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pls don’t drag me out of my hole

Posting smut and then disappearing for the next 3 months

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@avatar-rare-pair-ship-challenge

I'm really more of a lurker than an active part of the fandom at this point, but still wanted to contribute to the challenge. I thought this would work nicely for the Forbidden Love prompt, even if I'm a little late.

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Saying that the redemption of villains is up to the creativity of the writer is perfectly valid, but also...villains who never stop being evil even with arguably sympathetic backstories are also lots of fun to me.

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doodles inspired by a comment on the TFA Kinkmeme about Kylo being a mermaid/siren. Kylo’s nickname is Grumpy Gills

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Can't argue with that

She Ra: does not have Skeletor

He-Man: has Skeletor

now tell me again what the superior show is!!!!!!!

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Plucking any one memory from high school out of my past just makes it sound so funny to hear teenagers rallying against sexual content. 

I saw some #discourse go by about how adults shouldn’t be in fandom writing about younger characters because it’s uncomfortable and gross to younger people to have adults ‘thinking about them’ in romantic/sexual terms.

1, This is not a restriction that any writers in any other venue have to deal with, wtf, or the entire YA genre would be banished; 2, Excuse you, children of Tumblr, no one is thinking about you.

If other people in fandom are older than you, by definition, they have been your age. When fans write about younger characters, we’re not peering through a keyhole at young people now and creeping on them.

We are drawing on our own experiences, thoughts, feelings and memories of what it was like when we were that age.

No one has the right to ask older writers to cut themselves off from their own past just because young’uns don’t want to acknowledge that people in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, all of them, were also young once. I’m 41, but I remember vividly what it was like to be 14. If I write a high school AU, it’s about my high school experience, even if I were to set it in the present day and decorate it with some (probably comically out of touch) Stuff The Kids Are Into Now. If I write a high school AU with sex, it’s because I remember that too! I’m not thinking about kids today, why would I– I have my own experiences to draw on. And honestly, sometimes there are things about being young that you don’t really understand until you’re much older and have some perspective– and that’s worth writing about.

If someone is genuinely a creeper, you’ll know, because they’ll ask you questions about you. But people who aren’t even directly interacting with you, who are just expressing themselves in fiction, are not a threat to you, and it’s not creepy for them to draw on their own experiences and their own past to write about younger characters.

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The DILFs of Avatar

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You know what kind of ships I really like?

Rebel & Villain ships. Not necessarily light v dark stuff, that’s not really what I’m after. More specifically, “I used to work for the villain, but I don’t anymore. But, I think I have feelings for them.”

That’s good shit

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OTPetty: when you start shipping a pairing after seeing how much hate the antis give it

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honk if you love gonk

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A PSA 💖💜💙

(Last image via @fuckyeahbiguys)

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baffling how much of this site is just conservative protestantism with a gay hat

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Enjoy some Classic StarWars Bloopers.

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If we’re being honest, black and brown characters in fantasy are a minority. But most of the English speaking fantasy writers are white, and for the most part they’re writing about European lore and historical events. Maybe in your opinion adding improbable non-white characters is the most important thing, but most writers aren’t obsessed with social justice and they’re more interested in telling a story than being politically correct.

However, saying that there is a complete lack of black and brown characters in fantasy (especially in more recent books) is just disingenuous. You’re either purposefully ignoring those characters for the sake of your narrative, or you don’t read fantasy often enough to know what the fuck you’re talking about.

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Finnlo art Concept: Finn and Kylo facing away from each other in mirrored stances, tossing aside their masks.

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Someone: you can’t ship this!

Me: not to worry, I have a permit

Them: this just says “I can do what I want.”

Me: yep