#anyway here are a few recs

[13eyond13]

love it when a character that's hard to read intuitively for you has like a dedicated fandom interpreter who can just glance at their blank face in a panel and then give you a 3k word essay on their innermost thoughts & desires & fears and neatly tie it back into the themes & whatnot as if it's the most obvious thing in the world

#im talking about griffith btw #guts i feel i get intuitively - maybe because i have some personality traits in common with him #and we get more about his life concretely told to us in canon. so he is a bit easier to pin down as a character and feel attached to for me #but whenever i was reading the manga i just kept wanting more insight about griffith's actions and feelings #like ok yeah its fun to have mysterious antagonists and suspense /tension etc but its also fun to feel like you deeply understand them too #and i felt like that was a bit missing from him for me in canon #so reading about him in analysis and fics is the most fun for me rn #he always felt kinda half unreal to me- which maybe was the point of him - but i wanted a bit more about his childhood or something? #and wished we had more stuff explicitly from his pov in the story to read or explanation about his transformation or wtv #and now he's so much more closed off to me even than he was in the golden age. i keep waiting for him to explain stuff and he does not #ANYWAYS all this rambling to say some people out there are very good at interpreting him and making his like. insecurities #more obvious to me bc i didnt really get that side of him from canon intuitively well #also im really enjoying reading the first few berserk fics ive read #there may not be a ton of them out there but there is def writing talent in the fandom #i'll share some recs once i'm done sifting through most of what's out there to read #also (not to tie everything back to death note but it IS my home fandom after all) #i feel griffith is obvs the more light-like character here and L maybe a bit guts-like? but unlike berserk in death note #light is the one you get to know best and L is the mysterious / unreal one you don't get a lot of concrete insight into #and in the DN fandom I can read the more mysterious character intuitively but had to warm up to the less mysterious one instead #and the mystery of L makes sense to me and doesnt bug me as much due to like - he HAS to hide a lot about himself or else he will die lol #so some similarities there but also some opposite feels as well #berserk spoilers #p

[spidergirl-fibula]

listening to any music lately?

Trans women yelling at me, mainly

#actual answer Femtanyl has been on loop since like august #a lot of Changeline & Issabrokie & Machine Girl too since their stuff is pretty easy to listen to casually and they have. so much. #ive been listening to some of the stuff i see recommended here which has creates a nice variety #i saved some in a playlist including Zand; lustsickpuppy; Goblin Daycare; My Dead Girlfriend; TWINK OBLITERATOR; and Ada Rook #but generally i default to hip-hop or anything loud or both #i finally started listening to MF Doom recently #and ill listen to anything on youtube recommended that looks interesting (usually that means uhh conventionally bad or ugly if ur boring) #oh shit and most recently ive been listening to dungeon synth cause i started a Rune game and wanted music that wasnt just dark souls #i think Poppet was one i found on a rec post here #oh and i recently decided to check the wayback machine for Isserley because i found her music in october and then she mustve wiped out all #of her social media presence in the next few months so anyway im glad i found that again #oh and also Youth The Rich and also Food House and also Newgrounds Death Rugby and also Yameii Online and als #why did i say all that. sorry. uhh yeah i dont really listen to much music #music

[quietwingsinthesky]

unfortunately i unironically enjoy stupid my little pony horror stories why am i like this

#im sorry. i am!!! #cupcakes is ironic enjoyment to be clear cupcakes is. not a good fic lmao. but its like funny gore shock value. #BUT THERES GOOD ONES I SWEAR #GO READ BIBLICAL MONSTERS BY HORSE VOICE #GO READ THE WRITING ON THE WALL. ALSO BY HORSE VOICE. #GO READ LEVIATHAN. AGAIN BY HORSE VOICE IM STARTING TO REALIZE A LOT OF MY MLP FIC RECS ARE HORSE VOICE FICS #GO READ A FLEETING LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS (and its sequels) BY FLASHGEN #the blink series (various authors) is also a personal favorite of mine because i love the teletransportation paradox in horror #uhhh what else. why am i even doing this literally no one following me wants mlp darkfic recs #look i need to say something or ill explode thats how i function #The Visiting Hour…. good fic. Silent Ponyville is closer to cupcakes in terms of quality/vibe i think but its a fandom classic. #Somno Captis. Something Sweet To Bite. Rainbow Factory is good and let no one tell you otherwise. THERE IS NO LUNA!!!!! GOING HOME!!!! #im telling you guys. i promise. they’re good fics. #no one wants this rec list and yet. here it is. #and personal rec but like if you want a really long thing. The Secret Life of Rarity and its sequels. #again. cupcakes vibes in its slasher/gore nature. the first fic in the series drags a little towards the middle with episode recaps #But With Murder This Time. the public life of sweetie belle is great though. and obviously the next few fics in the series are fantastic. #genuine compliments for how it takes the ‘what if pony…. but SERIAL KILLER????’ concept and then has Serious Repercussions that end up #slamming into you like a brick wall and fucking up the entire world of the fic. i should reread that series. #anyway im done now sorry about this #mlp

[the-kipsabian]

#taemin #shinee #(so afraid of tagging this wrong please excuse me im new here lmao) #anyways ive been sitting on this for a few days and seeing that its wednesday... #:) #kpop #night gifs #@ bugs are you proud of me i saw this video aaaaaall by myself (through youtube recs) and made a thing :D

[adharastarlight]

casually seeing that the author of my favourite fic is MY MUTUAL ON HERE!?!?! how long has this been a thing!?!?! i died btw, just kinda squealed into a pillow and had to collect myself (i still havent collected myself)

@thebibutterflyao3 HUH!?! also youre still my sunshine controls a large section of my brain js-

#contemplated for a good few minutes whether tagging was too much of a scary thing #then i told my brain to shut up #anyways #im screaming #fucking screaming #oh oh also yes yes i recommend youre still my sunshine with my entire heart and soul #idk how to tag this #im just busy screaming #so ill leave this here #but anywaysss #fanfic rec #ig? sorta- #its in there somewhere within my screaming

[lostmykeysie]

i need an umbridge/snape enemies to lovers fic RIGHT NOW

#coming out of my hole to post this thought immediately #YOU APPLIED FIRST FOR THE DEFENCE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS POSITION #CORRECT? #yeeeessss #BUT YOU WERE #UNSUCCESSFUL? #obvvvvvviously #give it to me #recs welcome #i’ve had a few glasses of wine #also i’m editing the next TML chapter folks its nearly here #love you #anyway bye again

[non-un-topo]

I am right there with u about the wanting to write dark stuff bestie I feel u

Yeeaahh, like thematically dark and serious fanfiction can be a lot of fun to write and read, if you're into that! I know a lot of people prefer fluff, and that's completely reasonable. There's something cathartic about dark stuff to me. Especially if the canon material is rather dark already, I find it like a sort of refreshing change from a lot of fluff, let's say.

I will always encourage people to write whatever they wish, so long as the dark story in question isn't, y'know, deliberately offensive, exploitative, or racist/phobic in any way. Beta and sensitivity readers also help with catching stuff like this, and therefore are always wonderful to have. I think there are people in every fandom who write dark stuff for the sake of being upsetting or shocking, so to be clear that's not what I mean (nor is it what I think you mean, nonnie) when I say I like to write dark stuff 😅 I just enjoy the violence, fear, grief, anger, etc. It shows up in a lot of my writing and it really helps me get through some stuff.

But yeah, I always say write what you want! Even if only five people read it. (This advice does not apply to me because I have self-esteem issues with my writing lol). I have read some of the most gorgeous fics in the tog fandom that are pretty dark. Not necessarily angsty all the way through, just dealing with serious themes in a way that's very true to canon. This is just me telling a general audience that it's possible to write dark stuff without being offensive and upsetting and exploitative. Give me more canon-typical violence and horror and anger! And of course it's always important to be kind and tag your works correctly!

#i think i'm just going through something lately sdfgfds #anyway thanks for hearing me out nonnie i hope you write! <3 #for clarity here are some of my own fics i would describe as 'dark': axis. perfero. dying of the light. dahlia. #and some wips because my writing seems to be getting more ick as my depression creeps back #......so basically everything i wrote where nicky is the main character huh #i might make a long fic rec post honestly! but be prepared for a lot of angsty stuff and almost no aus 😅 #well there are a few

[enypneon]

for v and so mi ─ @mindsmade

ocean vuong, on earth we're briefly gorgeous / mindless self indulgence, straight to video / franz kafka, the metamorphosis / güneş, kelebek / michael kiwanuka, cold little heart / hye soon kim, autobiography of death / sue zhao, a great and sudden change / agustina bazterrica, tender is the flesh .

#SURPRISE !!! #added your song rec as well ;) thank you for sweetening the last few days with our thread worthy conversations <3 #it's not much but these quotes worsened my brainrot about them 🥹 and i haven't been able to think of much else BECAUSE OF YOU ANYWAY #SO HERE TAKE THIS !!!! >:) #° › SONGBIRD ‹ 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 * bonded paths ╲ VINCE .

[crossthread]

Hot take? Unpopular take?? Imma try to get somewhere with this point but like. I really think reading fanfiction inherently increased my standards for literature.

Cause for a while now I've only solely read fics in the past few years, like probably finished like two published books a year maybe (even though if I count my fic reads I'd easily be in the 100s from word count alone) and like. Recently got into the YA side of booktok, tried reading several of the most popular ones cause i kinda miss published books, and I just. side eye that shit?? Best example is ACOTAR. Read like 4 books in that series. Kinda get why it's popular cause the overall the main plot points (hot romance and kinda Mary sue protag) are good enough to get you into it but like. I genuinely had to force myself to finish it?? I have no idea why this is so popular.

Cause literally when I hold the ACOTAR up to my top 20 fics. Nothing. Not even my top 50 fics. Cause first off the plot is good enough but it's not something I've never seen before either. Same with characters. The writing style?? Straight up nope. Like. Is this really the standards for a good story?? There's so many good authors that write excellent smut and plot and characterization and just FANTASTIC writing style and overall quality of work and just. I don't get it.

I'm assuming this is a me thing, because I tried going through several YA novels and just. The quality of writing reeeally leaves a lot to be desired. The best thing I can come up with for the reason behind me feeling like this about YA is that the last time I was reading insanely, I was a teen, and now I'm in my early 20s so there's a good possibility that the same things don't intrest me anymore. But I keep circling back to the level of writing cause like. Idk. Just. I feel like while the plot and characters for a lot of these novels are good, what falls short is how it's written??? Like wtf.

#someone tell me im not crazy #im aware im not articulating myself very well here #which is cause my brain is fried atm #a lot of YA rn is kinda shit #wtf #i dont get it #i think they are ya #idk whats the difference between YA and normal books tbh #imma try my hand at a few others like assassins apprentice and priory of the orange tree #cause idk for sure but one of my fav wattpad authors recced it and im like #inclined to trust her tastes #but anyway #the point im trying to make is #a lot of the YA thats in the market rn would be absolutely TRAMPLED by a lot of my favorite fics #like is this really the bar rn?? #i like books that are flowy and narrative and soft #best example is #hm #t j klune #wolfsong #i remember having good vibes #and a few of the other books #anyway my point is i kinda hate a lot of the popular authors rn #booktok #books #ya books #fanfiction #ao3 #fics #romance books

[jackforshort]

do YOU have any fic recs? I’m new to this fandom and idk how to find fics

I know it sounds weird but I only read bottom Ro 😭 so if you have any fics where he is a bottom (with anyone, any sight) I’d love that!

why thank you for asking anon yes i do >:D

i also have an obsession with bottom ro so i totally got you. here's a few (all are mature/explicit):

under a spell, you're hypnotized by chipskylark - ambreigns, one of my absolute favorites from one of my besties

more i get through the gears by chipskylark - ambreigns

splash by cookiethewriter - ambreigns, omegaverse

Lace by n/a - ambreigns, roman in lingerie

(Leave Me) Breathless by countmeaway - ambreigns

Don't Overthink Things Baby by jollytimes - roman/seth/dean, bdsm

Mortal Kings Are Ruling Castles by n/a - roman/finn, a little supernatural since it's the balor demon and werewolf!roman

there is also Keep Me In Close Orbit by valmontheights (which i'm currently rereading for the millionth time) and please mind the tags but it's roman/triple h and one of the best bottom ro fics ever

lastly i have to recommend just ambreignstrain altogether. not exclusively bottom roman but i love ALL of their fics so i have to include them <3

#SORRY FOR TAKING SO LONG ON THIS i had to hunt for these bc im terrible at organizing my fav fics (i'm certain that i forgot great ones) #anyways heres just a few :) #jack answers #jack recs #i've read fics of like every roman pairing out there so i was super happy to read you like him w anyone lmao #in general i recommend just finding authors that write ambreigns how you like then reading all of their fics wkefksk #also if you havent read my drewroman fic thats also bottom roman and im writing the sequel rn (:

[youssefguedira]

Neon a question: what genres of music/artists do you think Joe would vibe with?

i think joe is just generally a Music Fan. he has the most eclectic music taste you've ever heard. he'll play classical and edm and hiphop and folk and heavy metal all in a row and give you genre whiplash but enjoy it all equally. in all seriousness tho i think he just loves that music is so accessible now (he wouldn't have been able to listen to this much for so long!! nicky bought him a walkman when they first became a thing and joe carried it with him pretty much everywhere for about a month until it was damaged during a mission). in their safehouses they have various different selections of cds/cassettes/vinyls depending on what kind of player they have. if not joe has a couple ipods dotted around. he just likes music a lot

that being said i think joe likes blends of folk/traditional music or instruments with modern technology + styles especially, because he likes hearing how music grows and develops and how the instruments and styles he's heard for centuries are built on and adapted. (personal favourite examples are release by afro celt sound system which is a neat blend of electronic/celtic/african music and it slaps, literally any mashrou' leila song but especially taxi, shum by go_a and stefania by kalush orchestra. additionally kai tangata by alien weaponry for the maori metal which barely qualifies as an example but its cool and i'm on a roll.) hes also a big queen fan

i cant come up with an actual list because it will be heavily skewed towards me specifically (as a general Music Enjoyer). but yeah joe and music is important to me. i also think he's a big fan of any kind of love songs even the sappiest most terrible one you've heard in your life. he thinks theyre neat

#neon answers #spacegirlsgang #obligatory i know ive had this ask forever oops #anyway. i know i brought up mashrou leila but it was impossible not to i think joe would vibe with it. also i just think they're neat. i #know i'm projecting here but thats ok #joes actual favourite musician is nicky <3 #nicky i think has a slightly more specific music taste. hes very old man about it. also a Vinyl Guy whereas joe doesnt care what media the #music is on as long as he can listen to it #nile very much likes more modern stuff but there are some classical pieces she absolutely loves #andy will listen to anything with a beat. she's not a slow songs kind of person she needs to be able to hear the drums #she's less of a recorded music person but she does love communal playing #booker is similar to nicky in a way. i think he likes 30s/40s/50s stuff generally but does like some modern things. also a Vinyl Guy #anyway. i like music a lot #the aforementioned afro celt sound system song is really interesting musically. theres cool stuff in there #addition: andy tends to prefer the more upbeat stuff you can move to. not as big of a fan of slow songs but she likes a few #anyway if you want Weird Song Recs or recs in a specific language. i have many #/ specific genre. again i have many #neon talks music #i WILL namedrop meteor airlines tho for the contemporary amazigh stuff. it's awesome. think joe would like it #there's not many english songs / artists named but i do think joe would be a hozier or mika enjoyer. again projecting #anyway in short: please always ask me about music i love talking about it

[xenon-demon]

📓: College!AU

OKAY FUCK THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY HARD BECAUSE I HAVE A FEW COLLEGE AUS THAT I LOVE

I’m gonna cheat slightly and rec a series (3 parts, ~12k words total) instead of one fic and say The Spicy Six GC by beetlesandstars & witchjeons!

Look. It’s texting fic which I know is not everyone’s cup of tea, but personally I’m quite fond of them (and also I’m a little bit feral about any fic that’s written in an epistolary-esque format, tbh). This series is SO FUCKING FUNNY and I can visualise these interactions playing out So Clearly. Plus the vibes are just So Correct to my own experiences in uni that I can’t help but love it.

Ask me for a fic rec!

#ask game #steddie #steddie fic recs #steddie college au #also if texting fics are in fact not your cup of tea. I Have More College AU Recs #honestly if I don’t get more asks am for college aus I’ll probably come back here in a few days and rec some more anyway lmao

[8aji]

im a lil embarrassed that most of the posts ive posted (duh) as of late were text posts abt me being sick LMFAO n it feels silly to write this but i think i may log out of this acc for a lil while at least on mobile <3

#not being able to write is making me feel a lil dizzy dizzy #a lil embarrassed a lil 'i do not belong' ya know??? #hm yeah i also need to get off my phone bc i start uni next week and i need to wake up early and im soooo stressed bc of another uni thingy #so...i will be deactivating 😔👊 #im joking im joking #ofc i wont deactivate i think my shrink would kill me if i did anyway /hj #she was the once that convinced me to make the writing blog #but rn the internet doesnt feel good to me and i need to be more present and more real and prioritise other aspects of my life #i wanna be more stable and journal and move my body and read books bc i like the feeling of the paper and and #i had the sweetest ask ever about my book recs and i was also a lil embarrassed to respond bc im not much of a reader but i try TT #anyway !! aside from this mildly incoherent ramble which i loved writing ngl #i havent been writing a lot and i think ive lowkey un-hyperfixated on tr and jjk so the inspo isnt inspoing #and tbh that feels a lil awful to say bc tr has taught me so many things and helped me grow and im so painfully in love with shin but idk #idk what happened i think i just hit a lil bump in the road of life and the stress has me focused more on real life and other things than #my darling beloveds. and im sure itll pass like most things in life i will feel good again #but rn it doesnt. i havent even caught up with the latest ep of tr :') but nonetheless writing is one of my truest loves as well #so i will comeback hopefully with a few stories mapped out including a lil gojo series and all that fun jazz :D #i have shin naoto izana gojo and toji in store !! and tbh im not ready to just leave them all behind #ANYWAY OKAY this' gone for too long LMFAO but thank u if u read till here i think i needed to rant #that means ill probably be less active than im already am but ill be back !! #still i dont think this exactly qualifies as a hiatus so i wont mark it down as such wait is this a semi-hiatus??? lmfao idk but eh 🤷‍♀️ #i love love love love love yall so so so much and forevever and always will #MWAH #<3

[maddiemuu]

hp fan reblogged my art

#maddie meows #why was the only decently cropped version of that family guy meme i could find a transparent png. wtf #anyways... cannot control what other ppl like but i sure can control if they're on my page! with the block button #ironically i started listening to the shrieking shack podcast a few days ago on a rec from someone here lol #the tumblr giveth and the tumblr taketh away #also uh to be clear i don't like... vet strangers who rb from me i think that would be weird #i just like seeing the things i make on other people's blogs. makes me happy. also means i see their bios ':[

[corrose]

I love traveling! :)

*travels

I'm tired! :)

#mytext #to be clear i still love traveling #but maybe not with other people #also I love my bed and pillows too much to be separated from them for too long #but mostly the traveling with company thing. fucking exhausting esp when they dont have the same priorities as you #im a vacation minmaxer i plan every day meticulously #traveling IS a game and there ARE winners and losers #what do you MEAN you dont know where you want to eat yet. here's like 3 choices. (silence in the group chat) #on the day of : the wait is 2 hours and we dont have reservations. WHAT DID YOU FUCKING EXPECT!!!!! #got to the point where i was wishing i could ditch them to complete my own itinerary 🙃 #pissing me off wasting time and gas and mileage by driving places and having them be all oh. 😔 because of the wait times #its july 4th weekend what the fuck did yall expect. why didnt any of you look at my itinerary. why didnt you respond to my recs. fuck u #anyways. still got to do a few of the things -I- wanted to do but it sure would have been faster and cheaper if I'd gone by myself #oh that reminds me. revokes access to the itinerary doc. since no one fucking looked at it anyways

[saxifactumterritum]

Friday recs!

It's second friday! IDK what you named the days of the week, here we call it second friday. Here we go, hold onto your socks times are wild.

TV show: [i just typed all this out and then tumblr ate it]. The Confessions of Frannie Langton, you can watch it in the UK on ITVX, click here. An adaptation of the book (same title) by Sara Collins (click here to find on The Storygraph), it's a four episode miniseries about Frannie Langton, her trial and as per the title, her confession. People said it's a love story, which I guess it is. The relationships between the characters are compelling, the cruelty is all mixed up with, maybe love isn't correct but something.

Book: Not really a book, but I was down a rabbit hole and came across The Sins of the Cities of the Plains, which is gay erotica from 1881. I haven't actually read it all, it's pretty much lots and lots of sex. It is super interesting to read the later parts about Sodomy and Tribadism, I know a bit about these definitions from other research but I like reading about the definitions in this sort of text, where it's written about sex. Most of my contemporary sources when I was researching this were sensational, medical, tracts against the acts, or court documents. Anyway, you can read it on Wikisource.

Please note, it is explicit, not safe for work, about sex, men have lots and lots (and lots and lots) of sex. Now you know, you can click here.

Radio: I've been listening to Jeeves and Wooster radio plays with Michael Hordern (Jeeves) and Richard Briers (Bertie Wooster). I like Mr Hordern being Jeeves very much, he's very funny, and I really like the interplay between their Jeeves and Wooster.

Fanfic: whose history, waiting by dotsayers, click here. It's, uh, Hot Fuzz, Rivers of London, and The Ritual, I don't know all these, I read a Hot Fuzz fanfic once, I have no idea how I ended up there but it was super cool! It is third in a series, I didn't read the others. It's a great vibe, mundanity and Sublime, a creeping edge of horror. Lovely!

Music: I been listening to Fire in the Wild album by Wild on Bandcamp recurrently (click here), super dreamy and nice.

That's it! Second Friday! have a good weekend!

If anyone has recs, I'd like to hear, tell me about cool things. Especially this week if anyone has recs for queer kids books for gifting. Not like, Tango Makes Three, just take it as read I know the basics and so do the small people in my life.

#I'm good at days! #friday recs #I like kids books about queer families don't get me wrong. I'm not a parent though and I'm never going to be #I want my kids to read about those things but also I want them to read about being the weirdo #they're all tiny little wierdos i love them so much. anyway. or like #there's a book somewhere about a kid off with her grandpa in a old van and it was one he had spent a life with his love/husband/partner in #I liked that! #I've got a few about monstrosity and some nice one where people are just people including queer #just idk even. #also I am 100% here for the illustrations so if I don't like the pictures I'm noping away