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captainkirbypunch · 3 years

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My love has left tumblr once again.

As many of you may know, the account under the name MDZADR, has left tumblr. They felt unsafe in their fandom, and as such have deleted their tumblr and AO3 account due to the bad memories linked to them.

As a part of their departure, they have asked me to post something in their name, as follows.

If you want more details about how I came to this realization, continue to read. If not, here is your summary:

TL;DR: For the safety and health of this fandom, I wanted to spread the word that Mooping-10 is filled with people who absolutely cannot be trusted, creating a very hazardous environment for the zadr community, and MelodyoftheVoid is connected to all of those people, living a double life amongst those of us that don’t “ship zadr correctly.” She has plenty of friends her inner circle knows nothing about, and nobody on either side knows who she really is.

Full story below.

I’m sorry I didn’t say goodbye. Nobody did anything to me today, but this just wasn’t worth it.

My AO3 and tumblr are both gone. I didn’t say goodbye because I didn’t want to look like an attention seeker.

Here’s the thing. I wasn’t going to name drop, but you guys need to know the truth. I’m instructing my boyfriend (hi y’all) to turn asks off for his own safety after this because this is going to be a nightmare, but... allow me to tell you the full story. I’ll try to break up the text so it’s less difficult to read, but this is important. I’m sorry to air discourse so publicly, but please... I need you to listen to me.

I’ll start from the beginning, without being vague anymore about who “she” is. I request that you please read the whole thing and not skip parts of it. The whole story matters.

I finally returned to the fandom about two months or so ago. As I’ve mentioned, I don’t do well in my thoughts while left alone too long, so I posted saying I would stop messaging people I knew because I didn’t want to bother them. There were only two people I was talking to at the time, but one of them is famous so I didn’t want to message her directly saying that. Doing so would have put her in a position of feeling obligated to say “you’re not bothering me” rather than just simply being able to sigh with relief from no longer being contacted.

But the first person to contact me was the famous person, and she asked if I was okay, and told me she liked talking to me.

God, I actually cried.

But, that’s just her. Melodyofthevoid is the type of person to talk to people in the fandom, totally unaware of her demigod status. She comments on stories, interacts on posts, messages first... a pillar of kindness, so it seemed.

But let the story continue.

Over time, we were talking more often.

Mostly sending memes (cause everyone I knew, myself included, aren’t exactly great at holding conversations. No shade. Memes are a love language). I was still in the hero worship stage of our relationship, so my view of her was that that was perfect.

Now, let me bridge a connection with a new story idea I got around December 28th or so, and my thinking she was perfect.

I had recently finished watching Madoka and questioned “If I had magical powers, what would they be?” It then turned into its own story idea, basing creators’ powers around the strengths and weaknesses in creations. I actually realized “oh fuck. My stuff is incoherent. My friends’ works aren’t too different...”

Thus spawned the name “Incoherent” for the project.

What does that have to do with this? Well, here’s the thing that really fucked everything up quickly.

This was not on purpose, because originally the project (which I had told nobody of yet at the time) was all about improving your works, making platonic friends, dressing our personas in cute outfits, and writing fun magic.

While listening to music and thinking of the story one day, my brain accidentally shipped my persona with hers, and I couldn’t unsee it. And I’m lousy at keeping my own secrets (other’s are different) so she found out on probably day one or two about my weird crush because of an ask meme of all things.

She didn’t try to put me off any, which was another problem for future things to come, and so I decided that since Incoherent was finally making me feel alive again and feeling the euphoric feelings of love wouldn’t hurt anything (I figured they’d mellow out on their own eventually because that’s how infatuation works) since they helped fuel my inspiration, and then we would just continue from friends to better friends one day and this part of our lives would be over.

Besides, the forbidden is attractive somehow, and makes stories more entertaining. She’s aro/ace, so I had no chance anyway. Someone safe to crush on, in her own way.

This isn’t a story of a love betrayal however. There was no such thing. But it’s important to the story because Incoherent is where my mistakes were made, and hers brought to light.

By this time, I had a handful of people I was talking to, and I created a discord server for the project. Only my boyfriend (hi!) and I were in it at the time. I was not-so-subtly asking my friends what they’d look like if they were a magical person, what their names would be... I thought I would have had to lure Melody in to make her want to join us, but I managed to get her in very easily. Everyone was happy and excited! It was a no obligation, no time limit thing for us to enjoy, a little sandbox to play around in.

Sure there were plans to make it bigger and I was working on art to the best of my ability, but it was gonna be a fun thing mostly. No pressure on anyone.

And how things started becoming a problem was that the rest of us posted publicly about the project and interacted with each other’s posts relating to the story, but she had started to interact publicly less and less with our things, and everyone noticed it.

It wasn’t because we were greedy and wanted the popular girl to reblog our things. It’s because we had a feeling she was ashamed of being seen publicly with us. The reason we were worried before then and started making that connection was because I mentioned I was going to ask another user if they were interested in joining Incoherent. Melody was the only one that seemed uncomfortable, and I messaged her asking about it. We agreed I wouldn’t invite that person but I knew things were off about it.

That person is like me. How long until Melody didn’t want to talk to me anymore? A few days ago, the other shoe finally dropped. A member of our little group and I were talking and (let’s call them Friend for simplicity. They asked to not be name dropped here) Friend was worried they had made Melody upset by tagging her in a meme picture they drew of her persona, and the two had agreed that Friend remove the tag. This spawned an anxiety-filled conversation where Friend and I expressed our concerns about Melody not interacting with the project, or us.

So since I wanted reassurance that that wasn’t the case, I messaged Melody with my concerns. I told her I had the feeling she was ashamed of being seen in public with us because of her friends, and she didn’t refute me. She simply told me to go get some rest. I messaged back with “I’m right.”

I deleted Discord off my phone for hours and nearly deleted my Tumblr, AO3, and the server after my boyfriend helped pass messages between us. Melody confessed that was the case because her friends expressed discomfort with my works, and she was playing both sides.

Her words, not mine.

Melody told me she would be withdrawing from the Incoherent project because it wasn’t fair to us if her heart wasn’t in it.

She didn’t stand up on my behalf when they said things about me. Her friends are the type who talk behind creators’ backs for shipping zadr “incorrectly.” Worse than antis because they actually participate in the “pro-shipping” side of the fandom. I broke that day and messaged her at 3 am.

We finally spoke at 3pm. We both missed each other. I tried to understand more. I wanted it to be more like a conversation rather than an interrogation. It was only one-sided however, and she never opened up further. And I made some mistakes and poor choices of words, and we ended up parting ways permanently right there.

I nearly deleted everything, but much like a coma patient attached to many machines on a hospital bed, my blog was kept alive a little longer by people sending kind words in droves. I was briefly fuelled by spite, wishing to watch the world burn by making everyone on the "correct" side of the fandom upset by posting the worst, most vile content this fandom has ever seen.

I was also welcomed with open arms by a very kind server with fellow degenerates, all of them screaming and crying and partying when they managed to get me in their server. It was so heartwarming...

But as I spoke to others about my situation, I realized something. A disturbing pattern.

People telling me horror stories about how Mooping-10 was cult-like. How the people running it were antis. I was even told once that they have a secondary server where they go to have their talks and do their work, likely the place where the real bashing is held.

The server itself has rules against such behavior, but I suppose it's different when they do it.

One person (and this is the most unnerving part for me, personally) told me Melody actually set off alarm bells in their head without having even done anything yet, and the most disturbing part of the story was that one of the moderators was afraid and upset because they got Covid, and received basically no moral support at all. Only getting told "spoiler that. Sorry you got Covid".

I was horrified. That server has 100 people in it. How many of them are the same? They act like popular kids in school who picked up an unpopular main character and then bash others, and the main character joined in because they don't want to be left behind by their new "friends".

To put it short, back to my point:

TL;DR: I simply only wanted to spread the word that: Mooping-10 is filled with people who absolutely cannot be trusted, creating a very hazardous environment for the zadr community, and Melodyofthevoid is connected to all of those people, living a double life amongst those of us that don't "ship zadr correctly". She has plenty of friends her inner circle knows nothing about, and nobody on either side knows who she really is.

#Invader Zim #zadr #tagr #rapr #zagr #mdzadr #MelodyoftheVoid

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lucky-katebishop · 3 years

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What I Read in August 2021

I... my first draft got deleted and that took forever to make so please like this for my sanity. I bookmarked 26 fics and read 1 book this month, so not as much as my previous two months but still! The majority is Harry Potter, but there's a spare Sherlock one and Friends one in there. A lot of these fics have other people raising Harry because that's just what I've been in the mood for lately.

Friends

For someone to ripple the waters by teatrolley

Plot: He’s fine, though, he tells himself. He’s dealing with it. He’s dating girls, and using the excuse that he’s bad at it when Joey asks him why he never brings anyone home anymore. He’s fine. That is, until Joey kisses him at New Year’s, and everything changes. Or: Chandler is in love with Joey and it's not the sort of thing you say out loud. Until, one day, it is

Characters: Chandler, Joey, Monica

Relationships: Chandler/Joey

Warnings: none

Tags: canon compliant, friends to lovers, POV Chandler, Chandler is gay, coming out

My Notes: I watched a lot of Friends over August and just!!! Chandler and Joey were the Troy and Abed of the 90s, I said what I said. This fic is so beautiful, the prose is amazing and it’s so heartfelt and it did make me tear up a little bit. I don’t typically read fics for sitcoms but I highly 100% recommend this one!

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Sherlock (stand-alone)

Feel the Tide by positivelymeteoric

Plot: Things John Watson doesn't expect to do when he transfers to a new school: A) Befriend his (possibly) mad roommate. B) Investigate a particularly nasty streak of murders with his (most likely) mad roommate. C) Fall slightly (or not so slightly) in love with his (definitely) mad roommate. D) All of the above.

Characters: Sherlock, John, Harry Watson, Mycroft, Lestrade, Moriarty

Relationships: Sherlock/John

Warnings: none

Tags: teen!lock, high school

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Harry Potter & Sherlock

My Experiment by lemoncurry

Plot: Sherlock steals a boy. Sorry- rescues. John helps, because what choice does he have? But not even Sherlock knows just how not-boring things will be...

Characters: Sherlock, John, Harry Potter, Mycroft

Relationships: none

Warnings: implied/referenced child abuse

Tags: pre-Hogwarts

*incomplete* [last updated 2013]

Logic, Meet Luna by Applepie

Plot: Luna Lovegood has moved into 221c Baker Street! So what happens when you mix a 'loony' pureblood witch in a muggle area with logic driven residents? Err... not much, really. Just a whole lot of confusion.

Characters: Luna, Sherlock, Mycroft, John, Lestrade, Sally Donovan

Relationships: none

Warnings: none

Tags: humor

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Recalibration by Noxilicious

Plot: Mycroft more or less finds himself constantly cleaning up his dear brother’s messes, but in the case of one Harold William Holmes-Evans, he might just prove to be the one ‘mistake’ he won’t be able to rectify.

Characters:

Relationships: Sherlock/Lily Potter; Mary/John; Sherlock & Harry

Warnings: none

Tags: parentlock, canon compliant, pre-prisoner of Azkaban, post series 3, family drama, angst, hurt/comfort, muggle Sherlock, Sherlock is a Good Parent, Sherlock has a Heart, protective Sherlock, genius Harry, bogus deductions, fluff

*incomplete* [last updated 2017]

In Search of Companionship by kris799

Plot: After the events of the Sign of Three, Sherlock falls into a bout of melancholy; Mycroft, the consummate manipulator, suggests "filling the gap" and events largely get out of hand from there. A Sherlock adopts Harry!fic, set between Episodes Two and Three of Season Three.

Characters: Sherlock, Harry, Mrs Hudson, Mycroft, John, Mary

Relationships: Sherlock & Harry

Warnings: none

Tags: Parent!Sherlock, Child!Harry, adoption, John is out of the picture but not really, manipulative!Mycroft, magic, slow paced, perhaps glacial, Sherlock has many thoughts, and a mental!John to call him out on his crap, he’s not crazy, Harry cooks, and tries to take care of everyone, bored!Sherlock leads to bad [great] ideas, set in season 3

My Notes: don’t get your hopes up for Sherlock to find out about magic, it doesn’t happen and since the last time this was updated was almost seven years ago, I don’t think we’ll get to read it. However, it’s still very good and while it does give off some weird Sherlock stalkery vibes, this fic still kept me engaged and Sherlock and Harry’s relationship is great.

*incomplete* [last updated 2015]

Harry Potter of Baker Street by Dayja

Plot: Sherlock Holmes discovers family he never knew he had, and John Watson finds a child living in the cupboard.

Characters: Harry, Sherlock, John

Relationships: none

Warnings: none

Tags: family, friendship

My Notes: this one!!! Is so amazing!!! It’s so cute! I don’t really like to read kid fics all that much, but this one is worth the read!

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No Thank You by IHScribe

Plot: Harry Potter declines to attend Hogwarts, and Albus Dumbledore is forced to go and convince him otherwise. Too bad he didn’t expect the boy’s father(s).

Characters: Sherlock, John, Harry, Dumbledore, Mrs Hudson, Mycroft, Moriarty, McGonagall, Pomfrey, Hagrid, Snape

Relationships: Sherlock/John

Warnings: none

Tags: none

My Notes: this one is very funny and very sweet. Honestly fuck Hogwarts.

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Friend by esama

Plot: Sherlock finds the skull when he's five.

Characters: Sherlock, Harry, Mycroft, Mrs Holmes

Relationships: Sherlock & Harry

Warnings: character death

Tags: kid fic, alternate universe

My Notes: This one is so cool and original! I never thought about where Sherlock’s skull came from!

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Harry Potter & Supernatural

The Youngest Winchester by TheLastWincehsterStanding

Plot: Harry James Potter had thought, given the current circumstances, that going to America to track down his biological father was a fantastic idea. Unfortunately, like most of Harry's plans, there had been very little planning and far too much impulsiveness. Had he known what sort of monsters lurked in America, he would've stayed in England.

Characters: Harry, Bobby Singer, Dean Winchester, John Winchester, Sam Winchester

Relationships: Harry & Dean & Sam Winchester; Harry & John Winchester; Harry & Bobby Singer

Warnings: none

Tags: non-Potter Harry, the hunt for Yellow Eyes, season 1 of Supernatural, book 5, surprise! It’s a sixteen year old boy!

My Notes: I don’t really remember this one, I’ve read like four of these types of Harry being a Winchester story and I generally forget what happens in this one

*incomplete* [last updated 2018]

Harry Potter (stand-alone, specifically Percy Weasley/Oliver Wood)

That escalated quickly by SquaresAreNotCircles

Plot: Percy and Oliver get stuck in a Ministry lift (with seven other people present).

Characters: Percy, Oliver, Fred, George, Ginny, Bill, Ron, Charlie, Arthur, original male character

Relationships: Percy/Oliver

Warnings: none

Tags: humor, fluff

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Petty Theft by pinksnowboots

Plot: Percy pilfers Oliver's sweater. The twins are suspicious.

Characters: Percy, Oliver, Fred, George

Relationships: Percy/Oliver

Warnings: none

Tags: slice of life, drabble, sweaters, accidental coming out, established relationship, sharing clothes, quidditch, Oliver is protective

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Five Times Percy Thought Oliver was Beautiful and One Time Oliver Did Something About It by hufflebadgerinthetardis

Plot: The rule worshiping, strict, and by-the-books Gryffindor Prefect Percy Weasley has a secret. He’s got a huge crush on fellow Gryffindor and Quidditch Captain Oliver Wood. Percy was resigned to loving him from afar but he should have remembered that secrets don’t stay secrets for long at Hogwarts.

Characters: Percy, Oliver, Fred, George

Relationships: Percy/Oliver

Warnings: none

Tags: none

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Burn Across the Sky by MoonytheMarauder1 (beforethemoon)

Plot: When Oliver Wood stops talking about Quidditch to stare at Percy Weasley, Ron, Fred, and George know something is up.

Characters: Percy, Oliver, Ron, Harry, Hermione, Fred, George, Angelina, Alicia, Katie

Relationships: Percy/Oliver

Warnings: none

Tags: secret relationship, bad matchmaking, humor, protective siblings, quidditch, gay Percy, gay Oliver, injury, the hospital wing, exasperated Hermione, Harry is oblivious

My Notes: this isn’t the full plot, but it was very long and I only have so much time. Read this, it’s very cute

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I dare you to dare me by SquaresAreNotCircles

Plot: Fred didn’t even blink. “Harry said he didn’t want to join.” “So did I,” Oliver murmured. George didn’t allow him to stall any longer. He put his feet up between Fred and Angelina on the sofa and tilted his chair on its hind two legs. “Oliver, mate, truth or dare?”

Characters: Percy, Oliver, Fred, George, Angelina, Alicia Spinnet, Katie Bell

Relationships: Percy/Oliver

Warnings: none

Tags: truth or dare, Gryffindor Quidditch Team, the consumption of innocent earthworms, fluff

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It’s the truth by SquaresAreNotCircles

Plot: Fred and George refuse to believe Percy has a girlfriend. Oliver seems to know more. It's all very mysterious, until it isn't.

Characters: Percy, Oliver, Fred, George, Ginny, Harry, Hermione, Ron

Relationships: Percy Weasley/Oliver Wood

Warnings: none

Tags: fluff

My Notes: Percy and Oliver really are just teenage Sherlock and John, aren’t they? Just saner and have less crimes involved.

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Harry Potter (stand-alone)

Harry Potter and His Increasingly Worrying Letters Home by hopeless_hope

Plot: Dear Mum & Dad, Sorry my letters have been brief lately. I hope you’re all well! Just wanted to let you know that my friends and I stumbled upon a three-headed dog on the forbidden corridor that the stairs rather determinedly took us to. Is that normal? Love, Harry… or In which Lily and James survive Voldemort's attack, Sirius is never sent to Azkaban, and long-distance parenting is hard. Especially when your reckless Gryffindor child keeps sending concerning letters home and rushing into trouble before anyone has the chance to respond.

Characters: Harry, Hermione, Ron, Lily, James, Sirius, Remus, Draco, Snape, Dumbledore

Relationships: James/Lily; Sirius/Remus; Harry & Lily; Harry & James; Harry & Sirius; Harry & Hermione & Ron

Warnings: none

Tags: everyone lives/nobody dies, Lily and James live, angst and humor, the Golden Trio, most things are the same except now harry has adults who care about him, the marauders are a lil happy family, not peter tho bc fuck that guy, fix-it, friendship, harry grows up with a loving family but he’s still a reckless little shit

My Notes: this is another fic I’m very excited about. Reading new fics is something I don’t do often, I usually sort my fics by kudos and go backwards from there which usually means I miss out on amazing stuff like this! I do have to wait, which is a pain, but I’m still very excited about this fic, I see a lot of potential in it.

*incomplete* [last updated 1 August]

turn and face the strange by viennawaitss

Plot: ‘He sees himself as a creature of evolution, or perhaps a phantom of peculiarities - a great, winding python, yearning for the snap of his jaw, a snowy lamb, unchristened and stumbling across land on trembling legs.’ Reality, growth and the steps toward change. Or, how Harry’s brief expulsion isn’t the worst thing to happen to him.

Characters: Harry, Hermione, Ron, Blaise, Pansy, Sirius, Theo Nott, Draco

Relationships: none

Warnings: implied/referenced child abuse

Tags: resorting, trauma, nightmares, the Golden Trio, book 5, Slytherin Harry, friendship, mental health issues, growing up, coming of age, and already fighting the government

My Notes: I am so freaking excited for this fic! It has everything I want! Resorted Slytherin Harry, dealing with abuse and trauma, amazing Slytherin friendships, I mean come on!

*incomplete* [last updated 19 August]

Know this: in some way, you’re already dead by ulittuq

Plot: Harry has been fighting against being an obscurial his entire life and Sirius’ death is what pushes him over the edge.

Characters: Harry, Dumbledore, Tom Riddle

Relationships: none

Warnings: implied/referenced child abuse, canonical character death, some noncanonical character death, suicidal thoughts

Tags: obscurial Harry, ambiguous/open ending

My Notes: part of a series but both fics are very short. It's only about 2k words.

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The Chosen One and The Halfblood Prince by waitingondaisies

Plot: Severus Snape was discovered as a spy mere days before the start of the school year. Thankfully, Albus had been working on a vague contingency plan for this possibility. It had been inspired by the question, “What would it take for Severus Snape to see that he was wrong about Harry Potter?” The answer? Force Severus to go undercover as Alfonse “Eli” Hopkirk, a sixth year Gryffindor.

Characters: Harry, Ginny, Snape, Hermione, Ron, Dumbledore, McGonagall, Neville, Luna

Relationships: Harry & Ginny; Harry & Snape; Hermione/Ron

Warnings: child abuse

Tags: angst, undercover, Harry needs a hug, slow burn friendship, Ginny is a good friend, not canon compliant - HBP, no Snape as defensive teacher, no Slughorn

My Notes: this one is so fun! Snape tries to act as a sixteen year old and it goes as well as you’d think. It’s really funny but also really heartfelt, it’s part of a series of two and the second one is more Severitus than the first.

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By His Side by silver_fish

Plot: After what is surely a more-than-preventable potions accident, Harry Potter winds up stuck in the hospital wing, unable to wake up. Severus just wishes he knew why Poppy won’t stop bothering him about it.

Characters: Harry, Snape, Pomfrey, Ron, Hermione, Dumbledore

Relationships: Harry & Snape

Warnings: references to addiction

Tags: severitus I guess? Just some good bonding, set during HBP, harry is sad and so am i, emotional hurt/comfort

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Unmasked Lilly’s - Year One by TheWillofTheQuill

Plot: Severus Snape was adamant, no - determined to hate Harry Potter. After all, he was the spawn of James Potter, his childhood bully. But when Harry turns up for his first year, malnourished and fearful, it is up to Snape to solve the mystery of why the small boy has bruises that he will not show and scars that will not heal. Sworn to protect Lilly's son, Severus Snape is about to face his hardest challenge yet; gaining the trust of a boy who has sworn to never trust again.

Characters: Harry, Snape, Dumbledore, Draco, Hermione

Relationships: future Drarry

Warnings: child abuse

Tags: Severitus, hurt/comfort, angst, abused Harry, Snape adopts Harry, Slytherin Harry, good Slytherins

*incomplete* [last updated July 2021]

A Pair of Shoes that Fit by Darkorangecat (Calacious)

Plot: Harry is lost in the Forbidden Forest when he goes looking for Neville’s Remembrall after Draco steals it from the boy once again. As Harry wanders the forest, wondering if he’ll ever make it back to Hogwarts, the entire staff is sent out to look for him, including a much peeved Severus Snape.

Characters: Harry, Snape

Relationships: none

Warnings: child abuse and neglect

Tags: Snape eventually adopts Harry, first year, hurt/comfort, angst

My Notes: this one is so cute and so sad, Harry’s only eleven in this fic and Snape is trying his best

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The Guiltless by branwyn

Plot: When Harry appears at the Welcoming Feast wearing a glamor only Snape notices, Snape decides to find out what the glamor is hiding.

Characters: Harry, Snape, Luna, Dumbledore

Relationships: Harry & Snape & Luna

Warnings: domestic violence, child abuse

Tags: Severitus, Snape mentors Harry, hurt/comfort

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Within Doors by Lomonaaeren

Plot: It takes three detentions for Severus Snape to realize why Harry Potter cleans cauldrons so well—and even more for him to decide what to do about it.

Characters: Harry, Snape

Relationships: Harry & Snape

Warnings: canonical child abuse

Tags: angst, detention, present tense

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Summer of Bonding by MagicaDraconia16

Plot: It was the summer of love . . . er, no, not really. Left waiting for the Dursleys, Harry is found by the last person he'd expect to see.

Characters: Harry, Snape, Dumbledore, Flitwick, Hermione, Ron, Molly, Fred, George, original house-elf characters, original male character, Stan Shunpike, Dobby

Relationships: Harry & Severus

Warnings: canon-typical violence, child abandonment, minor violence

Tags: humor, angst, nightmares of canon-typical violence, spiders, awkwardness, someone else (not Snape or Harry) dies too

My Notes: this one is so sweet and really captures how awkward Harry and Snape are

*complete*

Harry Potter & Everything

Raising Harry Collection by Steerpike13713

Fandoms: Harry Potter, Daredevil, Sherlock, Labyrinth, Batman, Gravity Falls, MCU, Once Upon a Time, Doctor Strange (comics), Buffy, Merlin

Plot: A collection of unrelated fics that have to do with people other than The Dursleys raising Harry Potter

Characters: too many to name, really

Relationships: Matt Murdock/Foggy & Belle/Rumplestiltskin

Warnings: none

Tags: genderqueer Loki, genderqueer Lily Evans, Loki is Lily Evans Potter

My Notes: since the fics are unrelated you can flip flop around the chapters to find the ones you really want to read. I think my favorite ones are the Batman and Daredevil ones :) (also the author wrote a really good Lucifer & Chaos Adventures of Sabrina series)

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#harry potter #fanfiction #fic recs #fanfic recs #supernatural #sherlock #johnlock #hogwarts #the mauraders #wolfstar #drarry #the golden trio #my posts #mcu #marvel #harry james potter #my recs

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fizzyxcustard · 4 years

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Childhood Home (Guy of Gisborne)

Day 6 of Lyn’s Writing Event (re-posted as I accidentally deleted the original, and Lyn kindly allowed me to re-write this)

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Summary: You take an afternoon trip to your old childhood home on the day before your arranged marriage to Sir Guy of Gisborne.

Warnings: Slight sexual references

Comments: I’m going to begin putting my tag list into each piece now. If you would like to be added or removed, please let me know.

You could feel a slight chill on the air and the sun was beginning to set, dipping lower below the trees. Oranges and pinks filled the sky, topped with the odd white, fluffy cloud. A flock of geese flew by, forming a V shape, calling as they went. If only you could have that freedom; to fly, be unchained and go wherever you wished, when you wished. But fate had decided something different for you.

The old childhood home you had once lived in was now derelict, crumbling in on itself. Looking upon it made you feel both happiness and sadness in your heart. The happiness was remembering your father standing on the doorstep, calling you in from a day in the field. The sadness was knowing that you would never see him again. Pneumonia had taken him from you one winter when you were only eleven years of age. That was when your mother had taken you, their only child, to Nottingham, to live off the rest of your days on your father’s inheritance that he had left behind. Only, the money had run out. Your mother had re-married, and your step father had agreed for you to be wed to Sir Guy of Gisborne, Sheriff Vaisey’s lieutenant, also known as The Man in Black. Townspeople hid at the sight of Gisborne, a handsome but deadly serpent of a man.

It was a good and lucky match, your mother had told you over and over. Being married to Gisborne meant that you would never have to worry about finances again. He would be a provider for you and any family that would come along as a result of your consummated marriage. Could you really live a life with a man who interrogated and terrorised the folk of Nottingham daily? Would you ever be able to feel any kind of affection for a man who had killed and tortured at the tax man’s command? If only you father were still here...

As you got up onto your horse and looked back behind you at the collapsing building, you took a large inhale. You knew that your father would always be with you, even if physically gone from this world, and he would supply you with the reservoir of strength you needed. Any children you bore would be of your father’s blood. There would still be good within them. That thought gave you just a tiny shred of hope, which was enough. Even the smallest hint of hope can be enough to drive any person through the hardest of times.

By the time you returned to the outer walls of Nottingham castle, dusk had completely descended upon you. You nodded your head to a guard on the main gate who knew your step father well.

“Evening,” he garbled over a mouthful of apple. The guard allowed you through the gate and you took the road up towards the west entrance of the castle.

Your home was on the corner of its street and the stables only a few yards away. You shut your horse away for the night in its paddock and then disappeared into your home for the night.

You rubbed your hands up your arms, trying to warm yourself with the friction. Then you proceeded to begin lighting a fire.

“And where have you been?” an eerily familiar voice came.

The sudden shock sent you falling backwards and you fell on your backside with a thump. “Guy?” you exclaimed loudly.

Gisborne was sat at your table, his usual smirk plastered on his face. His long legs were outstretched, and his dirty boots were on your table. “It’s a big day for you tomorrow. I had to come and make sure you get a good night’s sleep,” he said.

Gisborne’s words made you look up at the bridal gown hanging from the door which led into your bed chamber area. “If you continue on scaring the life out of me, it won’t be long until you are a widower,” you spat.

As you got up, Gisborne circled you. You looked down, trying not to look at him too much. He fascinated you in a strange way and caused you to inhale sharply. He definitely was a handsome man and could probably pleasure any woman well enough, but could you really see through all that evil which had corrupted him? Was there even any good left within him?

His lips lingered at your ear and you shuddered as he whispered. “Sweet dreams, my bride. Allow yourself to fall asleep to the thought of our marital bed, because tonight you will need all the sleep you can get.”

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karalovesallthegirls · 4 years

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whilst working on sugar baby I found my original notes that I wrote back in 2017 for when it was going to be written from Lena’s perspective and it’s interesting to see the difference between what it started as and what it ended up being and I figured I’d share a tiny bit with y’all if you were interested lmao:

It’s raining when they first meet.

It’s raining, and her assistant just happened to call out for a family emergency the morning of her big presentation to the entire board and said assistant also just happened to “accidentally” delete all of her notes for the speech. Lena bitterly wonders how much they paid her to do that. The board is making it abundantly clear just what they think of their new CEO, and while they can’t force her to resign they can certainly make the job as difficult as possible for her. So they’ve put stumbling block after block every step of the way leading up to this meeting, and now just hours before she must speak she’s having to rewrite her notes on tiny cards so she doesn’t have a full-fledged panic attack in front of the board like she knows they’re all hoping for, and it’s pouring rain outside. Lena hates rain. Lena hates her life.

Her shoes squeak with every step she takes, echoing across the otherwise quiet little pastry shop, and Lena hopes the other people around her won’t notice the tears mixed in with the rain dripping down her face. Lena needs to eat something and this is the closest food place to her office, and while any treat she gets from ‘CatCo Cookies’ will likely give her a stomachache, anything will be good at this point. She’s pretty sure she hasn’t eaten anything substantial since yesterday morning and if she tries to give a presentation on an empty stomach she’ll likely blackout, so cookies it is.

She’s about to have her first real confrontation since moving to National City. She has to present her big, final business proposal before the board of old men who have known her since her braces-and-glasses days, who quietly watched her brother self-destruct and nearly bring all of them down with him. She knows what they think of her. They’ve never tried to hide it, in fact she’s overheard betting pools around the office trying to guess when her own big self-destruction will be. She must present before the men who are actively planning to destroy her, and she must win them over.

These are the moments she misses Lex the most. He’s always been her balance, able to talk her through panics and help her overcome any challenge. Despite everything, a part of Lena still wants to make him proud. He’s never been a perfect brother by any means, but he has always been there for her. That’s more than she can say for anyone else in her entire life.

But Lex isn’t here anymore, nor will he ever be again, so Lena has to pick her own self up this time. She takes a big shuddery breath and approaches the counter, trying to smile but feeling more of a grimace. The woman behind the counter talks to her, greeting her maybe, but her words are lost behind the roaring that’s been building all morning in her ears and she can’t hear anything beyond it. She tries to focus her eyes on the menu but its just blurring and swirling colors and it feels all at once like there’s a weight crushing in on her, a tightening noose wrapped around her rib cage squeezing the air out of her body bit by bit, and Lena does her best to move, her feet stepping even as her eyes seem blinded to the world around her.

She has enough control to stumble towards the back where she thinks she saw a restroom sign before, pushing into the room just as the blackness at the edge of her vision fully creeps in and the panic attack really hits. Her fingers scramble across porcelain as she tries to stabilize herself, but it’s so hard when she can’t breathe and the walls are getting closer and she’s pretty sure she’s dying and she’s looking at herself in the mirror trying to focus on her own eyes when movement behind her draws her attention. There’s a woman in the bathroom now, standing behind her and staring.

Great, nothing beats having a witness to your inevitable breakdown. Lena tries to take another panicked breath as the woman steps closer now but its like her airways are blocked and she can feel the wheeze deep in her chest. The woman places a hand on her shoulder. Her lips are moving but all Lena can hear is the roaring sea surrounding her, and she squeezes her eyes shut to try and make it go away. The hand on her shoulder is squeezing, she realizes, and with a great deal of strength Lena is able to focus on the sensation of that touch. “-with me, okay?” a voice cuts through the noise, and Lena opens her eyes to see the woman taking a slow, deep breath, “and out, two three.” Sweat is dripping down Lena’s face, stinging into her eyes, and she blinks rapidly to try and clear it before refocusing on the woman who is now rubbing her shoulder gently. The roaring is starting to fade and the stream of words filter in.

“I know it feels like it’s gonna kill you, but you’re safe,” she’s saying, “This feeling is gonna pass, okay? Just take a deep breath. Do it with me now, okay?” Tears and snot are mixing in a disgusting pool above her mouth but Lena forces herself to focus on this stranger’s slow guidance. Deep breath, two, three, slow exhale. Again and again she follows and bit by bit she feels the crushing panic around her inch away. Blackness begins to recede, and she can breathe again.

If not for the quick reflexes of the woman Lena would probably have smashed her face against the porcelain, but instead she is caught and carefully cradled as her knees give out and the two women slowly sink to the floor together. Lena doesn’t know how long they stay there like that, with her ear pressed to the chest of a stranger holding her with more comfort than she’d ever felt in her life, the soft beating of her heart slowly overpowering the anxious roar.

Gradually, Lena comes back to herself. She’s sitting on the dirty floor of a public restroom, there’s a puddle of questionable liquid soaking into her pant leg and a stranger is cradling her to her bosom like a child. Lena flinches, hard, and moves to stand, but her legs are weak and she fumbles a bit. “Careful,” the woman says, bracing her with surprisingly strong hands, “Give yourself a second to come back all the way.” Lena white-knuckles the counter and takes a long look at herself, taking in the wild hair and red eyes, the shaky breath and blueish lips, and all she can hear is failure over and over. The woman stands then, stepping in behind her, and smiles. “You know what this calls for?” she says, and Lena feels a desperate urge to get as far away from her as possible. And as if Lena isn’t trying to figure out how to have herself flung into the sun (she is very wealthy; this should be in the realm of possibility for her), the woman continues: “this calls for some ice cream.” And finally, finally Lena seems to find her voice, although its weak and cracked and quiet against the noises of the outside world bleeding in through the bleach-stained walls. “But it’s 7 in the morning,” she says. The woman smiles.

--- The woman has a name tag that says KEIRA (“It’s actually Kara,” she tells her, “my boss has a weird sense of humor.”) and she works the opening shift at CatCo every weekday. “My classes don’t start until noon,” she explains to Lena, who never asked, “so the early morning shifts work perfectly for me.” Lena watches in subdued horror as Kara loads a blender with three scoops of ice cream, some sort of syrup, and an alarming amount of espresso. “It’s my secret specialty,” she says like its a treasure, although Lena’s pretty sure it’s a lethal weapon. Maybe this is some long-con - an assassination attempt of chocolate and sugar.

Still, Kara’s earnest and smiling sweetly at her and despite knowing her for an hour at best Lena can feel the genuine kindness radiating from her.

#I like the final version better because it involves them getting naked together #sugar baby kara au #mine #i just think this is neat lmao

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archonssun · 4 years

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Her Pt 6

FUCK! I forgot to tell you guys that the boys already know about Prompto’s origins in this story, and that Noct knew the reader from high school because she and Prompto used to be best friends at the time. However, Noct didn’t recognize her until later, I just forgot to write that into the story. Whoops...

And, uh, if you haven’t read the other parts, you probably should. They’re not link caused I accidentally deleted the master list. But you can search for them by clicking the spyglass on the page.

Also, this is the last part for this story.

August 16, 2020

WC: 902

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(Y/n) sat huddled in a chair set far away from the campfire, knees to her chest. It had been almost four days since the boys had found out her secret -- the secret she had tried her damnedest to keep hidden. She wasn’t proud of where she had come from; wasn’t proud of what she was. That’s why she had tried to bury it.

Now, everyone knew what she was -- and it was all thanks to the man she loved.

She couldn’t hate Prompto, she could never hate him. He was just doing his best to keep his best friend safe. (Y/n) would have done the same thing had she been in his shoes.

“(Y/n),” Ignis called, and she flinched, curling into herself more. She tried making herself as small as possible, hoping that the man would just leave her be. But he kept approaching her, albeit somewhat slower than before. “(Y/n), you need to eat.”

“Not hungry,” she mumbled, turning away from the man when he tried handing her a plate of food.

“(Y/n)--”

“No, Ignis. I already said I’m not hungry.”

Silence stretched between the two before Ignis sighed, placing the plate next to (Y/n)’s chair anyways. Sending one last look to the woman, Ignis returned to where the others sat at the table. As he approached, Ignis noticed the sad look in Prompto’s eyes as he looked at (Y/n). He no doubt felt guilty for what he had done -- for what he had said -- four days ago.

As he should, Ignis thought, taking his seat next to Gladio and beginning to eat.

***

(Y/n) hadn’t eaten anything for nearly a week, leaving her body weak and sluggish. Many times, the boys had tried to get her to eat something -- anything -- only to fail. And every time she refused, Prompto could feel his heart cracking.

I shouldn’t have been so harsh. I should’ve thought about why she hadn’t told us. Fuck, we’re in the same boat, but I outed her, calling her a spy when I know she’d never do anything to hurt Noct.

Prompto’s eyes never wandered from the woman, but for a different reason than at the beginning of the journey. He watched her to make sure she was okay, to make sure she was still alive. He had caused her so much pain in the time he had known her, and Astrals be damned if she died before he could apologize. Still… he could never find the right moment to approach her, as she had started avoiding him -- just like he had done back in high school after they slept together.

It wasn’t just Prompto, either. She avoided Noct, Iggy, and Gladio, though not as readily as she avoided him. And he couldn’t really blame her, after what he had done.

***

(Y/n) felt weak, weaker than ever before. She could barely move anymore, and she could feel her body beginning to shut itself down from lack of food. Yte she held fast, refusing the food offered to her by the others. She wouldn’t feel right, accepting their kindness after keeping from them the one thing that could cause them harm.

That’s why it was a surprise when she was able to walk one morning. As she sat up, she noticed the others watching her. Their eyes all held something different. From pity to sadness to fear -- hell, even worry was evident in their eyes.

“I’m sorry,” she began. As she was about to continue, a weight wrapping around her made her look up. Noctis had wrapped her in a hug, pulling her close to his chest.

“It’s alright,” he muttered, rubbing her back. Her eyes filled with tears and her hands fisted in the back of the prince’s jacket.

“Thank you, Noctis.”

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She wasn’t supposed to be here! She should’ve been at Hammerhead! So why--

“(Y/n)!” Prompto’s blue hues watched in fear as the girl was slashed at by the creature. Her body was flung into a rock, and the blond found he couldn’t move. C’mon, move! He screamed to himself. Don’t just let her die! Don’t hurt her, not again! He forced his legs to move, one step after the other until he was running to the girl’s side. He slid to a halt, crouching next to her. “(Y/n), c’mon! You’re okay!”

“Are you hurt?” she ground out, pained (e/c) hues meeting watery blue. Prompto was able to shake his head, and (Y/n) gave him a small smile. “That’s good.”

“Hey, keep your eyes on me!” Prompto ordered, his fear dripping into his voice. “Please, just keep your eyes on me!”

“I'm glad I was able to keep you safe,” she whispered. A rattling sounded in her chest, and Prompto lifted her into his lap.

“Why did you? After everything I’ve done to you, why--”

“I love you,” she muttered. Her voice was becoming quieter, and she found it harder to speak as more time passed. “I love you, Prompto. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done, or what you are -- I love you. I couldn’t stand you being hurt. That’s why I did it.”

“Please--” he sobbed, burying his head in her shoulder. “Please, don’t leave. Not like this. I never even--”

“I’ll be watching over you, Quicksilver,” (Y/n) promised, pressing one last kiss to his freckled cheek. “So don’t get any ideas…”

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So, this is the end. After six months, it’s finally finished. I’m sorry if the end seems a little rushed, but I wasn’t completely certain how I should’ve ended it.

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thegloriouscollectorlady · 6 years

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well, post mid season finale, what are your thoughts concerning daryl's arc that you previously laid out? did we hear/see enough to think he is done "going rogue"? his comment to dwight about going to hilltop "all together" possibly signals he has learned his lesson? his holding judith melted me---i would love to be done with rogue daryl :) thoughts on beth's return? did we have to fall even lower to appreciate "hope" when she arrives? do you see carl's death as demise of show as some do? tks! I am very sorry to whoever sent this in for not getting to this ask sooner and also I apologize because I had some technical difficulties with the tagging and accidentally deleted the original ask. Thankfully I still had the text from the ask in my email inbox so I could copy it into this response . I saw it and really wanted to respond but life has been very hectic with work and the holidays coming and there just haven’t been enough hours in the day. But I am hoping to have some free time this weekend to address this and so much more having to do with the MSF because I actually have a lot to say about it.

Okay so for the first part of this what are my thoughts concerning Daryl’s arc? As far as Daryl goes I honestly think it will be very interesting to see where he goes from here. Some positives from the MSF. . . he got his vest back (yay!) , he didn’t kill Dwight on sight when he had just vowed to do so, and he was holding Judith again which to me signaled some very important things about where Daryl’s head is. Remember back to when the group arrived at the ASZ and Daryl was so defeated. He was barely hanging on and he told Deanna that he was going to try to make the ASZ work because of the boy and the baby. They became his reason to persevere after losing Beth. I think that we can assume that Daryl’s love for those children is multifaceted because of course Rick is his brother and he loves them for that reason but Daryl also has a very unique bond with Judith and was well aware as was everyone of Beth’s love for the little girl. So I think we can’t discount that connection and what it means to Daryl so to see him holding Judith again after such a long time of not doing so was very moving. Also the context of the moment is very telling and suggests a lot of things. Then of course Daryl does indeed say that they need to go to the Hilltop “all together” suggesting that he has most likely learned his lesson about going rouge. He’s also probably anticipating that Rick is going to need him and in true brother fashion he is going to be there for him no matter what differences they might have had to this point. The seismic shift that we see happening in the MSF is either going to do one of two things. It’s either going to bring all of TF together like the shift we saw after losing Tye and Beth in Them (5.10) or it’s going to drive an even bigger wedge between members of the group. I think given Gimple’s style that this change will serve to bring the group together for the final parts of the war. I think we will have to wait and see what this means for Daryl’s overall emotional state but I think the last episode or so has drawn Daryl back from the ledge enough that he realizes he can’t just keep acting on his own. We saw his kill them all on sight mentality tempered a bit in his response to Dwight so I think overall we may be headed in a better direction for Daryl.

Now on to the second part of this ask which has to do with the direction the show has taken in the MSF and what that means for the show overall. Do I think that Carl’s death heralds in the end of the show? What does this all mean for Beth? I have lots of thoughts on this and I am hoping to post more on it later today but overall in summation I think that Carl’s fate has had an interesting effect on the audience. I’ve listened to lots and lots of people talk about this and write about this and the overall attitude of most people is that the show is in trouble and this last twist in the narrative is a death knell for the show. The fascinating thing to me is that people don’t seem able to actually verbalize why they feel this way beyond general statements of everything about the show has become about being hopeless and about death and suffering. Now I actually agree with this because thematically this has been a thing for a while on the show. I started to think back over the last few seasons and I realized something. This theme of hopelessness and darkness and loss has been a steady ongoing pervasive part of the show since a specific point in the story and that point can be related directly back to Beth. Season 4 had its low points it did. After all this is an apocalyptic drama but overall the general theme was one of hope and perseverance. There were many tiny moments of triumph most of the characters experience dynamic and rewarding growth. Then we moved to 5A and again there was still hope. Even at Terminus TF was sure they would overcome. It wasn’t until Coda that we began to see this dynamic shift in a marked way. Beth’s death heralded in a whole new theme. Think back to the final scenes of Coda when Daryl is standing in the courtyard of Grady and the camera pans back and opens up (in an eerily similar shot to what we just saw in the final moments of 8.8 but in reverse) leaving Daryl and Beth sort of the focal point at a distance with storm clouds gathering in the background. This is the point where thematically the show shifts to a much darker place. After this point the losses just continue to pile up for TF with one after another and while there are small moments of triumph overall the theme becomes much darker. I think that is what the audience is picking up on and can’t verbalize. That pervasive and suffocating feeling of loss that started with Beth and which has continued. The interesting thing to me is that thematically 8.8 was the darkest episode to date. The lighting was even dark and they chose to do it at night in the absence of light and it is during this time that the characters are dealt their biggest blow in the inevitable loss of Carl. For TF this has to be the darkest moment that they’ve faced in possibly ever and with this writing choice Gimple has brought the audience emotionally to the same place the characters are at. Rick, Michonne, Daryl, C@rol, Maggie this final loss is guaranteed to bring them to their lowest darkest place and because of the writing and the way Gimple and his team set this up they’ve managed to do the same to the audience. They’ve made the audience feel what the characters are feeling. What are most people saying about the show? Most commonly what’s the point, why bother watching if there is no hope, it’s too depressing to keep watching, they have no future now so how can this show even continue, how can the show recover from such a low point. The thing is that the writers have presented a lot of those same questions to the characters with this loss so they’ve managed to elicit in the audience a lot of the same feelings the characters themselves would be feeling. It’s something I find absolutely fascinating and I wonder if they will be able to capitalize on. Done correctly this could be a huge moment for the show. We saw tons and tons of tunnel symbolism around Carl in 8.8 and upon examination Beth and Carl’s stories are too similar for it to be a coincidence. It’s also my personal opinion that this change in the story was something Gimple was planning all along or at least was planning as an option all along. There are hints as far back as S4 that the show might be headed in this direction eventually and there have been subsequent scenes since then that hinted at this outcome. So I don’t believe this was in any way a last minute choice. That’s just my opinion though and I understand that not everyone feels that way. But where do I see the show going from here? Well here’s what I hope to touch on in later posts this weekend to give you an idea of what I am thinking. First of all the tunnel symbolism we’ve seen since S5 with Emily and Chad’s title card was thrown at us hard and heavy in 8.8. I think the thematic darkness we’ve seen since 5.8 with Beth’s death is related to this tunnel and I think that Carl’s death in 8.8 is the completion of this theme and the last we will see of the tunnel symbolism. This is the darkest moment TF has ever faced and after this they will come out of the tunnel into the light. All the deaths and things we’ve seen related to the tunnel symbolism since S5 can be connected through the completion of Carl’s arc in 8.8 and what I expect we might see in 8.9. Gimple is a master story teller when it comes to pulling these story threads together so I think 8.9 might reveal some very interesting things. Given that I believe the tunnel symbolism began in 5.8 with Beth and will end because of what was revealed in 8.8 I think it’s interesting to consider that there are a lot of similarities between Carl’s arc and Beth’s arc. Too many similarities for it to be a coincidence. Then of course there is all the foreshadowing that has been happening since S4 and what exactly does that mean for the future of the show and the passing of the torch? So I think there are still a lot of things to discuss. Overall though I personally am very intrigued to see where the show goes from here. I know there are a lot of people who are no longer enjoying the show or want to watch it. That’s of course their prerogative. I’ve always said that this show is meant to be enjoyed. That all fiction is meant to be enjoyed and that if you’re no longer doing that maybe it’s time to move on. Good fiction and literature is meant to be a respite from real life. It isn’t intended to make your real life more stressful or miserable. Therefore if you’re no longer enjoying something you shouldn’t continue to engage with it. However, I see this change in story as possibly opening up so many doors that haven’t previously been options. Such a radical change in direction will allow Gimple to do things with the television show that could not be done in the comics. Gimple is a very different type of story teller than Kirkman. Not that one is better than the other they are just different and I think this change allows Gimple to pursue the story he wants to tell which I think could be very exciting. I think we’ve seen enough hints for where this might be headed that I want to see what the actual outcome is. Hey maybe we are wrong and it has nothing to do with what we think it does but maybe we are right too and I want to see what actually happens moving forward. After all this is fiction and anything can happen in fiction so I am excited to see what Gimple does with the possibility of anything can happen from this point forward because the roadmap has been set on fire. Everything we the audience thought we knew and assumed had to happen has changed with this pivotal change in story and it’s opened the door to possibilities most people never even considered. One thing I am sure of is that Gimple has a plan for those possibilities. You know what maybe it’s a horrible plan. I concede that’s totally possible but maybe it’s a genius plan too. Gimple is the man who rewrote Andrea’s pointless death and turned it into a meaningful story, Gimple is the man who wrote episodes such as 18 miles Out, Clear, The Grove, “A”, What Happened and What’s Going on, The First Day of the Rest of your Life, and Mercy, Gimple is the man who orchestrated the conclusion of major arcs such as Tye’s, Abe’s, Sasha’s. These are beautiful and intricate stories and while I don’t know this for sure and I am not sure anyone does yet I would bet that Gimple will have a hand in writing 8.9 and the conclusion of this arc as well. I don’t know what Gimple has planned exactly but in my mind his past planning and writing has earned my respect and my trust in where he is going to take this story. But of course as I’ve said these are just my feelings and I respect that everyone has the right to their own and I would never fault them for that. But do I think that Carl’s death is heralding in the end of the show? No I don’t. I think it might actually be creating a future for the show a future most can’t imagine that will reinvigorate the show and bring it back to a place of light and hope. Am I still here for Beth? Yes I very much am still here for Beth. Episode 8.8 thematically had so many links to things related to Beth and those things have piqued my interest in regards to the story. Plus there’s this and it’s what I’ve always said. Daryl’s story was intrinsically and purposefully linked to Beth’s in S4. So until we see a resolution to that through Daryl much as we saw with Sasha and Abe I am here to see where it goes. Because Gimple doesn’t leave loose ends so whatever that conclusion is one way or another it’s coming and until we see it I am sticking it out to see what happens. Plus I genuinely enjoy the show. I enjoy complex characters who are more grey than black and white and I enjoy the moral questions the show examines. I also sort of enjoy the way the writers can bring a character to their knees and make you despise them and then later redeem them in a way that has you rooting for them (cough cough Dwight). You don’t see that much on television anymore and I enjoy the complexities of the human interactions examined in the context of what would happen if the world no longer had any rules or social norms. That’s the crux of dystopian literature and it’s something I’ve always enjoyed examining and I think TWD does it in a more down and dirty way than most people dare to. Because in TWD world are there really any good guys or bad guys or are they all just people trying to survive in whatever way they know how?

#bethyl #beth green is alive #team defiance #Team Delusional #asks

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tevintermagisterium-blog · 7 years

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@angeliamaritudinem

Who is the most affectionate? ....yes. OK I CAN’T REALLY ANSWER THIS QUESTION - They are both lost puppies in need of constant love and attention and can’t really find anything better than one another’s arms. Sometimes Gabe, sometimes Cae. Most times... I’d say Gabe... Sometimes Cae is just too into his work.

Big spoon/Little spoon? Big: Cae Little: Gabe

Most common argument? HMM... I can’t think of one except either drunk misconceptions or... just, with one another before Cae is out of the closet?

Favorite non-sexual activity? CUDDLES FOR DAYSSSS - and playing with one anothers hair BUT CUDDLES

Who is most likely to carry the other? Cae will never deny to carry Gabe when alone or with family

What is their favorite feature of their partner’s? Cae can’t get enough of Gabriel’s smile, just that moment of happiness which leaves the mans face glowing - the way his teeth gleam against his darker skin whilst he laughs... he’s.. beautiful.. For Gabriel, I think his favourite features are any place piercings linger - but especially his nose. Tiny lingering kisses which make it scrunch up, the way he turns his septum piercing out and snorts like a bull when he catches him at work when the children are out to play and they play tag... it’s.. cute.

What’s the first thing that changes when they realize they have feelings for the other? ..... Cae becomes scared, shaking, adrenaline filled, Nervous, broken, denial filled... Happy.. relieved, at peace.. He doesn’t know what to do but he’s... happy.. for the first time in awhile. Like a weight has been lifted! That he can walk with a little less weight on his shoulders!.. he just has to figure out how to admit it. (cue months and months later)

Nicknames? & if so, how did they originate? V:DA - Mi Amor - Antivan.. can’t really explain any other way! V:Modern - Amado.. Often something he heard his parents call one another frequently. He always wanted to be able to call somebody that. V: HP - estrella brillante, or estrella, because werewolf? moon.. stars.. shining star.. yeah nvm V: Destiny - Novio or Lucecita, what I kinda have as a term of endearment for Destiny V: Prison(?) - Ángel guardian.. Because well, Gabe is a guard.. guardian to assure he ISN’T slaughtered and Angel because, well, duh. V:SH - Príncipe Encantador. No reason, but he’s beautiful af and Caecilius sees him as royalty

Who worries the most? hmm... I think Caecilius? merely just because Gabriel is EVERYWHERE and always active whilst he is slightly more tame?

Who remembers what the other one always orders at a restaurant? I guess it would be Gabriel? Because Cae is always the kind of person to just, not pay attention always to those sort of things and prefers to think primarily on Gabe rather than what he consumes - unless it comes to celebrations.. then he’ll pay attention in a way to give him a hint to where he should take him for holidays/birthdays or cook said meal at home.

Who tops? ..... Caecilius - Though thinking of Gabe topping gives me a faint smile, just the worry and skittishness, jokes after/before it has started etc.

Who initiates kisses? I think often it can be a cat and mouse game of Gabriel trying to get high enough and Cae standing on his tiptoes before breaking into laughter/getting tickled until he falls down - but usually, I’d like to think Caecilius?

Who reaches for the other’s hand first? ...yes. I can’t answer that? like... Caecilius when alone/with fam on outings, but Gabriel on other days when in public etc?

Who kisses the hardest? ..... (caeciliusandhecan’tevenapologiseforit.)

Who wakes up first? Caecilius. Teachers have to be up bright and early.. like.. dang

Who wants to stay in bed just a little longer? GABRIEL. CONSTANTLY. EVERY DAY.

Who says I love you first? .... I think, besides what went on.. Caecilius? he just messes up in his panic and claims that he loves him in a fit of laughter.. before instantly denying whatever he just said.

Who leaves little notes in the other’s one lunch? (Bonus: what does it usually say?) Gabriel I think, knowing how easily the taller can get flustered he just leaves notes in fine detail of what they may get up to the following night.

Who tells their family/friends about their relationship first? I guess Gabriel tells his family first, not parents, but siblings! whilst Cae may wait... months and months

What do their family/friends think of their relationship? “.... WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WEREN’T DATING BEFORE?!” “yeah no. we set you up... idiots.”

Who is more likely to start dancing with the other? Caecilius - he just really really likes swing jazz (andbellydancingbutweleavethattoanothertime)

Who cooks more/who is better at cooking? Cae just really likes to cook, but I don’t really know about Gabriel - I think they’d have fun together?

Who comes up with cheesy pick up lines? Gabriel, constantly - he has no boundaries!

Who whispers inappropriate things in the other’s ear during inappropriate times? Gabriel... I feel like he has definitely hung around in parent teacher conferences when there are no parents present at the time and just.. yeah.

Who needs more assurance? Gabriel, I’d guess. But Caecilius can’t leave the house without a kiss

What would be their theme song? Dream a little Dream of me

Who would sing to their child back to sleep? Caecilius - But I like to think Gabriel stands back and watches with the biggest and goofiest smile on his face

What do they do when they’re away from each other? Gabe - doodle, just stupid little comics about the two, sketch out little figured reenacting their moments together Cae - Writes out text messages and never hits send, just deletes them. Strums dream a little dream of me on his guitar or hums it, whatever is convenient.

one headcanon about this OTP that breaks your heart Caecilius can’t bare the thought of coming to terms with his sexuality and what his family my think of him for such - he grew up listening to his family preach about how such is wrong in the name of God/the maker.. So when it strikes him that he loves Gabriel, the man looses his mind and runs away, just, as far away from the other as he possibly can; maybe back home if he can afford it! no explanation why! He tries to find any attraction to women he possibly can to try and prove himself that it isn’t right, that he isn’t gay but.. it goes horrendously and the more he fails at finding such an attraction, the more mad at himself he gets. Finally, he just has to accept it, right?.. right?.... it’s inevitable! He adores his family to pieces but accepting himself means he has no rights into their arms just for the sheer fact.. returning home means death. It means very quick and possible abandonment for their own safety, and Cae can’t fight against that because it’s acceptable, their life is much more.. important.. than his own... There is it, that tendancy kicks of real quick as he sits in his shower, hands tight in his hair as he closes his eyes and tries to think on how to remedy his feelings - but the darkness just brings up those thoughts! Gabriel’s hair which shifts as he laughs, how his hands nervously rubs the back of his neck or shifts through his hair. The way his nose scrunches when he accidentally snorts, teeth peek past his lips as he giggles. The way his muscles tense and tongue sticks out slightly as he concentrates in working on art pieces of people - the way he tunes out everything but his skills or pieces. The way glowing faint wings spread out from his back as he offers guidance - wait.. they weren’t real. The more he closed his eyes, his images get more vivdid and bright and he can’t think and it hurts all over and he can’t breath, he needs to see the man in person... but... he can’t... He abandoned them! what must they think!? what has he done?! text messages fill his phone but he can’t open them and he’s... lost. he’s breached his phobia and Caecilius Avaant is a working corpse by the end of the week.

one headcanon about this OTP that mends it Glancing into his eyes, they sparkle just as equally as the clear orbs do, both reflect such flamboyant feelings yet they can’t roll of the tongue - the club music may be intense, loud, the bass can be felt through their shoes but... it’s mute to them. Until something sounds scratchy. A man, clearly homosexual, they lean up on the bar and boy do their eyes sparkle with intentions to the smaller man. A grin, a smirk which can easily challenge his own (in his mind.) His hair flourishes as their head flicks to the side to show off the perfectly clean shaven face. Their clothes define their yearly wage and their job and they are.... such a grater human being than the taller could ever wish to be. And still, even though not a word of their crushes have been spoken about. He’s jealous. he tries to tune out what they say to one another, their own conversation being played in his head... and it sounds like it would be going well; even if in reality it’s full of denial to the strangers intentions and... Their conversation ends short. Because the stranger finds himself on the floor. Their nose seems bloody and Cae hastily finds himself being forcibly removed - he doesn’t even seem to recall what just happened but!-.... Gabriel is smiling... he stiffles a laugh! he’s... “...perfect...”

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