#they are rare

[respectthepetty]

Not only is the matchmaker in I Cannot Reach You a Pink Person, Hosaka (he has a pink barrette in his hair and pink bags),

But the show is about to win a colors award because it uses a COLOR-CODED bokeh effect!

I repeat,

The bokeh effect is color coded!

And it happens every time one of the boys has BIG feelings

So of course, Blue Boy Yamato is always in his feelings

But Kakeru, who is a Yellow/Orange Oddity, is starting to question his feelings more and more.

Even the opening credits has their colors combined in the effect.

And when they were reminiscing about their childhood, both their colors appeared.

The show was already giving me color-coded phones, different color-coded bags and them eating different color-coded foods (and juice boxes)

But now it's giving me a color-coded effect as well as a color-coded amulet for a love confession.

And we ended this episode with Kakeru in a blue shirt hiding with Yamato under an orange and yellow blanket.

This show is adorable. It understands the color-coding assignment and has also thrown a little razzle dazzle on top (like those cute color-coded floating orbs and the implication that Kakeru has loved Yamato a lot longer than he realizes).

You're doing great, babe. Don't change.

#i cannot reach you #kimi ni wa todokanai #the colors mean things #color coded boys in love #the color exchange #I'm so happy with this pair! #they are rare #Yamato x Kakeru #I'm shocked that Japan is giving me this #Japan is really upping its color coding game this year

[psalacanthea]

on reposting old fics

some people say that creators shouldn’t ever delete their own art.

I disagree.  But I also feel defensive about it, which I presume is caused by my massive pit of Guilt.  That guilt likes to make me feel bad about things I shouldn’t feel bad about-- like doing something solely for myself, even if it upsets other people.

So I’m going to ignore that defensiveness and not justify why I did or why I should be the exception. I’m not and I won’t.

I deleted my fics because at the time I needed to.  That’s all that needs to be said on that.  And now, the time where I needed them to be gone has passed!  The factors that made me need it to be gone have passed.  I have distance from the work.

That distance is a big part of why Somnium is back; when I first posted it it was far, far too immediate.  Now it’s not.  

That’s about it!

#somnium #actual thoughts from my brain #they are rare #I only posted this in case people find the fic and they want to know why it's back #i wouldn't post this on AO3 #ppl just tryna read their fic don't wanna see my screed

[daisymaygames]

When u discover he has the same kind of health problem as u 🥹 my lil connective tissue bebe. My loving genetic mutant. My marfanoid mans 😍

#I told him #ngl you kind of look like an internet friend of mine with classical eds who’s also a cis man #they are RARE #idk what he has #docs don’t either #but it’s in the same family #technically docs dunno what I have either but we have an idea #not ehlers danlos #it’s a kind of occipital horn syndrome

[spectralsleuth]

Reblog and put your rare pair in the tags/comments! I want to see the depths people will go to create, for the most random two characters in the most obscure media.

#poll #fanfiction #writing #ao3 #my answer is 4 i am curious if anyone can beat that #rare pair #fic #rare pair in question is Iron Bull/Carver Hawke just ftr #unhinged

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

“why would you write fics for small, unpopular fandoms? you’re not gonna reach that many hits in fandoms not many people know about” ?? because I’m not writing fics for hits or kudos, I’m writing them for me because these characters are my blorbos and I have so many ideas, so much thoughts about them that my brain might explode if I don’t write them out.

#ao3 #archive of our own #writer #writeblr #writing #fanfiction #fic #blorbo #rare pair #fandom #fandom memes #whump #angst #writers #fanfic writing #writing community #writing tropes #writing trope #writing prompts #writing prompt #tropes #trope #whump tropes #whump prompts #writers on ao3 #writing challenge #fluff

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:

15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.

None of the hijackers were from Iraq.

None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.

None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.

#9/11 #serious post #not a shitpost #this should be one of the first things kids learn when they learn about the 9/11 attacks #politics #this is just...it's such an essential and brazen fact and i rarely see basic outrage over it #i want outrage. i want fury. i want disgust over the way fundamental facts are disguised and discarded and downplayed #because there are things we should KNOW. basic fact we should ALL KNOW. and they are tucked away in the footnotes. #and no this is NOT to put the blame on other middle eastern countries #we know this was carried out by a specific terrorist organization not a national government #but King George the Second decided (and was encouraged by his cabinet!) to invade a nation! #a nation that was not at all related or responsible!!! #a dictatorship to be sure--but a dictatorship that King George the First had been happy to support #so what changed? why did we go in guns blazing to DEMOLISH a country *we had NO PLANS OF REPAIRING*??? #well. because they wanted a villain didn't they. a nice clean war. clarity of purpose. us the heroes against them the villains #and when you're in that mindframe--truth is irrelevant. you can pick your villain (your victim) by rolling a roulette wheel #truth is irrelevant #worse: to the people in charge #truth is a HINDRANCE #'Alternative facts' existed long before it became a catchphrase #facts don't matter. truth doesn't matter. the impulses of a handful of volatile & rich & power-high people--that's History. congratulations

[laurasimonsdaughter]

Came back wrong this, came back monstrous that

What if they came back loving? What if they came back in love. What if the necromancy worked and you cheated death and it's everything you've ever wanted, but now they love you in a way they never did before and you cannot know if that is because they finally know the lengths you are willing to go for them, or because something in this deathless magic bound their soul to yours to guide them home and it left them no. choice.

#a rare sprinkling of angst from me #call that necromantic~ #laura tumbles #the solution of course is lots of healthy communication and maybe therapy #as it so very often is #necromancer #necromancy

[daisywords]

One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.

Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.

It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?

Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.

#idk what to tag this #worldbuilding #writing fiction #historical fiction #fantasy #a real-life example: my dad (a pediatrician) was once entrusted with the care of a baby who was born with a rare condition #this was in a place without great hospital/medical access and anyway they were going to fly the baby over #and he specifically asked them to bring the mother and baby #they show up with baby and...the baby's uncle #and he was like. y'all. do you think I asked for the mom to come just for fun??? We don't have formula here. what is the baby going to eat?

[hepalien]

Hey rarepair shippers, I'm about to change your lives.

The AO3 Primary Ship Search add-on for Firefox (it's called AO3 First Tag Search for Chrome) adds this little checkbox to the AO3 advanced search page

And if you check the box, the search only returns fics where the pairing you entered is the first one tagged. This is better than the otp:true operator imo because it will show fics with secondary/background pairings too as long as your preferred ship is the main one.

You can even use the add-on in Firefox or Kiwi browser on Android mobile.

Have fun 😘

(more ao3 tips here)

#ao3 #archive of our own #ao3 tips #rarepair #rare pair #rare pairing #femslash #rarepairs #rarepair shipping #ao3 extensions

[respectthepetty]

I'm so happy I Cannot Reach You is giving me colors!

Because Yamato is a Blue Boy and Kakeru is a Yellow/Orange Oddity!

I haven't had that color pair since Secret Crush on You!

And now Japan is giving it to me again in twenty million little way!

AHHHHHH!

#i cannot reach you #kimi ni wa todokanai #the colors mean things #color coded boys in love #the color exchange #I'm so happy with this pair! #they are rare #I love them already #yamato x Kakeru

[ato-dato]

Aziraphale please! He’s been through enough!!!

#this took AGES #but I really like it I think #anyway #can you tell how intense my hyperfixation has gotten?? #really intense #I rarely think of something that isn’t these two idiots #anywayyy #have a nice 5 days till season 2 #good omens 2 #good omens #good omens season two #aziraphale #aziracrow #ineffible husbands #crowley #anthony crowley #I Hope this happens on s2 #art #artwork #my art #fanart #digital art #drawing #comic #fan comic

[draconym]

My wonderful spouse, who I love very much, set a phone alarm to remind him to send drunk texts to his friends this evening, and ensured that he would be appropriately drunk (0.086%, currently) by consulting a blood alcohol calculator that factored in change over time. He was worried that this level of planning was against the spirit of Drunk Texts, but I assured him it was not.

#alcohol #we both drink so rarely that he felt the math was really necessary to get the timing right

[ispyspookymansion]

peace and love on planet earth

#i rarely get the chance to say it but when i do its great #kora.txt

[rubyleaf]

You know, when I see fictional characters who repress all their emotions, they're usually aloof and very blunt about keeping people at a distance, sometimes to an edgy degree—but what I don't see nearly enough are the emotionally repressed characters who are just…mellow.

Think about it. In real life, the person that's bottling up all their emotions is not the one that's brooding in the corner and snaps at you for trying to befriend them. More often than not, it's that friendly person in your circle who makes easy conversation with you, laughs with you, and listens and gives advice whenever you're upset. But you never see them upset, in fact they seem to have endless patience for you and everything around them—and so you call them their friend, you trust them. And only after months of telling them all your secrets do you realize…

…they've never actually told you anything about themselves.

#i just see it explored so rarely and i think there's a whole bunch of untapped potential here #or else i've been reading the wrong books i dunno #writeblr #writing #character writing #tropes #c: clara hightower #c: elise jamieson #I'm just sayin' #time for ruby's opinion

[maskenjager]

Narcisse

#idk how to tag that lol #deer #skeleton #autumn #aesthetic #I'm proud of this piece for once #I rarely like my art but I do like this one #myart

[the-cimmerians]

right now it’s almost halfway through 2023, and 2024 is an election year in the US. I have started to see a growing proliferation of posts suggesting that there is no difference between the republican and democratic parties--the exact same kind of posts I saw an awful lot of before the last major election here. I am unfollowing folks who post or reblog these sort of posts, as I consider these posts to be fascist propaganda framed as leftist discourse, designed to suppress anti-fascist votes and voters. 

#US Politics #rare ass personal post #in support of an informed and engaged electorate #propaganda #please vote if you can #and please vote the whole ballot