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when the objectively bad person has traumatic and honestly reasonable reasons for why theyre like that but it doesnt excuse their actions and only serves to make them more tragic as a character

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ruining your life all by yourself beautiful?

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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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Window wings, fragile panes

Shield me from the dark

Warm me with your spark

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Full resolution images and painting videos on Patreon

Part of my glass wings series

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You ever just wake up from an incredibly graphic and realistic nightmare that was a pure psychological horror based on your own personal phobias and trauma and just roll over like “aw shit I got too hot last night I guess.” And then make toast like you didn’t just experience the nine circles of hell before 9 am

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New Fic: Star Wars Platonic Soulmates AU

Back when I still had my intense writing mojo going (early 2023), I had been plotting out a month of soulmate fics. Unfortunately, between a promotion at work and my depression acting up, that idea got indefinitely shelved. Still, I'd decided on fandoms and pairings for around 25 of the 30 fics, and I'd started writing about 10 of them.

This platonic soulmates AU centered around Anakin Skywalker and Leia Organa (or, in this fic, Leia Naberrie-Skywalker) is one of those 10 that actually had a semi-coherent draft. So since I've been trying to get back into the habit of writing, I dusted this one off and finished it up.

Anakin is one of those characters that I loved reading about but have always been wary of writing the POV for fear of getting it wrong, so this was an exercise in getting tf over that or at least giving it a go anyway.

twin flames or suns or other things that burn is a 2.5k complete oneshot featuring Anakin Skywalker's non-linear contemplation of his relationships with the people he cares about most and how being soulmated to his daughter has changed his perspective of himself.

twin flames or suns or other things that burn

Star Wars, G, Gen, alternate universe - soulmates, platonic soulmates, introspection.

They are like the twin suns of the planet he hates, Anakin and his daughter. Because that is him and Leia, twin flames, two beings burning brighter than the surfaces of all the suns in the galaxy combined. Their heat is not the gentle, life-giving warmth of his wife or his son. No, theirs is a blinding, suffocating blaze that could snuff out all sentience and sapience in its beautiful destruction.

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New Fic: She impatient and I'm complacent (honey)

Finally got around to posting the 2nd chapter of my Hermione/Lavender soulmates fic, so thought I'd also get around to making a tumblr post about it.

She's impatient and I'm complacent (honey) is a 5k complete twoshot featuring, you guessed it, soulmates. This was my first go at writing f/f, and I'm actually pretty pleased with how it turned out.

She's impatient and I'm complacent (honey)

Harry Potter, M, f/f, Hermione Granger/Lavender Brown, alternate universe - soulmates, soulmate-identifying marks, divination practices.

It’s been four years and Lavender has known every day since then that if nothing changes, then she and her soulmate will never be for each other. How could they be, when Hermione feels nothing but disdain for everything Lavender holds dear.

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Had a ton of fun trying to write something unlike anything else that could be used to identify me. Had significantly less fun trying to format footnotes in html. Ya win some, ya lose most (only guessed 1 fic correctly, and that was my own 🙃)

Thanks to all the other participants for the incredible content they produced and thanks to @cannibalinc for all their work organizing!

You can read Redacted Hogwarts Parchmentwork here.

The Blind Blood Best Guess Fest - Reveals!

We've done it again! A Tomarrymort fest in which our writers anonymously submit a story and guess who wrote what! This time, the theme is all things BLOOD AND/OR WINE.

These authors have used all manner of wily tricks to avoid detection, including but not limited to bluffs, double-bluffs, imitation, gaslighting, manipulation, bribery, or general miscreant behavior.

But the time has come for our authors to drop their masks and proudly claim their beautiful, bloody, and sometimes slightly tipsy work!

Greenest when groves are gaunt by @cindle-writes Word count: 5000 Rated: M

When Voldemort starts coughing up white holly petals, he is in serious denial about what it means… …until he can no longer ignore the potentially fatal implications. A Hanahaki disease AU

A stunning subversion in the Harrymort Hanahaki world in which Voldemort is the one with Hanahaki.

Redacted Hogwarts Parchmentwork by @theladygia Word count: 876 Rated: E

An excerpt from the parchmentwork of Alastor Moody¹, Hogwarts' Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor 1994-95, later discovered and annotated by Professor Severus Snape on 31 October, 1996 as he polished off his second bottle of elven-made wine².

¹Read this fic. ²Read this fic.

Red Hair, Red Eyes by @gryphonfeather Word count: 2361 Rated: M

Ginny does not cope well with having Tom ripped out of her. She drags Harry down with her.

Fics that make you howl and bark and roll on the ground.

Separated from Thee let me never be by @vdoshu Word count: 727 Rated: M

“Lord, I give unto you my devotion. I am Your mouth, I am Your hand, I am Your vessel upon the world.”

Never been so into religion. And religion has never been so into Harry!

Spice by @cannibalinc Word count: 1260 Rated: Not Rated

After his resurrection, Lord Voldemort finds himself craving blood. But none of the blood that his followers provide can satisfy him.

Picking up notes of tortured hero-boy in this wine.

And special mention to @the-wig-is-a-metaphor and @cindle-writes for tying for the most correct guesses!

Thank you so much to our writers for creating these lovely stories! Each is a delight in its own bloody, grapey way!

Banners and fest title art created by @cannibalinc.

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Old art dump of him... i love him.... harry james potter my beloved

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Harry Potter/Fred Weasley/George Weasley, Percy Weasley/Oliver Wood Characters: Harry Potter, Oliver Wood, Peregrine Derrick, Original Characters, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Molly Weasley, Arthur Weasley, Percy Weasley, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Bill Weasley, Charlie Weasley Additional Tags: Quidditch, Post-Hogwarts, No war, Established Relationship, magic sex toys, Fluff and Humor, magical photography, Explicit Sexual Content, Smut, HP Quidditch Fest 2022 Summary:

Due to a little mix up when they hired a new photographer to shoot the annual team calendar, Puddlemere United’s 2003 calendar spread took a more suggestive route this year.

And to think, the whole fiasco could have been avoided if Harry, Oliver, and their teammates weren’t so very, very competitive.

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you look so perfect standing (sitting) there

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/y7iHpPX

by TheLadyGia

At least half of the looks were envious, understandably. Kenma got it. His soulmate was likely going to recognize who Kenma was to them immediately, whereas most every other person in the country wasn’t going to recognize a particular shade of dark brown or black.

The other half of the gazes were confused, and Kenma got that too, because who the fuck had hair the color of a goddamn tangerine?

On your fifth birthday, your hair changes color to the exact shade of your soulmate’s natural hair. For most people, finding your soulmate can be impossible, but when Kozume Kenma looks in the mirror everyday and sees bright orange hair, he thinks it’s impossible for his soulmate not to find him.

Words: 3683, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of 2022 Soulmate Collection

Fandoms: Haikyuu!!

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Kozume Kenma, Hinata Shouyou, Kuroo Tetsurou

Relationships: Hinata Shouyou/Kozume Kenma

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Soulmates, Shared Hair Colors

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/y7iHpPX

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Personal Quanzhi Gaoshou Fic Rec List

This is Part Three. To be honest, I found a considerable number of stories Marked for Later in my ao3 history that I had nearly forgotten about—thus this list was hurriedly put together. Part One and Part Two were much more well-planned and intentional.

1. Speak of the Devil With the opening of the tenth server, Lord Grim appears in the game with all the ability and experiences of the unseen God of Glory. He has the skill, he knows all the pros, he can give his side of every story anyone’s ever told about him, so—why are all the pros so sure he doesn’t exist?

2. Vivification An object that carries sentiment carries a spirit. A spirit with all the sentience necessary to hold its own emotions and opinions. Ye Xiu leaves Excellent Era the night before the tenth anniversary of Glory’s launch—the tenth anniversary of the day One Autumn Leaf was given a name that quickly gained a life of its own.

3. A Time Without Glory Sun Xiang wakes up in the past. Things go differently.

4. This Father Means Business Wei Chen takes his self-given ‘this father’ title seriously, and he’s been working on himself since leaving all his kids like that was, well, shitty. It’s still a work in progress, but for all that reaching back out to any of them is still tied up with his own shame, grief, and self-loathing, Wei Chen can’t just sit at home after watching the utter travesty that was Season 5.

5. Destiny's Favorite Child Someone who always wins, when they don’t have the skill or temperament for it—what would it take? How many times, to get it right? Could that ever be called a blessing?

6. Customer Support, Tenth Server, Glory v.1.10.8475463 A collection of tickets submitted to Glory Customer Support, Tenth Server. Because a completely bug-free game is unrealistic.

7. Unqualified Assistance No one has ever doubted the identity of the “team reporter’s assistant” following Excellent Era around to their games, but he sure takes slacking to a new level. How does he get so many exclusive interviews and never publish anything?! Ye Xiu would like to protest that he has, in fact, listened to their advice and published many articles. They’re just all Glory guides.

8. An Interlude Between Past and Future Ye Xiu may have retired from the Pro League, but that doesn't mean he's completely let go of Glory. Apart from his active role in cultivating the China Glory Team, sightings of him in Hangzhou have become dime-a-dozen. In fact, now that he's finally an "ordinary citizen", he seems to be making up for all his years as a mysterious recluse of a celebrity.

9. Never A Single-Player Game "What's your damn problem with me?" Tang Hao bites out, finally snapping after almost a week of Fang Rui ignoring him like the plague. "What's my problem with you, huh?" Fang Rui asks, almost blithe. "Why don't you take a close look at the account that you play on, then come back and ask that again."

10. Consider the Counterfactual “That person from Tiny Herb is here to negotiate some sort of transaction. It’s probably… about Qiu Fei’s transfer?” No one buys Team Excellent Era. Qiu Fei goes to Tiny Herb.

11. Breathe There will come a time where you see your past self in someone else. At that time, it will fall to you on whether you are willing to guide them to a better future, or let the cycle continue. No matter what, it is your choice, and you should follow your heart on it.

12. Spinning Wheel Four beds Su Mucheng slept in during her last year at Excellent Era.

13. Suspect “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” - Arthur Conan Doyle

14. The Pitfalls of Believing Gossip Everyone who meets Ye Qiu past 15 years old starts off thinking he still has an imaginary friend. Then they find out he used to always have his twin brother with him. Unfortunately, no one has enough courage to actually ask Ye Qiu about it.

15. 5 Members of Ye Xiu’s Mysterious Family that Team China Meet in Zurich (+1 Not Exactly Mysterious Person) In the ten years of the Glory Pro Alliance, no one has ever even heard anything about Ye Xiu's family, much less meet any of them. For some reason though, they all seem to crawl out of the woodwork in Zurich.

16. Penguin Day Out Ye Xiu’s day out with his niece takes a surprise turn.

17. no one knows what's happening (spoiler: zhouye is canon.) “Hey,” Huang Shaotian lowered his voice in a stage whisper, “Don’t you think Ye Xiu and Zhou Zekai have been awfully chummy lately?”

18. [zhou zekai's face of innocence.jpg] In which Zhang Xinjie gets a Berserker, Wang Jiexi gets a headache, and Ye Xiu gets fifty thousand yuan. Also, Zhou Zekai is the Unrivaled Super Hottie.

19. glory returns [once again] As part of the preparations for World's, Ye Xiu sets up a training match between Team China and Team Happy.

20. measure your life in love All the other pros often asked Su Mucheng why she’d never tried to get Ye Xiu to buy a phone. Su Mucheng had always just responded by smiling sweetly and saying some variation of “I don’t use my powers for evil”, and generally that was enough to make people back away.

21. all along in plain sight "First of all, we're not even friends," Xu Boyuan said. "He just shows up and torments me sometimes." “He shows up and torments you with free guides through a hundred-player dungeon,” Bound Boat said flatly. "Where do I sign up for this kind of torment?"

22. write on the wall His first thirty or so minutes at Happy Internet Café, Fang Rui felt like an explorer in foreign land, observing the customs of a strange people.

23. blood is thicker than water The Ye twins were allergic to talking about their honest emotions, but somehow they still brought out the best in each other anyway.

24. unrestrained summer fun You can lead the pro player to summer camp, but you can’t make him stop swearing in front of the cameras.

Quanzhi Gaoshou 3 when? The King's Avatar Season 2 when?

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i think about where george lucas had planned to take star wars more than i should, but particularly because i am fascinated by the original idea of vader going to luke himself and asking for help atoning, which was cut and condensed into ROTJ for time constraints. and i want to write it. i really do. but the unfortunate thing is that i was of the generation of kids who watched avatar: the last airbender growing up, and all i can think about is vader testing his fucking opening lines like zuko does. the concept of HEY, LORD VADER HERE is irresistably funny

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This is what happens when you want to celebrate your best friend's birthday... And he doesn't.

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Very cool to be on the same reblog chain as a lot of fandom creators I admire. Thanks for bringing me into it @meles-merrivale!

Took a little break from fic writing the past few weeks to work on some poetry submissions, so here's the last stanza from my most recent piece.

here, in this field of flowers, right here, swathed in purple petals, miles away from pews and incense-weighted gazes, god is a pansy and i can shout as loud as i need.

Psst, @neurowriter14, @ellionne, @lerya-fanfic, @wolfantlersinspace, tag, you're it ;) (if you're in the mood, that is)

Last sentence tag game (not matter if fanfic/fandom or original work). I got tagged by @sanguine-tenshi @dragonflylady77 @lorifragolina. Thank you,guys! <3

Post your last sentence, then tag as many people as there are words.

"His gut tells him Cherry Lane hides something ugly behind its door - and Jim already met it."

I'm not tagging that many people, only a few, because I'm lazy right now. Tagging, without any pressure but with hugs: @ihni @bigdumbbambieyes @thissortofsorcery @aeon-of-neon @chrisbitchtree @callieb @suometar @toast-ranger-to-a-stranger @passivenovember @strangerqueerthings

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My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

I said, "That's just not true. Sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized."

He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, "It's like wood glue."

He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago. He said, "Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?"

I did.

"But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. They couldn't hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we'd never fixed them at all. You've got to give these things time to set."

It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that's not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.

So my dad and I agreed, what doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing. You've got to give these things time to set.

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Ok but Zuko using the knowledge he acquired during his banishment to help him as the Fire Lord. Like making small talk with Earth Kingdom dignitaries about their local foods that he enjoyed and even misses. Like having in-depth conversations with his captains about sea currents and navigation. Like, in the middle of a meeting with several high-ranking naval officials, pointing out flails in security, like how a person can cling to a Fire Nation ship for hours at a time, or climb aboard using hatches on the upper decks, or disguise themselves as a lower ranking guard with easily accessible spare armour….

Though none of his experiences can prepare Zuko for the long, awkward silence that comes after he admits to doing or at least knowing something illegal and/or completely buck wild