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chut-je-dors · 1 year

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gotta say, I sometimes wonder if I should delete my tumblr and disappear, in a way that I'd still be on tumblr, just without anyone knowing it's good ole Chut. Still be writing and such, but... quietly. It's the weight of knowing there are a ton of people waiting for the next chapter of my fics, and I can't shake the... pressure I get from all of that. God, I love everyone's comments and kudos as much as any writer, and writing stories that so many seem to love, but there's just so much pressure in it as well. If I post a new fic, people will go "oh Chut posted something new, it's gonna be goooood" and with that presumption I can't write anything but good. Over and over again I seem to manage to create something people praise, without really seeing the greatness myself. I guess it's part impostor syndrome - I'm still waiting for when people realise I really am not that good a writer, even though I'm gradually learning to ignore the perfectionist in me.

All in all, sometimes I think it would be easier to shake off the follower count, and just blog for myself. I've learnt the hard way to not share much of my opinions here, since it'll get noticed. I love receiving asks, but i often forget answering them straight away and then there are 300 of them and then I feel bad for not answering them - and if Chut didn't have a tumblr (that people know about), I couldn't disappoint anyone in that way. Does that make any sense?

Chut-je-dors is a name that's known by most who read mclennon fics (?) and it's just, it's a lot. I also sometimes wonder what would happen if I wrote under a different pseudonym. The fic wouldn't probably get that many hits, since I'm pretty sure half of the hits in my fics are because I'm a "popular" writer. It would be liberating I think - no pressure of delivering anything that fits the "Chut-je-dors" box. I miss the days of writing the Hot Mechanic, with no rules, no pressure over the quality of writing or storytelling - just plain wackiness with no predecessor. Now, when I'm writing The Hot Spot, it has to live up to the other entries in the Hot Series. There's a lack of freedom in it - the text has to be funny, whereas before it was funny because I was completely unhinged, and had an absolute blast, and had absolutely no plans. No one knew me, and didn't base their opinions of THM on how I've "once again" delivered "such an amazing fic" etc. People like THM because of the fic itself.

The more popular and "good" fics I write, the more the pressure to deliver what people expect from my fics grows.

(And don't get me wrong, I want to write good and deliver good stuff, for my own sake as well. I love writing, and I love writing stuff I can read a year after and go "ahh this is good stuff". But the pressure of writing well for other people's sake overshadows the desire to write just for myself.)

(A part of all this is the language gap, cos my god, I write good in English but I write so much better in Finnish, and I'm always aware of what my text is lacking in English. Maybe I should write the fics in Finnish and translate them to English afterwards but lads, imagine the Work)

(After I lost my home in a house fire in 2020, and suffered a burnout and depression etc. all that stuff, the quality of my writing understandably dipped, and someone immediately noticed it and commented on it. Well, I've struggled with writing ever since. Always second-guessing whether what I'm writing is good, because I don't want to - or can - let my readers down. And now, I rarely write anymore, partly due to not having enough time, partly because I never feel like I'm doing good enough. I can take criticism, it's not about that - it's a comment that hit me hard at a point where I was just trying to produce text, any text, despite how hard it was, struggling with the trauma left by me losing all of my belongings, and knowing the writing wasn't probably good enough, but deciding to post still just to give people something, and then that comment - it hit right in the spot of insecurity that then manifested fully, and now whatever I write I feel it doesn't live up to, say 2019 writings. And thus I can't write at all, crippled by that insecurity.)

So yeah. Sounds probably silly, me whining away that "I'm too popular as a writer" but... well. Well. It's been 10 years since THM came out. Ten fucken years! It was the second fic I wrote under Chut-je-dors (the first being ThighGHGHGS, an absolute Legend of a fic written by an unhinged 15 year old) and I'm still partly trying to live up to it. THM cemented me as a popular mclennon author in this fandom, and I've had to live up to that mantel ever since with everything I write. Ten years!

(There's no point in any of this, no set resolution, I'm just rambling some thoughts away into the tumblr void)

(Don't get me wrong: I love each and every comment I receive and I'm so thankful people like my fics. These are issues that live inside my head, and they don't affect the gratitude I have that people still, after all these years, love my fics. That's all an author could ask for. Perhaps that is the core of the issue; I love making you guys happy with my fics, so much that I can't bear the thought of giving you something below my usual level of writing. Hm, a double-edged sword)

Anyway. That's some thoughts for now!

#oops this is longer than I thought #also ramblier #whoops #oh well #Very Open For Further Discussion #cjd rambles #choo choo all aboard the chut insecurity train #I'm not rereading this. press enter and send.#as they say.... yolo

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princessxmothman · 10 months

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surelyitsnotadhd.greentxt

(yes, it's exactly what it sounds like. don't say i didn't warn you.)

>be me

>wear sandals to work with full intent of washing feet when getting home

>get home and pick up mail around 5:30p

>a package for me!!!

>open package, it's a dress i've been waiting for

>go straight to trying on dress because i'm wearing the "right bra" for it and if i go to wash my feet i will have taken off the "right bra" and there will be no turning back, we'll be on the road to jammiesville baybeeeeeeeeee

>oh no!!! a stain or burn or something right in the center of the bust!!!

>hem and haw over whether it's worth making a stink about the dress and initiating an exchange; text multiple members of decision-making committee

>decision-making committee members unanimously decide the dress is not in an acceptable state

>change into "house pajamas," go to repack dress, want to look at companion accessories that came in the set

>pull matching bow out from shipping bag

>huh. looks smaller and less dramatic than the product photos

>feel sad about an accessory. try to tamp down the feeling

>uh-oh. still sad, disappointment welling

>text decision-making committee, trying to convince myself that i'm definitely blowing the bow thing out of proportion

>be reminded that what i ordered is not what i seem to have received

>pack up dress and co, shove shipping bag at the top of the hall closet so the cat doesn't chew on it and make the situation worse

>begin writing email

>stress that i'm being too mean

>text spouse to be stressed about being perceived as mean

>spouse reminds me that i'm not being mean about a less-than-par item i received

>spouse is interstitially sending me listings for homes

>ooh, homes!!!

>pore over photos in several home listings

>gotta get back on track. dress bad. gotta send email

>keep chipping away at email

>maybe the bow is exactly how it should be and maybe the sample that was used for product photos got revamped?

>start checking facebook to see if it looks like anyone has a bow shaped and sized similarly

>play goddamn sherlock holmes trying to determine approximate fabric lengths for how bows are sitting on other peoples' heads

>determine bow may in fact be faulty (or at least a victim of quality control)

>bring bag back down from the closet

>start playing with the bow in an attempt to get it to fall into a shape like what i've seen in product photos and/or facebook posts

>no dice

>repack bag, replace it back in the closet

>attempt to continue to write email

>roommate needs help deciding which things in the storage room are keeps and which are discards

>ngl this is the part where the joke has stopped being funny and i'm losing interest but i also am very committed to the bit

>finish helping roommate, resume email

>try to find the words to describe my disappointment in accessories, realize measurements would be most effective

>fish out bag from the closet yet again

>time to find a tape measure!

>oh shit oh fuck where is my tape measure?

>ask roommate if they have a spare

>roommate eventually finds their spare

>get measurements, add to email

>put bag BACK in the closet YET AGAIN

>finish email, stress about contents

>send it to spouse for auditing

>spouse says it sounds very polite

>"i should probably sit on it for a minute to make sure nothing else comes to mind"

>ooh! friend has been streaming! i wonder if they're still live!

>friend is still live, excitedly catch up in chat

>suddenly 30+ minutes have passed while i've stood NEXT TO the bed watching twitch

>shit! pain is starting to flare up from being standing and stationary!!!

>shit!!! i've sat on this email long enough!!!!!

>shut eyes, hold breath, press "send" on email

>at least that's done! now i can finally relax!

>change into "bed pajamas," go to swing legs into bed, and...

>STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>have not yet washed feet since getting home 2.5hrs ago

>finally wash feet

>can FINALLY relax

>take almost 1.5hrs to make a fake greentext on tumblr instead

>what the fuck is wrong with me

#lucie lore #honestly i'm just glad i came up with this stupid greentext post WHILE i was washing my feet #sorry for all the feet talk #it took well over 30 minutes to format this on mobile #i still haven't filled out my exit interview from my old job that i left almost two weeks ago #that's mostly just because i'm paralyzed with fear about once again being perceived as mean #i also had to stop in the middle of this to preheat the oven for dinner and thought it was worth mentioning in the tags #dinner is now cooking bee tee dubs #this has helped me exorcise my demons about the matter at least

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hopusthebrainlessfloof · 11 months

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Welcome to the blog!

Hi! I'm Hopus, the lovingly brainless floof!

Here's everything to know about a fluffy floof: Meee! Most important thing to know about me is my DNI & BYI information, sooooooo

Interaction information

DNI: Discourse, NSFW, anti endogenic, anti neo/xeno, anti informed self-diagnosis, TERFs, super straights, DD/LG, NSFW age regression, NSFW pet regression, racists, homo/bi/pan/trans/omniphobic (any LGBTQ+ phobic), extremely religious, trolls, younger than 15.

These aren't in any particular order, just as they pop up in my mind. Will update if the list extends.

BYI:

Diagnosed with MDD (Major Depressive Disorder) and GAD (General Anxiety Disorder)

Medically recognised for DID, ADHD, ASD, and PTSD. I will say I have them until my medical professionals change their mind. Don't like it? Too bad!

Plural traumagenic system with a headcount of 30 - 40. You're welcome to ask us about our experiences as a system. We will refuse to answer questions that make us uncomfortable.

Bodily 18. Minors DNI with NSFW content.

Taken and not looking for more. Need a break from polyamory.

Taking SFW commissions and requests ONLY.

Introduction

My name is Hopus, but I also go by Bee! I go by they/em/xe/bun! My favourite things ever are stuffies, blankets, markers, and warm beach water!

I'm a huge Nintendo geek, and will happily creep on other Nintendo art blogs. (/affectionate) I like art and have been doing it for fifteen years! I recently turned 18 (as of 31/05/23), so I'm not on the "professional" side of adulthood quite yet.

My best friends are @catfury360 and @littlekates. My wonderful partner is @thechickennuggiehaunter , and I love them with all of my heart. All of my mutuals and repeated askers are my adopted children and y'all don't have a say in it.

I love coffee, chicken nuggets, cheesecake, cupcakes, boston creme doughnuts, and apple desserts. In addition to drawing, I like to write, roleplay, cook, and play videogames!

Socials

I'm not into use of Instagram, Snapchat, or TikTok. However, here are where you can find me! (Will update list as I'm on more platforms.)

Pronoun Page (EN) (And also ES for Spanish speakers ♥️)

Ko-Fi

Spotify Playlist

I'm most active on my Discord server, where there's funky roles and stuff related to the system. There's also roles for shared interests, roleplay chats, and private safe chats.

Discord server

The Blog

There are quite a few things to see on the blog, but here's what you can expect:

Text posts: This is mostly random stuff but can include Nintendo related things.

Ask the Koopalings(& Koopa Kids & Broodals): My ask box is open for questions to the Koopalings and co. This is currently my main content, and it gives me a lot of joy.

Sanrio Art: My art has a significant amoubt of Sanrio related artwork. Hope you enjoy it! ♡

Fursona art: All the art of ze precious little floof, Marinid "Hopus" Broodal II!

Other fandom art: Surprisingly I'm not only in the Mario fandom! I'll also post art of other fandoms I'm part of. (Will get into that later.)

Reblogs (art): ARTISTS ON TUMBLR ARE SO FRICKEN TALENTED AAA So yeah, I reblog other works!

Reblogs (not art): I'm into other things like games and animals. (Cat photos are my weakness...) I may reblog things like that too!

Personal

First of all, no, this doesn't include my address and stuff. These are personal things that DO NOT INVOLVE INFO THAT CAN DOXX ME.

Our system has littles and age regressors! It's part of why we love stuffies and such.

My favourite school subjects are language, English, and science. I'm pretty decent at Spanish as a second language.

I used to be a band kid! My specialty was the glockenspiel and other mallet percussion. My favourite song I've ever done was Pilatus: The Mountain of Dragons and Prairie Dances.

Speaking of music, I'm a big fan of alt rock. My favourite artists are My Chemical Romance, Set It Off, and Bring Me to the Horizon. I can't choose a favourite song... But my main three are You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison, True Friends, Foundations of Decay, and I'll Sleep When I'm Dead.

My hyperfixations tend to jump between the same topics. My general fandoms of interest are (from most to least):

Mario (Kinda a no-brainer)

Sanrio

Kirby

Legend of Zelda

My favourite animals are rabbits, elephants, cats, and jerboas. I'm a huge sucker for smol rodents. I had a dwarf hamster as a kid. Dogs, I like in pictures. I don't dislike them, but I fear them.

Animal Crossing

Speaking of fears, I have arachnophobia (fear of arachnids), astraphobia (fear of thunder and lightning) and pyrophobia (fear of fire). I'm fine with photography of storms and fire, but do NOT send me ANYTHING with spiders. (Except for Taranza... He bebe)

Favourites

My favourite characters are (in no particular order):

Cinnamoroll (Sanrio)

Bandana Dee (Kirby)

Elfilin (Kirby)

U*SA*HA*NA (Sanrio)

Toadette (Mario)

Rauru (LoZ (TotK) )

Ludwig Von Koopa / Kooky Von Koopa (Mario)

Boo (Mario)

Kuromi (Sanrio)

Sailor Dee (Kirby)

Rango (Mario)

Link (LoZ)

Cream the Rabbit (Sonic)

Azurill (Pokémon)

Iggy Koopa (Mario)

Rabbit (Minecraft)

My Melody (Sanrio)

Meta Knight (Kirby)

Panda (Minecraft)

Roy Koopa / Bully Koopa (Mario)

Luma (Mario)

Yoshi (Mario)

Kirby (Kirby)

Sylveon (Pokémon)

The 3 Mario Princesses (Mario)

What I'm Up To

I'll be accepting asks for both myself and the characters! I love you guys (/platonic) and I'll keep you posted!

I played and 100% completed Super Mario Brothers 3 and Super Mario World, as Well as Super Mario Advance 2 & 4 respectively. My next goal is Super Mario Advance 3!

I'm jobhunting at the moment! I may have to start community service... but we'll see!

Chu chu~!!💖

#welcome to the blog #welcome to my blog #my blog #introducing myself #introductory post #artists of tumblr #my socials #my introduction #my interests #hopus the brainless floof #asks open #super mario #legend of zelda #sanrio #kirby #pokémon #text post

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deadlynyghtshayde · 4 days

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Grumble grumble

I came across the most online, ass-backwards reading of Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship in Good Omens from the original text to the Amazon adaption. There was a lot of assuming, and it was heavy on the bad faith interpretation of snippets of text. Not to mention the expectation that a fanbase can effectively clamor so hard as to swing a pendulum, making a creator as particular and intentional (and I daresay headstrong) as Neil Gaiman - who has explicitly stated his intent to follow his and the late, great Sir Terry Pratchett's vision for the chatacters.

No piece of either creators' other works, nor any more recent input safe for a single, 8 year old tumblr ask from the surviving author, was referenced. The assumption of homophobia and "they played it for 'lol, gay' cos they were straight and it was the 80s" was all they apparently needed.

And it just seems to me that conversations that were once somewhat intimate - between friends and closer acquaintances - are now public discourse, set free as a pseudo accusation, and left to hang there. A response is a waste of time at best and damning at worst, but an opinion stated as a fact into a microphone held in front of you, reminiscent of a reporter out in the world, is left to stand and influence any who stumble upon it. One more piece of tertiary evidence for others to reference in a parasitic game of telephone.

I can't help but think that at least part of it is the result of oral reports submitted via YouTube and intentionally left public as a preliminary soft launch for some intended future online presence. The other, I think, is a seeming lack of understanding of the difference between a researched video essay and a 45-minute spiel that's just a titled stream of consciousness on a topic you have opinions about.

You're allowed to be uncomfortable with the way a story unfolds. You're allowed to dislike the way a plot is handled. But that opinion is not a fact. Your discomfort with two characters sharing intimacy the "wrong way" does not make the story homophobic. Not all queer experiences need to be sanitized. This is not a story of sunshine and butterflies, and assuming that the only reason the characters kissed is because the mean international bestselling author's hand was pushed to include representation for the masses is insulting.

Not all representation is going to be easy and happy, but out of so much of it? Goddamn, these two - for the most part - are.

From my own time as a fifteen year old finding comfort and security in the scribbled, scrawling world of The Sandman because it seemed to understand that there was more out there than the default settings in the same amorphous way I did at the time, to seeing the anchors that were rooted there so much more clearly now as a 30 year old with real world experiences. You are wrong to judge the grit of the past from the soapy sanitization of the present. Especially when were trying so hard to fight that. The world has changed. The works are what they were for their time. The adaption is in the spirit and memory.

I'm still young. I have so much more to learn and experience. But so are you. This is not from someone shaking their fist and raging about the inexperienced. It's just advice from someone who got to know some really cool community leaders when I was 20, who made jokes that would make you blanche.

You are not above reproach, and the future will remind you of all of the mistakes you make now, all of the ways you were not advanced enough. You don't need to help that by doing those things so publicly. Fandom is not activism.

I do see the irony in me writing this and posting it to tumblr. (No tags. Under a read more.) But I wanted to put it somewhere so that I could find it again one day and remember just how much I didn't know. And maybe how simple life was at 30, the way I remember the complex and tumultuous life of 15 as simple.

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jeffersonhairpie · 3 months

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One of the YouTube comments of all time oh my GOD

Found on this video

[Image ID: A YouTube comment from user @sire-dame-sander It reads:

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as promised here in MY Insane Cats Fandom Story. formatting this greentext style bc it’d be fucking unreadable as a big block of text - be me - cats the musical fan, dumb teenager - in groupchat with several other cats the musical fans - our number one group activity is keeping up with this one fanfic, “the silver protector and me” - it’s 70k words of munkustrap x the author’s self insert oc - from the moment you pick TPSAM up it’s not great from a writing perspective but the further you read the more unhinged the plotlines get - everyone can shapeshift into normal cats with no explanation. the main character is french n everybody else is incredibly aroused by it. all the girl cats frequently body shame the main character for being too skinny. the love interest is abusive towards his son because he thinks he might be gay. there’s a bunch of sex slavery just like an insane amount - this isn’t really that alarming to us. obviously the author might sort of be goin through it but at the end of the day it’s just a fanfic - however. there is also an author’s note at the end of every chapter where the author (we’ll call her jazzie after her self insert) shares wayyyyy too much about her life - we learn a bunch through these. she’s british. she has a terrible ex. she loves the guy who’s she’s currently dating but he hates cats the musical. she’s been to cats the musical 115 times. she has a 7 year old son - she also links her instagram + tumblr. maybe this was a dick move of us but being teenagers we check them out - jazzie’s instagram is pretty normal other than the fact that everyone but her looks miserable in every photo - whatever. they might just have resting bitch face - jazzie’s tumblr is CRAZY - we discover that she’s been in several bona fide large scale scandals - you name it jazzie has posted it. most recently she’s gotten in trouble for comparing the traditional body modification of various unrelated african cultures to, and I quote, “dumb bimbos getting too much plastic surgery” - she’s also fighting on a daily basis with people who hate her fanfic over its various Issues, including one heated debate with an actual sex trafficking survivor - about a week after we start checking in on jazzie’s tumblr, she posts that she’s going to be taking a break n moving all her mutuals into a discord server - this server will also house the live drafting of new chapters of TPSAM - being idiot teenagers we decide we HAVE to get into this server to watch TPSAM get drafted live. its siren song is far too strong for morals to assuage us - in an attempt to gain mutualhood before jazzie leaves for good, I create my cishetsona - her name is abi n she’s a 17 year old girl living in indiana who loves only two things: cats the musical and her homophobic 23 year old fiancée who works in his dad’s garage - she’s a closet tuggoffelees shipper as well but she openly ships mistoffellees/victoria (which is for some reason the default straight ship in cats even though victoria canonically hooks up with plato. no I’m not sure why either) - abi begins participating in the cats the musical fandom by posting annoyingly heterosexual content - within one (1) week, this has gotten her into jazzie’s discord - a few of my co conspirators have played the same trick. there’s maybe four or five of us in there - inside this discord we are exposed to fandom drama we never even knew existed - jazzie frequently complains to the server about her current boyfriend. she hates how much he dislikes cats the musical, n hates even more that he’s always telling her to pay more attention to their kids (plural) instead of writing cats the musical sex slave fic - do you remember how I only mentioned the 7 year old son earlier. this is the first mention we hear of another kid - the next day something terrible happens

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- we MEET the other kid - he is 12 years old n he is a SERVER MODERATOR - this means he’s been fully privy to the active drafts of his mother’s super explicit cats the musical sex slave fanfic - apparently nobody on the server was aware this moderator was jazzie’s son either, because her genuine mutuals seem just as shocked as we do - at this point one of the real mutuals snaps n tells jazzie that while she loves TPSAM, kids shouldn’t be anywhere near it. a good half of the server enthusiastically agrees with this - jazzie takes this as a personal attack on her parenting abilities n the server fucking implodes - a couple days later the whole thing gets taken offline - abi gets a message from jazzie apologizing for the whole situation n thanking her for not attacking her like everyone else - I don’t have the energy left to tell her abi isn’t real, so abi says “thank you. it’s no problem” - there is brief discussion of reporting jazzie to some kind of authority, but we decide that’ll probably only make it worse for her kids, so we don’t - we figure she got the message to not involve her preteen son in the drafting of her sex slave fanfiction when all of her friends left her - TPSAM has not updated since. I really hope it’s because jazzie stopped neglecting her kids for it - it’s for the best she stopped. I hope her family is doing better now - but frankly I’m a bit sad we’ll never get lines like “can I cum in you?” “oui!” ever again

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#cats #cats the musical #cats musical #couldn't not share #maybe this drama has alreadu circulated but this is the first i'm hearing of it #fandom nonsense #child abuse tw

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nemossubmarine · 5 years

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Warhammer 40k: Wrath & Glory RP #9

We’re back with the game, and finally done with the data disk, at least for the moment! Saef wasn’t present, so he was totes in his room the whole time (Gimlet grounded him). We’ll be skipping back a bit bc we missed few things when Cayenne was gone, so unfortunately this write-up might be a bit complicated. Here goes nothing:

First let’s see how the aftermath of the battle went, really.

Gorm asks Cayenne why she cancelled the mission out of the blue.

Cayenne comments that based on information from Gimlet the tech-priest is not a good guy, hence cancellation.

To which Gorm says that the rest of the party (Gimlet, Saef, Cayenne) is also very shady, and he works with them no problem!

Cayenne says that she sort of got ”Vanessa”, as it was the only thing that remained of her brother.

Gorm says that he would like to know of Cayenne’s sympathies sooner as he could have killed her, luckily he didn’t.

Gorm asks if Cayenne now understands why he doesn’t always follow orders.

And Cayenne replies ”Well, you’re a Space Wolf”, which is as good a reply as it gets.

The trio debates a bit whether to look into the data disk, and decide they probably should.

Inside they find four folders containing various types of files. Three of the folders have maybe 100 files, and one has over 10,000.

Our heroes decide to make a copy of the files so they can look into them in peace.

While they’re waiting for the files to copy, Cayenne receives a message from her cousin Ghost, asking why did Port send her a picture of Cayenne with an illegal weapon in an illegal casino.

Gorm suggests that maybe they can claim it’s photoshopped, apparently he and Snorri always used to photoshop stuff together.

Cayenne decides that this is a problem for tomorrow her, and leaves Ghost on read. (rude)

So, they start checking into the data disk, starting with the big folder. There’s some pictures they check, in the beginning, featuring a woman and a man, and a baby pretty soon.

Soon our heroes realize that these files appear to be the sergeant’s memories.

They search the name of the tech-priest within the files and get a glimpse into their first meeting (the sergeant was in a hospital).

They also find a memory of the sergeant suggesting the tech-priest takes another name, as calling him E-E \\ 821 is cumbersome. The tech-priest asks the sergeant (who he calls Kuru) to name him, and Kuru dubs him Eden.

Searching for Eden yields far more results in the sergeant’s memories.

Gorm takes this moment to search for ”dick” in the memories.

Luckily before anyone has been scarred for life, Tabasco Pepper bursts in and everyone hurries to close the files.

Although Gimlet scolds Gorm with ”you search them, you watch them”.

Aside from audio, video and image files, there’s a lot of files that the computers cannot execute. Gimlet takes a copy of one and sends it forward to his old Inquisition contacts. Unfortunately it might take some time to get answers on that front.

They check the other folders, they appear to be memories of the other three AdMechs that were with the sergeant on the Necron planet, only starting when they left for the planet however.

The last pics in each folders are the same, our heroes through the eyes of the Necron Tomb Keeper.

(also a funny gif of everyone falling over by the seismic tremor attack of the Necron)

Gorm wants to print all the pics of him looking cool, but unfortunately the computer isn’t connected to a printer.

Searching through other names mentioned in the discussions, they find out that the corporal is named Vivek and that he and Kuru had some sort of scism over Kuru being a Mendoza.

In that conversation Vivek mentions that Kuru has killed a tech priest, which certainly doesn’t sound great.

Trying to search for that results in a lot of unreadable files, but there’s one where Eden tells Kuru that he gets why he killed the tech-priest (though he doesn’t condone it).

Attempts to search for information about the criminality of the other AdMechs yields a memory of Eden rushing through a hallway with what appears to be a bleeding 13-year-old in his arms.

They’ll have to go through the data disk more later, but now they get to the Triplex Phall, and as recorded in a previous write-up, Gorm, Gimlet and Saef go off to meet with Snorri, leaving Cayenne alone when Inquisitor Inpax arrives.

Cayenne kinda freaks out, when her brother comes to tell her this, and even more so when he tells that the others have gone off with an AdMech to do something.

Cayenne puts on her best rogue trader smile and goes to meet with the Inquisitor.

Inpax is a woman in her thirties, somewhat stern looking woman, but she is pleasant enough.

She notes that Cayenne has been working with a tech-priest she is interested in, because there exists no records of the man.

She wants to use Cayenne’s ship as a meeting place as to not aggitate the AdMechs. Cayenne can re-necogiate her deal with the tech-priest.

Cayenne agrees, and as soon as the Inquisitor leaves she texts the others ”INQUISITOR ON THE WAY TO TECH PRIEST” and lots of screaming emojis and exclamation points.

She chats with Tabasco about this, what this means for their mom and Tabasco says he only hopes it’s a misunderstanding.

Gorm and Gimlet (and Saef), upon receiving Cayenne’s text, quickly make their exit from the AdMech base and back to the ship, where Cayenne asks what they should do about all this.

They decide for Gorm and Cayenne to sit in on the interview with the tech-priest and the Inquisitor to see what’s up. (Gimlet doesn’t want to come)

The interview doesn’t last long, as the Inquisitor asks the tech-priest kindly remove the mask he’s wearing, and upon doing so, it’s plain for everyone that the tech-priest is not and has never been a human, and instead is a robot with some synthetic flesh.

Upon seeing this, Inquisitor Inpax takes the tech-priest straight from the meeting to the brig.

Gorm and Cayenne go to Gimlet to talk this over, but before they get too deep into it, Gorm receives several confusing and frantic text messages from the Corporal, Vivek.

Here’s the gist of it, he had snuck into the ship of Gorm’s friend Uffe in hopes of getting off-planet and had kinda gotten caught.

Gorm calls them and asks to speak with Uffe. Gorm tells him as far as he knows Vivek is alright, but also maybe someone someone (ie Uffe) should keep an eye out.

Uffe isn’t very happy about it, but agrees.

Vivek chats a bit with Gorm as well. Vivek mentions that there’s a tracker of some sort in the back of Uffe’s neck and he can maybe take it out. It was the tech-priest who pointed it out to him.

After that interlude, Gorm and Cayenne explain the situation to Gimlet, who knows to say that being an A.I. (Abominable Intelligence) is actually illegal in the Imperium, punishable by death to whoever made such a creature.

They decide to search for the sergeant’s memories to see if he knew that Eden was an A.I.

It turns out yes, and also so did the other AdMechs (noticeable in that memory Vivek’s scarring is rather new).

So what is our heroes’ stance on robots anyway?

Clearly they are illegal, and uh, well what’s gonna happen to Eden? It’s usually the creator that gets executed.

Our heroes decide to go talk with Inquisitor Inpax, and at the same time ask permission to talk with Eden, as she promised Cayenne could.

Gimlet is resistant to coming with the others.

The reason turns out to be is that Inpax is the successor of the Inquisitor Gimlet worked with and was the one who kicked him out.

Inquisitor Inpax is filing some stuff when our heroes arrive. She is more than willing to share what will be done with the A.I. The Inquisition will attempt to extract information from it (!) and after they have gotten all they need, it will be disassembled.

And yeah, ofc Cayenne can go talk with it.

Before leaving Gorm attempts to threaten Inpax by dropping his trophy of an Inquisition badge very noticeably.

Inpax barely rises an eyebrow.

She does greet Gimlet by name, though.

And off to the ship’s brig it is, where they find Eden, who’s arms (all except the one with fleshy bits) have been taken off.

So of course Gorm starts with a pun by asking if Eden needs a hand (*rimshot*).

Well, so, hey, you’re a robot?

Eden says he doesn’t actually like being called a robot, and certainly dislikes the term Abominable Intelligence. A Servitor will do.

Cayenne is rather apologetic about the situation. On the one side there’s Eden, who’s definitely illegal and on the other side there is the Inquisition which is big and scary.

Eden says he doesn’t blame her for taking the other side.

Eden’s main concern seems to be to get the Inquisition off the rest of his team, and if getting arrested and eventually killed for it, then so be it.

He isn’t happy about it mind you, he didn’t choose the circumstances of his birth, he didn’t choose to be something that shouldn’t exist.

They ask him about what’s in the data disk, and he says they contain the sergeant’s memories, his soul almost.

Apparently the sergeant was always supposed to die on the Necron planet, and the reason for that is that he and three other Mechanicus have caught a mutated strain of the Life Eater Virus, making their bodies essentially ticking time bombs.

Eden’s idea was to clone them new bodies without the virus and build them back up using memories (creepy, says Gorm).

He has knowledge of this because his mentor / creator was originally planning on stealing his body once his own became too broken, hence memory programming research.

Also Eden points out to Gorm he didn’t lie when he said he couldn’t kill anyone, he’s literally incapable of doing that.

They ask if a copy of Eden exists also, and Eden says that as he is not human,but a computer, he cannot be copied in way that would keep him, him. So, no, no copy of the Servitor.

The rest of the AdMechs are not Life Eater Virus carriers, but prisoners they got to help bc they figured they’d have nothing to lose (as they would be turned into servitors).

Well, here’s a theoretical puzzle, what if the data disk is copied?

Eden seems to find rather concerning as the data disk will continue to accumulate memories even after Kuru has died, so copies existing in other places will grow differently.

Well, it’s a good thing there’s not a copy of the data disk, haha!

So what does Eden want our heroes to do with the data disk?

They should probably keep it, until after Eden dies and the Inquisition loses interest, and then give it to one of his AdMechs.

He does doubt whether anyone could bring the sergeant back except him, which he finds regretful, as apparently Kuru was not merely a colleague but a lover as well.

Eden then turns to ask about Cayenne’s mother, and she says that yes, her mother was taken in by a cult and she needed Eden to fix that.

Eden says he still might be able to help, he needs to see the mother and then maybe one of his teammates could perform the actual thing.

But the problem is that both Eden and mother are running out of time, and that’s what Cayenne must buy from the Inquisitor while she searches for her mother.

Gorm is in, he always loves pranking Inquisitors, provided Eden stays out of his business.

Eden says he can’t promise that, as he had ordered Vivek to hitch a ride with Uffe.

Turns out Vivek is, uh, known for setting factories aflame, so the Inquisition might be interested in talking with him, and if he goes back to prison, he will become a servitor.

Cayenne says she will try.

There’s also a matter of Eden’s cat and Eden says that since the AdMechs may need to flee, someone should probably look after the cat. He names Saef for it.

Before finishing up, Gimlet calls his mom and Gorm calls Fenris.

Gorm lets Fenris know that Snorri has been dealt with, mentions Uffe and how he seemed OK (and is asked to keep an eye out for any strange behavior).

Then he mentions this servitor that the Inquisition is after that possesses some information relating to Snorri and asks for permission to move in the gray area re: that. Permission is given.

Turns out Cayenne’s mom went missing in the same planet where the helmet of Gorm’s friend was found. What a coincidence! Let’s go there next!

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The Red Carpet to Crazy or the Truth?

You decide…

Cait should aim to kill the curiosity but she is the one that brings us all here…Why?

A piece for all new visitors, newbies, those who have considered are we crazy? and those just interested😜. This is just focused on what Cait wants us to believe re her relationship with Tony. Read this then ask yourself whose crazy! What’s discussed here is what was put out by them NOT created by believers! Contrary to belief we don’t need to put them together, we just see that they are more likely to be together than the alternatives given. My world will not fall apart if they are not.

Like MOST who get here my journey…I Watched outlander feb 2021…curious so I started looking on the net re stars…what I found was🤯

I googled Cait and Sam to see relationship status then them with respective partners. Sams pics were passable, nothing close to what I’d seen him be with Cait but I could accept it. Then I looked at Caits and immediately had no doubts because I found hundreds 🤣 of loved up pics that oozed happiness! They convinced me…..🤣 so much so I walked away 😊! If only…

Yup I lied 🤥 🙄🤣

Less than 10 pics found… all the same temperature 🥶 as opposed to all the pics I have seen with Sam 🥵

👇So if you had done a better job I would not have gone further. Blame… well it lies with you! Period!

Sam has said and we have witnessed that you are always happy, smiling and find it hard not to giggle 🤭

What happens when you are with the love of your life then is beyond incomprehensible 🤯 ☹️

If I was cynical I would think it was planned? 😱

👇The one picture I can find where there’s a glimmer of a smile from both of you and shock you’re not touching each other and looking at someone else? 🤯 I don’t get why you are shocked when I and so many others don’t buy it. We have seen the pics with Sam, we have seen your interactions with him in interviews so of course we look further…you even have warmer pics with Tobias than I have seen with Tony…so that’s how we all find tumblr.

🧐 It’s almost like you want to lead us here, you roll out the red carpet…just like vf article here’s the red carpet that leads to the crazy truth? If it isn’t the truth then you just must get a kick out of chaos, gossip and drama?

So next I’m looking for engagement enthusiasm because that will help me believe your story…

KDS quiz questions …at the point she says the word engagement most people who are newly engaged automatically break out into a beaming smile… it can’t be helped! Sadly not Cait!

Sams face at point of question, well ….?

But seconds later you both manage to get your faces in tune and smile and sam does his congrats bit… a good effort on film…👏👏👏 However it falls flat as Cait sadly just giggles and says ‘thanks’ but no elaboration …that’s it! The vibe is we addressed it ✅ now move along. Then she looks at the floor…awkward?

So let’s go with Sams face…can be open to interpretation? yes it can…so let’s try again.

Engagement Take 2 …Point in interview when asked have you got a wedding date? Face and response says it all!🤯 the tone! OMG 😳 … followed by Cait looking away with eyes down!

Wow I have NEVER known ANYONE respond like this ever!

So some straight forward wedding day pics would really help right now…sadly no! It’s private. Squeezed into a weekend where all your co stars apart from Sam were away on outlander business. Strange he’s the only one that could attend and congratulate, well I mean make a weird comment. He doesn’t say anything about a wedding specifically, it’s actually just a remarkable weekend. Why does everyone have to write the story for you? Why is Sam the most PROMINENT person on your wedding day?🤯 Why the rush all of a sudden, why squeeze it in a weekend with no time for honeymoon? Sams texts pre and post wedding only added to making it more unbelievable …

Pre tweet the pic significance re J&C is inappropriate to put out on your co stars wedding morning (also done a day late for outlander anniversary) post text 🤯where was the congrats to the happy couple? beautiful bride comments? or at least a 👰‍♀️🤵‍♂️emoji…when else can you use them? 🤯 Has anyone before or since hinted at a wedding and called it remarkable 🤯

So the honeymoon (it was at work spent with Sam!) and I believe your first pic post wedding was on set with a goat👇!

Now some say GOAT is greatest of all time, so if the only pic you can manage to release post wedding is with a goat then post a pic of a goat on your wedding day when you’re with your new husband? Not when you’re back at work with your hot co star that people link you with? How easy it is to stamp out any confusion if you want to? Well there would have been no confusion if you’d just done 1 wedding pic like most celebs… but it’s private ? You can still be private… a simple tweet would have done wonders something about marrying the love of your life since you want everyone to know? You want us to know you married him so much the only visible person on that day was Sam 😱🤯. You could have run to a pic of the cake, bouquet, champagne glasses …anything other than what you did which was nothing? Weird that?

👇Pic used for town and country article to celebrate the biggest weddings from 2019…here we go this will change my mind!

So Happy Couple number 13? Who makes a list of 13? who would want to be couple 13? who would want to be couple 13 dressed in black on a page full of white and beautiful colourful flowers?… Again Sam has to be mentioned and it’s all cryptic…but we are supposed to believe it’s happened😫

Sadly you didn’t share a wedding pic 🤯… so dressed in black amongst a page of beautiful loved up couples, speaks for itself. Surely you could have supplied a better pic than that? Why couldn’t you at least of released a new couple pic for the article… maybe wearing white? It stuck out as tragic, depressing amongst a beautiful sea of white happy wedding shots? But you were at least trying to give a slight smile?

The writer of said piece tweets…

Now when I came to tumblr looking if I had found a different version than the above I would have believed you were happily married to Tony and left, it was as easy as that…you guys made it complicated!

You can’t make this shit up! You reap what you sow…

So if you just look at the above… who looks crazy now? 🤷‍♀️

I am open minded, happy to be wrong, l repeat I do not need you and Sam to be together to make my life complete. Absolutely no one has to go to any lengths to put you with Sam… quite the opposite. YOU have presented this story and it falls well short of believable, anyone out there that comes here and finds the same I think will agree? ( and there’s so much more!) You and Sam may or may not be together, may or may not have been together but YOU both continue to feed the story by your actions. Your lack of effort to portray a believable relationship with others is yours and Sams choice. If you really wanted to kill off the rumours you could! Until you can do that I believe what your body language shows me.

My feelings are you ALL need this love triangle, creates more likes, interest, drama! All areas of fandom can get involved, keeps you in the news, employed. A love triangle/Is she isn’t she? its a great 🪝for fan manipulation…it’s gold…all done for 💰?

So the Oscar for PR drama goes to…the one who loves trophies 🏆!

JMHO

Posted 18 Jan 2022

(To all that have found the images here distressing and now have sore eyes I apologise.)

Thanks to all gif makers named and unidentifiable. Credit to town and country article written by Roxanne Adamyiatt source google.

#tumblr #samcait #@skippyangel16 #post jan 2022 #crazy #chaos #red carpet #wedding

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in your expert opinion what are some of the most destiel-heavy episodes of spn? i stopped watching around season 7 and have no interest in engaging w the plot of the show at all but i’m in the mood for some gay yearning ykwim

Hi anon! Thank you for reaching out to me about this, I’m, no-joke, very flattered. I’d seen a couple posts on this same question, very thorough and detailed lists on Destiel-centric episodes, but at the moment I cannot find any of them, that would’ve answered your request much faster. So, in advance, sorry, my reply is probably coming in extremely late, but I did write this from scratch, so yeah.

Even though storylines in SPN can be very shitty and hollow, I do feel that to get the full Destiel experience -that long-drawn yearning- one would have to watch the entirety of the show, even if Cas isn’t in the episode or if there’s no explicit mention of their relationship/bond because it gives you a better understanding of them as characters and of how their relationship affects the narrative.

Now, you mentioned you stopped around S7, which is completely understandable and justified given the Dick plot game was very weak and, in my opinion, annoying (so little Cas!). I’m going to start listing from S7 in case you want to refresh your SPN before jumping straight into unseen episodes. Also, since you mentioned no interest in the plot and are specifically craving those sweet crumbs of gay yearning, I’ll skip most one-sided / too subtle episodes and cut to the chase.

Lastly, I hate spoiling things, but you’ve probably seen it all on Tumblr. I tried to keep the episodes’ descriptions short, as it might come in useful. Stuck to key words, quotes and/or little comments.

Season 7

7x01 – Meet the New Boss: Godstiel, sincere apology. Cas: “I'm gonna find some way to redeem myself to you.”

7x02 – Hello, Cruel World: Mourning. Trench coat melancholy. The heart-wrenching eulogy: “Dumb son of a bitch.”

7x17 – The Born-Again Identity: Emmanuel!Cas, reunion, longing, hurt.

7x21 – Reading is Fundamental: Honey!Cas, hug, hurt, reunion, that painful SORRY (board game) scene.

7x23 – Survival of the Fittest: Honey!Cas, forgiveness, adorable, wified Cas. Dean hits us with: “Nobody cares that you're broken, Cas!" but also “I'd rather have you, cursed or not.”

Season 8 (this season is so good and Destiel is the driving motor of it, I swear. If you can, watch it complete.)

8x01 – We Need to Talk About Kevin: Dean in Purgatory looking for the angel. Cas is referred to as “your [Dean’s] angel.”

8x02 – What’s Up, Tiger Mommy?: HUG!!!, Purgatory reunion, face touch, very romantic. Monster: “ You'll find your angel there.” // Dean: “Let me bottom-line it for you. I'm not leaving here without you.”

8x05 – Blood Brother: Cas vs. Benny cat fight lol. Dean: “Cas... we're gonna shove your ass back through the eye of that needle if it kills all three of us.”

8x07 – A Little Slice of Kevin: Cas comes back from Purgatory, but before that Dean starts seeing him in places. Very tragic; hallucinating your dead significant other trope. Has That boner scene. Dean: “I did everything I could to get you out! EVERYTHING!” Cas helps Dean see what truly happened in Purgatory and not his self-altered memories. PACKED!

8x08 – Hunteri Heroici: Hilarious, romantic, intimate. Dean and Cas have an heart to heart. They actually communicate. Cas “I’ll watch over you.”

8x10 Torn and Frayed: They work a case together, and when I say heart eyes…

8x17 – Goodbye Stranger: THIS. EPISODE. Dean “I need you.”

8x19 – Taxi Driver: Separation. Naomi to Dean: "You're hoping Castiel will return to you. I admire your loyalty; I only wish he felt the same way."

8x22 – Clip Show: Lack of trust, hurt, tense interactions. Romantic too (basically, Cas gets Dean an apology basket).

8x23 – Sacrifice: Meaningful conversation and a gay couple hit by Cupid parallel. Dean “So this is it? E.T goes home?"

Season 9

9x01 – I think I’m Gonna Like it Here: Dean prays to Cas IN.A.CHAPEL. Worry, longing, separation. Dean “Please, man, I need you here.”

9x03 – I’m No Angel: Human!Cas and jealous!Dean.

9x06 – Heaven Can’t Wait: Human!Cas TEXT-BOOK LONGING. GAY AS FUCK. Gazing, touching, they even TALK (for real).

9x09 – Holy Terror: Adorable Cas, flirty vibes, happyish, funny. Cas: “Cas is back in town!”

9x10 – Road Trip: Cas comforts Dean, Cas and Crowley bitching at each other, overall protective!Cas.

9x18 – Metafiction. Cas finds out about the Mark of Cain.

9x21 – King of the Damned: Hug, strong boyfriends vibes.

9x22 – Stairway to Heaven: Cas gives up an entire army, for Dean. Metatron about Cas “He's in love………………………. with humanity.”

9x23 – Do You Believe in Miracles?: At this point, it’s canon stated that Cas will do anything and lose everything if that means saving Dean. Metatron to Cas “You draped yourself in the flag of heaven, but ultimately, it was all about saving one human, right?”

Season 10

10x01 – Black: Demon!Dean and sick/brokenhearted Cas in a slutty robe missing his man.

10x03 – Soul Survivor: ICONIC. Angel on Demon action! Cas turns down Hannah because he’s too gay and in love. Intimate Deancas talk.

10x05 – Fan Fiction: No Cas, but Destiel references.

10x09 – The Things We Left Behind: That.Lunch.Date. Deancas introduction to co-parenting.

10x14 – The Executioner’s Song: We get Daddy Murder aka Cain. This is a Pivotal episode to understand Dean’s character development. Plus, it has Deancas interactions.

10x16 – Paint It Black: No Cas, but Dean opens up in confessionary; repressed BISEXUAL AS FUCK.

10x18 – Book of the Damned: Charlie meets Cas. Gay energies everywhere. Cute domestic little scene.

10x20 – Angel Heart: PARENTING! Essential to understand Cas from this point forward.

10x22 – The Prisoner: Just… just watch it. One of THEE Destiel episodes.

10x23 – Brother’s Keeper: No Deancas interactions but it’s the finale, and I recommend watching it because next season takes off literally right from here. No time jumps.

Season 11

11x02 – Form and Void: Could skip to the very end which is when Cas comes back.

11x03 – The Bad Seed: Cursed!Cas. Dean takes care of him, even wraps him in a blanket. He also cradles his face. Extreme Hurt/Comfort. Jacting joices rejoice.

11x10 – The Devil in the Details: Could skip but has Casifer in it. Interesting to see his dynamic with Dean.

11x18 – Hell’s Angel: Casifer. Dean "It? It's not an it, Sam, it's Cas!"

11x23 – Alpha and Omega: Huggg! Cas willing to go on a guaranteed suicide mission with Dean. Very tender and sad.

Season 12

12x02 – Keep Calm and Carry On: ANOTHER HUG! Dean presents his boyfriend to his mom<3 Soft and romantic.

12x09 – First Blood: Reunion hug<3, Cas pining… as in he counts his every minute without Dean.

12x10 – Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets: Direct parallel with canon couple. Crystal-clear mutual affection. One of the best. Angel Ishim to Cas about Dean “I'm gonna help you. I'm gonna cure you of your human weakness same way I cured my own… by cutting it out.”

12x12 – Stuck in the Middle with You: A dying Cas confesses his love. “I love you. I love all of you.”

12x19 – The Future: We find out Dean gave Cas a MIXTAPE!!! Very romantic and full of yearning, also worry and what could be seen as a betrayal (ish…).

12x23 – All Along the Watch Tower: Hands down, one of the most distressing Destiel episodes. Cas dies.

Season 13

13x01 – Lost and Found: This is the worst because you have Dean trying to assimilate Cas’ death. Core of Dean’s widow’s arc. Jack introduction, that’s their new kid.

13x02 – The Rising Son: Widow’s arc (you could skip it, but why would you?).

13x03 – Patience: Widow’s arc (you could skip it, but why would you?). Dean to Sam “He manipulated him, he made him promises, said, ‘paradise on earth’ and Cas bought it and you know what that got him? It got him dead! Now you might be able to forget about that, but I can’t!”

13x04 – The Big Empty: Continuation of widow’s arc and Cas wakes up in the Empty. The Empty to Cas: "I know who you love. There's nothing for you back there." // Dean to Sam “I need you to keep the faith, for both of us. ‘Cause right now, I… Right now, I don’t believe in a damn thing.”

13x05 – Advanced Thanatology: Suicidal and hopeless Dean gets his win. Cas comes back. Gives me the chills.

13x06 – Tombstone: COWBOY BOYFRIENDS!

13x14 – Good Intentions: Happy and fun Destiel scene. So Very Married.

13x23 – Let The Good Times Roll: Season finale, Dean talks about retiring (plans include Cas of course) and just very nice to see them interact.

Season 14

14x03 – The Scar: Reunion.

14x08 – Byzantium: Deanand Cas dealing with their child’s death, then bringing him back by Cas making a deal with the Empty. IMPORTANT EPISODE.

14x09 – The Spear: Cas uses the royal We – married behavior.

14x10 – Nihilism: Dean is stuck in his own mind, and Cas and Sam try to bring him back. Cas “Please, you have to -- you have to try to remember, because the people in your life -- in your real life, out there -- we need you to come back.”

14x12 – Prophet and Loss: Dean gets his very own Dr. Sexy, aka Dr. Cas.

14x14 – Ouroboros: Basically another date (their kid tags along) and They TALK. Very intimate and established marriage vibes.

14x18 – Absence: Shits starts to go south. [ Dean: “Who cares what Jack said? We don't know what happened! But I swear, if he did something to her, if she is -- (points to Castiel) Then you're dead to me. (Castiel looks crushed after Dean says that).]

14x20 – Moriah: Tense and very upsetting. Relationship very damaged.

Season 15 (I would advise watching the entire season because it relies heavily on Destiel. They’re the heart and the emotional motor leading the plot onwards.)

15x01 – Back and To The Future: Deancas’ in the aftermath of their kid’s death. Tension gets worse.

15x02 – Raising Hell: Tension rises, this is very intense. Cas “Dean. You asked, "What about all of this is real?" We are.”

15x03 – The Rupture: Breaking point ends in divorce.

15x06 – Golden Time: Painful phone call which speaks volumes about the current state of their relationship at the time. Also, good to see where they’re standing and how they’re coping.

15x08 – Our Father Who Aren’t in Heaven: Strained relationship so obvious they’re offered couples’ therapy.

15x09 – The Trap: MASTERPIECE. Back to Purgatory. Can (and is) taken as Dean’s love confession (because it is).

15x12 – Galaxy Brain: So married. Little domestic date, you can see LOVE written in their faces.

15x13 – Destiny’s Child: AU!Dean and Sam. Not a yearning episode per se, but AU!Dean? SO GAY.

15x17 – Unity: God reveals that the only act of free will in any universe he ever created has been Cas choosing Dean.

15x18 – Despair: Cas confesses his love to Dean.

#Anonymous #thanks for coming to my ted talk #im posting this at 2:30 am so i'll most likely reblog it at a more reasonable hour ..in case anon is closer to my time zone #why am i even saying this..im sleepy #destiel #answered #destiel episode guide #there might be number/name mistakes because again sleepish.forgive me #long post

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20 Questions: Writer’s Edition

Thanks for the tag, @kasienda!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

431929. Can’t believe it’s that many, I haven’t written any super long stories.

3. How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

Miraculous Ladybug, Trials of Apollo, and Batman. I’ve been a fan of DC Comics and the batfamily since I watched Young Justice, so when a certain crossover gained popularity, I took a crack at it, wanting to write one that was in-character and not a bashfest. I’m still pretty happy with it, but I don’t think I’ll touch that universe again any time soon. That well is way, WAY too poisoned for me at this point.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Turning Points: Start of my Pointsverse series. Adrien, Alya, Marinette, and Nino watch the episodes - well, part of the episodes - when they became superheroes. Also includes Chameleon at the end, since that episode would’ve gone differently if the four of them all knew each other’s identities.

Divergent Points - Feast: Third Pointsverse story. After Feast is defeated, Plagg reminisces about how his past wielders have treated him, and how Adrien’s different. He flies over to Fu, letting him know where he’s messed up in regards to Adrien and Marinette and how to fix it.

Never Sing At Home: Hawkmoth defeat crackfic, based off of that “Chat gets his hands on the Butterfly Miraculous while his father acquires his, and contacts Ladybug using an akuma” text post that made the rounds awhile ago.

Swallowing Rings Is Bad For Your Health: Crackfic based on @buggachat Bakery Enemies AU. Instead of spitting out Adrien’s ring, Marinette accidentally swallows it. This has unexpected repercussions.

Divergent Points - Weredad: Second Pointsverse story. Marinette and Chat Noir get caught kissing by Tom and roll with it.

5. Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Yes, absolutely! There are times when I don’t get around to it, but I try my best! If people are going to take the time to leave a comment, then I generally want to take the time to reply.

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

Last Days of a Meat Puppet, one of my Trials of Apollo fics. Lester isn’t actually just Apollo’s mortal disguise, he’s a living, breathing human being who Zeus slowly drained the soul out of in order to make him a suitable vessel for his son. Apollo eventually manages to get some people to help him reconstruct Lester’s soul, but the kid’s still dead. He gets reborn at least, but it’s still the most tragic thing I’ve written.

7. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

When You Fell in Love With Me. Chat and Ladybug watch the scenes of the show where they fell in love with each other, leading to an identity reveal.

8. Do you write crossovers? If yes, what’s the craziest thing you’ve written?

Again, written... okay technically two, but for the same universe. I guess the craziest would be Who You Gonna Call?. Ladybug and Chat Noir cuddle with the League of Super-pets, who have somehow managed to recruit their pet Lovesquare hamster, Hamtaro.

9. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

A little with Divergent Points: ML Salt. To be fair, I expected it to be controversial. I was parodying and lambasting Miraculous saltfics, after all.

10. Do you write smut? If so what kind?

Nope, don’t touch the stuff.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not as far as I’m aware of. There was this one person who thought I’d stolen my AO3 Trials of Apollo analyses from myself over on tumblr, but I set them straight on that. Happy they were paying attention, but I think next time, they’ll ask the person they believe to be the OP before yelling at the person they believe to be the thief.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! Ningming translated Last Days of a Meat Puppet! I guess they really liked it.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic?

Nope. Analyses. Well, more like analysis. The only one I was substantially involved with was “Now, get up, drama queen.”: An Analysis of Artemis' perspective in Trials Of Apollo. The other ones @fearlessinger wrote, I was more of a sounding board on.

14. What’s your all time favourite ship?

Lovesquare. I’ve had ships I like, but never any that ensnared me before, that I’d read a thousand fics of (quite literally), that I’d even write myself. Romance was rarely that interesting to me, but Miraculous and the Lovesquare showed me that I CAN, in fact, get deeply invested in a romantic relationship.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

Dragon Falls. HTTYD Adrigami AU - oh. That might actually count as a crossover, come to think of it. Anyway, it wasn’t all that popular and while I have some ideas of how to continue it, I’m not sure I’ll ever actually finish it. Maybe someday.

16. What’s your writing strengths?

Writing from inside the character’s eyes, seeing their thoughts. I started off writing first-person Trials of Apollo fics, and while I’m writing in the third-person for Miraculous Ladybug, I still try to maintain a first-person viewpoint to an extent.

17. What’s your writing weaknesses?

I have a lot of trouble actually getting the words onto the page. I only started writing about three years ago. Before that I just couldn’t write anything that sounded remotely good or natural. Then I had an idea for Trials of Apollo that I kept on describing in more and more detail until finally, I broke through whatever writer’s block I’d had all my life and actually managed to write some decent dialogue.

18. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in fic?

Try and get someone familiar with the language to help.

19. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

That I actually have stuff posted and published for? Trials of Apollo. But I DID attempt to write a fix-it fic for the ending of Animorphs when I was 10, before I even had the CONCEPT of fanfiction, to fix Rachel’s death. I had he bust out some super gymnastics move and use them to get out of being pinned and not die.

20. What’s your favourite fic you’ve written?

Last Days of a Meat Puppet. It’s deliciously angsty with a bittersweet ending!

@chronicallylatetotheparty, @galahadwilder, you want a go?

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ryosei-hime · 3 years

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Writer Tag Game

I got tagged by @ernmark

I’m terrible at tagging people in these so if you see this and want to do it, go for it!

How many works do you have on AO3?

I’m gonna start by saying that I have a larger chunk of fics on FF.net because I wrote more back when I used that instead. I also had a very long hiatus from writing fics at all due to mental health and life stuff.

Also I realized recently that a lot of my RvB fics didn’t end up on AO3 and I just left them here on tumblr which was the last time I was super active with fanfic back in 2014.

So, long way around to say, only 20 that are housed on AO3 specifically.

What's your total AO3 word count?

49,141

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Naptime is Best Time which was my most popular RvB fic. A little humorous Grimmons.

Stolitz Week Oneshots - Some of my most recent work since that event only ended recently. Very specifically I got a lot of those kudos after posting Confession which seems to be well-liked and makes me very happy.

Personal Space which is a HuskerDust chapter fic that deals with Husk’s insecurities regarding his demon form.

Sex and Therapy - An OCxRobo Fizz story in which an imp therapist buys a busted up second hand Fizzarolli Personal Companion with intents to help him professionally but uh. *points at the title* This one was very surprising to me because I don’t expect much if any attention to be given to my OC focused things. So that this one got enough to be on the top five makes me really happy.

Apologies - An Alix/Chat Noir fic that I did for a rare pair exchange. Another one that surprises me. : P Especially as I only watched the first season of Ladybug and often forget I even wrote it.

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I try to and if the comment is longer, I definitely do. With shorter comments, it depends on my mood. I’m socially awkward and whether or not saying just thank you feels inane and unwanted as a response will vary with how I’m feeling. I definitely appreciate all comments! Even one word comments. : P But responding will vary based on my own mental processes and has nothing to do with the commenter or my appreciation for the comment. Some comments will make me particularly happy and I’ll read them over again but still not respond because I don’t have anything specific to say in response. It’s mostly a series of noises that can’t be conveyed in text.

What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending?

Oh! That’s definitely Don’t Cry Usagi. A short fic speculating the long term effects of Naru's role as victim in Sailor Moon's crime-fighting life. I don’t do character death a lot but I had this idea and it wouldn’t leave me alone.

What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending?

I think I end up with a lot of happy endings. Like there’s probably suffering along the way but in the end things work out more often than not. So, I don’t think that I can say any one fic has a happier ending than another, really.

Do you write crossovers? If so, What is the craziest one you’ve ever written?

I was probably more prone to that when I was younger. I did have one that I never posted anywhere that involved Doctor Drakken from Kim Possible attempting to use a device to access a universe in which he had been successful in taking over the world (I think this was before a Stitch in Time came out) and learn how he did it. But of course the device malfunctions and sort of scatters universes. I used pretty much all the cartoons I was particularly interested in at the time.

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

I wouldn’t say hate. I’ve definitely received some weird responses though. And all on FF.net.

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

I only very, very recently starting doing so! Because you can only write a character that’s a sexbot for so long without it coming up. It was important that the second occurrence of full on sex in Sex and Therapy (I fade to blacked the first) actually be written because there was a lot of emotion and bonding involved in it that needed to be shown. Which is why I said fuck it and did the shorter one right before it as well. I had to accept I couldn’t tell that story without sex. It’s in the title! But now I’m more comfortable writing it, so I may be more prone to do so going forward.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I’m pretty sure I had a few snatched up by bots grabbing a bunch all at once. But not by a person that I am aware of.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I’m aware of.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I attempted to do so once with a 9/Labyrinth crossover. I failed you @ernmark. Forgive me. Actually, there was one other time where I was slightly more successful but it also never got posted anywhere or made it beyond a couple of rough drafts. It was a DBZ fic and I remember a much more talented writer was working with me and I was super grateful for their input and help because this was when I was like *maths* 13? I was super young. We were using yahoo chat to work on it together. And this much better/older writer treated me so nicely and wasn’t condescending at all. It was really nice of them. I will always remember you stranger from yahoo chat.

What’s your all-time favourite ship?

That definitely depends on the fandom. Since these are the two fandoms I’m active in right now: Stolitz is my favorite Helluva Boss ship and HuskerDust is my favorite Hazbin Hotel ship.

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

Okay, there are two fics I started a million years ago that I think about rewriting and finishing constantly. I even started to rewrite one of them more recently before Helluva/Hazbin took over my brain. One was Foutley’s Phone Buddies which was an As Told By Ginger fic focused on aged up Carl/Blake. The other Was Crouching Tigger, Hidden Rabbit which was a Tigger/Rabbit fic. That’s right. I ship the fuck out of Tigger and Rabbit from Winnie the Pooh.

What are your writing strengths?

Characters and dialogue. I’m someone with very low self-esteem or it used to be very low. I guess it’s gotten better but it’s still hard to say outright nice things about myself. But I’ve never had a problem saying I’m good at characters. Confessions is kind of a point of pride for me right now with that because of how much attention it’s received for being in character.

What are your writing weaknesses?

Plot and structure. I write primarily by instinct. And my instinct is primarily character driven. What makes it easy for me to just churn out character interactions without thinking makes it difficult for me when I have to stop and slow down long enough to figure out what’s actually supposed to be happening in the story and in what order for the best pacing. The more my wheels have to actually turn, the harder it is for me.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I’ll do it poorly with flagrant disregard for poor native speakers. I’m so sorry native speakers. I used bacha galupe for Angel in one recently. I didn’t even think about it. I just did it. And I’m pretty sure I learned that from the Golden Girls so how accurate it is or if it’s even spelled right is beyond me. But it’s out there now. I really only do this for words here and there though. If someone’s gonna do more than that, I’ll just write that they speak in the language.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

The Animorphs! I typed up Animorphs fic in like comic sans size fucking 30 or something and printed it out. I’ll never forget. That was in the late 1990s and my grandfather had just moved up from the printer that had the edges you had to tear off. So it was on this impressive pure white straight sheet of paper. So fancy and it had my giant ass fic on it. Only the best for my Andalite OC.

What’s your favourite fic you’ve written?

I’m still very fond of Naptime is Best Time after all these years. I think Sex and Therapy is gonna be special to me for being one of the longest chapter fics I’ve ever finished (I’ma finish it) because I’ve always been more of a oneshot person until recently. And Confessions will probably stay a favorite for a long time. So, yeah, I’ve just been happier with my recent stuff and being able to write fanfic again after so many years.

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upstartcrow42 · 3 years

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Fic Writer Interview

Thanks for the tag, @chelsfic!

How many works do you have on AO3?

What’s your total AO3 word count?

201,056 👀

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

If we’re just counting AO3, then it’s just one. What We Do in the Shadows. I’ve only had this username for a year. Under different names in different places I have other fics for other fandoms. That would bring the grand total up to 5. I tend to have huge fic dry spells.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

66 - Especially For You - Nandor/Guillermo. Gen - Gift fic for @jujubeas. Guillermo is injured (very minor) and Nandor cares for him by buying him food from Panera Bread.

44 - Tell Me Things Will Be Okay - Nandor/Guillermo. Gen - Gift fic for @riskylatte and a collaboration with @andyandnormski. Nandor tries to calm Guillermo’s frayed nerves after they arrive home from the theater massacre.

35 - The Protocols of Revenge - Nandor/Nadja that leads to Nandor/Nadja/Laszlo. NSFW - My first fic for the fandom. Laszlo makes Nadja made, so Nandor proposes revenge. Nadja eventual relents but on the condition that Laszlo watch.

33 - Just Right - Nandor/Guillermo. Gen. Gift fic for @andyandnormski. A seasonal storm spooks Guillermo, so Nandor takes matters into his own hands as far as his relaxation goes. Naturally, things go awry.

32- He Demands Satisfaction. - Nandor/Guillermo Gen. Tumblr Prompt request for @andyandnormski. Nandor and Guillermo are taking their relationship to new levels post theater massacre, but the threat of sunlight puts a damper on things.

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I get so few comments on my fics these days, so I reply to them all. I understand why people don’t comment on fics, especially NSFW ones, but I love hearing from readers, even if the comment is super short. I love getting replies back from authors when I comment, so I try to do the same for anyone who comments on my fics. I like engaging with the readers.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

Rooftop Reflections. Nandor/Nadja. She’s been missing Laszlo since he want on the run and tries to escape by sitting on the roof. Nandor joins her and then leaves her be. She is really bummed out at the end after Nandor leaves and has to be alone with her thoughts about Laszlo.

Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you’ve written?

I have not yet, but I’m not against.

I’ve been wanting do a weird one with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/What We Do in the Shadows. They’re both in NYC, and they both have to keep to the shadows, so it makes sense that they’d run into each other. Leonardo vs. Nandor as leaders, lol. Donatello and Colin Robinson getting into technical details about topics. Raphael and Nadja being just the rudest. Micaelangelo and Laszlo straight up chillin’. And Master Splinter and Guillermo shaking their head at their charges acting like such fools.

I’ve also thought about them running away to Canada and meeting the crew from Letterkenny.

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

When I was writing HP, yes. It was mainly about how I was ending my chapters, and to be fair, the endings were not great for what I was trying to achieve (setting up some context - kind of omncient). I’m pretty sure I’ve deleted all of those from existence now.

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

Most definitely. I’ve written mainly mlw and wlw with reference to mlm. I’ve also written OT3 situations with mmw.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I’m aware of. How does that even happen?

Have you ever had a fic translated?

I have not.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes.

I mentioned Tell Me Things will be okay earlier. Andy and I were very equal partners on that one and it was fun take their lead and then run with it and then see what they came up with next.

Nandor the Relentless: Conqueror of Courting. Nandor/Guillermo. A round robin fic where ideas were thrown out and shaped as a team. Nandor tries to court Guillermo in one-sided fake dating scenarios to protect him. I contributed to the last chapter of this gem of a fic series. I’m really proud that Nandor’s lament of the Windsor name was kept in.

Shoot Your Shot. Fendermo. Another round robin known by the writers as the Basketball AU. Nandor is a WNBA pro and Guillermo is her assistant. They’re even stupider in this story than in the show. It’s not complete, but one day we’ll finish it. I’m really proud of the text chain I wrote in the first chapter.

What’s your all time favorite ship?

I know nearly all the stories I’ve talked about are Nandermo, but that’s not my all time favorite ship. I don’t know if I can really pick a favorite. It’s just Nandor/Anyone really.

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

A Chance Encounter. Nandor/Silvia de la Cruz (Guillermo’s mom). NSFW. I’m only afraid I won’t finish it because I’m stuck on the next part for how the story should flow now that the smut is out of the way.

What are your writing strengths?

I’ve been told that I’m good and smooth dialogue.

What are your writing weaknesses?

I think I use the same descriptive language too much. The same facial expressions and dialogue reactions. I also need to work on differentiating my imagery and adding more figurative language to my stories. I love seeing that in other people’s works, but suddenly forget to do it in my own.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I love to see it, or even incorporating English language learning sentence structures into fics for characters whose primary language is not English. When I write in another language, I have had a friend who can speak that language check my work and phrasing to make it sound realistic. There was a lot of that in A Chance Encounter and @theoceanismyinkwell was immensely helpful with the Spanish dialogue and the Spanish Speaker in speaking in English lines too.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

The first one I ever published on a fic site was Gundam Wing. I really hope that is not floating around still as I can’t even remember the site it was pubished on. It was peak cringe.

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

It’s not complete, but Written in the Stars has consumed an epic amount of my time. The word count alone is two novels worth. It’s been fun to look into Nandor’s past, but also make him somewhat of a softie at that time too for a fic that could be otherwise very dark (there are defintely some mildly dark elements, but it’s generally just regular flavor NSFW). And it’s fun to take a semi-canon character who has one trait and flesh her out into a full person. At least I hope she comes across that way.

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barzzal · 4 years

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hi here’s a mobile about/navi you can look thru in case you’re new to my blog and wanted to gtk me ♡

name: ally

age: 20+

pronouns: she/her

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mbti: entj

teams:

main: islanders, penguins, avalanche

i live blog so you might want to filter the ff just in case bc we tend to clog up the dash during game night: #isles lb, #avs lb, #pens lb

important links:

→ find me at: solaange

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this is only a side blog. meaning, i don’t follow and like thru this blog at all. my main is at solaange so if you see that user lurkin’, don’t fret cos that’s me!

tagging system:

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a few things to know about me:

— living the barzal and crosby life -ˋˏ religiously ˊ-

— i write imagines and make gifs! / do not repost and or steal any of my work + gifs (no matter how bad they are) on other platforms ie. twitter, instagram, inc. tumblr

— the realest hockey quote is still the one where joey said “hockey was a big mistake” bc hun, it is. i dove head first and never came back up

— i love mat when he’s speaking french cos he kinda looks like a smol bèbè. however, tito speaking french? don’t ask me about it i have a weakass pussy

— i’m an adult poc so pls pls lmk if you’re a minor before you interact with me. i don’t mind chatting with yalls but i tend to say things that would for sure get me to jail and i don’t think i’ve watched enough prison break for me to escape that shit

— i have a soft spot for captains ang goalies but i’ve never wanted anything else than to be dicked down by a d man. (ryan graves, i’m talking to u)

— forwards are cute too but they do be sloppy sometimes,, mathew i’m looking straight at you don’t you dare look away

— my ass is pretty much owned/legally allowed to be railed by mat barzal, sidney crosby, tyson jost, andre burakovsky, and sebastian aho only.

players and teams you’ll often see on my blog:

in alphabetical order / (*) main hockeys

carolina hurricanes

andrei svechnikov* | xxxvii

sebastian aho* | xx

colorado avalanche

andre burakovsky* | xcv

cale makar | viii

mikko rantanen* | xcvi

nathan mackinnon | xxix

tyson barrie (i know i know. but for the sake of my sanity, let him stay here)

tyson jost* | xvii (simply can’t deal w this rn)

the whole roster actually

dallas stars

braden holtby

dennis gurianov*

jake oettinger

jason dickinson

roope hintz

tyler seguin | xci

montreal canadiens

carey price | xxxi

new jersey devils

nico hischier

ryan graves* | xxvii

pk subban

new york islanders

anders lee

casey cizikas

anthony beauvillier* | xviii

ilya sorokin*

jean gabriel pageau

mathew barzal* | xiii

matt martin

noah dobson

oliver wahlstrom | xxvi

pittsburgh penguins

evgeni malkin

kris letang

pierre-olivier joseph* | lxxiii

tristan jarry

sidney crosby* | lxxxvii

philadelphia flyers

philippe myers | v

travis konecny* | xi

vancouver canucks

elias pettersson* | xl

zack macewen

seattle kraken

jordan eberle

st. louis blues

colton parayko

tampa bay lightning

mathieu joseph* | vii

toronto maple leafs

mitch marner* | xvi

travis dermott | xxiii

what in the fucking fuck is this fuckery

marc andre fleury

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notsolstice · 4 years

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Hey!! So that post about wayward son (after realizing not the song) made me monkey side-eye my bookcase to the two novels on my bookshelf and I googled what ppl's beef w her is and long story short, books are in the garbage lol. I literally only bought them bc of the Kevin wada art and never got around to reading them, so yeah waste of money, but no skin off my nose. That being said, you got any recs for some good books?? I don't think I have a particular preference, but I'd def prefer non-fiction (I get enough of real life from daily news articles tbh). If it's too much work, don't hesitate to trash this ask, but I just thought I'd give it a shot since u seem well read and I literally don't think I've read anything extensively since I hyperfixated on the Sherlock Holmes anthology for 16 hours straight lol

oh hell yeah successfully tricked someone else into thinking i am well-read

and oh yeah i know i joke but yea don’t read rainbow rowell’s books because it doesn’t matter how many beautiful covers she gets from a collab with a high profile asian american artists there’s no excusing her first mess of a book. plus the fact that they’re apparently making a movie (???) she’s really not trying to apologize or rehab her image very well lol

BUT ANYWAYS idk if you meant fiction instead of non-fiction but if you’re after non-fiction unfort I will not be of much help since I’ve read like, 2 non-fiction books in the last 10 years and I almost exclusively read genre fiction so apologies in advance if this list is useless 2 u. also just fyi i don’t really read modern YA because I’m a crotchety grandmother so if you are looking for YA that is more woke then I will also not be of much help here. and don’t read the raven cycle no matter what tumblr tells u

the southern reach trilogy by jeff vandermeer. the books are probably my all-time favorite sci-fi literature ever, although calling them sci-fi is probably not accurate. more like magical realism science fiction? first book starts with a team of all-women scientists exploring an area that is hostile to humans on behalf of a shady institution and things get weird from there. the second book drags a bit but it is SO worth it trust me. don’t watch the movie

piranesi by susanna clarke. this is her most recent book, and I’m reccing it instead of her first book, jonathan strange & mr norrell because piranesi is a quick read compared to jsamn which is 800 damn pages long and dense as HELL and probably a little intimidating if you’re out of practice reading. however I do also recommend that if you have the patience.

DISCWORLD by terry pratchett. the discworld series is actually about like 50 books or something ridiculous and ugh ok I was trying to keep this not intimidating but it’s so worth it I promise. dw was a foundational text to my sense of humor which, actually hm. that might not be the best endorsement but whatever. it started out as just a parody/satire of those trashy fantasy books from the 70s-80s but it expanded into its own universe. also you may know it if you watched/read good omens, sir terry was the other co-author besides neil gaiman. you do not have to read them in chronological publishing order btw, they’re actually more like comics, where you can pick a character/set of characters and read their series within the larger canon. there are a lot of reading order lists out there so it’s pretty easy to pick one and start, but I can definitely help more if u want!!!

salt: a world history by mark kurlansky. ok this is a non-fiction book I just picked up and it is very interesting despite the title but this has exhausted my recs for non-fiction i’m sorry. or you can read the giant book about cancer the emperor of all maladies which was great but wiped me out on non-fiction for about a decade

the matthew swift series by kate griffin. i think it’s got some other fancy name as a series title but i literally cannot remember it right now oh well. not the highest brow of Great Literature but i loved this series about a sad man brought back from the dead to do magic with garbage bins and telephone booths. and it’s a series of books about adults doing magic but in no way can it be described as “harry potter for grownups” so that earns it points immediately

wilder girls by rory power. oh wait I did read one YA book that I liked!!!!! this is kind of similar to jeff vandermeer’s writing, although a little less intense. there’s a lot of body horror and feral teenage girls and is delightful to read if you were at any point in your life a feral teenage girl

the starless sea by erin morgenstern. skirting the edge of YA with this one but it was fun and gay and what you should read instead of wayward sons. or just read some spn fanfic i got recs for that too

I have a lot more books I’m trying to read now but I feel like this is a decent place to stop before I start recommending chuck palahniuk and embarrassing myself with my cishet male taste

#reply tag #ohyesididnotjustdothat #if your blacklist catches this for 'sherlock' 'harry potter' 'rainbow rowell' and 'chuck palahniuk' take a shot because mine did

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devourer--of--books · 4 years

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I’m mad about Hunter being written off and here’s why you should be too

You: wasted potential.

Me, an intellectual: ah, Hunter and Nicola’s friendship

I have strong opinions about Hunter.

Yeah, you heard me right.

Look, I have strong opinions about many, many, things. Today, we are taking a dive on Hunter and Nicola. First I’d like to blame this post on Kate, as I decided to make it after I tried to articulate why Hunter being written off TCY makes me so angry in a huge comment under her latest OTK post but it ended up being too big and messy so I deleted it. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone elaborate on it, so if you were also mad about this, bro, not to be intense, but like, are we soulmates or...??

Before anything else, as I usually do with my text posts (which I haven’t done in a while, opsies), I shall provide you with arguably unnecessary context. Sit down, grab yourself some snacks, make yourself at home, I’m about to rant you into oblivion.

Since I know many accounts weren’t around back then, I’ll also give you the socio-political vibes of the time period, as any self-respecting half-baked essay written last minute should.

POV, you’re 14/15 year-old me. You flat iron your hair, you don’t use sunscreen, you think you’re straight and your school makes you wear those horrid low rise uniform pants, but at least you can somewhat do your make-up decently now that you grew out of your emo phase.

The year was 2016. The Ever Never Handbook has just come out. You re-watch the handbook trailer on youtube for the fifteenth time. Everyone is losing their minds over OcTObeR 14tH and “a student named Agatha ~ now Agatha of Camelot~”, as well as the portraits and the teasing for a new SGE book. Quests For Glory is announced just a few days later. 2016 tagatha ship week happens a few months down the line.

This is the SGE Tumblr Fandom Peak.

Now, let’s start right there, two-ish weeks after the release of the Handbook, right as the QFG announcement comes out.

We all knew Soman wasn’t done with SGE after TLEA. He definitely had been teasing something in his weekly blogs (lol, remember when I used to check the blog, what a time to be alive) and once we got the ENH, we got quite lot of info to theorize. Here’s some that I can think off the top of my head:

- The coven was going on a mission to find a new School Master.

- Tedros and Agatha were struggling financially in Camelot but were going to get married soon (even if Sophie doubted Tedros would have asked Agatha yet, as of the time of the Ever Never RoundTable, but we’re taking that with a grain of salt, because she was written to sound jealous here, and I won’t acknowledge that kinda of bs, she is happy for her friends okay, we’ve been though this-)

- Sophie had completely remodeled the School For Evil and was getting on Dovey and the rest of the faculty’s nerves (except for newly hired history teacher, Hort).

- The rest of the supporting cast had just graduated third year and was to be off in quests soon.

- The School was now accepting applications, and two of those applicants are Nicola and Bogden.

Now, I’m not even gonna bring up how it was mentioned in a video in EverNeverTv that Bogden would be an important character in TCY, and yet, I can’t think of anything relevant about him other than the fact that he knew tarot apparently, or how his application had more personality than him in the entire series, or how he was basically there so we could look at him and Willam and be like “oh, representation”, or how he’d be a good insight on how Galvadon perceives Sophie and Agatha post-TLEA, or- I’m just not gonna.

Oh, no. Instead, we are here to discuss Nicola’s application.

If your memory is foggy, let me remind you:

Nicola’s application is submitted, according to the Handbook, by her friend, Hunter. For convenience sake, we’ll assume Hunter is a guy (I’ll tell you why Hunter being a guy works better for me in a bit), but his gender is not mentioned anywhere in the ENH. I don’t think he has been gendered in any version (correct me if I’m wrong) or if there are any pronouns for him during TCY, but I’m fairly confident he isn’t mentioned at all.

Hunter tells us he is applying on Nic’s behalf, as she’d never apply for herself. He mentions that she is more or less the Galvadon equivalent of an activist for women’s rights, founding a rugby unisex team and campaigning for pants instead of skirts for the local school uniform, as well as having a feminist sounding book as her favorite book. It’s heavily implied that she is a jock, as he lists that, if marooned on a desert island, Nicola would want to have a soccer ball, a hockey stick and a set of dumbbells (“and none of this 5-lb nonsense”) with her.

Upon asked why Nicola should go to the school, his answer is: “because there’s a greater place for her in the world, where she can learn a girl’s true worth, and I don’t think it’s here.”

Then you have a note from (*rolls eyes* *suppresses a gag* *tears hair out*) the very late, long, long gone, absolutely dead, August Sader, telling the Deans to accept her application, despite having no reason to do so, as Nicola was to “play a crucial role in it’s [the school’s] survival.” Dovey and Sophie agree to flip a coin to decide which school will take her, which Sophie must have lost, as Nicola is accepted into the School For Evil.

By now, I think we all agree that Nicola was done dirty. If you check my QFG re-read you’ll notice that I complained about her there. As I had to go though her introduction chapter again to make this post, let me tell you why: Nicola wasn’t written to be likeable.

She simply wasn’t. That’s the one conclusion I can draw. Whether that’s intentional or not, I can’t tell, but the backlash she received was fairly useful, as it meant Soman could write her off the main story without much backlash from his target audience (aka, not us, pesky pretentious older readers).

The Nicola I was introduced to, not only in the Handbook but on her trailer for QFG was not the girl on QFG.

Nic is there to be the smart girl™, and while I do appreciate having a character who is a bit cocky about their brains, it just doesn’t work well there. Because her bond to other characters and the way she earns their respect feels so weak, she just comes across as pretentious. Characters like Hester and Agatha, who are supposed to be smart, feel dumbed down to show us how clever Nicola is. Agatha is supposed to be the resourceful thinker and Hester wanted to be class captain, you bet she studied like crazy, she probs knows every fairytale in existence.

Then you add that to the (*rolls eyes* *suppresses a gag* *tears hair out*) Nicola and Hort fiasco and Nic feels like a weirdly written OC insert.

Handbook!Nicola sounded like a smart jock kind of character (read, more Gryffindor than Ravenclaw). Handbook!Nic was a Reader who read the tales as a hobby, but her favorite book is not a tale, it’s a non-fiction book (as far as I can tell). She might not be the fairytale expert, but she sounds like a practical thinker, as sport requires strategy, which is not Hester’s strong suit, given she is rather impulsive, or Agatha’s, given she is often unwilling to make hard decisions due to her Good nature and her own insecurities. C’mon, Handbook!Nic would have taken one look at Hort and sent him running to hills, because she would be able to smell his bs three miles away. She’s no one’s replacement, least of all Sophie’s (whom she probably would not have gotten along with (at least they got this part right) given Sophie’s “my prince will sweep me away from an ordinary life” phylosophy). To be honest she doesn’t sound like she’d be interested in dating at all.

But this post is about Hunter right? Let me remind you, Hunter is not mentioned in Nicola’s introduction, when she talks about her life in Galvadon. Canon!Nicola tells us that she has two brothers who want to inherit her father’s pub in order to sell the place, but Nicola is close with her father and likes working there to some extent, even if she has bigger ambitions. She believes her brothers sent her application as a way to get rid of her.

Back when I still had some faith that Soman had an arc for Nicola that included resolution, I had my theories as to why she wouldn’t mention Hunter: maybe he was to appear in later books and they’d have a huge backstory explaining their friendship, as well as a dramatic confession that Hunter sent her application because he felt Nicola deserved to live an adventure, and Nicola would either realize that she was meant for something more or that she wanted to live a quiet life, honestly either would be nice. I would have taken anything. Truly, if Nicola’s k-pop boyfriend in the OTK epilogue had been replaced with Hunter, I might be able to hate it less.

Especially if they came to the (*rolls eyes* *suppresses a gag* *tears hair out*) school wedding as friends. Because you know what?

We are starved for male-female friendships in the SGE universe.

Tedros’s only female friends (all his friends in general) are Agatha’s friends (who all tried to get rid of him at some point, save for maybe Dot) and his actual friends are all dead (Bettina/Chaddick). Hort could be counted as Agatha’s friend, if only he didn’t bash her every five seconds like a moron (he literally pitched the idea that Agatha should be executed by Tedros in OTK, just because he was envious or her relationship with Sophie (not jealous, envious, because Sophie wasn’t his to begin with)) over his delusional sense entitlement of Sophie’s affections (which I hate, but as this is not a Hort-bashing post, I won’t get too much into), but the coven, Beatrix, Renna and co. would not touch him with a stick. Merlin’s friendship with Lady Of The Lake is gone, and Dovey is dead. Rhian and Kei both had that frenemies thing with Sophie in ACOT/beggining of OTK, but I think it was supposed to be romantic? It wasn’t ew (I hate Rhian but he’s also wasted potential, and so was Kei, whom I liked, rest in peace). Japeth hates women for??? Whatever. Willam and Bodgen are such background characters I could not care less about them. The new students weren’t memorable enough for me to remember their names. I think this about covers the main male cast.

There’s a lack of male friendships too, but we kinda have (*rolls eyes* *suppresses a gag* *tears hair out*) Tort and whatever was that rushed Tedros/Chaddick friendship. Rhian and Kei were gay friends (yeah, right, sure, very platonic). Tedros and Rhian could have been friends if Rhian redeemed himself, but otherwise no. Tedros and Filip… gay. Japeth literally killed Rhian, so also not very good friendship between brothers. Hort has no friends, because Ravan would so not be here for his bs. Willam and Bogden are a couple and (*rolls eyes* *suppresses a gag* *tears hair out*) so were Aric and Japeth, I guess.

Still don’t believe Hunter was wasted potential? Okay, let me tell you what my ideal Nicola arc would be, mixing Handbook!Nicola with some canon!Nicola and including Hunter.

- Nicola is the one inheriting the pub (once she gets married), despite Galvadon’s pre-TLEA sexism and conservative views, because she is her father’s only child and her brothers are actually her older half-siblings from her mother’s previous marriage.

- Her mom died at some point early in her childhood. Not a childbirth tho, because Callis, local witch gynecologist (have you checked my post on this yet? no? you should) was there for her, even if it was a high risk pregnancy because the mom was already older.

- Because of that, Nicola’s father actually sells bread to Callis for cheaper prizes, but don’t tell the elders, shhh

- Anyway, because her mom was gone so early, Nicola was raised by her dad, brothers and by the employees (mostly men, as I don’t think it was all that common for women to work jobs in Galvadon) of her father’s pub. Due to being a girl, most guys weren’t willing to befriend her (sexism, am I right), but because she was a tomboy she had difficulty bonding with the other girls at school, even when they weren’t outright hostile (cof cof Sophie).

- Example: she and Belle had a tentative bond over their love of cooking, but often ran out of things to talk about and the conversation fell flat.

- Which is how she ends up befriending Hunter.

- Hunter is the only boy in a family of many girls and his father works all day. He has a good heart and is rather emotional, but he always feels like he has something to prove, which leads him to being rather impulsive. Both Nicola and Hunter love sports and are very competitive people. Once Nicola gains his respect, he feels very protective of her and often feels the need to stand up for her, even if she doesn’t need it.

- Nicola knows Hunter feels overlooked in his family, so she is always inviting him over and taking care of him, keeping him out of trouble. Her father begins to see him as his own son, and soon he spends more time at Nicola’s house than at his own.

- Everyone thinks they’ll get married some day. His sisters tease him mercilessly about it, and so does Nic’s father, but frankly, Nic and Hunter see each other as family.

- You can bet Hunter is the one teaching Nic about periods after asking his sisters, so she wouldn’t have to suffer with Galvadon’s horrid Sex Ed. (go check the Callis headcanon’s okay, give me clout, that it my favorite post I’ve ever made)

- They tried to kiss once. Nicola vomited and Hunter gaged.

- Hunter is Nicola’s number one supporter and fan, 100% had those gender-equality pins she made for her campaigns all over his bags and jackets.

- Since most wedding matches are arranged by the elders before girls even graduate, it was settled that Nic and Hunter would get married to each other and then inherit the pub. It would of course, be a secretly platonic match and they would suspiciously have no children (Nicola even had a plan to visit Callis to get a potion for infertility, just in case the elders wanted to check on her... okay, I’ll stop).

- Hunter doesn’t tell her, but Nicola knows he wants to marry for love and have a family of his own. She tries to talk him out of marrying her, but he insists that he would be doing it out of love for her, even if not romantic, because Nic didn’t deserve to be matched up with some stranger she barely knows who would no doubt be less tolerant of her more radical views.

- She tells him it’d be fine for him to have a affairs then, but he insists he would never do that to her, because people would talk about Nic if that was the case and her reputation would be ruined.

- The night of Sophie and Agatha kidnapping Nicola tells him she would rather be taken to the School than to stay there and make him live an unhappy life.

- Hunter is horrified (remember, everyone thought going to the school was a fate worse than death) and makes her promise to never treat her life so fickly.

- Sophie and Agatha get taken, come back, but during Tedros’ reign of terror in Galvadon, right before they return to the Woods, Nicola’s father grows very very sick.

- Nic thinks he’s going to die, and she frets, not only because they’re close but also because she can’t inherit the place if she doesn’t marry Hunter. But, well, she sort of always knew, but now that feels very real, she thought she had some more time before that.

- They set a date for the wedding, but thankfully, Tedros and Agatha’s escape ends up causing the ceremony to be delayed.

- By the time the new date is set, there’s no more elders and Stefan is now mayor.

- But just because he is the mayor doesn’t mean the law and the sexism is gone overnight.

- Nic’s father is getting somewhat better, but she is still very worried about him, because of his old age.

- Once SGE starts having applications and has been proved to be, well, somewhat safe, Hunter suggests that Nicola applies, but after the scare that she might lose her father sooner rather than later, she tells him she can’t bring herself to leave him.

- Hunter doesn’t want her to throw her life away, specially now knowing that in the Endless Woods there were people like her and that progress would get there before it ever got to Galvadon

- (He also wants to not marry someone he views as a sister, pls).

- So he files her application in secret.

- Nicola gets accepted, upon Sader’s request and Sophie’s bad luck, into the School For Evil. She and Sophie still don’t get along, the Evil castle rejects her and she gets pushed to Good, becoming an Ever, but she’s only staying until Christmas, because she is worried sick about her father.

- She thinks the application was a plot from her brothers because she doesnt think Hunter would ever betray her trust like that, after she specifically told him she wouldn't go.

- There’s no Hicola, instead, she and Hort become friends and she talks him out of his delusions with Sophie, because as much as Nicola dislikes her, Sophie was a girl too, and deserved to have her feelings respected.

- She also punches Hort into giving up his envy of Tedros and Agatha while at it, because she is just that efficient.

- Everything else up to OTK can be pretty much the same because I can’t remember what happens, other than everytime Nicola is smart girl™, it’s not “because she reads”, but because she is practical.

- Example: on the boat scene where she very pretentiously sasses Agatha for not saying hello to her (canon!Nicola, girl, she just suffered six months of loneliness at Camelot because Tedros shut her out and is now on a quest to save her happy ending, probs didn’t get much sleep, maybe cut her some slack) and then tells her how to sail a boat (despite the fact that there are no boats in Galvadon and I’m sure you can’t just read Peter Pan and learn to sail a boat, unless I did it wrong or something, maybe the storian version comes with a crash course). Here, instead, Nicola presses Hort (who is a pirate’s son) to remember literally anything to help them (therefore making him not completely useless on this quest), and he does and they tell Agatha and she’s like sure and does it.

- Now, in OTK, I literally can’t remember where Nicola was for most of it and I read that book not too long ago, so I’m worried.

- Okay, so, have the Knights Of Eleven actually serve some purpose, include a scene where Tedros and Nicola stress-play rugby and get her some internal conflict.

- Nic now loves this world. She just spent the last few weeks fighting to protect it. She is now a Knight, and she loves the adventures and the new friends she made. Can she really go back to Gavaldon to take care of a pub? Well, she needs to, doesn’t she? That’s what a good daughter would do.

- After Japeth’s execution, Nic goes straight home.

- Her father’s condition is stable, as he is being treated by Hunter and his new wife.

- Oh boy, Hunter has some explaining to do.

- Nicola is furious that he broke her trust, but at the same time, she’s happy he’s happy and well, Hunter what do you have to say for yourself?

- “Damn, Nic, nice armour- ouch, my arm!”

- Apparently, since Nicola was taken, Stefan approved a law for people to be able to leave their inheritance to whomever they wanted. And since Nic was gonna be at the Woods, her father was more than happy to leave it to Hunter. Of course, unless Nicola wanted to stay at Gavaldon.

- Does she? She’s not sure.

- Hunter and Nicola attend the tagatha wedding at Camelot (what, like I wasn’t gonna fix this part?), Hunter is Nic’s plus one.

- There, Hester, Anadil and Dot show her Sader’s note, and ask her, not to become School Master, but to become Dean Of Good, because she would be perfect for the new brand of Good to match Sophie’s Evil. You know, since she is all for gender-equality, good manners, practicality and was particularly good at dealing with Sophie’s bs.

- Since Tedros has the Storian Ring, the pen doesn’t need actual protection, well, not more than it can get from Nic and Sophie.

- Sophie herself insists that Nicola accept the position, not because she doesn’t want to be alone at the school now that Hort and Dovey are dead, no, of course not, since when did Sophie ever need anyone, she was just asking cause… cause Nicola looked lonely. The pretty boy who came with her was not her boyfriend, was he? Sophie was prettier than him anyway. Who needs a boy when they can have her?

- Whether they become a couple or not, I’ll let you decide.

- Bonus: years later, Hunter’s eldest daughter is accepted at the School for Good. Nicola is her godmother, and her favoritism shows.

There, if nothing else, the reason you should be mad about Hunter and the Handbook in general is because this didn’t happen.

#school for good and evil #The School for Good and Evil #nicola of woods beyond #Sophie of Woods Beyond #Hunter of Woods Beyond

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A Kankriversation Had On Discord

Long post beneath the cut bc its just. straight up like a half hour’s worth of back-and-fourth

Friend: OH GOD OH GOD REV GOT TO MEENAHQUEST Friend: OH GOD HES MET KANKRI I GOTTA Friend: I GOTTA SEE Friend: "why the fuck is he written like this?" Friend: "i feel like this entire section is a jab at tumblr" Friend: rev does not seem to enjoy this Friend: "what i was expecting was just a raging asshole, like karkat 2 yaknow?" Friend: REV DOES NOT HATE KANKRI *confetti ball emojis*

Friend: people are taking away from kankri's character "kankri acts like a good person but is an asshole, and karkat acts like an asshole but is a good person" and they are wrong. Friend: I Friend: REV JUST COMPARED HIM TO ZEBRUH Friend: I AM Friend: -dies- Friend: HOW Friend: I UNDERSTAND COMPLETELY BUT ALSO HOLY SHIT Friend: ok i cant watch longer i am dying Friend: it doesnt help that hes reading this section with a homestuch fan who seemingly hates kankri

Friend: i just need to give up and accept the fact that everyone hates kankri Friend: and i am the only smart person in the whole world :cry emoji (zan’s note: to indicated both light emotional melancholy but primarily as a tone indicator of semi-sarcasm): Friend: erugvwilarghvaleb Friend: no wonder i like zebruh (ZAN’S NOTE: MY BUDDY HERE LIKES ZEBRUH AS A FUNNY ASSHOLE DOUCHEBAG WHO SUCKS NOT LIKE. IN A WAY THAT CONDONES HIS BULLSHIT JUST FELT LIKE I SHOULD MENTION THAT. UNLIKE FOR INSTANCE LANQUE, WHO DOESN’T NECESSARILY FEEL LIKE HES MEANT TO BE THE WORST LIVING BEING IN EXISTANCE AND IS ALSO TRANSMASC WHILE BEING A FUCKING SEX FREAK. ZEBRUH’S MEANT TO BE HATED SO ITS AT LEAST FUCKING FUNNY.)

Friend 2 (hasn't actually read homestuck): I like Kankri

Friend: me :handshake: you & the 3 other people who read this channel smart as fuck and our meat is huge wrfralrv,juaBVRE DGS

Me (Zan): hhhhhhhhhhh Me: WHY DO PEOPLE CONSTANTLY INTERPRET KANKRI LIKE THIS Me: ITS. FUCKING. NONSENSE

Friend: I think people assume hes supposed to be like?? lying??? or using big words to try and make people like him more/?? Friend: but thats. never actually in the text? Friend: like yeah he constantly says "in this essay-i mean conversation" or "during this lecture-i mean discussion" but???? Friend: that does not a liar make??????????????

Me: its literally just. gahhhh Me: noone fucking r Me: theres no REASON to think hes lying

Me: except. that sjws are all just bigots who lie to make themselves look better (Zan’s note: this is sarcasm meant as a dig at people falling for the stonetoss-tier anti-social justice strawmanning that kankri gets. I do not think sjws are all just bigots who lie to make themselves look better.)

Friend: people just really dont wanna be confronted with the fact that if u think racism bad andrew hussie thinks youre a pussy ass bitch everyone hates

Me: YEAH Me: WHICH??? Me: THESE PEOPLE, LIKE EVERYONE, KNOWS THAT HUSSIE SUCKS AND HATES HIM

Friend: so they pretend kankri is actually some really genuinely good criticism guys i swear he-hes not just a mean caricture of a tumblr user who writes essays on why racism is bad i swear he-hes like, a criticism of men who co-opt actual arguments to get people to wanna fuck him ignore the part where kankri is celibate guys i swear hes a horny racist douche please believe me guys andrew hussie wouldnt hate me in real life hed love me i swear

Me: BUT THEY JUST FUCKING. REFUSE TO REALIZE THAT TINY PIECE OF LOGIC THAT “OH ALMOST EVERYRHING THAT KANKRI SAYS IS RIGHT AND HUSSIE IS A DOUCHECANOE”

Me: YEAH ITS SO FUCKING WIERD

Friend: i feel like another part of it is kankri criticcizing mituna

Me: WHICH

Friend: like "oh haha kankri is abelist u see thats PROOF thats PROOF hes a racist abelist douch just lying for attention you SEE" a

Me: IN UNIVERSE Me: IS BAD

Friend: and mituna is like

Me: BUT Me: ITS MADE FUVKING MOOT

Friend: mituna.

Me: BC MITUNA LITERALLY IS AN ABLEIST STEREOTYPE Me: HUSSIE LITERALLY WROTE AN ABLEIST STEREOTYPE AND EVERYONE TRIES TO SAY THE ONE CHARACTER WHO RECOGNIZES THAT TO BE THE REAL ABLEIST I

Friend: mituna "autistic/brain damaged/tourettes stereotype who's main joke is he falls down a lot and is mentally ill ahaha"

Me: *just an ocean of angry emojis*

Friend: is it because hes nice to cronus??? like?????? Friend: in that case everyone should HATE meenah Friend: for.... ALSO BEING NICE TO CRONUS??????????/ Friend: LIKE????????????

Me: oho but you see Me: meenah is un-pc murderous genocidal and a childfucker, so she only gets a little bit of the hate kankri “said ableism is ableist and never stops trying to get his friends to be better people despite everything” vantas gets

Friend: GRAAAAAA Friend: WHY ARE HOMESTUCK FANS SO FUCKING STUPID

Me: in this instance i have 0 fucking clue Me: like. its fucking OBVIOUS

Friend 3 (hasn’t read homestuck): It's the ableism

Me: except.... most of these people dont even like mituna........ Me: like as “rep”.... Me: these are people who’d call out ableism literally everywhere else.... its. gahh Me: i stg i’m going to become a video essayist just to try to EXPLAIN this shit

Friend: IM SORRY TO SAY THIS HOMESTUCK FANDOM, BUT MOST OF THE PEOPLE ON TUMBLR WHO WERE WRITTING ESSAYS ON WHY ABELISM AND RACISM IN MEDIA WAS BAD Friend: WERE RIGHT Friend: AND IF YOU DIDNT LIKE THEM FOR THEIR BIG WORDS Friend: YOU SUCKED Friend: zebruh is like a fucked up and evil version of kankri where instead of caring about politics and people's mental health he just acts like he cares about lower caste trolls to try and get laid, and in actually his is a racist mean and clingy rich bastard who cant stand being held accountable for his fake beliefs Friend: OH WAIT Friend: THATS JUST FUCKING CRONUS Friend: this is all your fault u bastard. i dont know how the fuck you got away with this shit i hate you so much

Me: fdg;hljk Me: ben i'm wondering if i can transcribe our duotribe to tumblr

#homestuck #kankri #ableism #its just???? fucking???? wh???#people who literally have the same complaints about mituna criticize kankri for having those same exact things #its. like yeah in-universe it sucks shit to say stuff like 'yer being so stereotypical' to a neurodivergent person but like its also incoher #incoherent enough that like. if you take it at face value its just utter nonsense

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