#you are a blessing for this fandom truly

[lilli-eyr]

UHM so i finished reading OTNWAS and... became a completely new person?? AND draw fanart????

i haven't draw anything for the past five months??? so THANK YOU amazing @jjackfrost for getting me out of artblock <3

[lazycranberrydoodles]

they are so in love and disgusting and also sarcastic bitches. follow for more / prev comic / next comic

[hikarry]

No, I don't portray Crowley as having a weird fascination with Aziraphale's blue eyes because I also have a weird obcession with them, what do you mean? *sips my caprisun*

[goldensunset]

dude if kh ends ill. probably cry lmaoo. but also. fandoms continue after their thing is finished dont they?? like. 10 years after its done ppl will still talk abt it?? i hope so at least

given that the kh fandom has survived several massive droughts over the years at this point i think it's unkillable. some of my mutuals on here are from like the ice age of kingdom hearts and still alive and blogging the exact way they always did. it won't be a huge fandom but even now with the series still being alive the fandom isn't as big as it once was in its heyday. but those of us here are incredibly loyal. and the nature of any long-running thing is that people carry it with them over the course of many years and it'll become impossible to drop it once it does end. but! it truthfully all depends on How it ends if you ask me. if it's a trainwreck a lot of people might abandon it out of resentment. if it's good or even mediocre as an ending it'll have its fans throughout eternity

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

5 fics i've enjoyed this month

stealing this idea from @alexturne because i absolutely love the idea of promoting all the amazing talented authors in this fandom more! 💜

missed your bones on me by @glorious-blackout summary: In the aftermath of their blissful reunion at Emirates Stadium, Miles wakes alone in Alex's bed to the sound of a gentle piano melody. Set following Miles' reunion with Arctic Monkeys on 18th June 2023. notes: this fic is absolutely beautiful. full of sadness for the past and hope for the future and just suffused throughout with the kind of bone-deep love that feels so utterly in character for milex. it tugged on my heartstrings in all the best ways, and has my favourite ever portrayal of alex lost in his creative headspace.

some velvet morning by @musette22/@subtle-as-an-earthquake summary: It happens at the OIympia in Paris, just after the show. Their hundredth show. A memorable one for more than just that reason, as it turns out. (Or, the fic in which Alex's body starts talking before his mind does, forcing him to finally realise a thing or two about his relationship with his best friend Miles). notes: oh my lord, this fic 😍 it's like someone (and by someone i mean @subtle-as-an-earthquake) took all my favourite tropes and poured them into a gorgeously written, tension-laden 14k fic that is so stupidly good i've already read it at least three times already 😅 it captures the dynamic between alex and miles SO well - the sense of contrasting complete ease/simmering tension with each other is one of the best portrayals i've ever read of them, and alex's thought process throughout unfolds in a way that feels so utterly (and infuriatingly) in character. the slow build is absolutely delicious, and the culmination of it delivers above and beyond! ✨

sometime in the future by @blacktrickle summary: In a world quite similar to this one, Miles Kane is an international supermodel and Alex Turner is the rockstar who has broken his heart one too many times. Now, two years after their most vicious break up, Alex is asking for one more shot, but this time, Miles won’t make it easy. notes: oh my goddddd THIS FIC 😭😭 i put off reading it for ages because i had this sneaking little suspicion it was going to destroy me - and i was right. destroy me it has, in the BEST possible way. i literally cannot recommend it enough. the writing and depth of character portrayal is just stunning, and i am completely and utterly hooked. i'm actually only halfway through rn, but already i know that this fic is one that's going to stay with me in my heart for the longest time - and can't wait to see where it's heading.

you've got control of everyone's eyes (including mine) by @alexturne summary: It's 2005 and the Arctic Monkeys are about to set out on their first proper tour. Alex is quite happy with that, until a certain someone gets in the way and spoils it all. A story about facing hardships, insecurities and stage fright, about friendships, dreams, music and smoking too many fucking cigarettes in dark back alleys. About keeping your friends close, and perhaps your enemies even closer. notes: i'm only three chapters in, but already this fic has hooked me in completely. it's beautifully readable, and just feels like such a vivid slice of early era am life. alex and miles are absolutely INSUFFERABLE in the best possible way - clearly obsessed with each other, but hiding behind the idea that they hate each other. the constantly simmering ust is wonderfully written, and the way they relate with each other feels so authentic (even if it also makes me want to knock their heads together). i can't wait to see where this fic goes 😍

ain't got anything to lick without you baby by @elorianna summary: At some point during their usual stage antics, Alex and Miles start playing an innocent game of one-upmanship – but with neither one of them willing to back down, things eventually get a little bit out of hand… notes: listen, i've read this one before. and i'll read it a bunch of times again too because it's just a CLASSIC. one of the first ever milex fics i read and i find myself returning to it over and over because it's just such a fun little read, and of course so well written too because it's elorianna. it captures all the ridiculousness and ust of eycte era milex messing around with each other, and the smut is well - *fans self*

okay, that's all for this month, but i think i'm going to try and do this every month and make it a regular thing! if anyone has any fic recs for me then please feel free to drop them in the comments/my asks/dms - i'm always on the lookout for more milex fics 💗

[kazzaheartsmxtx]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: HUALAIN, Hua Cheng/Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu) Characters: Hua Cheng (Tian Guan Ci Fu), Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu) Additional Tags: fluffy sum against, Fluffy Ending, Idk what I'm doing with my life, TGCF - Freeform, i love tgcf, HUALAIN is so cute, Mostly Fluff, justone chapter idk if I will make a second on this might be a one shot, One shot?, love is real, there so cute Summary:

Tiān Guān Cì Fú MXTX Boys Love #tgcf Heaven Official's Blessing |Xiè Lián Huā Chéng |Anime/Manga Fanfiction Romance

jus something I wrote , took a step out of poetry to try writing let me know what you think!

[daincrediblegg]

love the occult status lady terror has taken in this community. I get fucking tagged shit for her now like what on earth is happening here

[roseapov]

Feeling nostalgia rn

Today honestly reminds me of the time in *let me check the date* 2022?!?!?! HOW WAS THAT SO LONG AGO??😭😭

Well, anyway- Today reminds me of the time when I was supposed to be sleeping, during a night of the return to my home from visiting family (it is a very long road, and I'm coming back after this night too-), back then I found @genshinluvr 'Not What You'd Expect' and stayed up to 3/4 am reading the chapters!

Ever since then I was checking up on them everyday, and then started checking them every Sunday, not skipping a week FOR MONTHS (I think I started a bit before 'By The Seashore' until around 'Happily Ever After?'), and reading everything with such a fascination. Later on I also started reading her HSR x Reader, and got super into it too!

So I wanted to share with everyone thede amazing pieces of art, a literal masterpieces that I want to thank greatly for lots of memories and good moments! Seriously, her writing is so professional and good! I'll never forget this work, it's truly one of a kind, thank you for writing it!

PLEASE go check it out!

Time to repeat history with reading and re-reading new things from Aaliah on the night before my return to home! (And being tired the day after-) Love you!

[queerofthedagger]

filtering+ extension save me.... filtering+ extension.........

[twistedappletree]

Apple I hate following you on TikTok they ask me at class what song is in my head and to write why it’s important and I had to write about pickle in the fridge

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[chushanye]

I'm tired of everyone being passive aggressive! I wanna be kind! But also some of ya'll are fucking weird and I'm choosing not to make eye contact.

[horohoros]

Its thecuntfessional, hi, I MUST SEE THE SKETCH YOU SKETCHED FOR REASONS if you're okay with sharing!! 👀 if not then i hope you have a very pleasant evening

ANON!! hfosh - ok so, I actually was working on one whole comic/doujinshi with Brother Justin that I intended to finish (before Ghost bewitched me), and the idea is sorta fully finished? (except for the last two pages). It doesn't look so good, because they're all thumbnail and quick sketches for me to put the idea down - but I will OFC share some of these sketches with you! (I just apologize for the very bad drawings in advance and non-fleshed out pieces of dialogue - might feel OoC at parts)

All of them will be under the cut!

[cerullos]

so you’ve never read queerness into ostensibly straight content?

damn that is so crazy that u think taylor swift’s album about being in love with her boyfriend is a paragon of queer storytelling packed with sapphic subtext. personally when i’m in the mood for gay music i like to listen to gay people singing about gay sex but to each their own dude

[idkwhatimdoingbutslay]

What’re your favorite arcane fics? Any good CaitVi recs? I love the canon ones

JUST REALIZED I NEVER REPLIED TO THIS OMG SORRY ‼️‼️‼️‼️

OK SO check out my ‘book of slays’ tag if you haven’t 👀👀👀👀 but also, I am suchhhhh a sucker for a solid annoyance to lovers/ reluctant partners to lovers (!!!!! Just them in canon actually !!!!!). I’m also a big friends to lovers/ roommates to lovers kinda person as well 😩. Idk it just hits different. I think exploiting the fun dynamic they had when they first met in season one that eventually morphs into the full on dedication to each other in season two is golden and so many fics do that well.

Post S1, there weren’t as many canon fics (it had been three years and there was only so much we could do lmao), but now that s2 is FULLY out, I gotta love my Happy Ending Lesbians. They’re married! Or they hate each other rn… They’re so domestic! Or they’re in that pain painful process of forgiving rn…….. They’re mothers!!!!! Or they still need a lot of time to adjust…………….

I may or may not be trying to write multiple fics at this time lmao. One of which is married CaitVi, hopefully out very very soon if I lock in hard enough.

I have not been updating my bookmarks on AO3 as much as I should and I’m reading so many fics now that the Caitlyn/Vi tag is rapidly approaching 10k at this point lmao. I’m still so energized from the s2 hype, I barely have recs 😭. I’m literally just reading anything and everything in that tag because these fic writers? Absolute chef’s kiss. Every single one of youse. I’m sorry I don’t have specific recs because I actually recommend literally every single fic coming out rn (half of them are jail cell continuations anyway so enjoy that 😭).

This was sent before act III, so I hope you are currently enjoying all the post act III fun !!!!!!! Since you love canon fics, I hope you’re obsessing over post canon married caitvi as much as I am :))))))

[boy-pantiesss]

Ok, so here's a post I've held off on making for a while. But considering that no one is willing to engage in an actual dialogue about anything, I give up.

Late last month, my writer's group fell into a series of arguments instigated by some weird DMs that culminated in one of the mods shaming a good girlfriend of mine for coming out as pro-Marius because they saw it as pro-CSA stance. During our talks, my friend talked about their past history of CSA. Instead of this being a moment where the discord decided to pump the brakes, there was a doubling down of this stance. When it became apparent that there wouldn't be an apology, I left the server after making a post detailing how the mod's choice to put fictional characters before real people was BS.

To say I was hurt by this is an understatement. Not only did I witness a good friend of mine get humiliated like this, I also found it incredibly triggering as a fellow CSA survivor to witness it.

Around this time the blog @marius-crimes popped up. Not long after I received a heads up from a fandom friend that this post right here had my name under the blacked out portion. Because this coincided with several occurrences I was left to wonder who would send this DM and why?

The two best guesses I had were as follows. 1. It was someone from the writer's group I had just left trying to start shit. But if so, why? How was sending a random anon to a shit account going to do that? Or 2. It was @hekateinhell . I thought it might more likely be the latter because, in her private server, there was a channel dedicated to drama and gossip. The Marius Crimes blog had already been the subject of speculation. Looking at when the ask was posted, I checked the server and found that Hekate had admitted to sending some anons to the blog for fun. I asked her if she had sent any anons that had involved me, to which she denied involvement.

The following week was a rough one. Caught between one bullshit and the next, not knowing who was telling me the truth and who wasn't, I made a stupid choice to post about the server I had just left on my personal blog. I was upset that I had allowed myself to be caught up with a group that let fandom drama run into real-life trauma and treated both equally.

After I posted it, @0junemeatcleaver0 saw my post and wrongly assumed it was about Hekte's server. Looking back, it's easy to understand why, but at the time, I was so caught up in addressing a very specific subset of people that it didn't occur to me to clarify who I was addressing more directly.

Despite the fact that Hekate and her co-mod had put rules in place not to post or discuss server members directly in the drama channel, as soon as June made that post, not only was it fair game for me to be discussed out in the open, but the mods encouraged and added to it. Rather than asking June to remove the post, Hekate clapped back in front of the rest of the server and made everyone know about the private content of our DMs. By the time I was at home and able to read through the whole thread calling me a liar and a traitor, the damage was done. The server had become locked in an echo chamber where its members were in fight or flight mode, and it had already been decided that I needed to be banned.

I want to be very clear here - there was never any attempt to contact me directly before posting to a server to be publicly humiliated in front of my friends group, there was no attempt before this to ask questions or allow me to provide receipts or explanations for my post. Just an absolute dog pile of bad intentions egged on by equally hysterical server members under the blessings of the mods. All conversations prior to this about vague-ing were all “look at this nerd” and not a single one of them were “this practice is deeply hurtful to me” (I know bc I ran a search for vague-ing in the discord after this and read every single one).

Even though it was not expected of me, I decided to reach out to those who had been the most angrily critical of my post. Foolishly, I thought that if I could be given a chance to explain myself and how I had been dealing with the fallout from a group that involved one of my worst personal traumas, I would be able to smooth things over.

If I regret anything, it's extending my time and emotional energy to make a goodwill gesture to any of these people. In the DMs I sent out, not only did I disclose my past history of abuse, I also decided to take on and shoulder their emotional burden of being "triggered by a vague post". It makes me want to claw my eyes out to think about how I took the time to apologize for triggering them while I was having to process memories of my own past SA. How I put them first in that, instead of taking care of myself and allowed them the right to police the content I made on my own blog.

The response, universally across the bord was "get well soon sis!" or "I know you're dealing with the trauma of being SA'd as a child and all, but for ten whole minutes I thought you were vague posting about me, so like, um, I'm really gonna need you to acknowledge my pain about this over your own". I wish I could tell you I was kidding, but I'm not.

After getting the ole' server boot, June sent a request on discord, which I accepted. I thought she wanted to talk and burry the hatchet. Instead, this is what happened :

To say I was shocked is an understatement. Imagine disclosing something so personal to someone, making a gesture of goodwill even though this person dog-piled you, and then being hit by this? Like, what do you even say?

My assumption at the time was that it was easier for her to double down on the fantasy that I was some mastermind villain rather than admit to the fact that she fucked up by making her initial post to the server public and instigating the dog pile on me rather than admit she had been wrong. It's easier to justify it with vague accusations than actually pony up an apology, eh?

I wasn't too surprised when members of my former servers began blocking me. After all, they're all in the same friend group. That I could see. But when I started being blocked and unfriended by other people and removed from different discords again and again? That caught me by surprise. Reaching out to others, I was met repeatedly with vague statements of "someone reached out to me about some rumors", but no one could offer anything concrete. When I asked for specifics about what was said or shared, they always told me they couldn't tell me exactly what was said. Or, my favorite - that the evidence got deleted out of the chat :

Hmm, wow! It's almost like - there's nothing there to reveal! Almost like your "circumstantial evidence" is just that, and you know this proof won't actually stand up to questioning? Funny.

So here we are. I've been spit on by the same group of people eager to call themselves my friends. It's funny because when I first joined Tumblr, I saw posts calling them out for their mean girl clique and how two-faced they were, and I simply didn't believe it. Well, live and learn, as they say.

For the record, I did try to reach out to lovely June and was promptly blocked again. Apparently, it's not enough to frame me for BS and make vague statements about all this "evidence" she has. The game is only fun to her if she gets to wage it behind my back.

I'm taking back my reputation. I've done nothing wrong, I have nothing to hide, and I've offered to make amends for any misunderstandings. I have gone above and beyond to do that with a group of people who did not deserve the time or the effort to do so. June, Hekate, and all the rest are running and endorsing a gossip mill that relies on spreading rumors for entertainment. Because if there's one thing that will always be true, it's that Marius de Romanus fans need to create some sort of villain or outsider to fulfill their persecution complex.

[sarcosmiiic]

PLEASE KEEP THIS IN MIND:

we, as fans, do not have a right to private information. anything shared with us on this is a privilege. please do not abuse it. the cc's could shut down and never talk about it if we overwhelm them.

also, please keep in mind that ONE HERMIT and THE ENTIRETY OF HERMITCRAFT are NOT THE SAME THING. the entire fandom is not 'ruined' or 'completely unsafe' because of the actions of one person.

PLEASE DO NOT ASSUME THAT THE OTHER HERMITS KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT WHATEVER'S GOING ON WITH ISKALL. this is not some big conspiracy, it's the consequences of one person's actions. they weren't hiding this from us, that's not how hermitcraft works, they truly didn't know. they probably knew as much as us about this, so making it an 'us against them' situation is immature and shortsighted.

ALSO, I AM BEGGING EVERYONE TO PLEASE NOT SENSATIONALIZE THIS. PLEASE DO NOT TURN HATING ISKALL INTO A MEME OR A JOKE.

mcyt'ers being revealed to be less-than-great people is not a rare thing, sadly, but i've seen it turned into a joke/meme/trend in other fandoms. this both minimalizes the actual people's/victims' struggles, makes the entire situation feel less serious than it is, especially to outsiders looking in, and makes everyone in the fandom look immature, petty, unable to take anything seriously, and genuinely harmful.

this server, fandom, and community are not dying, it is not ruined forever, this is one (major, i'm not trying to minimalize it) issue that we're currently dealing with. it will be okay. we will move on. this is not the beginning of the end. please calm down. i love this fandom, god bless all of you. <3

edit: doc has said on stream that we will likely get more information as time passes. like i said, this is a PRIVILEGE. we are not OWED information. please be grateful for what we're given, and POLITELY ask questions if you must. if a cc doesn't give you the answer you want, or doesn't answer at all, LEAVE THEM ALONE. THIS IS NOT AN EXCUSE TO HARASS PEOPLE. the hermits are likely just as stressed out as us, if not probably more so, so please keep that in mind when contacting them.

don't freak out, we'll be okay, this is not the end of the world, nor is it the end of Hermitcraft. we will be okay.

second edit: please remember that (at least as far as we know) ISKALL AND STRESS WERE NOT KICKED OR BANNED. THEY LEFT OF THEIR OWN VOLITION.

ALSO!!! VERY IMPORTANT!!!

WE. DO. NOT. KNOW. EXACTLY. WHAT. HAPPENED.

PLEASE DO NOT ASSUME ANYTHING SIMPLY BASED OFF OF OTHER MCYT'ERS PAST ACTIONS/SCANDALS. WE DO NOT KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. WE MIGHT NOT EVER KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. WE NEED TO BE OKAY WITH THAT AND NOT DRAW OUR OWN CONCLUSIONS.

TWITTER LINKS TO VICTIM RESPONSES:

https://twitter.com/Kasszi_/status/1860670647946604985

https://twitter.com/emoslab_/status/1860697161245323559