#tbf fanfic

[jafndaegur]

Kiss Goddess of Death

Thunderbolt Fantasy Fic

Lang Wu Yao

Everyone say thank you to depressed music witch and his talking guitar/j for single handedly curing my writer's block. This train of thought from what happens in Ep 1 had me in a choke hold and wouldn't let me go.

Breathe in.

The air is acrid, a tepid metallic that is rank against the nose. Lang Wu Yao moves to cover his nose with his sleeve only to pause. He stares at the two demons before him. They laugh and scorn as they walk, bodies sashaying through the nebulously grim terrain.

"Oy, kid. You okay?" Ling Ya's voice is distant, echoing faintly at the recesses of his hearing.

His heart thunders viciously against his chest; every fiber, every nerve, roars at him to turn the other direction and leave. This place is poison. It's lethal to humans like him.

A human like him?

"Lang?" Ling Ya's voice is an echo, a dull whisper of its usual presence.

Lang Wu Yao pictures Shang, so burdened by the Sorcerous Sword Index, a man standing in the sunlight; a silhouette of himself, never allowing himself the freedom to be truly lit. Every detail of power, every etching of his masterful strength hidden to keep others safe. That is a human. Someone doing his best with the unfair cards given to him.

His hand clenches, and he sucks in his breath again. The air is acrid, and tepid, and he forces himself to savor it. To accustom himself to it.

That demon Azibelpher, his father, brings him to a trial; one to prove himself. One that not just anyone can claim victory over.

"A mere human won't be able to defeat such a vicious beast," Azibelpher warns with a sneer.

Ling Ya's fury roils off its body in waves. "Dammit, that was your goal all along?"

Closing his eyes, Lang listens. Really listens. He senses the monster as it screeches in wrath; the snide triumph in his father's voice; the air nocking faint melodies against Ling Ya's strings. He breathes out.

If Shang Bu Huan is the silhouette before the sun, then Lang is the shadow cast to the ground. A voice that mimicks the tone of a man, a voice that mimicks what it means to live. Perhaps this has always been his curse from the moment of birth. Even so, it is up to chance that leads his heart with such an unforgiving grip.

He knows that even if he forgoes the path well trodden beneath the effervescent warmth of day, even if he transforms into something vicious, and cold, and demonic like Azibelpher—the song in his heart will guide him back to the light. To the sun. To the hand that always seems to reach out to him, despite the burden it already bears.

"I've long since steeled my resolve," Lang grits out, reaching for Ling Ya as the pipa transforms into his sword.

[gunpowdercarousel]

Me as a fanfic writer

[grey-eyed-gemini]

Is there tumblr bookbinders that... aren't hardbinding fanfic? Like, love and light and all support to them that do, but i want someone or a community who i can talk about experimenting and fucking around and doing nuts things with my covers and dyeing pages or weird measurements for books. Like, bookbinding as a weird mixed media art being the focus, rather then what's in the pages, if that makes sense? Is there anyone out there?

[inukag]

Inukag made it to AO3’s top 100 m/f ships of 2024 at number 72! The only Inuyasha ship to do so.

Credit: paulieponzie

[saym0-0]

been catching up with @watcheraurora's various fics today so uh. heres tango from ice walls pointing at spiderman. it was going to be walls of fire tango (ice walls roleswap) with cyber city walls tango (completely separate au) thrown in the back for fun but alas i am lazy, so you only get ice walls tango for now

[justaz]

s1ep10 where everything is the same except theres a few other kids around merlin and the gangs age in ealdor and they have the most passive aggressive beef ever

merlin (explaining the tensions while covering his ass bc the villagers may not know about his magic but they know and he cant let arthur find out): and thats mary. she threw rocks at me when i was younger so i shoved a fistful of dirt in her mouth. i just didnt realize there was a worm in the dirt until she was spitting it all out and coughed up a worm. it had the effect of someone coughing up a frog. it fueled a bunch of rumors about me being a sorcerer

mary (after greeting the prince very respectfully): merlin. youre back. how lovely.

merlin, smiling: mary!! yes, of course i am. when i heard that ealdor was in danger i just had to come back and help. you know ive always had a knack for worming my way out of trouble so i thought if anyone can help, its me.

mary: how hopeful. i dont think ive ever seen you wield a sword. or any other weapon. you seem to keep to your…talents.

merlin: we never spent much time together so i cant fault you for not noticing my many other talents. contrary to what you think, i do like to get my hands dirty.

[centaur-dreaming]

Local woman declared insane after writing 23k words for a one-shot

[zabiume]

never forget who invented the "ichigo is a bad cook" headcanon 😤

[yrrtyrrtwhenihrrthrrt]

Me: God I hate romance movies. They're so boring and all the same, the characters are never likeable, and romance isn't even a compelling concept for a movie! I don't give a shit about people falling in love, show me a story about friendship, about the senseless cost of war, about the evil and the good of humanity. There are more interesting and important things in this world than romance!

Also me: *literally only writes romance*

[lafamilledelioncourt]

Claudia to Daniel when Marius tells Louis her secret and completely ruins her life:

read the lastest chapter of ADOC here

[renirae]

Jason, Tim, and Damian have a movie night!

from chapter 3 of my fanfic "the beginning of something new" on ao3 :)

[all-too-unwell-13]

i've never written a fanfic before but i got an idea randomly today for a rosekiller au and i really want to try writing it

[seriousbrat]

I know abt the shit that Snape stans say abt Lily, but what do Marauders stans say?

You mean negative stuff? Well a lot of it isn't really directly negative, it's more just that people need her out of the way so they can ship James with Sirius's rando little brother. Even though this is ridiculous because nothing is stopping anyone, but I think newer Marauders fans can often overcompensate because many view shipping/stanning as a moral act, so the fact that they obviously don't care about Lily makes them feel guilty lmao. In fact I think there's arguably a tendency among mainstream marauders fandom to be overly positive about Lily just in a way that lacks the consideration and complexity people give to their favourite male characters. Like yes she's a girlboss but what else? Well-written characters are supposed to have flaws and foibles balanced with strengths, that goes for women too.

So while making her out to be a traitorous she-devil is obviously something I dislike, I think it can go too far the other way too, where she's just a 'sweet lesbian girlie' happily dwelling in the background with no real problems or depth or protagonism of her own.

Lily's often made a background character in The Story of Regulus, at the service of the narrative needs of the male protagonists, and typically paired with a random female background character in a way that can feel like an afterthought and really just a convenient shunting aside of Lily's character masked by faux-progressiveness. Making a character queer isn't a replacement for giving them depth and nuance. It's especially grating when the same people accuse anyone who points this out of 'reducing Lily to being a mother' even though it's that section of fandom who often uses Lily as a surrogate/baby-making machine for the male characters, which is quite literally, in the most literal, biological sense possible, reducing her to being a mother lmao.

For the record, I don't think there's anything wrong with having Lily be a background character, or not using her at all, on an individual basis. (although I admit I find using her as a surrogate fairly appalling as a concept. but that's just me.) I myself have used her as a background character and paired her with Mary in Lippy Kids. Also, it's fandom and people are going to do whatever they want, it's not up to me to stop them and I wouldn't want to lol. I'm not going after individual people for doing this in their own writing.

As I've said before though, I believe it's worth pointing out in a general sense because it's such an overwhelming tendency. I think simply being aware of the fact that you and people around you centre men in life and art is a positive thing-- even if you don't actively do anything to change it, because sometimes talking and thinking about the issue can lead to it changing on its own. We all do this to some extent-- I recently went through my own fics and realised I have more male-pov fics than female. I'm not going to write anything purposefully to correct this because that wouldn't feel natural and it's not a huge issue on its own, but I'm just aware of it moving forward.

Looking through any marauders' era tag (even the jily tag rip) or ao3 categories/statistics, etc, gives you a pretty clear idea of who is prioritised by fandom and who is not. And the argument that Lily is too minor of a character to care about falls a bit flat when characters like Regulus, Barty, and Rosier are so much more popular in mainstream marauders fandom than she is.

Curiously I have seen Marauders fans use the same exaggerated criticisms of Lily that Snape fans do (viz. 'she was a terrible friend!!11' which is so ridiculous given none of these beloved male characters are winning friend of the year awards.*) AND I have seen plenty of Snape fans who are normal about Lily, either because they like her themselves or are just able to be objective about characters lol. So either way it's not a universal thing.

* arguably except regulus but his friend of the year award is because of what he did for kreacher, not james or sirius or barty or anyone else. and regulus stans never care about that. stop lily erasure but also on a minor, less relevant note, stop kreacher erasure

[lupins-hehim-pussy]

I wanna know ur Fontaine msq criticisms 👁️👁️👂I’m all ears

I'm not sure if you wanted me to talk about this secretly or publicly but! Here I go!

The TLDR: Fontaine MSQ aestheticised prison, poverty, child abuse, the justice system/court and didn't properly address any of it.

More:

Focalors/Furina has way too much of a sympathetic angle for a dictator who's lets people drown with her inaction.

Neuvillette feels Bad for sentencing some people to death/prison, but that's it. He's one of the most powerful people in Fontaine. If he felt like there are systemic injustices, I.E sending an abused Child to prison, he should be the first person to DO something about it, not just cry and be sad so the audience can be like aw, that's complex character writing isn't it? No it's not! And guilt doesn't absolve you!!!!!!! (These are stuff we deal with in OTCOJ read my fic now /j)

Meropide has children in it, both Sentenced there (Wriothesley) and BORN THERE (Lanoire), and this is just a quirk of the place. Not only that, Meropide accepts prisoners of all genders and crimes. There are abusers and abuse victims in one place. Do you know how bad that is? How much potential for crimes to happen in a place like that— oh wait, Meropide isn't under Fontaine's jurisdiction. If you are assaulted as an inmate it literally means nothing to the court.

Wriothesley had no qualifications when he took over. Depending on how long he lived on the streets, how old he was when he killed his parents, how old he was when he was first taken in by the orphanage, etc, the man might never have more than 4–5 years of formal education. Sigewinne probably had to teach him how to write reports. And do Meropide's spreadsheets. Edit because I forgot to elaborate on this one: This isn't a point brought up anywhere, which is bad, because when poverty and incarceration robs you of a proper education (and the rights to vote in many places too, too, by the way), it reduces your prospects for jobs, reduces many people's ability to get a home etc etc. Wriothesley was just, narratively, Given his position.

Meropide is an industrialized prison, and they portray this as a good thing. Prisoners are paid in coupons for their labour, and this is also portrayed as a good thing.

The One-Meal-A-Day reform was something Paimon gushed about being so great of a perk, that people might want to go to jail for food (could be interesting and reflective of systemic poverty if MHY had brains, but they don't, so I was just Pissed because essentially all Paimon wanted to say was "Prison isn't so bad, but still don't go to prison guys! Prison labour is really hard!"). By the way, in most real-world prisons they are obligated to feed you three meals a day. Because that's how much food a human needs. MHY went with one meal just so they can say "if you want to eat more, you have to work." And then the welfare meal is a goddamn gacha. So imagine you're a starving child who's too weak to work in the fucking robot assembly line, and you wander up for your first meal in 24 hours, only to luck in with a shit one. I'd kill myself.

They wrote Wriothesley, who's a victim of the system, into a guy who's say shit like "I'm the Duke I can do whatever I want" for a cool moment where he choke-slams an inmate (I know he was a bad guy. But also, in copaganda when cops are violent/disregarding protocols, they are always only portrayed to do that against bad guys, so what does our critical thinking tells us about this one?) They wrote Wriothesley, who was an inmate of a prison so bad, so notorious that it is the literal boogeyman of Fontaine, that has a legal (???) fighting pit, with an administrator who abuses his position to be unreasonable, to willingly stay in the place and become an Administrator who would choke-slam an inmate while saying a cool line about how he has the power to do whatever he wants. They wrote him, the guy who had to be fed on the streets by melusines, to think one-meal-a-day was a good enough reform (while he spends god-knows how much on his boat). This wasn't a victim-turns-into-abuser narrative either, they want all this to be seen as positive character growth.

And then, the final kicker is, they gloss over his entire abuse. You can only read about these shit in his profile, which most people don't because they don't Have Him or doesn't care to unlock it/read it online, and they jammed his entire backstory into a flaccid info-dump at the end of his character story quest. This man isn't Allowed to feel abused and neglected and show any reaction to it within the narrative of Fontaine itself, because if they actually Gave Weight to what happened to him, they'd have to confront THE FUCKING JUSTICE SYSTEM they had NO PLANS on criticising. I don't think they ever explicitly said the fucking Crime-Theatre nonsense was Bad either.

I could go on, but this is already so long. But yeah, I hope this gave you an idea.

[dyaz-stories]

okay, this is a stupid poll, but I've seen several TikToks now where people talk about the use of "Dead Dove: Do Not Eat" where people say that it can be used in any situation to just mean that the tags are in the fic. eg, it can be used on a fic tagged as fluff just to mean "there IS fluff ahead". I've always seen it as a tag that means "there be some (potentially, to you, the reader) fucked up shit coming, don't come complaining when it happens!" and tbh I don't see the point of using it as anything other than an additional warning bc the tags are the initial warning but maybe that's on me?

So how do you use it/how do you think it should be used?

Reblogs are appreciated :)

[spider-man-sass]

Spider-Man Unlimited Infinity Comic (2023) #34 & 36

More of the adventure where Spider-Man fought a rogue AU fanfiction writer.