#probably cause I re read the first chapter and it’s the best thing I think I’ve ever written

[loveshotzz]

[writingquestionsanswered]

Hello there!! Thanks for all the advice you’ve given thus far!! It’s been a huge help in my writing journey, though I find that the ONE thing I still struggle with is finding time to work on some of my current writing projects.

I work an 8-5 through the week, and on weeknights and weekends I’m trying to catch up on energy to prepare for the next week ahead. Do you have any tips or suggestions on what I can do to try and sneak some writing in? Thanks in advance!

Tips for Sneaking Writing Into a Busy Schedule

#1 - Figure Out Your "Three B's" - If you're struggling to fit writing into a busy schedule, the first thing you should do is figure out your "three B's"... the bare minimum, better, and best amount of time you can commit to writing each day. The bare minimum amount of time should be a ridiculously low number, ten minutes or less, that you can manage even on the busiest of busy days. The better amount should be the most reasonable amount of time... a balance between a logical amount of productivity and the reality of your schedule. If you have a lot of busy days, this should probably be somewhere between fifteen minutes and an hour. And finally, the best amount is kind of the "pie in the sky" number... the reasonable amount of time you'd commit to writing if you had a day off and not a lot to do. The goal here is to aim for that middle number most days, but on long days when you have no energy leftover for writing, you've still got to hit that bare minimum. You don't even have to actually write during this "writing time." You can re-read a scene or chapter, edit, revise, brainstorm, research, look at inspiration photos, read a craft book... anything that moves the needle on your WIP in some way.

#2 - De-Stress Writing - Our brains are wired to avoid things that cause us stress, and stressful things also take a lot of energy to deal with. So, if you get even a little stressed thinking about your WIP or writing in general, you're gonna have a harder time committing to that bare minimum, better, or best writing time. The best thing you can do to de-stress writing for yourself is to stop giving yourself a hard time for not writing, not reaching goals, not completing tasks, etc. Give yourself grace, tell yourself it's okay, you'll hit that bare minimum tomorrow. Other things you can do: set up a reward system for yourself for when you hit small but important goals, eat or drink a favorite treat while you write, burn a scented candle, or listen to some soft music.

#3 - Create a Writing Ritual - Sometimes it helps to take a few minutes to switch your brain into "writing mode." This can be any number of little things that tells your brain "it's time to write now." It can be putting your phone on silent, sitting in a particular spot, lighting a scented candle, repeating a mantra, doing some stretches or meditating, listening to a certain song or putting on a particular type of soft music, or even a particular treat or beverage. When you choose a few things like this to do every time you sit down to write, and only when you sit down to write, your brain will start to associate those things with writing which helps it slip into "writing mode."

#4 - Eliminate Distractions - This one is really important when you have limited time... When you sit down for your writing time, put your phone on silent or set up "do not disturb" so that only really important calls/texts will come in. Avoid radio stations or music with lyrics if the talk is going to distract you. Use an internet blocking app if you can't trust yourself to fall down Google rabbit holes. Let people know you're going to be writing during that time and ask them not to disturb you. Anything you can do to eliminate distractions will help.

#5 - Boost Your Energy - No matter how busy you are, most of us have time in our schedule to commit to writing, even if that means getting up fifteen minutes early. However, if we feel tired and lack the energy to write, it can be very easy to pretend that fifteen minutes isn't available or that we need every last minute of sleep we can get. In that case, try doing a little energy booster before your writing time. This might be having a cup of coffee or a high energy breakfast smoothie, it could be taking a cold shower or listening to an energetic favorite son. If you can move your body for a few minutes, that helps, too. Walking, running in place, or jumping jacks are great if you're able to do them. If not, energetically moving any part of your body can give you a little energy boost... enough to get you through that bare minimum writing time.

I hope that helps! ♥

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[pruneunfair]

I was re-reading some remarried empress chapters and it made me realize that Rashtas only trust worthy "friend" so far is a maid names Nikki who steals Evalies necklace for her and in general is pretty loyal to Rashta (so far)

And it got me thinking "what if Rashta had a group of women that would be by her side and make her feel loved" but since none of the nobleladies outside of Viscountess Verdi (who at this point is an unwilling ally) would actually like Rashta beyond basic manners, the friends Rashta would have could be the maid equivalent of Naviers ladies in waiting. Gossipy, sharp tongued, but with a difference of doing what it takes to survive. They would all have varying backgrounds but all would have grown up in some level of poverty, some maybe went days without food, maybe one was even a former slave and felt that Rashta being the hope for commoners was the best thing to happen in the eastern empire. At first Rashta would hire them both for brownie points and because she could relate to their struggles. They weren't noble enough to be official ladies in waiting but their support would be real and not fear.

However the maids I'm thinking of wouldn't dislike Navier just because Rashta said she was bad, they wouldn't hate Navier but they'd probably not care about her problems caused by Rashta since to them, Navier really didn't do much to improve or worsen their lives when they were still in poverty. This was inspired by the fact that the only people that rave about how amazing Navier is are other nobles and Evalie, the token common girl who's actually the long lost daughter of nobles. It could be a sweet moment for Rashta where she realizes that these maids actually care about her, and while they probably can't convince her of anything too powerful like Duke Ergi being a scumbag who's only using her, they could help steer her back into her humanity where she tries to be a better empress.

This doesn't mean that Rashta would have undying lackeies though, even if Rashta lived a life like they did, they wouldn't justify all her cruel deeds, I thought of some conflict that would occur once of them discovers what Rashta did to Delice and it becomes a whole "how do we you know you won't do this to us if we say something you don't like?" And even if Rashta explained her reasons and gave reassurance that Delice only lost her tongue so her safety could be guaranteed, most of the other maids wouldn't buy this and since Rashta has the journalist guy already causing problems for her, she would play it smart and promise it was a horrible mistake she would never repeat. They'd all stay but only because they are afraid of that they could end up like Delice and switch back into survival mode where they overflatter and exist to serve Rashta to save them from a fate worse then death.

This causes huge levels of pain for Rashta because now her own friends only fear her now that they know what kind of levels she would go to, spiraling her further into depression.

[alma-rita]

Re:Zero Arc 9 Chapter 13

Spoilers~ But I actually read this chapter on midnight when it came out. Just that this talk post is coming rather late~~

-> REINHARD HAS ARRIVED-- I REPEAT, HE HAS MADE A COMEBACK. (My beloved Rein--!) -> According to some tweets I saw in X, Al and Alcanica might end up going to the floating island where other dragons fled/went to.

-> Why the hell is it when Reinhard and Al were facing off, I was thinking of the Capitano vs. Mavuika in the Genshin 5.0 trailer-- Cause epic music, hehe (and the dialogue ain't too dissimilar, ish)

-> Special mention to Flam for being quite~ troublesome to Al~

-> We do need to prioritize stabilizing each other and letting Al go. This thing for sure lmao: the Watch Tower is now just a big bundle of bad experiences and memories to Subaru.

-> And for some odd reason... why do I want Reinhard to lose against Al??? It's just me thinking about some Ayamatsu/Kasaneru stuff and the effect Al had on Liep is very terrible....

Al will probably escape, this the most logical route.

Reinhard loses??? Some mind fuckery is going to happen, and oh boy I am not ready for that---

As always, there will be another Domain Expansion. Sheesh, Re:Zero truly being Jujutsu Kaisen now, ahahahaha~

-> I remember reading a theory saying that Garfiel's future trial is actually him needing to end Subaru cause he cannot die at some point(at that time, people thought it would be due to Capella's blood). So Subaru entrusts Garfiel to kill him so he can loop.

Looks like that theory might be coming true, but instead of dragon's blood it's because of the seal (but dragon's blood preventing RBD might still happen)

-> TAPPEI-- GIMME NEXT CHAPTER PLEASE--!

-> I seriously wonder what will happen next.... ughhh, I wanna know!

Some Theory Stuff:

-> Shadow has an interesting picture guessing that Heinkel could have also been pokeballed. Another person suggests that Al could even have sealed Yae Tenzen. I seriously don't know if Al did decide to seal Yae (I will be re reading that part.)

At first, I thought it would be crazy for Yae or even Heinkel to be sealed, cause they both DO NOT have Witch Factors (unless? but no) So I doubt they'll be even sealed in the first place. Both Yae and Hinkel are just... missing.

>> But if we push that Witch Factor aside, Al actually has very good reasons to seal both of them.

For Yae, seeing that she was sent by Chisha Gold so Priscilla can be tested, I do feel that Al might have figured that out and decided that it will be best to remove her (seal Yae).

For Heinkel, this means that in the time Al spent locked in his room, he was already set and planning to go against the world. Since he will be going against the world, Al decided to seal Heinkel and use him as hostage against Reinhard if he shows up.

-> For me... we'll see. But I seriously believe that they aren't sealed because the magic spell failed on Sphinx. Text out right said it was because Sphinx didn't have a Witch Factor, Al wasn't able to seal her.

Tappei pls gimme next chapter--

[zoobus]

What's your favourite entry on mangadex with a 6.xx score?

(Re: #Everything on mangadex with a 6.xx rating is either a powerful contender for best of the year or extremely niche fetish softcore)

Ugh, this is a hard one because I haven't been reading a lot lately and I lost a huge chunk of my saves after mangadex was killed off for some months. (Also because I don't actually finish anything I read, lots of my "favorites" are a first volume I loved so much I couldn't finish it. That's how my brain works. I haven't finished anything on this list.) Also best of the year *for the kind of story it's telling.

TW, a good chunk of these have sexual assault and/or skeevy sexual themes

Manga about girl with strong signs of BPD using sex to self-harm, I don't remember the name, sorry - Extremely pathetic girl, desperate to not get bullied ever again, thinks she can fool her peers into thinking she's one of them but nahhh, you see the looks the popular girls give each other - it's like cats watching a wet and whimpering mouse wearing cat ears bite the throat of other mice, looking over her shoulder for proof that this is worth it, that they think she's a cat too. Made me understand how self-harm sex works.

I Would Die for Your First Time - Okay, it's sitting at a 7.09 *now,* but when I read it like five years ago it at 6.18. Guy who looks like a stereotypical fat faceless hentai man marries so far out of his league, it causes him immense distress. Even though his super hot wife clearly loves him, he's unnerved by the fact that she's had so many partners before him, while he only had her. She swears that if she could go back in time, she would make him her first and oh wow is that literally the worst thing she could have said.

Because he does go back in time, and he does try to hold the assurances of his 30yo wife to her 15yo self who doesn't have a clue who he is, and he does find himself ruining the life (and the original timeline they shared) of the poor woman who made the mistake of loving him over and over and over again.

Tamarowa/Who Wants to Marry a Billionaire? - I both get and don't get the hate for this one, harem stuff seems to make people very mad. Anyway, Tamarowa is like if Danganronpa was about Who Wants to Marry A Billionaire, uncut HBO version. And if Danganronpa was good. Great example of horny and good story. Whenever some cornball suggests good writing and fetishistic, hand in pants writing are mutually exclusive, I think of Tamarowa. "I need you to psychoanalyze one of the contestants in my place. Go do ageplay with the milf and deduce the odds she's trying to murder me."

His Favorite Idol Moved Next Door - A fan has a crush on his idol. The idol has a merciless and cruel crush on him back. 6.02 because god forbid we cater to actual female sadists rather than masochists for once 🙄

The Villainess Wants To Punish The Sadistic Prince - I will probably get around to translating the final volume. One day. Please see first paragraph about loving things so much, I don't finish them.

By the way, it might be my pride speaking, but I wouldn't include the last two entries in the niche fetishcore category. That's more for like "my childhood friend is annoying! and also keeps getting splattered with smushed bug goo every chapter" or those collection of pics titled stuff like "The women in your life flirt with you while insulting your gf's small boobs"

[adventure-showdown]

What is your favourite Doctor Who story?

ROUND 2 MASTERPOST

synopses and propaganda under the cut

Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Synopsis

"Grrrrr."

The greatest book ever written.

Professor Reginald Tyler's The True History of Planets was a twentieth-century classic; an epic of dwarves and swords and wizardry. And definitely no poodles. Or at least there weren't when the Doctor read it.

Now it tells the true tale of how the Queen of the poodles was overthrown; it's been made into a hit movie, and it's going to cause a bloodbath on the dogworld — unless the Doctor, Fitz and Anji (and assorted friends) can sort it all out.

The Doctor infiltrates the Smudgelings, Tyler's elite Cambridge writing set of the early twentieth century; Fitz falls for flamboyant torch singer Brenda Soobie in sixties Las Vegas, and Anji experiences some very special effects in seventies Hollywood. Their intention is to prevent the movie from ever being made. But there is a shadowy figure present in all three time zones who is just as determined to see it completed... so the poodle revolution can begin.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

The Crooked World

Synopsis

The people of the Crooked World lead an idyllic existence.

Take Streaky Bacon, for example. This jovial farmer wants nothing more from life than a huge blunderbuss, with which he can blast away at his crop-stealing nemesis. And then there's Angel Falls, a racing driver with a string of victories to her name. Sure, her trusted guardian might occasionally put on a mask and menace her for her prize money, but that's just life, right? And for Jasper the cat, nothing could be more pleasant than a nice, long nap in his kitchen — so long as that darn mouse doesn't jam his tail into the plug socket again.

But somebody is about to shatter all those lives. Somebody is about to change everything — and it's possible that no one on the Crooked World will ever be happy again.

The Doctor's TARDIS is about to arrive. And when it does... That's all folks!

Propaganda

I think that the best thing about EU stories is that, by the nature of their medium, they can tell stories that couldn't be shown on the TV due to constraints ranging from TV sensors to budget limitations to the fundamental laws of reality. This is maybe the best example of how the novels can transcend all of that. The action takes place in a world of cartoons, where goofy characters chase each other around and do comedy bits. Sometimes they blow each other up, but they're always fine by the next scene, so it's okay! Enter the TARDIS. The Doctor gets shot in the chest within literal moments of leaving the ship, and his apparent inability to heal sends shockwaves through the denizens of the Crooked World. The travelers' attempts to repair the damage only result in worsening it, as for the first time, the cartoons learn about violence, death, sex, and the fundamental inequalities of their society, culminating in riots in the streets, murder, and the attempted destruction of the world. (Spoilers: the Scooby Gang discovers the corpse of God!) It's fascinating, the vast tonal shifts throughout are masterfully handled, it traumatizes and re-traumatizes you every chapter, and for my money, it's one of the best portrayals of the 'Dr. Nyarlathotep' concept in the EU (though that probably wasn't intentional) (6&7)

[dreamsndmadness]

hellooo!!!(sorry in advance for all of the rambling)

first of all, im absolutely gushing from all of the soft moments in ch9: feyd nearly crying from being cared for, paul helping feyd with his nightmares, and feyd being protective/caring in both the breakfast scene and throughout the spice field inspections :333. It was all VERY adorable and paul finally being unhesitating about his sexual relationship with feyd and them communicating (both implicitly with paul reading feyds body language and explicitly with paul making feyd ask for what he wants), it's all very rewarding in general :)

Also, ive just been thinking nonstop about all the stuff going on with paul. so, my first theory about pauls exhaustion was because he was staying up because of feyds nightmares waking up but then i re-read it and saw paul was tired even before they shared a bed, and then i remembered that lack of sleep is a common symptom of pregnancy so thats my leading theory rn, that OR paul is staying up late reading lol. im also so interested in what paul and lady jessica are plotting, they mentioned controlling feyd and learning more about him in the beginning and then theres the date palm scene. I remember in the movies that date palms are definitely on arrakis so my first thought was that feyd was being a paranoid little freak about it but then i thought lady jessica might be trying to assess pauls health or something?? its safe to say im super hyped for the paul POV

sorry about the length and INCREDIBLY half formed theories

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The wonderful bowl100!!

I love your questions ☺️. Omg yay!!! I’m so glad you liked the chapter. I always have a crisis of confidence when I post new chapters 🙃. Yesss. The softness. Feyd cutting the fruit and making sure Paul eats was one of my favorite moments from the chapter. It’s so hard to write moments of tenderness from him without it seeming out of character. And then he can never be honest with himself about why he’s doing things or why certain things are making him feel certain ways. Man. This guy. Feyd used his words FINALLY!!! And yes!! I’m so happy for Paul. Starting to enjoy himself. It’s so important.

Okee so here’s what I can say. You aren’t wrong about any of your guesses per say. It’s been such a joy to write from Paul’s pov because he’s a much more emotionally evolved person so I can write him being like “ah yes. This is making me feel this way!”. So one of the biggest reasons for Paul’s exhaustion is that he has been having dreams. Some of them good, some of them pretty disturbing. And yes, we will be seeing them in the next chapter. He is also (not really a spoiler cause it’s in the tags) pregnant! Another big reason! That’s going to be a plot point of the next chapter as well.

Lol the date palm scene!! You’re right on both counts. Feyd is being a paranoid little freak. He’s like “they are speaking in code!!” No you weirdo, they are talking about date palms. However, I am going to give him a little credit because he did pick up on the weird energy of the scene which is basically due to Jessica trying to draw Paul out of his funk. She’s worried about him and thinks he’s not doing well, and she’s trying to cheer him up and also trying to subtly (probably too subtly) signal to Feyd to do the same. Which he kinda gets! Cause he then invites Paul to come with him on inspection and Jessica is like “thank fucking god you are so fucking dense”. To Feyd. Not Paul. Paul can do no wrong in Jessica’s eyes lol.

Anyway! All of your theories were pretty spot on and perceptive!!! Sorry it took so long for me to respond 😔. I’ve been sick this week and it’s been a struggle. I have most of Paul’s chapter finished (it’s sitting at 5,500 words right now 😀). And I hope to edit and post tomorrow!!

Thank you as always for your lovely questions. I look at your wonderful art every day 🥹.

All the best 🫶.

[salternateunreality2]

I’ve got to ask, because the video you linked in chapter 80 makes me think I’m right…

Are the firsts parenting styles based on Gwenna’s (pleasant peasant media) parenting videos? Cause I’m living for the comparison.

Great chapter btw. I really want to cuddle Kadaj!

Answering your question:

She definitely influences them. I like to think there's an FF7 Gwenna out there making content that Angeal watches religiously. He's right there, cocoa and dressing gown ready, for Every Video.

They all have their own styles and did their own research, but her basic concepts around respect for the kids and gentle parenting are things all the Dads keep in mind. They also bend towards those principles naturally for various reasons.

I didn't set out to make her influence the story, but since I watch her stuff, it's going to bleed over. (My other sources are watching parenting irl, reddit, other fics, that weird phase I had where I got super into adoption for a few years and read a million blogs and things, and my own experiences with kids.)

Excited rambling because I can't help myself:

Angeal is a big fan of Gwenna and gentle parenting. He's also a natural by nature and his experience with Zack. He's not the "fun" parent--he's probably the most strict about everyday and risky things alike. Bedtime is always at bedtime. No playing "yeet the baby as high as you can", even if the giggles are EPIC. Healthy food. Educational field trips.

Sometimes it can be hard for him to let himself or Cloud off the hook for crazy kid stuff, but especially himself, and he needs those reminders from her about taking a deep breath and remembering that it does work. Patience yields focus.

You don't have to and can't be perfect, but you can be the perfect Dad for your kid by loving him and trying your best. And sometimes your best is collapsing on the foldout couch holding onto the baby all night despite what the books say about sleep schedules because your baby needs you.

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Genesis respects Cloud and treats him like a small adult because that's how Genesis expects to be treated (minus the small part. Genesis is tall. He is! He just has mammoth friends. Shut up). Genesis also doesn't want to helicopter/tiger mom his baby; he got enough of that growing up and he's over it.

He wants the world to take him seriously, so he offers that same courtesy to Cloud. He offers it to everyone unless they prove themselves to be unworthy, in which case Bitchesis comes out.

He's more likely to risk Cloud's physical and emotional health than Angeal, but less likely to risk Cloud's physical health than Sephiroth. He has no qualms about teaching Cloud the hard way about the ways of the world; if Cloud gets smart with him, he says "bet".

"I cursed at Heidegger because he's a bitch." is a perfectly rational response to Cloud asking why Papa cussed, in Genesis' mind.

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Sephiroth strives to do The Opposite of what Hojo did to him, so he treats Cloud as a tiny but respected new recruit SOLDIER under his command. He strives for excellence from both himself and Cloud, but the instant he starts feeling too much like Hojo, he re-evaluates. He tends to be more risky with Cloud's physical safety, because when the bar is set to "don't make a 2yo fight a monster", letting a 4yo handle a weapon doesn't seem like a big deal.

He also feels inadequate and a little out of his depth emotionally with Cloud; to combat this, he regularly seeks advice from Tifa, Angeal, and Zack to understand Cloud and provide appropriate responses.

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Zack is definitely one of the funnest dads. His philosophy is to meet Cloud where he's at. Both he and Genesis are great at engaging Cloud's imagination and playing with him, but Zack gets way more into it.

Zack gives Cloud freedom and respect because he's a kid and he deserves to have fun. As long as no one's getting seriously hurt, why the heck not?!

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They all drive each other a little batty sometimes with their choices (see: the petting zoo incident + any and all motorcycle outings), but ultimately their main goals are: physical needs fully met, emotional needs fully met, then education and other things. They love their baby 🐥 and he loves them! ❤️🐱🐶🐻🦜🐥❤️

[yeehanfrf]

Week 4 Recs: The Rivalmance

This week's Yeehan fic recs were all about "The Rivalmance." That's enemies-to-lovers, rivals-to-lovers, competitive assholes-to-lovers. If you like Yeehan, you know the vibe! Check out the recs gathered from the Yeehan community below, organized by rating then alphabetically by title.

Teen and Up

Hana Song's Guide on How to Not be Weird by LeftHand [27,710 words] Reccer comment: "Still uses the old cowboy name but I love it all the same"

Hanzo would never believe that Hana Song could give such stellar advice or display such wisdom beyond her years. He never expected to make a home for himself among the members of Overwatch. To make peace and find hope in life once again. But he did. He also never expected to get lassoed onto a mission with the most reckless, infuriating, irritating man he'd ever meet. A man in serious need of some guidance. With Hanzo Shimada as his best bet for a clear head? Not being weird is a lot harder than it sounds.

Author's note: This work is not officially completed and has a very round-about ending. I do not plan on ever writing a true final chapter but would still consider the work worth reading. Thanks!

Mature

The 85th Annual King County Bake-Off by venvephe [WIP; 37,995 words] Reccer 1 comment: "Warning: incomplete Still a good au tho" Reccer 2 comment: "Unfinished (4/5 chaps and currently ends at a cliffhanger) but set in a fun AU that makes for charming rivals to lovers YH fic and a fun read."

It’s October first, and it’s all come down to this.

The cake is perfect. He’s been waiting for this moment all year, since the previous baking competition. This is his chance at redemption, at reclaiming the crown of the best baker in the county. It’s a title only the winner of the county fair can hold. He’s waited a year and spent hours upon hours at work. Early mornings and late nights, scrapped ideas and tons of flour and sugar went into his masterpiece. It’s all led to him to standing here, awaiting the announcement of the winners.

This year, it’s going to be Hanzo. Last year’s winner - his rival, his nemesis - is going down. Hanzo’s not going to let his mortal enemy take the crown for a third year in a row.

What kind of name is Jesse McCree, anyways?

Howlin' for you by Mifune [17,489 words] Reccer comment: "a good ff if you enjoy bounty hunter Hanzo×wanted Cassidy!"

McCree makes a stop in Dorado, Mexico, before answering the Recall and meets a mysterious man in a bar that promises to make his night a lot more interesting. or McCree wants to do the right thing, Hanzo is sarcastic and there is a lot of emotional baggage unpacked in one night.

Ricochet by robocryptid [24,016 words] Reccer 1 comment: "Cassidy doesn't want to rejoin Overwatch. Too bad Overwatch doesn't take no for an answer and sends a hot stranger to hunt him down."

Reccer 2 comment: "A fun cat-and-mouse spin on Rivalmance. It’s super engaging, the pacing is impeccable and the chemistry is off the charts. I had so much fun reading (and re-reading) this!"

Cole toppled a government or two, caused a few explosions, murdered more bad guys than he can count, and probably a few innocents too. He caused more collateral damage — ruined more lives — than he’ll ever account for, and the world didn’t change a bit. He did his time, and he’s not going back.

Too bad Overwatch doesn’t want to take no for an answer.

Explicit

Acceptable Substitute by mataglap [47,494 words] Reccer comment: "I go back and reread this so often i think I'm at least 30% of the read stats"

Hanzo has lived without certain things for so long that he has all but forgotten about them. Cassidy is a bright red exclamation mark of a reminder, and Hanzo discovers that the saying "out of sight, out of mind" unfortunately also works in reverse.

Meanwhile, Cassidy is an exceptional liar, and the most egregious of his lies are the ones he tells himself.

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by KittenzCaboodle [WIP; 34,828 words] Reccer comment: "Then I can't not push this ff enough! It's probably one of my favorites!!"

The man first in line for the Shimada throne was the last picture that Cole had been given to memorize. Hanzo Shimada. They had said it was unlikely that he would be sent, as he was too important for such menial tasks, but he was the next likely candidate according to Genji.

He gazed longingly towards the door, aching to step outside and get a fresh breath of the cool night air. As he silently grumbled about the sweat rolling down his back, the bodies grinding against each other in the club making the place hot and steamy in all the wrong ways, he saw him.

Of all the people in the world, Hanzo Shimada, the worst possible person, had just walked through the door and was putting their entire Blackwatch mission at risk.

Somehow, Cole had to distract him long enough to for Genji to get out, and he was willing to do whatever it takes, even if he was caught between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.

But when the Devil buys you dinner and is one of the nicest people you've ever met, then things get confusing.

Binary System by mataglap [14,150 words] Reccer comment: "it's one of my comfort series for this ship, it's really funny, both characters are really well written and very in character, and honestly i just absolutely adore everything this amazing writer make"

Hanzo is arrogant and Cassidy is stubborn, which results in the world's strangest game of chicken.

Ichigo by morrezela [27,121 words] Reccer comment: "Qualifies if you squint? YeeHan break-up and aren't very civil to each other for a while"

They break up on a Wednesday.

Nocturne by delicaterosebud [61,160 words] Reccer comment: "This is probably the most bittersweet 'enemies to lovers' I’ve ever read. Some parts of this fic made me a bit uncomfortable, but in a good way (if that makes any sense…)"

After his mentor goes missing in the forest of Aokigahara, Jesse McCree, a member of the world-renowned Overwatch hunting guild, finds himself alone in his desire to save him. Receiving little support from his teammates, who have deemed his rescue effort to be too risky, Jesse must turn to an unexpected - and rather unpleasant - companion for aid.

During their travels together, however, he and the demon named "Hanzo" grow closer, and Jesse learns that the concept of good and evil isn't quite as simple as he had presumed.

One Man's Hero by mataglap [WIP; 99,485 words] Reccer 1 comment: "I can't not rec this one for enemies to lovers!!"

Reccer 2 comment: "A superhero AU ripe with action, beautifully charged and meaningful emotional scenes, superb characterization, meticulous world-building and just stellar writing. I especially enjoyed the side characters in this!"

Hanzo Shimada is an assassin, a murderer, and decidedly not a hero, let alone a superhero — and yet.

Popcorn Redemption by wyntera [WIP; 266,692 words] Reccer comment: "A classic, unfinished but great"

They say life isn't like the movies.

Well, partner, they ain't never worked for Overwatch.

Shift, Refresh by robocryptid [3,168 words] Reccer comment: "bursting through the door with this"

There are worse ways to start the morning after than with the walk of shame. It's not at all what Hanzo planned, but it might be what he deserves.

Survival Instinct by mataglap [36,485 words] Reccer comment: "Very well written, Hanzo's characterization was on point. Also I love remorseful/guilty Cole."

Cassidy takes a new monster hunting contract. It's pretty decent as contracts go: the pay is good, the perks even better, and he's got two competent companions to fight at his side when the monsters come.

Then a third companion arrives and ruins everything.

to lie down with dogs by motorghost [65,540 words] Reccer comment: "practically bursting at the seams with tension, at times almost suffocating (I mean this in the most complimentary way possible)."

Hanzo and Cole are on a top-secret reconnaissance mission in the industrialized wasteland of post-Crisis North Dakota, hunkered down in a factory ill-fit for human occupation. Cole seems fine with the situation, but Hanzo's doubts extend far beyond their little room.

That brings Week 4 to a close! Thank you to everyone who sent in a recommendation! Keep an eye out for next week's theme: "Golden Oldies," or fics from 2016 and 2017!

In the meantime, you can also check out the Week 3 recs here or see the list of past and future themes here!

[ask-alphabetboyluvr]

Okay so I have a few things...

I'm so excited for slut war, when will the first chapter arrive?

Then I wanna thank bd jk because of him I had the best orgasm of my life ever. His fingering game is strong damn... now I get why b squirts and everything... cus I fucking did too... freakin everywhere

And the other day I was making up scenarios in my head with them. I have a face claim in my head for byeol. And him and Kook were playing this edging game where he instructs her and she has to edge herself again and again... I tried one and could barely make it through the whole thing.

And to all the girlies out there, once in your life try masturbating with your bladder full.. like it doesn't have to be you on the verge of bursting but just a little pressure like even half full works so well... The sensations will be so intense and the climax absolutely mindblowing.

OK lmao I went too much into detail sorry... thank bd jk for me (aka the person who wrote him) thanks for bringing him into existence

I also wonder how would Jungkook react if b asks him to wear a condom. They're so reckless it scares me sometimes. They should have a talk about if they want kids, it seems like the right time in their relationship to talk about it. People don't and then break up after years of being together because they don't want kids or the number each one wants differ...

OK bye now I'm waiting for slut war and bd too patiently

i saw this come in when i was at work and almost tripped up the stairs hahahahahaha

i wanted to have a few more chapters under my belt before starting uploads -- I've found I really enjoy the schedule releases I did for the last two short stories (slut war wont be a short story, but yk). i'd say not until may!!

there is just.... so much information here hahahha um thank you?? I'm literally reading this over and over kind of unsure how to reply but I'll take it a compliment. it's tickled me a lot hahaha. glad I could ... help? hahahahha

im curious about the face claim!!!

re: condoms he'd probably see it as a little spicy cause it's different lmao. i think they literally used one the first time and from that point forward it was all freewheeling?? so maybe they'd do it to remember the good old days of cockwarming in place of therapy <33

thankyou!! im excited for them to!!

[domini-porter]

Hello, as someone who is no writer but an avit reader of your stories I kind of have a question.

Have you got the plot all drafted out in your head before you start writing or does it come as you go? Cause to me it feels like extremely difficult to write towards something you don't know the ending of. But again not a writer but very curious how your mind works and comes up with these brilliant stories.

Hi hello!!!! Thank you for asking!!!

Short answer: it’s both!

Usually I have one strong image or scene or concept and go from there (Maura doing taxidermy in a fancy dress kicked off the whole thing, for example, or knowing I wanted to do something partly set in an asylum). As for the plots—my approach to how I write the books is kind of changing as I write more of them. The first couple were really me discovering what was happening in real time—sometimes it’s literally like I’m experiencing the story as a reader too, except in order to keep reading I have to type the words first, which probably doesn’t make sense. But it’s super-exciting!

Sometimes I’ll be cruising along and then a character will say something totally unexpected (to me) which sends things in new or different directions, or sets up a whole big story beat I really didn’t see coming. This happens to a lot of writers—it’s incredibly fun! An analogy (from a life-long West Coaster) might be surfing—you’re the one sort of controlling what you’re doing, but mainly you’re just trying to hang on while the ocean (ie, the world of the story that exists only in my head) determines exactly where you go and how fast.

I’m not a disciplined writer, in that I don’t keep notes or outlines or anything. I am disciplined in that the cohesion of each part of the (inevitably super-complex) story is the most important thing, so I constantly (constantly) re-read; by the time I’ve finished a chapter I’ve usually re-read everything up to that point at least once or twice, and the chapter itself way more than that (I write in the notes app so there’s probably more scrolling back up and re-reading than there is, like, writing).

I’m fortunate in that my brain simply maintains this entire universe at all times, like a movie playing in my head, so it’s more like transcription a lot of the time; also that I am both a (literally) compulsive writer and have a lot of time and space and support to do it. So I’m just allowed to spend 10-14 hours a day daydreaming or typing or staring blankly while I try to remember that word I like. I know how lucky I am for sure, but also that these books would be way way way harder to write, and probably less densely detailed and complex, if I wasn’t able to devote so much time to thinking about tiny little intricacies of the plot, or history, or characters.

But back to plots! Like I said a bunch of filler words ago—I don’t usually plan them out in great detail; they sort of just fall together, after I’ve set up enough little twists and Easter eggs. Or (more often) when I’ve laid out a bunch of things that sounded cool to me, and now they all have to make larger sense, because that’s how plots work. There have absolutely been times when I’ve inadvertently written myself into a corner, and it takes me a while to write myself out again. But I guess that’s part of the fun—it’s like putting together a puzzle, even if it’s one I cut myself.

All that said! For this latest one I actually sat down with my best friend/research assistant and talked through the entire plot, which I’ve never done before. I’m not sure if I like now being obliged to write a book where I already know the ending, but what good writerly discipline, I guess.

Ugh I dunno I feel like I did not answer this adequately. But I hope sort of? I mean the other part of it, the part that feels kind of shitty and secret, is I just . . . can do these things, and I really don’t think too much about how or why. But of course a lot of the how and the why is practice practice practice; it feels like these things come naturally because I’ve gravitated to writing and storytelling my whole life, and have been practicing for decades. I guess that’s the short, annoying answer that feels cheap but turns out is frustratingly correct: a brain that loves puzzles, and practice.

Anyway. Sorry for another wall of text that probably doesn’t even get there, but thank you again, sincerely, for asking! And for reading!!!

[love-fireflysong]

Hi Firefly!! I hope it's okay that I'm gonna be rambling a bit here, but I want you to know you're one of my favorite authors!!

All or your stories are amazing, and I keep coming back to re-read them; ○ Final days (Wonderful, amazing, chapter 3 brole me while reading O[-[, but i keep coming back to chapter 5) ○ The Outlast AU (I know next to nothing about Outlast and yet I read the entire thing in a day!! And it's Ashley POV!! Literally couldnt be more perfect!!! Can't wait for more!!!) ○ The Baby AU (I'm not usually one for stories where the characters are married and have kids - I prefer the awful pining LMAO - but I'm inhaling every last scrap I can find about it) I also absolutely adore the one shot fics!! The ones I most frequently come back to are I Just Want To Feel Safe Again, Burning The Midnight Oil, It's A Cookie Molassacre, and Mario Party!! It just feels like them. The puns, the fluff, the PINING. I LOBE THE PINING

I saw a mention of a fic somewhere on your tumblr about Ashley yoinking some of Chris's hoodies and then wearing them when he asks about them, and I need you to know the concept of it is so funny, i haven't been able to stop thinking about it LOL. Literally Chris showing up and Ash I just wearing it. Chris being all, ''... Is that mine?''. Ash, wearing a hoodie 3 times her size: ''.... No'' I really hope you're gonna write it, I can just see the awkward fluff in my head!!

I'm pretty new to the Until Dawn Fandom, but I'm so happy that I came in at a time where you are writing these stories!! You've helped fulfill my Chrashley cravings to the utmost degree. If you ever doubt your writing, I hope you remember this rambling and know that I will always inhale everything you write. There's so much more I could write, but AGH I'm so happy you're writing!!

SDFKLSDKLFJLSDKJFLKSDJF?????????????😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Okay, first of all I need you to get off of anon this instant so I know exactly who I should be getting ready to cover in these blubbery happy tears as I sob and hug the life out of them cause OH MY GOD?????? This was absolutely the BEST message I could have woken up to this morning HOLY SHIT😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

But man oh man, just the idea that I'm listed among ANYONE'S favourite authors is just 😳😳😳😳 but I'm so happy and overwhelmed to hear that you enjoy my work enough to come and find me over here and let me know! God I wanna try and respond to all these super nice and amazing things that you're saying about me and my fics but I don't even know where to start?????

Oh god, um. Okay. It will never not be the biggest compliment when I hear that the third chapter of Final Days managed to break people. To this day, I don't think that I've ever had more fun planning and writing out a chapter as unorthodox as that one was, so to hear that it actually did it's job as odd an addition as it was will always bring the proudest smile to my face and smug shimmy to my shoulder lmao. (And don't worry about continuously coming back to the last chatpter, I do too asjdhsjjashd)

And to hear that someone else out there loves the things that I'm doing with the outlast au is AMAZING. Like you would think it was the baby series, but no it's the outlast au that is my literal baby in all sense of the word. I have so many stupid gory and traumatic plans for that one and the day that I will finally sit my ass down and get them all out will be a day for celebration that's for sure ajksdkhajksdh But oh man, just the idea that you read that 30k whump fest that is Artificial in a single day is among the highest compliments I could receive (I say as though everything you sent me isn't the highest compliment 😭). (Also I think you're probably the only person who's read the newest addition to it so far so please please PLEASE message me again and tell me your thoughts on it cause I desperately want to know🙏 or you know just message me again for any other reason that's very cool too)

And, not to sound like a broken record over here lol, the highest compliment once again when I hear that my own series of baby fics as managed to reach past the understandable distaste most people have for them to find something fun. What exactly that thing is that I do or add that sets them apart I have no idea but I'm always glad to hear that someone else likes that little slice of life verse I have for them askdjklasdklasd

But you are completely right, there is just something about Chris and Ashley that makes the pining so fucking good. Best friends to lover extreme pining edition is my favourite flavour of ships and by GOD do those two have it in spades and then some! There is a reason that a good chunk of my fics with them involve just so much pining before they get together and its because they do it so fucking well holy shit. Will never get enough of them and their shenanigans (as Josh pulls his hair out and continuously smashing his forehead into a wall in the background of course lmao)

And good news, bad news involving the hoodie stealing fic! The good news it that I have actually started writing it as of last week! The bad news is that, well, I had it in my suitcase which (I believe) was sent to Calgary and NOT following me home to I have none of it here. Which is a same because not only have been excited to start working on it, but now this message just makes me want to start doing more writing for it like this INSTANT and I don't have the book with me😭 Hope that they ship my suitcase back here soon not only so I can have my clothes and toiletries (and $60 toothbrush😒) back, but also that stupid notebook so I can get back to writing it.

Ignoring all THAT though, I am so sorry that I've been extremely quiet on the fic front down here recently, but the fact that all my older work has been helping to fulfill that Chrashley craving (with the climbing chrash one to a lesser extent I expect lmao) with more to hopefully come! Especially with summer and good weather here so I can sit outside and write some shit down! Cause boy oh boy cause the natural vitamin d boost you're girls creativity levels!

...Once I get my notebooks back that is 😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬🤬🤬

[apocalypticavolition]

Let's (re)Read The Great Hunt! Chapter 5: The Shadow in Shienar

It's that time again folks! Yadda yadda yadda, heavy spoilers for all of the books, the TV show, the RPG, the video game, and the limited run commemorative cups that have all either gone missing or been confirmed destroyed. Oh wait that is the spoiler for the cups. Sorry. Don't keep reading if you don't want more spoilers!

This chapter has the sun of the Whitecloaks, which symbolizes how we're getting our first Whitecloak POV this chapter. There's a lot of POV hopping really, kind of too much. Sometimes I wish Jordan had stayed more focused in each chapter instead of hopping around the way he does, but oh well.

So seldom had it been done that every novice was required to learn the name of each Aes Sedai since the Breaking of the World who had been stilled, and her crime, but none could think of it without a shudder.

Terrifying to think that over three thousand years, the list is still small enough to be easily learned. At this point, two of them are Amyrlins (though the upcoming third example is in the room right now!), but there were obviously more. Did the Compendium list them all? I really need to read that someday.

“Both of the Red, and both replaced by Amyrlin from the Blue. The reason there has not been an Amyrlin chosen from the Red since Bonwhin, and the reason the Red Ajah will take any pretext to pull down an Amyrlin from the Blue, all wrapped neatly together. I have no wish to be the third to lose the stole and the staff, Moiraine. For you, of course, it would mean being stilled and put outside the Shining Walls.”

I think the reason that the Red Ajah has such a shit track record is in part because of the poorly formed nature of their cause (yes, gentling dudes is important, but dedicating themselves entirely to it clearly led to a poor moral character) and in part because the apparently best time to turn to a Red to lead is exactly when having no tradition of leadership leads to disaster.

Having a Red during the Trolloc Wars makes a lot of sense considering all the Dreadlords and whatnot. Bonwhin against Amalasan was probably a great idea at the time (though I expect even the Hall got played here because this False Dragon is the most plausible candidate as a Tar Valon puppet). But Tetsuan was consumed by her petty squabbles instead of being able to play the political game correctly and arguably the fall of Manetheren was the reason the Ten Nations as a whole were unable to withstand the war. And Artur Hawkwing beating Amalasan meant that Bonwhin's best strength was gone and her attempts to replace one puppet with another backfired so hideously that the White Tower was nearly destroyed.

Other Amyrlins were screw-ups; there were at least two who were exiled by politics, but only the three Red Amyrlins really had a chance to be as disastrous as they were. And to be honest, it doesn't say great things about the Tower as a whole that they were allowed to be the failures that they were.

“For me, it would be different. Even stilled, an Amyrlin who has been pulled down cannot be allowed to wander about loose; she might be seen as a martyr, become a rallying point for opposition. Tetsuan and Bonwhin were kept in the White Tower as servants. Scullery maids, who could be pointed to as cautions as to what can happen to the mightiest. No one can rally around a woman who must scrub floors and pots all day. Pity her, yes, but not rally to her.”

So like obviously this whole section is foreshadowing Siuan's eventual fate, but this bit in particular is the nice dramatic irony. Siuan manages to wander around loose and while she doesn't quite get people to rally around her, she does pick candidates for them to rally around to her advantage (Logain and Egwene).

“The Pattern pays no heed to human plans, Siuan. With all our scheming, we forgot what we were dealing with. Ta’veren. Elaida is wrong. Artur Paendrag Tanreall was never this strongly ta’veren. The Wheel will weave the Pattern around this young man as it wills, whatever our plans.”

On the one hand, it's smart of Moiraine to acknowledge this. On the other hand, it's very dumb of her to refuse to internalize this in any way.

“ ‘The grave is no bar to my call,’ ” she translated, so softly she seemed to be speaking to herself. “The Horn of Valere, made to call dead heroes back from the grave. And prophecy said it would only be found just in time for the Last Battle.”

I feel like maybe in the planning phase the Siuan/Moiraine chat was meant to be one chapter with the Horn being discussed there (hence the icon) and the other disparate POVs meant to be their own thing, but ultimately the one chapter got too long and the other too short and Harriet said "Why not a good chapter break on a dramatic moment?" cause that's good editing advice but they never changed the icons to match.

“Agelmar pushed it into my hands as soon as the Welcome was done. He said he was afraid to go into his own strongroom any longer, with it there. The temptation was too great, he said. To sound the Horn himself and lead the host that answered its call north through the Blight to level Shayol Ghul itself and put an end to the Dark One. He burned with the ecstasy of glory, and it was that, he said, that told him it was not to be him, must not be him. He could not wait to be rid of it, yet he wanted it still.”

Mad respect to Agelmar here, but also: would blowing the Horn at Fal Dara even do anything? The prophecy about salvation instead of glory might well mean that blowing the Horn in any situation except the desperation that Mat and Olver feel at their respective moments would be as effective as if a Darkfriend tried to summon the Heroes to fight for the Shadow.

“And it was not to be found until just before the Last Battle. Can it be that close? I thought, hoped, we would have more time.”

Hey, y'all have a bit over two years to go. That's not nothing.

 “Never more than one false Dragon in a generation since the Breaking, and now three loose in the world at one time, and three more in the past two years. The Pattern demands a Dragon because the Pattern weaves toward Tarmon Gai’don. Sometimes doubt fills me, Moiraine.”

Moiraine of course points out that the Pattern doesn't accept Dragon substitutes, but there is reason to think there's more purpose to so many I-Can't-Believe-He's-Not-Therin products on the market at this point, especially since the two still standing will get struck down when Rand makes his declaration. Basically, since this particular iteration of the Third Age is pretty clearly way off course (hence three ta'veren at once to correct the Pattern), the false Dragons are doing a bunch of the work that Rand no longer has the time to do himself: rallying armies together and giving them and the Aes Sedai combat training so that as many people as possible will be ready for the actual Last Battle. Hence their locations: Ghealdan and Murandy where Rand never has a chance to personally intervene, Illian where Rand doesn't really have time to organize the armies, Tear where he needs them ready as soon as he arrives, and Saldaea that receives the first blow from the Shadow at Maradon. None of the Seanchan-occupied territories get False Dragons because they get their own combat boosts, the two middle Borderlands get nothing because they're just kind of there (and Shienar got its training from hell last book), and Andor and Cairhien are places where Rand has time to source things anyway (plus Andor has the civil war and Cairhien gets the Shaido).

The secret hidden from the world, if the world ever thought of it, was that no Amyrlin Seat had known where any of the seals were since the Trolloc Wars.

Frankly, it's probably mythology that the Tower ever knew the locations of all seven seals. One was in the Eye, made at least 100 years before the White Tower existed. One found its way to Rhuidean, which means it was probably in Aiel hands the whole time and again this predated the Tower. A third seems to have ended up in Seanchan, which the White Tower probably didn't know about even back then.

Losing track of the others though, that's extra sad. The one in the Stone of Tear was almost certainly given to the people of Essenia for safekeeping. The one the Panarch had may well have been distributed similarly - and that suggests that the other two were meant to be safeguarded as well. Both allegedly came from Saldaea, and I'm going to suggest that Bayle's legitimately did so and had been put in the northwest corner of the known world to match the southwest and southeast - and that as a result we can theorize that the fourth may well have been safely in Malkier (and its predecessors) for generations until, y'know. Then Taim the Darkfriend was given it to give to Rand.

“I saw the boy, you know, in the courtyard during the Welcome. It is one of my Talents, seeing ta’veren. A rare Talent these days, even more rare than ta’veren, and certainly not of much use. A tall boy, a fairly handsome young man. Not much different from any young man you might see in any town.”

I'm a wee bit surprised Siuan didn't mention how he really looks less like a town boy and more like an Aiel, but I guess since Rand isn't nearby fretting about his parentage there's no reason to twist that dagger.

“If he is the one, then we truly may have time enough. But is he safe here? I have two Red sisters with me, and I can no longer answer for Green or Yellow, either. The Light consume me, I can’t answer for any of them, not with this. Even Verin and Serafelle would leap on him the way they would a scarlet adder in a nursery.”

Nice of Siuan to suggest that the Browns might be remotely useful (frankly I think the reason these digs aren't tossed at the Whites is that they don't even have hobbies enough for the other Aes Sedai to remember they exist half the time), but frankly I suspect that Serafelle, like Verin, would just start studying Rand for whatever her current book project is.

“I have purposely let him think I no longer have any interest in him, that he may go where he pleases for all of me.” She raised her hands as the Amyrlin opened her mouth. “It was necessary, Siuan. Rand al’Thor was raised in the Two Rivers, where Manetheren’s stubborn blood flows in every vein, and his own blood is like rock beside clay compared to Manetheren’s. He must be handled gently, or he will bolt in any direction but the one we want.”

No Moiraine, you really fucked this strategy up. Ghosting the boy so quickly and thoroughly only made him hurt and resentful about everything, especially since he's already going through so much. It would have been a far wiser move to keep up some degree of communication with him, even if it was just inviting him to tea and a game of stones once a week.

“His two friends, Matrim Cauthon and Perrin Aybara, are ripe to see the world before they sink back into the obscurity of the Two Rivers. If they can sink back; they are ta’veren, too, if lesser than he. I will induce them to carry the Horn of Valere to Illian.”

She's literally already back to scheming and forgetting what she's dealing with. Moiraine. Girl. Get a clue.

“He must be let off the leash for a time. There is no help for it. I have had all of their old clothes burned. There has been too much opportunity for some shred of what they were wearing to have fallen into the wrong hands. I will cleanse them before they leave; they will not even realize it has been done. There will be no chance they can be tracked that way, and the only other threat of that kind is locked away here in the dungeon.”

Like... she literally veers from "Two Rivers stubborn" to "I can make them do whatever" to "I burned their clothing" and it never occurs to her that these claims are all very contradictory. "The Pattern gives no fucks about our plans" gives way to "I will see to everything in Illian" as if she hasn't spent an entire book watching as the Pattern carefully picks up each of her plans and then flings them against a cuendillar wall.

“I have the means to see him named Dragon whether he wills it or not. And even if I somehow fail, the Pattern itself will see him named Dragon whether he wills it or not. Remember, he is ta’veren, Siuan. He has no more control over his fate than a candle wick has over the flame.”

More dramatic irony. Rand has a good deal of control over his fate: he demonstrates in The Gathering Storm that not only can he commit suicide if he feels like it, but omnicide to boot. He had every ability to slay the Dark One at the climax of the series, for all the good that would have done anyone, and walks away. When Rand interprets the Karatheon Cycle, he's correct about what it means, a privilege given to exactly zero other characters. He gets to fall in love without the prophecy of its inevitability hanging over him: it's his own choice, not his capitulation to the Wheel like Min.

Meanwhile, Moiraine has no control over Rand's fate whatsoever. He doesn't go to Tar Valon or Illian until she's long gone and never for the reasons she intends. She doesn't want him to have Thom as a mentor figure, but when she gets rid of him Rhuarc and a fucking Forsaken step up to fill the gap. When she goes through the rings, she sees that the vast majority of timelines - every one where she abandons all concern for Rand the person and embraces any desperate and cold method to save the world - her manipulations only make the situation worse.

The column would have made an impressive sight under the waxing moon, moving through the Tarabon night to the jangle of harness, had there been anyone to see it.

Oh thank god. Hopefully since we're changing POV I'll stop ranting so much.

“My Lord Captain Commander, may I ask why I was called back from Caemlyn, and with such urgency? A push, and Morgase could be toppled. There are Houses in Andor that see dealing with Tar Valon as we do, and they were ready to lay claim to the throne. I left Eamon Valda in charge, but he seemed intent on following the Daughter-Heir to Tar Valon. I would not be surprised to learn the man has kidnapped the girl, or even attacked Tar Valon.”

I think Geofram is missing the bigger picture here. With winter magically over and spring making up the difference, the political situation is now much less tenuous than it was.

“There are forces at work beyond what you know, Geofram. Beyond what even you can know. Choose your men quickly. Now go. Ask me no more. And the Light ride with you.”

Say what you like about Niall being a vile jackass who leads the continent's worst organization (and when I say continent I am including Shara and all their mess), but damn if he's not perceptive. Dude has absolutely no clues about what's going on in the world except an unnatural winter, an uncertain western invasion, and whispers of Trolloc sightings in Andor and he's already deduced that the Last Battle is around the corner and it's time to get ready for it. Such a shame he's so morally repugnant or he could have been a great asset for the good guys.

I have been sent here to meet Questioners?

Shame you're not being put to the Question yourself, buddy. You can be all "Oh yeah they're totally corrupt," but you're fucking allied with them. That's your choice.

Pacified. He wondered if the bodies had been piled outside the village, or if they had been thrown into the river. It would be like the Questioners, cold enough to kill an entire village for secrecy and stupid enough to throw the bodies into the river to float downstream and trumpet their deed from Alcruna to Tanchico.

WHY ARE YOU PART OF THIS GEOFRAM? YOU CLEARLY KNOW BETTER!

(Also weirdly Einor Saren will show up again. I have nothing in particular to say about him though. He exists and if I wasn't obsessively checking which minor characters do in fact recur I wouldn't even realize we're going to see him again in Lord of Chaos.)

For a moment, Bornhald stopped breathing. “Then the rumors are true. Artur Hawkwing’s armies have returned.” “Strangers,” Saren said flatly. He sounded as if he regretted having mentioned them.

You can't just use insistent terminology to bend the world to your will, Saren. They're a very big threat and calling them "Strangers" is just happily living in denial. Bad enough I have to put up with this crap from Rand. Oh well. Onto the next POV!

Twilight was a troubled time for Liandrin of late, that and dawn. At dawn the day was born, just as twilight gave birth to night, but at dawn, night died, and at twilight, day. The Dark One’s power was rooted in death; he gained power from death, and at those times she thought she could feel his power stirring.

Liandrin is quite a glass half empty kind of lady, isn't she? Maybe if you didn't focus on how birth and death are so intrinsically linked there'd be less power for the Dark One to claim, did you ever think of that Liandrin? (Except of course she didn't go Dark out of nihilism, so her focus on death isn't remotely like Ish's despair.)

It was The Dance of the Hawk and the Hummingbird, by Teven Aerwin, which purported to set forth the proper conduct of men toward women and women toward men. Liandrin’s mouth tightened; she certainly had not read it, but she had heard as much as she needed about it.

Liandrin thinks that the proper conduct of men toward women is groveling and pleading for their life and that as long as the woman doesn't like the man or do anything kind to him she can do whatever she likes. Anything that says otherwise is scandalous, anything that suggests men and women might enjoy each other's company offensive.

“Do you walk in the Light, my daughter?” There would be none of that foolishness of calling her sister here. The other woman was older by some years, but the ancient forms would be observed. However long they had been forgotten, it was time they were remembered.

See what I mean from last chapter? Liandrin absolutely hates the idea of respecting someone who might be behaving as if she's even remotely an equal.

Casually she threw the book into the fire. Flames leaped as if it were a log of fatwood, thundering as they licked up the chimney. In the same instant every lamp in the room flared, hissing, so fiercely did they burn, flooding the chamber with light.

We're not even being remotely subtle about Liandrin's general disposition here, are we?

In that moment of doubt and confusion, Liandrin struck. She did not move, but lashed out with the One Power. Amalisa gasped and gave a jerk, as if she had been pricked with a needle, and Liandrin’s petulant mouth perked in a smile. This was her own special trick from childhood, the first learned of her abilities. It had been forbidden to her as soon as the Mistress of Novices discovered it, but to Liandrin that only meant one more thing she needed to conceal from those who were jealous of her.

Just another reason why the general secrecy of the Tower about weaves is stupid. If people knew about Liandrin's trick more generally, they'd have more understanding of her character and she might not have been allowed to progress to the shawl at all.

It was not a perfect ability; Liandrin could not force anyone to do what she wanted—though she had tried; oh, how she had tried. But she could open them wide to her arguments, make them want to believe her, want more than anything to be convinced of her rightness.

Interesting that this kind of Compulsion is so limited compared to what Graendal can accomplish. Is it just a less effective weave, or does Graendal's knowledge of physiology and psychology let her accomplish more outright than Liandrin can?

“Moiraine came to Fal Dara with a Darkfriend.” Amalisa was too frightened to show surprise. “Oh, no, Liandrin Sedai. No. That man came later. He is in the dungeons now.”

And this is an interesting twist on it as well. Amalisa is still quite capable of arguing logically because there's a reasonable way by which she can interpret Liandrin as mistaken but not lying. Is this confusion part of why Liandrin won't name the ta'veren as Darkfriends?

“The Black Ajah is real, child. Real, and here within Fal Dara’s walls.” Amalisa knelt there, her mouth hanging open. The Black Ajah. Aes Sedai who were also Darkfriends. Almost as horrible to learn the Dark One himself walked Fal Dara keep. But Liandrin would not let up now. “Any Aes Sedai in the halls you pass, a Black sister could be. This I swear. I cannot tell you which they are, but my protection you can have. If in the Light you walk and me obey.”

It's also worth noting that except the quote just before this one (which may well be in-character confusion), Liandrin doesn't really say anything explicitly false from her perspective. Even her threats are based in the truth. Either Jordan hadn't quite decided that the Blacks had abandoned the Oaths yet or Liandrin is masterfully keeping her alibi by acting as if she is still bound by them in these public interactions.

Pulling the door shut behind her, Liandrin suddenly felt a prickling across her skin. Breath catching, she whirled about, looking up and down the dimly lit hall. Empty. It was full night beyond the arrowslits. The hall was empty, yet she was sure there had been eyes on her. The vacant corridor, shadowy between the lamps on the walls, mocked her. She shrugged uneasily, then started down the hall determinedly. Fancies take me. Nothing more.

I listed a bunch of possible causes for Rand's paranoia last we saw him, and it was pointed out I neglected the possibility it might be the Gray Man who is going to be a problem soon. I would thus like to note that I am very confident that's what Liandrin feels at this point.

You! No...

Wait no I'm getting way ahead of myself. A fuller quote would be:

Fain stood. “You! Not who I expected.”

Who did Fain expect to break him out of jail? Ishamael himself? Graendal for reasons related to my above quote? Liandrin? A Fade? Not Ingtar, obviously. Guess we can conclude he definitely wasn't at the Darkfriend Social.

Ah well. Next time: Moiraine's plans are smashed with the Pattern's finest cuendillar hammer.

[j228]

anyway aside from all the valid rage and disappointment following the cancellation drama, here’s my actual concern, systemically -

taylor usually isn’t one to personally address fandom disasters. you could argue it’s her signature post-reputation but i think it’s more the scrutiny she received after the infamous “choose the right one” instagram post. she’s notorious for letting bigotry, bullying, misinformation, and worse run rampant in her millions strong global fan base. her standard for fandom drama has always been to pretend it’s not there and watch it fade. and it’s worked.

i assume at her level, voicing most any opinion guarantees loss of revenue. she’s a rare phenomenon where everybody who’s anybody will find an essence in her artwork to connect to, so in her case, this is a good PR move. this distances her from the controversy as much as possible (“she’s not chronically online guys she didn’t even know this was a thing” – remember this? when they’ve voiced their allegiance since the early days of her career. and now we’ve all forgotten that was ever a chapter in her career)

ticketmaster is a huge corporation. in 2019, they had a net worth of over 11 billion dollars. that is no prey in a school yard. however, taylor is the largest pop phenomenon worldwide, not only due to her enduring record sales, but her longevity in multiple global markets and genres. her fans have never failed to put their money where her mouth is (and she has worked painstakingly to make them feel like that is worth their time).

her last major tour, 2017-18, is one of the highest grossing tours of all time, attended by almost 3 million fans across the globe. after a 4 year long wait, three major releases, and 2 re-releases, any business strategist could have predicted the anticipation for the eras tour would eclipse all of her past tours, but big streaming numbers hardly equate to sold-out shows, and conservatively, she released a limited amount of tour dates to anticipate real demand.

tickets from loverfest qualified fans a “boost”, capital one members received pre-sale codes. over a million fans were sent these codes to be “first in line”, or at least some security that reassured them a spot. however, come actual pre-sale period, the system was not only unequipped to handle that sort of traffic, it was downright incompetent. resultant mass discourse drew more attention, generic markets (and lawmakers?) stuck their ears to the walls. it’s a scandal, her fans are angry, record traffic for ticketmaster, calls for abolishing and restructuring ticket selling monopolies. good attention? probably not, but she’s being talked about. and however negative the press, everyone seems to agree the cause for this hysteria is that the brand taylor swift is simply too big.

now that i’ve stated the obvious, here are two different scenarios:

this was planned / this was not planned and playing it safe made a hard situation impossible

1. This Was Planned

i won’t insult anyone reading this or the myth, the legend, the brand herself by ignoring the fact that taylor commanded the payroll practices of two of the largest streaming companies in the world. spotify v apple music doesn’t matter to her, because try as they did, none could best her in any of the issues raised regarding their practices towards compensation to artists. she attacked their money, and they had to listen. why? because they made more money with her despite larger payouts to everyone else, than without her. therefore, the mismanagement of presale, the creation of a separate new system despite demonstrated success of the old verified fan order, the limited dates, the reselling/scalpers nonsense on secondhand sites (good to spare $20,000 a pop, anyone?), and the silence:

1a. is all orchestrated to boost her name into bigger heights and notoriety than she has ever had. it is one thing to sell out stadiums consistently, yet another entirely to create as much scarcity as 9000 stadiums. artists have to approve dynamic pricing, which was one of the main concerns from fans. despite stating tickets would go as low as $49, most nosebleeds started at around $119. ticketmaster is no paper bag to poke at, but for taylor swift, it just might be. they’ve braved bad ux scandals before, and this one would be easy enough to wash down with their (frankly, absurd) service fees attached to every transaction. and when those transactions are 2 million tickets worth 300 dollars on average, they digest just fine.

1b. is where such her old forgive and forget strategy sails weak. the outcry and mass commentary, not unlike rep tour, this time caught wind of several loudmouths (said with the most benign of intentions) who are willing to publicize and push it forward as a rallying call. we have witnessed several calls to action regarding lawsuits, antitrust law adherence, and even federal investigations on ticketmaster. her image as a friend to fans is at the brink, because while most fans are directing their anger at tm, the fact of her own influence is also catching up to many. either she embraces a cold, distanced persona moving forward and maintains her silence, widening the gap between superstar and superfan, or goes all in and attempts to restructure the way tickets are sold and circulated once and for all. she has two options here: embrace her stardom at the expense of the image she’s sacrificed a lot to for the last two decades, or weaponize the situation towards creating yet another paradigm shift in the industry. either way, her image will never be the same. ticketmaster won’t be elated in the circumstance that she turns on them, but remember, most corporations are better with her, even at odds, than without her entirely. she will still allow them to sell her tickets, they will transform into an ethical oasis of suits and vip seats, the show(s) will go on.

1c. is her way of building up to her departure from the industry. i think we all get by now that none of us know taylor, and we never will. the carefully curated image she has to personify will get tiring one day, and that may be sooner than any of us (even her) called for. midnights is her 10th effort, and the biggest ever. once criticized for being a late bloomer to the streaming age, swift has the final say with all midnights’ success and pomp, and she can ride off into the sunset, weary, filthy rich, and an ever-blossomed figure in the industry. maybe she will have kids. maybe she will start a cult and weave flower crowns with blake and ryan, or maybe she’ll disappear and live inside 15-foot boundary walls for the rest of her live. she has nothing to prove anymore, enough money to last at least a dozen generations after her, and a face as recognizable as obama’s or britney spears’. she gets her happy ending (once, i’m assuming, she’s done releasing her re-records).

2. This Was Not Planned

alright, now let’s just assume none of this was planned. capitalist queen that she is, she allowed dynamic pricing, sure. she only released 27 tour dates despite having no smaller a fan base than a mid-sized country, okay. where maybe her silence is her team scrambling to rescue her from the several angles of scrutiny, crafting a nuanced yet no-one-side-leaning statement, and coordinating with tm and taylor nation to create enough reasonable solutions and anti-scalper passages for the fans feeling stranded… maybe. it all sounds very good except we have no reason to believe any of it.

all official press releases from official sources generally say any further sales are cancelled. finality is the word. she is letting the fervor pass. she is hoping day of, when fans are instagramming their costumes and their seats, and scalpers, grown desperate, are relenting to face value resales, everyone will eat their cake and remember it all as a happy little accident. however, this still remarks of an artist unequipped to handle their fame, and is an overtly overplayed motif in swift’s career already. there is no resolution here except that this single handledly indignifies any assertions of her business minded moves, or her calculatedness. it works, but only to a limit. is swift prepared to wear her new image out as proudly as her other ones? where in other senses she could (most often rightfully) claim victim, but for an artist on this level, it all seems naive.

even rep tour, with media scandals and disappearances, scheduled 6 more original stadium shows in the US – despite a minimized cultural influence, radio silence, and a fractured fan base, 6 more shows than the biggest era of her career, a reclaimed public image, and a dignified political and social network. sure, she added more dates; that is on par with general practices during high demand. but no canadian dates, let alone international tour announcements? it speaks either of a disenchanted, feeble step into touring again, or a rash, miscalculated jump in. all catastrophic for the people who have developed intense parasocial relationships with an artist who seems to have shut them out.

[snowviolettwhite]

20 questions for fic writers

Tagged by lovelies @aroeddiediaz and @im-overstimulated-and-im-sad

How many works do you have on ao3?

5

What's your total ao3 word count?

45,372

What fandoms do you write for?

I am currently writting for 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Lone Star, Suits and Stranger Things. I want to write some Captain America aka Steve Rogers and Wednesdays fan-fictions.

Top 5 fics by kudos:

I only have five fics up so all just order them from most to least

manic pixie dream prince

little boy don't you cry, cause the child in you is still alive

Let Me Be Me

he is a liability so hard to please but, he’s a forest fire

don’t have to be sorry for leaving and growing up

Do you respond to comments?

Yes, I always response.

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I haven't written an ending in a while and I write mostly multi-chapter fan-fictions. But so far the most angst fan-fiction am writing are little boy don't you cry, cause the child in you is still alive and manic pixie dream prince.

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I like to write hurt comfort with lots of agnst and fluffy. My thing is if I am going to traumatize my comfort characters they better live happliy ever after at the end of them

Do you get hate on fics?

Not, really. There was this one rude comment some made on here tumblr about my suits omegaverse fan-fiction but I deleted their comment and blocked them

Do you write smut?

I have written sex scenes but I do not think they would be classified as smut, reading smut and then trying to actually write it are two very different experiences.

Craziest crossover?

I don't really write cross overs, maybe one day I will write a 9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Lone Star Fan-Fiction

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

No I have not.

Have you co-written a fic before?

No

All time favorite ship?

Byler, Buddie, Lumax, Tarlos, Stucky (If you know me you know how much I love the best friends to lovers troupe.)

What's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

Probably manic pixie dream prince, I was in a very different place when I started writing it and my mental health was not very good. I feel like I would just like to re-write and re-work it.

What are your writing strengths?

I am really do are writing beautiful description of the setting and people. All the little details. I will write so much description I sometimes won't get to the dialogue.

What are your writing weaknesses?

Probably outlining, I just keep everything up in my head and just grammar and structure.

Thoughts on dialogue in another language?

I am like to include Spanish in my 9-1-1 fan-fiction but I don't if I trust myself.

First fandom you wrote in?

I think I might have been Camp Rock. I think one of the character got amnesia.

Favorite fic you've written?

My favorite is probably "little boy don't you cry, cause the child in you is still alive."

Tagging But Not Pressure @anewkindofme @lochnesswriter @kingofdarkness00 @missmagooglie @lemonzestywrites

[nc-vb]

ik you have a list of recommended manga and stuff, but what are your top favourites??? like your personal faves

I think I've read way too many in my life to make a sane list of them, but imma do my best LMAO (pls I have 1000 tabs open between my phone browser and private browser and my tablet ;-;). I'll give you both bl and straight manga/manhwa ok??

Sign (18+, bl)

This was one of my first bl manhwa I ever read (before I spiralled down the rabbit hole). IT'S SO SWEET, the mc Soohwa gets a job at the ml's cafe, and the ml Yohan is deaf-- Yohan loves when Soohwa signs at him, and Soohwa loves when Yohan talks, and they're both just so so cute, I love this manhwa with all my heart.

The manhwa is completed!!

2. Paljae, Child of Winter (shounen ai)

Where do I even begin with this one, holy shit... the art style would be gripping me by the balls if I had some. It gives a little of tcgf AND mdzs vibes tbh??? the mc Munryeong starts to take care of this tiny "child" he names Paljae but there's a couple of plot twists and surprises that I don't want to spoil, it's SO GOOD.

It's currently ongoing BUT it's on a break before it starts its third season!!!!

3. Pink Heart Jam (18+, bl)

Probably one of my favourite manga; I don't remember much of it so I'm going to reread it-- it's short, about 11 chapters? and it has to do with a band, but the mc and ml are *chef's kiss* wonderful

4. Payback (18+, bl)

I... have many words I could use to express my love for Payback. Jay and Yoohan are skskhsks I NEED A CERTAIN PLOT THING TO HAPPEN BUT IT'S KILLING ME THAT'S IT'S SLOW BURN. Lots of angst and unraveling of truths and facts and it's kind of a revenge story but GOD, those two are so hot, I blush, I blush.

5. Cherry Magic (18+ish, bl)

IT WAS SO GOOD THEY MADE AN ANIME AND A LIVE ACTION SHOW ABOUT THEM OKAY, THAT SAYS ENOUGH, MY CUTIE PATOOTIES AHHHHH

6. One Summer Day (18+, bl)

I just recently started this and it has 50+ chapters so far, but it's by the same artist etc. as Sign!!! it's really good. The mc died and then undied because of an accident he and a Grim Reaper cause, so he's in limbo, alive but is scheduled to re-die once his name gets re-added to a death list or something, but he had a lasting regret because he never had a relationship or anything further, so the Grim Reaper has to give him "organic energy" to calm down those "regrets"... hehehe.

7. The Guild Member Next Door (18+, bl)

I'm putting 18+ for now because I believe the novel for this has smut/sex scenes, but it just hasn't been drawn into the manhwa yet. It's super cute!!! mc plays an online game and meets the ml there, but they don't know who they are irl yet (there's 30 chapters), but the mc ends up moving next door to the ml and the ml thinks the mc is stalking him bc of some previous incidents due to this game-- it's cute. Just read it.

8. Dear Door (18+, bl)

EXTREMELY 18+ SHFSLKLS the ml has to engage in sexual frivolities with the mc in order to open a "door" to hell. This is a completed manhwa with 150+ chapters, a side story (iirc), and some really interesting plot twists. WARNING: this does also contain some dubcon/noncon stuff with certain characters (not including the mc and ml, but also kind of, it's weird). But the story ends on a good note, it's one of my favourites EVER.

9. A House for Samsami (18+, bl)

If you're a fan of hybrid, golden retriever-like characters, this one's for you! A veterinarian finds a stray hybrid on the street and takes him in, and I should reread this because I don't remember the details, but I love the characters, and I really recommend this one for its cuteness. Only 13 chapters so far, I believe; it's slow uploads.

10. Our Sunny Days (18+, bl)

PUREEEEEE PUREEEEE I LOVE THEM SO MUCH AHHHHH

The mc is a single father after a woman he'd been with leaves him with a baby and leaves, and he moves into a small village town where he meets the ml who's like, the village chief, and they both start crushing on each other and sjhfsks d'aww it's just so sweet, I love them. The first season is done at 25 chapters!

11. Bailin and Li Yun & Fathoms of Atonement (bl)

Both of these are by the same artist and are both on Webtoon. They have shorter chapters and one of them just became a Webtoon Original (finally!!!). I won't spoil these ones much; both have to do with merman... enjoy~

12. Mimori's Naughty Mouth (18+, bl)

AHHHH SUPER HOT AND THE MC AND ML ARE HOT TOOOOO, ml is a dentist and mc has a sensitive mouth, like insanely sensitive, so going to the dentist is a nightmare for him... until he gets this dentist. Hehe.

Now for the straights *cracks fingers*

Do Androids Dream of Love? (18+)

After mc's father dies (or someone dies, idr), she's left an android to take care of her, and she's against it at first, but he's very sincere and kind and is programmed to want to take care of her, but he finds himself going against his coding a bit and starts falling in love with her and vice versa... vewy cute. Slow uploads, but long chapters; there's currently 16.

2. I Thought My Time Was Up!

Lariette, my cutie patootie, gets with another cutie patootie Duke, Asrahan, that happens to be cursed, and she happens to have the power to heal the curse, but she's not so strong that she can do it in one shot-- but she thinks she's dying in three months' time and makes a contract to date him for that time because she has a mini bucket list she'd like to complete with him. There's another character, Doha, who slowly falls for her as he heals her and helps train her in her magic. So so good, and Asrahan's blushing moments? oh my god. There's smutty themes, but nothing explicit since it's on Webtoon.

3. Iseop's Romance

Fuck me, reading this hurts my heart because the slow burn is reaaaaaaaal. The mc is the titular Iseop Tae's executive secretary and she's amazing at her job, something he has a complex about because they completed the same program together. The complex slowly turns into a crush and his internal monologues about it are the absolute funniest shit ever. It's on Webtoon at almost 40 chapters.

4. My In-Laws Are Obsessed with Me

SLOW BURN AS HELL I don't even think they've kissed in their almost 100 chapters?? The Lapileon family has a blood curse that kills anyone who touches the blood-- except the mc, Pereshati. I forget exactly why they agree to contract in marriage, I think it's to spite her own House or something, but all of the Lapileon's love Perry, and they start to investigate different things and Perry goes on a business venture-- it's so good, and I adore the art. Webtoon!

5. When Jasy Whistles

I remember crying when this went on its first break after the one season ended, like this story is so fucking good, I WEPT. Jasy Jatare is a rumoured "god" that steals people/children (for whatever reason), and Hela, the mc, has a friend (Rodrigo I think...) who is "taken" by him into a different world, one full of dangers and other tribes of people that either live beneath the thumb of the other gods there or are protected by some (very rare). Hela wants to get her friend back and works with Jasy on a certain condition-- at 100 chapters, a lot happens between them. Sexual themes but not explicit; again, this is on Webtoon.

6. Harem of Luu-Anh (18+, poly)

Ughhhh I love this series. The one on Webtoon is sfw BUT the artist has a Patreon where they post the 18+ series... It's worth it to become their Patron to see it all. The story is well over 100 chapters by now (I believe), plus the Patreon has additional stories having to do with Luu-Anh and her FOUR HUSBANDS, YEAH FOUR HUSBANDS AND THEY'RE ALL FUCKING HOT it's worth it whew.

7. Trapped

I have to catch up in this series... There's about 200 chapters to it, but Chae-A was dealt a shit hand through life and again when she runs into the ml who is a VAMPIREEEEE he's hot though, it's fine, and she's fiery, and it makes for a good enemy to lover story, I SWEAR BY IT.

8. Selina ~ Moon Bride ~

Whyever the fuck Webtoon hasn't turned this into an Original, I'll never get. It is so beautiful, the lore and the characters are so amazing, like... I can't even put into words how much I love and recommend this. Please go read it; it has 228 CHAPTERS Y'ALL AND IT IS A DELICIOUS READ, it's been going on since 2016 but the artist had taken a huge break in between; it updates a few times a month-- PLEASE GO READ AND SUPPORT IT!!! on Webtoon.

9. Tonari no Seki no Hen na Senpai~ (18+, yandere)

Guilty pleasure. Had to pop this in. WAITING FOR THAT EIGHTH FUCKING CHAPTER IS AS PAINFUL AS WAITING FOR A RAMEN CUP TO FINISH HEATING. The ml is obsessed and in love with the mc, and she's put off by it quite a bit because he goes overboard when she finds out, but he's a puppy dog yandere-- imma go read this again tn, tbh. Ahhhh I love it. Want it for myself. Sigh.

All of my other recommendeds is in this list!!

I hope you enjoy all of them; if you want to talk and squeal about them with me, my dms are always open~