the way that one line from the new epilogue in an astarion romance is going to HAUNT me
just. what a profoundly intense thing to confess to someone.
like, just these six months of newfound happiness with you exerts a force on his heart equal and in direct opposition to two centuries of endless torment, the gnawing hunger and exploitation. this flashbulb-bright fraction of his long life holds the same gravity to him as years upon years of darkness and suffering.
in all likelihood, he hasn’t even known his lover for as long as his worst memory lasted, that year sealed away to go mad from starvation and sensory deprivation, yet he still tells them this brief time has been so fundamentally and powerfully important that the weight of even that unimaginable hell is vanishingly small compared to this present he has now and the future ahead of them both.
Not tagging MCD on ao3 is okay. As long as you use the “Chose not to use archive warnings.”
Because sometimes MCD is a huge spoiler for the specific fic, and you want the audience to be surprised.
And while surprise MCD can be upsetting, it’s also how media works. Shows don’t tell their watchers there’s gonna be an MCD. When you recommend a book to someone you don’t spoil that one Character Death at the end. Because it would ruin the story.
Obviously, if you’re writing a oneshot that entirely revolves around the death (like a terminal illness fic or something) then probably you should tag that. But if it’s a 100k, multi chapter fic; you should be fine.
Just tag responsibly for obviously triggering things. And as long as you make it obvious there were archive warning you chose not to use, you’re good in my opinion!
no but gentlehands really is great like you would think the two characters who hated and dueled and stabbed each other while crushing on the same guy the entire first season would have like. a really slowburn friendship but no. izzy's like ok well new captain hours i guess. I just hang out in this man's room 24/7 now and I watch him twirl around in his pretty coats and I spout ominous poetry at him and give him pirate lessons while making sure I touch his ass and I HAVE TO look softly and proudly at him when he is good at pirate captaining. this is just what I do now
idk who needs to hear this but if you're a writer looking for a webcomic artist and the best offer you can come up with is a 50/50 split "after gaining revenue", then that's literally asking for free work just with extra steps.
like first of all (and i'm sure people are gonna fight me on this) writing a webcomic and drawing a webcomic is not a 50/50 split, a scene that took you a half hour to write will take them hours to draw so it's literally more like 30/70
but also even IF your comic gains revenue, it's still not gonna pay for that labor, there are comic projects out there that have been going on for upwards of 10 years and beyond who are still maybe only making like $30/month on their patreon... and you only wanna pay them $15 of that?
please just consider writing a novel or short stories, or doing tabletop campaigns, or pitching scripts to comic publishers, or learning to draw yourself (even if you're bad at it! webcomics are allowed to grow and evolve in their art!), or doing RP, or doing anything that will get your ideas and stories out there without being at the expense of a whole ass other human being doing the brunt of the labor for free
no matter how dedicated you are to an idea or how convinced you are that it's truly a unique one that's worth working on, none of that will pay for the labor and time and efforts of people who you're asking to work for free to make your dream a reality. They have their own dreams that they're working on too.
not a kataang shipper but i believe in their beliefs. technically a zukka shipper but i don’t believe in their beliefs. mailee numero uno campeones del mundo ✨🏳️🌈🖤🩷🏳️🌈✨
They musta put something extra special in his water this season because - lord have mercy - he is GLOWING and I am ON MY KNEES. I keep coming back to this one just to look at him. Look at him, y'all. LOOK AT HIM!
stede also being SO down bad for ed was a hell of a thing, too. everyone else was like “uhhh bestie you know your bf is a vicious bloodthirsty pirate who’s been on a wild killing spree since you’ve been gone right?” and mr heart-eyes bonnet over here is going “you don’t know him like i do he would never 🤨” bbygirl he kissed you one time calm down
My first Rushboar kept overworking themselves to death when I literally JUST built a hot spring to prevent that (I never got the "bloodshot eyes" message before and it scared me lmao), so I had to make them take a spa day
I admire their dedication but PLEASE I was fighting for my life trying to make them go in that damn tub