#fictional subreddits

[dirigibleplumbing]

A "screenshot" of Earth-616's subreddit for the RPF ship Captain America/Iron Man, a gift for @magicasen for the 616 Stony discord server's stocking exchange.

#marvel edit #social media edit #fictional subreddits #marvel #616 #marvel 616 #stony edit #steve/tony #superhusbands #posts I created #my edits #my collages and edits

[spriteofmushrooms]

The interesting thing about Jiang Cheng is that he refuses to be his mother's golden child to Wei Wuxian's scapegoat; he actively chooses Wei Wuxian again and again. He defends Wei Wuxian from her until she dies. It's unusual.

This doesn't mean that Wei Wuxian's experience was any less fraught--being hated by a caretaker is awful even if everyone else loves you. But it was an interesting choice by MXTX.

#pallas.rtf #mdzs #this is perhaps because i spent a lot of time on various subreddits #but either golden children don't protect their siblings or the golden children who protect their siblings don't end up posting on reddit #because i've never encountered a clear golden child and scapegoat dynamic like jc & wwx's in real life or in fiction #i suppose that's wuthering heights again--cathy defends heathcliff (until she learns how to be a proper lady) #but i don't know. it's interesting to see jc step in for wwx directly in the novel and then contrast that to wwx comforting jc after jfm #doesn't praise jc for helping to save wwx #i often wonder if wwx was as resentful in the moment or if--like all memories--wwx reframed that interaction after the golden core transfer #the way he talks about jc like he's sooo delicate and breakable that obviously wwx has to comfort him is v. reminiscent of how he acts like #jc almost directly forced wwx to do this mad impossible thing because jc was sad and breaking #if jc read mdzs he'd probably curl up in a miserable little ball #but yeah like... memories are shaped so much by what we think and feel now #all memory is imagination... and wwx was a tormented ghost for 13 years because no one offered him anything #so what would that do to you? #i'm off topic

[inbabylontheywept]

That isn't a ship, it's a cannon with FTL

Aggral Thrawn’s gut was a grotesque thing to behold: Soft and distended, covered with a coarse layering of fur, a fat purple worm of a scar crossing over it’s almost spherical circumference. So vicious was the scar that even gazing upon it brought unwanted imagery of the fat ape-like creature screaming in pain, both arms working as a dam to keep the tidal wave of bloody guts from spilling out of its three-fingered fists

Yet, for all its grotesque horror, he trusted it. That same gut that had almost gotten him killed so many years before had worked hard to save him again and again after. It was what had brought him from mere gangpress, to quartermaster, all the way to the captain of his own pirate vessel.

And right now, it was telling him to call off the attack. The readings he was getting from the craft ahead made no sense. The crew space was too small, the energy readings were off the charts, and there was something almost military about it. Yet, as he looked over the hull, he couldn’t spot a single weapon. Nothing about it made sense.

The crew had enough in the larders to pass on a ship this sturdy. Even as ships on either side of him pulled forward, eager to be the first to raid the craft, he aborted the ram sequence to watch from a distance.

The crew was disappointed. It’d been too long since they’d had a good, solid fight, but they knew better than to second guess Aggral’s gut. It had earned its place as the ship’s oracle by rite of blood, and was to be respected accordingly.

---

There were only four crew aboard the USSN PMAC: Dalton Dial, in charge of weapon systems, Elizabeth Harris, in charge of navigation, and the Pratchett siblings, who worked together to keep the fifth generation fusion reactor that powered the whole abomination within some semblance of working order.

The Pratchett siblings’ love of the reactor (which they had affectionately named “Sun-Son”) was rivaled only by their hatred of the rest of the craft. Elizabeth and Dalton had more mixed feelings on the matter. Elizabeth considered the ship “Perhaps a little ridiculous on paper, but a work of military genius,” while Dalton lauded the idea as “Literally the coming of the Messiah, the only thing I prayed for my whole adulthood, and the answer to that prayer manifest, just for me, to bring me back to the flock.”

Their mixed feelings could be explained away just by describing the craft concept:

The PMAC was not a ship. It was the largest possible gun that could still be attached to an Alcubierre drive, with just enough manpower to steer, aim, and maintain the thing for long term patrols.

The prototype MAC that the life-support, thrusters, and reactor had been constructed around hadn’t even been built with space in mind. It was originally designed as a ground-to-orbit defense weapon. If it wasn’t for the capacitor bank the ship would’ve needed almost a minute between each shot to get enough power, even with the fifth generation reactor. Luckily, it could start out each battle with enough charge to fire off a salvo of four before needing to begin recharging for its next launch.

It had just such a salvo prepared for the pirate ambush that their military grade scanners had picked up minutes earlier.

Dalton was not taking the delay very well.

“With all due respect mam, I’ve had a lock on all three for almost a minute now. I could just fire and claim that I sneezed. The Pratchetts would back me up on this. Right guys?”

Emily Pratchett snorted.

“Why is it that when the weaponsmaster says ‘with all due respect’ he always means ‘fuck you for giving my stupidly giant gun blue balls?”

Thom Pratchett shrugged.

“Maybe he’d say it less if you weren’t so eager to translate it to the navigator for him.”

Elizabeth was slightly amused by the conversation. It was hard to keep things particularly formal while on a crew this small. Still, she was waiting for something. She’d gotten permission from the brass to take a new approach to fighting with the ship.

They’d proven it could win battles. Now, it was time to establish shock and awe. And as it currently stood, dead men told no tales.

Thus, they needed more living ones. And as she watched two pirate ships pull forward, with one hanging back, she knew just who’d live to pass on this particular legend. ---

Aggral watched the ships advance on his HUD, the blips crossing the thousands of kilometers between them and the strange ship in seconds. For a moment he felt regret. Was he making a mistake? Was this going to be what led to some upstart in the crew thinking they could do things better than him?

Then, the world went mad.

The power readings on the strange ship spiked. Hard. He’d thought that the baseline levels were outrageous, but they must’ve had some sort of absurd capacitor bank to expel that much energy that fast. The twin prongs that made up most of the length of the ship gave off some sort of EMP that fried the electronics of the Viscera, his sister ship, cutting off their radio traffic. His crew scrambled to find some way to regain contact when Gods of the Dead, forgive me my sins, and and forget me my debts, the actual weapon went off. The EMP hadn’t even been the attack, it had just been a side effect.

He hadn’t seen a weapon because he’d been looking for one on the hull, some kind of guardian laser, or a missile pod. He hadn’t even conceived that the whole goddamn vehicle could be the weapon. But what kind of weapon would charge up like that? A laser would just fire over a sustained period. What would need a burst like-

He stopped midthought as it hit him: A railgun.

He stopped again as it hit them: The kinetic charge would have to have been moving at almost 0.8c for it to just ignore the evasive maneuvers like that. The ferroslug itself wasn’t detected by any of their defense measures aboard, but the thermal readings of the Viscera made every infared sensor aboard scream in horror. Contact with whatever slug had hit it must’ve reduced the whole thing to plasma. It was almost inconceivable.

He was already screaming out the full retreat call when the ship fired twice in rapid succession at the Rictus, which was still recovering from what had just happened to its partner. The first shot was dead through the center. The second hit some target a few dozen meters off to the side.

A direct hit on an escape pod. Apparently, the captain had tried to save himself. Even in the mortal terror that he felt at that moment, Aggral could take a grim satisfaction at that second shot. To leave all the men that followed you to their deaths was a cowardice that he could not bear to consider. He would rather die.

And now, he was going to. Jump was fifteen seconds away, and the console was telling him that the ship was pinged. They knew where he was, they had him in their crosshairs, and they were going to pull the trigger.

He traced a finger over the purple scar absentmindedly. This was it. He’d been living on borrowed time since that first wound, and now he was to meet his ancestors.

He was ready.

---

Dalton was wincing, even as he maintained his ping on the ship. He knew that Elizabeth was just doing her job, but even by his admittedly bloodthirsty standards, there was something fucked up about keeping a ship in ping like this. It was like forcing someone to look you in the eyes before you slit their throat. Way too personal for his tastes.

Elizabeth was keeping an eye on the craft, making sure that no escape pods were jettisoning. Part of her was hoping that some would, but whatever other faults these pirates had, they were loyal to each other at least. As the ultraviolet scanners gave the telltale flair of redshift, she told Dalton to turn off the ping.

To say he was relieved was an understatement. In the middle of a firefight, he couldn’t question Elizabeth’s orders, but for the first time in a long time, he’d been afraid to pull the trigger. Now he didn’t have to.

He almost slid out of his chair as he asked the question that had been on his mind since the engagement began.

“Mam, what the hell was that?”

Elizabeth smiled warmly at her very surprised crew even as her words came out, cold as ice.

“A message.”

---

Thanks for reading this far! I'm moving my previous works from reddit to here. If you follow me, more will come. If you're impatient, you can skip to the source and read things at https://www.reddit.com/user/InBabylonTheyWept/

#humanity fuck yeah #hfy #humans are space orcs #scifi #humans are space oddities #this was the first story I wrote for the HFY subreddit #I am terrible at writing names so I just steal them #space pirates #bfg #Big Fucking Gun #science fiction

[filmnoirsbian]

One of my favorite things to do is go on reality show subreddits to see everyone complaining abt how scripted and staged everything is for every episode which they all tune in to watch. It's cathartic to me ❣️

#the catfish subreddit is so funny every single episode all the comments are like 'fake!!!! staged!!!' yet it's all the same people and #they watch every single episode. hellloooo that's not how u watch reality tv! u watch reality tv as fictional found footage #tcp

[la-pheacienne]

#why are you reading epic fantasy fiction again #rhaegar targaryen #aspa is back on her rhaegar bullshit just block the tag #this is the top result if I search for rhaegar in the asoiaf subreddit btw #the number 1 result

[vermillioncrown]

no one asked but i gotta put out one of my biggest fandom/fanfic pet peeves:

"unthinking/meme-poisoned socmed usage assigned to every character"

why does everyone have to be a twitter funnyman. why does everyone act like they post for clout and monetization. when would they have the time? what does account verification entail, and would they warrant it.

think it through 🤔

#opinionated verm #not everyone is showing their whole ass on twitter #and by that i mean being a public clown #ppl lurk other places #niche ecosystems and all #or the discord servers that are...god i will not even get into those #example: my friend and his brother spent a whole local election cycle trolling our home city's nextdoor. it was on fucking fire #ppl were following this trainwreck w bated breath #or subreddits. weirdly specific ig accounts #idk every time i see those overly contrived socmed imaginings or fake posts 90% of the time i feel it tells on OP more than anything #1) lacks attn irl 2) can't fathom another life perspective 3) hasn't introspected on what truly fulfills them yet #treat the construction of your fictional online social environment with the same respect as physical worldbuilding and logistics #something something we were all so socially damaged by covid and the quarantine period #let's have some variety in our blorbos c'mon

[macarons-and-poms]

Man I love Astarion as a complex fictional explorations of trauma but man some of y'all need to go outside

#personal #Astarion #astarion ancunin #bg3 #Baldur's Gate 3 #this isn't directed at anyone on this hellsite #surprisingly #but theres a debate on the subreddit that has my head spinning because someone got his scars as a tattoo #of course somehow it got tied to Nazis and the Holocaust because why the fuck not #the audacity of some people to liken fiction to a real life event where millions of people died because someone got a *fictional* tattoo is #insane #go outside #there are real things to worry about #edited to fix a typo

[night-market-if]

Reddit

Hey everyone,

We have a subreddit now. Link is here. I don't have much over there yet but feel free to join and start posting!

#the night market #subreddit #reddit #interactive fiction #if wip

[dnschmidt]

Want to read something fun?

Check out r/ShortSF on Reddit for science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories! Share Speculative Fiction short stories, either your own or your favorites from around the web!

#short fiction #reddit #subreddit #join us #share your stories

[cutesilyo]

yknow if theres something im grateful for about my descent back into the hetalia fandom two years ago, it's that i've just accepted that fandom likes playing with fucked up ideas sometimes. and that's fine as long as it doesn't actually hurt anyone.

interacting with fandom like that makes it a whole lot easier to just. be a fan instead of a fucking cop

#me #thoughts bc people on the onk subreddit are complaining about the hoshinocest posts #and the people that got muted on the onk discord for hoshinocest spamming #and its kinda like. yeah the subreddit probably isnt the best audeince for that shit and the discord people were being annoying #but theres just. so much vitriol at just the thought of entertaining fucked up ideas about these fictional characters #and it just feels more and more like. fandom has just been about policing each other #and figuring out whats the most correct most unproblematic most supported by canon take and adhering to that always #which is such a restrictive way to look at fandom. #and ultimately a lot less fun #sigh just frustrated at fandom stuff again

[gwyoi]

I just read a horrible manga that is just actually brutal in every aspect and then I went on the subreddit for an ending explained and to my surprise the people there are not that horrible

#thé manga is called metamorphosis I wouldn’t reccomend it #shy girl gets make over and then taken advantage of and it just spirals into drug use and prostitution and ultimately her death #☹️ #gwon #the people on the subreddit were mostly people posting fan fictions of her getting clean and being happy so that was a nice surprise …

[dirigibleplumbing]

A "screenshot" of Earth-616's subreddit for the ~platonic friendship~ between Captain America and Iron Man, a gift for @sadisticsparkle for the 616 Stony discord server's stocking exchange.

#marvel edit #social media edit #fictional subreddits #marvel #616 #marvel 616 #stony edit #steve/tony #superhusbands #tagged ship because uh #even though these characters think that steve and tony are just nonromantic nonsexual best bud bros #some of their posts actually suggest the opposite #posts I created #my edits #my collages and edits

[albatris]

not rental car murderboarding making me logically consider the possibility of Æthelthryth's reddit account

#i was thinkin of the guy nat bugs about his car #i was thinkin about the sorts of subreddits he would post in about the absolute batshit freaky things he's witnessing #i feel like he'd be a glitch in the matrix type guy #the car is there but the car is not there??? what gives??? #whether or not it's ~reddit~ or some other fictional site. either way. it would be.... Something. if #etheldreda somehow trying to get information out of him fjdjdjsk #i doubt the ethels would be able to track down such a specific post though #but its still funny #/ unsettling. #i think nat finds the post though and the guy is like #UPDATE SOME WEIRD GUY CAME AND TOLD ME IT WAS HIS CAR #I MEAN LIKE REALLY WEIRD LIKE SUPER DISHEVELLED AND AWKWARD #JUST BAD VIBES #and nat is just like #????? :(

[awek-s-archived]

I’m not sure what doordash is but there seems to be some kind of bad service epidemic

#I only use Reddit for nosleep but I keep getting those stupid notifs from the doordash subreddit ????? #and it’s ALWAYS something out of this world like at this point I’m convinced it’s fictional #aweks.txt

[caly-psoooarchive]

ive always loved stephen but something snapoed in me with nwh/mom and i was just like. hmm yes. i am his wife now. going back to my self ship blog.

#has anyone else dpne that #i assume so #its bc stephen vecame Dad Figure™️ #im weak for men that r good w kids #stephen more like dilf aha #callie.txt #drunkposting #also i kinda got :| abt using my self ship blog in general but now !! #i have cool moots it makes it mlre fun #bc trust me ive been writing self inserrs since i left #it hasnt been that long i left around this february?? #its just nice having friends and people to talk to #makes it more like 'oh yeah this is fun im not alone' #like i have friends that make fun of the waifuism subreddit and it makes me :(((( #well mostly one friend and its not that bad idc i love my fictional men !! #its just nice to be around people that Get It yknow

[cori-randomstuff]

You hate fictional incest because you find incest gross. I hate fictional incest because I find it annoying when people insist that deep intense bonds are always romantic. We are not the same.

#yeah yeah fiction isn't reality #and you can do what you want with fiction #this is just me vagueposting about the oshi no ko subreddit #you hate aquaruby bc it's incest #i hate aquaruby bc it's badly written and does such a disservice to ruby's character #we are not the same #cori's random thoughts