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Your oneshot really opened my eyes on how Levi couldn’t handle MC at their worst.

Like the canon MC is a person who’s so heavily reliant on their best friend cooking, cleaning, doing laundry and essentially babying them and who spends more time in their friend‘s house than their own? Who fills their friend’s PC with porn downloads and doesn’t even clean the desk chair after doing unspeakable things? 💀 not to mention the absolute lack of interest MC has in Minyeok would carry over too. Levi would flip and call the whole thing off and hang whoever came up with the idea in the first place

Canon Ra-on (not the players' various MCs, but the Ra-on we are given) is a hot mess of a character who cannot do much on their own. Minhyeok has seemingly taken care of them for years without ever pushing them to lean to be independent. I don't think this was malicious on Minhyeok's part, but it did create a Ra-on who cannot function on their own. It's honestly something that really bothers me about canon Ra-on. They are taken care of and other people given them the answers for things. They are too passive for my liking and I hope they grow. Their most redeeming trait is that they really do care about the people they meet.

However, I would not say that canon Ra-on has no interest in Minhyeok. If anything, canon Ra-on is explicitly into Minhyeok but never crossed the line from being childhood friends to being more. Ra-on mentions Minhyeok often, imagines his naked body, and even fantasised about him and called his name while riding Juno. Ra-on is into Minhyeok. That's what Leviathan wants. If he's okay with the other traits where Ra-on seemingly has 0 life skills, he may be okay with it.

I don't know... Ra-on is a little complicated and I may be over simplifying because I don't like the version we got. I need more sassy answers PB.

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Childhood Lies

Fandom: What in Hell is Bad? Content: Leviathan & GN!MC, Mental manipulation, Fluff(?) A/N: Listen… Leviathan can gaslight me. I am okay with that. But I saw the concept of the new card and I had thoughts I needed to get out. Is it maybe a bit ooc? Maybe… But I try. Word Count: 514

You were different.

“How does it taste?” You asked as you leaned in far too close to him, watching him eat.

Awful. It tasted like ash in his mouth.

“That bad, huh?” You laughed nervously. “I was hoping it would come out okay if I followed the recipe, but I guess not.”

Even though you were embarrassed, you were still smiling while you laughed. Leviathan had never seen that expression on your face; a mixture of joy and shame and eyes full of affection and trust. That was a face you had never worn for him. 

He was envious of the man who that expression was meant for. He was only a substitute in your memories, viewing something you were giving to another man.

“Thanks for trying it, but, please, stop eating it now. I don’t want you to get food poisoning.”

You were different; more relaxed and vulnerable than you ever were with him. It was like he was speaking to a completely different person.

He was shoving your dreadful attempt at cooking across the table (away from him) when he felt a gentle weight press against his shoulder. You had leaned your head against his shoulder. Your eyes were closed and your breathing steady.

“I’m so sad. I really thought it would be good today.” Your eyes opened as you looked up at him while still leaning against him. “If I try to bring in something tomorrow, will you still try it or did I destroy your appetite for the next week?”

Leviathan looked at the poison you called food with complete apprehension. “I will not be trying your cooking again.” 

He deemed it too dangerous.

“Jerk,” you muttered.

You were different; unafraid or managing yourself to meet his expectations. You were saying whatever came to your mind without recognizing his status as anything other than someone who you thought had been by your side your entire life.

“Leviathan?” You called his name with a sweeter tone than usual, even though you were clearly still upset. “Can I stay here tonight?”

“No.”

Even if this was your dream and these were your memories, he preferred his privacy and solidarity.

“Please?” You asked again, but this time your voice sounded uncertain and small. “Just for tonight?”

You were different; smaller, more frail.

You were still you, but you were a version of yourself that was reserved for someone else. He was jealous that someone else got a version of you that he did not; a version that was vulnerable and calm and honest and passionate and embarrassed and shameless.

If he accepted your request, would you show him another new side of you that he could only see in this dream where he replaced someone else?

He wanted to know.

He wanted to know and he wanted to see sides of you that you hadn’t shown anyone else, even the person who was supposed to be the one in your memories. He wanted to have a part of you that no one else could.

Then he wouldn’t be envious of a mere memory.

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I watch a ton of great youtube videos about halting and reversing desertification but now youtube recommends me a ton of videos of people using those techniques to turn desert ecosystems into farmland. If you see these too, please downvote them. Going to desert ecosystems and planting food forests is not a trend we should be starting. Many plants and animals are endemic to those areas and those ecosystems are worth protecting. Deserts are not wastelands. These videos mislead people into thinking that this is a good thing for the environment just because there is more green. Nothing could be further from the truth. There are so many actual forest ecosystems that need to be restored, we should not be wasting energy foresting deserts that have been deserts for millennia.

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

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That one event when PC sleeps in History class and wakes up with cum on their hand. It's not the only one, but, like......

No just let me delulu okay just LET ME THINK IT'S THE HIGH CONFIDENCE ROBIN and this is the premise we need for Somnophilia Ronin okay "no one seems to notice" BUT IF YOU LOOK TO YOUR SIDE HONAY MAYBE YOU LL SEE SOMEONE IS BLUSHING JUST LET ME DREAM PLEASE SOMNO ROBIN IS REAL AND I'M SO READY FOR IT.

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#i wasnt gonna reblog bc i dont want tumblr's hell algo to decide my entire fyp is now ts #but i fuck with this person's tags specifically

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"ummm you know the writer only included that because they have a FETISH right?" is always so funny to me as a disparaging comment, because imagine if people spoke that way about nonsexual interests. "the lord of the rings? didnt the author only write that because he was interested in linguistics? thanks, i'll pass" "yeah, i used to love spongebob as a kid, but i can never see it the same after finding out stephen hillenburg is a marine biologist :/"

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

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I'm getting so sick of major female characters in historical media being incredibly feisty, outspoken and public defenders of women's rights with little to no realistic repercussions. Yes it feels like pandering, yes it's unrealistic and takes me out of the story, yes the dialogue almost always rings false - but beyond all that I think it does such a disservice to the women who lived during those periods. I'm not embarrassed of the women in history who didn't use every chance they had to Stick It To The Man. I'm not ashamed of women who were resigned to or enjoyed their lot in life. They weren't letting the side down by not having and representing modern gender ideals. It says a lot about how you view average ordinary women if the idea of one of your main characters behaving like one makes them seem lame and uninteresting to you.

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This isn’t commonly known but one of the rings of hell is actually being in a fandom wherein the popular bloggers have the worst opinions known to man that everyone else parrots

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Nu Carnival Unutilised Designs

The Nielk Continent Gang.

#ANIMAL EARS ANIMAL EARS ANIMAL EARS ANIMAL EARS

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i had to lock myself in my room so that i can avoid my brother and dad who are still just casually talking about their plans to cut off and paint sophia's foot to place in his office while her corpse is still lying in the back of the car

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im just so sick and tired at this point of dads continuing habt of being completely unable to understand or want to respect other peoples beliefs and cultures

no i dont want to fucking help you violate a corpse so you can have memorabilia and i dont care that you call me names over it!!! fuck off!!!!!!

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the corpse isnt even cold yet and my youngest brother approached me to paint her foot because dad is planning on cutting one off or something

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one of our dogs died

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Join him for a bath? 🫣

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this is the ONLY ad on tumblr that has ever gotten me to click but then i realized its steam >:(

#i dont have a pc #and my laptop is a decade old and was already midtier at launch #so i cant buy anything on steam more complicated than sdv :( #i tried running genshin on it once when my phone was having issues and it overheated so fast