#please don't reblog because this is a rough idea but feel free to ask stuff

[azxulskz]

Somewhere between us.

Pairings: han jisung x m!reader

Genre: friends to lovers, college au!, fluff and fluff and fluff!

Warning: none.

Wc: 980!

Request: open.

Dividers: @sister-lucifer

A/n: wow, blxue posting???? Finally! I hope you guys would enjoy this one, I really hope this is good for you guys!! I can't wait to write more since I'm all free now that school has ended already!! Also, comment on what I should post next since I have another han fic in my draft, 2 felix fic, and currently working on a seungmin fic!! Since my request will be open for a while for more ideas and stuff, please drop by, also pls bare if there's any grammar mistake, English is indeed, not my first language. Likes, reblogs, and commenting will be highly appreciated, love u guys!!

Please don't repost, steal, copy, translate, and any kind of plagiarism. This is my work, so please don't steal it.

There’s a thing about best friends: people assume they’re temporary. Something about youth, timing, or growing pains. But you and Jisung had been best friends for years, and if you’re being honest, you never planned on growing out of him.

He arrived in your life like a storm in sneakers. Loud, chaotic, and impossibly charming in that annoying way that made teachers roll their eyes and strangers smile. He'd talk to anyone, laugh like life was a joke only he understood, and he made you feel like existing next to him was a privilege.

You were the quieter one. Observant. You liked watching him more than speaking sometimes. It wasn’t that you didn’t have anything to say—just that he said it better. So you let him. And somewhere along the way, being near him started to feel like home.

You told yourself it was just friendship. Boys grow close. Boys lean on each other. Boys don’t always say the things they feel because maybe the words are too fragile to carry in the open. Maybe some truths are too tender to survive daylight.

So you stayed quiet.

He didn’t.

---

"If I die first, delete my search history," he once said, completely unprompted while lying on your bedroom floor, surrounded by empty snack wrappers and an uneven playlist of sad indie and chaotic pop.

You laughed. "You’re not dying first."

"That’s so selfish of you."

"It’s not selfish if I go with you."

He looked at you then, really looked. Something unspoken hovered between you. Then he tossed a chip at your face.

Moments like that piled up like unsent letters.

You kept them all.

---

There was a girl once. He liked her, or thought he did. You watched him fumble with texts and pick out outfits and rehearse lines like he wasn’t already perfect in his mess. You helped him get ready.

Then he came home early.

"She was nice," he said. "But she wasn’t... you know. She wasn’t it."

You didn’t ask what it meant. You were scared the answer would break you.

---

One day, he stopped by your place unannounced. You weren’t surprised; he had a key and never used it. He preferred the dramatic knock, the slow push of the door, the exaggerated sigh as he announced, "Your favorite person has arrived."

You were on the couch, hoodie pulled over your head, pretending to read.

"Rough day?"

You nodded.

He didn’t ask questions. Just dropped beside you, close enough that your arms touched, but not close enough to say anything with it. He handed you a candy bar. Your favorite. You didn’t know how he always knew.

The silence between you wasn’t awkward. It was comfortable, worn in like an old hoodie. He rested his head against your shoulder.

"You’re always here when I need you," he whispered.

You swallowed. "You don’t even have to need me. I’m just here."

He smiled, not looking up. "That’s the best kind."

---

There was a moment.

Not a loud one. Not a kiss or a confession. Just a moment. You were watching a movie on your laptop, both of you lying side by side on your bed. It was a dumb movie, one you’d seen too many times, but it was background noise.

He shifted. His hand brushed yours.

Then stayed.

Neither of you said a word. Your pinkies curled together like secrets. And the world kept spinning.

---

It wasn’t love at first sight.

It was love after a hundred moments you didn’t recognize until they were memories. Love in the spaces between words. Love in late-night food runs and inside jokes and the way he always picked your fries even though he had his own.

You knew it, even when he didn’t.

You carried it alone. For months. Maybe years.

Until one day, it slipped.

You were arguing. Not really arguing, more like sparring with emotions too big for your chests. He had canceled plans last minute again. You pretended it didn’t hurt.

"Why do you care so much?" he snapped. "You don’t even say anything half the time. You just sit there and act like everything’s fine!"

You stared at him. "Because I like you, you idiot."

Silence.

He blinked.

You felt like the floor had vanished.

"You... like me?"

"Forget it," you muttered, already moving to leave.

But his hand caught yours.

"You like me," he said again, slower. Softer.

You couldn’t look at him.

He stepped closer. "Hey. Come on, look at me."

You did.

He was smiling. Not the teasing kind. Not the one he used to charm his way out of trouble. This one was real.

"You should’ve told me sooner," he whispered.

Your heart stopped. "Why? So you could let me down easy?"

He shook his head. "So I could tell you I like you back. So I could stop pretending."

Time folded in on itself.

You were still holding hands.

He leaned in. Not fast. Not dramatic. Just enough to press his forehead against yours.

"This okay?"

You nodded.

Then he kissed you.

And in that kiss were all the moments you never said, all the looks, all the almosts. It felt like closing a book and starting a new one at the same time.

When he pulled back, his voice was barely a breath.

"We’re really dumb, huh?"

You laughed, giddy and weightless. "The dumbest."

He grinned. "Good thing we’ve got each other to balance it out."

---

People talk about big, fiery love. The kind that burns hot and fast.

But you learned love could be quiet too. Slow and patient. Built in movie nights, ice cream runs, and two boys holding hands under dim lights, finally brave enough to say the things that lived in their hearts all along.

Somewhere between friendship and forever, you found love.

And it was his laugh, his eyes, his voice that carried you there.

[kairiscorner]

potential request: The reader has been dating Miles for a while and after having a particularly rough day, then being comforted by Miles, decides to thank Rio for raising such a lovely son and just expressing how grateful they are to call Miles their partner.

E-42!Miles and Rio would be preferred since I feel like that version of Rio, would appreciate the sentiment more (due to being more stressed as an overworked single mom). Although E-1610!Miles and Rio would work too.

aww, i love that idea <:)) i hope you like this anon, fuck, i truly love this what 😭😭💖💖💖

(reblogs are greatly appreciated, it helps get my content out there! if you guys like what you see, please reblog it too <:D)

he was definitely raised right. – miles 42 x reader

art creds: @1_0T0R on twt !!

as you two were heading home for the weekend, miles didn't move his arm away from your shoulders–not one bit. he stayed there, holding you close to him, and letting you lean against his shoulder as you two listened to the playlist you both made together. today wasn't very good, it was okay but... it was tiring, uneventful, and it felt like it was dragging on longer than it should've. luckily, your boyfriend miles had caught on to your not so happy attitude and wanted to fix that the best he could.

he helped you out with your homework assigned today so all weekend-long, you'd be clear of work. he also carried your bag and books for you, even though you told him he didn't have to–he insisted; and when miles gonzalo morales insists on doing something, he'll go through with it and do it. as you two got off the bus and headed down towards his neighborhood, he offered to get you your favorite drink at a local bodega you guys frequent whenever you visit him. he let you look around for a bit, let you choose what you wanted to drink this time. you hesitated because the drink you wanted to get this time around was a little pricey and you didn't have much cash on you after the bus ride.

miles noticed your hesitation and asked you if you wanted it, with you saying yes, but putting it back on the shelf because it was too expensive. "nonsense." he said as he took the drink and walked up to the register with the snacks you two were going to share. you tried to take the drink away from miles and put it back on the shelf, but miles insisted to you, yet again, that he wanted to buy you that drink. "please, mi cielo, don't feel bad. as your boyfriend, it's my obligation to do this for you–and besides, it makes you happy, doesn't it?" he asked you with a smile as he thanked the cashier and handed you the drink he bought you on the way out. "if it makes you happy, then i'm already the happiest guy around, mi vida." he said as you gently smiled and took his hand in your free one, clutching the drink he bought you in your other hand as you sipped on it, feeling a lot more lighter and happier than you did earlier today.

you walked with miles, hand-in-hand, all the way back to his place. he carried all your things and the snacks he bought for you all on his own. every time you asked him if you could help, he'd gently reject your offer to help and insist that he's got it–all that matters now is that you're much happier than before. his mother greeted you two by the door, with her kissing miles' cheeks a 'welcome home' and her smiling and wrapping you in a tender hug. as miles went to the kitchen to get you some food that his mom cooked for dinner tonight, you and rio talked all about the events that unfolded between you and miles today. you went on and on to her about how sweet miles had been all day; how he offered to do things for and with you, buy stuff that'd make you happy and comfortable, and just how he'd stay with you all day to keep you happy.

rio smiled widely as you two sat at the dinner table, with you clutching her hand in yours as you spoke. "ay, my mijo's quite the gentleman, isn't he? he takes that after his father." rio said with a soft voice as she looked down at her hand being clutched by your own. she reminisced the happier, simpler times when miles' father was still around–when he and miles would be each other's allies when nobody else would be there for them, save for her and uncle aaron. she knows that miles still misses him like she does everyday, but to know that miles turned to be a very good, sweet, caring kid despite everything that's happened to them... it's enough to keep her heart warm.

you smiled as rio lifted her head up to face you, with slight tears in her eyes. "i guess so, but, mrs. morales... i think miles is this way because of you raising him right. and for that... thank you. thank you so much that you raised him to be the most loving, caring boy i know. no one can hold a candle to the love miles gives me and his friends, nobody is as caring as he is. i hope you know just how much he cares about you, as well, mrs. morales; not a day goes by without him worrying about you and thinking of calling you to say hi, tell him how he's doing." you said with a broad smile on your face as rio's smile fades; her mouth slightly agape as a few drops of tears fell from her eyes. you scrambled to get her a tissue from your pocket, since she hadn't wiped them away yet; oblivious to the sensation of her own falling tears at your sentimental words. "oh, no! no, no, i-it's okay, dear." she said with a smile as she wiped her tears away, sniffling the remaining ones back as her smile returned.

"i'm so glad... i'm just so glad. thank you..." she muttered as the tears came back again, but she wiped them yet again with a small chuckle as you grinned at her, sharing her happiness in that small moment when rio realized all her efforts, hard work, and everything she's ever done for her boy had paid off more than she expected it to. as miles came back with the dinner now served for all three of you, you let go of rio's hand as she nodded at you, thanking you for your assurance to her that she was doing a good job as a mother, and wrapped miles in a big hug. he was embarrassed at first since you were here, but as rio murmured to miles that she's glad the little boy she's cared for never left and remained as humble and gentle as ever, miles returned the hug and held his mother tightly.

you gazed upon the two with sheer adoration in your eyes, loving how even though this family had experienced a tragedy, how miles experienced a tragedy in his life... you were still loved wholeheartedly and endlessly by this boy, who always put those he loved first and would go beyond any and everything just to see them all smile and be happy.

tags !! @ii01vq @luvstarrstruck @maxoloqy @k4tsu3 @solecitoszn @toneystank-3000 @popeheywardssecretgf @lovefrominaya @onginlove @meowmoraless @euphovlq @q2ie @zalayni @conitagray @anikaluv

[cubekinito]

intro (will get altered frequently)

*this is an 18+ blog. If there is no age on your blog I will give you until whenever I next log on to put an age.

-I will allow blogs that just say they are over 18. I myself am a very private person when it comes to any irl information so I get it.

If you are a minor You will be blocked on sight.

*my name is Quill

*I 'm AFAB and mainly use she/her and they/them but like fem, masc, and androg compliments/terminology

* I am mostly active in the pissblr space but I will occasionally rb Q$MP

-currently most obsessed with cëllbit, Tinä, bägi, and päc

*don't follow me, reblog, or like any of my stuff on non-NSFW accounts where your follows and likes are not private

*for some reason the intensity of each of my kinks still kind of fluctuate? From time to time? I honestly have no idea if that's a normal thing or a me thing.

*I won't post anything about my body, voice, or overall identity whatsoever because I have bad paranoia surrounding that. There have been a few times where people accused me of being a minor because of that and I don't want that happening again so I just really need to clear that up.

° I migghtt post wetting videos occasionally but that can still be a little hard for me. Also please don't ask for pictures, videos, audios, ect. If I want to post stuff like that I will

into:

-desperation (all sorts!)

°I really like wetting myself. Even better if you lead me on into thinking I'll be able to use the toilet just to force me to lose it in my pants in the end ;3

°If I'm edging or doing a hold please feel free to tease me, tell me what to do, give me challenges, ect.

-being clothed. For some reason thinking of my body/body parts as a general shape/thing instead of thinking about all my anatomy just turns me on way more

-praise

-mild humiliation(like with one or two people)

°I love it especially after I have an accident! Pleaspleaseplease say condescending things to me

-piss

°For me its mostly the desperation, humiliation/embarrassment, and visual aspect of not being able to make it in time. Even better if the person is locked out/being controlled :3

-edging

-intox sometimes

-when people are stuck/locked out ( mainly because of desperation)

-diapers sometimes. Depends on context honestly

Not personally into (but could entertain):

-the piss drinking/golden shower/going in random places side of omo

-any other gross kinks (like emeto, farting, ect)

°slight exception for scat (at times I like it)

-abdl

° also just know that it's hard for me to tell exactly how bad a need is (especially when it comes to piss) because body cues are challenging for me so whenever I say how intense a need is, it's just a rough guess.

Not into and probably won't entertain:

(you can still interact and everything but just know I'm not gonna be posting anything to do with it)

-any kind of -cest content

-rape/severe noncon/abuse (can be triggering but if I'm in a bad enough mental state I'll turn to it)

-feederism

-sounding

* If I ever send asks just know I'm the worst anon ever so if I send anonymous asks there is like a 80% chance I'll run out of them and have to switch to non anon LMAO

*anyone can send asks but for DM's I'm more comfy with my mutuals and customized omo blogs

[coyotere]

Coyo you’re not posting that much lately. Is everything okay? We miss you

-🌼

to be honest I've run out of a lot of ideas, which has made writing hard but I think I have an idea/ solution but I'll adress that in a second.

the other thing is due to some money troubles ive upped my hours at work I'm now working 6:30am to 5:00pm which has been leaving me exhausted so I haven't been writing in the evenings like normal :/ I love love love writing but sometimes it's gotta kinda go on the back burner while I pay my bills lol

now onto the solution...

if you are a fan of my smut or general sluttiness, please please reblog my posts, all my smutty stories or nasty things I say, it helps out way more than you know, leave me asks or requests or anything so I 1. have something to write about and 2. feel like people are actually reading and want more of my stuff.

I'm also thinking about actually making characters and it's own universe which ill detail some of my rough draft below, if you want to see this it'll be its own blog but I think itll be nice esp for me cause then it'll be easier to write because I'll be able to say more than mine or you, and I can actually give my stories more personality when they fuck.

Plot: an ffm thruple who all lives in the same house living out their kinky desires i am leaning towards my requests both on here and that blog are things that they try out or do on a regular basis, the characters themselves im still kind of working on but they'd be a stand in for me and two of my types when it come to partners or how I view myself when I'm going through gender grunk.

M: tall semi muscular male with long dark hair and tattoos, a switch, when he is dominant he is mostly a primal, cnc, hard kink dom who unforgivingly fucks his partners and leaves them satisfied but their holes bruised. when he is submissive he is a puppy boy very obedient (until he gets frustrated) likes to be teased and edged and overstimulated put in a muzzle or on a leash and is a service sub focusing on his partners feeling good.

F1: a dominant, chubby pet owner and Domme mommy, probably also dark haired and tatted medium height, is a control, rigger, Domme who loves to trade and edge her subs driving them into insanity before fucking them over and over, pulling orgasm after orgasm out of them till their bodies can't take it anymore.

F2: a bratt princess submissive, who is short and fairly petite and probably blonde who loves to be tied up and used, is typically free use but will whine and complain about it despite her wetness, she'll have a smart mouth and an attitude but can be very sweet and endearing. loves to tease M for being so rough with her but then turns around and is obedient for F1.

if y'all are interested in this LMK PLEASE I think it'll be an easy way to keep me writing more, cause I can just make a filler episode or something between ideas, I would also like to have a schedule im probably going to take Friday or Saturday evenings and just make them my writing night! where I'll write for my BIG story and then if I have your request in it for that post I'll reblog it here and if I don't I'll write you your own smut like normal, that way I'm not burnt out I can make a time and a place where I can write uninterupted and not feel burnt out you know?

[srmt-zine]

At last, some details!

(A while back on @srmthg we had a zine interest check, and it remains open for any additional suggestions/feedback about what you'd like the zine to be (you can also shoot this blog an ask) but I don't plan on doing a second interest check. If enough people feel this is a mistake, there's still time to do one, but as it stands I don't see the point. I will continue to accept feedback and take it into account moving forward!)

By the way, my name is @netbug009 and I'm your friendly head mod for this project! This will be my first time running a zine, but I've been helping run projects in this fandom for 18 years!

The Format

SRMTHG Zine (cooler name tbd) will be a free PDF zine scheduled to release on September 18th, 2024, AKA the 20th anniversary of the series' first episode!

I know a lot of folks (myself included) like to have nice, shiny, hard copies of zines, and I hope to get the zine onto a publishing on demand site such as Lulu to let people buy them at-print-cost if they'd like, but a free digital edition will be the first priority. Since this zine is a celebration of the anniversary of a relatively small fandom, I want as many people to be able to access and enjoy it as possible! Plus, this is my first time running a zine, so I think it's smart to keep it simple. This also lets us worry less about page counts - if a lot of cool people contribute cool stuff, a PDF can be a chonk as we want!

The Content

The zine will include both fanart and fan fiction (and maybe even a few QR codes to some other digital goodies like AMVs and fanmixes if there's enough contributor interest!)

Light shipping will be allowed, with a few exceptions - no adult x child and no monkey x human ships will be allowed. (This was THE overwhelming request in the interest check and is not open for debate.)

We're going for a general vibe and love the idea of getting copies into the hands of voice actors/staff, which should give you a rough idea of the type of content we're going for - if it's too creepy/fetishy to hand to Ciro at a convention, it's too creepy/fetishy for the book. (That said, Monkey Team is a very silly and weird show with a love for classic horror tropes so I hope people don't let that limit their imaginations too much if they wanna do something spoopy!)

NO AI WORK WILL BE USED OR ACCEPTED IN THE CREATION OF THIS ZINE. I hope that'd be a given but just to be 100% clear, no.

The (Rough) Timeline

March 2024 - Contributor Applications Open!

April 22nd - Zine members selected and invited to Discord

May 1st - Zine members finalized

June 1st - Zine check-in 1

July 1st - Zine check-in 2

August 1st - Zine pieces due!

September 1st - Zine layout finalization due!

September 18th - ZINE RELEASED!

You might notice this is a pretty long timeline for a zine and we're starting pretty early; because this fandom is fairly small and this is a big occasion, I want to provide extra time so that as many people can hear about the project and participate as possible.

If you're looking for something to do until contributor apps open, SIGNAL BOOST, SIGNAL BOOST, SIGNAL BOOST! Reblog, post to Twitter, tell your friends, get the word out so this can be the biggest celebration it possibly can! If you make any graphics in your quest to help get the word out, PLEASE tag this blog so they can be shared!

Aaaand that's the basics! Again, feel free to send an ask with any additional questions. If you're considering applying in January, it's never too early to start sketching/considering ideas!

[microwavetoaster-selfships]

Hi! Welcome to my blog! I'll try to keep my pinned post fairly short!

My main is @microwavedfishsticks. That's where I like/follow from!

My carrd has my names, pronouns, and all my current f/os! I'll post whenever I make changes to it.

I am 18(Dec. 19)

My tag system for my F/Os(as of right now) is just their name with a heart emoji or few at the end for colors I associate with them!! "Any💘" will be used for posts where it could apply to any of my romantic F/Os. [Check featured tags on my blog under the search option, they will pop up. If you do not know what this means let me know, I won't mind at all clarifying!]

Tags for incorrect(or correct?) Quotes between me and my F/Os will be tagged as "TrueBlogging💌". Most of these are just things I think of off the top of my head or things from our stories/interactions together, but if I ever take some from another person I will add credit. I get such a kick out of incorrect quotes it's a shame I don't do them more often.

All of my art like writings and drawings are tagged with #kaneart

------

Please do not talk about F.naf with me, especially p.urple guy and don't show any images. I don't care if you indulge in that stuff or cover your blogs in it, just don't talk about it directly with me in my inbox. You can decorate your house however you'd like, just don't come into my house and try to decorate it like it's yours. I know this is such an oddly particular thing but it spares you from a long story. Though if you really must know I'll share it.

I selfship with a lot of P.ixar C.ars characters. When I talk about them, unless specified otherwise, it is all in a humanized context. Not that there's anything wrong with doing a car s/i x cars, but I do it all as me x humanized character! They're silly humans doing human thingies. If you scroll through my art tag you are bound to find all sorts of my humanized designs for them. I believe I have a post or two where I specified some rough ideas for how they looked(and I did some speed doodles of them which now drive me mad because of how sloppy they look to me. But they are just simple reference points it's. fine.)

------

I highly encourage interaction!! Feel free to send in asks or randomly pop in my DMs. I love talking and making friends, regardless of if we know the same media or not! If you want my discord just let me know! :)

Some fun things I really enjoy are my 3DS, Pokemon stuff, playing Cooking Mama, watching lots of Jerma streams, Tomadachi Life, Papa Louie Games, and my favorite color is royal purple! I also really enjoy the color orange a lot, too. I use emojis unironically when messaging and do a lot of keyboard slapping. I also like plants and I use a right amount of exclamation marks.

------

I'm just documenting my time with my F/Os<33 do with it as you please. I am good at waffling on about things and I'm using this blog to maximize it, so there may be some hearty tangents here.

------

I am not comfortable sharing F/Os, sorry. I am not comfortable with any ships of them, either. (With exception to Grem and Acer, Bob and Darrell, and Sarge and Fillmore). Asides from those exceptions, I please ask that you don't discuss any ships of them with me.

My F/Os are very real to me, they are my partners. I take them very seriously, and I don't want an irl partner as I just prefer to be with my F/Os. What you do with this information is up to you, but it's something very important to me, so I wanted to mention it here.

For the sake of my comfort please DNI if you reblog or engage in doubles who share my F/Os. If that upsets you, then all the more reason to DNI. Regaurdless of how 'silly' it sounds, it really upsets and distresses me.

------

MY F/OVEMBER INFO!!

Please read that just so you know how I'll be doing my F/Ovember! It'll be left here through all of Novemeber and if you have any clarifying questions you want to ask totally feel free to! It is just a fun little thing but I am very excited for it and care about it a lot so I am being a little extra silly over it :)

[elbiotipo]

(long post of rambling story ideas ahead, tagged as “long post”!)

rough plot idea: There’s this massive space Empire... the technology level is roughly 18th century but with SPACESHIPS. All the tech looks JUST at the point of a magic-fueled industrial revolution: indeed, ships are flown with magic. The Empire controls thousands of worlds and species, including Earth, and pretty much acts like a colonial empire, extracting resources from colonies to feed the aristocracy. The Empire justifies it as saying they NEED to control the galaxy or else magic will fall into chaos and fuck everything up.* The Empire has passed through several civil wars and wars of conquests and famine and magical disasters and everything is kind of degraded and decaying, the elegant cities full of beggars and careless aristocrats... Revolts are common, pirates are everywhere, and the weak Empress is controlled by RA RA RASPUTIN.

The main characters are the crew of the Starship Aurora, that once served the Imperial Navy. The captain, Omar was formerly a first officer in that ship, but mutinied after being ordered to supress a colonial revolt. He nows commands the ship with his lover Sailmin (names provisional), a Martian. Omar is strict but kind, the embodiment of Lawful Good. Sailmin is more chaotic and assists him with magical matters. Together they command a Bunch Of Misfits, some human, some aliens, who go around the galaxy fixing the empire’s bullshit and evading the authorities.

HOWEVER our ACTUAL main characters are: Martín, a fisherman from YOU GUESSED, Argentina, Earth, who works as the cargo master of the ship. He is a big, though and extremely calm man who loves the simple things in life: drinking mate, telling stories and punching imperial guards. His best friend/crush is Farah, the captain’s daughter, expert mage and intellectual, who tries her best to use the scientific method in a fantasy world that quite frankly doesn’t make any sense. Together, they fight crime.

They are “assisted” on their jobs by two kids: Antonio and Anita. Anita was the bastard daughter of a petty noble, and a very smart girl who was born in a terrible family. Antonio wants to be a knight and swore himself to protect Anita and learn the true way of chivalry; thus they escaped their homeworld to join the crew. There’s also Kirku, a sarcastic Venusian gecko-girl, who mostly keeps to herself but wishes to go back to her homeworld enslaved by the Empire. The kids are adopted by the whole Aurora crew, but Martín and Farah spend the most time with them.

At first there isn’t much of a plot. They basically go from world to world fixing the empire’s bullshit, freeing slaves, playing truco on the deck and evading Captain Javerta, the previous captain of the ship and probably the only authority figure that really cares about them. Omar is often contacted by Teresa, a revolutionary leader, but he isn’t really commited to The Cause.

But one day they go to the Imperial Capital and there are protests everywhere, things reach a breaking point. The Empress concedes to a constitutional monarchy. RA RA RASPUTIN wants to be crowned emperor, though. After some back and forth where the Aurora is involved, he destroys the Imperial Throne in front of everyone.

Surprisingly, magic DOESN’T fall into chaos and fucks everything up.

It was all just a lie to prop the Empire.

The people, understandably, are Very Angry. The Aurora joins the protests, and fires the first shots of The Revolution as the people declare a Galactic People’s Republic. RA RA RASPUTIN escapes despite being shot on the head, of course. He proclaims a new Empire and says that the prophecy of magic fucking everything up is still true: AFTER ALL, AREN’T YOU PAYING ATTENTION TO THE CIVIL WAR? THE CIVIL WAR I’M CAUSING BTW?

so yeah a civil war happens.

The adventures continue much as they did after, but trade missions become resupply missions, ocassional firefights are now full battles, friendly ports become enemies, and the formerly independent Aurora is increasingly under the thumb of the People’s Revolutionary Navy

The crew of the Aurora must make decisions. Omar believes the revolution is for the best, Sailmin isn’t so sure. Farah tries to investigate if there’s some truth to the whole ‘weakening of magic’ thing. The aristocratic families of Anita and Antonio are threatened by the revolution, and Kirku wants to go back to their homeworld, that is apparently burning away; they are growing up in the middle of a warship. Javerta has to choose between following THE LAW of a rotten empire or joining the Revolution. Teresa suddenly is no longer the head of a revolutionary party but the leader of thousands of worlds. And Martín has to be there for his adopted family (and maybe marry Farah someday?) in the MIDDLE OF A MAGICAL CIVIL WAR.

As the threat of RA RA RASPUTIN grows, the People’s Galactic Republic also becomes more militarized and dictatorial. Teresa’s party eventually gains FULL POLITICAL POWER and starts persuing dissidents. And the Aurora might as well be one...

Yes, it’s the Russian Revolution IN SPACE (with some other revolutions too)

What I’m still not clear at... and this is weird because usually I think this stuff through, if it that Earth is a conquered world of the Empire (thus making the Aurora also fight for Earth’s independence), or is the actual CAPITAL of the Empire (which would mean some real world nation would fit the role of the Empire which is yikes) or it’s just a universe with Space Argentinas, Space Chinas, and so on, which raises too many questions. I could drop the national backgrounds altogether but I like them, they give the story personality. I’ll see. For now, Martín is Space Gaucho #4

*totally NOT warhammer 40000 though it kinda totally is

[monstersandmaw]

hey! I was wondering if you have any advice at getting stories out there? I’ve started a sideblog to practice some writing and I’d love to get some engagement - I’m not even sure if my posts are showing in the tags I’ve used :/

Ooof, it's rough starting out when no one knows your blog name and you have no idea if your stuff is being seen or if it just hasn't found its audience yet. Hang on in there, Anon!

I'd say maybe have a few stories ready to go, and if you've already posted them, create a masterlist immediately before you lose track of where your stories are (searching for stuff on Tumblr is a lost cause), even if it's only got a few things on it to start with. That way if someone does find your work, they can find more of it immediately. Link it at the bottom of every story too, and on your blog.

Make sure your grammar and formatting is as tight as you can get it. People know quality writing when they come across it, and if it's well written and edited, they're more likely to stay than if it's full of goofy paragraphing, typos, and has a jokey 'lol un-edited' at the start (I'm exaggerating for effect, but I have actually noped out of stuff on AO3 after reading that in the author's notes at the start. If the author doesn't care, why should the reader?).

Speaking of AO3, if you have an account on there, so long as you're not taking money for your writing on here, you can also link to Tumblr from AO3 (if you don't know how to code a link, google it, it's really simple - even I can do it!!) and if people don't have to copy paste a URL, they're probably gonna check it out if they use Tumblr too. Same for other socials - link back to here. Use the audience you may already have somewhere else, but don't spam them.

Interact as your blog's name so that people see your name around the place, because tags suck. (I don't follow any tags, I only follow people, so I'll very rarely come across something 'out in the wild'.) Since you're a sideblog, you can always go anon and then sign off your ask as your sideblog's name.

Be patient. It sucks, but don't expect to get hundreds of notes overnight.

Open your blog to all the prompts and challenges that you're comfortable with. Don't burn yourself out, but if people can engage with you and if they get something out of it too, then they're more likely to reblog your work. That's what I did at the start - I just got people to send me prompts for free stories and I wrote for free, for *exposure*, you might say. (Don't write anything you're not comfortable with, obviously, but be open to new challenges and writing things you maybe hadn't thought of).

Participate in fandom challenges if it's fandom you write for, and look for other writing challenges or events. That can help build a sense of community and might bring you an audience that way.

If you're in a server with people whose opinions you trust, share your work on Discord and maybe ask them for feedback and/or reblogs if they're on Tumblr. Only if you're comfortable with that.

At the end of the day, remember why you're writing though. Notes and responses aren't the be all and end all of creating. Create stuff first because you enjoy creating it, and then share it because you want to share it. Don't give up or get disheartened if you don't get much traffic for a long time, and just keep on sharing anyway. That way, when people do find you, they've got a good backlog to go through as well!

If anyone has any more advice to add to this, please feel free to stick it in the notes!

[elizabethrobertajones]

I'm behind on meta so please feel free to ignore this if it's been already talked about, but I thought it was interesting how - as weird or sort of unusual that fight scene was with dean and the demon, or at least i don't recall anything like it - by making it look sexual and obviously violent, it kinda parallelled Mary's struggle with that asshole hunter. What weirds me out is that it puts Sam & Lucifer in the same role of saviour which is never good, but maybe they just wanted to connect them

like that bc they both want a connection w/ Jack, maybe even see themselves in Jack, who knows lucifer;s side, since they were unable to provide dialogue 4 him besides repeating how Mary is weak bc she gets tired & is all humany and they need to get out and he might need her. ANYWAY, shitty writing aside, do u think it was a parallel and if so what are they trying to say? Was it to show that maybe Sam’s intentions aren’t the purest either, not in an evil way but like bc he’s so intent on gettingMary back that he might be blind - for different reasons than Dean - to Jack as a person? He’s trying so hard & almost doesn’t even entertain the thought that Jack might be corrupted by his power at some point, or by Hell which we see almost happens bc of lack of info. Sam seems to hold on to as much hope as he can, while Dean is at the opposite end of the spectrum (hmm I wonder who could balance it out?). But what do you think of Sam having been weirdly aligned w/ Hell like, he even unwittinglygave the info to Amodeous about how powerful Jack is, while Dean, without even trying, seems to be Jack’s role model for Good (& I love how Jack has a Dean decoder built in) and he even throws him a Bible to read (which, if presented without commentary can be risky, he’s better off reading the Supernatural books, but still, it’s the Holy Book).

Hi! What an ask :D Also I am ALSO so behind on meta so I’m just going to answer this like it’s all new to us, sorry everyone who has already been over this, me and anon are going through this together ;)

To go through chronologically because I’m super tired so I need to break this down…

Yeah, awesome weird fight scene. I loved it - Tink said something about them having a new fight coordinator? There’s been 2 incredible fights back to back for Dean so far and I’m loving it. This one was great I think with the director as well - I feel like he of all of them takes liberties with BL scripts and puts in extra nuance and missing implications that their writing didn’t pick up… He’s 99% responsible for the crypt scenes for example, and in 11x21 included ALL the nuance that made the longing retcon magic happen between Amara, Cas and Dean, just by visual implications. He also super digs the prison imagery and bunker porn and generally using the locations really well… I don’t know much about all the different directors but I’ve learned that seeing his name means it’s time to get excited and nerdy about what I’m going to SEE :D

So yeah, good combo. It made a great parallel with Mary’s fight which I liked first of all just for the Mary and Dean paralleling, especially as she needs connections back to the main storyline just for asserting she still exists, because as you say it was pretty bad writing especially around Mary in that episode, where she just dragged herself around after Lucifer and needed saving. Putting Dean in a parallel situation somewhat defuses it in overall handling of the nonsense, even if I don’t like that it was written this way in the first place. I have still not had time to explore my dash much but I hope people have been making posts about the parallels to female fight scenes, especially Black Widow in the marvel movies… In my notes I just commented he was straddling people to death and left it at that (even though that obviously wasn’t what he was doing - it was a shorthand for the fight style :P) but really it also mirrored 10x15 and Dean in that weirdly charged scenario with whatisface, where he got straddled and had the worm coming out Cole’s throat while leaning over him etc and it put Dean in a very submissive role to all that. In the same way, having Dean fight back by getting his legs around the guy and ending the fight literally *cowering* on a bed with the demon standing over him with the phallic knife, was a fascinating staging of power dynamics where he actually looked more vulnerable than Mary did.

I think Lucifer nice guy’d it - he said he needed Mary and when she wouldn’t go along with him, immediately started whining more and hurt Mary just to make her complacent and remind her that he was still in charge and more powerful than her. Sam of course has no such dynamic with Dean, but I think overall he’s going to be more assertive this season and carrying on - according to the PR - with having more of a leadership role in the dynamic. He’s definitely making the better choices right now while Dean urgently needs a personal day or six. So I think first and foremost it’s a compare and contrast rather than a direct parallel. There’s a great gifset I reblogged somewhere or other about Lucifer in 12x23 saying hurr blurr I can’t raise my son from a prison cell, and then Sam in the cell with Jack just captioned “HOLD MY BEER”, and Sam currently is the only positive father figure - and actually the ONLY father figure *on the board* for Jack, since the pool is Cas - dead, Lucifer - in the AU, Dean - not interested right now… Meaning Jack is pretty much Sam’s sole responsibility and the Lucifer vs Sam stuff may be being played as an oppositional thing. So Lucifer being a dick to Mary after saving her but doing it conditionally and in an attempt to make her go along with him (and that he only wants her to trade for Jack anyway) vs Sam just saving Dean because they love and trust each other already forevers and there being no terms and conditions except for not wanting his brother dead for well duh reasons is… nice. 

But yeah it does also put Sam in a weird place where he’s being paralleled to Lucifer in any way and he has that long history with him. And I think by and large this is supposed to be positive for Sam and all but I agree with you that Sam can and maybe will fuck it up, and being oblivious to the dangers is the main way. In the “Donatello” conversation he doesn’t notice that Donatello switched from “Jack’s nature wins” to “let’s try moulding him” which was Asmodeus’s idea (and Sam’s) - but because Asmodeus was AGREEING with Sam and Sam was assuming he meant for the better, then he didn’t notice that Donatello was suddenly agreeing with him.

I think it’s pretty inevitable Jack’s going to have some sort of wobble - we’ve seen Lucifer is a tiny bit in his head even if he already picked Cas as his father and it’s clear he has a good heart, Asmodeus showed how easily some trickery and the path of good intentions can open a portal to hell (aww season 4 Sam) and that is something Sam himself has to deal with and his his hugest character thing overall - his arc led to that, and then on the other side of it has been about repenting for it and feeling awful that this was what he was basically raised to do >.> He should hopefully be a good influence on Jack to guide him away from repeating his mistakes but only if he can see the problem in the first place.

(Also yeah I love Sam and I’m excited and positive for his relationship with Jack but like you I think we do need to think about the problems, Sam’s lack of experience, this being a complicated time for him to take charge of a thing when historically almost every time he has been in a position of responsibility or strength he’s fucked it up when handling things himself, or else gone down some really dark paths… I think he CAN help Jack and ultimately WILL but that doesn’t mean it might not be rough along the way and I think people need to be prepared for that if they’re getting invested in it… Maybe even more so than the people who want Dean to be good with Jack and are getting upset about how hard it is because in a way that is a much more obvious problem and we were warned about it from the start, while Sam and Jack seems like such a good and pure thing it might be easy to let your guard down that the show can easily insert trouble and darkness into it…)

I wonder if there will be some tension to come between Sam and Dean about Jack kinda latching onto Dean though? Because I’ve wondered before that he is the moral centre of the show and Jack was mimicking him because he’s sort of needing Dean’s approval too, not just in a survival way but because Dean is so SURE of what is right, so being like Dean is default being right. (I think Sam has said something similar in 3x07 about always following Dean around trying to be like him when he was young? In that “i know when you’re scared” argument) And of course Dean being so sure of what is right and Jack not meeting that standard by default has been a massive part of why Jack levelled up in Winchester self-doubt and self-hatred in just a few days. Took less than a week to ruin him and Dean’s standards are probably a large part of it >.> So yeah, I hope Sam understands all the nuance of why Jack might have been mimicking/idolising Dean when Sam is the one trying to be the positive role model to Jack, just because he knows the force of Dean’s personality. I hope he doesn’t take it as a bad reflection on himself, ESPECIALLY if/when Jack fucks up as I feel will inevitably happen. 

I think it does sort of reflect Sam and Dean’s long-standing alignments though… I just remember the season 6 poster where Sam has the snake and Dean has a literal freakin’ halo because subtlety? What is that? :P