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I desperately wish people would start actually reading the AO3's TOS before confidently making 'user guides' to the AO3 that are just blatantly, flatly wrong.

Yes the AO3 has banned content. They do not allow anything that's illegal under US law - though US law, importantly, does not ban fictional depictions of things - and they do not allow any commercial content. That includes your ko-fi link, or mentions that you do fic commissions. If you do post fic commissions to AO3 and want to mention the commissioner, the fic is a 'request' from the commissioner. This protects the AO3 and you from copyright law.

No the AO3 is not 'a creative fanfiction archive'. It is a fandom archive. Your meta, insights, and theories are absolutely welcome and encouraged there. AO3 also encourages you to post other types of fanworks, like fan videos, podfics, and art, but unfortunately isn't able to natively host those like it does text, so fic has kind of become what it's known for. That absolutely does not mean that other types of fanwork aren't allowed, or are discouraged by the site culture! Anybody who tells you otherwise is just plain wrong!

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It's hot outside☀️

#genshin impact #zhongli

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if you wanna know if it’s a queer person romancing astarion u just have to look at their tav. 90% of queer people romancing astarion play masc drow bards with white hair all swept to one side

#baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #op didn't need to come so hard for me wow #technically they're an androgynous monk but #the vibes are there #*sits in corner and sulks*

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Look Me in the Eyes (and tell me that it's me) - Zhongchili Reincarnation AU - Chapter 12

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52859557/chapters/138929665

Rating: E

Summary:

Final year university student Ajax dreads graduating. A lifetime of sitting in a shitty office at a shitty computer, making shitty cups of tea for his shitty coworkers is his last idea of fun.

But when he (quite literally) runs into the mysterious, handsome Zhongli who—lucky him—agrees to a date, he’s gifted a Vision—an ancient artifact from an era long since passed.

With the Vision in his possession, he begins to recover memories of a past life of exhilarating battles and heroic deeds, propelling him into a lifestyle of delivering justice to Snezhnaya’s streets, slamming down would-be criminals with a well-placed fist to the face.

However, when these memories begin to take a darker turn, Ajax starts to question who he really was, and what these memories mean for who he is today.

Tags below the cut 🔽Keep reading

Alternate Universe - Reincarnation, Reincarnation, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Modern Teyvat, Angst with a Happy Ending, Top/Bottom Versatile Tartaglia / Zhongli, Best Friends Tartaglia & Yoimiya, Tartaglia-centric, Plot Heavy, Recovered Memories, Nightmares, Flashbacks, Temporary Break Up, Military Recruitment, Getting Back Together, Blood and Violence, Unhinged Tartaglia (It's a slow slide downward), Mugging, Identity Issues, Family Issues, Past Character Death (It's just OG Tartaglia it's a Reincarnation AU after all), Eventual Smut (Not a huge amount this is still very plot heavy), Tartaglia loves his family, Bad Decisions, Minor Character Death (Not playables only NPCs)

#zhongli #childe #tartagila #tartali #zhongchi #zhongchili #genshin impact #genshin impact fanfics

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Good deal

#zhongli #genshin impact

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When I said “don’t throw the things”, this is why!

(Unless of course you have magic arrows from Santa)

Patreon - YouTube

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Look Me in the Eyes (and tell me that it's me) - Zhongchili Reincarnation AU - Chapter 11

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52859557/chapters/138496993

Rating: E

Summary:

Final year university student Ajax dreads graduating. A lifetime of sitting in a shitty office at a shitty computer, making shitty cups of tea for his shitty coworkers is his last idea of fun.

But when he (quite literally) runs into the mysterious, handsome Zhongli who—lucky him—agrees to a date, he’s gifted a Vision—an ancient artifact from an era long since passed.

With the Vision in his possession, he begins to recover memories of a past life of exhilarating battles and heroic deeds, propelling him into a lifestyle of delivering justice to Snezhnaya’s streets, slamming down would-be criminals with a well-placed fist to the face.

However, when these memories begin to take a darker turn, Ajax starts to question who he really was, and what these memories mean for who he is today.

Tags below the cut 🔽Keep reading

Alternate Universe - Reincarnation, Reincarnation, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Modern Teyvat, Angst with a Happy Ending, Top/Bottom Versatile Tartaglia / Zhongli, Best Friends Tartaglia & Yoimiya, Tartaglia-centric, Plot Heavy, Recovered Memories, Nightmares, Flashbacks, Temporary Break Up, Military Recruitment, Getting Back Together, Blood and Violence, Unhinged Tartaglia (It's a slow slide downward), Mugging, Identity Issues, Family Issues, Past Character Death (It's just OG Tartaglia it's a Reincarnation AU after all), Eventual Smut (Not a huge amount this is still very plot heavy), Tartaglia loves his family, Bad Decisions, Minor Character Death (Not playables only NPCs)

#zhongli #childe #tartagila #tartali #zhongchi #zhongchili #genshin impact #genshin impact fanfics

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Lae'zel's character and her entire situation at the beginning of the game becomes so much more funny when you find out she's 22. It makes so much sense. Imagine you're 22 and you're exposed to this dangerous toxin or chemical or something - but not to worry, you learnt that this can be easily fixed, you just need to dial 911 real quick. Common knowledge. Everyone knows that. You learnt that in kindergarten, it's up there with fire alarm drills.

But the people you're stuck with have no concept of modern medicine and when you say "let's go to the hospital" they will say shit like "i think they kill people at the hospital" and "we should ask this swamp lady" or "this guy over there told me about this homoeopathic healer kind of guy but he got abducted" or "this random bard wants to help" and "I'm not going to dial 911 because I don't want the government to know my home address" or "maybe we should consider a deal with Satan". And then a bunch of them KEEP consuming the chemical because it makes them "stronger". One guy might explode for unrelated reasons. You have a few days before this situation is getting critical and suddenly they're solving crime and doing general charity for the community.

And FOR SOME REASON you still try to help these idiots and you STILL want to help them get the cure even though they all keep insisting the "doctors" at the "hospital" might try to "kill them" and they don't have insurance. And you keep telling them to just. go. to. the. hospital. before the time runs out and you all die very horribly of a very treatable condition.

And also you're 22 in a foreign country and you're responsible for shepherding this gaggle of idiots who are all ranging anywhere from 24 to 240 years old.

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #omg this made me laugh #but yeah #Lae'zel is so cool tho #I love her

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tea date

#genshin impact #tartali

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That tweet about Tricia Lockwood’s cat is going around tumblr again as a sort of semimeme and I wanted to commemorate it. Had to look up a bunch of pics of her for ref

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5 year anniversary of the miette post \o/

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In mine and many other east Asian cultures, the dragon traditionally symbolises things like power, wealth and strength (imperial symbol and all)

I think we often forget that in the story of the Great Race, the dragon came in fifth because it'd stopped to give people rain. Then it'd stopped again to push a rabbit adrift on a log across the wide river so it reached the shore safely (that's why the Rabbit year comes before the Dragon).

Dragons aren't meant to just be powerful - they are meant to do good with such power, and to help those in need.

So in this lunar new year, I hope you gain more power, so that you might be able to help others. I pray you have abundant resources so you may give to yourself and those around you. I wish you courage, endurance, kindness and generosity, for yourself and your people.

I hope you, and I, will be rain givers, life preservers, joy bringers.

I hope we will be dragons.

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💘🎙️please!

💘Is there any posted fic you want to rework/re-edit/re-write?

Probably Seven Months in Heaven. It's nice, as a first longfic, but it's a little more straightforward than my usual style nowdays. I would probably go back and add some more hints / play around what was really going on, as well as update some of the writing and tidy it up with my present day methods of editing / tidying prose that I've spent the past couple of years developing.

🎙️which one of your fics would you like someone to make a pod-fic of?

I don't really have one, honestly. Like, I wouldn't mind if someone did it, but I wouldn't be able to listen to it - listening to someone reading out whatever I've written is actual torture to me aha. Siri tried to tease me by reading one of my fics to me on voicechat a few times and I was cringing so hard at my own work I think I ended up leaving the chat. 😂

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Look Me in the Eyes (and tell me that it's me) - Zhongchili Reincarnation AU - Chapter 10

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52859557/chapters/138064585

Rating: E

Summary:

Final year university student Ajax dreads graduating. A lifetime of sitting in a shitty office at a shitty computer, making shitty cups of tea for his shitty coworkers is his last idea of fun.

But when he (quite literally) runs into the mysterious, handsome Zhongli who—lucky him—agrees to a date, he’s gifted a Vision—an ancient artifact from an era long since passed.

With the Vision in his possession, he begins to recover memories of a past life of exhilarating battles and heroic deeds, propelling him into a lifestyle of delivering justice to Snezhnaya’s streets, slamming down would-be criminals with a well-placed fist to the face.

However, when these memories begin to take a darker turn, Ajax starts to question who he really was, and what these memories mean for who he is today.

Tags below the cut 🔽

Alternate Universe - Reincarnation, Reincarnation, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Modern Teyvat, Angst with a Happy Ending, Top/Bottom Versatile Tartaglia / Zhongli, Best Friends Tartaglia & Yoimiya, Tartaglia-centric, Plot Heavy, Recovered Memories, Nightmares, Flashbacks, Temporary Break Up, Military Recruitment, Getting Back Together, Blood and Violence, Unhinged Tartaglia (It's a slow slide downward), Mugging, Identity Issues, Family Issues, Past Character Death (It's just OG Tartaglia it's a Reincarnation AU after all), Eventual Smut (Not a huge amount this is still very plot heavy), Tartaglia loves his family, Bad Decisions, Minor Character Death (Not playables only NPCs)

#zhongli #childe #tartagila #tartali #zhongchi #zhongchili #genshin impact #genshin impact fanfics

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a piece for a little au snippet I posted on twitter

bedtime stories

#tartali #i love childe's armour #it's like foul legacy armour for humans #and big dragonli is so shaped #look at that squishy face

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Apropos of I saw a post, here's a drabble I wrote not long ago and never posted because it's one of a set and I'm not done with them all:

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Summer meant faster rotes, meant Childe's ship saw land days before he expected. And while he might have embarked as Childe Tartaglia the Eleventh Harbinger, the one who stood on the deck and watched as the deep green of the forests grow closer and closer was just another soldier going home. Ajax, perhaps. The name's fit was a bit strained, not enough to cover all of him anymore.

But when he stepped down into the docks and lifted his eyes to see a red-headed missile of a boy barreling toward him, then his name was Big Brother and his single duty was to crouch down and accept that hug.

"Don't be a nuisiance, both of you! We need to move!"

How could he worry about blocking the path when Teucer had gotten a growth spurt? And wasn't it obvious that Tonia over there was looking more like their mother everyday? Wasn't that enough to stop look, really look, to memorize?

The other passengers filed around them, unimpressed. Life continued unchecked, as it would.

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✨ & 🤲 for the writers ask game please!!!

✨What's a fic you've posted you wish you could breathe life into again and have people talking about it? (or simply a fic you wish got more credit)

It's gotta be The Monster Maketh the Man. I adore this fic. I think it's one of my strongest pieces in terms of plot, pacing, worldbuilding, character building (including Simran, the man everyone loves to hate), everything.

Unfortunately it's my lowest read / kudoed longfic, primarily I think because it sits in a bit of a weird spot as a SCP/Genshin fusion universe. It also came out when the fandom was in the peak of Haitham/Kaveh hype, as well as being M rated, so it loses both the T only and E only readers. Then it ended up under 100k, so it loses all the >100k filtering folks too. Just in a very, very awkward spot in the fandom. 😂

I love that I wrote it, it was an absolute labour of love project. I consider it far, far better than SMIH, but fandom likes certain tropes, and sadly it means some things get overlooked. I still love this fic. I wish more people would give it a read because I'm really very proud of it!

🤲what do YOU get out of writing?

A few things! The first one would be the sharing with the community. I have all these stories buzzing around in my head that I see like movies, and I want to share them with other people. It's like, "You see this? Isn't this crazy! Wasn't that sad!" Also I love knowing I affected people emotionally with what I wrote, be that making them laugh from a comedy, or breaking their heart with angst.

Then on the deeper side, I really use my writing, particularly longfics, to get my thoughts straight on a range of different topics. I've done this more and more as I've written more stories, but it's become very peace giving to me. I could go on for ages and ages about the specific themes of each fic from TMMTM onwards, which is when I really started doing this. I know most people are just reading for fun and aren't really here to be diving into all of that, but I do love having written it and having it out there.

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