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[coversbymeta]

Fan Cover for “Old Dogs”, by @esamastation​

In honor of The Last of Us TV show , I reread Esama’s FANTASTIC slowburn fic “Old Dogs”. Did you want Joel to find (romantic) love? Did you want Part 2 to not happen? Do you like dogs?

Alternatively, if you’re coming from Assassin’s Creed: Doesn’t Desmond deserve a hot, morally-grey DILF to love in the apocalypse?

Art generated by Midjourney AI, font is Headliner No. 45 by KC Fonts, all the rest of the editing done by me in GIMP.

#the last of us #tlou #joel miller #joel #assassin's creed #desmond miles #desmond #joel miller x desmond miles #esama #fancovers #fanart of fanfiction #gimp #fanart #mycovers #who is the best boy? #ezio

[nonsequitur22]

Fanfic Authors to reread

Here's a list of my favorite fanfic authors that write such masterpieces I'm left in awe. I have reread many, many of their stories because the writing is so good.

Astolat - I've read all of her Witcher and Transformer works at least seven times each, lol. The Game of Thrones stories are mind-bogglingly creative, and the Harry Potter works are the best I've ever read in the entire fandom ever. I love how quickly each story progresses and how immersive each world is, and I find that her stories are the ones my mind most often turns to and thinks about while I'm daydreaming.

spqr - phenomenal, breathtaking, single-chapter oneshots that slice into a fandom with such precision that you don't even have to know what the fandom is but you'll love it and feel like you've been a part of it for years. Masterful, exquisite, heartfelt stories that are like a solid jab to the solar plexus when you step into them.

betts - oh my gosh does this author know how messy emotions and relationships and life can be. She flays apart characters, sees what makes them who they are--all the flaws, mistakes, grief, bad parts of them--and shows exactly what it means to be human. I've never felt seen like this before. betts has a gift and each story is an absolute treasure.

glimmerglanger - this makes me want to cry. I've bookmarked every single one of their stories. Read many of them over and over and over. Screamed in elation when a new update came through. but - they're gone. Nuked. Obliterated. My heart goes to the author. This is a reminder to treat these writers better, to not nag or insult or complain about the writing they do for free. I sobbed when I found out their entire archive had been deleted. Those stories were breathtaking. Staggeringly creative. All Codywan fics set in such masterful worlds: the Mermaid AU, Magic AU, Yellowstone, Baseball, Time Travel, Captured by Vader and tortured, heck, even the Animal Crossing crack!fic was a blast to read. The rarepairs were so much fun, Just Right with Obi-Wan/Alpha 17 was a personal favorite. I hope glimmerglanger is doing ok and knows that they have so much support from dedicated fans.

objectlesson - alright this is my guilty pleasure. Here's who to go to if you want interesting, hot, probably out of your comfort zone but gosh darnit if it doesn't awaken something in you, smut. Never thought I'd read Doc/Lightning McQueen fanfic but here we are. This author knows exactly what's she's doing and I'm all for it.

goldcranes - Masterclass of intense focus on little details. On exactly which lens setting you use to set the scene, what to focus on, how to best portray what's happening to wrench on your reader's heartstrings and make them feel. Phenomenal writing.

esama - my first fandom crush :). Whispers in Corners is my #1 favorite fanfic of all time. She's who I turned to when I first started reading fanfic a decade ago and I still lovingly go back and read what I consider her greatest hits.

#fanfic recs #ao3 fanfic #read on ao3 #favorite stories #astolat #spqr #betts #glimmerglanger #objectlesson #goldcranes #esama #nonsequitur writes

[wangxianficrecs]

Follower Recs

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I'd like to rec this story! It's a great post-fleeing-with-the-wen into the burial mounds au, featuring yilingwei sect, politics, inventor wwx, adorable baby a-yuan, badass Jiang yanli, intriguing jgy characterization, and awesome wen ocs! Also! Rogue cultivator mianmian, pining pre-relationship wangxian, and implied wq/jc

Grave dirt

by esama

T, 92k, Wangxian

Summary: By his second night in the Yiling Burial Mounds with the Wen Remnants, Wei Wuxian knows he has to do something drastic to make sure the people he's responsible for now not only survive, but thrive. And since people already condemn the Yiling Patriarch for starting his own sect, well. It might be the way to go.

@esamastation

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(Please REBLOG as a signal boost for this hard-working author if you like – or think others might like – this story.)

#Wangxian Fic Recs #follower recs #mdzs #the untamed #follower rec #MDZS #Mo Dao Zu Shi #The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation #Wangxian #The Untamed #Chenqingling #CQL #Chenqing Ling #Grave dirt #Esama #Teen #long fic > 50k

[rokkafrost]

Designs of Shen Yuan thrown into the Abyss after transmigrating. Based on esama's descriptions from their work "Into the Abyss". Shen Yuan is forced to survive in the Abyss and makes different armour from monsters living there. Masks protect from poison in the air. 

#svsss #esama #shen yuan #scum villian self saving system

[watcher0033]

Seriously only esama can make me greatly invested in a fic in a fandom I know nothing about at the drop of the hat haha

#fanfiction #fanfic #ao3 #esama

[elegant-fan-twirl]

"Metagaming" sequel "Character Optimisation" has started, let's fucking gooooooo

#the fic that defined my existence while the first part was posting #master of dual cultivation #esama #svsss #fanfiction

[fanfictionforest]

Best Laid Plans

esama

Summary:

What he hated most about his perfect plan going wrong, is how much his nemesis enjoyed being brought along for the ride.

Loved this. A short, humorous, one shot involving Voldemort and Harry Potter taking on time travel. They’re still enemies but its hilarious.

#harry potter #Best laid plans #esama #time travel #humor #fanfic #fanfiction #fanfic recommendation #forest's recommendations

[quotablefanfiction]

“You’re still cheating, all of you.” Obito harrumphed. “And who’s the Sage of Six Paths, again, brat?” “You got no room to talk you Rinnegan using bastard.”

Naruto and Obito debate the fairness of different ninja abilities (chp. 1)

Visionary by esama (AO3) Naruto – Explicit – Uzumaki Naruto/Hatake Kakashi/Uchiha Obito, Uzumaki Naruto/Hatake Kakashi/Uchiha Obito/Orochimaru #Alternate Universe #Time Travel #Body Horror #Body Modification #Accidents #Crack #Over Powered Character #Out of Character #Sexual Content #Teacher-Student Relationship #Self-Esteem Issues #Body Image #Incomplete

A last desperate measure, last foolish hope, last chance. Of course it went wrong.

(It’s your usual time travel fic and then it just isn’t.)

#fanfiction #quote #Naruto #Uzumaki Naruto #Uchiha Obito #Visionary #esama #Incomplete

[run-until-you-walk]

#fic rec #lightbearer esama #obiwan kenobi #anakin skywalker #obiwan turns to the dark side after TPM #redoing old art

[teecupangel]

Have you seen much of Stargate SG-1? Cause Desmond needs an actual good dad other than his ancestors and I think Jack would be a good one for both of them. Especially if it wasn't too long after his son's death.

Maybe a way this would happen would be that Minerva feels bad about either him dying or just being 1 upped by Juno and gets SGC's attention somehow to avoid the flare another way

Stargate SG-1 is one of my most favorite scifi series (and I have a soft spot for the original Stargate movie)!

Okay, so for this one, we need to setup the timeline first.

As far as we know, the Stargate movie is still the canon prequel of Stargate SG-1 (even though a running gag is Kurt!Jack only has one ‘l’ and might have been a different dude) which means that Jack lost his son and became part of the ‘first’ Stargate project around 1996.

At that point, Desmond would be 8 years old.

So, for this to work, we’ll tweak the AC timeline a bit and we’ll use Minerva to set it up. Minerva realized in 2012 that Desmond, as he is right now, would not let the world burn so she uses what time she has left to change the calculations. For this one, let’s assume all Isus is either a Goa'uld or Tok’ra but the distinction between the two started after the Solar Flare on Earth when many of them left Earth to escape the Solar Flare. This is also how humans started to be ‘dispersed’ in many corners of the galaxy.

With that brief explanation out of the way, Juno’s imprisonment would actually be her actual parasitical body being confined in the Grand Temple, connected to the POE network (and the Grey) and reviving her means Juno using Desmond as her host.

Back to Minerva’s plan, she realized that for Desmond to fully understand why it’s better for him if he let the world burn, he must understand the true threat of her species so she pushed forward a new calculation where an 8 year old Desmond sneaked out of the Farm by hitching a ride with one of the Assassins on his way for a ‘milk run’.

He just meant to look around for a bit then sneak back into the pickup but he got distracted by all the strange things he had never before seen. He bumps into Jack who had just returned from the Stargate mission and is trying to take a break and Jack notices the many bruises such a small boy has.

At this point, Desmond knows that he can’t say anything about the Assassins and Templars but he’d already started to think that it’s all bullshit. Still, he keeps his mouth shut because he’s scared that his dad would punish him.

That only raises more alarm for Jack and it doesn’t help that Desmond is around Charlie’s age. So he takes the kid to the police station because that’s the right thing to do (in his eyes) but he keeps checking up on him, even after Desmond gets placed into child services’ custody.

By that point, the Assassins know Desmond is missing and they find him but their ‘rescue attempt’ is thwarted because Jack was there for the first time. This would be the part where Jack and Desmond had started to form some kind of bond and Desmond has slipped quite a bit that Jack believes he’s from a secretive cult that might be training child soldiers for nefarious reasons (also, being called an Assassin Brotherhood? Always suspicious).

At the end, Jack adopts Desmond because of their bond and Desmond starts living with him. Because the Assassins haven’t given up on Desmond though, this meant Jack needed to keep a close eye on him. That’s when Stargate Command gave him an offer he couldn’t exactly refuse. In exchange of him leading the flagship team, Desmond could stay in the most secure military base in America while Jack is offworld.

Unorganized Notes:

So, in this scenario, Desmond would grow up more like Wes from Star Trek (but not as annoying).

Desmond would also grow up having Carter and Daniel as his aunt/uncle and the research team would be more or less his teachers (although it's more of a self study thing). He’d have an interest in anything he doesn’t know because of how the Farm lacked such diversity of information.

He would also serve as some kind of son surrogate for Teal'c who teaches him their way and fighting style. Desmond enjoys it because Teal'c is a kinder teacher than William Miles.

His favorite time will always be fishing with his dad though.

Let’s be honest, Jack got swindled considering how many times Stargate Command got attacked/infiltrated/had a bad day but, at that point, Jack trusts Hammond to protect his son when he’s not there. Also, the Assassins can’t get to Stargate Command which is a plus.

To be fair, the Brotherhood stopped around 2000 because that’s when Cross killed the mentor so the Great Purge was in full swing (at the same time, Stargate Command is busy with the whole ‘Russians have their own Stargate’ thing).

The Isu DNA is more or less related to the Ancient DNA in some form or another. Desmond also has an easy time understanding off-world tech (of Goa'uld origin or inspired by Goa'uld tech) but everyone just assumes it’s because he likes to listen to Carter and Daniel.

Would Desmond still get kidnapped by Abstergo at this one? Probably, considering, 2012 is around the time of SGU which meant Jack is out of the Stargate Command (sorta? Kinda?) and Desmond would be old enough that Jack would let him take his own path. Maybe he’s in the military, maybe he’s part of Stargate Command. Either way, Abstergo would have a harder but not impossible time to take him.

You know what would be funny? If Minerva’s end game had always been for Desmond to be offworld by the time the Solar Flare hits Earth. I mean, it’s highly possible that Stargate Command would find out about the Solar Flare earlier (especially if maybe a friendly like the Asgard told them about it) but a sad ending would be that Minerva’s end game was for Desmond to never learn about the Grand Temple. Maybe even make sure he can’t get back to Earth in time by ensuring the calculations would push him to be part of the Icarus Project and becomes one of the highest-ranking officer stranded in Destiny (also, since he has Ancient DNA, this means SGU’s people would have an easier time in Destiny… sorta)

#minerva screws up the calculations to save desmond #desmond o'niell #i would have liked him to be in atlantis instead #but timeline wise #it would be hard #since he’d be a bit too young for the atlantis expedition #sgu’s destiny though is fair game #if you want more stargate x desmond miles content #esama has a fic set in sg1 and sga #so check those out if you’d like #no desmond o'niell though #assassin's creed #desmond miles #ask and answer #teecup writes/has a plot #fic idea: assassin's creed #fic idea: stargate #fic idea: crossover #jack o'neill #stargate

[tiralja]

So guess who finally listened to Desmonds audio logs from asscreed 4 and cried their eyes out?

#it me!!!! #gdi it's desmond loving hours again #time to re-read esama #listen to asscreed ost #and probably play the games again #assassins creed #assassins creed 4 #desmond miles #Youtube

[rokkafrost]

Designs of Shen Yuan inspired by esama’s “Into the Abyss”, where he was forced to survive in the Abyss after transmigrating.

Bronze Scorpion Porcupine version of armour. I liked how Shen Yuan might have looked with mask covering half of the face so did this variant too.

#svsss #esama #shen yuan #scum villian self saving system #svsss au

[funderberkersims]

the lesbian energy is strong with this one

#sims 2 #ts2 gameplay #sims 2 gameplay #mine #undonia #although i post a lot of builts on here #my favorite part of the sims 2 is actually gameplay #so i came back to undonia a little bit #the lolita cutie is Magenta Mekonen #and the other is Fauna Esama #they are babies from the 6th generation of this hood!

[blankerthought]

i love reading fic from outsider's pov. this one has these disciples gossiping that maybe their masters had an ~encoumter~ in the caves... meanwhile that scene has one of them try to kill the other in literally blind rage to which the other guy responds to by kneeling him in the dick. and then he gives him a healing salve and leaves. 10/10 incredible.

#lo's stuff #yes this is about metagaming by esama top tier fic #svsss #that was supposed to say encounter but it's funner like that actually

[a-little-buggy]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that my middle-school neurodivergent urge to read entire books in one sitting IS actually alive and well still. It's just morphed into binge-reading 100k+ word fanfics in a day 😬

#fanfic #adhd #It was Gift of Living Well by esama on ao3 if you're wondering

[foxgloveinspace]

I feel like I wasn’t online a whole lot today, sorry y’all, I was reading a really long fic and got so sucked in I don’t even know where the day went haha.

#very much so #was good tho!! love when i find a good long fic #haven’t had one in a while and now I’ve been reading a back log of esama fics I’ve been meaning to get around to so it’s been GREAT.