#seriously y'all

[honey-intherock]

So y'all think they were laughing at us

Like

Y'all think they saw how we were losing our collective shit over Arms and they were just sitting back and giggling about what was coming next

Because literally the second he started undressing my brain started making a noise like when you put a couple of shoes in a washing machine

[forsooth-verily]

"No matter what reality we're in, I could never hurt you"

[heretherebedork]

When Strongberry has to release a letter telling people that, no seriously, the actors aren't really dating and stop harassing one of them for having a girlfriend in real life... y'all, this is why I absolutely do not engage in most fan and actor related content. It's terrifying out there.

Also why I'm not a big fan of fanservice, honestly. As this letter proves, there are people out there that see fanservice and decide it's not just real but more real than reality and I see it all over and this is just... man, I do not get it and I don't want to get it.

I see posts recommended to me trying to 'explain' why Ohm and Nanon aren't acting together as them hiding their relationship or the huge amounts of people declaring that 'these two actors are dating for real' and just... again and again.

Actors are real people and everything you see of them in the public's eye is, to one extent or another, acting. Their private lives are just that. Private. And they deserve that.

The fact that Strongberry has to release a statement about this for something on an actor's personal instagram is just... painful. @absolutebl Why we both fall where we fall on fanservice exemplified.

[talesfrommedinastation]

Just read the ‘making of’ behind the scenes regarding the second season of House of the Dragon.

Taken from r/houseofthedragon

In between this, Eric Kripke’s gross behavior in regards to assault on The Boys, and, well, the behavior of the staff running the last season of The Bad Batch….

…I’m convinced it’s a combination of glue huffing, hubris, nepotism, and low bars that get people hired to write shows these days. I’m not even talking about The Witcher, which violated the Geneva convention with how much the writing gave fans physical pain.

Christ, during my dissertation process, I got annihilated by my committee over each word choice. I had to get rid of whole chapters*. I had to write memo after memo about chunks of word selections.

It was hard and brutal.

Still, I ended up with a PhD, and my work ended up being published in different journals when all was said and done. It was solid.

Why don’t mainstream writers deal with this?! FUCK!

*= I ended up taking one, polished it up, and sent it to a publisher. It’s now a chapter in a major textbook so there’s fucking that.

[bandedbulbussnarfblat]

was about to start working on my xmas fic, then remembered i hadn't posted the 2nd chapter of Sheer yet.

even though it's almost finished; as that was the whole reason I posted chapter 1 bc i thought I'd have the 2nd chapter up in a day or two.

anyway, my goal for today is to post the 2nd/last chapter of Sheer.

Then moving forward my main focus will be to finish my xmas fic, since it has a dead line.

And if I finish it by December, I'll let myself start that other xmas fic that i took notes for last year and should be able to finish, as I used some hallmarky type movie as inspiration. so i just gotta rewatch the movie and reread the notes and finish the outline (this part wasn't really for y'all, i just need a carrot to dangle in front of myself)

so if y'all catch me slipping, up here posting/reblogging/chatting or whatever, call my ass out and tell me to go write

i'm gonna try to write for at least 2 hrs. So until then, I'm out

[mark-gently]

don't forget to look at the moon tonight

[lauramkaye]

Attend The Tale of Space Javert

I finally got a copy of that one Boba Fett short story from 1996. ("The Last One Standing" by Daniel Keys Moran, from the Tales of the Bounty Hunters short story anthology.)

It is. A TRIP.

For some reason, given the space to make up a cool backstory for an iconic space badass, the writer decided to go with "Lawful Good Straight-Edge Virgin Ex-Cop".

Did you enjoy "sex between those not married is immoral"? Get ready for "drink and other drugs are an insult to the flesh" and "substances that are not addictive frequently lead to the misuse of substances that are." And he disapproves of the Rebellion because he thinks it's IMMORAL to rebel against the government, because it "threatened the system of social justice that permits civilization to exist."

He's freaking SPACE JAVERT, but extra puritanical and without the devastating epiphany that made Javert so compelling.

He does have a couple of moments/lines that are good; I'm especially fond of the line where he expresses disdain for Han Solo thus: "He's a brave man, yes; he's also a mercenary who's never done a decent thing in his life--never done a difficult thing that somebody wasn't paying him for."

Overall, though, it's just so deeply ODD when you compare it to established current (and even later/other Legends) canon for Boba.

[spymeister]

//Absolutely the one and only jazz portrayal. From his subtle danger, his funky grooving vibe, and his skittering gremlin hours. I love his FACE, plus the cryptid jazz energy goes hard

//you can't see my happy flailing from here, BUT KNOW THAT IT'S HAPPENING. Thank you so much! Honestly, you're one of the people that keeps me going. You let me ramble, do things with me and i'm just so happy you're in my life.

[sayyourprayers]

Byker fanfic prewf that maike whealer is only interesting when ooc. Bish he not a player. He's barely a videogame player rn. Not even a guitar player. Role player yes. But that dnd stuff. So listen. N DND the equilibrium of the universe. Y'all hate him so much omg. Poor boy. He's only 14. So much pressure to live up to these expectations of which he's measuring up to NONE atm. I stand by Mike. #MicOnStandby

[isit-isitreal]

I am once again reminding you that this is all AI imagery.

Wounds of the Earth

— by xis.lanyx

[chaotic-pulsar]

I sometimes get overwhelmed with how much love there is in my heart. If you're reading this, I love you, I hope you're safe, I hope you smile today, and I'm glad you're in my life. <3

[astral-the-space-traveler]

Listen y'all, I need y'all to understand that your head canon is, in fact, your head canon. That doesn't make it any less valid for you, however you must understand that it does not and cannot contradict the head canon of another. All these mothefuckers saying some dumb shit like "x ship is illegal" just because they don't like a pairing or someone else's reading of a character.

[sparklywaistcoat]

I am begging you, for the love of God, to stay as far away as you possibly can from Threads.

[kiera-raelyn]

I love the Klimt take on Zutara. Not sure why, as he's not exactly my favorite, but...

Back to my brief Zutara phase

[totallynotsloughjykk]

I think it's so funny that hua cheng held an intense, long, 800-year-old grudge against mu qing for not letting him die in the army for his celebrity crush while mu qing had no fucking idea who he was until like book 4

[kitsunespawz]

Morning on the Polar Tang

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