#the real deal fic

[fictionadventurer]

I love libraries.

I'm browsing the WWI shelves (as you do) and notice a very old book about the war. I glance at the first pages that talk about how one day the war will be over and we'll look at this place and not see any signs of the battlefield.

Then it hits me. And I check the publishing date.

This book was printed before the war's end. Not written. Printed. The physical object was created in 1918, while the war in question was raging and the end was as yet uncertain.

Now I'm standing on the other side of the apocalypse, with this physical link to that era in my hands. I'm living proof that the war did end and life did go on and we can all look at the end of the world as a long-ago memory.

Reading old books is cool enough, connecting our minds and hearts through the ideas of people who lived long ago, but there's something extra profound about holding a copy of the book that comes from the time that it was written. It's a physical link between the past and the present connecting me to those long-ago people. A piece of the past come into the future that gives me the chance to almost take the hand of some long-ago reader, to hold something they could have held, connecting not just mentally but physically to their era, a moment of connection across more than a century.

Excuse me while I go weep.

#books #history is awesome #of course i checked it out #i had no real intent to read wwi non-fic but i couldn't just leave my new friend there it'd be lonely #i want to break out in tears every time i look at it #it's so stupid but sometimes something stupid just kicks you straight in the heart and you just gotta deal #it's old front line by john masefield #i know nothing about it except thinking the author's name sounded vaguely familiar #also the interior design is fantastic #these old books know how to use white space and make something super readable #if you must know i was in the wwi section because i was at the history museum the other day #and saw a local author had a book of wwi letters #thought i'd see if the library had it #looked at the selection of non-fic surrounding it and thought of the wwi persuasion #saw many books that could be useful #and thought 'oh no this looks like fun' #it won't go anywhere i know i won't be able to focus long enough to do real research #but darn if it wasn't an appealing little daydream

[yuwuta]

love f2l where he’s already hopelessly in love with you and pining in a way that’s so obvious to everyone else but you, but also love the moment in f2l where it clicks that “oh shit… i think my friend just turned me on.” even better when one person doesn’t realize they’ve turned the other one on and they’ve just gotta live with the memory replaying in their head for a few days. friends keep saying they’re distracted and they just nod their head like yeah uh sorry… was uh… sorry what were we talking about? bc these days if it’s not about that moment, zero processing has gone on 

megumi and satoru are the worst at coping with this. 

for megumi, it’s such a 180, a switch has been completely turned on when it happens, that it makes him upset. he can’t even tell if he’s angry that it happened in the first place, that he couldn’t tell he was attracted to you before, that he can’t stop thinking about it now, or that it’s possible that other people could have already had this realization and be thinking of you like this too. every option brings a mean scowl to his face. and it’s embarrassing above all because you were just trying to take off your shoes. when lifting your leg and holding onto to his bicep wasn’t enough, you crouch down to struggle with the straps instead. megumi sighs—all he wanted to do was get your drunken ass home in one piece and now you’re crouched down in the middle of the street, and when he looks down to see what’s taking so long, that’s when it hits him. you bent down like that, looking up at him and groaning and pulling on his shirt and whining for him to help you does very terrible things to him. and it shouldn’t, you’re only calling for him because you lack the hand-eye coordination (and clearly critical thinking because this is the middle of the road and you cannot walk barefoot) right now to undo your shoes, but it’s your blown pupils and pout and the calling for him—you have to stop whining. and saying his name. immediately—not to mention the angle and tilt of your head to look up at him. megumi can barely help himself, much less you, which is why he grumbles, hoists you up by the scruff of your neck so you’re standing up right. you giggle in your haze but megumi just hisses his teeth, tells you “stop looking at me like that,” and before your mind can catch up, he grabs you by the waist and hoists you over his shoulder because looking at your face is not an option right now. and this is for the best for everyone—now your feet don’t hurt, you’ve stopped groaning, there’s no more eye contact, and megumi has the rest of the walk back to your apartment to contemplate what the fuck just happened to him 

for satoru, it’s actually partially his fault, because not only is it so far from sexual and yet turns him on anyway, but he’s so annoying that his actions lead to a cascade of other terrible turn-ons that and now it’s a cyclical problem. you’re just borrowing something of his for the convince of it—his glasses because it’s sunny, or maybe his jacket because it’s cold, something small and innocent—but it ignites such a strong flame in him that his visceral reaction is to snatch it right back from you, and run away like some school girl. “hey—satoru what the fuck, come on, you weren’t even using it!” you call, but your voice is already an echo at the speed he’s scurried away from you. the flash vision of you in his belongings was terrible, but it’s the memory of it that makes it worse, brings a blush to his face, and leave him shaking his head like a crazy person because what the fuck this is insane. you didn’t even do anything so he has no reason to act like this, there’s no way the slightest insinuation of you thinking of him/his belongings as something to borrow, or hold, or have should make him react this way, but it does. and he hates it. and he’s not normal about it at all, and it takes you confronting him, grabbing him by the shoulders and shaking him back and forth, asking him what the fuck is wrong with him, which is warranted, but worse because that also leaves him red from his face to his check with Awful Realization Numbers 2 and 3: (2) you usually just Deal with him being strange, but right now you’re mad and you’re really hot when you’re mad, and (3) you’re very close to choking him out right now and if you did, he wouldn’t stop you

yuuji is the one who has had this effect on more people than he knows, which is hilarious to think about because he’s either completely oblivious, or using his charm to play innocent. and when you have that moment, you’re definitely left stunned. you were just fishing for more snacks for your self-care night—a tradition that used to between you and nobara, but now includes megumi, and most times yuuji, but tonight, he had plans with todo, which you were grateful for because there’s no way you could have been around him after what happened. in a hurry to grab his water bottle from the fridge, yuuji doesn’t bother you with words to maneuver through the cramped kitchen, just mindlessly puts his hands on your hips, lifts you, pivots, puts you down, grabs his water bottle, puts it on the counter, lifts you again, pivots, and places you right back where you were, flashing you a million-dollar smile, before grabbing his bottle and rushing out to catch the bus. you’re left blinking, body on autopilot as you finally reach for the chips, and zombie-like when you make your way back to the living room where nobara’s putting a sheet mask on megumi. when you’re finally seated on the couch, you blink for the first time, blurting out to nobody in particular, “is… is itadori hot?” and it’s comedic how quick, blasé, and autonomic the in-sync replies from both megumi and nobara are, “yes”, “unfortunately.” oh. well that’s reassuring you suppose. you might have been the last to realize it, but at least you’re not alone. 

if you told yuuta he had the ability to seduce anybody he would probably just laugh awkwardly and think it’s some kind of joke. the great irony is that rooming with him has left you with many instances to confirm that he is attractive, but the defining moment is when you realize just how much yuuta has grown in his year abroad. your apartment is nice and relatively modern, but there are still some tight spaces. usually you and yuuta just giggle while shuffling around each other, but today, you feel like you’ve gotten between a rock and another rock because when did yuuta—your scrawny, awkward, endearing yuuta—gain fifty pounds of muscle? it’s a terrible moment for you to be squished between him and the tiny enclosure of your storage closet and even worse that he’s the one who apologies, and smiles, and carries on reaching for the spare napkins while you’re left with the filthy thoughts about your best friend. 

#can you tell i have a favorite au yes or yes 😇😇😇 #wrote this instead of actually working on a real wip bc idea blurbs >>>> fic progress #i dont know if this applies to nanami bc i feel like he always knows ur attractive and u always know he's attractive LMFAO #u both just deal with it as a facet of life yk. hilarious #jujutsu kaisen x reader #jjk x reader #jjk fluff #jjk smut #jujutsu kaisen fluff #jujutsu kaisen smut #satoru gojo x reader #gojo x reader #satoru gojo smut #megumi x reader #megumi fushiguro x reader #yuuji x reader #yuuji itadori x reader #yuuta okkotsu x reader #yuuta x reader #jjk imagines #jjk scenarios #jjk smau #gojo smut

[finemealprompt]

DP x DC Prompt #88

Superman didn’t know how to handle having a clone. He was fighting the urge to get close to Kon, guide him in a way no one had been able to Clark, with feeling violated every time he saw the boy. He didn’t want to hate Kon, but he didn’t know how to balance his own emotions. 

When Clark admits this to Batman, he suggests someone who can help: Phantom. Dani Phantom.

#finemeal prompt #dp x dc #superman #clark kent #dani phantom #i just think there's a lot of personal feelings clark has about kon #and instead of hating on clark for having emotions and not knowing how to deal with them #we have some compassion #plus in young justice he does come around and try to have a relationship with kon #he just struggles #and that's so real of him #i love you superman #you're trying your best #also i feel like dani would be able to help him from a clone's perspective #and maybe one day he'd have a conversation with danny #who knows #this was inspired by a fanfiction #The Prettiest Star by DisillusionedDanny #it's on ao3 #look it up #it's so good #there's a scene in there that inspired this prompt #you'll know it once you see it #dis you're literally so talented and i love that fic btw

[cpcposting]

Probably one of my fave things about CPC is the fact that Gwen genuinely isn’t conventionally attractive, she’s not just some girl who *gasp* wears glasses and has her hair in a ponytail or something X_X The amount of ”””ugly””” characters I’ve that seen that fall into that trope bruhhh. But as the comic goes on, like Frederick, you get used to her appearance and come to appreciate her as truly beautiful bc of who she is <3 

#cursed princess club #rambling #ig shes like fiona from shrek in that way?? #who in the end stays as an ogre despite her princess form #and shrek loves her like that yknow #oh no another shrek reference #aerial was so real for that fic ngl #honestly i could compare cpc to true beauty as well or something #bc that comic also deals with ugliness kinda #but its different shit yknow #its more focused on love triangles XD #heck even lookism addresses it a bit #but that comic is kinda traumatic for me to read at times bc of the fatphobia and such lol #so id say it deals moreso with body image compared to cpc #which is more about the impact of words rather than the appearance itself #the literary compared to the physical #lookism is so fucking brutal fr #like you think frederick's bullying was bad??? #lookism mc would be jealous of him #uhhh ive gone on a whole rant i apologise

[flowercrowngods]

TATTOO SHOP AU

So, here’s the thing. Eddie is not exactly known to be sceptical when it comes to tattoo parlours. Hell, he doesn’t even need the place to have four walls and a roof, necessarily. Sometimes a spontaneous idea, the right equipment and no one to talk him out of it are all it takes. It is, quite frankly, a miracle he’s never had an infection — hell, one time he and Gareth decided it would be a great idea to stick and poke with black ink of a broken pen after school in the boys‘ room.

The point: Eddie will get tattooed just about anywhere if he feels like it. Fuck around and find out, right?

But this might just be the first time he takes a good hard look at a place and decides to turn on his heel and get the fuck out of there.

The place is clean and almost minimalistic, plants and frames artwork being the main decor. Golden light of the afternoon sun is streaming in through large windows, the hardwood floor polished and shining, and it’s just everything that Eddie is not. It’s exactly the kind of place that Chrissy would be drawn to, so it makes sense she’d recommend this to him, but she should know him better than that.

The thing that makes his skin crawl the most, though, is that there’s some fucking indie pop music coming quietly from the speakers — and, Jesus, is that Taylor Swift?

“Oh, hell no,” he mutters under his breath, feeing like he’s somehow stepped into another world where metal or any kind of taste or good music has not been invented yet.

Eddie is just about to do a one-eighty and get the hell out of here, ready to never trust Chrissy’s tattoo recommendations again, when a guy steps into the room. He’s dressed in pastel colours, of all things, and that might just be the last straw for Eddie.

No, okay, scratch that. The last fucking straw is when Eddie recognises that face, that polished, polite smile and that stupid lush hair he’s always been jealous of.

“Steve Harrington?”

#steddie #steddie fic #tattoo shop au #tattoo artist steve #but make him soft and indie hehe #HAPPY BIRTHDAY POE!!! #just some vibes for you before the real deal #dio words

[frizzle-mcshizzle]

wow y’all where no where near this supportive when i was witch hunted holy shit

the posts that where made general attitude was “if you’re prolife fuck go yourself and block me” or “im pro choice if you have a problem with that block me” i had to literally tell the only person who supported me the whole time not to say anything out of fear they would get targeted too, i didn’t have this kind of support. what i posted wasn’t even supposed to go on that blog, it wasn’t reblogged intentionally, and it was taken down quickly. i was still witch hunted for it two months later.

its just a little funny to see who and what you’re all willing to publicly support and what you’re not.

#kotlc #kotlc discourse #im NOT a fan of call out posts #i think they’re shitty #ive been witch hunted i know what its like #but at the same time #what did you seriously expect to happen when you post insest #people would just be chill with it??? #insest is GROSS #it makes people very uncomfortable when its treated as normal #people are gonna say something #because it makes them uncomfortable #you don’t exist in a vacuum what you post has real life consequences #the consequences being call out posts #i don’t want to hear a lecture about how people should be able to make what they want #thats NOT what im talking about #people should be able to make what they want #but need to understand depending on WHAT they make #people will react certain ways #this being one of said ways #and maybe it’s warranted #maybe its not #also if you make said things #for the love of GOD tag it correctly i don’t want to see it #i know theres a fintan x keefe fic that isn’t taggerd correctly on Ao3 #also yes im prolife DEAL WITH IT

[ghost-bxrd]

so, you guys knew there was an incident where a bald eagle happened to be floating dead in a lake beside the body of a loon chick? And how the necropsy revealed the eagle was killed by being stabbed through the heart by an adult loon’s beak?? 🦅 ♥️

Yeah, that made me think of Dick after Jason’s death.

#feral dick killing the joker #owl song #maybe #would fit I guess #so how do I turn this into poetry for art #btw I lived through surgery #anesthesia was a B*** to come out of tho #I can assure you now tho that every fic dealing with confused people after they wake up is real tho #Jason todd #dick Grayson #Nightwing #Robin #joker #necropsy of a bald eagle #loon chicks and eagles #Jason and dick #talon dick grayson #court of owls

[irregularbillcipher]

DO YOU KNOW WHAT SPAWNED YOUR EXISTENCE?

[ID: Two lineless, digital paintings, both with warm, dark gray backgrounds. Both canvases are shaped like exact squares.

Painting one shows an adult Bill Cipher, a bright yellow triangle with a top hat, bow tie, cane, singular eye, and long lashes, reaching out to shake hands with the Axolotl, a pink axolotl with an electric blue tail. Bill is looking at the Axolotl casually, and his outstretched hand is engulfed in blue flames, while the Axolotl is smiling at Bill gently, reaching out to take his hand. There are stylized stars, similar to sparkles, in the top right and bottom lefthand corners of the painting. The painting is textured so that you can see the gray of the canvas very faintly through the brush strokes.

Painting two consists mostly of a short passage from Edwin Abbott Abbot's Flatland, written in light gray over the dark background. The passage is the beginning of chapter 7, and reads as follows:

"7. Concerning Irregular Figures

I for my part have never known and Irregular who was not also what Nature evidently intended him to be-- a hypocrite, a misanthropist, and, up to the limits of his power, a perpetrator of all manner of mischief..."

Below the quote, near the very bottom of the page, is a tiny illustration of a very young Bill Cipher. He is drawn completely in grayscale, and is looking down at the ground angrily, fists clenched. He is wearing a pauper's cap and has bandages wrapped around his rightmost angle, which is noticeably longer and more acute than his other angles.

End ID]

#flatland #flatland: a romance of many dimensions #bill cipher #my url was almost irregularbillcipher for a reason I have… thoughts! #i do wanna say for anyone who hasn't read my fic uh me making bill irregular is not one of those #'what if the oppressed person was the REAL bad guy and went Too Far' type deals. at least that's not my intention #i always like to write bill with a bit of a square in him where he's not too bothered by people Not Having Rights #'till it impacts how people see HIM (and the few people he's grown to care about) #things will get to him sometimes but it's always through a lens of like... himself if that makes sense. he simply does not care about other #he's the living embodiment of 'do you believe in gay rights?' 'i am gay' 'he's dodging the question' but for irregularity #to be fair with whatever the hell is going on with him and kryptos he's also sort of that for gay rights too #... also i have birth defects and just wanted an excuse to write about victorian ableism so i hit bill and kryptos with the disability ray #woe... birth defects be upon ye #anyway this is some old art but i'm still very fond of the bill n frills drawing

[soaps-mohawk]

I wish you can update for like twice a week 🛐. I'm always checking for new update hahaha.. anyways, take ur timeee 🫡🫡🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

Anon, I know you probably meant well, but this is not the time for something like this.

(Gif courtesy of @collinnmckinley )

#these chapters take a lot of work #they're long #they're detailed #writing takes a lot of work #i write every word out #i come up with the ideas myself #and on occasion i get ideas from others #but a lot of them are on my own #if i sat and wrote an entire chapter in one sitting #it would take an entire day #i am human #there is a human behind this blog #i have a life #i have my own things that i'm dealing with #i do this for free #i post for free #i write for free #it takes me several days to get through a chapter because it takes a lot of work #it takes a lot of brainpower that i dont always have #be fucking for real right now #i wish i could write two chapters a week too #but they wouldnt be good chapters if i did #they'd be half as long and poorly written #and i probably wouldnt even finish the fic because i'd burn out so fast #anon #i know you didn't mean this in a pushy or negative way #but read the room please #answered

[honey-tongues]

do you ever think about the fact that sera's adoptive human mother convinced her AS A CHILD that a total stranger hated her because of her race - to protect the woman's own pride, mind you!! it wasn't even true!! racist AND self-absorbed!!!! (which tbqh the venn diagram is a circle) - and the ramifications of sera cutting herself off as soon as she starts to say, "i hated her, and i hated- (myself)" and how ungenerously the fandom interprets her pain and makes it all about their picture perfect elf oc. because i do.

#i read a fic ages ago that literally had EVERY companion just absolutely ripping into sera on lavellan's 'behalf' #meanwhile #s*las????? #no one called him out on how he condescends to the dalish #or calls qunari savages #or calls dwarves barely alive because they don't dream #this is not actually an anti-solas or anti-lavellan post tbc it's just #the lack of grace sera receives for being like 19 and homeless and dealing with very real trauma is just......... #sera #sera dragon age #fandom critical #solas critical #just to be safe #like there are Issues™ with sera's own writing #but don't use that to invalidate her feelings or her trauma damn #especially not to prop up the heterosexual male fave and his romance with one (1) iteration of the Inquisitor #maybe let wlw have something for once #maybe just. consider it.

[zukkaoru]

dazai what the actual hell is wrong with you

#bsd fic writers could never hold a candle to the actual canon content we have #he is literally the 'i had a crush on a girl and didnt know how to deal with it so i wrote her a note that said get out of my school' tweet #also dazai listening to mainstream pop music so real to me #this is why lucy has such an easy time getting him into her music taste TRUST #grace reads bsd

[almostshamelesspenguin]

OKAY ace attorney no dl6 au where something happens to mvk (convinced of another murder maybe, he's bound to snap sometime lmao) and Gregory sees he has a very young daughter who's now an orphan and adopts her and franziska and miles grow up as SIBLINGS and in a HEALTHY HOUSEHOLD and they get all the good things and life is great!!!

#idk incoherent thoughts about the von karma siblings #thinking about how they wouldnt/might not consider each other siblings in no dl6 aus #i thought this up to fix that lmao #i dont think ill make a fic or art of this au because. i am not confident in my abilities in either #or in making a good story #or in keeping them in character while dealing with such a drastic change #so this idea is free real estate for anyone who wants ro borrow #anyway time to tag #ace attorney #miles edgeworth #franziska von karma #gregory edgeworth #manfred von karma #i guess #ace attorney au #no dl 6 #no dl6 au

[starrierknight]

catboy satoru.... save me catboy satoru

#the temptation to write a fic with no real plot but just. to explore this #it is a very real temptation #꒰ ♱ ꒱ — infinite deal of nothing

[peaches2217]

Take that man and put him in a SITUATION

#the vast majority of this fic will be focused on peach dealing with ptsd (…peach-tsd?) #because let’s be real there’s not nearly enough traumatized peach content #and eventually realizing that part of why mario’s been nothing but helpful and caring is because he does too #and taking care of her is the only way to distract himself half the time 😌 #‘peaches you keep giving everyone ptsd get new material’ okay but consider this: nah

[spooky-activity]

Going insane over this Makoann fic because I’m gay with big feelings sometimes

+bonus I always forget how awful it is to be Makoto in the first bit of the game. Girl can’t catch a break. EVERYONE be bullying her

#makoann #ann takamaki #makoto niijima #persona 5 royal #p5r #fanart #mine #my art #the fic is Makoto's pov and I can't believe how well the author nailed her voice #I'd KILL for Ann's side of this fic too #but I'd rather die than ask something so presumptuous of the author #so I'll just say it in my tags because this is my space #the pic with Ann having a crisis to Maruki didn't explicitly happen in the fic. but it was implied so I drew it anyways #I don't often indulge in fics about romance but when I do i go hard #sometimes you gotta put your Blorbos in a pringles can and shake them real hard before they realize they like girls #and then talk about those feelings #also consistent style? don't know her lol #it's fine this is just for fun for me #it does bother me a little #but YOU have to deal with it because it doesn't bother me enough to actually try to draw consistently lmao

[iti-iskuna]

hey hi hello i won't say this is a return to me writing fic regularly but i spent my entire holiday break playing BOTW and had to write shit about it so please enjoy this little self-indulgent zelink one shot

#loz #legend of zelda #botw #breath of the wild #zelink #link loz #zelda loz #link botw #zelda botw #if i the giant lesbian am writing fic for a het pairing then you know it's the real deal #also sorry i haven't written literally anything in like years lmao #a lot of shit has happened and i am so so burnt out #but if i'm writing little one shots again maybe that means i'll write actual fic again