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#List of coming of age stories
xenodile · 1 year
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The way a large portion of the English FFXIV community infantilizes Alphinaud and Alisaie drives me up the wall, like I absolutely understand feeling protective of them, the story is intended to make you care about them, whether you interpret the WoL's bond with them as platonic, familial, romantic, professional, or parental, it's all fair game, yet the way some people talk about them, you'd think they were describing stupid toddlers.
They've graduated college. They drink alcohol. The first thing they do is leave home because they're legally of age and their dad can't stop them any more. Actual child characters refer to them as adults. The final expansion has them returning home after years away and saving the world where everyone that came before them fell short.
Alphinaud founds a private army and talks politics with world leaders, and everyone takes him seriously. He organizes international military actions. He negotiates trade deals with globe spanning businesses, he invents two new varieties of carbuncles just because he can. He solves a problem that has plagued the Forum for decades with a single phone call. He's potentially the smartest man alive and a skilled healer besides. There's a whole bit about how he likes mature women.
Alisaie pioneers the cure for Tempering, something everyone thought impossible for hundreds of years. She's one of the strongest mages in the world and a deft swordswoman to boot. She's practically adopted a war orphan. There's an entire short story dedicated to her mourning her dead girlfriend. When she speaks everyone shuts up and pays attention, even Zenos listens to her.
But because they're short, because Alphinaud bought a sword once, people will act like none of these things happened. People will unironically call them babies and act like the plot just moves itself, like they're tagalong kids that don't actually do anything and need grown ups to protect them. It's maddening.
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scholar-of-yemdresh · 1 month
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Can we PLEASE get trans protagonists In science fiction, fantasy and action movies & TV shows. Pretty please I'm begging. Can we get multiple main/major trans characters too PLEASE?
For the love of God trans rep doesn't need to be regulated to; grounded realistic contemporary dramas/comedies. Or it's a sci-fi/fantasy show but they'll be a side character in the cis MCs story and who'll have a max 10 minutes of screen time
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darabeatha · 3 months
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Absolutely feral that after getting kicked from heaven and falling down for 9 whole days (and then staying burning in agony in a pit of fire down in hell for another 9 days) s.atan and his army of millions of fallen angels just crawl from the shores of hell, decide to make a hugeass palace for themselves and then discuss what the heck are they going to do now, only to come to the conclusion that the way to hurt god the most would be to destroy his newest creation (men) which from then on they can further take on earth and make it their new kingdom (bc during the council, one of the fallen angels argued that even if they made a new kingdom in hell, at the end of the day they are still essentially 'trapped' in a box, so would that even count as a triumph?)
#;ooc#ooc#;about#about#what i find most interesting is that despite the hatred and all; there are a lot of points during the story where#s.atan laments the current situation in a way;#i wish i could list them but that would take ages of revisiting OUGH#like at one point when he arrives at the garden of eden#and sees just how immensely beautiful it is (mind u he and the rest of the fallen angels have met for the first time the concept of agony#and pain when they fell from heaven) he sorts of goes through a crisis about how he laments things#but then he's like;; no no this isnt what i want what i want is POWER and basically goes like#if i cant have this no one can; and just proceeds with his plan of corruption#anyways i think the title of the universe' first sin to adress him is kinda cool title ngl#its like; as a human it makes u sort of sympathize with him but then u realize that all this guilt and stuff#isn't really coming from a greater good in his heart to want the best; it comes from greed; jealousy; hatred; pride; etc etc#or well; i dunno i found it so troubling that we can sort of understand more his logic than the logic of angels & god#there's s o much philosophy and theological debates stacked that i dont think I can properly put words into it#bc again im a baby in all of this#but it really is very interesting#like i dunno; something something about how they WANT retribution; or better said; vengeance against god#they want to inflic this new found pain back#and finding that the best solution to revindicate themselves would be to destroy his creation#that's like feral man i dunno it makes me just -HANDS ON FACE-#bc supposedly god loves his creation with all his heart so its like; to destroy that;; what would that make him feel?#and also;; if god created all angels; why did he create an angel that could feel these emotions?#that quote that went something like 'why did you create me to be flawed' AGH I CANT REMMEBER IT WELL#i know theres something about free will that is discussed a lot in the story but#its so complicated to put into words im just gonna go OUITRTROI
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mirasmirages · 6 months
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I hate how I take notes
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~ books read in 2023 ~
#2: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
Rating: 5/5
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daydreamerdrew · 1 year
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Fantastic Comics (1939) #1
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Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
"Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her.
Read if You Like:
Young Adult Fiction
Contemporary Fiction
Fiction Dealing with Mental Health
Coming of Age Stories
Recommended if You Enjoy:
Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
John Green (Looking For Alaska)
Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why)
Beatrice Sparks (Go Ask Alice)
Ellen Hopkins (Identical)
Laurie Halse Anderson (Wintergirls)
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obiwankenobies · 2 years
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Why is no one talking about the book Jobs For Girls With Artistic Flair by June Gervais? We need to be talking about the book Jobs For Girls With Artistic Flair by June Gervais.
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maggiecheungs · 2 years
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Hey, sorry to bother you, I was wondering if you knew what had happened with the director for Cheese Sisters? I thought P'Jojo was directing? But MDL has P'Ma Deaw directing?
hiii! no bother at all :)
Short answer: yes, P’Jojo was originally meant to direct, but I guess he must have had some scheduling conflicts because of all his GMMTV shows coming out this year, so P’Ma-Deaw took over.
Longer answer: okay, so this confused me too when I first saw it but basically, back in March 2021 when BNK48 announced The Girlfriend Planner, they also announced a film called Cheese Sister directed by Ma-Deaw Chookiat. Like TGP, the original Cheese Sister movie was indefinitely delayed and had basically a year of no updates (literally the only information I found about it when I looked last autumn was that it was a family drama about cheesemaking directed by Ma-Deaw and starring BNK48′s Cherprang and Pchy Witwisit. It’s still on MDL for now, if you’re interested).
If I had to guess what happened, I would say that due to scheduling conflicts and general delays, BNK48 decided to merge the two projects into one. So we have the original GL storyline and cast of The Girlfriend Planner, but the cheesemaking setting and director of the original Cheese Sisters movie.
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helium-fox · 2 years
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one thing i feel that’s missing from the people saying ‘i don’t like this genre bc of x’ and people responding  ‘read better books, they’re not all like that’ is that often times those people are TRYING to read better books
but it’s not like you can go to the library and go to the “sci-fi without racism and sexism” section or “fantasy with good queer rep” section. especially with a culture that doesn’t want to “spoil” anything
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hivepixels · 16 days
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a good rule of thumb is that if an artist has been on tumblr for over 6 years they probably were a homestuck. i still get whiplash seeing old hs art from big names like worthikids and shelby cragg lmao
SO AWESOMEE mimiadraws asianartiste timsel-fanarts sticksandsharks and japhers were huge inspos to me as a teen I LOOOVE THIS PIPELINE
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hauntingblue · 3 months
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There is almost no recap in wano so far.... well 4 minutes.... it's like a 2 min reduction
#back to my beautiful dead wife.... otama you are so real.... me too girl#the outfit change qjdkjskq but he wanted an armour :(#the guitar???? lmao luffy what are you gonna do with the sword#so now is luffy gonna get lost bc he got a cursed sword or is that just zoro's deal#otama is wearing his hat 😭😭😭😭😭#it is scary to let luffy take care of a sick child tho.... like he has the spirit but not the means i think#maybe that was before ace and not now who knows (this story will prove me wrong)#ace was a shanks for otama omg...... she wanted to go with him into the sea 😭😭😭#'you dont know how good ace was you don't understand my pain' AND STILL LUFFY WON'T SAY SHIT baby boy you are so unwell#luffy just seeing big animals and salivating ajdhajsjk 'WE ARE EATING WELL TODAY OTAMA' he was already hunting beasts at your age otama lmao#see lmao 'if you are ever hungry you can eat them' akdjakdnj not everyone is built like you luffy#zoro eating poisoned meat and luffy saying it is poisonous and eating it too.... thank god they are weirdly resistant to shit like this#alas they end up like otama lmao... well she is also eight#¡UNA MOCOSA ENFERMA! zoro please#hawkins coming for zoro and luffy together.... it is so over for him it has never been more over#zoro and luffy reunion.... i was gonna say this didn't happen with sanji but they got a whole arc about breaking up a wedding so nvm....#they got their rituals#also new priorities list for luffy: 1) zoro! 2) meat#so we could extrapolate: 1) hat 2) crew (zoro included) 3) meat#zoro priorities: 1) saving innocent woman (honor) 2) sake (luffy not pictured yet to have a spot on the list)#talking tag#watching one piece#episode 897#luffy not letting zoro hold the sword akdhakdjsk 'its the soul of a samurai' akdjaka#he threw the sheath..... omg luffy is about to let himself die on this fight.... goodbye luffy..... zoro single father of otama so sad....#he is just punching people with the sword akdhsidnsks luffy i love you oh nvm he is using it somehow... well he is trying#you know whats fucking bad is that ace probs had the time to go back to wano and see otama but he went after blackbeard first#bc that was more important and probs not a big deal. cruel. vile. sick and twisted. also did oars and his hat remind him of this promise#also... the animation is better for sure but are the fps lower??? am i tripping.... do i not know what that even means#episode 898
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caffeinewitchcraft · 20 days
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Everything I've Ever Written (on Tumblr)
I have been writing online since 2016. As a result, I have quite the few short stories listed below! They're all from different parts in my writing journey and I hope you enjoy.
If you'd like to read what I currently put out, please consider supporting me on Patreon (X)
Cinderella Doesn't Believe in Fairy Tales
Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3
Part 4 / Part 5 /Part 6
Part 7 / Part 8 / Part 9
Destiny Universe
You Are the Demon King
The Hero and Hope (part 1) (part 2)
Being Villagers
Heroes and Villains
Therapist for Villains
Juniper and Discus
Self Destruct Villain (flash fiction)
Dandelion (A Villain Story)
You Help Kill Heroes
You are the Shark Hero
Mist into a Tempest
The Civilian and the Reluctant Hero
No Heroes Here
The Spoiler (humor, flash fiction)
You are Legacy
Hero in Title
Dark Lord's Former Coworker
One Minute
The Fae:
You Become Powerful
Your Friend Takes Your Name
Larkin and Yvette
Debt Must Be Repaid (humor flash fiction)
Going to the Hill
The Fae are Free
When They Don't Know (submitted to elsewhereuniversity)
The Chosen One
The Chosen One's Parents
Fate and Mercy and Dead Girls
Amulet to Save Her
Hero's Apprentice (Flash fiction)
The Aftermath of the Chosen One
Wizards Stole My Brother
You are the Chosen One's Knight
The Chosen One is a History Major
You are the Most Powerful Magic User
Time Restarts and She Remembers
Better the Witch than the Kid
Witches
It Was in a Name
The Good Witch of Hawthorne
Berthe the Green Witch
Cursed Mold (flash fiction)
Love isn't Enough
I Can't Believe it's not Proper Adjudication
Devil Deals
The Devil You Know
The Ritual
They Summoned Her on Halloween (flash fiction)
Fairytale Retellings
Ariel and Ursula (age appropriate)
The Gods
Zeus' Son
Faith in Technology
Sci-Fi
Six Red Bulls and Persistence
The Sound of Silence
Emmaline and the Apartment
Humans are Vengeful
Humans Know War (that's why we have diplomacy)
Criminals Forced to Live on as AI (flash fiction)
Misc Fantasy
Wind-Speaker
Wind-Speaker and Her Wife
You Will Become
The Sirens and Leona (flash fiction)
Eldritch Princess (flash fiction)
Princess Maria and the Dragon
Princess Maria is Kidnapped
Immortals are Afraid of Change
Fiona the Dragon
A Violently Won War
Meta Stories
An Abstract Concept
Narrative Town
Narrative Town: Uncle Ralph
Princess Phaedra Breaks
You are a Horror Movie Villain
Ghost Stories
Malevolent Spirits
Your House is Haunted by an Anime Pillow
Don't Open the Door
Grandma's House
Who Is? (flash fiction)
A Face (flash fiction)
Misc.
You Choose Your Fate in Hell
Time Paradox (flash fiction)
You are an Assassin
Multiple Dimension Serial Killer (flash fiction)
An Exercise in Mary Sue
She Comes Back from the Hospital (tw eating disorder)
Roses and Evil (mental health flash fiction)
Big Brother
A Conversation About Anger
Punching Depression
Two Sides (flash fiction)
Immortal Serial Killer in Prison
Theater Romance (flash fiction)
The Lady and the Knight (flash fiction)
Different (flash fiction)
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sarahengraved · 9 months
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mossy-rock-in-a-field · 5 months
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Several weeks ago, my retirement-age mother requested that I play Baldur’s Gate 3 for her because she has trouble with controllers/keyboards and wanted “to see what all the fuss is about with that cute wizard boy.” For context, my mother and I have done this sort of thing in the past with certain RPGs (dragon age, mass effect, etc.), but it’s been a few years since she’s personally requested a game like this. Basically, I control her Tav but let her make all the choices so she can determine how the story plays out without worrying about mechanics. She treats it like a choose-your-own-adventure book.
Anyway, here is a list of some of the things my mother has said and/or chosen to do throughout the course of BG3 in no particular order:
She is (obviously) romancing Gale. She is quite smitten with him and his passion for books and learning; she also thinks he’s polite and qualifies as “relationship material.” She also REALLY likes the things he’s said about his cat so far (my mom is a cat lady), so I know she’s gonna flip shit when we meet Tara in Act III.
She’s playing a normal druid Tav with a generally good alignment. Her favorite spell is Spike Growth because she thinks it’s hilarious whenever enemies walk into the AOE and die. I usually end up having to cast it at least once per battle per her request. Sometimes twice.
Contrary to her alignment, my mother tasks me with robbing every single chest, crate, barrel, and burlap sack we come across; this also includes people and their pockets. The party is always at max carrying capacity. ALWAYS. She doesn’t like selling things because “what if I need them.” The camp stash is in literal shambles. There is no hope of organizing it. She’s got like fifty seven sets of rags and a billion pieces of random silverware.
She MUST talk to every animal and corpse in the game. I think five hours of her total playtime so far (47ish) has been spent speaking to animals as many times as humanly possible. Like, I was thorough in my own playthroughs, but this is on a whole other level.
She did NOT get Volo’s lobotomy, but she did let Auntie Ethel take her eye in hopes of a cure for the tadpole. I did not understand the logic then. I still do not understand it now.
She is far more interested in fashion than equipment stats. Do you have any idea how much gold I’ve had to spend on dyes just to make things match? SO much. Same vibe as that “please someone help me balance my finances my family is starving” tweet but instead of candles it’s thirty thousand fucking bottles of black and furnace red dye.
We broke the prisoners out of Moonrise, but they got on the boat too early and bugged the fight by leaving Astarion and Karlach behind. Wulbren Bongle somehow got stuck in combat mode even after engaging the cutscene on the docks below Last Light; he he kept trying to run ALL THE WAY BACK TO MOONRISE nine fucking meters at a time while I frantically tried to finish the fight with the Warden, otherwise Wulbren would have run straight into the shadow curse. (I would’ve let him go; fuck Wulbren Bongle, all my homies hate Wulbren Bongle. But my mom didn’t know that, and she wanted to keep him safe. So.)
She had me reload a save like eighteen times to save the giant eagles on top of Rosymorn Monastery. Wouldn’t even let me do non-lethal damage just to get past things. I think getting that warhammer for the dawnmaster puzzle took us like an hour and a half alone. (Yes, I know you can use any warhammer, but SHE didn’t.)
She’s started keeping an irl notebook to keep track of her quests between play sessions. She writes down ideas and strategies when she thinks of them during the week, then brings them to her next game session at my house. I think she wrote about three pages on possible approaches to the goblin fortress alone.
She insists that I pet Scratch and the owlbear cub before every single long rest, no exceptions. Sometimes I have to do it multiple times until she is absolutely sure that the animals know exactly how much she loves and cherishes them. She has also commissioned a crocheted owlbear plush from a friend of hers and is very excited.
I’m sure there’s a bunch of stuff I’m forgetting, but those are some fun things I thought of. She’s enjoying the game and is telling all of her retired friends to get it and play it for themselves. She asked me “what is Discord” yesterday and I think my life flashed before my eyes.
anyway shout out to my mom for being neat
Part 2 — Part 3 — Part 4 — Part 5
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hoshigray · 4 months
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𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐞 [𝐍𝐎𝐓]!! | a JJK series
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𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐨𝐩𝐬𝐢𝐬: “GO FUCK YOURSELF, SATORU GOJO!” “BETTER THAN FUCKING YOU!” It’s no secret to anyone on this Earth that you and Gojo cannot stand each other. Despite that, the world seems amused to put these two star-crossed lovers haters in the same space. Or worse, have them dwell deeper into their feelings for one another…
𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: Gojo x fem/afab! reader - explicit content; minors DNI - modern + college AU - frenemies to lovers + mutual pining - fluff + angst + misunderstandings - first kiss - virginity loss - Gojo and reader are at least age 20 - secret relationships; implied friends-with-benefits - sex in shared rooms; college dorms + hotel suite - college parties - use of party games (seven minutes in heaven) - confessions - mention of drug/alcohol abuse - humor bc Gojo and college, lol - Gojo is a cocky, tactless sweetheart, nothing new - cameos of other characters + explicit content will be listed in their respective fics (within the contents).
𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞: when I say that I had this series planned out, I mean like mid-October last year planned out, lmaoo!! I'm honestly so psyched to do this series, as it's one of my favorite tropes + relatively short as I'll be busy irl, but we'll do what we can!! i was lowkey feeling this concept when i was re-watching Ranma 1/2 and figured it would work great with Gojo. So, here's to hoping i can properly execute my thoughts with this series, hehehe~
reblogs + comments are appreciated wholeheartedly ❤︎ gif header made by me + fic dividers used are provided by the wonderful @cafekitsune and @animatedglittergraphics-n-more!!
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𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝑰𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒊𝒓...
All the material below contains explicit 18+ content, so minors do not interact.
₊˚⊹♡ 𝐒𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 (Feb 1st)
The start of the spring semester is supposed to be fresh and new, not be cramped up in a closet with your frenemy at a party! And what's worse: you actually like the feeling of his lips on yours!?
₊˚⊹♡ 𝐇𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞, 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐝 (Feb 7th)
Is it possible to wish to be in the embrace of someone who makes you want to throw them off a cliff? You seem to think so, and the same goes for Gojo. But alas, good things always come to an end, even when not meant to be...
₊˚⊹♡ 𝐒𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐲, 𝐈 𝐇𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 (Feb 14th)
Going on a date with the guy who broke your heart is something you’d never thought would happen – especially on Valentine’s Day! But it’s just for him to be in your good graces again, nothing more…Yeah, go ahead and tell yourself that.
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