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They all seemed intimidated — not Jillian. The subject matter made her uneasy, not the interlocutor.

“I hope you won’t be offended,” she began, going so far as offering a charming smile to disarm Mother Superion, “but I did imagine nuns to be a bit more… Discreet. The pink stands out considerably.”

The nun looked at her then at the pink van in question.

“You’d be surprised, doctor.”

Jillian heard the hint of a smirk more than witnessed it and in that moment she knew the others were wise to fear Superion — while she, now enticed, did nothing of the sort.

#doctor superion #warrior nun #jillian salvius #mother superion #warrior nun drabble #it's emylilas who often wonders what on earth would have been made of the pink van and i too would like to know lol #narratives and similar #as previously stated drabbles come out normally during the dw event so here is today's doctor superion drabble friday post #but i'll probably show up on dw with a little post about communities later on ;p

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A reminder, since I only mentioned this in tags: I plan to be much more active on my Dreamwidth journal during the period between April 25th and May 15th, for the Three Weeks for Dreamwidth event.

I'm as of yet undecided as to what I'll post, exactly, apart from some TLK icons and perhaps the WN episode 1x02 icon batch if I manage to finish it in time (it's unlikely, truth be told), but you're more than welcome to drop by and hang out :)

#the thing is that whatever gets posted over there will STAY THERE -- at least during this period #i've had little wn meta fandom thoughts i'd like to write down so this might be a good opportunity for those. we'll see #right now i'm trying to wrestle some oneshots into existence lol wish me luck #silly blabbering #oh and to reinforce something: friday drabbles will be posted here on tumblr AS USUAL. but that's about it i guess #i haven't gotten around to the other gifset i wanted to make yet

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There's a lot of stuff I'd love to do but then there's only so much time and only so much external interest regarding such events too.

Some sort of short fic exchange for non-juggernaut WN ships or some funky comment fic place or a capslock community for all your unhinged commentary needs or a WN bingo... I don't know, something.

#don't mind me i am old and i want journal-type fandom back is all #i understand some of you might engage in similar activities on discord or whatever but that's really not what i envision #the short fic exchange could even be a drabble exchange. we leave the big ship out though or else it would overtake the thing #anyway. something something creating community. #speaking of i'll probably be less active here starting apr 25th up to may 15th. that's because 3 weeks for dreamwidth will be on #the drabbles will still be posted here on the fridays during that period but i'm thinking of hanging out there a bit more #maybe i can pull one of you in to hang out with me there. maybe one day we'll have enough numbers for a cosy community lol #that's the point of the event though. see if any fresh meat can be seduced by dw ;) #i have a few hild icons i mean to post and i'd like to finish my 1x02 wn batch as well but that seems unlikely atm #we'll see. thinking of some meta too. and whatever i end up writing for fan_flashworks will stay on dw until the event is over as well #so you might want to keep an eye on there if you're interested! #i have the same username there as here so it's easy to spot me #silly blabbering

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Hild in 2x01

Requested by @insufficient-earth-skills-main

Bonus 2x02 (because she looks soo good):

#because she looks so good -- INDEED #some more gleeful hildblogging for today #ahh hild my beloved #the last kingdom #non-wn shenunigans

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[nun activates]

#warrior nun #mother superion #has this been done before? #i'm so sorry #funny and or misc

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Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: F/F Fandom: Warrior Nun (TV) Relationship: Jillian Salvius/Mother Superion Characters: Jillian Salvius, Mother Superion (Warrior Nun)

Mother Superion should have known better: of course Jillian was a tease.

#warrior nun #doctor superion #mother superion #jillian salvius #super silly but i was in the mood for something silly what with the prompt #narratives and similar #gonna queue this so i don't forget to post it like i did with my yasmine & mother fic lol

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Hild | Eve Birthistle The Last Kingdom | 2.01

#queen hild of the water bucket scourge of slavers and once thrown out of a nunnery! i love you! though you're still a nun! #(i mean i love her also *because* she's still a nun. just like with my other wn nuns. i'm just correcting uhtred lol) #rewatched this ep today. so happy to have started s2 since there's more of her in it #getting some hildblogging done today because... i have a lot of hildblogging in my drafts oops #ahh hild my beloved #the last kingdom #non-wn shenunigans

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What?

#warrior nun #mother superion #yasmine amunet #well well well guess who managed to make gifs in a new and painful way after her laptop died and took quicktime along #sister makes gifs once in a blue moon #anyway i love these two and i've been wanting to make this for DAYS #my laptop dying was not part of the plan #yasmine's little nervous laugh kjwrjkwkjfsg #me: wn fandom step it up and give me stuff to reblog #also me: [makes stuff to reblog myself] #i'm a firm believer in diy lol #gifs and other visuals

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You keep talking about the origins of AO3 as this group effort by an actual group of people who were friends and who spent time discussing this with each other in person. It's kind of blowing my mind. Is there a post or a journal somewhere that specifically keeps record of this?

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I'm dying.

Nonnie, seriously?

No, that's mean, I know you're serious. It's just flabbergasting how much fandom has expanded and how much there isn't a direct link to the past.

Astolat and Cesperanza floated the idea at Vividcon and various places, I think, though I wasn't going to cons in that era. We were all on LJ in those days, and Astolat made a big post nailing her theses to the door. Discussion in the comments was instant and prolonged.

A LJ com was set up to discuss. It was later renamed to otw_news, but if you go all the way back to the beginning, you can see brainstorming mess instead of official news posts.

Fanlore page linking to Astolat's post and giving a little context.

Early brainstorming: https://otw-news.livejournal.com/2007/05/

For example, here I am collecting links to older archives to look at for research when designing AO3.

Fun fact, we never intended to call it AO3. There was a whole call for name suggestions, but nothing was as evocative as astolat's original post title referencing Virginia Woolf. (For those who haven't thought about it, AO3's name is a reference to A Room of One's Own.)

Here's the name discussion

Here's the poll that came out of it

But also notice how many people voted: 562.

That's how many people cared at the time: a few hundred. Maybe a thousand if you count lurkers, but frankly, that community was not as lurkery as now. It wasn't just ten friends. It was a community effort. But what "our" community looked like at the time was vastly different. It was six degrees of Kevin Bacon astolat, not a vast sea of strangers like fic fandom on AO3 is now.

Here's an early post suggesting we ban the under 18s from the site entirely. Pity we didn't do so, given the rise of antis.

Here's the invite to a fundraising party at astolat's in NYC that following Halloween. I dressed as Amanda from Highlander, not very well.

You can tell we knew each other by looking at those comments on astolat's initial post. You can also tell how discussion-based that part of fandom was back in 2007.

The way my tumblr is now with a ton of text, back and forth, and hopping around between threads of conversation, all featuring a consistent set of faces, is very much like LJ. Most of tumblr is not.

#non-shenunigans #but it's something good i think others should look at and be aware of #i'm not legit Fandom Old TM but i'm older than most of the people i see on tumblr nowadays. old enough for LJ #i too remember the early days of being a bit cautious with AO3 when it was brand new lol and preferring ffnet to it for a time #but whoooo girl is it good to see the thing thrives today #but yeah. i miss LJ (which is why i'm on dreamwidth lol it's not the same because the amount of people there is much smaller #but it's Good. i wish more people went there. it will never be the same as LJ but i still find it better than tumblr in structure) #(i just have a feeling those who haven't lived through LJ don't quite /grasp/ DW and that's a pity) #also since we're here. i've joked before that the fandom ways i was used to in journal-type sites meant that people left comments #and that was “as god intended”. i did not say that because i want praise mind you (everybody wants praise) but because #comments can create conversation and conversation fosters community. connection can only ever be formed through contact #and no. likes and kudos and other buttons don't create that contact. i'll recognise your username and be glad you stopped by of course #but i won't know you and you won't know me. which is fair if you're not looking for community and just some fanwork to look at #however some of us DO crave the kind of thing we had going on back then. #and those were the communities and the interactions we had in them #which is something tumblr does not and cannot replicate

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It had never occurred to them to try but circumstance dictated otherwise.

Walking in one another’s shoes should have been nigh impossible — two uniforms had never been so dissimilar as their black habit and white lab coat — yet they somehow understood one another’s struggles, one another’s sorrows.

Such opposite paths had yielded a common destination. That the routes had been walked by boots, talons, work shoes or barefoot, here stood Jillian and here stood Suzanne nevertheless; here their empathy, here their love.

And if their footsteps are to fade, as will ours, now their steps are never taken without company.

#doctor superion #warrior nun #warrior nun drabble #narratives and similar #the prompt here was shoes and let me tell you... i did not like it LOL

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"Captured by the hymn, Jillian Salvius felt her phantoms deflate, the violence in her veins suddenly run slow. Her sore, tired shoulders were strangely covered by a soothing cape of song and she could not help but wonder whether her heart, so pacified, could not remain blissfully suspended as this after the music ended. For now, however, even the interrogations so natural to her scientific predisposition were silenced by the voices of women ringing together. They all coalesced into that single psalm. Jillian allowed herself to close her eyes and join them in her own way, letting them fill her as they filled the space around them. Danger disintegrated, her wraiths chased away by prayer, song, beauty, if only for those precious seconds of unspeakable communion." (Gnosis, on AO3)

#happy birthday to gnosis published one year ago on this day! #the moodboard came later but i thought i'd bring it back anyway #it's actually touching to think of the fact that it's been a full year since this story. time flies doesn't it? #crazy how i thought it would be just this and psychosis (debris was improvised while trying to write psychosis lol) #and now look at where we are with a bit more to come... #these two really did a number on me unlike in any previous fandom -- and probably unlike any future ones too #i'm enjoying the ride. it will end eventually so might as well make the best of it while it lasts!

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I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.    //    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Dir. Kenneth Branagh (1994)

#i confess i'm rewatching tlk s1. on 1.5x speed. until i get to hild again. oops. #but as i said it's kind of funny how going back to my Other warrior nun i ended up more invested in writing my wn stuff #so. endure. there will be more hildblogging LOL even if i'm trying to space it out. wn fandom step it up and give me wn stuff to reblog #in the meantime i am going to appreciate these badass gifs and i invite you to do the same #absolutely loved the “interlude” for the rage part ahh #a++ choice of quotation there #ahh hild my beloved #the last kingdom #non-wn shenunigans

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scar tissue zine

#art #some wn to break up the pattern before followers riot lol

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I'm not done Hildblogging yet but it has strangely inspired me to write a silly doctor superion thing (on top of all the more serious doctor superion things already in queue, lol) so, er, thank you for your patience.

#silly blabbering #i'm just spacing the reblogs out lol but there are more #or there will be. the little jillian and suzanne thing needs to be done by the 20th so i should not be here #i suppose this is proof that you need to keep reading and watching stories to write your own #regardless of genre or similarity to what you're actually writing #i have way too many j/s things in my list of fics to write. it's ridiculous. help. #the good news is that the final valentines bingo story is coming along. very slowly but it is. and then there's the other one-- #--which i paused to try and get the bingo one out of the way but it was developing quite nicely too #then the two canon divergent aus... sigh. too much creativity too little time!!

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Your sword. It is not your sword. You may keep the silver you will have taken, but not the sword. You will turn and run, girl.

#on this blog we love and stan our warrior nuns. fearless!!! not an ounce of hesitation despite that sword pointing at her!! #i am still hild blogging yes. i have a few other reblogs drafted. and i am happy because i love her #non-wn shenunigans #ahh hild my beloved #the last kingdom #there is little wn stuff happening right now so here we are -- still pertinent to the subject though

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tlk + songs: madeline (by kiki rockwell) girl at the front of the line you'll work twice as hard for half the pay but if you can deflect their filthy comments one day you shall rise up and take my place

#ohhh i like this!! #the colours the scenes blending the words... everything is wonderfully tied together #ahh hild my beloved #what a gifset for The Best character!!! #i'm not even joking i love herrrrrr i should go back to this just for her #non-wn shenunigans #the last kingdom #here i was thinking i hadn't used my non-wn sheNUNigans tag in far too long. today we change that

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Just a little warning but I did some digging because of a show I used to watch and you might or might not be in for a few reblogs concerning Hild from The Last Kingdom and I DO NOT want anyone to come and tell me I am predictable for loving the warrior nun from another show. I know. I know. I have a weakness, okay. I'm not sorry. And I already loved her before, you all just didn't know it. Today I just woke up with a mighty need.

We'll be back to our usual Warrior Nun posting shortly.

#don't worry i won't be writing any fic or anything. i might break my rule and Read One though #hopefully those of you who stick with me through this moment will understand why i love hild just by looking at her lol #fun fact i actually didn't finish watching tlk and i should one of these days #i stopped in the middle of s4 for no real reason #jsyk it's not for everybody but if like me you have watched vikings and you like the whole vibe and don't mind the violence... #tbqh i think tlk is better than vikings but anyway. i am stretching the purposes of this blog with these tags lol #no show posting! only nun posting instead!!!! #silly blabbering