#ALL stories are fanfics tbh

[revenantghost]

Oh I have another chapter of my beauty and the beast au I should... post it... huh

#It's so hard to gear up the motivation when even my niche manga poems get more interraction #And yet it's one of my favorite projects #But... effort #Tbh I'll probably publish it as it's own thing not part of the fandom when I'm done #Because it works both ways #ALL stories are fanfics tbh #Some actually fanfics and not AUs are just derrivative of the og source and make no sense out of context #This is my high horse and I will DIE on it #I've almost had books published that were basically me spite re-writing plots and characters to make them what I thought better #The biggest lie publish puts out there: that there's any true difference between 'original' and 'derivative' works #*publishing #All works are inspired in varying and various degrees by everything around you #I'll stop myself before I rant about how SHITTY the copyright laws are in the western side of the globe tho #WOW THIS GOT OFF TOPIC #Yadda yadda

[myokk]

“She’s tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me”😤😤😤

(Regency AU with Eloise and Sebastian inspired by my slow trek through Bridgerton these days & @bassicallymaestra ‘s AMAZING regency inspired art😮‍💨😇🙏)

#I just have a love of big regency dresses what can I say😔🙏 #if you haven’t seen them yet this is a study of the GORGEOUS P&P illustrations from the 1890s by Charles Brock #they are all just so spectacular & I stare at them alllllllllll the time wishing I had an ounce of his talent🙏🙏🙏 #so I do these studies to pretend even though I change some things😅😅 bc these studies is the best way to improve imo🙏 #but I remembered halfway through why I rage quit trying to draw with my fountain pen a year ago😂😂😂 #that thing is amazing for writing and I love it like a child #but drawing?! tbh I should have used my drawing ink pen but whatever #I woke up with a hankering to do some crosshatching (which I hate) in an attempt to get over myself #also!!!!!! when Mr Darcy says something like that it’s no wonder Elizabeth jumps at the bit to believe every awful thing she hears about him #it’s like Mr wickham’s dumb stories that nobody else in their right mind would believe #are speaking right to her soul. like OF COURSE that asshole from the assembly would do all of those things😤😤 #he called me ugly so OF COURSE he would deny mr wickham his living😤😤 #(I don’t blame her I would do the same🤝🤝) #ALSO why tf did he even say that when he’s clearly smitten from the beginning #I’m sure if he knew that she heard him he would simply perish from mortification #well thst is my p&p - inking horror - inspiration rant of the day🙏🙏 #(I read p&p at least once a year & it is the only fanfic I really read😅😅😅) #hogwarts legacy #hogwarts legacy fanart #hphl #sebastian sallow #hogwarts legacy mc #hogwarts legacy oc #eloise

[stuffed-x-arts]

HEY GUYS GRINS. IVE BEEN SO OBSESSED WITH SLAY THE PRINCESS THE PAST FEW DAYS IM GONNA FUCKING EXPLODE !!!!! :D

anyways take this.

I don't see them as romantic but they are still so fun. love story !! u can interpret it all how u like though lol i enjoy it all the same and just hope u have fun <3

also below the read more im gonna dump some doodles and sketches of me tryna figure out how to draw the voices and stuff smh. none of it is set in stone also maybe some spoilers idk smh go play the game !!!

HIIII here. hands u this. silly birds.

the cold is one of my faves smh but they are AAAAALL good smh. contrarian. paranoid. hunted. broken. NARRATOR holy fuck i love timeloops and tragedies and horror and narrator characters and AAAAAARGH go play slay the princess RIGHT now smh ive mostly been watching playthroughs but trust me i need to buy it soon and play it a million times over smh

#slay the princess #slay the princess fanart #stp fan art #tbh i glanced into fanfics outta curiosity for what sorta fics there were #and i saw one suggest aroace princess #and i was like WOAH #and anyways now im projecting aroace onto All of them smh #even the smitten yes IDK im blasting this entire game with it #a love story but not a romantic one it feels like their relationship can be described a million ways like #anyways yeah heheh take these for now #i hope to draw more but #we'll see #take care lol #the damsel #the narrator #voice of the contrarian #voice of the smitten #voice of the cold

[kanansdume]

I've recently been watching these very interesting Star Wars video essays on YouTube (yeah I know, a rare breed) and it brings up these comments Lucas has made about how he views Star Wars as almost like a silent film in terms of how important the visuals are to him in comparison to the dialogue. But this essay also points out how important Lucas finds all of the "rhyming" moments in his trilogies and the way he utilizes them to remind you of something else for emotional or thematic reasons. And there's so many of them, both in visuals and in dialogue, and it's interesting to consider how important this is to him, the repetition for a purpose as well as the storytelling through visuals above everything else and then to look at Star Wars since the Prequels came out and realize how little has really been able to match up to those ideals since then.

The ONLY thing that's come out since the Prequels that I think really hits these two things the same way is, in fact, Andor. One of the things I noticed about the way people discussed Andor as it was airing in a way I haven't really seen for any of the other shows or films was the visual SYMBOLOGY. So many times I saw people noticing the Imperial cog everywhere, from the aerial shot of Narkina 5 as the prisoners escape to the architecture of Mon Mothma's house. There were people picking up on the use of items in Luthen's shop that are familiar from other things to give this idea that Luthen is from another time, he's attempting to preserve this world he lost, that if you're not looking closely enough you won't notice what he's really saying or doing with this shop. The color choices for the different locations and people got analyzed because the people involved spoke about how they intentionally utilized color to SEND A MESSAGE about the characters and the world. We know that the people who made the costumes and sets really worked hard to treat Star Wars almost like a period drama and study the history of the franchise as if it were a real place so that the things they came up with felt like they belonged in this world everyone knows so well even if it's completely new. And of course there were all of the myriad references to things from Rogue One, the constant repetition of "climb", the sunset on the beach, etc.

Nearly EVERY SHOT in this show was created with so much intention behind it in order to say something meaningful about the characters, the world, this specific story they're in, and the overall saga of Star Wars itself. It's insane how much greater impact this show was able to achieve through the incredibly careful usage of visual symbols and thematic repetitions, much like Lucas did before them. It feels like they didn't just study the history of the galaxy far far away, but they studied the history of STAR WARS and what Lucas was trying to do and say with this story. They peeled back his onion a bit more and were able to create something that really has that same visual feel even when it's not created for a child audience. It also is experimenting with its narrative style through its structure and through Cassian's character being allowed to be somewhat more reactive than proactive, and while that didn't work for everyone, it does feel like it's following in Lucas's footsteps of experimentation through Star Wars. Push the boundaries of what Star Wars is and can be and what you can say with it.

But this only works because they peeled the onion back enough to TRULY understand all of the messages Lucas was sending with it. They got the heart of Star Wars and despite its lack of space wizards, despite the lack of most major characters in the Saga, this was a show that honestly got the message more than just about anything else Star Wars has put out since the Prequels. The choices between selflessness and selfishness, the themes about how you always HAVE to make a choice even when it feels like you don't have any (sometimes ESPECIALLY when it feels like you don't have any), and how important it is to make sure to choose the path of compassion above everything else. The themes of connection to others, the symbiotic circle and the impact even the smallest person can have on world around them, it's RIGHT THERE and it's CENTRAL to Andor's storyline.

So yes, it experiments a little with narrative structure, but it's possibly the most Star Wars thing to exist Revenge of the Sith because it honestly truly GETS what Star Wars was about, both in its themes and in its filmmaking. A lot of people said that Andor didn't feel like Star Wars to them, usually because of the lack of space wizards and the fact that it's not a story aimed at children. But to me, Andor is EXACTLY what Star Wars is and has always been. They're stretching the boundaries of what Star Wars can be, but it's saying the exact same things Star Wars has always said, it's just saying it slightly differently. This doesn't feel like fanfiction to me, not really. Unlike things like the Mandoverse or the books, Andor isn't just taking some of the toys out of the sandbox and going to play with them somewhere else. Andor is IN that sandbox. It's building a slightly different sandcastle, but it's still within the sandbox, using the same sand that Lucas did.

#star wars #andor #star wars andor #i GET why some people feel like andor isn't star wars #but quite honestly that feels like not just a superficial reading of andor but a superficial reading of star wars as a whole #the only other show to come anywhere near andor's level was the obi-wan kenobi show #there's tons of visuals that are intended to link back to both the pt and the ot #from obi-wan and leia's costumes to things like the fire obi-wan is burned in and that flashback scene #i'm placing andor above owk still because i think andor takes it an extra level higher but owk is also in that sandbox #owk just got stuck with the fucking volume and the disadvantage of going from a movie to a miniseries #but it did far better with those disadvantages than just about anyone else and still told a VERY star wars style story #the fact that it feels like the prequels is exactly why everyone hated it #and it's exactly why i loved it and think it's the 2nd best thing to come out of star wars since rots #i'll give 3rd place to rebels since it tries once or twice to do some visual and dialogue repetition #but those kinds of things aren't something i see analyzed about rebels all that much tbh #everything else is just fanfic that made a profit #some of it is really BAD fanfic that thinks a cameo is the same as a visual motif. it's not. they suck. stop doing them.

[sandersgrey]

"Nico solo book should be a tragedy" disagree.

Nico was Rick Riordan's first canonically queer character, and the first book queer character a lot of my generation knew about as kids- it would be a huge slap on the face of his audience if his story ended as a tragedy, and Riordan knows that. Thats why solangelo has such a solid, healthy dynamic in the background of toa.

Of now, he's also one of very few pjo-verse characters to be basically confirmed mentally ill, and he's also really disabled in the text, whether its said or not.

Nico is a queer orphan who's entire storyline til toa was just tragedy after tragedy after goddamn tragedy, and who has JUST begun to heal. He deserves a happy ending.

More importantly, the audience- the queer, disabled, mentally ill kids who see themselves in him- deserve to see him be happy at the end.

To make his story a tragedy would be to validate Nico's (and Hades') belief that kids like him don't get a happy ending. That all we're made for is tragedy.

Rick Riordan first wrote The Lightning Thief so his adhd son could finally see himself in a hero. He keeps writing after his son is grown because he knows how much other kids need those stories- his students, even. He knows.

It's even in the narrative itself: it tells us upfront that Percy's mother called him Perseus because he was the only greek hero who got a happy ending.

Nico is the queer kid's original Perseus.

The reasoning follows that he must be happy.

#alex wont shut up #nico di angelo #pjo #hoo #toa #tsats #is that the acronym? ill be honest you guys idk #nico solo book #idc about will tbh #growing REAL tired of all the tragedy talk. gucking hell. #like you can like whatever you want and write your own fanfics but #sometimes theres a REASON for a story to exist #you cant just ignore it bc of whatever #pjo is a story about how the gods arent always right #its about surviving the odds #to NOT have Nico survive then. would defeat the fucking point

[stergeon]

25 rejected edeleth fluff ideas

here are some edeleth stories i thought a lot about but did not write. if anybody wants to actually write one of these, be my guest (and also pleeeeease send me a link, i'm desperate for content about Them Girls™)

byleth takes edelgard on a fishing trip and she has an absolutely abysmal time

edelgard makes a valiant attempt to corral byleth's atrocious fashion sense ahead of a formal event

byleth teaches edelgard swear words

edelgard tries some of those weird herbs rhea used to give students to relax; byleth is more than happy to babysit

byleth does edelgard's taxes. she's wearing her goofy professor glasses. it does something weird for edelgard

edelgard takes byleth on a date to the opera and byleth cries the whole time

byleth reads a work of fiction for the first time ever. it's a horror story. she did not like it. edelgard reads her something nicer.

edelgard gets byleth to pose for a portrait and shows it to her

byleth has to give a speech at a big event and is a nervous wreck. edelgard has been waiting all her life for this coaching opportunity

edelgard tries to teach byleth how to draw (she is very bad at it)

byleth cannot for the life of her figure out which fork is used for what purpose at this fancy dinner. edelgard covers for her

edelgard goes all out to celebrate byleth's birthday on the day byleth thought was (read: randomly chose as) her birthday, not her actual birthday; byleth doesn't have the heart to tell her

byleth brings edelgard various souvenirs from her travels around the country. edelgard tries not to be so soft over it, even though they're… not all hits

edelgard attempts to make dinner and botches it beyond salvation. they get takeout.

byleth will not shut up about this cute house she saw when she was out on a mission and how nice it would be for them to "have something like it one day." edelgard arranges to buy the place

edelgard sees byleth in a dress uniform and cannot stop swooning

byleth is being relentlessly pursued by a suitor who won't take a hint and edelgard challenges the idiot to a duel

edelgard decides she will learn to swim. it goes poorly, to say the least, but she manages in the end. as it turns out, getting to see byleth in a swimsuit is a good motivator

byleth gets caught kissing edelgard by hubert. the resulting conversation is unpleasant for everyone. ferdinand, meanwhile, is overjoyed

edelgard is having a terrible, horrible, no-good very bad day. she chews byleth out over nothing and immediately feels awful about it. byleth forces her to take the rest of the day off to chill

byleth is going away for a month-long mission. both girls are inconsolable. they write each other letters literally every day.

edelgard really puts somebody on blast in a council meeting. byleth gets stars in her eyes

byleth concocts a very, very elaborate story about some kind of summit in faerghus; she and edelgard leave enbarr for two weeks to attend. surprise: there's no summit, it's a spa retreat

edelgard arranges a "normal date" where they go out in town in disguise and do very boring things like run errands, look at furniture, buy socks, etc.

doropetra-edeleth double date

#edeleth #edelgard von hresvelg #byleth eisner #byleth x edelgard #fire emblem #fe3h #fire emblem three houses #fe3h fanfic #sterge.rtf #i would Love if anyone would grab one of these and run with it #as much as i would like to write any or all of these i don't have the brain for it at the moment #i actually did write the swears one but it was too silly to post. i simply can't. #i'm considering doing a story where each chapter is a teeny-tiny one-shot along the lines of these prompts #but i have like. three or four wips right now and i Should Not make it five #c'est la piss. i love them girls #also um. it should go without saying but don't buy a house for your partner without having a conversation about it lol #this is fiction and our girl has money to toss around on stuff like that. the likes of we don't have the luxury #i probably Will write that double-date eventually tbh. i keep chewing on it and rotating it in my mind #thanks to arrow for making me so crazy about that one

[paperglader]

I am aware that a get in loser, we are going… to fall in love? update won’t actually fix me, but i think we should try it anyways.

#mmmmm that fic truly is THE it girl of the fics #like??? Regina George and cady heron calling each other baby for like 70k and cuddling and being all over each other #and wholesome family dynamics #I love wholesome family dynamics #also Regina struggling with her sexuality as a young little lesbian?? relatable #but also genuinely learning how to care for another human being for the first time after puberty😂 #cady being head over heels in love for Regina George? super relatable as well #like it’s my favorite cadina fanfic cause i think it sort of is the healthiest at the moment #cause they fuck up a lot cause they sort of took each other by surprise and they definitely were not looking for a relationship at all #but they actually end up being so loving towards the other #Regina is closeted though and I am wondering how they’re gonna fair considering where they currently are in the story #idk #it’s truly great and it’s helping with my anxiety tbh I love it #cadina #mean girls #fanfiction #regina george #cady heron

[not-poignant]

Just a heads up Mephistopheles has red skin. But I’m so happy to see more content with him!

Hi anon!

Okay so two things, firstly you might want to check out the Forbiddem Realms wiki:

And specifically the source which is canonical to 1E:

Mephistopheles has multiple different forms! :D The blue form exists in different spaces and across different campaigns and you can Google right now and find canonical fanart of blue-skin Mephistopheles! Some of those illustrations are hot as fuck, so live your best life :D If you're happy to see content of him, hopefully that includes the blue form as well.

And since Mephistopheles was never actually in Baldur's Gate 3 I get to choose what forms they are because secondly, I highly recommend you read tags and author's notes thoroughly for Palmarosa for the additional reason that:

Is in the tags! And in the Author's Note of the first chapter:

I knew the DND purists would kind of get up in arms about all kinds of things (and...I was right), so I think this is now like the tenth time I've had to remind people to actually read my tags and author's notes! I don't kind of want to remind folks in every chapter that I will do something I like more if I don't like the canon, or what the point of fanfiction is in the first place. But I'm not trying to write more canon anon, I'm writing fanfiction, and the transformative part is the point.

It doesn't matter if his blue skin was in the Wiki or not, I can do what I like in this story, that is, after all, the spirit of DND and creating new campaigns within an existing structure, and that's precisely why Mephistopheles has so many forms in the first place! Heck, I could've made him green :D

There's a lot of things that aren't canon compliant in this story, from Astarion being able to taste food properly, to Mephistopheles being based on 1E instead of later version/s (I mean he's not Molikroth here either), to the House of Hope having many many more rooms than present in the map, and a great deal more besides.

I know that one version of Mephistopheles has red skin, I just like the one with blue more!

#asks and answers #palmarosa #thespectaclesofthor #it's really time that people started reading tags and author's notes again #but anyway you might not know this anon #but fanfiction doesn't owe *any* compliance to canon! #the whole premise of the story - raphael and astarion hooking up #is not canon at all #if you see something that doesn't seem right #the author probably meant it that way #or enjoys it more that way!!! #the best people to correct if you notice a non canon compliant error #is people who are *literally writing the canon* #if it's people writing fanfiction #it's best just to leave it be #they generally made their decisions on purpose and not by accident #especially if they have a 'this is NOT canon compliant' tag #tbh the art i just see of red mephistopheles i find uglier than the blue skin form so i made a call lol #but yeah in case you feel the urge to correct fanfic authors again on the canon in the future #maybe just keep in mind what fanfic is for #for a lot of authors!! #look for a 'canon compliant' tag if an author is trying to be canon compliant!

[eldritch-thrumming]

i saw that review on letterboxd of all the rhetorical questions for barbie and like… the more i think abt it, the more i’m certain that the review’s author fundamentally misunderstood the film. barbie land is not a utopia in the way that adults would think abt a utopia, like the author seems to imply… barbie land is canonically shaped by little girls playing with their dolls. that’s why we see a supreme court. thats why there are nobel prizes and authors and lawyers (also because that’s how the toys are marketed… would there be a mermaid in ur utopia??? there would be in mine!). that’s why barbie and ken don’t necessarily know what a boyfriend and girlfriend are “meant” to do (not to mention that the author’s assumption that sex is fundamental to a romantic relationship is problematic at best). that’s why barbie is indifferent to ken (i personally had the life size barbie and my sister had the barbie dream house—we had the working woman barbie game, i had the genie barbie gameboy game, we had countless barbie dolls; we didn’t own a single ken doll lol). barbie land is a world created by and for little girls as they play with their dolls (she says in a comment on the original post “don’t little girls play with their dolls in a sexual way?” and yeah, sure, some do. but i didn’t and i’m sure there are others who didn’t… just like there are some girls who completely mutilated their own dolls and made them into horrifying creatures)… that’s why stereotypical barbie starts having an existential crisis—because a grown woman begins to play with her doll again and starts reshaping barbie land… we, as the audience, are meant to understand this as an outlier to how barbie land is canonically created. the author also calls ken “crass” and “slovenly”… maybe after he builds the patriarchy in barbie land he becomes “crass” but i wouldn’t call him slovenly at any point in the film (i suppose this is just semantics tho).

also, please stop saying that barbie land is a reversal of the real world. it isn’t, even if that may have been the filmmakers intentions. again, barbie is indifferent to ken. she does not abuse him, she does not treat him like he exists to service her by cooking or cleaning or providing other favors for her… barbie does not oppress ken in the way that men oppress women in the real world (we have no idea if he owns property or where he lives and she doesn’t seem to particularly care—extremely different from the fact that women couldn’t have their own bank accounts or credit cards, get a mortgage on their own or divorce their husbands through no fault divorce until the second half of the 20th century in the us… within a lot of our mothers and grandmothers lifetimes!!!!) and it is a complete disservice to conflate or equate the two. we actually see barbie drawing clear boundaries around her time and space in regards to ken—this is not a reversal of misogyny as women and girls experience it in the real world, by any stretch of the imagination.

is the film perfect or revolutionary or radical? of course not. it was produced by major studios and corporations in hollywood. of course the barbie movie is a fucking commercial for barbie, like… to expect anything different is just extremely dumb on your part if u saw the trailer, saw the marketing, saw the interviews, bought a ticket, and sat ur ass in the theater, like be fuckin serious. but don’t do women and girls a disservice by discrediting the world and thoughts and ideas it could open up for them by seeing themselves be taken seriously on screen in a major summer blockbuster with stupid fucking questions because u want to feel superior to everyone else because YOU and ONLY YOU see through the capitalist marketing of lipstick pop girlboss feminism (especially when juxtaposed with the way the female characters are treated in oppenheimer, which we cannot help but compare to the barbie film with the viral marketing of barbenheimer).

#i had to block a bunch of people so their barbie takes would stop showing up in my for you tab lol #i just wanna read steddie fanfic and reblog cute barbie gifs not see ur lame ass takes abt how barbie is evidence that both patriarchies #AND matriarchies are bad #there is not a society on earth where women treat men the way women have treated women for millennia… even the matriarchies smh #the way men have treated women*** literal smh!!!! #barbie spoilers #tagging this as barbie spoilers but not using the barbie tag bevause i don’t want to get into all that tbh #i’m just frustrated… esp as someone who teaches film #every time a female led film comes out we have to have these same convos over and over #let’s talk abt how oppenheimer glorifies the atomic bomb and doesn’t acknowledge the indigenous populations that the bomb was tested on!!!! #let’s talk abt how oppenheimer doesn’t even acknowledge the japanese experience of the bomb!!!! bevause oppenheimer is the real victim #let’s talk abt how christopher nolan repeatedly uses the trope of mentally ill suffering crazy woman to propel his male protagonists story!! #he’s just so sad :( that he killed thousands of ppl :( #anyways i’m over it lol #ok wait making this non rebloggable bevaude i don’t wanna argue w anyone i literally jus wanna say my piece into a void 🙏

[deus-ex-mona]

biannual reminder that this event sure was a ✨thing✨

#(the two event remembrance dates are 14/3 and 11/11 btw~~~~) #it’s pocky day huh~~~~~~~~ well. more like sALES DAY YEAAYAYAYAYAYAAAAAA #man. i still can’t believe that the aiyuu pocky event was a thing. it was truly one of the greatest pieces of canon fanfics of all time #i wonder what the honeypre event story writers are doing with their lives these days… #i sincerely hope that they’re living their ✨best lives✨ and are still writing aiyuu fanfics in their spare time lmaoooooooooo #i want them to come back to write the lxl radio drama with them in ✨situations✨ tbh #(ok but guys what did you submit for the lxl situations?) #(my submissions were 1: they go on a lovey dovey date 2: they swap bodies one day 3: they go to the aquarium together) #(i saw some submissions on ft4twt which involved them having to deal with situations™️ w/ ft4. i hope those get picked ngl) #anyways manifesting white day kiss mv for next year leading up to the album release o k b y e— #shibaclown saturday #染BODY ONCE TOLD ME—

[choices-and-voices]

Look, I didn’t use to buy into the theory that Tyril & Mal have some kind of relationship happening, even in playthroughs where MC isn’t romancing either of them. But after this chapter…

… all I’m saying is, I can see the potential 🫢

#it’s giving vibes of ‘i love you and i can’t keep pretending that doesn’t mean anything/i can’t keep watching you almost destroy yourself’ #don’t get me wrong – i know that sort of thing can happen in a friendship too #and in cases where MC is romancing Tyril and/or Mal i think it *is* a friendship – because they seem too exclusively devoted #but in cases where MC isn’t romancing either of them… 🫠 #i’m super curious to see if PB explicitly goes there tbh #(there is also a subpoint to all this for situations where MC *is* romancing Tyril and/or Mal #which is: imagine how angsty it would be if they got into a relationship *specifically while MC was gone* #a grief-fuelled choked-off unhealthy thing where they never actually spoke about how they felt #and now it’s over but they’re still picking up the pieces #if any fanfic writers see this and are inspired then know i would die to read something like that) #playchoices #choices: stories you play #blades of light & shadow #blades of light and shadow #tyril starfury #mal volari #mal x tyril #fandom essay #screenshots #original post

[chickemz]

Guys, I’m still thinking about clorivia and their wasted potential. I’m not mad that the tension wasn’t more drawn out but more mad that we didn’t really get to see that resolution and everything kind of feels normal between them, despite years of resentment and guilt Built up.

But see I like to interpret This new relationship of theirs as something a bit timid. of course they’re friendly now but it’s a distant type of friendly. Not the same bond they shared when Calus was alive how can it be after all that happened? It’s why we don’t really hear much about clorinde from Navia and why most of their interactions after the aq seem more surface level (I mean to be fair most of the interactions we’ve seen were brief moments but again we hardly ever really see them talk or hang out with each other).

#I should start reading some Clorivia fanfics tbh it would be so fun to see them explore their relationship dynamic post archon quest #I low-key feel yuri baited by them ngl #They literally had so much drama intention we could’ve peeled back and explored #but I guess they were already on a time crunch trying to fit in all of navia’s character development #I’m praying that they mention something about this in clorinde’s story #clorivia #genshin impact #navia #clorinde

[transhoverfish]

SECOND TO LAST CHAPTER IS FINISHED. LETS GO GIRLS.

#its so weird. like theres one more chapter and then im like.... done w all my subnaut fics #like other than those other aus ive posted about but. tbh i never really intended to WRITE any of those #bc i would be here forever if i tried every single idea i came up with #but this is like the last big project i have planned for this fandom #and its. its weird!!!! ive been writing these fics for. what. four years?? five?? #theres an end in sight and its like. huh. #NOT TO SAY IM GOING AWAY FOREVER OBVS. IM STILL GONNA BE HERE. #but no more 20k+ word stories until at LEAST sub3 #sorry this has nothing to do w the fic at all EVERYONE ENJOY THIS CHAPTER IS A BIT OF A LONGER ONE TO MAKE UP FOR THE WAIT #final chapter will be out before the end of the week !!!!! #once again wtf r my tags #fanfic #fanfiction #subnautica: new years eve #subnautica spoilers

[nullbutler]

okay but jewish orthodox communities are fucking nothing like catholic/christian groups of that nature AT ALL

source: I visit Muncy to see family and have seen that family since i was very small, i KNOW this community

and specifically this community...this community where the women cover their hair and wear ankle length skirts, where the men have payot and wont be caught dead withous a tallis, THIS Community where every resturaunt is kosher and you'll be squinted at if you drive on shabbat, THIS COMMUNITY has been so chill. for context i usually stay with my grandparents where we spend all day at an old folks home. not only is most of the staff dedicated, smiley folk from all over the world (jamaican, ukrainian, probably coming in from new york -- not really worth mentioning but they're all so nice and JKLD my grandma's old nurse didnt do half of her job and they still kept her for a year which :( but also yeah!! no xenophobia that i could pick up on, quite the opposite) but even some of the oldest members of the community decide not to follow the religious 'rule.' old ladies will wear pants, shorter skirts, reveal their hair, and they will recieve NO flack for it FROM ANYONE

and when i was sitting outside one time next to a group of old ladies, one of the ladies had a little 1 year old grandson who was bored out of his mind, so as I was waiting for my grandma to get back from a walk i sorta played peekabo with him for the better half of an hour. and the ladies looked over at me and went "oh how nice of you ^^" even though I was (1 very obviously queer (2 very obviously not from the community

and also after my grandma outed me to my slightly more religious aunt (as in EXTREMELY religious WILDLY religious MATRIACH of the community religious), her response was just "shrug. she'll do what she wants. lets get dinner as a family :)"

they almost all have phones, MOST people have access to the internet. it felt like I was walking through the 80s, honestly, kids playing with chalk on the sidewalk and riding bikes and walking to the convenient stores. the biggest drama was the fact that my boy cousin wanted to impress the people he was going to camp with, so he asked his sister to drive over and bring his 'cool' pants, and she was like...'what. why.' 'i want to look cool' 'is everyone wearing dress pants' 'no, just me' 'wh' and she did it anyway so she could pick up icecream on the way back HJGJLDS

and even my littlest cousin, who is very obviously autistic, definitely isn't recieving any school mandated support but is handled with the loving community approach of "oh, let him do as he pleases, he means no harm" and if anyone bullies him they have to deal with his parents

its just AAAAGH its so wholesome, and even as far the more conservative approaches go, its more of a dartboard than a specific community rule. like for instance even if the people nearest to the center of the board were extremely strict with the rules and narrow minded, the people in the outer ranks would be much more accepting. its like different social circles, you cant get ostracized by the entire community because everyone has different levels that they're willing to go, and to everyone in the area its more unusual to be as extreme as my aunt

AHGHHHHH college is making me long for a simpler life drawing chalk on the sidewalks and living in blissful ignorance of what fandom drama is. TAKE ME BAAAACK

#im happy here but man #that sounds like the closest thing to a utopia tbh #they are literally touching grass #oh and more cute stories aaaaaa my aunt wants her fish to keep passover so she buys them fish food without gluten #my aunts neighbors have a playground and she has a trampoline and so all of the kids basically share toys there are NO fences #there are also a lot of mosquitos...and deer #my boy cousin's kepah fell of while he was running and he had to cover his head with his hand #and i told my youngest cousin (11) the loose plot of a 'story' i was 'writing' (it was bb fanfic that I paraphrased as #“this cool 13 year old befriends this crow thing and they solve mysteries” and then like a year later that boy was like *tbh stare* “tell m #about the 13 yaer old again“ and i was like ”OH FUCK WAHT HAVE I DONE“

[bananonbinary]

do u ever see a depiction of one of your blorbos that just makes you like "this is super compelling and a fantastic concept and i will follow along enjoying it as a concept but nonetheless you are 100% wrong in your interpretation and if you ever asked my honest opinion on canon we would have no choice but to fight to the death over it"

#this is like...most web martin for me tbh #like he certainly has his darker moments but if u really think martin doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself.... #Incorrect #an oldie but a goodie is also (older) fanon bro strider #loved that guy #love fics about him #100% not relevant to the canon story tho #(and ofc 'canon or not' isnt a good metric for fanfic. its all a big sandbox.) #(but some of these u just KNOW the other person had a wildly different experience than u with these characters)

[ohitslen]

Bro what if I made a poor attempt of a fanfic where I explore Vash feeling mad. What would happen. What if there was a small amount of Vashwood in it. Too. What.

#tbh I have never in my life gotten my hand into fanfic #like. writing it myself #original stories? for sure! I’m your girl I have an insane amount of stories it’s my passion! #but the way fic writers work is very different and I LOVE YOU ALL #however I don’t really feel very comfy doing it because I don’t like walking in ground I don’t know #but you see I am now giving zero fucks because this hyperfixation changed me to a chemical level #like I’m sorry but it’s making me WANT TO WRITE ABOUT IT????? that to my own personal standards. is very crazy #so I’m thinking #but I’m not entirely sure I’m just thinking…