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I would go so far as to assert that percy's relationship with hazel is his second (arguably third) most demonstrably intense and emotional and mutually caring friendship in the books but people (including other percy fans) would scoff at this because they don't remember a single thing from son of neptune and are stunted by their inability to think about hazel for even one second

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Just so y’all know: I can’t speak for every other fic author but I can say that I remember when people leave me kind comments. I recognize your urls and/or usernames on AO3. I remember you and sometimes in writing my fics I think to myself, “Oh, I hope this person sees this because they liked x in this other fic I did.”

Not only that—I go back and reread comments when I’m feeling low. I look at tags and reblogs and asks and wish I could hold them in my hand like a note from a friend on an old, torn piece of notebook paper.

Your comments have so much more impact than you know. So thanks to those who use the comment section to spread love and encouragement. We appreciate you.

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"It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree."

August 24, 2025 marks the 15th anniversary of the release of Mockingjay and thus the same length of time that it took for Katniss and Peeta to decide to have their first child.

In celebration of both of these, we're hosting a Toast Babies Week from August 24-30. This is a week encouraged to share fanart, fanfiction, meta, moodboards, fanvideos, headcanons, podfic, and whatever else you want to create about the Everlark family.

We have seven (optional) prompts, all taken from/inspired by the meadow lullaby. You absolutely do not need to do all of them or even follow these, it's just for prompting. What's important is that you do what interests you. But for those who are interested, here are the prompts:

August 24: Deep in the meadow August 25: Safe and warm August 26: Guarded from harm August 27: Dreams are sweet August 28: Hidden far away August 29: I love you August 30: The sun will rise

You can also reblog and share any previous creations around the toast babies and Everlark. Use #toast babies week in order for your work to be found and shared.

We will also be creating a collection on ao3 for anyone to share their fanwork to for this event. And remember, ao3 is not just fanfiction, so feel free to upload whatever else you create!

And don't forget to check out our Where Every Child Can Be Safe fundraiser!

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How it feels to be in the fandom of a show about friendship :

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Okay but it's time we talked about what Neil means when he says "you" in the Give-Me-Your-Game Scene. What I don't think we talk about when we think about Neil's answer to "what do you see" is that actually, he isn't thinking solely about Kevin at all. He actually just ends up thinking about Kevin in his train of thought because Neil Josten is a dead end of a person at this point in the story. His internal thought process goes:

"Neil didn't know how long he played with his little league team, but his hands remembered the weight of a racquet as well as they did that of a gun. That thought was sobering, as it put him right back to square one and the fact that Neil Josten was a fleeting existence."

But then something really interesting happens. When thinking about exy, he can only end up thinking about Kevin because with exy, all roads lead to Kevin. In the next sentence as the one quoted above, Neil continues:

"It was cruel to even dream he could stay like this, but Kevin had escaped, hadn't he? Somehow he'd left that bloody room behind at Edgar Allen and become this, and Neil wanted the same so bad he could taste it. 'You,' Neil said at last."

Neil Josten isn't real (yet), there's literally no future for him to imagine. In order for that to even exist, he needs to be real. You know who fucking makes Neil real? KEVIN. For all we talk about how Neil helps Kevin grow a spine, I think it can get missed that Kevin leaving the next is a small yet piercing moment of hope for Neil to leave his own bloody room of a life as a runaway nobody. Back in Millport, Neil says that

"Neil's past was locked in Kevin's memories. It was proof he existed, same as this game they both played. Kevin was proof Neil was real."

Kevin asks him to think of the future, so Neil thinks of the only person who could give him one: Kevin. The whole series, as Nora just announced, begins and ends with Kevin. It was always Kevin.

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"to endure!"

vincent van gogh ("trees and undergrowth") robert lowell [How will the heart endure?] vincent van gogh [I must endure bad times and the waters will rise, possibly as high as the lips and possibly even higher, how can I know beforehand? But I’ll fight my fight and sell my life dearly and try to win and pull through.] rainer maria rilke [To be loved means to be consumed. To love means to radiate with inexhaustible light. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.] joan didion [Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it.] elena ferrante [maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.] elena ferrante [I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.] han kang [The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure.] victor frankl [What is to give light must endure burning.]

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pawns, pining, & progress

By: @mage-chocolate

Rating: T

Prompt: Peeta and Haymitch are having a game night

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Pawn Push: the steady, incremental progress of moving the least powerful piece, the pawn, one square at a time across the board.

I squint at Peeta, bent over the table diligently. He’s got that furrowed-brow look, like this is the most significant thing in the world and I’m not just the drunk he’s decided to rehabilitate with pawns.

“Aren’t you a bit young to spend your afternoons playing chess on a porch?”

He flicks his blue eyes up at me briefly, a hint of amusement in them. “Yeah, but you’ll even it out.”

I grunt. “Make that your focus kid, you’ve got some catching up to do.”

He doesn’t look up this time, just moves a pawn with practiced ease. “I’m ahead on taken pieces.”

“But not on total games since we started playing.”

I bite my tongue, a flicker of regret hitting. Sure, the kid’s recovering steadily, but I’ve never been one to poke around in memories that aren’t mine. Especially when I’ve got a feeling these games started as a way to avoid a lonely house and broken heart.

Keep reading

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the funniest part about merlin is the fact that he’s even around for most of the show. like what the fuck is he doing there. no other person with a personal servant is tailed like arthur is. and yet nobody fucking blinks an eye at his presence.

like there are at least three separate occasions where the plot for an episode is uther sending arthur on a super secret confidential mission with the fate of the kingdom at stake, and they have a whole conversation like ‘i need you to understand the importance of the secrecy of this mission.’ ‘understood father, i will take only my most trusted men.’ ‘no arthur, you and YOU ALONE must go.’ ‘i understand.’ and then it cuts to the super secret mission and fucking merlin is just there. like. road trip with my best buddy. what a view. love this horse. like ARTHUR?

everyone always forgets he exists the second a fight happens, too. every goddamn time the knights go on a short patrol that god forbid merlin not tag along for they get attacked by bandits or whatever and merlin doesn’t even carry a fucking sword and after the fight arthur always turns around and merlin is just kinda standing there in the middle of the fight picking at a hang nail. nobody considers it wild that he’s there for all of this. the one time he actually bothered taking a sword off a dead guy to defend himself with arthur saw him holding it and he mocked it like ‘lol the fuck are you of all people gonna do with that’ THEY FULLY EXPECT HIM TO JUST STAND AND WAIT FOR THE FIGHT TO END

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A translation of British sayings, what non-British people think they mean, and their actual meaning.

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People underestimate how much it fucks you up to be subtly excluded as a kid. I would try to talk to my classmates and be met with disinterest or annoyance. The one friend I had, who I clung to and nodded along to his every word, had other friends he liked just as much or more. And his other friends didn’t care for me at all.

I look back at pictures from the time and see how separated I was from them. I remember knowing I was different. I remember posing questions about the world to the girls playing next to me and realizing that they had never asked the same ones to themselves. That the ways we thought couldn’t be more different.

I kept myself amused with my own fanatical stories and musings in my head. I would wander the playground on a circular path, imagining a friend and being sorely disappointed when it didn’t feel as real as I’d hoped.

There was a bubble separating me from everyone else, thin, and nearly invisible, but with a pearly sheen you could catch under the right conditions. I knew it was there, they knew it was there, and it changed me

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a bottom-tier autistic experience is being told throughout your entire childhood that you are just an overthinker when it comes to social situations and later finding out that your friends did, in fact, hate being around you and tried to communicate that through weird little hints

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sometimes when i want to feel really crazy about mary and neil i think about that part of the ec where neil says he wouldnt give up the life he has now for his mother and bee says she doesnt think mary would ever ask him to bcus mary only ever wanted him to be safe and its just so.

like often when people talk about how mary would react to neil's life if she were still alive its heavily negative with her being violent or her hating the decisions he's made but can you imagine the relief mary would've felt to see that her son is vibrantly alive and in love and free in a way that she had only seen previously when he was on little league courts. like despite it all this is still mary who only ever smiled while watching him play :(

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8.09 - Citizen Fang

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You know, it sure is interesting how Arthur never throws anything harder than a pillow or a generic insult at Merlin when Gwen is in the room. As far as I can remember, she’s never seen her best friend being actually struck or threatened by her romantic interest — almost as if Arthur/the writers are aware that abuse isn’t cute and Gwen would be measurably less interested in a man who treated her best friend like that 🤔

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Arthur: Have you ever noticed how "enjoy your day" can be either a nice thing or a threat?

Knights: ?

Arthur: For example, if Gwen says "enjoy your day."

Lancelot: Very cute.

Leon: Friendly.

Arthur: Right? Now if Merlin says "enjoy your day"...

Gwaine: I'd still find it cute.

Elyan: Yeah, I don’t think Merlin is scary.

Mordred: I don’t know what scares me more—the fact that you’re all so naive, or that the king knows exactly how terrifying Merlin can be and still trusts him.