#the not-rule is that we don't read fanfic bc we're trying to read more of other stuff

[rozaceous]

idk if anyone is interested but on wednesday evenings (7:30pm CST) @vermillioncrown and i have been having a reading hour. literally we just pick a book (or comic or what have you) and set a timer.

if you want to join us, it is the lowest of lowkey, and also not really a book club? and also apologies for being atrocious at discord (link)

[msue0027]

Can i be picky, pricky, mean and bitch a little? Pretty please?

So, I've watched x-men apocalypse (wow, I'm soo early to this party). It was nice, and look, there's my country (so of course I'm gonna have opinions). And well. I've been reading fanfics, and as i skim thru the tags i see Nina Gurzsky, and then again, and hm again, and who tf is Nin... Oh, NINA, as in Erik's daughter. Wait, Gurzsky?

What kind of surname is that? Because it's not Polish. (but we can fix that.)

I know in comics Magda is of Romani ancestry but i don't remember it being mentioned in the movie? So i guess she's polish-polish. And "Gurzsky" looks like she's 4th or 5th generation of emmigrants to america, has let everyone pronounce the name anyhow which led to diff spelling, and doesn't speak polish anymore.

(Really, who came up with that name, I'd like a word. What was your reasoning, your reasearch, the background you came up for Magda? Maybe it makes sense and is justified to be like that? Maybe I'm wrong, don't have all the info, misunderstood something? Then I'm really sorry.)

Nonetheless, let us begin. Gurzsky

So i guess anglophones just skip this surname all together, but let's try to read it. It would be something like goo-zh-ski or goor-zz-ski. Both are bad and hard to pronounce. Why is the "z" there? Why complicate it unnecessarily? Let's drop it (some ppl would do it anyway, even if it being there was justified, it's called simplification and it happens when there's many hard consonats next to each other, or something, i'm half asleep). My brain did it intuitively upon reading this name. It shouldn't be there. There's no reason i could see. So it's Gursky now.

Ehh. How many times? "-ski" is traditional ending of a polish surname, and used to indicate nobility. "-sky" is traditional transliteration from cyrylic alphabet, it's for the russian surnames. (And the ending "-sky" came there from Poland.) (I'm very passionate about that, sorry not sorry. But don't get me started at another polish surname "-cki" bc americans always pronounce it wrong. That “c” is separate letter and not just “k”, and i don't think i can find corresponding sound in english language (so you might be forgiven) and i don't want to bombard you with IPA (never mind, next day me kinda wants, so, it’s like “ts”, or german “z”), especially that it's not main topic of that post. But really, you could put some effort. We know the language is very different from your own, with weird sounds, but please, try. We're gonna love you for that. For one word. Anything really. Well, you already know “kurwa”, so maybe one more. Sorry, i digress.) So, it's "-ski", but not really. This type of surname changes based on gender. "-ski" is masculine, and "-ska" is feminine. Yes, not always, there are women with “-ski” and men with “-ska”, but then it does not flex at all (same form for both genders). You just have to ask. But that's minority. So now it's Gurska.

And surnames don't have to follow general rules of orthography and flexion, they can have their own unique spelling and way of decletion, you need to ask the bearer of the name. But. They still usually do. So looking at that name? It begs to be the deriving from mountains: góry. So it should be Górska. Pronounced: goor-skah. Now it is a Polish name. A good one.

So. I'm gonna use this name for that little family. It's canon for me now. Magda Górska and Nina Górska, and Erik was going under Henryk Górski. (Kinda cute if you ask me.)

Oof, I'm done. That was long. Thanks for coming to my little ted-talk, hope you enjoyed :))

(ps. i have rewatched scenes set in Poland, and Erik actually intrudeces himself as Henryk Górski, which means i was right but also why have a made this long-ass analysis? It was fun tho, and too much of my half asleep brain power went into this not to post it.)

[halsinsnaturepocket]

Gunna complain about a really stupid ABO fanfic thing under the cut

Gunna start with saying I have nothing against ABO / omegaverse fics, I really don't. I'm kind of new to it because I don't seek it out actively. It's not exactly something I'm into but it's not *not* something I'm into - I love the dynamic of A character is SO HORNY IT HURTS and B character is SO attracted to A that it's animalistic/feral and there's this insatiable, primal need between them, i get a little iffy with the "made for each other" trope bit thats totally just a me thing. I think it's fun and neat and if I get uncomfortable with a fic I know how to leave without being mean ((because I'm not a monster and I'm not here to yuck someone's yum))

I ALSO understand that Halsin being a druid who can wildshape easily lends itself to ABO dynamics

WHAT I DONT GET

IS ASSIGNING HIM WOLFISH TRAITS

He is a BEAR not a WOLF. he EXPLICITLY says that wolves mate for life and that's not his style, he's much more like a bear ((bears are very promiscuous, during mating season they can and will court more than one mate - and they are known for biding their time waiting for a female to be receptive and then when they fuck they fuck VIGOUROUSLY and that's why they LITERALLY LOSE WEIGHT DURING MATING SEASON. They usually leave after mating season is done but some bear species do have favorites that they spend time with after mating season is over and favored mates they return to every season. Yes i did research, leave me alone.))

So I don't get why we're out here writing knotting fics and giving him wolf traits when he literally does not adhere to any kind of wolfy way of life.

I keep trying to read abo fics with halsin knotting but I always end up backing out bc it just doesn't feel right.

Maybe I'll write my OWN omegaverse with bear dynamics.

Try and stop me.

Basically this is my call-to-action for ABO writers to be a little more creative. Give me a tav going into heat and halsin carefully approaching and waiting for the right moment. Give me some fun bear/wolf dynamics. Give me a tav that craves to be knotted but halsin simply *cant* because it's just not in his nature but he fucks them so vigourously and so frequently and protects them from other mates so agressively that it satisfies them. Give me halsin courting a tav in heat and literally fighting and chasing off other characters because he's laying claim to his mate. Halsin who literally can't keep his hands off his mate and its almost distracting how often he needs to fuck because she just smells so GOOD to him while she's fertile. Let me see an omega getting absolutely POUNDED by this giant bear of a man trying to knock her up all while fighting off all the alphas that come at her.

"I'm an alpha I have a right to her" "the fuck you do, she likes me more" and he's just so fucking large and intimidating and protective.

O R get really fun with it - Astarion or another character is an Alpha and Halsin is just Bear and there's a threesome dynamic

THERES SO MUCH ROOM FOR POTENTIAL HERE GUYS I CANT BE THE ONLY ONE

Are the rules for omegaverse that restrictive that we HAVE to use these dynamics based off of wolves??? ((Genuinely wondering since I've barely dipped my toes into omegaverse stories))

[milf-harrington]

SO WHAT HAPPENED WAS AT DINNER, MY MOM AND DAD WERE TALKING ABOUT A BOOK SERIES THEY'D BEEN READING, THEY EVENTUALLY ASK ME (WELL KNOWN AVID READER) WHAT I'VE BEEN READING RECENTLY. HERE'S THE THING. I HAVE NOT READ A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF PUBLISHED BOOKS IN YEARS. WE'RE LUCKY IF I GET TWO BOOKS IN SIX MONTHS, I STILL READ A LOT (ALTHOUGH STILL NOT AS MUCH) IT'S JUST FANFIC, SO I SAY, OH I ACTUALLY HAVEN'T REALLY READ MUCH LATELY", BC MOST OF THE BOOKS I READ THEY RECOMMEND TO ME SO I CAN'T LIE AND SAY ONE OF THOSE BC THEY'LL ASK ME ABOUT IT, AND I CAN'T EVEN SAY SOMETHING THEY DIDN'T READ BC THEY'LL ALSO ASK ME ABOUT IT, SO YEAH, I SAY I HAVEN'T READ MUCH LATELY, AND THEY KNOW AND HAVE KNOWN THAT I HAVEN'T BEEN AS BIG A READER AS I USED TO BE AND THEY'RE KINDA CONCERNED, SO MY DAD'S LIKE, "WELL WHAT ARE YOU DOING WHEN YOU'RE IN YOUR ROOM ALL DAY? BC I KNOW YOU'RE NOT SPENDING HOURS SCROLLING TO THE ENDS OF THE INTERNET ON YOUR PHONE" (SAID IN A TONE THAT SAYS "THAT BETTER NOT BE WHAT YOU'RE DOING") BUT SEE. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I'M DOING. I SPEND HOURS STRAIGHT ON TUMBLR. BUT TECHNICALLY, I SHOULDN'T BE DOING THAT, AND ALSO, I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE SOCIAL MEDIA, SO I CANNOT ADMIT TO BEING ON TUMBLR AND EVEN IF I DON'T MENTION TUMBLR I CAN'T ADMIT THAT I'VE BEEN ON THE INTERNET FOR HOURS BC A. STILL NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT. AND B. I KNOW I'LL GET ASKED WHAT I'M EVEN DOING ON THE INTERNET FOR HOURS BC WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE OCCUPYING MY ATTENTION THAT LONG. SO I KNOW THEY KNOW I READ FANFICTION. BC I FOUND FANFICTION BACK WHEN I WAS 11 AND STILL ACTUALLY LISTENED TO THE RULES THEY SET FOR ME, SO WHEN I WANTED A FF.NET ACCOUNT I DID AS THEY'D TOLD ME AND ASKED THEM BEFORE SIGNING UP FOR ANYTHING. SO I KNOW THEY KNOW AND IT'S A LAST RESORT. SOMETHING THEY'RE OK WITH THAT JUSTIFIES HOURS IN MY ROOM BUT NOT READING A NORMAL BOOK. SO EVEN THOUGH I HAVEN'T READ AS MUCH FANFIC LATELY EITHER AND THAT'S DEFINITELY NOT WHAT I SPENT FOUR HOURS DOING, THAT'S WHAT I SAY. I QUIETLY ADMIT: "I'M STILL READING A LOT, IT'S JUST NOT REGULAR BOOKS" AND MY DAD IS A DICK SO HE'S LIKE "OH? WHAT ARE YOU READING" (HE KNOWS. THAT MOTHERFUCKER KNOWS. BC HE'S TEASED ME ABOUT READING FANFIC BEFORE I KNOW HE STILL REMEMBERS I DO THAT EVEN THOUGH I WISH THEY'D FORGET) THERE'S NO WAY TO ESCAPE THIS BC I TRY NOT TO ANSWER BUT THEY WON'T LET ME CHANGE THE SUBJECT ON ANYTHING AND BEING QUIET ONLY DELAYS THE INEVITABLE SO I SAY "FANFICTION" AND THEN. MY DAD'S LIKE "OH WHAT IS IT FANFICTION FOR?" MOTHERFUCKER. SHITHEAD. YOU KNOW I ALREADY HATE TALKING ABOUT MY INTERESTS. YOU KNOW THAT HATRED INCREASES THE MORE "NERDY" OR NICHE THE INTEREST GETS. WE SHOULD HAVE STOPPED WELL BEFORE THIS POINT. AGAIN. NO WAY OUT OF THIS, EVEN THOUGH I'M STARING AT THE TABLE SILENTLY BEGGING HIM TO JUST PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER HIMSELF BC JUST LAST WEEKEND HE TOOK ME TO A CONVENTION WHERE I GOT THREE ST COMICS SO I KNOW HE KNOWS I'M STILL FIXATED ON IT. BUT NOPE. NO WAY OUT. SO I SAY. "STRANGER THINGS" THIS SHOULD BE THE END OF IT, HE WON'T WANT TO KNOW ANYMORE DETAILS, AT THIS POINT I HAVE LIKE 7 BITES LEFT OF MY DINNER, I CAN SEE THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL! ONE MORE QUESTION. "IS THE STRANGER THINGS FANFICTION PROLIFIC" IDK WHY HE ASKED THIS, BUT EASY QUESTION. "YEAH, YEAH IT IS" THEN MY BABY SISTER NEEDS HELP IN THE BATHROOM SO HE GETS UP AND I'M TRYING TO HURRY AND FINISH MY BAKED POTATO, HE COMES AND SITS BACK DOWN, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE HE'S GONNA DROP IT AND I HAVE A BITE LEFT, SO I FINISH IT. I GET UP, I'M IN THE DOORWAY, ALMOST HOME FREE!! BUT THEN. (1/2 I hit character limit)

I am on the edge of my fucking seat

[hiimsociallyawkward]

his father's son

ayoo back again. these are always so much fun to make because otherwise it's me just yelling at my ipad of everything i'm thinking while exercising and singing show tunes and that's never fun. basically, all of my thoughts while watching his fathers son. hi bestie @lady-ofmagic-andstars

OH

IS THIS WHAT I THINKI IT IS

KNIGHT RUNNING?

CAMELOT RED WITH THE CAPE FLUTTERING?

PLEASE

SAL;DFJSADLKFJASLDKFJASLDF

KNIGHT MERLIN

HE ACTUALLY LOOKS SO GOOD HOLY CRAP

ASLJSALFASD AND HIS FACE WHEN THEY FIGURE OUT THAT THAT THIS IS AN ATTACK

STOP THE EPISODE JUST STARTED 🥵🥵🥵

omg merlin is still wearing the cape wtf he looks so good pls bbc have mercy

go away now agravaine.

let me relish in the joy of merlin wearing a cape

damn

you're welcome for this btw 😎😎

stop 😭😭 not arthur thinking that he's not worthy

ok i wish knew arthur knew his destiny but also i know why he can't know but i just don't want him to be sad because he's doubting himself yk???

i actually hate agravaine actually stop i feel like it's harsh but drop dead please 🤪

arthur is so good he just wants peace. agravaine please stop you're making him doubt everything that he is

i wish arthur listened to merlin but after watching this ending i can appreciate it

'i can't just kill a man in cold blood' 🥺🥺

arthur don't push him away he's just trying to help 😪

merlin has his blankie 2x this episode and you better believe that i'm commenting both times

arthur is just. i feel so sad for him sometimes. he's still so young and he has to rule a country now and just-

i get why arthur is doing what he's doing and such but i'm still sad.

alskdjfaslkdfjasdf jeez arthur not knowing abt merlin's magic is just. wow this episode is starting off strong 🤪🤪

ARTHUR DON'T BE MEAN 'stick to what you do know'. i mean. fine i'm just sad. SOMEONE TELL ME WHY I'M SO SAD SO EARLY ON IN THE EPISODE IT JUST GETS WORSE I NEED TO STOP

agravaine please leave now

ok that was hot how arthur walked in after the fact though. 'arthur pendragon. pop off'

arthur just wants peace i'm so sad he doesn't want to kill him but jsalkdfjsal;dkfjasdf

watching spn i watch the beheading a lot so i was expecting it but this is merlin haha

GWEN

WHY IS SHE THE BEST I ACTUALLY LOVE THEM TOGETHER. fvck you agravaine. actually die. please STOp

ok so merlin says 'dont push your friends' and while arthur says that he doesn't need anyone, at least he doesn't say that merlin isn't his friend. it's the little victories 😭

these castles are actually gorgeous

agaravaine please die now. stop

you manipulating arthur by claiming these things will make arthur into a good king is just making me so sad

fricken 'appropritate person' aalskdfj;alskdjfasldf

i literally just want arthur to be happy

dude i'm like 13 mins in and i'm angsting so hard over this

'a matter of the heart'🥺🥺

agaravaine die please :,)))))))

ok i'm so sad for arthur

he's still so young and he has the weight of his entire kingdom on his shoulders. he just wants to be a good king for his citizens and he wants peace and every good thing is just taken from him. he doesn't want to kill caerleon. he wants to marry gwen. and we have FREAKING AGARVAINE. this is why we can't have nice things.

ok the arthur using merlin as a punching bag transitively but also literally?? idk my head is blank. but like; merlin is letting himself be used as a punching bag and also it's his 'duty' to let arthur use him as a punching bag? idk idk thoughts?

stfu i don't want these white old men saying long live the king

pls chill

alright alright morgana

she is actually p good at getting onto annis's side so i'll give her props for that

oh shoot kneeling down to the queen? this is a power move but not a power move yk?

CLOAK

ok this is dumb but i love seeing merlin meander around with his little chores

ok what is bbc thinking when they have the "oh i'd never sleep in a bed with merlin" am i supposed to laugh? well i'm not. alrighty then

gwen :,) look at her in her pretty dress

you're breaking my heart right now arthur

you're BREAKING GWEN'S heart right now arthur

laksdjf;laskdfjasdlfkj I. JUST. WANT. THEM. TO. BE. HAPPY. please i need to read fanfic i'm angsting too hard over this

you tell him gwen. you're a badass and arthur is a sadass

i will not take gwen hate or slander

oh frick i was voted onto my school's hoco court so basically i had to walk across the football field and i felt so awkward and arthur walking down the step while everyone stares at him; i wonder if he feels as awkward as i did

LMAO 'he's not alone gwen' and pan to the arthur standing on a cliff alone?? pls

aw the domesticity 🥺

leon ruffling merlin's hair and that clink was such a good clink

where were these knights last episode. i'm suing

saj;flasjslad and arthur just loking at them fondly pls. he's so sweet i love him

'he's our king' that line makes me feel stuff

arthur sdfsd;as i just want him to be happy

MERLINS BLANKIE. WHY IS HE SO CUTE

bruh 💀 i laughed at the pure absurdity of him tripping over the tent

ok ok you know that vine 'two bros chilling in a hot tub 5 ft apart bc they're not gay?' that but 'two bros, chilling in 2 separate tents 5 ft apart bc they're not gay'

was- was that supposed to be a slap?

arthur is so earnest here and i love him he's the sweetest

sa;ldkfjsldfa arthur being protective over merlin

annis is such a badass. actually queen energy here. literally

merlin saying that they're friends again and arthur not denying it :,))))

these knights are so honorable

stfu agaravaine

'only one person who is just an honorable... ME' - arthur pendragon. HAHA sorry i cackled at this

agaravaine. i stg if you look at morgana like that i'll actually gank you

you absolute freak pervert person

alright ik morgana is evil and everything but i stan her improvement in magic

like- can merlin please get on with learning more magic??

as;dlfkjasdlfkja THE RING. dude i can't rn

merlin saying 'camelot needs you alive', i'm going to say yes.. but also if we swap out 'camelot' with 'i' then this is just a perfect insert line for fanfics :,)

THANK YOU OLD FRIEND. PLS you can't do this to me

aw when arthur asks if merlin is ready and merlin says ready

dude this episode is making me a lot more sad than it should

dude what is annis's champion. like look at his shoes??? they're leather?? literally stab him in the foot and we're golden.

youre welcome for the feet pics ;)

ok idk abt you guys but i can't write fight scenes with swords that well so i just base fights off tv and stuff and if you want inspo this is a great fight to write

legit the first battle with arthur and lancelot in the courtyard? yea i stole that

omg even with the champion is on his knees he's still taller than arthur??

alsjfalskdjasldfkjas ARTHUR AND MERLIN MEETING EACH OTHERS EYES AND ARTHUR NOT KILLING ANNIS'S CHAMPION

dude the trope of 'you make me want to be a better person'?? please i live for this stuff

ok the knights saying long live the king? i love that

alright alright annis&arthur

annis is ACTUALLY queen energy i love her. i love her pop off queen

oh shoot annis hit morgana where it hurts. bring up uther that's right queen

oh yes more castle pics 🥵🥵🥵

a aaw the ceremony for them

merlin and arthur are PALS i love them togehter

stop. there are so many words but i'm so glad they're lads

arthur is lying so awkwardly on that bed HAHA

DUDE THIS IS SO PRETTY AND CUTE AND OH MY FRICKEN ALSKDFJALSDJFASDLFKJASDL. alrighty then

yes arthur you're a dumbass you're lucky that gwen is taking you bad she's a frickin badass biatch who doesn't need you

alright arthur say what you mean why don't you

are we.. are we gonna kiss rn

THE SOUND TRACK PLEASE I LOVE IT. THE ROMANCE SWELL I ACTULALY LOVE IT

THEY'RE SO PRETTY TOGETHER

i love arthur in his night clothes and his bare feet. like that just makes it feel so much more domestic and homely and they love each other and just everything they're actually everything. THEYRE SO CUTE.

ANYWAYS i'll be back next week to endlessly rant about a servant of two masters. thanks i love you bye 😘