#that one fic that broke the fandom

[tinapaipai]

#tbh when i was making this there was one thing that was constantly on my mind #that one fic that broke the fandom #the fic that where you rewatch donnie's gifts it isn't the same as ot was before #hnghhh #rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #save rottmnt #save rise of the tmnt #leonardo rottmnt #donatello rottmnt #disaster twins #pai art

[artsyunderstudy]

“Red fibers surge forward, up and out, alive and mine, two dimensions driving into three.   ‘There you are,’ Baz says. Here I am.”

Past One O'clock by @amywaterwings

Carry on Countdown | Day Twelve: Wings

This year I decided I wanted to honor the incredibly talented fic writers of this fandom, so I chose one fic per prompt to do an illustration for. I didn’t double up on authors so that I could do this for as many people as possible. I realized while planning this that there are way too many fics and authors that I love, and even after having picked 30 of what I consider some of my very favorites, I could have easily kept going. Please check the fics out if you haven’t, they all come highly recommended.

#snowbaz #simon snow #baz pitch #snowbaz fanart #carry on countdown #COC 2023 #carry on trilogy #simon snow series #simon snow trilogy #artsyart #co/ws/awtwb #carry on #wayward son #any way the wind blows #rainbow rowell #this fic broke me and put me back together again #its beautiful and achingly sad #but also hopeful and healing #amy is masterful #also this was one of the first fics i read in the fandom so its got an extra special place in my heart

[gunstellations]

theyre looking at pictures of sumo

scene from:

#hankcon #inspired from an amazing fic #the gap in between #by molias on ao3 #i dont even often read aus but i randomly opened this and its gotten a hold of me by the fucking nutsack #its just a doodle but man!!! i have feelings abt them #i had an insane hyperfixation on dbh when it first released and its back in full force this week for some reason #ive been playing the game and reading non stop #read another fic that i really wanted to draw for but it broke me so fucking bad i cant even think abt it #if youve been in the fandom its probably familiar to you. the fucking. approximate distance one #anyway. heres hankcon for anyone still enjoying it in this year #if the author of the fic ever happens to find this #know that your fic is making me go insane. i havent even finished reading it yet so ive yet to drop a comment but god DAMN. #dbh #detroit become human #my art

[gottagobackintime]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Ted Lasso (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Trent Crimm/Ted Lasso Characters: Trent Crimm, Ted Lasso, Trent Crimm's Daughter, Coach Beard (Ted Lasso), Roy Kent, Rebecca Welton, Keeley Jones, Trent Crimm's Ex-Wife, Colin Hughes, Leslie Higgins Additional Tags: Not Actually Unrequited Love, Bisexual Ted Lasso, Getting Together, Friends to Lovers, some biphobia, some homophobia, canon compliant up until the end of season 3 episode 2, canon events from season 3 will show up but with some changes Summary:

It started with a walk. No actually, that's not entirely true, it started way before that. But Ted and Trent walking together is what sets them on the path they never thought they'd walk. Or in other words, Trent is in love with Ted but Ted couldn't possibly feel the same way about him. Ted has no idea that he's in love with Trent, YET.

#tedependent #ted/trent #ted lasso #nicole made this #I can't believe I'm actually doing this #I'm a little nervous actually #the last time I tried to write a multichapter fic was for the house fandom when I was like 14/15 #and the comments on the made me abandon it because it broke my little teenage heart to see those negative comments #BUT I'm turning 31 this year so it's time #and I've been pleasantly surprised by the amount of kudos I've gotten on my first tedependent fic #so I really wanted to share this one with you

[findafight]

Totally with you on a) the defintion of shipping and b) that it would not be narratively satisfying to have the show go in the Will and Mike get together direction, for all the reasons you listed.

The dialogue around it also makes it nearly impossible to find meta or even just discussions around Mike that don't centre the possibility of a romantic relations with Will and it's so frustrating. I love that little guy and I just want to talk about how much he loves his friends!

But then the first thing I created for this fandom was a byler breakup fic so... I'm probably not in the majority.

Anyway keep on trucking and I LOVE Robin and Steve's Epic Platonic Soulmate Mixtape <3

Ah thank you! Yeah. The series is grounded in the friendship the party has. That's the first thing we learn about them. It feels insulting to both the characters and anyone who likes the non romantic aspects of relationships when people insinuate that Will couldn't have a happy ending without dating Mike. (Mike doesn't owe Will a romantic relationship. Will doesn't owe Mike one!! It also feels insulting that people say there's going to be a time skip and I guess Will is still pining for him? Let him let go at that point Sheesh.).

The basis of any romantic relationship, especially in canon, between Will and Mike (or any party members) is a deep and strong friendship. Acting like those aren't as important is so rude to people and mischaracterizes them. Mike Wheeler loves his friends so much he would jump off a cliff for any of them. He would deny their death with the barest shred of illogical proof even when presented with a body. He would try to contact a girl for almost a year to see if she was still alive. He holds his friend's hand when it seems he's fading away, insists on going into danger to help with a distraction, and apologizes better to a friend than his girlfriend. He's a moody, angsty teenager, going through a lot of emotions and confusion, and can be an asshole even to his friends, but my god what are you doing if you deny Mike's platonic relationships mean everything to him.

It's also disregarding Will's relationships too! Like. El is his sister now!! You cannot separate that. Would Will want to date Mike even? Loving and wanting to date are different. Dating a sister's ex? Legit so many arguments are just saying El doesn't love Mike, and I guess implying she wouldn't give a shit if Mike stsrted dating a friend that became a brother who is also the only one as deeply connected to the Upside Down as her. It gives me the vibes of people like...taking away the agency El has in her own feelings and saying she loves Mike.

Maybe he just wants to be able to honest about his feelings. Get them off his chest. Keep his friendship with Mike but have everything out in the open, and they can work through that together. Strengthen their friendship and maybe be open to potentially dating in the future (there is an apocalypse on!) while also strengthening their friendship with El. So many people just. Ignore her and her feelings in all this, as though both Will and Mike have not showed they valued her feelings greatly. Why would that not factor in at all? Why would Will put his sister into that position? Would it not be awkward for Mike too?

That's why it wouldnt be satisfactorily executed in S5. The characters and the audience need time to process any breakup between El and Mike. Let them cool off and us register it. Another anon said if they were going blr canon route they should have ended mlvn in S4, and I agree. It needs Breathing room. Not just them breaking up and a two year time skip where we're told time has passed but for us it feels like nothing, so the impact isn't the same and it doesn't have the same satisfaction of knowing they've worked it out but just being told about it. If that makes sense?

Plus the series has struggled with ending romo relationships, and the only one starting that wasn't awkward or weird (Both Nancy and Jon AND Joyce and Hop have Murray be the catalyst which annoying and kinda lazy, not to mention the cheating) was Lucas and Max. That doesn't paint a picture of confidence in me. Sometimes a ship going canon is not actually good. Sometimes in fandom you are actually thankful a ship that honestly should have been canon by the end, or at least post-series didn't, because whatever the show runners would have done with it would have probably ruined whatever dynamic that made them compelling in the first place. it may feel like a betrayal or rip off at first, and would likely continue to, but with time comes a feeling of oh. Maybe it's better this way... Would come.

So yes. Seeing how people reacted to me simply saying that, by the end of the series, I don't think it could satisfyingly become canon, while prioritizing their relationships with each other, Not a lot of nuance is allowed, it seems. Though I'm sure many shippers are cool and chill, it's really just a few people who are loud about it that try to inhibit discussion or meta, it's a damn shame that the only discussion allowed to those shippers is when or how it will be canon. Where's the fun in that? Everyone can interact with fandom differently, and it's a shame some folks want to dictate how others do so.

#findaanswers #pennyplainknits #shipping #fandom wank #maybe ill finally finish part 2 of the one-sided blr fic. #also im so glad you like RaSEPSM! my baby...i havent abandoned it im just trying to finish school and want to do it justice haha #also ill take a look at your fic if i can find it! i love a nuanced breakup fic tbh #lets see if only putting character tags will let me be able to sort on my blog but not show up in other tags #tbh its kind of like some of my issues with rnce? like would will want to date the boy who broke his sisters heart and maybe break it again #fandom prioritizing romo ships is nothing new tho #stranger things #stranger things meta #mike wheeler #will byers #blr

[ollypopwrites]

Just some thoughts

#as someone who had a ~’popular’~ fic in a fandom #(and I say that with A LOT OF SARCASM it was loved and I loved y’all who loved it but I just mean one that like broke 1000 notes) #there’s a lot of freedom in not having ANY one waiting on me to post a chapter to this bg3 fic #like I LOVE it and I love writing it #and I don’t give a damn if no one reads it #I’m gonna share it anyway #it’s liberating #cuz I worried a lot about what people would think of each chapter before #and felt so guilty in between updates #and that’s no one’s fault! #I’m just noticing things. #Olly talks

[pwurrz]

what?? no. no he doesn’t. he knew from the outset that childe was going to be sent to liyue harbour and stir up chaos. in fact that’s exactly what zhongli wanted him to do. why tf would zhongli feel betrayed?? while childe did technically use zhongli for information on rex lapis, he was only doing what was required of him by the tsarista for the mission of retrieving rex lapis’ gnosis.

zhongli was the one who lied about his identity and strung childe along only to use him as a pawn in his retirement plan. childe didn’t make friends with zhongli to eventually betray him because he had no idea that zhongli was rex lapis. but it could be argued from childe’s perspective that zhongli befriended him for the purpose of using him. in fact, that could actually just be what happened, because zhongli did want to make sure that childe was out of the loop and there was no better way to do that other than making sure of that himself.

anyway that’s why i think childe was completely justified in how he reacted and that his reaction does not make him a hypocrite. it’s clear that childe expected betrayal from signora and therefore doesn’t care that much, but he did genuinely think he was on good terms with zhongli and did not expect to be used the way he was. that’s why he’s so angry and that’s why he specifically asks zhongli why he’s not saying anything after making a fool out of him (paraphrasing).

and i don’t think zhongli is a jerk or an asshole from an objective standpoint. i don’t think he meant to hurt childe at all. and i completely understand why he did what he did. trust me i am a big advocate for zhongli retiring and taking care of himself. it’s completely possible that zhongli didn’t think of the effect his actions would have on others. which is unfortunate yeah but it doesn’t make zhongli a bad guy.

tldr the zhongchili breakup was just a big misunderstanding on both sides and the actions of both sides are justified. zhongli was justified in using childe to stir up chaos in liyue (because he didn’t have a choice, childe was assigned to the mission) and childe was justified in using zhongli to get information (because again, he didn’t have a choice. it was for the mission). because of that initial misunderstanding, childe might feel like his friendship with zhongli was just a lie, which would suck because zhongli is like his only friend, but if they talked to each other it would become clear that zhongli never harboured any ill intentions towards childe and didn’t intend to hurt him and i think they’d be fine.

#anyways when i play this quest again on the ps5 i’ll come back to this post #but overall i think i’m right #and i think the fandom’s portrayal of zhongli as an asshole who broke childe’s heart #isn’t an unfair assessment for the specific reason of these fics being written from childe’s perspective #yeah childe probably did feel like zhongli was an asshole who used him!! #and that’s justified tbh!! #no one actually thinks zhongli is actually a bad person or anything tho #at least i hope not #idek if this is coherent i’m basically just rambling for 4 paragraphs #genshin impact #zhongli ♡ #childe ♡ #zhongchi #tartali

[mdemn]

ok i have a question in the tags for anyone interested in it,,

#i think i’m going to open writing commissions because i am actually v broke and struggling a little #it would be for any fic poems web weaves and donations of course #i can write so many things and for any fandom prob #prices would range from 2-30 USD. $2 for a poem/donation & $30 for 3-4k words #obviously there’s prices in between there too 😭 #what are everyone’s thoughts and opinions #if you don’t want me to write anything but want my kofi link then i can provide that too #but i rlly want to provide services in exchange so no one is just giving me money #anyway pls share your thoughts #i have never done commissions before but i am a little desperate:’) #pls weigh in! #post: personal

[ennas-aesthetic]

Hymn LXXXV, rated T, ~900 words

Tags: Major Character Death; The Sandman Comics Spoilers; Canon-Compliant; Dream being a Father; Dream and Baby Orpheus; Flashbacks; Character Study; Musings and Recollections; Orpheus attends The Wake

Summary:

Sometimes he cannot discern if what he remembers are memories or dreams.

The dock still stands. A ship is coming. Orpheus remembers.

Orpheus dreams.

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Once, when Orpheus was a child, he had clung to his father’s chiton, afraid of the swaying and the rocking. Afraid that the current of nightmares would take him, upend the dock, pull him deep into its depths. In response, his father knelt down, brushed the hair away from his eyes.

“Don’t be afraid,” he had said, and his voice was soft, quiet as a lullaby – a million dreamers’ murmurs, wishing him good night, good night. It was the same voice that had put him right to sleep when he had been a babe. (Later, the great poets would claim that the Thracian Bard sang as beautifully as his mother, principal goddess of the arts. And he did. He did. But they had never heard his father sing.) “I am here.”

Read On AO3

#the sandman #netflix sandman #dream of the endless #the sandman fanfic #sandman fic #morpheus #lord morpheus #orpheus #the sandman fandom #*slaps roof of fic* this baby could fit so many daddy issues #This is a response to that One Panel in the Wake #Orpheus being the last one to bid his Father good bye broke me #Dream and Orpheus' father-son relationship fascinates me ok it hits waaay too close to home #Dream being a good father #Basically i took Calliope saying that Dream was a good father to Orpheus and ran with it #Morpheus sang Orpheus to sleep canon #Soft Dream :')) #Baby Orpheus

[daydadahlias]

top 3 Superbloom songs?

the way i gasped seeing this <3

DRIVE (always my number one oh my god)

Greyhound (I mean it has to be top 3, that song is just insane)

The Sweetness (this is hard... I don't feel super confident in saying this is my number three bc... Sunshine is really close for me but I really like his voice in sweetness <3)

#pigeon #anon #when i was in highschool and i listened to superbloom for the first time #i wrote notes about every song as i listened to it fro the frist time #and it makes me soooo sad that my phone broke and deleted it !!!! #it was such a magical experience listening to that album for the first time in that phase of my life and i will really never forget it #i wasnt even in the fandom properly by that time. id written a couple fics but i didnt have any fandom friends or anything #i didnt use tumblr. like no one Knew Me and i didnt know anyone #so superbloom was just for me #i had the album all to myself #and sometimes i wonder how it would have been different to share the experience #but in a lot of ways im very glad that i didnt #it was nice having it just for me

[mallowstep]

fingers crossed fic up tonight

#mine #no promises #and i haven't decided on a fic #so i'm not sure what i want exactly #i've got one that i just KNOW i would type up and go “eh” #“not gonna happen” #and another that's not close to one enough #and on and on it goes #we'll see #i'll do what feels right for the moment #all i know is it WON'T be star trek #i usually try not to do 2 fandoms back to back #and i broke that rule with nerve + firefly

[jlf23tumble]

Oh yeah Louis definitely says “the relationship” (singular) *pause* over a shot of him sitting with his arm around Harry. What the fuck my guy wasn’t the almost entirety of Walls emotionally gut wrenching and sappy enough? It all fits with the band/their rocky relationship ending -> whatever the fuck went for a few years -> writing Walls/bringing E back to work. I still wonder how long the plan to decommission Elounor 2 has been in play - as long as the doc has? Louis again recently reiterated he’s “writing from an imaginative place” for LT3 aka assholes don’t try to read into shit because I’m giving you nothing. Keep up the mystery of the now, baby! But he def gave it allll away in those first 10 mins. Harry styles fucked him good/fucked him up bad. Much respect 🫡

I feel like it's mutual, they more than discussed it, lol, I mean, there are four ALBUMS' worth of content between them, tellin' the tale. And who knows, maybe there's more to write, I feel like it's ver ver messy, so as ever, I'm curious for what's to come!

#harry styles #AND #louis tomlinson #say a lot of shit that people just flat-out ignore #but i think that's the traditional binary thinking too #like if they were together--THEY ARE STILL TOGETHER THEY NEVER BROKE UP #if they aren't together--THEY WILL NEVER TALK TO EACH OTHER EVER AGAIN #and i think there's space in the middle #but who knows for how long #not my circus OR my monkeys but i tell u what #it is FASCINATING to see the hoops #the fandom ones #and the refusal to just recognize the script--the ao3 fic--doesn't exist and hasn't been written #it's real and real time bb

[burningthegallows]

Fic: Arrow to a Wax Wing

Fandom: Love Like the Galaxy

Word count: 7700

Cheng Shaoshang/Ling Buyi

Summary: Huo Zisheng doesn’t travel to Anyang expecting to find her there. He doesn’t mean to follow her into the garden. He certainly hadn’t meant to throw himself off of a cliff and destroy both of their lives.

Notes:

This piece is largely unfinished and a bit odd because of it. It was inspired by the prompt “fucking to forgiveness,” and because I wanted to write some angry fooling around. It’s pretty much just 3500 words of exposition and then arguing. There’s some sex sprinkled in at the end.

Title taken from the bends by doomtree because I couldn’t stop repeating the line “Cause I got a few miles to go before I concede.”

Dubious consent warning: Cheng Shaoshang repeatedly silences Zisheng while making out. The language used is deliberately violent (she shoves him backwards, slaps her hand over his mouth; he wrenches her around by the arm) to call attention to their mental states, not because they intend to harm. Both of them would consent, as long as the other did first, but neither does.

—

So much love for everyone in this fandom. Come hang out in the comments and scream about these assholes with me.

#cheng shaoshang #ling buyi #love like the galaxy #mine #lltg fic #there’s just so few fics in this fandom #I have to write what I want to read #but I am very slow #as I slave over before we bow (broke 120k) #I’ve been setting aside teeny morsels like this and I hope to have more to share soon #thinking I might aim for my hogwarts au next #ooh god so excited about that one but no idea what the plot will be #all I got is the world building #mad love to everyone out there still obsessed with this show #and to all the people making content #art forthcoming probably. if I promise it maybe I’ll show up #dub con #tw: dubious consent

[wheucto]

i think inanimate insanity has taken over bfdi in popularity. on tumblr at least

#wheucto #wheucto speaks #i don't know about other social media #like twitter. instagram. animo or however it's spelt. some obscure website i've never heard of before #i think on youtube more people are like. subscribed to jacknjellify i think and watch the episodes when they come out compared to ii #but in terms of fandom? not sure #on youtube the more popular fandom might be either one? i'm not sure? #i don't know how much content is on there. or whatever #i know that ii has way more fic than bfdi does on ao3 (400 fics more_ probably) so #(and those 400 fics are a lot considering the size of the osc [ii broke 1000 fics recently i was there]) #(ii has 1109 fics rn i think the fic count is growing pretty fast) #i have no clue about other sides of the fandoms #oh wait reddit i have reddit i'll look at it real quick #it seems that bfdi is more popular #though maybe bfdi has a bunch of inactive people? idk

[astrxealis]

OH MY GOD i just saw that someone made their reblog of a fic of mine their pinned post. what an HONOUR

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #I WASN'T EXPECTING TO SEE THAT OH MY GOD !! that makes me very happy actually #it was the p5 fic of mine which was the last piece of writing that was a proper fic w 1k+ words that i actually finished #and it was the first proper fic that had 1k+ words that i actually finished. in w While #idk it just makes me happy :] i still really like that fic! i wonder how it's doing on ao3. if it actually broke thru 1k i will #BLOODY HELL IT DIDN'T JUST BREAK THRU 1K IT IS 1.1K+ HELL that makes me VERY happy oh my GOD #bless p5. i've only written two fics and the rest and drafts and after a few months my brainrots have chilled but mwah #BLESS P5 FR......... <3 #me: thankful to all my fandoms one way or another bcs they all mean smth to me in a different way and have helped/done smth for me

[gunpowder-gemini]

RUNNING IN CIRCLES RUNNING IN CIRCLES RUNNING IN CIRCLES

SOMEONE LEFT A LONG ASS COMMENT ON MY SLY FIC AAAAAAAAAA

I AM ASCENDING I COULD FIGHT GOD I COULD SPRINT AROUND THE GLOBE GDGISJGSJFSGJSJGS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

#they broke down thing they liked 😭😭😭😭😭 #they like clem 😭😭😭😭 #they subscribed to the fic 😭😭😭😭😭 #nobody tOUCH ME I'M SO EMOTIONAL 😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️ #i didn't think anybody would really read it let alone like it THAT much???? #not saying I think my writings bad but this is a really old mostly dead fandom so I was keeping my expectations realistic #but holy FUCK #I also have 3 kudos which is also exciting!!! #i understand why people write now #i will finish this fic for this one person on god #i do not know them but I would kill for them