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writing-for-life · 20 days

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Right, okay, I’ve thought long and hard whether to write this:

A squick (even a strong one) is not the same as a trigger.

Emotional discomfort, even emotional discomfort that leads to low-level physical symptoms like e.g. mild nausea, is not trauma. Unfortunately, TikTok pop psych has done nothing to help people understand the difference, because the trend to perceive (even strong) emotional discomfort as equivalent to a trauma response is worrying and neither helps people with nor without PTSD. I don’t wish it on anyone to actually find out the difference if they haven’t yet (disclaimer, since this is unfortunately necessary these days because everything gets misconstrued: I am not talking about individual experiences, because only you can know about those. I’m talking about wider trends in an often young audience with not enough background info to be able to tell apart sound medical/psychological info and viral BS created by “influencers” for some kind of personal gain).

What people in the current fandom spat want to have tagged as “triggers” are overwhelmingly squicks. And we’re probably all guilty of quickly saying “that triggered me”, myself included (and I’m a licensed psychotherapist, shame on me). It has become somewhat of a shorthand for “extremely annoyed or grossed out”. But when it gets used in the context of tagging, it’s good to remember that no one owes us a tag list the length of our arm just because we don’t like certain things. Even if we strongly dislike them.

And even on the occasion someone else’s yuck or yum is an actual trigger for us, it is impossible to cover for every possible trigger, because in theory, EVERYTHING has the possibility to trigger someone somewhere.

E.g., a certain smell in a supermarket holds the rare possibility of triggering someone, but do you see disclaimers at the supermarket door that say, “May smell of 484 different things, which are in detail [list of 484 things] and might be different tomorrow. Plus, we might have a customer today who smells of that perfume that brings up your triggering childhood memories. Or maybe we won’t, but just on the odd chance we do, we thought we’d rather cover it”.

There might be one person with a very specific trigger that does literally nothing to the vast majority of people. Do we expect everyone on Tumblr to tag for “eyebrows” or “white T-Shirt” because of that? How about that person just puts “eyebrows” or “white T-Shirt” in their content filter instead?

Do we really suggest to put that type of responsibility on creators? More importantly: Who are we protecting that way? All we do is put people into bubble wrap and shift responsibility for our mental wellbeing away from ourselves to others.

We are trying to tell other people what to do for our own comfort. That’s controlling.

If we’re squicked out by something, there is a simple solution: we can stop looking or reading. We can use content (not tag) filters. In the worst case, we can block. We don’t have to put that type of responsibility for our personal sensitivities on creators (or people who reblog, for that matter).

We can tag for certain things as a courtesy, I’m all for it. I love being able to filter out stuff I’m not into, and I sometimes wish people would tag better or not tag a certain way (getting ship tags for a ship you’re not into slapped on your character-metas is annoying 🤣). But I don’t die, neither does it cause me unbearable distress, if I see cows where I don’t expect them. Scroll past or block. And if I’m worried about mature topics like nudity or violence: Tumblr has a community label for mature themes you can (and in my view should) use if in doubt. Funnily enough, many people don’t do that though—maybe because they worry about reach?

Of course we should include content warnings where they are due, no one says we shouldn’t. It’s also fair if a creator doesn’t wish to do that beyond general warnings (no specifics) though because they might give away, say, major plot points that way. In that case, general disclaimers like “contains depictions of violence”, or whatever it might be individually, are a good idea. And if that’s not specific enough for us despite knowing that “violence” in general might also contain our personal trigger, we might need to make the decision not to read it to stay safe, but we shouldn’t have a go at the writer for not tagging very specific things that might be considered spoilers.

Long story short: If we assume people are “triggered” by werewolves with vulvas or non-human characters, it might be worth thinking about whether we’re just talking about squicks that very much fall into the category of “personal responsibility”. And there are plenty solutions to that at our end—we don’t need to put that on creators…

#fandom problems #fandom entitlement #fandom stuff #squicks #vs #triggers #tagging #being grossed out or strongly disliking is uncomfortable #but it’s not the same as being triggered

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olderthannetfic · 3 months

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Hi hi! I have a question and I apologise if it's impertinent but I really didn't have anyone else to ask. I'm new to ao3 and I'm still figuring out how it works. The problem is this- when I look up a character x reader, I'll see the tag included in many works that have oneshots but since it's a side character, more often than not the oneshot for the character hasn't been written and the tag has been there for months. Is it okay to do that or is it tagging something incorrectly? They say they'll write one eventually but they never do, y'know? To me it kind of feels like they're just trying to reach a wider audience but because of this I can't even filter tags and I have to manually search through the book to check if the character is included, especially when the chapters are titled only by numbers :')

Is it okay to tag things in advance like that?

Oh boy...

Wattpad refugees do tend to use AO3 "wrong", sometimes in ways that break the rules and sometimes just in ways I find annoying and against typical AO3 culture.

I'm assuming you are coming from Wattpad based on you calling a work or a fic a "book", which is a very, very Wattpad thing to do.

I'm assuming they are coming from Wattpad given the bad behavior you're describing and the fact that they're a x reader writer.

So, here's the thing, if you start writing a fic and there's any amount of the actual fic, even if it's pretty short and bad or in a weird format or whatever, it's still a valid fanwork. Most of the time, AO3 leaves it to the author to decide how to tag (aside from a very few things like death threats in the tags or failing to use the required archive warnings).

AO3 won't stop someone from tagging a future pairing that hasn't appeared yet.

But "books" of "oneshots" are such an obnoxious Wattpad thing. This is a completely stupid use of AO3 from the "Please send me prompts" part that is usually in there to the way that unrelated fics are smashed together.

It's not against the rules, but it's a crappy use of AO3 befitting of n00bs.

Sadly, old hands at AO3 also make shitty works that are unrelated stories mashed together. They're often a whole set of kinktober fics or something where the trope tags and the ship tags are accurate, but you can't tell which ones go with which ones without searching the whole fic.

We regularly complain about that on here.

A much better way to use AO3 is to make a series titled "My x Reader Oneshots" or "All of my kinktober fics" where each separate story is its own work with its own tags.

My assumption is that this person is using the inaccurate tag both to get more eyeballs on their existing work and because they probably take prompts for that ship or something. (I'm basing this on the kinds of things people say on their oneshot books on Wattpad. Maybe they don't actually take prompts since you haven't mentioned it.)

Some people just don't care that they're annoying others and messing up the tags, but I think some actually don't realize how AO3 filtering works and have no idea this behavior is a nuisance.

On a lot of sites, both Wattpad and algorithm-driven social media, unless a post/work is very popular, it disappears out of sight. Even an inaccurate tag doesn't do that much.

On AO3, one is getting a full list of everything with the tag, going back however far. It's a library catalogue for which you should use accurate data. But this writer is probably thinking of tags more as advertising and a way to get their name out there so readers can follow them pre-emptively. They mean to write the ship in the future, so it's not really inaccurate... (And, tbh, if it were a single work and the ship just hadn't appeared yet, I would agree with them even though those are frustrating too.)

So no, they should not do this.

But it's not actually against the rules.

I would mute the annoying people who do this.

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violet-phoenix-nebula · 5 months

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Okay, I've seen it referenced a lot but I want to get a better look at how many people ship both Stucky and Destiel.

Please reblog for wider audience!

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mail-me-a-snail · 4 months

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kicking my legs in the air. tell us more abt silvervance i am fascinated with whatever they've got going on

i mean. god where do i even begin.

so first off there's their main tag where i put all the posts that even vaguely remind me of them............like there are posts in there i would not show to my irls let alone god.

anyway. silvervance is the ship ever. they're both products of arasaka's influence, whether thru their own free will (in vance's case, or so he'd like to believe) or otherwise (in johnny's, vis-a-vis his eponymous prosthetic arm). they both manufactured their identities for an audience wider than themselves. they both recognize this similarity between them.

when vance came back 2 life with johnny in his head, he saw himself in johnny and he didnt like what he saw.

but as u know, in game canon, vance had no choice but to suck it up and bear the ghost's anti-corp, anti-capitalist, anti-night-city, rambling. oh woe! woe! is johnny silverhand, night city's last rockerboy turned co-pilot for arasaka's missing asset.

the thing is. the thing is. with everyone telling vance that the best course of action would be to excise johnny--with hellman telling him point blank that its not possible as well--he doesn't want johnny gone.

johnny becomes second nature to him, more than just a poltergeist who offers him snippy quips and lame one-liners. who likes annoying the hell out of him or who likes making him laugh by doing bits of physical comedy that johnny knows only vance will see.

he just grows to have so much. affection for this man. this man loser who he wishes he had known when things might've been simpler between them.

in the hypothetical good ending for silvervance where they get their own bodies, they're gonna move out to some colder state, somewhere that snows. they're gonna move as far away from local civilization as possible. but they're still gonna find merc work together because neither of them are quite suited to a domestic life.

they take each other's poisons when they finally separate; vance grows wolfish and snarky and johnny goes quiet and smiles a little too much like a dog, lips curled over his teeth. vance is brash and a risk-taker; johnny is loyal to someone other than himself for once.

they'll eat each other alive one of these days. they could not think of a better set of teeth to do it than one that so closely resembles their own.

in my heart n soul i know they find each other in every universe. not that they will happen upon each other; that they'll actively look for the other, not knowing who it is they're looking for at first, but just knowing that there is someone out there for them. i don't usually like throwing the term soulmate around but it's something a lot like that.

they'll find each other in the corpo rat au, they'll find each other in the father vance au, they'll even find each other in the ending where vance stayed with arasaka. there's no separating them and it drives me bonkers. insane, even. i wrote four fics in a haze for them bc of how much they drive me up a wall

anyway ty for the ask <3

#asks #silvervance #vance #johnny silverhand #ANNYYYYWAYYY #they have freaky wireplay sex btw as well #my art #i literally cant refer to them individually bc they would do the SAME THINGS TO EACH OTHER #AURGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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romanaisalive · 9 days

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Fanfic Tag Game

Tagged by @sarcasticsciencefictionwriter thanks so much for the tag!

I'm afraid this won't be very riveting... I need to upload more stuff, I have a bunch of short fics I could technically upload but never got around to it. Also, the whole "writing three long projects for years" thing.

1. How many fics do you have on AO3?

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

29,956

3. What fandoms do you write for?

I have stuff uploaded for Doctor Who, Star Wars, Sanctuary, Dragon Age and The School for Good and Evil.

Out of these I'm still active in Sanctuary (if you could call it that) and Dragon Age. I partly moved on to write original stuff, but a DnD & Dragon Age AU story is in the works. I have some stuff for Fallen London too, just didn't upload it yet.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Cold And Consequences - 357 (SGE, Dovey/Lesso)

all my words are left with you - 221 (SGE, Dovey/Lesso)

Star Wars Fictober Challenge - completed - 129 (Star Wars, various)

All My Pieces - 116 (SGE, Dovey/Lesso)

Littles - 54 (Star Wars, Boga POV - written for fic exchange)

...what can I say, SGE fandom was very lively when I was active in it

5. Do you respond to comments?

Mostly! I really appreciate them all and try to answer always, some slip through the cracks though, for older works where I'm no longer in the fandom.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Don't Save Me (I'm Already Dead)

Canon compliant Luminara fic... The canonical character death was a given, then I spiced it up with some extra angst.

7. What is the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

The Luminara lives AU in the Star Wars Fictober Challenge. I might have been compensating a little.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Nope! I don't think I post enough for that. Also, hate would require readers and other than my old SGE stuff I'm proudly representing the Very Niche Subfandoms division here. :)

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Nope! I'm the kind of ace where I'm not sex-repulsed but I usually skip smut scenes because I find them boring, no reason to write it.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Not really, more of an AU girl. I contemplated involving Warehouse 13 in my big Sanctuary fic just to explain where James got the exoskeleton from, but still undecided if I want to go ahead with that.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Nope!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I translated one of my own fics once, does that count? I wrote it in Hungarian originally and wanted to post to a wider audience. (Never again, by the way. Translation is a whole other discipline, I'd rather write it in English from the getgo.)

13. Have you ever co-written a fic?

Kinda? We had some stuff with @cardeakelsey once but it never really got written.

14. What’s your all time favourite ship?

Oh boy. Ever? I don't think I have one.

15. What’s a fic you’d like to finish but don’t think you ever will?

I like to think I will finish all my projects one day. Fingers crossed. I might need to rehaul some of them first to be feasible, though.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Mood setting, foreshadowing, internal monologues. Angst.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Dialogue.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in a fic?

I sprinkle it in sometimes, not too much. In my opinion if two characters speak French it's better to just say "they switched to French" in the description.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

No idea. It was a WHILE ago.

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

Out of my published ones probably the broken and the damned (Dragon Age canon compliant) or Smile (SGE, Emma-centric character study).

Tagging anyone who wants to do it! :)

#tag game #fanfiction #writing #god i forgot how much my sge stuff was doing Numbers back then

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merlinbingo · 10 months

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Feels like it's only yesterday I did one of these, but here we are again, another month down.

We're halfway through the year and through the round, and so far we've sent out 149 cards. 71 participants have created at least one fill, nine have a bingo, and two have filled every square on their card and come back for more!

June is always a busier month for fills, and this year is no different - we got a fabulous 72 fills by 29 wonderful participants. 52 were fics, 14 were artworks, two were fics and art, and then we also got a podfic, a reclist, a gifset and a playlist!

Just as June tends to be busier, we tend to get a wider variety of ships this month as well, which I for one think is an excellent thing. There's the usual suspects at the top of the list (merthur at 29 and gen at 17), the rarer-but-still-reasonably-common-for-bingo pairs (Gwen/Lancelot, Merlin/Gwaine, and Merlin/Lancelot all at three, then Arthur/Gwen and Merlin/Morgana both at two), and then 13 different ships with just the one fill, which you'll find with other the other fills below the cut!

As always, fills are sorted by ship and then by rating, and we encourage you to check out the warnings and practice self-care before clicking on anything that might not work for you. Now, go give these lovely people some love!

Gen/no ship

Merlin's new clothes by Ace_Teagirl Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Gift giving, arguing, apologies, emotional hurt/comfort, canon era Summary: Arthur offers Merlin new clothes to celebrate the third anniversary of Merlin becoming his manservant and best friend. But things don't go as planned, when Arthur makes a rude comment about Merlin's current clothes.

black swan morgana by kairennart Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: digital art, black swan (movie) au Summary:

the weight of the world by mechup Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: panic attacks, hurt/comfort Summary: Merlin always deals with his panic attacks alone, until one day Arthur finds him in the middle of one.

[Podfic] Some Angels Don't Have Wings by Milky_Etoile Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Introspective Arthur Pendragon, Sick Merlin, Post-Episode: s02e13 The Last Dragonlord, Arthur Pendragon-centric, Podfic Length: 10-20 Minutes Summary: Arthur always has the best luck in life-and-death situations. He was aware of exactly why this was the case. - Set after s02e13, in the aftermath of the dragon's attack on Camelot.

Untested Fear by TheManTheMythTheLazy Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Canon compliant, POV Arthur Pendragon, Introspection, Light angst Summary: Arthur's relationship with his father was doomed from the start, but not for the reasons he thinks

4th Entry-M3 by theartsylillipad Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: merlin, bbc merlin, merlin bingo, mordred, Summary: For this prompt I depicted Mordred with a dark green background for the villain color motif. I combined dark colors with one of Mordred’s quotes and used that as a subtle second light source to the backlighting.

5th Entry-M4 by theartsylillipad Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: merlin, bbc merlin, merlin bingo, morgana, blueprint Summary: For this prompt I created a blueprint of Morgana’s hut.

I believe you by HadrianPeverellBlack Rating: General audiences Warnings: Choose not to use archive warnings Major tags: Canon compliant, Gwaine protective, POV Gwaine, POV Merlin, Merlin needs an hug Summary: Why did Gwaine look for Merlin, when he was searching any clues for finding Gaius? This is the scene we were robbed of.

Main Character Syndrome by Sage_Owl Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Canon Era, Crack, Breaking the fourth Wall, inner dialogue Summary: The most important character in BBC Merlin tells a little of their story.

ace gwaine by kairennart Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: digital art Summary:

Dinosaurs have feathers (and other things that shouldn't be real) by TheManTheMythTheLazy Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Modern Era, Alternate Universe - Modern Era, angst, immortal merlin Summary: Merlin was sentenced to life in prison before the Saxons conquered Camelot. Now in the modern age, he has been released on parole in the middle of a policy v. human rights shitstorm. While everyone debates the merit of a life sentence for an immortal, Merlin is realizing he must live in a world he's only seen through a window.

If I Just Lay Here by Sage_Owl Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Daemons, Self-reflection, nightmares, period-typical violence, POV Morgana Summary: Morgana contemplates her future.

1st Entry-C5 by theartsylillipad Rating: Teen Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence Major tags: bbc merlin, merlin fanart, famous art recreation, bbc morgana, uther pendragon Summary: For this prompt I used the painting Jael and Sisera by Artemisia Gentileschi, and chose Morgana and Uther as the subject matter. I’m super happy with the final product as the prompt, artwork, and original painting all work cohesively and translate really well to Merlin.

Who pays the price for revenge? by archaeologist_d Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: canon, dragon's call, introspection Summary: Mary Collins plots revenge for what Uther has done, and if Helen of Mora got in the way, so be it.

No Match for Morgana by archaeologist_d Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: pre-canon, canon compliant, BAMF Morgana, swordfighting with Arthur, kidfic Summary: Morgana had had enough of that prattish squire, Prince Arthur, and his hangers-on. She might just be a girl but she would show them what a real swordswoman could do.

Lightning Strike by archaeologist_d Rating: Teen Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence Major tags: angst, percival as a kid, pre-canon, grief, thunderstorms Summary: Percival’s village was slaughtered and him the lone survivor. Every time a storm hit, he remembered it all.

His Second-best Sword by archaeologist_d Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: angst, modern era, swords, merlin remembers Summary: The other archaeologists were all excited. They’d found a sword in the Welsh hillfort, brilliant and beautiful, associated with the Dark Ages and a time of legend, and wondered about whose sword it was. But Merlin knew. It was Arthur’s second-best sword.

Gwen/Morgana

Avalongate (aka She Sells Sidhe Spells) by Malu_3 Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic; Based on S1:e07 The Gates of Avalon; BusinessWoman!Morgana Summary: Morgana, on the eve of a big launch for Pendragon Cosmetics, has a dreadful dream about Arthur being attacked by a strange woman. Is it the result of too much Blue Stilton, or a true vision of peril to come?

Elena/Mithian

I'll be your Emmylou by willowsmarika Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: autumn, changing of the seasons, modern!au Summary:

Elyan/Mithian

Merlin Bingo Round Three - Prompt: Elyan/Mithian - Fill: 3 (+1) Recommendations by Malu_3 (but I'm @penaltykeks on tumblr where this is posted) Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Summary:

Merlin/Gwen

Mergwen as a Playlist by Crimson_Fanfic_Writer_7 Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Playlist, Platonic Feelings, Romantic Feelings Summary: It's just a playlist lol

Arthur/Gwen

spectacles of brilliant burning lights by Milky_Etoile Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Magic Reveal, Caring Arthur Pendragon, Everyone Loves Merlin, Golden Age Summary: Almost a year after Merlin revealed his magic and months after the repeal of the ban, Arthur wonders why Merlin still rarely does magic outside of combat situations and direct requests. The answers lead Arthur to arrange for magic lessons–for himself and for Merlin. This is a story of acceptance and of a love that nurtures like a warm, guiding light.

The Cool Kids by queerofthedagger Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Modern Setting, Bi4Bi Arwen, Pride Parades, Coming Out, Minor Internalized Biphobia Summary: Eventually, she pulls pack, holds the face paint up in question. He’s always beautiful, she thinks as he nods, but never more so than when he is brave. The blue and pink and purple suit him as if he was always supposed to wear them.

Merlin/Morgana

A puppet in your hands by HadrianPeverellBlack Rating: Teen Warnings: Choose not to use archive warnings Major tags: Redeemed Morgana, Mind control, Merlin &Morgana friendship, cour sorcerer Merlin Summary: Morgana kidnapped Merlin and controlled him. What will happen to the future of Camelot?

The Prophecy, Ch. 103: Courtly Love by VikingSong Rating: Teen Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence, Contains mentions of blood and injuries (not particularly graphic), references to past torture (also not particularly graphic), and a nauseatingly cheesy ‘love letter’ Major tags: Slow-burn romance; fake love letters; political intrigue; hurt/comfort; everyone knows about Merlin’s magic Summary: The latest chapter in this long S2-divergent fic contains a coded message disguised as a love letter which Arthur (who’s a disinherited fugitive) sends to Gwen in Camelot. Gwen and Morgana are working on an escape plan for Merlin (who is currently imprisoned in Camelot’s dungeons for sorcery and treason after being captured while protecting Arthur). Meanwhile, Merlin is recovering from serious injuries and having telepathic conversations with Morgana in which they dance around their unacknowledged feelings for one another.

Gwen/Lancelot

but thinking is a dangerous thing by lit-in-thy-heart Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Canon Compliant, Missing Scene, Light Angst, Hugs Summary: Following Lancelot's flight after he and Gwen are rescued from Hengist, Gwen allows herself to finally reflect on what could have been.

2nd Entry-M1 by theartsylillipad Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: merlin, bbc merlin, merlin bingo, merlin fanart, gwen/lancelot, Summary: For this prompt I based the style off of Disney’s Sleeping beauty, and used Gwen and Lancelot as the main pair.

A sunny day with friends by Laevateinn Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: slice of life, Modern AU, Pride, fluff Summary: “Stop moving, you idiot!” Chuckles resonated around Gwen, and she shook her head. She looked around at her friends, scolding them wordlessly, then turned around to face Gwaine and try to apply the finishing touches to his makeup. The sun was high, the air was crisp, Gwen and her friends were at Pride, currently sitting on the grass, waiting for the parade to start.

Ygraine/Uther/Nimueh

kingdom come undone by mechup Rating: Mature Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: pre=canon, power play, tentacles, bondage Summary: She felt her most powerful in moments like this one. How could she not, when she had the king and queen of Camelot on their knees before her, completely at her mercy?

Merlin/Arthur/Gwen

Not a girl, not a man either by Ace_Teagirl Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Non-binary merlin, queerplatonic Merlin/Gwen/Arthur, fluff Summary: Merlin comes out to Gwen and Arthur

Gwaine/Merlin/Percival

Sleepover by KingAni Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Summary:

Merlin/Arthur/Knights

Becoming Melody - chapter 3 by HadrianPeverellBlack Rating: Teen Warnings: Choose not to use archive warnings Major tags: Queer Themes, Morgana is a good friend, BAMF Merlin, Protective Gwen, Merlin & Morgana friendship, Summary: Merlin is tired for all the jokes the knights made about him Morgana had a simple solution

Arthur/Elyan

Queers of Camelot by King Ani Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Summary:

Mordred/Percival

Treasure by Malu_3 Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Alternate Universe - Canon; First Meetings; Episode s05:e02 Arthur's Bane Part 2; Post-Episode s05:e01-02 Arthur's Bane Summary: For most men, the mines of Ismere yield nothing but misery and despair, but that is about to change.

Gwaine/Lancelot

Pride and Liberty Guiding The People by Stelle Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: fanart, pride art Summary:

Gwaine/Percival

Can't help falling in love by Ace_Teagirl Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Falling in love, first kiss, not actually unrequited love Summary: Percival reflects on how his love for Gwaine is unrequited, before he is proven wrong and they kiss

Merlin/Leon

What's Presented in the Mirror by thetreeofwillow Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Pride, Trans Merlin, Ace Leon, body image issues, Modern Era Summary: Pride reminds Merlin of all he has to love about his appearance.

Merlin/Lancelot

lancelot helping merlin get aithusa by kairennart Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: digital art, canon au, mercelot week Summary:

shade lancelot by kairennart Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: digital art, episode: lancelot du lac, angst Summary:

and the ghosts that we knew by Imagined Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Episode Fix-it, Angst, Happy Ending, Magic Revealed, Canon Divergence Summary: “I lost him,” Merlin says quietly, and bows his head as the tears prickle annoyingly at his lashes. One of them drops into his stew; it ripples for a moment, and he stares at the dish. He isn’t hungry, really. “He would have wanted for you to be happy,” Gaius says, his voice kind and low. Merlin feels as though he’s a wounded animal, hiding away in the corner and shying away from all hands that want to help him—he can’t be helped. Lancelot was his friend, and Merlin couldn’t lose him, but he did. Or: Lancelot walks through the veil and towards his death. So everyone thinks, at least, until Merlin finds him trapped in the world between life and death. And there's very little Merlin won't do to get him back.

Merlin/Gwaine

6th Entry-M5 by theartsylillipad Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: merlin, bbc merlin, merlin bingo, merwaine, merlin/gwaine, Summary: Merlin and Gwaine huddling for warmth

A day together by HadrianPeverellBlack Rating: General audiences Warnings: Choose not to use archive warnings Major tags: Surfing, Established Relationship, Gwaine being Gwaine, Modern Era, Fluff Summary: Gwaine and Merlin enjoy some time together

Call me your friend, treat me like one by HadrianPeverellBlack Rating: General audiences Warnings: Choose not to use archive warnings Major tags: Dysfunctional Relationships, POV Gwaine (Merlin), Hurt Merlin (Merlin), Episode: s05e07 A Lesson in Vengeance (Merlin), Ambiguous/Open Ending Summary: Gwaine had only had one great friend in his life, Merlin. But had he been an equally true friend to him?

Merlin/Arthur

3rd Entry - M2 by theartsylillipad Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: merlin, bbc merlin, merthur, merlin bingo, Summary: For this prompt I depicted Merlin healing one of Arthur’s wounds.

Not Mine to Keep by Stelle Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: flowershop au, art with story Summary: After that, it became a regular thing. Arthur was visiting once a week, asking questions about flowers at first then it turns into them chatting, insulting each other sometimes and joking, laughing.

If you love me let me hear you by HadrianPeverellBlack Rating: General audiences Warnings: Choose not to use archive warnings Major tags: AU Lawer, Pining Arthur Pendragon, Getting together Summary: Merlon has a problem with notes. Arthur has a problem

And If It Isn't My Love by Sage_Owl Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Modern Era, Demisexuality, feelings realization, Evil Uther Pendragon, first dates Summary: Merlin, fed up with a string of miserable first dates, decides to put his feelings first and take some time for himself. His feelings have other plans.

Back on Track by kirani Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: idiots to lovers, mutual pining, modern au Summary: Everyone knows Merlin and Arthur have been dating for ages, though no one is exactly sure when they got together. But suddenly Merlin is giving some guy at pub night his number and Arthur is clearly trying not to freak out and Gwaine has no idea what is going on! Or: Gwaine resists the urge to smoosh his best friends' faces together like Barbies when he finds out they haven't actually been dating for the last five years

if you were just to hold me by Imagined Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Sickfic, Hurt Merlin, Getting Together Summary: “I think he’s awake,” Arthur calls out, and the noise bludgeons Merlin’s head like a hammer, and he presses his eyes closed as if to force away his ability to hear as much as his ability to see. It doesn’t work well for him, and he chokes on a breath. His throat is on fire as he starts coughing. Gods, he’s ill. He thinks he’s very ill.

When the Abyss stares back by feuxx Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: merpeople!au - size difference Summary:

The Poet Arthur Pendragon by diaryofamadtheatermajor Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Fluff, Humor, Idiots in Love Summary: Arthur writes Merlin a poem

A Burst of Love That Blinded Every Angel by Mischel Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: established relationship, fluff, light angst, alternate universe - angels Summary: Angel!Merlin canon AU. In order to be with Arthur, Merlin had given up everything. He’d given up his magic, his wings, and even his voice. The last one seemed like a cruel joke from his brothers and sisters in the sky, but Merlin loved Arthur more than his ability to speak, so he’d accepted it and kept the sadness to himself. For years, he’d lied to Arthur and pretended to be a normal human, but he can’t pretend anymore. Today, a month and a half before their wedding, he finally tells Arthur the truth.

it bent in the undergrowth (the road less taken) by Imagined Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Found Family, Modern AU, Demisexual Arthur Pendragon, Getting Together Summary: “We have a system for borrowing books, you know,” the librarian says. Merlin, his name tag reads. There’s a little smiley face behind his name, and Merlin leans over the counter to take the book out of Arthur’s hands. Arthur stares back, stone-faced, as Merlin looks at the cover. “I hope you enjoyed it, at least, if you went to all the trouble of stealing it.” “I don’t—” Arthur says, and presses his lips together. “It was fine, I suppose. If you like that sort of thing.” Merlin snorts. “What’s that, gay people?” Or: When Arthur comes out to his father, he loses everything. And then he meets a messy-haired librarian, and learns that there’s so much he never had.

A Non-Believer’s Guide to Magic by Sage_Owl Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Circus, modern with magic, angst with a happy ending, powerful Merlin, Bad Parent Uther Pendragon Summary: Arthur's experiences with magic, and how one pair of gold eyes ends up changing his life.

happiness blooms from within by slantedknitting Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Love potion, hanahaki Summary: On a hunting trip, Arthur and Merlin save a young princess and her father from bandits. Under pressure from his father to prove himself worthy of the throne, Arthur decides to pursue the princess, but she has plans of her own. When those plans unravel, it’s Merlin whose life is at risk.

Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match by archaeologist_d Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: fluff, canon era, fairies as matchmakers, Merlin is not amused Summary: Two fairies, the evil twins Merlin called them, were hell-bent on matchmaking their way through Camelot. Unfortunately, their first targets were Merlin and Arthur.

All That I Can (And Can't) Have by lavender_spice Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Soulmate AU, Self-Discovery, Mutual Pining Summary: When he was just a boy, Arthur was made to cover up his soul mark by his father. Soon, everyone else in Camelot followed along the trend, and by the twentieth anniversary of Arthur’s birth, there was nary anyone in Camelot who showed off their soul mark. And then a village boy with far too much righteous confidence for his own good tried to fist fight Arthur in the lower town and somehow, that changed everything.

Spit it out (Jot it down) by kirani Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: epistolary, mutual pining, court sorcerer merlin Summary: Arthur and Merlin make an attempt to be more appropriate in the eyes of the court by turning to notes instead of arguing out loud as much. It goes about as well as you’d expect.

No one and nothing, chapter 9 by archaeologist_d Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence Major tags: canon au, magical reveal, BAMF Merlin Summary: Merlin saves Arthur’s life in front of the whole court and has to run for his life. But when Arthur shows up, asking for help, what was Merlin to do, say no?

So Take Me Somewhere by queerofthedagger Rating: Mature Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Modern AU, Friends with Benefits, Breaking Up & Making Up, Queer Themes, Angst with a Happy Ending Summary: Arthur has known for a while that he's bi. He's known for about as long that he finds Merlin attractive, too. They are friends though, and there are a hundred reasons why they cannot happen, no matter what Arthur otherwise thinks about it. Alternatively: a beginning, a fuck-up, and some hard-won reconciliation, told over the course of four weddings and one funeral.

Solstice by archaeologist_d Rating: Mature Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: modern au, solstice, stonehenge, arthur wants to take the edge off Summary: Merlin takes Arthur to Stonehenge to watch the sun rise on the Solstice. Never mind that Arthur had some ridiculous notion about orgies and standing stones and the rising sun.

match made in (heaven) by radioactivesunflower Rating: Explicit Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: idiots in love, attempt at humor, one night stands,masturbation, arthur pendragon is a little shit Summary: the one where merlin is a matchmaker and a big fat lair arthur likes to spend most of his time annoying merlin a love story between a matchmaker and client that share a past only one knows about

Worshipping You From The Darkest Of Corners (Like I'm Practicing My Own Private Religion) by lavender_spice Rating: Explicit Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Cyberpunk AU, Priest AU, Explicit Smut Summary: In a world ruled by the authoritarian organization who call themselves The Church, cold and emotionless PRIEST agents keep the public pure and obedient. But when Merlin and his group of rebels capture one of said agents, a special bond forms between Merlin and their captive. A bond that might lead to something previously thought impossible – turning one of The Church's most loyal servants to the rebel side.

Knots of Blood by SauraUnderscore Rating: Explicit Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: A/B/O Dynamics; Parenthood; Mystery-AU; Drowning; Angst with Happy ending; Explicit Sex; Knotting; Summary: Mordred’s birth was difficult. The first few weeks of their son’s life were the most challenging in Arthur and Merlin’s own. Not only did Merlin and Modred share the most powerful magic ever seen until now— but the pup hates his father’s Alpha smell. He yells and cries every time Arthur is near. So when Modred disappears one night from his cradle, Merlin accuses Arthur of murdering his own child.

The Symbols of Life and Death by SauraUnderscore Rating: Explicit Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Serial Killer AU; Dystopia AU; Mild torture; Corpses; No real Bloody descriptions; Minor Character Death; Explicit Sex; Hurt/Comfort; Mentions of earlier Prostitution (Merlin); Soul Bound; Magic Sex; Summary: All Arthur wants is to protect Merlin from the serial killer that is threatening the magical community. But Merlin doesn’t need Arthur’s protection. Who does Pendragon think he is? Just because when Merlin needs a lawyer, he pays his debt fucking him, doesn’t mean he’s going to get attached to no one else but the son of the one who started this fucking nightmare for the magical kin.

when doves cry by radioactivesunflower Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence Major tags: dark merlin, dark arthur pendragon, mob boss arthur pendragon, serial killer merlin, dark power couple Summary: when vigilante but mostly serial killer merlin is kidnapped by the all powerful mob boss arthur pendragon he is given a deal he can't refuse

In the Car by diaryofamadtheatermajor Rating: Explicit Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Anal Sex, Porn With Feelings, Oral Sex, Car Sex Summary: Merlin and Arthur have sex in their car

A Balanced Equation by SauraUnderscore Rating: Explicit Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Oblivious to lovers; Modern AU; Slight Sickness; Protective Arthur; Fluffy Fluff; Explicit Sex; Summary: When an informatic problem erases half the data of the most important project of Pendragon Co., Merlin and Arthur stay three days to recover their work. It does no good to the recurrent rumours of them being dating. Which is not true. Not at all. They are too immersed in their job to realise how stupidly in love they are with each other.

The Pool Boy by SauraUnderscore Rating: Explicit Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Explicit Sex; Unsafe Sex; Slight Non-Con; Dirty Old men; Morally Grey Arthur; Could be seen as Prostitution (Arthur) Summary: Cenred believes everything in his mansion belongs to him and exists for his pleasure. Business is done on the terrace, eating delicious foods, drinking expensive wines and ogling the young, almost-naked employees. One day Merlin, Cenred’s pool boy, has company at the pool. A young, half-naked blond: Arthur Pendragon.

What a Stud by mooonwaffle Rating: Not rated Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: mutual pining, crushes, flirting, nose piercings, tattoo parlor Summary: After years of waiting, Merlin finally schedules an appointment to get his lip pierced. Though, crushing on the body piercer was not part of the plan, nor was walking out with his nose pierced instead because a hot guy claimed it would look cuter on him.

#bbc merlin #merlin bingo #round three #round up #june round up #so many beautiful fills #i love you all #sign ups are still open if you want to join us

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jurijurijurious · 4 months

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Tagged by @period-dramallama - thank you!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?:

Seven. Not enough.

(Guys there's no number 2 in this thing, where did it go??)

3. What fandoms do you write for?

At present, ReBoot and sometimes I drop back into Elizabeth (1998). I was much more of a fanfic slut in my youth, multiple fandoms on the go. (I've done Power Rangers, Doctor Who, Star Wars, Disney's Hercules...)

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Dodge and Burn (ReBoot)

Road to Ruin (ReBoot)

Mea Culpa (Elizabeth 1998)

Inconcessus fructus (Elizabeth 1998)

Dodge and Burn: Chapter 11.5 - Optional Add-on (ReBoot)

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

Yes. It's something I've always done. I think it stems from the early days of Fanfic.net and Live Journal where many people were more generous with their time and left lots of comments and engaged in discourse, whereas now I get very little feedback. I enjoy thanking people or answering questions, it makes the work put into a fic feel worthwhile that it's created some kind of engagement. I think society now is more geared to comsuming but not reflecting which is a shame.

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

I'm hoping "Dodge and Burn" will fill that gap. I'm not sure Mea Culpa or Incon' were angsty? They had angst but I think the ending tied up ok.

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

What's a happy ending? I don't think I've written a happy ending for years. Maybe back in my Doctor Who days.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not any more. I wrote a Star Wars fic a good 20 years ago which to be fair was terrible and featured lots of unnecessarily cruel tropes but it got a lot of love at the time, until quite some years after, someone randomly began reviewing every chapter and bombing it. I don't know why they kept wasting their time on something they really didn't like, I guess people enjoy dumping on others. I just turned off the notifications, it was wirtten too long ago for me to care. I've grown since then. I don't get hate any more really, my fics are super niche rarepairs in minority fandoms, I don't get many readers. You're either into it or you've never heard of it.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Yes. It's pretty tame overall, I try to focus on emotion rather than action. I seem to enjoy writing some sub/dom elements - not proper BDSM but there's certainly power play in my smut. It's a battlefield more than a bedroom.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I've touched on crossovers but they're such hard work and really only appeal to me rather than a wider audience as I fix on really weird-ass combinations. I've never finished a crossover fic. I started a Lion King/Discworld one many years ago. Recently I had fun with Elizabeth (1998)/Attack on Titan. I wrote some snippets and am determined it could work if I put my mind to it but yeah, way too niche.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I doubt it. I have this low key - not fear, perhaps curiosity - that things I wrote years ago might have been repackaged and recirculated and I'd have no idea because I've lost touch with so any fandoms.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

No.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No. I'm too much of a control freak to want to share a fic.

14. What’s your all-time favourite ship?

I can't choose one. I love, love, love Elizabeth/Walsingham (Walsibeth) from the Elizabeth movie as it just means so much to me, and it's been with me a long time. And I feel like it's almost exclusively mine, I've read very few other fics of that pairing before I started writing it in the mid 2000s.

Megabyte and Dot from ReBoot are my current obsession and again that pairing is something I've liked for a long time. They're so much fun to write, at constant battle with each other. I think I'm better at writing them now that I'm older as I can tap into life experience and not just ride on my youthful hormones.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

I rarely finish anything tbh. I will say Dodge and Burn, i desperately want to finish it but my legacy does not bode well for it.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Sexual tension I think? Maybe.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I have been overly descriptive in the past and spoon fed the reader with the character's thoughts and motivations. I'm trying to peel back from that and show rather than tell. There will definitely be other weaknesses. I feel like I focus too much on dialogue but I love writing dialogue. I hate writing battles or heavy action scenes, I need to focus on building my skills in that area.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I'm not a linguist so I wouldn't dare.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

If we're talking pre-internet childhood, maybe Power Rangers?

20. Favourite fic you’ve ever written?

I do love Dodge and Burn which I'm currently working on, it's a lot of fun, but I remain proud of Inconcessus fructus that I wrote in the mid-2000s, I actually think it's one of my best pieces of writing and I fear I peaked back then.

Tagging @buginateacup @thisbluespirit @thatfilthyanimal if you fancy.

#fanfic ask #fanfic #writing #megadot #elizabeth 1998 #walsibeth #reboot fanfic #reboot: dodge and burn #megabyte x dot

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grymmnox · 1 year

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weekly fic recs #33

i am going insane, actually! enjoy this week's fic recs <33

fandom(s): bungo stray dogs, harry potter, my hero academia

ship(s): soukoku, kousano (if thats their ship name. kouyou/yosano), shin soukoku, ranpoe

Oneshots

Don't Mess With A Man's Hat; Grinch1234 - bungo stray dogs

mature | 5.6k words | chuuya/dazai, chuuya & dazai, dazai & kunikida, atsushi & dazai, ADA & dazai, dazai & mori, chuuya & mori

summary:

Chuuya lets go of his hair and levels the whole office with a glare. “I’m very serious about this. I’ll even pay you, like an actual client or whatever. I want Mori destroyed, and if you need something that isn’t in that file,” Chuuya points a gloved finger at the monster-sized folder sitting on Ranpo’s desk, “I will get it to you myself.” Or The random one-shot crack fic where Mori loses Chuuya’s hat and Chuuya is out for blood.

oh darling it's alarming to think of us apart (you know you've got me in your pocket); interludewings - bungo stray dogs

teen and up | 20.3k words | chuuya/dazai

summary:

“Okay so if we’re both still single when we’re twenty two,” Dazai’s smile grew even wider. “Let’s marry each other.” By the time Chuuya’s twenty two, he’d probably be in a relationship with someone else, and the possibilities of them even remembering each other were slim to none. And so, Chuuya gave his answer. “Fine, let’s do that.”

In short, fifteen year olds Dazai Osamu and Nakahara Chuuya made a stupid promise one day in their school library out of boredom, which leads to the next seven years of their life filled with fighting, burnt notebooks and late night conversations.

The Curse of Anonymity; SapphireSunstone - bungo stray dogs

teen and up | 12.6k words | chuuya/dazai, akutagawa/atsushi, poe/ranpo | READ TAGS

summary:

Someone admits on Yokohama High School Confessions that they're in love with 'the biggest asshole of the year'.

Dazai knows that it's him that this stranger is talking about.

(The Edited and Redrafted version of Anonymous Confessions)

Linger; iskendaris - bungo stray dogs

general audiences | 17.1k words | chuuya/dazai

summary:

Chuuya goes missing. Everyone assumes. Dazai investigates.

One: Everyone in Port Mafia believes that Chuuya is with him. Two: They believe Chuuya has been with him for a month now. Three: Both are patently untrue, therefore Chuuya has been missing for a month.

promise rings & what that means; lesbianhowlpendragon - bungo stray dogs

teen and up | 8.4k words | chuuya/dazai, chuuya & yosano, dazai & yosano

summary:

skk get ironic(?) promise rings at 16. six years later, chuuya finds out that dazai still wears his. flustered pining ensues. (they are very dumb but very sweet and in love !)

realizations in a shared hotel room; setosdarkness - bungo stray dogs

teen and up | 4.6k words | chuuya/dazai

summary:

“You will stay quarantined here, or so help me, if you die from this fucking virus instead of my own hands, I’m gonna fucking destroy everything, starting with your precious Agency.”

[or, Dazai and Chuuya are on an overseas joint-mission when the virus lockdown hits.]

Tea Parties and Toxins; injeong - bungo stray dogs

teen and up | 2.8k words | dazai & kunikida, atsushi & dazai, dazai & ranpo | READ TAGS

summary:

(Not really graphic descriptions of violence, per say, but I put the warning just in case)

One of Dazai's plans to extract some information out of a target goes as planned, except for one small thing.

Regrets; RayvnAshes (IronScript) - bungo stray dogs

teen and up | 1.2k words | dazai & kunikida, kunikida & sasaki, kunikida & rokuzou, dazai & oda

summary:

Atsushi asks Tanizaki a simple question, but unfortunately the situation escalates when Kunikida can't help but throw a few scathing remarks in Dazai's direction. They never really did resolve things after the Azure Messenger case, but did they have to do this in the middle of the office?

all the holes we had to breathe; airiena - bungo stray dogs

teen and up | 18.2k words | chuuya/dazai | READ TAGS

summary:

“...Are you in a hurry or something?” Chuuya inquires, hand instinctively reaching out to wipe at the corner of Dazai’s mouth, successfully getting rid of the crumbs, before he realizes what he’s doing and freezes.

“Yeah.” Dazai all but breathes. He is golden, when Chuuya takes in his appearance. He is a golden thing, dimmed, beaten, snuffed out, full of scratches but is still so human and so real despite what he always seems to believe that it makes the redhead want nothing but to take him into his arms and hide him from the heavy, heavy world and soothe all his aches and kiss all his scars—

“I’m in a hurry, because I’ve already lost too much time.”

I Won't Leave You (Again); deviance - bungo stray dogs

teen and up | 15.9k words | chuuya/dazai, chuuya & dazai, ADA & chuuya, chuuya & kouyou | READ TAGS

summary:

"Executive Kouyou, we've been informed that you are planning a coup."

Before the signal could be given, there was a large explosion and many men were blown from their feet as something like a black hole went tearing through them all. Kouyou could recognize the gravitons of her own pupil; she just wished it hadn't come to this.

The men scattered, but Corruption was beyond anything a human could defeat. Kouyou watched from afar as Chuuya's body cackled while taking down men he'd mostly likely led in missions recently, taken to bars, worried over.

"I hope you're worth it."

Kouyou didn't startle at the voice behind her.

"Isn't that for the lad to decide?"

"You know how this will affect him," Dazai accused her, and she couldn't see a glimpse of the light in his eyes. "He didn't want to be conscious when he fought them."

"Not going to leave him again?"

"There is no leaving him again," Dazai denied.

.....

(Chuuya leaves the PM to save Kouyou, then joins the ADA so he can stay in Yokohama)

(Day 2 of Chuuya Week 2023: Friendship/Family)

Hurt, Heal, Repeat; Mornelithe_falconsbane - bungo stray dogs

not rated | 1.5k words | dazai & fukuzawa, dazai & ranpo

summary:

Dazai doesn't adjust to the Armed Detective Agency immediately.

Waiting Inside The Hollows Of His Bones; StormDew2 - bungo stray dogs

teen and up | 5.2k words | dazai & fukuzawa | READ TAGS

summary:

Dazai & Fukuzawa throughout the years as Dazai struggles with mental health and past abuse. Can he trust people again?

Mark; Raven_Rein - bungo stray dogs

general audiences | 2.9k words | chuuya/dazai

summary:

Dazai was afflicted with a curse and the only way to lift it is by kissing the person who loved him the most.

Naturally he took the chance to laugh at everyone's expense.

Get Off My Lawn; that_one_Author - bungo stray dogs

teen and up | 11.1k words | chuuya/dazai

summary:

“You let your dog shit in my petunias!” “Not before you insulted him! You called my dog a rat.” “I was only telling the truth, that’s not how a dog’s supposed to look like.” “Baki is a Pomeranian and he is beautiful!”

There is a new hot neighbour right next to Dazai’s house that he really wants to woo since day one. Needless to say, it’s going wonderfully.

Complete

Dial Tones; SapphireSunstone - bungo stray dogs

teen and up | 14 chapters, 14k words | chuuya/dazai, kouyou/yosano

summary:

(+8145-xxx-xxxx): Bonjour mademoiselle~

> Je pense que vous avez le mauvais numéro

(+8145-xxx-xxxx): I’m afraid you overestimate my language skills dear

(+8145-xxx-xxxx): But I’m pleased to know you have a skilled tongue

> Oh my god ew

"Ah... I Think We're In What They Call A Hate/Love Relationship."; Insomnia_Productions - bungo stray dogs

general audiences | 5 chapters, 7.9k words | chuuya/dazai

summary:

Chuuya's the fourth person to be assigned as Dazai's roommate this semester, and, unfortunately, he's not allowed to ask for a transfer. So now he's stuck with an annoying, suicidal roommate who seems intent on making his life a living hell.

Well, at least he has his new online friend, No Longer Human, to keep his spirits up.

[Prompt: your otp are roommates who hate each other... but they're also online friends who might be kind of falling in love with each other. What happens when they arrange a blind date?]

Redeemable For Love; Gatteau - bungo stray dogs

teen and up | 10 chapters, 39.7k words | chuuya/dazai

summary:

In an attempt to cheer his boyfriend up and take their relationship to new heights of normalcy, Chuuya decides to surprise Dazai with something he's never tried before: a love coupon book.

The Art Of Getting Back At Your Partner: A Guide By Nakahara Chuuya; PurpleJellyFrogs - bungo stray dogs

teen and up | 7 chapters, 28k words | chuuya/dazai, ADA & dazai, ADA & chuuya, chuuya & PM, dazai & original character, chuuya & kouyou, dazai & ranpo & yosano | READ TAGS

summary:

“It’s easy, it just ignites the sparks of attraction, it gives people the freedom to have choices even when they’re affected. It starts wearing down after ten days,” the platinum blonde-haired woman explains bluntly. No need to lie to the man, he’d see through it and she has an inkling he would even prefer it less if it was truly ‘all-powerful’ as he put it.

“Have you had any clients in the past ten days?”

“No.”

“Are you planning to have any in the next five to seven days?”

“No? Why?” She looks at the man skeptically, green eyes observing his smirk.

“I want to hire you for a job.” He grins and extends a hand for her to shake.

Dazai thinks it's easy to use an ability to make Chuuya like him. Chuuya thinks it's easy to mess with the bastard by playing pretend.

Magic and Mystery; Allegory_for_Hatred - bsd/harry potter fusion

not rated | 55 chapters, 209k words | READ TAGS

summary:

Dazai is going to Hogwarts—which is crazy because he doesn’t have magic. He has a nullifying ability, for goodness’ sake! Not that it matters. Dazai is still willing to stick around and cause trouble before he gets shipped back home and stuck in his room again.

And this Quirrell guy is definitely up to something. So that’s a good place to start.

Incomplete

so if I survive, then I'll see you tomorrow; prettysicknasty - bungo stray dogs

teen and up | 18/? chapters, 94.2k words | chuuya/dazai | READ TAGS

summary:

This was far from the first time Dazai had to spend time in a mental institution. The inpatient facility was more like a second home at this point. He wasn't expecting anything different from usual when he was admitted, but when a fiery redheaded roommate is thrown into his usually dull and monochrome life, suddenly it doesn't seem so boring anymore.

Stray Heroes; ellezahuay - bsd/mha fusion

teen and up | 14/? chapters, 11.3k words

summary:

Reports of sightings of the members of the Villain Alliance have been popping up and causing havoc all over Japan, repeatedly and with the puzzling situation of the same members being spotted in different cities at the same time, and many heroes, including a large number of those in the hero education system, have been called to track them down in groups. Due to particularly dire situation in Yokohama, which is majorly quirkless due to having been quarantined during the first couple generations of quirk users, and relatively defenceless against the threats of the Villain Alliance and illegal organisations such as the Port Mafia combined, a large number of heroes have been sent there to hopefully alleviate the situation.

Without their homeroom teacher as well as a large number of their other teachers absent, it would seem as if 1A is in for a boring few months while the situation is resolved. Thankfully, a certain substitute teacher from the Armed Detective Agency has a couple other plans.

(So much for a dramatic summary. Basically, Aizawa and three others go to Yokohama and work with the ADA while Ranpo goes "substitute" for 1A, but we all know he's there for other reasons.)

#[.grims recs]#[.grims weekly recs]#bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd #fic recs #reclist #bsd fic recs #bungo stray dogs fic recs #bungou stray dogs fic recs #mha #bnha #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #mha fic recs #bnha fic recs #my hero academia fic recs #boku no hero academia fic recs

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devils-pirate-crew · 10 months

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"Jack!"

The owner of the tavern perks up immediately, waving Jack over from where he stands behind the bar counter polishing glasses. He seems not to be expecting the pirate to vault over the counter, capturing him in a giant bear hug; the tavern owner stumbles back, grinning, as he wraps his arms around Jack.

"Quinn!" Jack repeats, laughing. "How're mom and dad holding up?"

Quinn sucks in a breath, letting Jack go and waving to Dawson and Luke, who've stepped inside The Electric Eel. The sign above the door sways a moment longer before stalling. He smiles widely at Luke, who nods awkwardly back, clearly also excited to be here by how he shuffles over to join his brothers, albeit on the other side of the counter. Dawson tags along, stooping to collect the letters that Jack had dropped.

"Mom's doing well, as always," Quinn reaches past Jack, setting down the stein, and pointedly avoiding the other half of the question. "Business is going strong. Thunderbolt came by a few months ago and she scammed Stammer so hard," he chuckles. "Made ten times the profit on some jewelry and fabric he thought was useless."

"Speaking of," Luke segues. "Anyone here now?"

Quinn nods. "Two, matter fact. Sensibility docked at the Cove last week." He rolls his eyes. "You wanna know what's up with them?"

"Fuck yeah," Jack cheers, finally realizing he should get on the right side of the counter and jumping back over to take a seat. As it's still early, not many people are there - only a few career drunks loitering in the corners. Luke quietly perches on a stool next to him; Dawson scoops up the last of the letters and tucks them into his coat, sitting on Luke's other side.

"Okay," Quinn begins, already collecting a few glasses and putting them under a keg whose tap he opens. "So Chabot's been the captain of Sensibility since Karlsson fucked off and retired to Pacifico, right?" At the nods of his audience, he continues, "Turns out Chabby hasn't been doing too hot. Past few years, Sensibility hasn't been able to land a big target. So they voted him out!"

"No," Dawson finds himself gasping along with the Hughes brothers. None of them seem to pay him much mind, more concerned with the gossip at hand.

"Yes!" Quinn smiles with schadenfreude. "They said he was too much of a coward and voted him out! And you know who they elected their new captain?"

"No idea," Jack admits. He closes his eyes, deep in thought. "Hamonic? Giroux? Didn't Giroux captain Viceroy back in the day?"

"Maybe him," Dawson agrees.

"Neither." Quinn grins wider, placing the full beer steins in front of the pirates. "Brady fucking Tkachuk."

"No fucking way," Jack blinks, taking a swig.

"Yes fucking way," Quinn nods.

Jack whistles, banging a fist on the table. "God damn!"

"You said there were two ships?" Luke questions, ignoring his brother's whooping and hollering at the news.

"...Santé's here too," Quinn admits.

At this, Jack seems to light up even more. "Cole's here?"

"Oh my God, I'm going to get a headache - " Quinn groans.

"Cole's here! Holy shit, Quinner! If Trevor were here too, the whole gang would be together!" Jack absolutely beams at this thought. "God, I hope Old Mallard shows her face..."

"I think I'd rather die," Luke mumbles, taking a long sip of his beer and resting his head on the counter, exchanging a horrified look with Quinn.

Dawson leans back, looking at the beverage in front of him. He closes his eyes, trying to focus on the Voices that speak in his ears and the rising headache taking over his brain. As Jack chatters on about Cole and Trevor, and The Electric Eel bustles around them, Dawson figures that now would be a good time to drain the pressure - if any of the Voices decide that now is a good time to speak, that is.

#storyline #d.mercer|91 #q.hughes|43 #j.hughes|86 #l.hughes|43

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fenharael · 2 years

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one of these days i'm gonna write a long ass post no one will read comparing the Yashahime Sessrin debacle to the Elden Ring Mohgmiq shipping community.

actually i'll just do it now.

Full disclosure I wrote a lot about how much I hated Sessrin and was definitely in the anti-tags. I never had an issue with people shipping it though- I had a big issue with the character assassination that had to happen for the ship to be canon and the complete and utter bastardization of the Sess/Rin relationship in order to make it work for a show that sucked absolute ass.

Shipping isn't a moral statement on a persons character. fiction and art exists to allow people to explore dark, twisted, or taboo subjects- among self expression, social commentary...etc etc. if a person ships something "problematic" that's their business, and if it interacts with a wider fandom audience it's common courtesy to tag or warn people of the content they might see.

do you have to like or agree with someone's ship? no. do you have to be friends with that person or engage with them and their interests? no. does someone shipping something morally ambiguous, distasteful or "wrong" mean that person as a whole is bad, evil, or somehow toxic? no. can it mean those things? yes. but that's not something you can tell from purely seeing someone's tastes in fiction, media, or shipping online.

when it comes to narrative and media portraying things as "good" or "bad" or if something has an underlying commentary or agenda, it gets more complex.

take lolita, or game of thrones for example:

lolita is a novel which depicts a pedophilic relationship through the eyes of an abuser. the relationship and lolita herself are seen from humbert's perspective- he sexualizes her and rapes her and still casts her in the light of some sort of temptress though she's only 12. he admits to himself that's what he's doing and the novel- despite being from his POV doesn't excuse or praise this. he is not a hero, he is not praised, and the relationship is not cast as healthy, desirable or good.

in GoT we get cersei and jaime. twins who are so in love they tear each other and the world around them apart to be together. their relationship is tragic, it's viewed as taboo and degenerate by characters in the novel- and for most people that would be really gross and unacceptable to see irl. but their relationship still has value and meaning, they are two screwed up people who ultimately are condemned for being horrible not for their incest but because they do bad things and dont care about anyone but each other.

on one hand, we have an author who depicts something morally reprehensible to explore an unreliable narrative - the fucked up psyche of a middle aged dude who's so up his own ass that he thinks a child has seduced him and that's like, ok.

on the other hand we have an author who has written a relationship most would consider morally bad- but ultimately what makes those characters immoral isn't their love- it's them.

both of these relationships aren't acceptable or seen as healthy or safe in real life, but their inherent depiction isn't "wrong" and doesn't make the media they appear in "wrong".

can there be issues or problems when media depicts problematic, harmful, or morally ambiguous things as a positive? oh yeah.

to bring us back to Yashahime, part of the reason the sessrin ship got SO much backlash was because of how it was portrayed.

for some context: we have an already established relationship between sesshomaru and rin in the OG inuyasha- rin is a child of around 8, Sesshomaru is an immortal demon lord of unknown age, but looks to be 18-20. in inuyasha, he acts as her guardian and caretaker.

in yashahime we get a rin who from episode 1 has: zero agency, zero character growth or personality, zero change in mindset or mannerisms from her depiction as a child. and on top of that when we do see her interact with her beloved husband...he literally treats her like shit. like. i won't go too much into it because it was really poorly handled.

but the point is- sunrise went out of there way to establish rin was impregnated as barely a teenager by her mentor figure, make it out to be some grand romance and then when they had the opportunity to showcase said romance made it the most cringeworthy and sad thing you could possibly imagine.

this was against the perceived wishes of the original author, rumiko takahashi who herself stated she created their original relationship to be more of a parent/child dynamic. that and it basically nullified any and all character development sesshomaru had in the OG show.

this is an example of a narrative portraying something explicitly harmful as romantic or positive to the possible detriment of the viewer base- who contain young girls who may now see grooming behavior as okay and normal.

that being said- people who decide to ship or write about these relationships may do so for a wide variety of reasons. maybe they want to explore the dynamic more. maybe they want to make their own commentary. maybe they just thinks it's interesting or compelling. or maybe they have some sort of trauma related to it and it helps them to explore it. ultimately whatever the reason- it's none of your business.

in fandom, you have the choice to engage with or not engage with things you don't like. if the content is tagged and you do it anyway- that's on you.

just because i personally find sessrin gross, icky, and would really rather not see it ever doesn't mean the people who do like it are bad. it means they like it.

the same goes for people who ship Mohgmiq. it's a ship. it's a ship in a videogame that is never once portrayed as UWU ~romantic~ in fact, the story and atmosphere pretty clearly make it out to be an act of intelligent evil. (no matter how tragic mohg is and no matter whatever is going on with miquella and his bewitchment- which like who knows maybe we get a twist - but that's not the point)

and even if it didn't go out of its way to do that, people can still ship whatever they want.

anyway this is getting long so disclaimer:

people with ships that contain morally ambiguous or bad pairings aren't inherently bad people

can a pattern of problematic or predatory behavior and preferences give you a heads up that someone may be not great? yeah but that's a different discussion

i don't have the energy to write up a whole thing about pedophilia in anime, american obsessions with youth and child pageants, how underaged porn contributes to the harm and sexualization of minors- especially non-white children and a ton of other shit that ties into this atm

there's more discourse going on around how mohg is the only LGBTQ rep in ER and he's a pedophile etc etc and that's a whole thing for another post BUT if you seriously think he's the only queer character in ER buddy i've got news for you

censorship is bad

touch grass

#disc horse #mohg/miq #shipping #long post #miquella the unalloyed #anti sessrin #sessrin #proshipping #antiship #mohgmiq #mohg lord of blood

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fitzrove · 1 year

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Complaining about fanfic trends (the treatment of F/F vs M/M specifically). This will probably come off very petty. Also, related to smut, so mentions of explicit content ahead...

The corpus of fanfic borne out of the Goncharov meme is so telling to me re: a wider phenomenon that has bugged me for a long time. This is a fandom where it's 100% invented characters and invented storylines - all that is commonly agreed on is a rough list of characters, among whom are a F/F ship (Katya and Sofia) and a M/M ship (Andrey and Goncharov). There should be literally no difference in how the ships are treated - one set of characters is not written differently than the other in canon, because CANON HAS NEVER BEEN WRITTEN. But immediately, two very separate trends emerge in fic. Take a look at the stats on ao3:

Goncharov/Andrey (207 fics in total)

Katya/Sofia (257 in total)

For once, there are more F/F fics than M/M fics in a fandom. But yet, the proportion of mature and explicit works out of the entire corpus is totally different across the ships. For the M/M ship, mature works form 17,8% of the entire body; for F/F, it's 15,9%. For explicit fics it's 8,2% for the guys and 3,5% for the girls. A noticeable difference!

When you look closer at the tags, you will find that the M/M fic (especially the explicit stuff) deals with considerably heavier and kinkier stuff. You have BDSM, toxic relationships, lots of enemies to lovers. The F/F fic is mostly tenderness and yearning... (Also some threesomes with a guy as a third.) This also seems like a trend in the wider characterisation of the relationships in fic across the board as well as tumblr posts - A/G is an enemies to lovers relationship with a lot of passion and tension, while K/S is soft and tender.

... Which is completely okay! People write what they want, and evidently, the people hard at work writing fic (but in actuality worldbuilding and characterbuilding from scratch!) want to write the stuff I've described. It's not up to outsiders to police what others write, fanfic is a hobby.

BUT STILL. I'm fucking starving 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Why are the wlw ships in fandom always either 1) background decorations 2) soft, sweet and pure 3) not really focused on the relationship but rather wider angst related to trauma (and usually trauma related to men). (I know it isnt actually always like this - the Rebecca fandom for example is doing great ajfjkskd.)

Can't I just want to read about absolutely toxic women being horrible to one another all on their own 😭😭 Or idk, just something super kinky. It's so frustrating that the trends centered around wlw ships always lean in the same tender direction EVEN WHEN NOTHING IN CANON POINTS THAT WAY. The tenderness isn't even earned a lot of the time!!! They don't even almost die due to their own mistakes!!!!!! They just meet and are very sweet about it. And like, I get the appeal of such stories, and I even enjoy them, but it's so frustrating when you want to read something toxic and it doesn't exist. 🤣 I would write more myself but none of my fandoms have those ships prebuilt and genderbends don't necessarily find a broad audience. So I just write and read M/M and occasionally lose my mind over an awesome F/F fic if I can find one. 😅

#maybe i should get into killing eve and i would calm down #oandksld it's just? soo annoying when you want to read something and it isnt there #and its almost never there #ugh #fanfic #writing #fandom #rant

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first-only · 2 years

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Despite the fact that I am getting more comfortable with being SaLS on main, I still get incredibly anxious when I get an anti message

I'm just so scared to have a callout post written about me, and you can never know who will or wont try to set you up for harassment (especially if they are an anti) It doesn't help that I'm incredibly anxious and paranoid a lot of the time

congrats on getting more comfy!! and yeah anxiety is a bitch but i believe in you! at some point you kinda get callous and desensitized to random messages lol

i dont mean to make it worse at all, and if that line of thinking doesnt work for you i apologize, but here's a few things ive picked up over the years:

it doesnt like... /really/ matter what you post. things that you or a wider audience consider "problematic" arent the only way you can get "cancelled". like i got called racist for pointing out that two phrases in different languages can be translated in the same way in english. like literally ranting in the tags about my own language ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ so for people determined to look and sift for 'material' it wont really make a difference if youre posting incest fic or like.. oogling over the celebrity of the day, they just wanna pick a fight. so do what makes you happy anyway, it wont give them teeth if you dont worry about the content yourself. bc yeah it doesnt matter on the internet if you post fic or just aesthetics, they have the same 'moral' value and if you dont assign them different weights then someone else doing it shouldnt bother you either

in the.. absolute best gentlest and encouraging way to say this. you and like. all of us are just some randos on the internet. the chances of someone leading a /personalized/ harassment campaign against you, or even someone finding you that juicy of a target to have more people message you is like. /really/ low. even if you get messages from time to time, a whole ass campaign is unlikely unless you have a lot of followers/are a BNF/are the lead content creator for a rival ship to the main one (bc lets be real all this is one giant ship war at the end of the day)

callouts or "block" lists are usually mass things in my xp. like you get put among 20 other usernames and then you bond w the others over the experience and are happy that you found new likeminded mutuals. the amount of times ive followed an entire list of ~problematics ive been featured in lol. its ironically a bonding experience and with a few blocks out of the way its kinda.. positive in the best case?

and really. really. i might be like. a bit too callous but at this point. even if there is a harassment campaign. even if you get a huge callout. even if half tumblr blocks you. so what? block out the haters, lie in with the mutuals, vent to some side friends. and just. keep going. so what if a bunch of rabid antis are raging out of their skin because youre having fun and trying to tell the other antis that youre having fun. yes you are. so what. what are they gonna do, make fifty accounts? send more anons? catch even more blocks? (reminder that if you block someone on anon it catches their entire ip so they cant make more accs to harass you). like yes, take precaution not to get doxxed (no sharing of identifying info, including where you live) but thats common safety anyway, and most antis arent tech savvy enough to dox anyway. you'll be fine. even if an account gets mass reported you can always write down mutuals' urls and start over (my own mutuals have a lot of experience, the propara community is fun lol) you can still share content, have fun, be yourself. its not a deadly situation. not to be 'the internet isnt real life it doesnt matter' bc yeah it can very much be anxiety inducing and horrible, but at the same time taking a step back yourself and evaluating the situation can help a lot with emotional regulation (just like in real life! some relationships are worth stepping away from, or getting less invested into if they become toxic)

so yeah thats my general view of the problem, again brains are weird and no two work the same, but these things help me and make me feel better, so hopefully if not you personally they might soothe someone in general ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

really hoping you find your community and comfort anon. fandom is a great place with it and a barren wasteland without, but imo its worth sharing even if for that one thrill /you/ get when someone likes it or when you find some gem

#ask #i love saying shit like this and then looking at my own fandom experience like ah yes seek community it is great #ignore my fandoms that i dont touch w a 3m long stick lol #i mean to be fair im having great fun in 'genera' fandom and different tumblr circles #and ive given up on finding more people beside close friends w my specific pretenses #but its still funny #and possible with big and/or newer fandoms!!#build a circle of trusteds before it dies so you can brave different waters together thats what i did w DA

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the-fluffsticks · 4 months

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Blog Information and Rules

Hi! This is Tumble speaking as myself. I just wanted to toss my goals for this blog alongside a quick set of rules and boundaries for interaction.

Goals and History

The fluffstick AU was first conceptualized in December 2020 when I decided that I wanted to figure out a way to toss my versions of the main sticks from Animator vs Animation into an ARPG I play called Kingdoms of Griffia.

Because designs for the game needed to be original, I enlisted help and started from my own personality concepts and worked backwards. This resulted in original designs for each of the stick figures that I could then mess about with as I wished.

Since then, the AU has been through many iterations but has always remained an Animator Vs Animation AU at its core. In fact, even now the early events of the AU continue to largely follow canon (though I fully expect that to be ending soon). The sticks start out as sticks and only become fluffsticks after they end up marooned in the world of the Griffia ARPG, an event taking place an indiscriminate time after the AU branches off from canon.

My main goal with this blog is to bring this story that I’ve been fleshing out for years now to a wider audience- both telling it and writing it using input from the asks I’ll (hopefully) be getting. My secondary goal is to become faster and better at drawing and writing in general. I’m hoping this project will be great practice. The final goal is to simply get this story out of my head and into one place. That in particular has always been a problem for me and I truly think that this format will be the best way to keep me motivated long enough to get all of the details out. XD

That being said though, I do have some pointers and rules I’d like to put out there regarding how this blog will be ran.

~~ Blog Rules and Guidelines ~~

- First and foremost, this ask blog is NOT first come first served.

As much as I would love to answer every single ask, some simply may not fit the story or vibe I’m working with. As such, I may hold them back for another time, reword them, or not address them at all. At the end of the day it’s totally up to me.

- Asks will be answered utilizing whichever form of media I prefer at the time.

To maximize motivation and minimize the possibility of burnout, I may switch between visual art, writing, or a combination of the two when answering.

I will not promise a certain type of response to any given ask and requests of that nature will be ignored.

- My characters are adults and shipping is a thing that I do. However, my content containing shipping will always be skippable.

I enjoy shipping my characters but I know it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. To accommodate this, none of the main story will involve romance or shipping and any shipping related asks will be optional.

Blacklist the tag “#fluffstick shipping” to banish this optional content. I promise I don’t mind. :)

- I’ll be using tags to organize the blog. If a topic comes up that I believe might be triggering, I’ll use a standard tw tag.

I haven’t decided yet if I’ll be putting a TW at the top of the post as well, but I’m leaning towards no as of right now. This is subject to change.

- If an ask isn’t canon to the story at all, I’ll use the #noncanon tag. If the answer to the ask is canon but the interaction isn’t, I’ll use the #ROC (rule of cool) tag.

In the Fluffstick AU’s canon, the fluffs are marooned on an isolated website and as such face to face interactions with other OCs aren’t possible. However, I love this kind of content in ask blogs so I’ll depict it when I feel it’d be fun!

“Rule of cool” simply means that while the face to face interaction in itself isn’t canon, what the characters are saying or how they are interacting is possible and/or accurate!

- More characters will be introduced over time, and their availability for asks will be announced when necessary.

Characters may become available or inaccessible for asks depending on where the story currently is.

- If you need to contact me (the author), please shoot an email over to [email protected].

This includes asking if your ask was eaten.

-These rules and guidelines are subject to change at any time!

#ooc #blog rules

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neon-moon-beam · 7 months

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I have some posts I want to make but I find I'm burnt out and not sure if it's worth it.

I initially made reassurance posts about how it's more likely than not that Ingo would be returned to Unova, or even that the events PLA might end up not even being canon. I spent a long time playing a game that I resented, that even today makes me feel frustrated and sad because it's just not fun to play a game that doesn't have a real ending and makes you feel helpless because you cannot help your favorite character and the player character, looking for whatever hints I could for people like me and my roommate who were really upset that they left a character that we cared about (in our case before PLA) with no real resolution.

But as time went on, the Submas fandom because more set on angst and then ableism. I watched my friends who found comfort in Submas being dehumanized via depictions of Submas by people who also claim to love them, but apparently only love their out of character, Ingo-And-Emmet-In-Name-And-Appearance-Only angsty, "unhinged", ableist Submas depictions. I've made so many posts about why certain depictions are ableist and how they impact everyone who sees them but I often feel like I'm just throwing posts into the void. The depictions haven't stopped, and I've found more and more people just can't stand to interact with what should have been their community. I myself will never be part of the Submas fandom because of this, and also how fandom spaces operate now vs how they did around the time many of the people responsible for making this space inaccessible were born.

These posts take a lot of time to write. There's a lot of research involved with making reassurance posts; a lot of checking facts about previous games, even if I've played them, to make sure I got things right, a lot of hunting for exact quotes from the games, taking my own screenshots or finding other ones to use, making sure everything is backed up with evidence instead of just speculation, to name some. The posts about the ableism also take time; I want to make sure the problem is absolutely clear, I use personal anecdotes from people I know, I try to link to other specific posts where I can, or link to resources, I try to get people to understand that this stuff hurts real people and perpetrates stereotypes that will hurt real people but...I feel like these don't reach anyone and don't change anything. Most people on here no longer reblog posts so they don't even reach a wider audience; they stay insular in spaces where people already agree with the information and don't reach people who would benefit from seeing the post. And you put one post in the Submas tags saying "Hey stop being ableist towards a pair of autistic coded characters, stop making Emmet unhinged based on his more obviously autistic traits, stop fetishizing mental illness with Emmet and Volo, stop shipping Emmet and Volo in a way that treats mental illness and abuse as entertainment" and it will immediately get buried by posts doing exactly that.

And then of course Scarlet and Violet released and people were horrible about Nemona, and now I see them doing it with Carmine and especially Kieran.

I don't know if I can keep putting energy I don't have into making these posts, especially if I feel like they aren't helping anything or anyone.

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salesmotivation · 8 months

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How SMS Powers a Better Multi-Channel Customer Engagement Strategy

Introduction:

In today's fast-paced digital world, having a multi-channel customer engagement strategy is crucial for effective marketing. One powerful channel that can significantly enhance your strategy is Short Message Service (SMS). In this blog post, we will explore how SMS empowers better multi-channel customer engagement and why it should be an integral part of your marketing team's toolkit.

Why SMS Matters in Multi-Channel Customer Engagement:

1. Reach Customers Instantly:

SMS allows you to reach customers instantly with important messages.

- Text messages have high open rates, ensuring your message gets noticed promptly.

- Deliver time-sensitive information like flash sales, limited-time offers, or event reminders directly to customers' mobile devices.

- Unlike other channels that require internet access, SMS works on all types of mobile phones, making it accessible to a wider audience.

2. Enhance Personalization:

Personalization plays a vital role in engaging customers effectively. With SMS, you can personalize your communication effortlessly.

- Address recipients by their name or include specific details relevant to their previous interactions or preferences.

- Send tailored promotions based on past purchase history or browsing behavior to increase the chances of conversion.

- Use dynamic fields and merge tags to automate personalized bulk messaging while maintaining individual relevance.

3. Drive Immediate Action:

SMS has proven itself as a highly effective channel for driving immediate action from customers.

- Include clear call-to-action keywords in your messages (e.g., "Reply YES" or "Click here") to encourage instant responses and conversions.

- Prompt users to visit landing pages with exclusive offers or discounts via short URLs within the text message body

- Utilize SMS alongside other channels like email by sending follow-up reminders after sending initial emails for events registration or cart abandonment

4. Increase Engagement Rates:

Adding SMS into your multi-channel strategy helps boost overall engagement rates and keeps customers connected throughout their journey.

- Send transactional notifications such as order confirmations, shipping updates, or appointment reminders via SMS for a seamless customer experience.

- Encourage two-way communication by allowing customers to reply directly to your messages with questions or feedback.

- Use SMS as an engagement channel for surveys, polls, or contests to gather valuable insights and foster customer interaction.

5. Complement Other Channels:

SMS works synergistically with other channels in your multi-channel strategy.

- Integrate SMS into email campaigns to reinforce messaging and increase conversion rates.

- Combine SMS with social media by sharing exclusive offers or content through text messages while driving traffic back to social platforms

- Leverage SMS alongside mobile push notifications for maximum reach and user engagement.

Conclusion:

Incorporating SMS into your multi-channel customer engagement strategy can significantly enhance your marketing efforts. With its ability to reach customers instantly, enable personalization at scale, drive immediate action, increase overall engagement rates across various touchpoints, and complement other channels, SMS is a powerful tool that should not be overlooked. By leveraging the benefits of SMS effectively, your marketing team can create better experiences for customers, resulting in improved brand loyalty, sales conversions, and long-term success. Embrace the power of SMS today and propel your multi-channel customer engagement strategy forward!

#startup #b2bmarketing #gamification #entrepreneur #saas #marketing #business #developers & startups

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