Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett Rating: Explicit Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley Additional Tags: Fix-It of Sorts, Humor, Angst, Sex, Assumptions, Misunderstandings, The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Anthony J. Crowley

The last thing that Crowley expects on the day Aziraphale goes to Heaven is to see Aziraphale again that night.

"The love of your life," Dream says softly. "That is quite a declaration to make, Hob Gadling, when one considers how many lives you've lived, and how many still await you."

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Sandman (TV 2022) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dream of the Endless/Hob Gadling Characters: Hob Gadling, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Dream Sex, Friends to Lovers, Men In Love For Centuries, When You’re In Love With the Anthropomorphic Representation of Dreaming and It Shows Summary:

Hob crosses the room to Dream, cups his cheek, finer than any marble and far more warm. “I’ve missed you.”

“And I, you, Hob Gadling.”

Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet Additional Tags: Fluff, Angst, Sex, The Stuff of Life, Ex-Pirates Get a House, Shacking Up, Domesticity, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Rimming, Switching, Just Generally a Lot of Sex, Cooking, Reading, Canon Divergence, Episode 10 Never Happens So Everything Is Awesome, Complete Summary: 

Ed and Stede leave the island together, and they don’t look back.

new chapter (4/5) of "domestic" by ark

our flag means death, stede/ed, rated e

It’s a day designed to cut through the water at top speed, and that, Ed realizes, is why he’s sure the weather will turn to rain. Winds like this blow in fast and true, but they are often heralds of a coming storm. He can smell it clear as the salt in the air.

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new chapter (3/5): "domestic" by ark

fandom: our flag means death (tv) rating: explicit relationships: blackbeard | edward teach/stede bonnet

“I’m already going to love you until the day I fucking die,” says Ed. “This way you get a ring out of it.”

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Chapters: 1/5 Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet Characters: Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Stede Bonnet Additional Tags: Fluff, Angst, Sex, The Stuff of Life, Ex-Pirates Get a House, Shacking Up, Domesticity, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Rimming, Switching, Generally a Lot of Sex, They Have Just the One Bed, Cooking, Reading, resolutions, Canon Divergence, Episode 10 Never Happens So Everything Is Awesome, Complete Summary:

Stede finds the house. When he comes back to their room at the inn, he won’t rest—won’t let Ed rest—until Ed’s seen it. His eyes are bright in that way that makes Ed’s guts feel scooped out with a spoon. So Ed hurries into his boots and goes with him.

The once-white paint is stripped by weather and wear, a portion of the roof is caved in, and the spokes of the wraparound porch are all gnawed through by animals.

Ed gazes up at the broken windows and the birds that have built nests there. At his side, Stede is waiting, rocking back and forth on his heels.

“It’s perfect,” says Ed.

***

Or: Ed and Stede leave the island together, and they don’t look back.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 成化十四年 | The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sui Zhou/Tang Fan Characters: Tang Fan, Sui Zhou, Wang Zhi, Dong'er (The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty), Pei Huai, Tang Yu, Wuyun Additional Tags: Established Relationship, The Porn Is the Plot, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Rimming, Switching, Sex Folks Is What We Have Here, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Plot? In My Pornography? Summary:

The first time, it seemed as though the earth was shaking, that the sky was falling down, so monumental was the movement of his body on Sui Zhou’s. This time, Tang Fan’s grip on reality is a bit more grounded, but it’s still as towering an achievement, and it’s still the best thing that he’s puzzled from this life.

imagine if this finale had aired two weeks earlier though. trump would have won

i’ve watched approximately 4 episodes of supernatural but when you live on tumblr for years you are always spn-adjacent. we have no choice but to absorb it by osmosis because it’s just that massive. i feel like i know a lot about the show from fandom, and many of my fandom friends were in it at some point. i also work in entertainment media so i’ve been tracking all the updates in its final year. and i have to say that even after years of disappointments from movies and tv, this one seems particularly egregious? 

here’s the thing. there’s so often a divide between the fever-dream of shipping and what we actually get in canon. and we know this. we’re not stupid, or gullible. people in fandom engage with the narrative on a level most critics could never dream.

even though many of us recognize that our beloved ships from giant properties won’t go canon because they are embedded in giant global blockbusters created by megacorporations, in recent years there seems to also be a trend of bad endings that not only work to crush these ships but make for awful storytelling and act dismissive of their own canon. and I’m tired of it.

maybe steve/bucky would never happen, but steve abandoning his traumatized best friend that he’d fought actual wars for in order to go back in time for a woman who moved on with her life without him? crap. star wars not even attempting finnpoe despite the actors’ encouragement, and giving poe a random half-assed love interest because, oh look, a girl? we can be angry about these things, and we can and should demand better and broader representation. if nothing else, at least tell a better story.

why spn’s finale feels so unsettling to me as a non-fan is that even i came to believe the tide might be turning, just a little bit. fandom is more mainstream and recognized than ever. our ships and our transformative works are discussed in big media outlets. actors and creatives acknowledge fic and retweet fanart. actors and creatives acknowledge how vital it is for people to see themselves reflected and represented in media. and it seemed to me, as a sideline observer, that supernatural appreciated its fanbase and understood how important dean and castiel’s relationship was, and how beloved castiel was as a character on his own. to have him not appear in the last episode at all is unconscionable to me, and i have never seen him in an episode! this is how much impact the character had that’s filtered down.

i watched the reactions a few weeks ago of mixed euphoria and dismay after castiel’s love confession and subsequent disappearance into “super hell.” that didn’t seem great, message-wise, but it was a step that felt significant, it meant a lot to many people, and it probably would not have happened without fandom and their tireless cheerleading and enthusiasm. it seemed like maybe they were really building to something.

and so even though i knew in my dead withered critic’s heart of hearts that we wouldn’t be getting a destiel kiss, i thought that spn might be brave enough to give their fans a final gift—a thanks for everything. have dean and cas drive off in that damned car whose name i know because i live on tumblr. end with them smiling at each other. something. i know the pandemic came into play, but other actors appeared, and even castiel’s voice could have been literally phoned in.

instead, from the anger and pain and incredulous memes i’m seeing from people across social media, it appears that what the show delivered was an ending so unfitting it was like a parody of an end. they threw the baby out with the bathwater. it’s incredibly disappointing, and it feels cowardly to me. you don’t have to make a ship canon just to appease fandom. but your fans deserve a better story for their characters after fifteen years. 

spn was uniquely positioned because it’s old as balls. most of the people still watching have seen it all and would have been up for anything good. the creatives could have done pretty much whatever they wanted. this isn’t a case of disney or international censors breathing down their neck. instead, they appear to have taken the easy way out of a lackluster finale written by folks who probably high-fived themselves for poignancy and half-assed twists and got paid more money than any of us will ever see for it. that’s boring, and it’s passé, and it didn’t have to be this way.

sometimes a property like she-ra can swoop in and save the day by delivering what fans want most. but she-ra was also made by people who came out of and understood fandom culture and just how much representation means to people. how much emotional investment and time and energy we’ve put into characters and their lives. why they matter. and it should stand as an example of what to do next.

if there’s a takeaway for all of this, it’s that we can’t and shouldn’t trust “mainstream” productions to do anything that we want in terms of representation. even if they’re uniquely positioned. even if they tease. even if they say they understand. even if they say they’ll do better next time. they’ll keep throwing pieces of bones, but they will almost always keep disappointing us. and they’re not even creating good art along the way. i know a dozen spn fic writers who could’ve written a vastly better ending to the show and i’m sure there are thousands. 

we need to create the stories we want to see. in fic and fanart and transformative works, yes, but also (and i say this to myself as well), write that book. write that script. draw your graphic novel. film a movie in your backyard tomorrow because it sounds like anything we produce right now will be more inspired and more important to each other than the scraps we get from distant studios who are only vaguely aware that we’re alive and buying their merchandise. and i want to buy your books, watch your scripts, frame your art. i want to be able to invest in the stories we want to see told.

i love what we make for each other, and we should keep doing that, more furiously than ever. and if you want to, if you dream of it, you should push to create on a broader scale. you already know that you’re a better creative than a lot of people who are generating the “hits.” i can’t wait to see what you make. and fuck supernatural’s finale.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: James Bond (Craig movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James Bond/Q Characters: Q (James Bond), James Bond Additional Tags: First Time, Casual Sex, Wall Sex, Rough Sex, Marathon Sex, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, all of the sex, Pining, PWP, One Shot Summary:

If Q is being truthful with himself, he’s expected this for a while. 

home is nowhere, therefore you | by ark | the witcher | geralt/jaskier | tags: adventure, fairy tales, love confessions, angst, humor, sex, smut, geralt’s canonically giant cock, just generally a lot of sex here folks, geralt uses his words | rated: explicit | complete | 18k

Jaskier looks up at the commotion, and when his eyes meet Geralt's—well, it was worth it, even if this is over before it starts, even if Geralt’s next breath finishes with a fairy arrow through his throat. Jaskier doesn’t cry out, just stares steadily back at Geralt as though Geralt is the finest sight he’s ever seen and ever hopes to see. As though Geralt is the beginning and the end, and nothing else could possibly matter in the in-between. Geralt knows, because that’s how he’s staring at Jaskier.

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Chapters: ½ Fandom: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier | Dandelion Characters: Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Jaskier | Dandelion Additional Tags: Adventure, Fairy Tales, Love Confessions, Angst, Humor, Sex, Smut, Geralt’s Canonically Giant Cock Summary:

“Right, well,” Jaskier says, when he halts before Geralt. Up close, he looks much more nervous. There is sweat on his brow and his collar is damp with it, and his teeth keep catching on his lower lip. “True love’s kiss. There's—ah—there’s nothing to it.” And he bends, the utter imbecile, and kisses Geralt full on the mouth.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier | Dandelion Characters: Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Jaskier | Dandelion Additional Tags: Shameless Smut, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Established Relationship—Sort Of, Humor, Denial, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot Summary:

“This is a bad idea,” says Geralt.

“Terrible idea,” Jaskier agrees. He kisses up Geralt’s neck, his tongue wicked on Geralt’s ear. “Really bad.”

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens) Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Anathema Device, Newton Pulsifer Additional Tags: Sex, Festive Holiday Cheer, OR IS IT, Curses, First Time Summary:

“Surely this night’s adventures have made it obvious,” says Crowley. “There’s never been anyone but you since the world began.”

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens) Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens) Additional Tags: World War II, Post-Book-Saving, Love Confessions, First Kiss, First Time, Sex, Angst, Pining, Bargains, More Sex, Missing Scene Summary:

Jesus fucking Christ, he’s in love with Crowley.