#some great fic out there for this show

[ky-landfill]

#superman and lois #superman #jordan kent #jonothan kent #superfam #wip #some great fic out there for this show

[stealingyourbones]

Bruce isn't the best parent, but a chunk of the issue is that he's an only child. Should he stop Jason and Dick from throwing Damian back and forth like a human ball? Is Tim threatening to bite Cass an issue? Are those death threats serious or not? The poor man is an only child trying to run herd on at least a half dozen feral siblings. He exists in a state of constant confusion.

I.

This isn’t to be mean, but that is simply not the case.

I keep getting bad parent bruce takes and it sucks because all of them aren’t even proper reasoning for his character.

I’m just using you as an example, but hear me out.

Bruce is an extremely smart person, Homie has watched movies and read books, he can learn from situations around him that things are sibling things. Sure, he was excluded as a kid, but that isn’t nearly the main issue why he isn’t the best parent.

homie has so much shit wrong with him, he’s emotionally just not there, he keeps himself stuck in a perpetual state of grief and mourning for his parents of a thing that happened when he was a child, he has been trained by assassins and has experienced loss and pain to an insane extent, he has such an insane extent of paranoia and trust issues that it affects his daily life, is definitely autistic, and has issues with social cues.

I’m trying to properly articulate just why that’s not the case but my brain isn’t working with me so I’m handing this over to my twin @bonebrokebuddy who is far more articulate than me.

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Hi, it's Billy, Bones's twin writing because Bones had a hard time putting this into words and I'm more of a canon nitpick than her.

Uh- have you ever. And I mean even once, met an only child.

I promise, if you read even a singular comic, you could tell this take is incredibly out of character.

Bruce isn’t a good parent. He’s also not a bad parent. He loves his kids. He literally could not stop them from pulling dumb shit if they tried and putting themselves into danger.

Bruce is the worlds greatest detective. He knows how to spot and detect emotions and trouble in his kids. He’s The Worlds Greatest Detective.

His issue with being a parent likely comes from having Alfred as a father figure. Imagine having a dad that you can fire at any time, you pay so they can stay with you, and can just leave at any moment if they don’t approve of the person they work for. That will severely fuck up a kid.

His issue isn’t that he’s an only child, it’s that it’s every Robin’s god given right to go against and defy Batman’s orders whenever possible because kids are viscous little buggers who don’t like being told “you can’t do that” even if it’s for their own health, they’ll do it anyway.

After you’ve taught your kids how to exist in deadly situations, they think they’re invincible when it’s because Bruce is doing all he fucking can to make sure his kids don’t get hurt. If they feel like they can make the world a better place, they’ll do it, regardless of the risk because they’re inherently self sacrificing and good people.

Bruce’s issue with parenting is due to his relationship with his kids. Again, it isn’t that he’s an only child, it’s that the kids he adopted are their own people and they are even more stubborn and bad at communication as him.

Even more so, it’s due to the dang narrative.

Conflict between Bruce and his kids that cause them to separate has been the backstory for plenty of solo batkid runs to endure Batman isn’t as involved or the main focus of the run.

Narrative tension is literally the cause of all the bad parent decisions for Bruce, because conflict drives narrative or miscommunications cause the story to lengthen and complicate itself

it’s not as easy as “Bruce is bad dad” because he’s Not. Bruce is good with kids! He has a pouch in his utility belt specifically with suckers for kids!

But Bruce isn't a great world star dad either. He definitely inherited his ability to communicate with people outside crisis situations largely from trainers around the world and his arms-length-distance-at-all-times distance relationship with the butler who raised him.

Despite him being good with kids, his kids have lives of their own with morals and opinions of their own that conflict and clash constantly. It’s not a simple case of “Bruce is a bad dad.”

It’s a case of “everyone has slightly different opinions and approaches to situations so occasionally conflict happens when they clash or interfere with each other” because it’s a comic that tells a story!

Anyways, my recommendation? Pick up a comic. And preferably? Read it. Or watch BTAS if it’s more accessible to you. either works. This opinion isn't your fault most likely, just the quality of the DC fan-content you've been consuming that are incredibly removed from the comics. If you want, DM me at @bonebrokebuddy and I can send you some good quality DC fics with in-character Bruce.

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Bones here again,

That basically sums up the exact stuff I couldn’t properly describe. I was using you more as an example because I have dozens of bad parent bruce takes in my inbox and I am 90% sure that the cause of them is that they simply haven’t read anything about the character.

Read a comic, read some strictly DC fanfiction, watch some of the many many TV shows and animated movies, there are even motion comics free online to watch that have voice acting and everything!

Being an only child doesn’t make you a bad father.

#bones rants #both Billy and I were just a tad annoyed sorry #just please pick up a comic #please. read a fanfic or watch literally any DC content. #bones replies #dc #dc comics #billy replies #billy rants #billy here. had to edit my text convo from what bones originally posted bc ya boy swears too much over text and it came out as mean. my bad #so now its in a more neutral tone. #but genuinely. read batman year one. or something. #dm me if you want incharacter fic recs. some of them show bruce as a flawed parent (bc he is) but that doesnt make him a bad dad #it just shows how he's not great at communication and therefore not superb at compromise. #bruce is wacky intelligent. hes also got the tism vibes in communication with his kids

[varyathevillain]

one thing I definitely don't want out of the rest of S2 episodes, and afraid that will come to happen nonetheless due to the "love triangle" interview, or due to stereotypic expectations of "softer love saving from past abuse and toxicity", and also, like, LOTS OF SPOILERY STILLS for the episodes premiering tomorrow... is for Izzy Hands to come out of his fucked up dependent toxic love for Ed into another romantic relationship, especially if it includes Edward.

I want Izzy Hands to be developed as a character, to finally untangle his love towards Ed/Blackbeard, not through falling in love again... but through the love towards the crew, and of them towards him. I want for the trauma pack of attempted Ed Teach murderers to bond, not so hard it's impossible to untangle them from one another, but enough to see "yeah, all these people are together, and they're gonna stay shoulder to shoulder to protect one another".

I want a friend group that did bond through a traumatic experience, but came out trusting one another because of care, not trauma. I want that to be the crux of Israel Hands' development, to be someone who can finally see himself apart from Edward Teach, and apart from "this love he has", like a disease... I want him to embrace what he has yet refused to admit. that he wants to care for his people, his crew, and to be cared for back equally, without any dynamics of power in the way.

#brought to you by aromantic person who thinks coming out of a romantic attraction into another one would just switch gears for Izzy #and not actually like. have him understand that he doesn't have to nurse that shit in his chest and needs to move on #also i want season 2 end on a positive note of Frenchie SOME FUCKING HOW stealing a ship for them #where everyone goes 'yup! Izzy deserves to be captain and have fun' and the lot of them sail off on an adventure... on The Adventure :P #OFMD spoilers #OFMD S2 spoilers #Izzy Hands #Varya rambles #OFMD #Our Flag Means Death #no offense to Steddyhands shippers I just think 'the healing power of romantic love' even if poly SUCKS after a recent toxic relationship #ending after physical and mental abuse for TWO PEOPLE of that pairing. yeah it would be fantastically fucked up #and go ahead if you want that in fic or show like FULL SPEED AHEAD. great dynamic. not for me and not now #text post

[shinelikethunder]

did i ever post about the bizarre canon divergence AU living rent-free in my head where fbi agent victor henriksen's interstate fraud + misc other crimes suspect suddenly turns up dead after 1x22 devil's trap, and henriksen somehow catches the murder case and has to follow dean winchester's trail through small-town america trying to piece together wtf was going on here through the people whose lives he touched in passing, all while trying to make sense of the mounting paranormal spookiness in the vicinity of the investigation and also having unsettlingly vivid dreams about meeting dean and/or his equally dead doppelgänger in the black lodge

#i am Fully Aware that this isn't 100% coherent as either a spn fic or a twin peaks fusion but it's living rent-free in my head anyway #and henriksen would be GREAT outsider pov on the conservatism inherent in the show's premise that's most naïvely expressed in the s1 cases #to some degree that's already his role when we meet him in s2 but in a way that's far more... synthesized? than a critical eye on each case #and in a timeline where yed!john killed dean and he and sam are both Whereabouts Unknown... idk idk #just. a 'what is going on in this house' strung out over hundreds of miles of highway and a season's worth of false leads & spookiness #victor henriksen #supernatural #twin peaks

[the-penguinspy]

Ava x Lilith 😘

thanks for the prompt, esther :) tysm for including the screenshot too, it was impossible to write seriously while looking at the sims option. blasted my focus to bits

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A quick tug in her belly and then she’s inside the office, muscles tense and body stock-still as her eyes rove around the dark room. Her gaze flicks to the security cameras interspersed along the edges of the ceiling, taking in the lack of blinking red lights – there won’t be any prying eyes on them.

“All clear. Cameras dark, no hostiles. Cam, time please?”

A crackle of the comms, then: “Five minutes, forty-three seconds.” 

“Copy. Thanks, Cam.”

A beat, two. A tell-tale hum at the base of her head, and Ava phases through the ceiling and lands in a crouch beside her. She straightens with a small hop and brushes the imaginary dust off of her shoulders. Ava’s decked out from head to toe in form-fitting dark leather armour, cruciform sword strapped to her back, face set in grim determination, and she’d cut quite the imposing figure of Warrior Nun if she didn’t insist on wearing that ridiculous baseball cap at every opportunity.

Ava looks over to her and smirks, tipping the frayed bill of her cap towards Lilith while giving her a shameless once-over. “Now, what’s a place like you doing in a girl like this?”

Lilith glares. “I’m on a stealth intel-retrieval mission. You are too.”

Ava chuckles, undeterred by Lilith’s sour expression. “Yes, I know.” It only takes her two small steps before they’re chest-to-chest, bodies flush against each other, and the burst of warmth that travels up Lilith’s spine makes her want to spread her wings out to better dissipate the heat. 

“We don’t have a lot of time, just put it in already.”

“That’s what she said.”

“Must you test the limits of my patience in each and every mission?” Lilith hisses.

“Relax,” Ava murmurs, “We’ve got plenty of time.” Her voice drops low to keep the illusion of quiet. Their gazes stay locked as Ava brings a hand to the side pocket of her vest, the growl of the zipper deafening in the silence of the room. 

She retrieves the USB stick and brings it up until it’s within Lilith’s line of sight, and she waggles her eyebrows for good measure before turning away to insert it into the laptop with a soft click. “Okay! Cam, you’re up.” Lilith exhales, slow and even. Focus.

“Copying files now; this shouldn’t take more than three minutes. I’ll let you know when you can remove the disk.”

“Roger that.” The progress bar pops up, percentage increasing at a merry rate. 

The frantic clicking of keys on the other end of the line turns into background lull, the sound familiar and comforting after a dozen missions. They’re on standby until Camila gives them the go-ahead to remove the hard-disk before she installs the virus to infect the local server. Ava’s already drifted off to inspect the various knick-knacks that line the office walls, and when she spots Lilith looking, she grins and jerks her thumb to the item hung behind her. 

Lilith stalks over to inspect the giant shark’s head mounted on the wall, her lip curling at the smooth, polished sheen of its skin. Weird, but definitely not the strangest office decor she’s ever encountered. 

The sudden whir of the elevator’s motors catches Lilith’s attention, her keen ears picking up the accompanying thuds of heavy boots, both ascending to their level. So much for a quiet mission. Her wings spread out and her claws unsheathe in tandem. “Aves, we’ve got company. Cam, status?”

“Just a bit more! Can you hold them off for the time being? There seems to be–” 

Static crackles for a second before the line shuts off completely. “Cam? Camila! Do you copy?”

No answer. “Damn.” Lilith glances over to Ava to find her already looking back, fingers tapping against her own earpiece and shaking her head. The march of combat boots on linoleum is getting louder, loud enough that even Ava can hear it, and she chances a look at the double doors before grabbing the laptop and shoving it into the open space beneath the desk, none too gently. Lilith winces at the dull thud it makes against the hardwood floor before she ducks underneath to hide, both of them barely managing to cower behind the desk. Ava’s elbow knocks into her ribs. One of her wings is caught between her body and the desk; it’s already starting to cramp. 

Ava’s kneeled in front of the laptop, back hunched and eyes squinting at the screen. “Uh, okay – I see the cursor moving around, and the progress bar’s at eighty-five – no, eighty-six percent now, so Cam’s still on it.”

Lilith growls. They’ll manage to have the files copied in time, but not fast enough to make a clean exit before they’re stormed. A fight it is, and Ava seems to have come to the same conclusion as she fidgets with the scabbard of her sword, with the chape of it. Impatience itches under her skin, and Lilith peeks over the edge of the desk, notes the lack of doors aside from the singular set that’s in front of the room – one entrance, one exit. 

A stairwell door bangs open somewhere on their floor and someone barks out a command, and suddenly she feels Ava’s hand cup around the nape of her neck, feels their mouths meet as she gives Lilith a quick but bruising kiss. Ava pulls away but stays close, ‘see you on the flip side’ murmured against her lips. 

Lilith grabs her hand before she can get too far. “Ava, wait.” The shouts get louder, boots thundering down the corridor towards their room. Ava’s forearms tenses in her grip, ready to bolt into action, but she heeds the request and arches an eyebrow; the plan’s already laid out, and Lilith’s never been one to stall. This isn’t the first discreet mission where they’ll have to go loud, either, and it certainly won’t be the last.

Lilith bites her lip and hesitates, the tempo of her heartbeat matching the rapid footsteps outside. Will she, won’t she, why won’t she – oh, fuck it. “Be careful.” 

Ava shoots her a grin, cocky and confident and so infuriatingly hot. “Always am.” 

“You literally got stabbed last time–”

“I love you too.” Lilith scoffs, but she curls the edge of a wing around Ava’s shoulder before she retracts it; nothing more than a light brush, a mere suggestion of something, but Ava’s smile softens. The backs of her fingers stroke gently against the inside of Lilith’s wing, and Lilith swallows; it’s too slow, too tender for a moment such as this, a moment that would very much be stained quick with the flash of steel and blood.

They’re interrupted by a cheerful ding! from the computer, and Ava gives a quiet whoop in celebration at the fully green progress bar. She tugs the thumb-drive out and tosses it up, snatching it out of the air and placing it securely in her pocket, right as the heavy oak doors blast open. Flashlights from guns sweep back and forth as they go searching, searching; the beams don’t find them, not yet. The Director’s office is luxurious in its square footage, but there’s only so much area to cover, only so much time before they’re found. 

Ava adjusts her cap so that it’s bill-backwards before she unsheathes her sword in one smooth, practiced motion. The blue glow of it plays across the contours of her face; it coaxes the shadows to settle above the arches of her brows, between the seam of full lips, behind the firm architecture of her nose. Her cheekbones cut sharp, her teeth glint with hunger, and Lilith thinks she’s never more beautiful than in moments like these – seconds away from a fight, where Lilith can almost taste the energy and anticipation radiating off of Ava’s skin, the thrum of it sharp and sweet in the air. 

She licks her lips. “Exfil?”

Ava looks over as she crouches in place, ready. She looks excited. She looks good. “We’ll make our own way out, Lil, you and me. Now, let’s show these guys exactly who they’re messing with.”

#warrior nun #warrior nun fic #ava x lilith #ava silva #sister lilith #penguin writes #dredgengrace #they're infiltrating the remnants of the FBC idk. some fun stealth mission #cam is in the van. comms in one ear and rock music in a separate earbud -- she has to monitor the field agents' comms but at least #this way she can drown out their incessant flirting AND keep an eye out #cam: it's called multitasking! #the progress bar on the laptop is part of the GUI that cam coded :) #she could very easily have just made a solitary countdown clock for when the computer stuff would be done. i.e. 'X [time] until completion' #but progress bars are fun so she included that too. she coded it so when the bar reaches 100% it shows a smiley face with a thumbs-up emote #OCS field agent: this is great. im gonna get a good grade in Fieldwork. something that is normal to want and possible to achieve--

[saibowtie]

I think one of the reasons why this whole Ted ending doesn't really work for me (apart from the straight up way of how depressed and ooc he looks the entire episode) is that Ted never clearly says why he needs to go back to Kansas.. Like we know it's because of missing Henry and his mom guilt tripping asking him to think of his son, but Rebecca literally gave him a satisfactory solution for this? What the hell else was the whole "bring Henry here, Michelle can go teach, etc" speech for?? She literally spelled out every single Ted fic ending the fandom has written in the past couple of years, and TED HAD NO RESPONSE!!!! Someone tell me why they said this ON SCREEN and didn't give a valid counterargument. She said London is HOME for him and he didn't deny it.

I just don't get it. If this is truly the last episode ever, then all of the above just doesn't make sense and that's why it feels so wrong and unfinished to me.

#ted lasso #i really liked everything else in this episode #i was properly sobbing out loud at some bits #i even didn't mind the beard/jane thing #i guess some people just have fucked up relationships that can make them happy and i can live with beard's #i also liked the roy/keeley/jamie arc #i know people hated the 'regression' of them fighting about Keeley but i didn't even read it that way #it was more of an idiots to lovers plot point for me #they obvs still get together and love each other #but the ted of it all makes me really sad - especialy if they'll confirm that this was the true ending forever #i guess i'll be here clowning and hoping for a next season for a while #in the meantime i KNOW this amazing fandom will provide all the fics for us #it's been such a great ride regardless of anything and i love this show forever with all my heart

[television-overload]

just started watching txf (on s1e6 or e7 i believe?) and i'm already so jazzed about it!! anyway 36 for the ask game :)

So exciting! You're in for a treat. Season 2 is sooooo good, and obviously they're already absolutely insane in season 1. I was watching entire seasons in 2 days sometimes a year ago when I first watched it (not healthy 😅). There's a reason I waited until I graduated to start the show. I knew it would suck me in hard-core.

My fic will definitely have spoilers for later seasons, but here's a spoiler-free snippet from section 36!

Mulder has been a saint ever since they got here—ever since they began this process, really.

Send me an ask with a random number between 1 and 40 and I'll give you a sentence from that section on my MSR adoption fic document

#the rate at which i consumed x files fanfic after finishing the series was astronomical #happy to point you in the direction of x files fanfic resources when the time comes #in a 30 year span the fans have amassed quite a volume of fanfic and there are so many places to find it! #and a lot of great fic rec lists out there or blogs i suggest you follow #word of caution: stuff won't really be tagged as spoilers bc it's such an old show #so be careful on tumblr especially because the lovely gifsets will get you #i recommend muting some terms like character names and then the standard “txf” “msr” (mulder-scully romance) and “x files” #txf #msr #x files #askbox #msr adoption fic #msr adoption fic ask game

[killjoy-prince]

Fanfiction with dialogue so good you clearly hear it in the character's voice

#prince's talk tag #since ive been going down the rec list i found for a pairing from a show im currently obsessed ive read a lot of good fics #but only a few have been able to elicit that response from me #not that the other fics were bad by any means but some fics have dialogue thats so in character that it brings their voices out #its kinda wild tho like its like i can hear them speaking next to me its great

[kinnbig]

have you done ramking fic recs?

👀 have you read my three ramking fics? 👀

.....okay I have to speak my truth 🫣 I haven't done any recs, and to be honest... that is because I have unfortunately not read very many ramking fics that I can wholeheartedly say I recommend 😬

(huge disclaimer that this is all just my personal opinion - I'm not saying anything is objectively bad or trying to tell people what they should or shouldn't write and enjoy - these are just my own subjective reasons for not having anything to recommend)

maybe I am just incredibly picky when it comes to fanfic (okay I definitely am) but the biggest thing I need to enjoy a fic is characterisation... if it doesn't feel like I'm actually reading about the characters I fell in love with, then what's the point? and yeah... a lot of ramking fic decides that once Ram and King are together, Ram is able to easily express his emotions verbally and just talk completely freely no problem. and obviously that's fine, everyone interprets characters in different ways - but I personally find it super frustrating and just kind of like

the other big thing is that a lot (and I mean a lot) of ramking fic leans very heavily into a kind of seme/uke husband/wife top/bottom dynamic that just isn't there for them in the show, and that imo completely mischaracterises both Ram and King (but especially Ram), and totally misses everything that is interesting and unique and compelling about their relationship to me. so many fics characterise Ram as this Big Strong Buff Intimidating Masculine Dom Top Protector and King as this Small Slender Gentle Feminine Submissive Bottom and it's just... not for me lol.

(also in the show Ram is the same height as King and not actually significantly broader than him, which. you would not know from reading fanfiction!)

so. yeah I am yet to find a ramking fic that is both well-written and commits neither of those sins, unfortunately... sorry, I know this isn't the answer you were hoping for! 🫣

#sorry anon bestie u asked a simple question and got a rant and no fic recs rip #i debated how to answer this for ages i'm sorry if it makes me seem like an asshole #also i don't tend to read G or tbh even T rated fics - even though i do often enjoy them when i do #so there might be a whole bunch of great ones that i've just missed out on! #ough the seme/uke top/bottom thing bothers me sooo much #yeah ram is aloof and kinda brooding some of the time #but mostly he's just a shy lil guy!!! especially around king! #by like half way through the show he is so soft and thoughtful around him.. #the hard seme/uke vibe is just not what their dynamic is at aLL #AND LIKE OKAY SORRY. but in WHAT UNIVERSE is ram a dom top. #okay sorry i'm done now i swear #darcey.txt #ask

[seagullcharmer]

not me thinking abt writing fanfic for fae farm......

#libra.txt #fortunately i am not the only one out there #just checked ao3 and there are. 11 fics in the fandom #unfortunately i think i am the only one who knows argyle's nb. #anyway just me having fun bc you can technically date all the romance-able characters at once #(you can only marry one though) #and so sometimes i just like daydreaming abt my character (leaf) and their polycule........ #bc it's also just fun imagining them interacting with each other! #we're not given a whole lot for any of the characters #but argyle and jack are implied to be friends (they often sit together at the inn and argyle talks about jack on one of your dates) #but like..... the possibilities...... #pyria&rita would be a GREAT friendship!!!!! #pepper/jack (teehee) would be fun and sweet!!!! they both have anxiety disorders but jack could show her around spooky woods #and she could teach him foraging tricks! #also pepper&nessa. since pepper has some pretty rough anxiety and paranoia #nessa stays calm and level headed. the dog to pepper's cheetah #and pyria&argyle! or nhamashal&galan! #galan studied in sagnow and nhamashal loves talking abt the schools and clubs in mercitania! they could share stories! #i really do like galan. they're sweet #also the only one who actually shows any interest in farming #i mean jack kiiinda does i guess. but he comes from a logging family so it's different? idk #but also pepper/nhamashal sounds SO FUN. to me #he's kind of snooty and has 'refined taste' i think it says #and while pepper is very outdoorsy she ALSO has a taste for good quality food #he'd be like 'ew dirt how can you stand to be like this' and she'd be like 'well just wait until you try my cooking' #and he would be forever changed <3 #also this is purely headcanon but i think pyria and nhamashal would Not get along #until they find out the other has some of the same hobbies (you can find either of them painting in different places around town) #and pyria would find herself begrudgingly appreciating his poetry #also nhamashal&argyle is very endearing to me

[ginalinettiofficial]

i am. still just so glad i got out of teen wolf when the cast started falling apart. like season three was such a shitshow from day one and made me INSANE as it was airing and i just could not continue to watch for season four after they killed off or wrote off essentially half the cast and killed all the found family potential and i will admit!!! that seeing crystal reed herself on a new teen wolf story DID tempt me!!!! i am only human!!!! i am not immune to allison argent!!!! but truly i know myself and i know that the show died a horrible death for me over the course of s3 and there’s a lot of good reasons i stopped watching it and those reasons will sustain me through my decision to not watch this new movie

all that said. @ my loyal six followers. please do not be alarmed if i end up temporarily in a teen wolf revival moment. i am not immune to allison argent and the nostalgia of it all DOES make me want to go back and reread all the old classic pack fics from before davis decided to start killing kids left and right !!! i am not immune to the powerful energy of sterek writers, nor to the call of pack-fics!!!!

#d speaks #teen wolf #god. teen fucking wolf #y’all know that when they killed erica i was mad but was like whatever that’s not a REAL death she can come back. i can ignore it. and then #they massacred my boy(d)…….. and i was in PAIN. but i thought to myself. it’s okay. i need to see what theyre doing. where they are going #and then. then they kicked motherfucking allison argent #and i KNOW! i know okay that it was crystal’s choice to leave!!! and yes i loved kira!!! but!!!!! #i was seventeen okay!!!! and they killed off one of the three MAIN CGARACTERS !!!!! in a stupid little mtv show!!!!! #i was not emotionally or mentally equipped to deal with that!!!! i genuinely MOURNED in the realest way y’all!!!! #my high school friends were concerned because i spent a week in like. a fugue state. like a zombie as if someone i actually knew had died #(yes i was mentally ill in high school and WHAT ABOUT IT?!?) #and at that point the show died for me. i couldn’t handle it #and some of the tw blogs i followed kept watching and going and i sort of peripherally experienced some of the new pack shit but just #could not make myself care for new baby characters when they Massacred My Boys……… #so i stepped out!!! cause i was happy for a while there to continue to just exist in that happy part of the fandom that said ‘nah fuck it.’ #‘solely post s2 aus here’. that shit was great #but then the more time passed the less fics like that came out and the more the fandom moved on….. onto the NEW plot…… and i Could Not Hang #and so teen wolf in my eyes was laid to rest like all the teenagers of color in the show #and now you come to me paramount plus. years later. when i am an ADULT with a fully developed prefrontal cortex #and you tell me. that allison argent is alive????? that you gave derek hale a child????? no #no you cannot and will not trick me into this. i will not watch it. i pretend i do not see it #however. i MAY end up rereading some of my classic fave fics. reblogging some old art. i am but a mere mortal #hearing tyler posey say ‘allison???’ DID hit me in my stomach. it did. i am weak #tw

[orcelito]

Ok there r some pretty big things I wanna fix with the first chapter of ITNL, but I don't rly have the brain for that. Putting it on the backburner.

Might fuck around with chapter 2 tho. Just maybe.

#speculation nation #itnl shit #desperately need a revamp for chapter 1 bc it's good at its core but it was also written and posted all in one day #and U can tell. a lot of early itnl was like that. #man at this rate im treating the fic as a whole like a WIP chapter #aka im going to be going thru it all and doing incremental changes and touch ups #all in this separate doc. current version of itnl will remain until i have it all smoothed out #ill let u guys know when i actually get around to doing the mass edit changes #again im not changing the overall structure of the story. just addressing some internal inconsistencies #and canon innacuracies #so like itnl is good as it is but im going to make it Better. #the perfectionist in me is showing its colors lol. but 75k isnt that big of a deal to edit tbh #especially since everything's already passed the general grammar and wording edits #taking things from passable to Great #yes this is making itnl 15 take longer than otherwise. but i think itll be worth it. #given that ive recently reread trimax in its entirety #there are a lot of things i remember better. so a lot of things to fix with itnl. #plus im in a better state of mind to dig my fingers into the grit of it and write things Well #getting back into the ITNL story by improving it so that it's the best it can be. #which will get me back into the groove of it. so when it comes time to write itnl 15 #im going to be a well-oiled machine. and i can churn out something that does the chapter justice. #this is a major turning point of the story. i Have to do it justice. #all i ask is that readers be patient. xoxoxo love y'all

[silvensei]

How goes the time travel fic?

On hold while I may or may not have covid (probably from the holidays) and also half a gallon of epoxy resin to use before it goes bad (definitely from the holidays), but I'll put some words to paper right now just for you 🥂

Today, I made a mushroom pyramid :)

#Resin's expensive man #Once I use up this gallon (which was like $60 after a half-off coupon) I'm not getting more #I got it to preserve my bouquet from my friend's wedding which turned out great but man. Didn't expect these costs #No wonder stuff like my pyramid would be like $50 on Etsy #Anyway once I get back to writing it'll still be a little slow since I'm simultaneously writing three documents: #the fic the outline and the timeline #Later on when the timeline spreadsheet and the outline are done it'll hopefully be quicker #Thank you for thinking of my work <3 #It's pretty magical to remember I can press some buttons and strangers the world over think it worthwhile enough to ponder #Not my art #inquiry #anonymous #Take the Long Way Home #Also the maybe covid thing: I am definitely sick. My test was negative. #My whole family is sick. They all came back negative EXCEPT my dad. However he gets out the least?? #Surely me flying through the Atlanta airport in holiday rush should've done it. Or my brother traveling home on the train #Or my mom going to way too many pub Christmas shows. Any of us. But my work-from-home dad?? #I dunno. Maybe some test was wrong but I'm on the upswing and don't have anywhere to be so not too important WHAT it is now

[idanit]

I think many Goncharov fans would enjoy the thing I did over the last month, i.e. intentionally consume a piece of media solely through its fanfic, actively trying to figure out the canon plot beats/characterisation through the motifs and scenes which get repeated in multiple stories

#goncharov #unreality #it was so fun y'all #at the start I only knew the poster the official synopsis of the show and some things people said in a discord conversation about it #i didn't even know what most of the characters looked like #i forbade myself to seek out any wikis or visual content #not watching the show was explicitly The Point and i still don't intend to #not because i have it all spoiled but because it would spoil The Game #later on i did see some visual content and it was so funny #to see some gifsets and instantly recognise a location because a fic writer did a great job describing it #locations from my mind which are somehow giffed? wild #etc etc #ive had many small moments of joy like this #idanit talks

[kissmefriendly]

Me interacting with any new media: okay, so how can I make this into a Hadestown au

#it’s a problem #I LOVE this show so much #between it and Great Comet I’ve shed tears (and I’m not really a musical loving person) #so let’s see #Mina and Johnathan Harker #Ed and Stede (which has been done thank you fic writers) #Juliette and Calliope #Jack and Stephen (lol) #it technically already happened in The Wintersmith in Discworld #Estraven and Genly Ai #oof #last one makes me extremely depressed #out of all of these pairs they might be the only ones where one of them looks back #making the executive decision no one mentioned looks back and it finally ends happy #unless you wanna be REALLY angsty and in some cases ooc #which I’m all for but lol #dracula #dracula daily #discworld #ofmd #first kill #aubreyad #the left hand of darkness #I think any discworld MC would somehow just shatter the whole myth/trial #that powerful #anyways Hadestown just came on my shuffle and made me feel an emotion #posting this on my side coz it’s mildly weird and geeky and also there’s like 6 stories mentioned here #yeah anyways #I don’t write fic but I like to Imagine #all the fics I’d write if I had the time and skill and patience

[bigboysteveharrington]

I was thinking about the one shot I’m probably going to write to give more context about information I know that wouldn’t come up in Steve or Eddie’s pov when we get to a certain point of The Things in Life That I Can’t Find

But then I was thinking about all the other related information I have outside of Steve and Eddie’s perspectives and now suddenly I am very close to starting an also multi-chapter fic that takes place in the same world and same time frame that focuses on the Hopper-Byers family side and is possibly just Will’s pov but more likely switching between his and El’s with context on what’s going on with their family and them navigating their dynamic with Will the protective brother but also bitter and jealous of her getting so much attention out of Mike

And the platonic dynamics are what’s making me want to write it, but it would also potentially have El realizing that what she feels for Mike is closer to the way she feels about Will than the way Will feels about Mike with some eventual Byler

And there might eventually be a Ronance one too, but I have to get far enough in the main fic for certain information to come out before I can do that

#Spoilers for future chapters I guess but #Will being her safety blanket while she’s pretending everything’s fine and she’s not terrified to start school and potentially be treated #the same way when she’s able to actually start school and be out of the house is the one shot that started this #But also details before that of how El’s going to end up out of the house before that thanks to Will talking too much about Eddie and #Jonathan complaining about Eddie trying to drag him to see his band and not understanding why while El’s like yeah well at least you get to #go I just have to sit here and here about how great it is and how Max was there and how much fun everyone else is having that leads to #Jonathan talking Hopper into letting him take her just to the Hideaway for one night if he doesn’t let her out of his sight and brings her #right back after (but spoiler alert: Hopper’s showing up there pretending like oh he was going to bring Joyce there #on a date anyway like ten minutes after Jonathan and El and Will show up together anyway and he convinced absolutely no one) #At this rate watch me write a Ronance centered version of it too because I sure know plenty about that side of things too #But I have to wait until after the main fic gets to a certain point so that something can be known before we get their povs #Some burns are going to be slower than others and if I do end up doing Byler it would be the slowest #Jargyle will be the fastest and Argyle hasn’t even shown up yet #Mine