Moms got married today 👍

New "Aftershocks" chapter, up now!

Kelly "Vacay" Savannah, Weapons Systems Officer, has been called back to Top Gun years after her graduation, about a mission she knows nothing whatsoever of. Luckily, she's not alone. Her frontseater Marisol "Floodgate" Carter, has been called back, too. OR: Two more people join the Dagger Squad. Not a lot changes, but nothing is the same.

Edited by @zee-has-commitment-issues, as always!! I'm so glad to talk to them after being in the wilderness. Compliment their hair today!!!

But they shot through the smoke, the flame, and the wreckage, and sailed right up alongside the shitty F-14, and Jake felt lighter than he had in years. He hadn’t been able to save Whitney. That was a fact. He couldn’t alter that any more than he could change the way the sun set over the sea. But. But, but, but – he’d saved Maverick and Rooster. Not his friends. Not his family. Not even his as-good-as sister.

But there was a cry of victory in the back of his head, and it was growing louder by the second. Mine, that voice sang, and behind it was the echo of piano keys. Mine, mine, mine. The scales had evened out. Finally, the scales had evened.

Read now on Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41581620/chapters/140900401

Taglist: @missezri

hi! do you have a favourite place in young royals and why is it your favourite? (for example the lake, Simon or Wille's room, etc) :)

Hello! I think my favorite places are probably the examples you gave haha. The Lake and Wilhelm's room specifically seem to be heavy on my mind. So many beautiful scenes happen there. And Wilhelm really grows up in his room. I also really enjoy the dining room scenes/palatset scenes because it's fun to see all of the characters together, but I think the lake and Wille's room might take the cake on this one.

ask me yr asks

What's the first YR fic you read and loved? And the last?

I think the first fic I got really invested in was probably Call Me Up Late by @royalwilmon

The most recent fic I read was gracias a la vida (it gave me my heart) by @omar-rudeberg!

ask me yr asks

Wille and Simon both get detention (honestly, don't know if that's even a thing in Sweden, but let's just pretend for a minute). What did they do to receive that as punishment? 👀

The first thing that came to mind was "they have to scrub down every place they made out." And I'm sticking with that simply because it's so fucking funny. Like surely someone has taken notice of their little habit lol, and I think it's hilarious to think that someone has a checklist. So for detention they have to scrub down every place they have done something indecent 💀

ask me yr asks

will august keep rousseau as a reminder of sara or would he kill the fucking horse

Well I hope he just sells it. I hope his first thought isn't murder.

ask me yr asks

Reblog if you want random YR-related asks in your inbox

In the back seat, Wille looks at Simon and takes his hand. Simon rolls down the window. The wind blows through their hair. Simon starts singing along. Felice and Sara join in. Wille is enjoying the moment, looks at Simon, then straight ahead, into the camera. And then he looks away. That's how we say goodbye to everyone.

“So why is Hillerska getting shut down?”

These two:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Okay so, the nilcent dream. (@missmeganlee this is where it really gets unhinged)

I was an active participant in this dream, and yet I was also aware that they were fictional characters being written by someone else.

Where were we? A middle school dance.

Were we middle schoolers? No! In fact we were full grown adults! I do not know why we were there!

But at first it was just Vincent (and maybe August?) who were there. Because I saw someone I knew (maybe someone from high school?) and they were dancing with someone. When I got closer I saw that it was Vincent. And I knew he was fictional because I thought “huh, you know, I’m really glad they’re exploring Vincent’s queer storyline, even without Nils around.”

BUT THEN

out of the sea of middle schoolers, there appears Nils. And he isn’t happy that Vincent is dancing with my friend(?) from high school. So he takes Vincent’s hands off of that person and places them around his own neck instead. And then nilcent starts dancing together.

And I was like “omg nilcent moment” and then I WOKE UP.

I'm finishing up my nilcent fic right now and fucking Vincent and his cute little sketchbook dedicated to drawings of Nils is the gayest thing I have ever written and I have actively written gay sex before.

Yall I started dreaming about nilcent.

I have started dreaming about nilcent.

Simon was actually baffled when Linda grounded him. Like baby what did you think was gonna happen? You sold drugs.

I love how his mind works 💀

no you know what I'm going to scream about the stuff I talked about in the tags of this post publicly

I'm tired of the well-meaning "don't feel bad if your work only gets 20 notes your genius is what counts and do it for you!" bullshit. I've had a good handful of friends who have straight up DEACTIVATED in recent months because their work was not getting reblogged AT ALL. No, it wasn't from lack of not being well-liked, no it wasn't from lack of trying to make sure it was getting out there to the people they knew would engage with it. It was because no matter how much they were praised privately for their work, when push came to shove, absolutely NOBODY reblogged it and gave it the audience that it was due, and I'm tired of people shoving the "unsung genius" narrative as an excuse for it. Nothing excuses that. And the boop event really proved that.

because I know given the opportunity, indiscriminately pressing a button (sometimes 10 thousand times, as I did) is not beyond this website's capability. y'all loved doing that. and look at what it wrought. nothing but love and affection and happiness. just from a couple of quick clicks of a little paw button. sure. nobody knew who you booped but the other person (which is how likes used to work on this website, btw). there was an element of anonymity to it. but that is kind of the core of this website that no other social media platform still has: the ability to be anonymous. and hyper-curating a blog on here like you might on twitter or instagram to project an image is simply not viable. and hey. you wanna know a secret: literally nobody cares what you post or whether it goes with the "theme" of your blog or not. yeah. I know. CRAZY concept in this day and age. but literally. I myself have reblogged things that have had nothing to do with whatever I am currently fixated by and you know what happened to my follower count? not a damn thing. in fact, I actively try to reblog things specifically BECAUSE it's my friends who made them (even though I'm not always good at KEEPING UP WITH HOW MUCH THEY POST @prismatica-the-strange will NEVER GO UNRECOGNIZED by me).

And you know what fucking sucks? I have to deal with this too. surprise right? you ever wonder why I reblog fics or art I post like 20 times the day that I post them? do you ever wonder why I ask about tag lists and beg for asks all the time? IT'S BECAUSE EVEN I GET LIKE. 5 LIKES ON THE THINGS I POST. AND THE REST OF THE REBLOGS ARE MINE SO I CAN MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SEE WHAT I MAKE GET TO SEE IT. and I say that knowing that I'm certainly not an unpopular blog, or an unpopular writer. I know that people love the stories that I create. Hell, half of the people that I've talked to about lady terror have told me that they consider her to be canon (AND EVEN SOME!! THOUGHT SHE WAS!!! WITHOUT EVEN HAVING WATCHED THE SHOW! WHICH IS STILL SO SO WILD TO ME!!!) But especially in the last 4 years (which really dates this phenomenon), my posts, no matter how well received they've been amongst people I've talked to about them directly, I still go into the notes and at least half (often more than half) are MY reblogs to make sure people saw what I posted. and it happens every single time, and I can't tell you how much it crushes me considering that it used to be that I would be able to post it only once, and people would reblog it sometimes even HUNDREDS of times.

It's not about popularity. it never has been. it's not about anxiety. or shifting website cultures. even if you lurk, the simple fact is, that if you want people to keep making what you love. you have to reblog. your theme won't suffer because you reblogged a fanfiction that you really admire. your posting won't be ruined because you reblogged some fanart from someone in a different fandom. really. I promise. and if people do unfollow you for that? who needs em. followers come and go but you should NEVER have to cater to them. on this website it has ALWAYS been the other way around. lean into it. make it yours. put stuff you ACTUALLY WANT to be seen and that you love and appreciate on your blog. no matter how old it is, how new it is, no matter how niche or off-theme it is.

so please. if you really want to show your appreciation for someone's work? you reblog. it's really as easy as that. check the tags. add some when you reblog if you like. but please for the love of god reblog. it's as easy as booping and even more rewarding for the people who you reblog from. if you want to let someone know that their work is genius and appreciate it? show it. reblog. then DM them if you're too nervous to say what you want to say but not in a public forum. but for christ's sake. REBLOG.

Desperately waiting for Dani to get back from her backpacking trip so she can read the unhinged messages I’m sending her:

HAHA

I guess I’ve been a Possessive Simon Truther since the beginning 💀

No but actually, Love Bites is one of my favorite fics I’ve written I think.

We have so many possessive Wilhelm fics, but you wanna know what we don't have nearly enough of?

Possessive Simon fics.

(Which is arguably more canon than possessive Wilhelm.) What? Who said that? Not me. What?