#the fact that there is no fic of them is A TRAVESTY

[4th-make-quail]

Just remembered these from s11 and I literally can't stop thinking about it.....

WHY DID HE SAY THIS

[fucktheroyals]

Ok I went diving into the Kidlawlu fanfic on ao3 and I kid you not, when I searched by kudos the FIRST TWO are rated T and the top one is 24K of modern au ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIP bliss. UGH I HAVE UNEXPECTEDLY ASCENDED.

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Fic: Embarrassing

Orange Cassidy/Zack Sabre Jr., NC-17, ~3k

This is a game of chicken gone wrong. 

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"Oh, no no no," a voice says from behind, and Orange doesn't even have time to react before a hand grabs one of his wrists and an arm settles around his throat, restraining him and dragging him backward.

There's a mouth against his ear, muggy and cloying.

"We're not done here, sweetheart," it tells him.

Orange brings his free hand up, trying to dislodge the forearm around his neck, struggling and catching a flash of blond hair.

Of course it's Zack. It couldn't be anyone else.

"That's it, darling, just let it happen."

Orange's feet slip against the linoleum and it feels like a losing battle.

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[chillhypocrite]

In the spirit of Halloween, I thought I would bring to everyone’s attention the absolute travesty that is the lack of creepy Merlin fanfiction on archivofourown.

There are a few people who write it, and I shall enclose some of my favorites, for your perusal.

^ Creative, and captures your attention.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/7287418

^I read this in the dark at 2am, and it was good enough to give me the creeps. The imagery on the beasts was good, and the use of Gwaine’s reaction as a gauge for how frightening they were to fight was a good way to get me to take them seriously.

^ unexpected! I didn’t really know what I was getting into. This isn’t too paranormal, but Definetly darker than the show.

IN EXCHANGE FOR YOUR HEART: one of my all time favorites. I read this as one of my intro Merlin fanfics, because I’m a sick fuck, and I’ve thought of it almost every day for a year. Not really horror, and MUCH longer than anything on this list- but psychologically, I think it has a similar effect. Read the tags.

THE MONSTER IN THE MIRROR: Caffinatedflumadiddle is, of course, one of the GOATS of Merlin fanfic. I love this one, and how it deals with Merlin being effected. I’ve reread it at least three times.

L’ULTIMO UOMO (the last man): Lordy, if I could pay this author to take this concept and expand it into a long fic, I would. I adore how unreservedly dark this is, and how the author does not shy away from the fact that everyone, no matter who it is, can turn mean. I love it. God.

[esther-dot]

i'm a sansa stan first and foremost, and i tried to ship s@nsan so hard lmaooo but when they start saying shit like "sansa has wet dreams about the hound" and "sansa actually likes older men", argh, i just can't. do. that. i know george said something about playing with it in the books, but i also think that he wanted to raise a few questions with the relationship, one of them being "who protects sansa from her protector?". like, there's TRAUMA in there. it's funny that they accuse jonsas of using sansa as a self-insert bc i don't know if you ever read a s@nsan fic or saw the fanarts, but they REALLY wanna bang that man 😭

(about this ask)

Nothing in the fandom horrifies me as much as Sansan. I’ve had nice Sansans come into my inbox, so I do distinguish between my feelings about the ship and the shippers, but I hate the reinterpretation of the Hound because it minimizes what he did/tried to do to Sansa. Instead of the later scenes where Sansa thinks of him being about her processing the trauma of his assault, suddenly, they become a gross villain whitewashing, victim-blamey, “actually, she wanted it.”

I once even highlighted that whole "who will protect us from the guards" idea you mention because I think it was meant to emphasize what a travesty the Hound’s assault was:

(link)

This isn’t a romance, this is a pattern. The Hound saves her than tries to rape her, Tyrion is kind to her then agrees to marry her, a child, a prisoner of his family, and LF rescues her but then starts to sexually molest her. All the same, in each of these instances, Sansa is grateful, she thinks kindly of them, and I think that says a lot about Sansa that you completely miss if you romanticize it and pretend that the Hound is someone, something to her, that he isn’t. I also talk about the whole cloak thing in that post too because I think the more contextualized reading is the one we’re meant to adopt.

When I did take a look at the meta, I was so creeped out by the nature of it and the art. Although, I want to give credit where it’s due. Apparently they were some of the first people to start taking Sansa seriously and created the reading of Sansa becoming a political factor, so they did change the fandom’s perception of Sansa in a good way. But imo their love of the Hound causes an imbalance in how they read their scenes. The point isn't that the Hound wouldn't have hurt Sansa, the point was that he very well might have but Sansa's actions stopped him which ties into a much bigger idea and important aspect of Sansa's story:

Even after the Hound assaults Sansa, later, she thinks of how terrifying the fire was, as in, even then, she is able to empathize with him, the man who held a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her. It’s laughable to suggest a man who mocked her relentlessly for who she was is capable of the same consideration. In fact, it is in a state of terror that the Hound attempts to rape Sansa and his fans use that to excuse his actions, and yet, while he is assaulting her, Sansa sings of mercy, gently touches his cheek. It’s almost like the very obvious interpretation, that the way to create a better world is Sansa’s method— not his— is what Martin expected people to understand, and his surprise people have turned it into something else altogether is genuine. (link)

As for Martin admitting he "played" with it, here's a clip. It's very short, and he's expressing surprise that his female readers like villains of which the Hound is one, and I think you can tell by his facial expression that the idea of the Hound and Sansa as a couple, is absolutely not where he ever intended to take things, not what he meant when he said he played with it. There are countless old monster movies with the monster being fascinated with a young girl or beautiful woman which humanizes him/shows a soft side. That's similar to Beauty and the Beast, the girl is what allows the monster to become human again, but in these variations, it isn't a romance. You can play with/reference tropes and ideas without it actually being a direct reiteration of the original story.

Anyway, filter and block and curate your fandom experience! 😅

[white-lotus-pavilion]

Qi Rong and Shen Jiu

You know something I am not all that surprised at the characters that I like the most in MXTX's novels are Qi Rong and Shen Jiu.

And in all honesty this is because of the fact that they are both villains who essentially have so much depth to them but it only gets revealed near the end when they are no longer part of the story and the potential that they have to become amazing characters not good people but just amazing characters is essentially wasted by the end of the novel and it leaves me just hanging and so invested in their stories.

Now the thing is in regards to Shen Jiu this want for more of his story and more of him as a character is very taken care of as I have been a part of the SVSSS fandom for a while and the abundance of art and fanfiction of him as the centered character is amazing and there's so much depth that is delved into when it comes to his character and I absolutely adore the SVSSS fandom for this and it is one of the main reasons they are part of my main fandoms.

We saw that his character was so interesting and he has so much to give as a character and we sunk our teeth into it and he's one of my favorite characters in the entire SVSSS series because of the fact that he is a character that is taken so seriously. He is a character that people actually think about an in turn write about and the fanfics that are centered around him are absolutely amazing and I adore every single one of them.

Now the thing about Qi Rong is that this is not the case for him. For him I desperately want more fic where he is the center focus. Where he is the one who is being delved into as a character. There are so many aspects of his character that I find so interesting.

The fact that he is essentially an abused child who grew up to become an abuser adult and then who after centuries adopts a child who essentially was just like him and helps that child heal (even if he does it in his own deranged way)

Like, that is so interesting! The past of someone who used to be abused turning into an abuser and then not reforming but finding that one person whom they can see themselves in and making it so that there's one less person in the world who becomes a horrible person. (even if it is under the gize of 'toughening them up'

There are so many aspects of his character that I find so interesting, so many can be delved into but there are essentially no fanfics or fan art about him that really go in depth into this aspect of his character. Fics and arts that really delve into what it is like to be Qi Rong. coming from and abusive household. Coming into wealth but not receiving the affection (the real affection) and understanding he needed to heal and than going right back to being abused for centuries and his self sabotaging character. The thing about him is that he is incredibly self aware of all his horrible actions and I neeeed more exploration of that!!! He is a character that fills me with so much grief because I'm like there is an amazing character right there in this fandom who is as complicated as Shen Jiu who is as hated in Cannon as Shen Jiu! Someone who has such an interesting compelling story that you have to do a double take and be like how can I expand on this.

And the fact that the potential with his character unlike SJ is being completely wasted is so devastating to me. I want fanfics that are basically all from his point of view from when he was being abused by his father to the very end of tgcf when he dies and oh my God I can't find anything and it pisses me off and it makes me want to cry because this is a travesty! a devastating travesty.

It's to the point where I'm reading tgcf fanfiction he comes up and he is portrayed as just this one-dimensional bad person I skip the parts where he is in because there's nothing interesting about his character that is being portrayed. There are so many parts of him that are so interesting the fact that even though he is crass and a horrible person his truth speaks so much louder than his lies... I want people to delved into that more.

I'm just in need of more QI Rong centered fixed that go deeper into his psychological mental state and how he views the world because he's such an interesting character but he's not talked about enough.

And don't say do it yourself. I'm deep into a small fandom that I am cultivating and am currently deeep in the brain rot for so there is no way I can focus my attention on that and sadly can't write anything for qi rong.

Fellow authors I beg you!!!

[theghostkingisdead]

very funny to me when people write fics where Dan is short for Danyal/Danyul with a y. i understand why people do this. sometimes dan just needs a full name and it cant be the same as danny's, and Danyal does sound vaguely old world/ottoman empire/spooky so it fits.

but as someone who has spent time in the middle east and has met people named Danyal its all just very funny. because the pronunciation of Danyal is almost identical to Danielle, so

ts funny to imagine this big hulking figure with a feminine name

in an effort to aurally distance him from danny (Daniel) people have given him a name that now sounds almost identical to a different Phantom

People really just gave him a MENA spelling/pronunciation of Daniel because they thought it was more threatening. careful phandom your racism is showing

its funny because people don’t realize what they’re doing but the fact that nobodys played this for intentional comedy is a travesty

Just imagine: Danny says that his sibling Danyal was coming over (to visit/to a party/whatever) and people expect Dani to show up instead open the door to find three hundred pounds of scowling muscle staring them down

Also, assuming Dan chose his own spelling, he deserves way more shit for this. Making a name unnecessarily complicated is peak american midwestern behavior. Dan is the fusion of two white midwesterners i dont care that hes tragic i think he needs to be made fun of more. its like naming your kid Lauragh or Ashliegh or something but he did it to himself

[raz-writes-the-thing]

Could Have Been On A Picnic (Doctor Who)

Tenth Doctor x GN!Reader / requests are open and encouraged

Summary: You're pretty sure the Doctor cooks things like this up specifically to irk you. After all, you could have been on a picnic today.

CW: The Doctor will rot your teeth, crack fic, fluff.

Doctor Who tag list: @nyxiethesimp @quickslvxrr (send an ask to be added to a tag list!)

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Of all the ways you thought today would be going- being undercover in an alien hideout on planet Earth in the year 3748AD was not one of them. Particularly because when you woke up this morning, the Doctor had promised you a picnic in the Isles with all the trappings of a good time. Wine, music, cheeses, fresh baked breads. Oh, it was going to be heaven. 

You could picture it now. You nibbling on cheeses and grapes as the Doctor lay half on the blanket and half on the grass, propping himself up on his elbows and soaking in the sunlight, telling you about some sort of intergalactic muffin he’d stopped from taking over the world or something. He’d told you there’d be cliffs with views of the ocean, and you had a sneaking suspicion that the Doctor had been planning on taking you to Scotland. He’d even said he was taking you during whale season. If you were lucky you might even see a migrating pod. You’d been forced to give up this beautiful picturesque morning out… for this. 

“Oh, come on now, you look great!” The Doctor stifled his laughter with an extremely fake-sounding cough. “No, really! Never better.” 

You glared at the Doctor and slapped at his shoulder, delighting in the offended “Oi- that hurt!” that instantly followed. Good. You hope it hurt. You hope it made him think about his actions and regret it (as if that ever happened).

“You’ll live,” you grumbled, smoothing down the fabric of your spandex body suit. Seriously? It was 3748AD and they hadn’t found a better alternative to spandex yet? Ridiculous.

The two of you were currently undercover in an alien nest. They were posing as humans in a travelling circus. What had initially clued you into the fact that there were otherworldly beings here up to no good had been the simple fact that no matter where the circus went, people disappeared. Not just patrons, though. Workers too. Of course, this lure was far too appealing to the Doctor, and so you’d found yourself at the circus in question and examining all of your life's choices that had led you up to this. Including, of course, the close mental picturing of the morning that should have been if it weren’t for these meddling aliens.

Of course, within about ten minutes the Doctor had scanned around and discovered what the problem was. Then, he’d whipped out this fun little number for you and put himself into a far less ridiculous outfit. Sometimes you thought he did this on purpose. 

In fact, you were certain he did this on purpose. 

Your fun little fit was a leotard in vibrant stripes of colour winding across your form on the diagonal. It wasn’t even a rainbow. There was a brown stripe followed by a red, followed by a yellow and followed by a purple. It made no sense and was a complete eyesore. The sequins did not help. They didn’t even match the stripes they were sewn onto. 

What was worse than that, though… Was the mask. Was it a mask or a hat? You weren’t sure. The only thing you were sure of was the fact that it was a fucking travesty and you did not want it on your head. A soft, fluffy thing that you were thinking was supposed to be some sort of alien giraffe? But you weren’t entirely sure on that either.

The Doctor, much to your disappointment, was not dressed in such a ridiculous fashion and was dressed up in a red coat with a black ribboned tophat. He looked, comparatively anyway, relatively normal. 

There really was no need for this. 

“I’m beginning to think you handed me this on purpose,” you grumbled, fiddling with the fabric. It was hot in there, and you were beginning to sweat uncomfortably. 

“Me? Never!” The Doctor replied, scanning a locked door with his Sonic. You huffed as he tried his best to turn away before you saw the grin stretching out across his face and followed him in, having to lean down to get the stupid head of the giraffe thing through the doorway. 

This, of course, caused the Doctor to break out into another laugh. 

“Shut up, Doctor,” you said, ripping the hat off and throwing it down next to one of the crates littering the ground. The Doctor pouted, looking genuinely disappointed. 

“Oh, what’d you take it off for? I thought it suited you. Very nice, that was.” 

You glared, wiping the sweat off your brow and unsticking the sweaty hair from your forehead. You reached out to wipe it on him and the Doctor teetered back, doing his best to escape your fingers.

“Yeah, yeah. Laugh all you want now. Next time I’m picking the stupid costumes. Then we’ll see who’s laughing, won’t we.” 

You’re pretty sure the Doctor makes a mental note to never get the two of you in a situation where costumes are required ever again. 

“You’re no fun,” he grins boyishly. 

“We both know that’s not true.” 

He nods his head thoughtfully for a moment, before going back to scanning the room and its contents. 

“Yeah- yeah, you’re right. You’re loads of fun. The best of fun! After all, who else would put that on and saunter into the belly of the beast with me, eh?” 

“Who indeed,” you reply, kicking at a scrap of fabric. “Look at us go.” 

Look at you go indeed.

[sleepyfan-blog]

Religious Excerpts

Author's note: this is the first part of the Fem!Guilliman in 40k AU fic! I hope that you enjoy it! Next

tagged: @egrets-not-regrets @the-pure-angel @i-am-a-dragon34 @gallifreyianrosearkytiorsusan @bleedingichorhearts

warnings: religious writings, deification,

summary: A small collection of snippets from a collection of writings on the demi-goddess of the Imperium, Roberta Guilliman

She had asked for a brief synopsis of how she was most likely to be seen as, by different parts of the Imperium. She had sent out hundreds of intelligence gathers to move stealthily throughout the Imperium, including within Ultramar itself.

Her sons had been eager to follow her every order, the worshipful way in which they interacted with her bothered her tremendously. But she had been handed a dataslate that was a collection of poems, psalms, prayers, and fables written about The Lady Of Ultramar, the Daughter of the Emperor, Roberta Guilliman. If known, the date of creation and the author’s name has been noted down, though many such details have been lost to time.

Ballad of the Risen Primarch - written by Frater Matthew, Militant Apostolic, M42.076

The Lady with her sword aloft

Charges into  the fray

To hunt down the vile traitors

And bring them true dismay

From deepest slumber, she arose

And she answered our prayers 

While we were lost and desperate 

Showing us that she cares

She scoured Chaos from Imperial Worlds

And chased them from our space

The Avenging Daughter protects us

From Chaos and disgrace

From deepest slumber, she arose

And she answered our prayers 

While we were lost and desperate 

Showing us that she cares

The xenos quail before her gaze

And fall before her might

Orkz, Aeldari, Tau, Tyranids

Failed to survive the fight 

From deepest slumber, she arose

And she answered our prayers 

While we were lost and desperate 

Showing us that she cares

Her divine light shines so brightly

As does her wit and charm

She rules with a just and fair hand 

She protects us from harm

From deepest slumber, she arose

And she answered our prayers 

While we were lost and desperate 

Showing us that she cares

She guards us from internal strife

Corruption, decay, lies

All are placed into cleansing flames

She is Evil's demise 

From deepest slumber, she arose

And she answered our prayers 

While we were lost and desperate 

Showing us that she cares

This was written by Frater Matthew, the current Militant Apostolic working alongside Primarch Guilliman herself. He was inspired to write this poem after spending a number of months in her holy and robust presence.

She could feel a familiar headache starting to build in the back of her mind, and a low, frustrated growl threatened to rumble through her chest. She had picked Frater Matthew as he was an orator of some skill, and able to rally mortals and Astartes alike to his cause. But this... Travesty was annoying to read through.

Mother's Psalm - Author unknown. Suspected to have been written somewhere in the mid-M35s.

The sacred temple lies

The saintly Mother, who's eyes

Watch over her sons’ endless toil

At home and on foreign soil

The stasis field keeps her here

Away from the reaper's spear

Traitor's poison will not take

The fortress’ walls will not break

As Mother does, Maccrage stands

Protected by loving hands

And a sturdy wall of blue

Made of sons, loyal and true

One day, Mother will awake

With her, a new dawn shall break

She'll lead us out of shadows

And send evil to the gallows

This Psalm is found to be commonly sung by serfs of Ultramarines as well as their successor chapters, along with the civilian populations of Ultramar itself. The Psalm is also sung by the Auxilla of Ultramar, though they tend to prefer singing war songs in praise of The Avenging Daughter as she leads them to battle in Righteous fury against foul xenos and traitors alike. 

A soft sigh left her as she finished reading the psalm. At least this was less overtly religious in tone, though the fact that this was marked as a psalm did not improve her mood in the least. She was starting to realize just how wide and deep the Adeptus Ministorum had a stranglehold on the Imperium of Man as a whole... This was going to be a misery and a half to slowly and carefully untangle... If she could.

Prayer for Information This prayer was written sometime in the early M37s, by a Historitor whose name has been expunged from all records by the Ordo Hereticus.

Oh great Lady of Insight and wisdom, Maiden Mother of fair Ultramar, I come to you, humbly, on bended knees and clasped hands.

To you, I confess that I have not been sending my daily morning prayers to Him on Terra as I should be. Instead, I have been researching what I can of the history of our Great Imperium. I know it is a sin to try and learn of the past beyond what is taught in school… But my curiosity pushes me onwards nonetheless. Surely this knowledge will not cause harm?

You have my deepest thanks. For I and many others upon the world of [REDACTED] owe you our lives. Because if your auxilla and Astartes had not come to our rescue against the [REDACTED] we would have all been killed and our souls consumed by the forces of [REDACTED]. 

I humbly ask you to grant me entry into the library within the Temple of Corrections, where I would be able to continue my research and studies. I feel that if properly understood, our past could teach us many things. I patiently await your response.

Your humble servant,

[REDACTED] 

There was quite a bit of fierce debate as to whether or not to include this particular prayer to Lady Guilliman, as it has heretical elements in the prayer. Ultimately, this shows that even otherwise stalwart and obedient citizens can be heretical, and that one must always be vigilant.

... Since when was knowing the history of the Imperium illegal? Father damn them all. Those who did not learn from history were doomed to repeat it. She buried her face in her hands for a moment, unable to read on as she swore viciously in every tongue she knew. Considering what the Inquisition was like... She could guess that this poor Historitor's fate was a gruesome and miserable one indeed. She also hated that this letter had been phrased as an Emperor-damned prayer.

Psalm of praise - written shortly after Lady Guilliman’s interment into the stasis chamber, perhaps three hundred years past that event.

I will extoll the Lady at all times; her praise will always be on my lips. I will glory in HER; let all who hear rejoice. Glorify the Lady of Ultramar with me; let us exalt her name together. I sought the lady, and she answered me. She delivered me from all my woes.

This Psalm is frequently murmured by serfs and similarly ranked civilians who often work under Astartes. Particularly while the Astartes are preparing for a particularly vicious and bloody battle. 

After reading the first psalm, she decided to skip the rest of the section, the blood boiling in her veins as the grip on the dataslate caused the device to creak in protest. She would rather not have to request a new one with this information on it, because she had broken this one in her fury.

A Lesson in Obedience- This fable was written sometime in the early M34s, and presented without the artwork to shrink the file size.

The world that The Soldier was going to be deployed to protect was one of hundreds if not thousands like it. A small yellow gem of a world with over ninety percent of the available aland devoted to growing a singular crop that fed the loyal and true citizens of the Imperium. It was this soldier’s first deployment, and excitement thrummed just below the surface of his skin as he walked over to where his mother was busily working.

His mother with her honey-blond hair and clever ice-blue eyes was carefully working at her desk a dataslate in one hand, a stylus in the other as she swiftly worked. She looked up and smiled warmly as her son walked over to her. She set down the dataslate and hugged him tightly, murmuring “Good morning, my wonderful son. How goes your training?”

“It goes very well! Mother, I have good news to share with you!” The eager, blue-clad young man explained, happily hugging his mother back as he beamed with joy. 

“What news do you bring to me my son?” His mother asked, reaching up and ruffling his dark, curly hair with one hand, still hugging her precious son. 

“Like my older siblings before me, I am benign deployed to fight foul xenos! I am being sent to fight Orkz who threaten one of the worlds that grow crops, mother.” The soldier explained, still beaming up at his mother “I will be the one to kill the most of the vicious brutes of my entire battalion! I will decapitate the Ork Warboss and rip his tusks from his mouth. I will carve them into combs for your hair, mother. As a trophy!”

A soft sigh left the Mother as she hugged her over-eager son, pressing her forehead to his, before looking into his dark eyes, hoping that her words reached his heart and resonated within his mind “I don’t need an ork-tooth comb my son. As with your older siblings, all I want is for you to serve our great Imperium with honor and grace. Fight and win the battles set before you, but do not seek glory for it’s own sake. Rushing to grab glory with your own hands will only get you killed first, my son.”

“That won’t happen, mother~ I am too strong and too swift for the Orkz to be able to kill me.” The young soldier protested, shaking his head a little “My armor is too sturdy for their shoddy and broken weapons to damage.” His armor was indeed well-polished. Shining a brilliant blue and bright gold. 

“Orkz are -” The soldier’s mother tried to warn him, but the young man stepped out of her embrace as his vox began to buzz loudly.

“That’s The Captain, mother! I have been taught how to fight Orkz and other filthy xenos. I will come home victorious and with a chest full of accolades before you can start to miss me!” The young Soldier boasted as he ran out of his mother’s office, ready to take on any threats, big or small. “I must answer the call to war! Goodbye for now, mother!” 

~

Years of training and months of waiting and sparring had led to this moment for the young Soldier as he stared over the incoming horde of Orkz. They were a disorganized tidal wave of hooting and hollering green, and he double checked his bolter before he started to level his weapon at them, taking in a breath and letting it out as he prepared to fire.

“Hold your fire.” The Captain ordered. “I need you four to help complete the evacuation of the civilians from this world.” He pointed to the young soldier and three of his fellow warriors. 

“But… But sir, the Orkz are almost upon us! Shouldn’t we start to fire?” The young soldier asked, a confused expression appearing on his face.

“Are you questioning my orders, soldier?” The captain asked, his words underlined by the roar of artillery fire as they steadily flung shell after shell at the oncoming Orkish horde. “They are too far for you to hit reliably. Get going, soldier!”

The young soldier grumbled to himself as he dutifully got up and followed his squadmates over to the landing pads where several other groups of soldiers were -

She put down the dataslate, unable to force herself to continue to read the fable. She could guess as to where the story was heading, and the likely ways in which it would end. It was not worth the space it would occupy in her brain to continue to read through it. She hid her face in her hands and let out a low scream, trying not to alert the guards outside her office as to her distress.

There was a brief knock on the door before one of her brasher Captains barreled into the room, sword in hand as he did a visual sweep of the room. He didn't see any threats, so he removed his helmet and approached her, a look of mild concern on his face "I heard your yell, Mother. Is something bothering you?"

Roberta couldn't help but smile a little at his concern. Cato was rough around the edges and brash, but his boldness meant that he was the least anxious of her officer-sons to interact with her directly. "I was reading through the collection of legends that have sprung up about me, in my absence."

"Ah." Cato rumbled, briefly glancing at the dataslate on her desk, before looking back up at her "You are widely revered and held in great awe, as are all of the Holy Primarchs."

"Mm, but who we truly are has been lost to time. If Sanguinius found out how the masses - and perhaps his own sons believe him to be now..." Roberta sighed. The majority of the Imperium had come to believe that Sanguinius was a tragic, gentle-spoken martyr, whose death at the hands of the Vile Arch-Traitor was the final proof of the utter depravity that Horus had sank to. They seem to have forgotten, or been made to forget, from whom the Black Rage that afflicted most if not all sons of Sanguinius stemmed from. “His reaction would have been… Spectacular.” Throne on Terra, she missed her siblings. 

Cato nodded, looking uncertain. “Is there anything you wish of me, mother?”

A small smile appeared on her face “Only your company, if your duties permit it. I am… Finding it difficult to adjust to this new time I have woken up in. Please tell me of the battles you’ve participated in.”

Cato’s eyes lit up as he begun to talk about his past exploits, gesturing occasionally for emphasis.

[flowingtune-a]

I hope you realize how pathetic you actually are. A kind reminder that Nynaeve is the love of Lan's life, she's his soulmate, she's the only one for him. not moiraine. When someone ship Lan with whatever white woman less with his wife aka Nynaeve you know what that smells like. You racist asshole

OH NOOOOO I AM SUCH A PATHETIC RACIST ASSHOLE!! I SHOULD BE SOOOO ASHAMED OF MYSELF!! I SHOULD ADHERE TO CANON AND CANON ONLY!! I AM NOT ALLOWED TO LET MY IMAGINATION RUN RAMPANT AND CREATE WHAT I WANT TO READ!! IT'S SUCH A TRAVESTY!! BOOHOO!!

lol

Honestly, ever since I'd taken the step to share my Moiraine x Lan vision, I'd been expecting these anon messages to pop up.

I'd been shipping them since before I knew that canonically Lan and Nynaeve end up together and even when the series came out, that has not changed.

There's a reason why my fics are tagged Canon Divergent, anon. Seeing as it bothers you so, you should block the Moiraine x Lan tag XD Why should I stop myself from creating what I've always wanted to read just because people like you don't understand the "ship and let ship" rule? Me? Being a pathetic racist asshole just because I'm indulging in what I've been daydreaming of for three years? You're right. That is absolutely soooo awful of me.

Shipping is not just for canon couples. I thought that was common knowledge, but as anon kindly reminded me, not everyone knows that fact.

[redrobin-detective]

Robin Robin what do you mean Sam killed Danny did she just yeeted him in the ghost machine Robin Robin please I need answers

Ask and you shall receive but be warned the answers may not be what you are looking for. (IE they are dumb).

So there's technically two canonical versions of Danny's accident, the OG and Memory Blank (s2e1).

The OG happened sometime late summer/early fall of the trio going into high school. The group has been friends for some time (its part canon/part fanon that Danny and Tucker were initially friends with Sam joining later on) and were comfortable enough Dan felt ok letting them over to see his parents' "failed" ghost portal. Sam was intrigued, Danny uninterested on the surface level but secretly curious. Sam encourages him to looks inside, he presses the conveniently placed on button inside and boom, ghost boy.

This recap is made light of in the season 2 opener Memory Blank (my beloathed) while fanon reallllllly runs with Sam's guilt and grief over sorta/almost killing her friend. But I digress, the episode kicks off with Sam and Danny arguing leading her to wishing she had never met Danny out loud. The wish granting ghost, Desiree, overhears and makes it so. Because of this, Danny never had his accident and was completely human with no knowledge of Sam.

This is where the episode upsets me. Sam is upset about losing her friendship with Danny (and Tucker to a lesser extent but they make it creepy 🙄) but its framed as Sam being desperate to get Danny his powers back. If you almost killed your friend in the past and magically got a do over, would you really put him through that again??? There is no real external pressure to make Danny become Phantom again aside from Desiree continuing to grant monkey's paw wishes. Amity Park looks much like it always has, seemingly unaffected by the lack of Phantom. Hell, the portal is still not working so there's a chance there are no other ghosts in town to cause mischief and mayhem. All we see is Desiree who hardly is the worst villain for someone, preferably an adult, to deal with.

Aside from the fact its a cartoon series called Danny Phantom there is no reason for Sam to do this again. And yet she persists in badgering Danny - who does not know her at all - into doing something he has no understanding of the consequences. The lack of informed consent was something that bothered me all the way back when I was 12 watching it live. So Sam makes Danny recreate the accident, making him Phantom again (this time with a logo that Sam slapped on without telling him bc she thought it looked cool. Again!!!! No discussion or anything). We get a few deeply uncomfortable segments of Danny relearning his powers before he magically remembers everything and its back to the status quo except now he's got a logo.

The literal whole point of the episode was to give him a marketable symbol to make him more like a "proper superhero". Sam's selfishness (a character flaw we see woven throughout the series but never meaningfully explored), the lack of consent, the stupid ass plot all combine to create what I think is a travesty of an episode.

I have gotten off topic but, yes, in both cases Sam's curiosity and overbearing nature combined with Danny's more passive personality and sense of wonder to pssp pssp pssp him into the death machine. There has been some excellent fic exploring (in an actual, realistic, interesting way) of the trio coping with Sam's casual suggestion leading to complete biological rewiring, a changed life trajectory, trauma and injury.

[muirmarie]

id love to hear about #5 and/or #11 👀 -margot

tyyyy - i answered 5 (hear thoughts) here

for #11 - one bed - oh man, so the fact that the one bed fic isn't finished yet is actually a travesty - i got side-tracked with the enemy within fic and put it down, but it's sitting pretty at ~12k, and it probably needs about....4-5k more? or so? Absolutely doable! Honestly I should just sit down and finish it, BUT it's also the most explicit fic I've ever written, so I get gun-shy about it lmao

I've talked about it on the discord, but that was months ago, now: it's McKirk to McSpirk, where McCoy knows Spock is in love with Kirk, knows they'd be good together, loves Spock as well, and wants Kirk to pursue a relationship with Spock (in a poly sense, so they'd both be dating Kirk). Kirk, meanwhile, is 100% positive that Spock is into both of them, and has been trying, lo this last month, to convince McCoy that they should both pursue Spock. McCoy, not wanting to blow up his friendship with Spock, has adamantly refused.

And then, what do you know, there's a storm, McCoy gets scratched up in some bushes and twists his ankle, they end up in some lodgings, and there is, of course, drumroll, please:

Only One Bed.

This shouldn't be a big deal. But.

But Spock and Kirk are doing their absolute damnedest to OT3 this situation.

McCoy, the idiot that I love and adore, thinks this is because Spock thinks that this is the only way Spock can get into Kirk's pants. Meanwhile Spock is doing his level best to get into McCoy's pants. I'd call it consensual dubcon, because it's specifically stated out loud multiple times that if they're making McCoy uncomfortable, all he need to do is tell them Stop, but he does say a lot of variations of if you think for one second, and there's no way I'm gonna let you, and I'm going to murder you with my bare hands. Like, they are absolutely pushing his limits, but importantly, he is allowing them to do so.

Anyway this story is like.........I mean, I don't think it's necessarily all that Much when it comes to what other ppl write, but it's a LOT for me lmaooooo, so I get soooo shy about working on it, but I really should just push through.

putting a safe for tumblr snippet under the cut

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“Jim, why don't you take the middle,” McCoy says, looking at the bed. It's a large bed—the inhabitants of this planet tend towards relationships that involve more than two people, and the size of the bed will easily and comfortably accommodate the three of them.

At the end of the day, though, it's still just the one bed.

“Nice try, Bones,” Kirk says, flashing a smile at him, “but I'm taking the side nearest the door, like I always do, in case there's any trouble.”

“Spock could take the side closest the door, and you could take the middle,” McCoy says. “No offense Jim, but he is stronger than you.”

“I was reminded of that from how easily he carried you up the stairs,” Kirk says, still smiling. “Although I've certainly managed to carry you to bed a few times myself.”

McCoy rubs the back of his neck, dully aware that he's probably flushing.

“I don't think Mister Spock wants the gory details.”

“If the captain carrying you is what you consider a gory detail, Doctor, I'm left to worry if I've just taken unspeakable liberties with you by carrying you myself,” Spock says, that little insufferable smirk he gets twitching at the corner of his mouth.

“Don't worry, Spock, I'll tell you when we get to the unspeakable liberties stage,” Kirk laughs.

“In that case, I'll take the side nearest the wall,” Spock says, still with that insufferable smirk.

[acaciapines]

for the ask game, answer whichever of these speak to you the most: 4, 5, 11, 14 :D

HI ASH MY LOVE ASH.

oh they ALWAYS speak to me. i answer All. i will not be contained.

4. How many WIPs do you have right now?

actually shockingly few! ever since i finished my big owl house editing pass back in june i've not done a whole lot in terms of projects...and recently i've been playing rain world so instead of writing im playing rain world like 24/7. currently my only main project is the dess raises kris au, and in that 'verse the only thing i'm writing right now is a dess/chara relationship study. i WOULD finish it, but, uh. rain world. (<- guy who is trying so hard not to write rain world fic. i probably wont but also i am always tormented by ideas. but consider i have to tell the story of my slugpup scooter SCOOTER I WONT EVER FORGET YOU--)

5. What's a fic idea you've had that you will never write?

probably countless that i do not remember right now! but digging around through my drafts, i've got a few deltarune daemon aus that won't ever see the light of day...one of them was a fangame where the player played as one of kris's two daemons, and the other was a fic where ralsei was kris's daemon. the ideas from there have basically been repurposed elsewhere--a lot of my kris&ralsei stuff went into various works, and the fangame stuff is being reworked into the dess raises kris au.

beyond that, in terms of things that are actually abandoned and won't be used elsewhere, there are so many daemon aus that i've left behind for one reason or another, though the gravity falls transcendence au is the one that i think was the best...that one postcanon his dark materials fic i was gonna write where lyra and pan return to will's world and cause general shenanigans there with him and kirjava...a vera-centric son of sea foam wings of fire au because vera is the love of my life and i was rereading wings of fire bc i felt nostalgic....oh my god fantasy high SOPHOMORE YEAR FIC, which i tried to start TWICE, once from fig's pov and once from ayda's that was their road trip back home and i have some very funny snippets from...MY INFINITY TRAIN DAEMON AU WAIT THAT ONE STILL GOES SO HARD ACTUALLY. okay drop everything ive ever said the fact that i never wrote my infinity train book two daemon au is a travesty. i was cooking with that one.

11. Do you have specific playlists for writing fics?

sort of! i usually always have at least one or two songs i connect to any given fic, but in terms of what i listen to when actually WRITING, it's changed over the years. i used to put on compilations of video game music--usually utdr, pmd, and then just whatever got recommended to me lol--then i did like. those character playlists people make on youtube? mostly bc they tended to pull from the same pool of songs so it became good background noise lol. now i use the youtube mix or whatever its called for a similar reason--it tends to play the same handful of songs ive listened to a lot, so they dont distract me.

14. If you could see one of your fics adapted into a visual medium, such as comic or film, which fan fic would you pick?

oh i LOVE this question, and it would be without a doubt my nimona daemon au oh, are you at all like me. nimona itself is obviously both a comic and a movie, and i'd say animated film since the fic follows the movie plot more--i think there'd be a LOT of really cool scenes you could get with that fic. i also think i could make killer animatics based on my fics if i could draw good enough <3 and thats not a joke i have scripts and sketch storyboards and everything. maybe one day i'll finish one of those.

[uchihakeimei]

The simp-ification of Kaisagi is my 13th reason, I'm not even gonna lie chief. Why, whyyy are most Kiis fics like that. Why is Isagi always the poor submissive uke who cries and begs, like, have you seen THEM?? Are y'all sure that any of them would be screaming and crying?? Let's be real, if Isagi saw Kaiser choking himself he would lend a helping hand 😭 God they're so amazing. And crazy. And sick. And batshit insane. I love them a normal amount, I swear-

And I love red-flag-Kaiser. Him being a total asshole, the master of gaslightining, of poor excuses and ghosting. The dude does NOT know how to handle a healthy relationship. He would go crazy if Isagi ever tried to ghost him for a whole day, though. Like, the nerve.

I'm absolutely living for the current Kaiser, crumbling and falling into desperation. I need to see him at his lowest, where not even Ness can help him up. I need to see Isagi step on him and rise. Yet I don't know how this will conciliate with my desire to see PXG win… My boy Rin needs to step on both of them and take his rightful crown. Ugh, I just love all of them. Can't both teams win?? Ego can change football rules, right??

(You brought up two ships that I absolutely despise too, NaruHina and SasuSaku. I barely consider them canon since it's just a poor attempt of catering to heteronormativity. To me they don't even exist. Yes, I do dislike Kainess, but not this much, at least it makes sense somehow. But Kishimoto straight up decided to pull these two ships out of his sorry ass lmfao) I sure would love to say that I miss Naruto, but then I end up remembering that shitty ending and the nostalgia fades… I do really miss its villains though!

Facts, sister.

I have never really understood the attraction in one person of a pairing being absolutely down bad for the other- like, is it really fun when it's so one sided?

In some fics, you can just see the author bias, like its so blatant- one partner is absolutely on their knees for the other.

(Although, I don't exactly mind if it's a pwp, iykwim, it's okay if that's Isagi's kink, no kinkshaming here ;p

Is it unrealistic? Possibly.

Is it kinda hot? Yes)

What really grinds my gears are the character driven fics in which none of them are actually in character.

I see this a lot in Victuuri fics too- some make Yuuri a total BAMF Badass and Victor's completely down bad for him- to the point that Victor's always the one apologising, no matter if Yuuri is in the wrong too.

Kaiser and his everything- character style, arc, personality- is so delicious, I just wanna gobble him up lol

If only everyone could win in a football match... (Ego make it happen please)

NaruHina and SasuSaku... I could rant about these two ships and the travesty that was the ending all day.

Hinata and Sakura and their obsession over those two was so pathetic. The fact that the boys were given to them as reward for persevering in their love makes me want to kill something. And everything after the war arc ended was a way rapidly drive off all the fans of the series.

Like, even if you somehow look past their shitty marriages of convenience and the sheer insult that was The Last, what the fuck was that Hokage Inauguration episode. The sheer anger I feel at the thought of that episode and the fact that people defend that bullshit is going to make me end up at the therapist. Naruto not getting to attend his own inauguration as Hokage was a garbage joke and nothing and no one will ever convince me otherwise.

Sasuke and Naruto deserved to end up together- and no, them being spirit brothers is a garbage reason to not ship them because it's not even fucking true. Transmigration and reincarnation are not synonyms, people.

Personally, I think Kishimoto also wanted them to end up together, but he wasn't allowed to do that. The official art is so couple-y, it's not even subtle. To say nothing of what he wrote in his own series.

Indeed KaiNess makes a hell of a lot more sense then SasuSaku and NaruHina. Atleast Kaiser and Ness are friends- toxic yes, but still friends.

[prema2018core]

HELLO saw your blog from my notifs, got curious, saw the rio post, and im intrigued....... PLS TELL ME MORE

Oh... Ohohoho... You... You have fallen into my trap, young one

WELCOME TO THE FUCKING MESS THAT IS RIO HARYANTO SHIPS

Where you only get food if I decided to ramble about his ships here (I see no 2016 F1 grid fic with him on it, such travesty)

Most of the ships that I gather here are mostly him with his grid mates from Formula BMW to his GP2 eras. Why did I decide to ship some of these ships? The photos of the two drivers together already convinced me that they aren't just buddies (iyyk) I will be also writing about Mpreg ideas of these ships, so if you don't want to see that just skip it and go to the next ship, rinse and repeat.

First one on the list (in no particular order) is ValRio (Valtteri Bottas x Rio Haryanto)

You must be wondering, why? Well, let me show you some photos.

DO YOU SEE THE FUCKING VISION NOW?? LIKE JDSJSKJDJSJS, the thing is I didn't even start shipping them seriously until my oomf and fellow countrymen @burnhampeaches told me that they look like a married couple in all of the pictures where they are together. (Mpreg part starts here) Ngl, they're giving teenage parents vibes and my oomf agreed to it, they definitely did the devil's tango that resulted in Rio getting preggo after GP3 2011 (and then got preggo again after he got ousted from his main driver duties by Manor Racing in 2016)

Second on the list is PasRio or Wehryanto (Pascal Wehrlein x Rio Haryanto)

A classic staple for the Indonesian fans in 2016. Pascal here basically acts like a clingy puppy/protege to Rio and the fact that the guy basically defended Rio's honor after the man got ousted from being a main driver because he couldn't pay for his seat, saying that people underestimating him or even think that he's an underrated driver. The fact that they keep in contact after all these years also seals it for me ngl.

These photos kept me sane throughout the 2016 season and I'm so grateful that there are photos of them together on the track (especially with how Rio basically excused himself a lot to go to the Indonesian embassy to talk about his visa and do some more of his attempts to get money to cover for his F1 seat that ended terribly). Now that Pascal is in Formula E and the E-Prix will be held again in Jakarta next season, I just hope that they reunite in Jakarta E-Prix next year because it turns out that poor Pascal was bummed out when he saw that Rio didn't come to the E-Prix at all in 2022 and 2023.

Mpreg thoughts: Pascal got him preggo after Abu Dhabi 2016. He had a fight with Ocon before that and when he saw Rio, he basically cuddled with him that ended up spicy. Rio basically became his WAG...

I'll get more out if you ask for it so please... GIMME MORE ASKS ABOUT RIO AND HIS HAREM THAT HE MADE ACCIDENTALLY

[spaceofentropy]

WIP game:

Princess Bride AU???

as i wish

As you wish, my friend! <3

I haven' written much yet, but the idea for this came from spite. Someone said something on Tumblr about a Princess Bride AU with Eddie as Westlesy, Steve as Buttercup, and Billy as Prince Umperdink and my brain went full on

HOW

FUCKING

DARE

YOU!

Because no, I absolutely cannot see Eddie "I'm a coward, I run" Munson as the fearless adventurer who goes and travels the seas to make a fortune to one day return to his inept guy whose sole job in life is being pretty. And using Billy as Umperdink made me so incredibly angry! You have Vecna, master manipulator, and still you cast Billy as the shitty prince who marries just so he can start a war?! Again, HOW DARE YOU!

So, yeah, this is a spite fic.

And also a crack fic, honestly, because when I'll write it, it's probably gonna take the form of the Dread Pirate Roberts' crew reading the book (the unabridged one!) and spending their time ragging on how terrible it is, how much it distorted the facts. Why is Brenner suddenly called Vizzini and Sicilian?! Wh- What do you mean the writer turned El into a giant Turkish man who talks in rhyme? Where's Steve in all this?! He was there all along, he's the one who talked El into not killing the two of them! And oh my god, Billy has never ever ever EVER wanted to kiss, let alone MARRY!, Chrissy, she's his best friend, no, no!, this is a travesty, he's not the captain anymore but there must be some rule that allows him to get his title and powers again for the time needed to go and find the pathetic hack writer who penned this pile of drivel and make him eat his book one page at a time!

No, Steve, the fact he kept the "to the pain" part and Eddie's quest for revenge do not escuse the rest! This whole thing is inconceivable!

So, yeah. One day I'll write it. Right now, it's still percolating. The brain weasels are still working on the finer details. But it's not gonna be a serious affair! :P