were responsible for kidnapping her and her siblings when they were kits, silverstream and how cinderpelt never forgave herself for letting her die, how she and brackenfur always had tension with greystripe afterwards (cinderpelt for her failure to save silverstream and brackenfur for how greystripe failed him as a mentor), how she had to try save her sister who was practically on her deathbed like a few days after her yellowfang died, how she had to leave her mom and grandmother behind during the journey to the lake territories, how the will of her ancestors and cats she loved and cared about declared that her death was a necessity for the three to be born, how her life must end for the prophecy to come true. how her entire life had been written in stone from the moment she opened her eyes. how she had spent her final days of living alone, afraid, and eventually accepting of her fate. but despite this, cinderpelt was loved. she WAS loved. brightheart, brackenfur, thornclaw, firestar, littlecloud, leafpool, yellowfang, she cared about them all so much and she even cared about cats from other clans. she did live a good life.

cinderpelt was loved.

but yeah probably not going to happen

[wanderingcas]

it's the day after posting the last chapter of where there is darkness and my brain literally exploded ideas with for my cult cas fic. you guys. YOU. GUYS. i cannot wait to share this version of dean and cas with you.

[philcoulsonismyhero]

So it turns out that it's Really Fucking Fun to build a crime drama/detective mystery from the ground up, and I can't believe it's taken me this long to give it a proper go. Reverse engineering where to drop vital bits of information into a narrative is So satisfying, especially when you're juggling multiple reveals and twists at once and half of them are about your protagonist and not just the crime he's investigating

I really don't need more stories, but I love this, I should do it more

[amoremagnificentbastard]

woof okay why did i think outlining would be easy

[sillyfreakx5]

i fucking love homestuck

uu: I WILL JUST BE YOUR PATRON DUDE. uu: OR MAYBE. YOUR PATRON MANBRO.

GT: Sounds pretty gay.

uu: WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?

GT: Whats what?

uu: GAY. WHAT'S GAY YOU IDIOT FUCK.

GT: Oh right. GT: Forgive me i forget you arent familiar with all of my earth lingo. GT: Its like... GT: How do i explain.. GT: You know. Its a rather old fashioned term for being jolly and festive together. GT: Like "that rollicking time we had scrumming the other eve sure was gay."

uu: I SEE. uu: THEN YES. YOU ARE CORRECT. uu: THIS IS GOING TO BE GAY AS HELL.

[bambino1294]

it’s been an embarrassingly long time but I think I’m gonna pick up my first watch of Merlin again soon cause I got halfway through Season 2 before shit got busy irl.

but now I’m also desperately trying to remember the details of the AU plot I was telling to Emi that included, like, Arthur discovering Merlin’s magic at the end of either season 1 or season 2 (I can’t remember 💔), but Merlin doesn’t know he knows, and then he spends the whole next season agonising over whether he’d tell Uther or not/confront Merlin or not.

[dandelionjack]

yayyy the shining! minotaur! labyrinth! house of leaves! running down impossible yellow-walled corridors! malevolent architecture!

[yoondepity]

THE PLOT TWIST, BICHHHHHH, BICHHHHHHHHHHH, BICHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[furbtasticworksofart]

hey chat if I made an insane FNaF 2 movie pitch/fic/AU would you guys like it.

contents would include:

angst.

dealing with the lasting impacts of your shitty dad

those fruity Toy animatronics

a family reunion that nobody involved is happy with

The Horrors

Markiplier

The Horrors (But Now It's Personal)

LORE

me shoveling cement into plotholes at breakneck speed

Josh Hutcherschmidt being in agony for a week straight

Vanessa Shelly Being A Main Character

Abby Talks To Ghosts More

and for the grand piecta de reseance; the horrifying revelation that you're the most well-adjusted man in your family.

[esleep]

HELP. i somehow ended up in a relatively casual "book club" composed of some irl friends, most of whom have VERY different taste in books from me. we have a narrow space of overlap thanks to the relatively recent popular acceptance of "fantasy romance" as a genre that adults are allowed to enjoy, so now i can read about elves and dragons without being immediately ridiculed as a Weird Nerd as long as there's at least one sex scene, but it just occurred to me that at some point soon i am going to be required to pick the next book in our rotation and i have NO IDEA what to force these people to read. which means i have the potential do the funniest thing of all time (to me and only me) and force all these romance enjoyers to read Dune. i need someone to talk me out of that and give me some better suggestions before i am forcibly evicted from the friend group.

[un-pearable]

ao3 has its problems but i’m obsessed with how it’s character tags work. a beautiful creature this: