#probably something to do with media but idk

[sleepyslag]

yeah I frequently think about how they probably have never really even held hands in public in 15 years. (with the exception of the crafts video, I don’t count that bc it was a production) like maybe at friends’ houses like if they’re hanging out with pj and sophie or their offline gay friends maybe?? but like I feel like for most people in longterm relationships, it’s such a normal thing to slip your hand in your partner’s hand while grocery shopping or walking to dinner or something. hugging your partner when you feel like it in public. giving them a kiss on the cheek. they’ve never gotten to do normal little things like that-maybe in 2009/2010 but idk given how closeted dan was back then. I wonder if they ever want to and if it would feel freeing for them. I just want them to be able to feel as free and happy and authentic as possible

Yeah :( I don't think they would have been that comfortable in public in the early days like they were flirting all over social media but it's different if anyone can see you??

I'm sure they're used to it but it must be so hard to have to watch everything you do and say with your partner just in case you're spotted or photographed somewhere. Constantly being Aware of that for your entire relationship has to be exhausting.

I don't care if they never hard launch I just do think it would be good for them to just. Relax a little bit??

My opinion is that they've been trying to build up to it with all the touching they've been doing lately to make themselves more comfortable.

[insertmeaningfulusername]

Fanfic writer interview

Thank you for the tag @sinvulkt 💙

What fandoms do you write in?

Literally just various Star Wars media atm. The main focus for 2024 was the prequel era, mostly The Clone Wars and some Bad Batch.

How many words have you published in 2024?

172,387 according to my stats. I wrote more than that though, and I still plan on posting and backdating approximately 5 one-shots I wrote in 2024 but never got around to post.

What are your top three fics you’ve written this year?

I despise/love them all equally I guess if I had to choose, I'm still really happy with these three: Wanted, a gift for @omaano in which Dogma gets morning snuggles from Tup and Fives. Idk why this pairing is so rare, they're underrated!! The Meaning Is Ours, the first fic I ever wrote that's entirely original characters, for the 2024 Trans Clone Week. Both Hunter and Prey, my fic for the DinLuke mini bang in which Luke is a vampire and on the hunt for a certain Mandalorian. I just think it's hot sklfjadlksfj.

What was your biggest pit of despair moment?

Oh boy... maybe writing the gift fic for the Star Wars Rare Pairs exchange. It just kept getting longer and longer!! Which, really, I should have probably expected, because among other ships my giftee requested Polybatch with a focus on Echo getting railed and I just couldn't resist, and of course all the Batch members wanted a turn. And the fic kept being a thorn in my eye even after it was posted because people would request another fic based on a flashback scene that's maybe one paragraph long, all without complimenting the 13k I'd already written 😭 like, you really expect me to write more fic for you when you can't even comment on the fic that's already there??? Idk what to tell you but fanfiction writers aren't content machines where you can just press a button that says "Next story, please!"

What have you learned?

That people will love the fics you think are hot garbage and entirely pass by the stories you put a lot of thought and energy into. It's an old lesson but one I have to keep re-learning.

Did you beta any fics? Any faves you want to shout out?

I betaed or cheerread two or three things but I don't know if they've even been posted...

What three fics have you read this year that you love?

I have to admit that I don't read a lot of fanfiction, but these three I've found in my bookmarks: Ready Room by countessofbiscuit, in which Fi and Corr make out - ultra rare pair content from the Republic Commando novels and so sweet and silly (like Fi) and just a tiny bit bittersweet! Nine-Seven by Trudemaethien, with some platonic Sev & Niner. It's just so refreshing to see aroace headcanons finally arriving in fandom. Save an AT-RT (Ride an ARF Trooper) by BilbosMom, WaxerBoil, containing both smut and humor - my favourite combination!!

What ideas are percolating for next year?

Nothing concrete so far. Maybe finish some of the WIPs in my pile, try to write more than one fic for the Codywan First Kiss Bingo so I'll at least get a bingo, and try to write something for the @cloneshiprarepair monthly ships (go check out this event btw, there are some crunchy ships getting served up!). Probably try to sign up for fewer exchanges because I can feel my interest in Star Wars slipping.

No pressure tagging @lesbiankiliel @wolveria @loverboy-havocboy @violentcheese @bilbosmom-belladonna @forloveofcodywan @anxiousotters @five-oh-thirst @the-starry-seas @hastalavistabyebye @theproblemwithstardust @violetjedisylveon @elimaryholmes @rooksunday @ladylucksrogue

[shelterdogswag]

i fully did not expect to love chilchuck so much

like i didn't have any issues with him or anything, but having just had only the plot info with some slight the knowledge of the gals, going into this show i was pretty confident i'd lean heavy towards favoring marcille

in the first few episodes, i could like sense my preferences shifting towards chilchuck, and like honestly it kind of really bothered me? like of myself, i was irritated by my taste turning like that? which is incredibly silly, i think i knew that lol, i think like sometimes i get caught up in wanting to enjoy certain aspects of media purely because of what they are so it bothered me that my natural inclination was moving to chilchuck

sometimes the man hating lesbian in me gets like way too overboard about it lol

but like, i'm barely halfway through the show, i probably haven't even seen a lot of what develops, but still i really fucking love how his character is being written

don't get me wrong i do adore marcille, she's great and well written and i enjoy her

but idk man something about chilchuck is really resonating in a way i couldn't have possibly anticipated

[quibbs126]

Last night my brain came up with the idea again that Megatron’s fusion cannon is like a Minicon that attaches to him (or at least makes his cannon stronger), but instead of it being a small person, it’s an animal Minocon like Laserbeak or Ravage

It’s just like his cool pet he has that is also very useful in a fight. Probably bites people outside of the cannon usage too

[deankarolina]

nine albums that got me through 2024

tagged by @yvesbuprofen thank you! have I mentioned how much i love your url btw cos i do cannot get over how good it is whenever i see it

So a large part of the reasonings for some of these is gonna be concerts + yes all the loona girls getting a spot here

i did - yves: not to be parasocial but yves was honestly a large part in getting me through the winter, her releases this year have been amazing and having her concerts to look forward to had me pushing through everything I had going on & getting to meet her multiple times after being a fan for 7 years was wild. her newest album is so good and i don't think i can explain how some of the tracks on that emotionally resonate with me with dim maybe being one of my fave releases.

ttyl - loossemble: this album was such a great showing of the girls talents, you could really just see them shine and how happy they were performing and showing it off just filled with upbeat bops also that just made me happy.

dall - artms: deciding last minute to go to their concert despite my anxieties and such was such a correct choice it really dug me out of a hole i'd fallen into at the time and seeing them perform this album was amazing, the tracks are so joyful to me (& like w/ yves interacting w/ lip & choerry was just <3).

howl - chuu: while loving her strawberry rush release this yr & how upbeat it made me I think I ended up gravitating towards the howl tracks for comfort a lot more especially aliens <3.

the land is inhospitable and so are we - mitski: I've gone to see mitski nearly everytime she tours in ireland since her first show in 2016 with a tiny audience with the same 2 friends each time, so after they immigrated this year it was very melancholic to go to her dublin show alone & then very emotional to travel to see her concert with those 2 friends in the new country where they're based + seeing the growth of her music and performance from then to now really felt like the culmination of some personal things for me that persisted every time i listened to this album through the year.

aaa - hyukoh & sunset rollercoaster: this one is just an album that I had on a lot tho usually in parts with about half of the songs on this exactly being the type of music that can get me through doing mundane tasks and the other half being music that would just help me sleep

sink - sudan archives: just a hypnotic stunning album great for relaxing, do yourself a favour and listen to her tiny desk the way she uses that violin is just fantastic 'nont for sale' a fave.

jubilee - japanese breakfast: yeah this one esp 'posing In bondage' is just another one of those that would relax me a lot it was very much a just a late night repeat play many a times.

adventure - momoko kikuchi: I have this on cassette and anytime I needed a break from my phone or just being online at all (which was a fair few times) I'd end up popping this on and forgetting everything else.

tag if you'd like: @staghunters @blastburnt @elizabeth-mitchells @kdramamilfs @everyoneisrelevant

[no1ryomafan]

I said this vaguely in my last post here but the other factor about starting school yet I’m still not done with g Gundam even if I’m close is I DESPERATELY want to start another show even if it’s going to be pushed back if it’s something that’s decently lengthy even if I have no plans to jump into another 40+ ep show after I’m done with G, I’m rotating too many 20+ ep shows I want to watch… Imagawas take of tetsujin, his take of mazinger as well that I did see bits of but never finished, but also for non imagawa yet mecha stuff gun x sword looks interesting and I’ve been eyeing for awhile yet still haven’t sit down and watched.

Oh and I’m also going to start another watch of casshern sins and I’m still watching big o with my bf even if we’re further into that-like the same amount of how much of G I have left-plus we’re likely gonna start something else after so I have 3 shows at all time to fucking juggle and I put this upon myself because I force people to become obsessed with what I’m obsessed with 💀

[cherrysnax]

im very silly but sometimes it annoys me when people don’t enjoy something the exact same way I do. and it’s suuuuch a bad trait and I’m working on it 😭

[slightlycomicobsessed]

i find it really indicative of people's support of trans people of if they call (cis) characters by their much more common nickname that the character explicitly says they prefer or by their birth name

[scaramutual]

always torn between "you must be your entirely unfiltered self and express your interests so that you'll make good friends" and "if you're too honest you will be pelted to death with rocks"

[howlingdemon13]

If I had a nickel for every fandom I wandered into that has a toxic attitude towards adaptations of the source material, I'd have two nickles... And I don't even want one nickel at this point...

[medeasfirstborn]

man. i really don’t care about robots.

[ame-to-ame]

My friends are so nice to me??? I love them???

[bambiraptorx]

rip to all of my ocs who have been abandoned to the sands of time (never existed outside of my brain so there's nothing to reference about them except my own fallible memory)

[thrileikur]

fuuuuuuuck i guess i have to start making shokogum propaganda on top of my usual fubblefare now

its not that i dont hate the specific ship or think its inessential to anyone involved, i like the vault as an episode a lot but its hard for me to really formulate shoko as an individualized character because… thats literally finn. shes had her own plotline but the whole thing with her boils down to finn having to close the case on a centuries-old matter since its telling that its spiritually etched onto bonnie on how finn will always come back to her in any way that greatly merits her (and somehow im crazy for caring that much). the issue is that i learned i just cant really do with characters that dont consistently move the plot forward in shows with a narrative like at’s.

dont take this as hate if you find it, i greatly sympathize with shoko and find it distressing how she could never really solve any of her problems, especially hers with bonnies during the last minutes of her life. maybe thats what influenced bubbline

[ribcageeater]

Im probably not going to post anything for a while I'm sorry. I love you guys

[critterchitters-closedcaptions]

trying to decipher if the overwhelming dread & Thoughts are cause of the state of the world or cause i need a shower.

vent post in the tags. idk. do whatever 👍