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I was suddenly reminded of that scene in Les Mis where Cosette cries for like two hours and Marius stands banging his head a tree because she’s going to England

anyway more people should really read the brick

#les miserables #cosette #cosette fauchelevent #marius pontmercy #NEVER FORGET THESE ARE MY ROOTS

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I think some people underestimate how validating a “hey what the fuck” comment can be on a fic

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hello it has been 84 years since I posted a fanfic but please have some sad ashrym fic for your table

#ashrym #orym of the air ashari #ashton greymoore

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#it's pesach and so here we are

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...what do you mean the first warrior cats book is old enough to drink now?

#what do you MEAN into the wild was published 21 years ago #warrior cats

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I cannot believe that my brain is good for things like coming up with great warrior cat au names for other fandoms and not something useful like math

#warrior cats #I guess 20 years of brain rot will do that to you #but still

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Gwendolyn swallows thickly before raising her hand and knocking on her parents’ bedroom door. Almost immediately her mother calls, “Come in, dear!” She always knows who’s at the door, Gwendolyn thinks it’s her superpower. Gwen cracks the door open and sticks her head in, she finds her mother sitting at her vanity while her father is pacing the length of the room, tapping a pencil against his lips. 

As Gwen opens the door, her father stops what he is doing and smiles down at her, “Hello, Gwen. What can we do for you?” Gwen doesn’t say anything as she shuts the door and walks over to her father. He picks her up in one motion, settling her against his hip, even though Gwen knows she’s getting too big. 

“I want to ask you something,” she tells him. And then she catches her mother’s eyes in the mirror. Vex smiles and turns around her chair to face her daughter and her husband.

“Go ahead, darling,” Vex says gently. 

Gwen shakes her head, “It’s a serious question. We sit down for serious things.” 

Percy chuckles and kisses the side of her head, “That we do, my darling. Lead the way.” He sets Gwen down on her feet and follows her as she leads them over to the couch in front of the fireplace. Gwen sits on the middle cushion as her parents sit on either side of her. 

“Auntie Zahra was telling me something about tieflings and she said I should ask you about it.” 

“Of course,” Percy rubs her shoulder. “Whatever it is.” 

“She told me about virtue names. That some tieflings pick their own names when they’re old enough. And I know that all of our names are super special and important, but-”

“But you want a virtue name?” Vex finishes. Gwen nods, avoiding her parents’ eyes. Her mother touches her chin, making her lift her eyes. “Darling, we’re not upset with you.” 

“But my name is important,” she says. 

Percy moves from the couch to kneel at her side. “All names are important, and so is the one you want to give yourself.” 

“Are you sure?” Gwen asks softly. “I promise that Gwendolyn and Zahra can still be my middle names.” 

“That’s alright, dear,” Vex assures her. “What do you want to be called?” 

Gwen shuffles nervously, “Well…I was thinking Mercy.” 

“Mercy,” Vex tries out, “it’s beautiful. Can I ask why you picked it?” 

Gwen nods, “You showed me your bow, you said the word on it means forgive.” Vex nods. “Well, I thought about it and I…I want to be like you, merciful.” She looks at her father, “And it rhymes with your name.” 

“That it does, dear,” Percy taps her nose. “Mercy. It suits you.”

Gwen grins at the praise, "Really?"

Vex nods with a thoughtful hum, "It might take some time for us to get used to, but it's a beautiful name for you."

Preening even more, Gwen nestles between her parents with a soft smile. All of her early anxiety is gone at their acceptance of her. She can't wait to tell Zahra.

#I’m in TEARS #thanks for this

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

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being an Ashrym shipper right now is kinda like

“alexa, play white flag by dido”

BUT I WILL GO DOWN WITH THIS SHIP

AND I WON’T PUT MY HANDS UP AND SURRENDER

THERE WILL BE NO WHITE FLAG ABOVE MY DOOR

I’M IN LOVE AND ALWAYS WILL BE

#ashrym #ashton greymoore #orym of the air ashari #listen I’m not immune to Dorym

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Bell’s Hells as textposts 52/???

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Help I’ve hit Rohan and it’s like watching Fullmetal Alchemist in English… this is our military dictator, firstname King… everyone else is named after a WWII fighter jet but don’t worry about it… only this experience is packed in alongside some of the most beautiful, lifechanging prose you’ve ever seen in your life. Again not unlike. Fullmetal Alchemist.

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This is for all the unsung fic writers; the ones who don’t make the must-read lists, the ones who don’t get recced, the ones who don’t get hundreds of kudos, the rarepair writers out on the peripheries of fandom, the ones who toil away quietly for the handful of people who read and love them. You matter - you’re a writer too, and don’t you ever forget it. :)

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Liam on Bells Hells episode 92.

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very important parallel.