#just. in general

[wormspoodle]

tennas

[wyrmgrass]

Thank you Lizzie last name ldshadowlady

[thisisapaige]

girl help

[gay--dog]

how it feels tbh

[maudlin-scribbler]

i don't like it in stories where bad things happen and characters suffer just for the sake of it

[secondbeatsongs]

having ideas again

[treezxu]

someone i follow on insta responded to a post about a 7 y/o kid calling out ableism and inaccessibility saying "you're 7 year old did not say that" and ive been quoting it non stop.

[kiyomitakada]

there are currently 13108 works in the death note fandom on ao3. out of these, 610 are marked f/f. that is about 0.0465 which is 5%. oh no! we just overshot the symbolic 4% number! quick everyone we've got to get it to 40% now

[hezekiahwakely]

Hozier truly does not miss

[fiddlepickdouglas]

ladies and gentlemen. what the fuck

[rememberthelaughtermp3]

im in such a weird place rn

[i-assign-you-animorphs]

Animorphs

guy who is sobbing and wailing hysterically, red faced, snot and all, and when you ask him what's wrong he just shows you this picture and tries to say something but you cant understand anything through the sobbing

[humming-fly]

was thinking about that one blind professor post earlier today and how well it applied to the aptly named Team Dark

(really 'Team Dark' just sounds a lot cooler than 'Team Saves-On-Electricity')

[aroaceleovaldez]

i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:

"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.

an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.

You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.

If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.

Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.

[swan2swan]

Whoever conceived and animated this moment, I hope they're doing well and thriving. This is S-rank romance stuff here.