#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.

[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 😤

[middlingmay]

I am half way through chapter 6 of That Ol' Devil Called Love, and my brain keeps jumping to scenes in chapter 7.

Just write one thing at a time you little shit.

[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

[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 :)

[maybeiwasjustjade]

Alicent and Aegon (+ Aemond and Helaena)

The best part about writing a fic that’s basically a redux of the whole Dance, is being able to dive into character relationships that the show either abandoned, or didn’t bother giving justice to. Alicent and Aegon’s relationship is just so messy and complex, especially because a lot of it stems from generational trauma. Their relationship (or lack thereof) is the definition of two things can be right and trauma isn’t mutually exclusive.

Alicent having a hard time loving and/or connecting with Aegon because of her trauma AND Aegon thinking his mother doesn’t love him and possibly resents her for it can both be true at the same time.

An abuse victim can also be an abuser.

Alicent may have her reasons for perhaps not being capable of being a loving mother to all her children, but the child feeling unloved is not his fault. Children are not extensions of their parents; they’re real people too

No child is raised by the same parent. Everyone has different experiences even with the same parent.

Aegon and Alicent really were doomed from the start. She was fifteen when she had him—conceived from marital rape, no love shared just duty and lust, an unwanted yet prayed for son—too young by half to be forced into her role. And it really is no surprise that she perhaps had such a hard time connecting with him, or even loving him beyond duty. She had him out of duty; firstborn sons belong to the realm, to their houses, and seldom their mother. Aegon was always meant to be Viserys’ son, not hers.

I think the only child that Alicent actually loves is Aemond (we don’t know anything about Daeron). Helaena, she’s fond of. Overprotective, because Helaena is a girl like her, and like her, she’s going to be forced into a role far too young, with children that will grow up alongside her. But Alicent never really understood Helaena and her quirks, so I don’t think she knows how to really love her either. And as a Dreamer, Helaena would always straddle that line between being her mother’s daughter, and unknowingly a Targaryen Dreamer.

Aemond, though, is Alicent’s through and through. He’s just like her, for all that he looks the most like Viserys. His rage, his anger, his inferiority and insecurity—he hides all of it under a cloak of piety and piousness and cold competence. In a perfect world where Alicent got to choose her own life, Aemond would be her first and only son. Him, she could pretend was a Tower , and not a Dragon.

Aegon is the complete opposite. Aegon is a reminder of everything Alicent hates and regrets and wishes never happened to her. Aegon is all dragon, and none of her. His birth signaled war, his mere existence a crime. The firstborn son who isn’t really the firstborn, because Aegon would never be Baelon. He’s not pious or respectable or cold; Aegon is wildfire ready to burn everything down for just even a shred of love. Because that’s the root of him, isn’t it? A son meant for the realm but was unwanted; a firstborn unclaimed by his own father. A mirror for his mother’s rage and pain.

Alicent loses everything to have him, and it never mattered at all. And then he had the audacity to be born the spitting image of her. She can’t hurt herself without hurting him or love him without causing herself pain, and he only ever wanted to be seen as himself, and still be loved.

(Which is why writing RARTS and ripple is so much fun. RARTS dives a little more into Aegon’s feelings as he grows up the least favorite child of both his parents, and all the many, many issues that comes with it. His mother’s face but Aemma’s hair and eyes. Forever the ghost that haunts Rhaenyra by being the perfect mix of everyone’s she’s ever loved and lost, in the body of the son she’ll never be.

Ripple plays a little more as a character study of Aegon in a world where he wasn’t born with all that strife and trauma attached to his shoulders. Rhaenyra would never be a son, but Aegon would never be Rhaenyra. So what would Aegon be like, in a world without those expectations bearing down on him like a second skin? His promiscuity and drinking seems to be a product of his trauma and need for love, so it’s kinda fun to see an Aegon who doesn’t do any of that while still trying to escape her duties (marriage))

[soupza]

the little look down to his chest... troy i know what you are

[protectoratenova07]

I will defend Coil as a great villain for a lot of reasons and that includes his death. He fell to two established character flaws hitting their max and it made sense it happened when it did and and Tattletale was planning for it since at least arc2 and even then the Undersiders nearly lost because he had that many resources to call on. Wildbow did wonders with the guy. I cheer every time I reread and he dies

[spider-man-sass]

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

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

[spicyicymeloncat]

Not Ninjago fandom trying to pretend that Misako, Wu, Julien and whoever else were toxic family when Chen, Vangelis and Kalmaar are right there.