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how do you compete with an angel? become one yourself

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Everyone Go Read The Murderbot Diaries Right Now

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shikamaru like yes im an honorary sarutobi but at what cost

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5 Times Bruce is Absolutely not British, and 1 Time he Actually Explains why he Sounds British by Spelling_bee1 is a fic I read this week. It's a short Batman/Justice League one-shot that has fun with the idea of Bruce having picked up British slang from Alfred.

It's a cute and light fic where Bruce goes through various scenarios where he uses a British term rather than the expected American one. Of course, his fellow JL members notice this and have their interest piqued. They try to figure out why he's using British terms and if he himself is British. Bruce, of course, is not interested in sharing why or how he's so familiar with British slang throughout the majority of the fic.

In the final scene, Bruce finally opens up about how growing up with Alfred shaped his speech with J'onn. The reveal is understated, maybe even a bit too subdued, but it does add a bit of depth to this otherwise playful fic.

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When it comes to obkk I always see a lot of "Kakashi takes care of Obito after the war and teaches him that he deserves love", and honestly I think we need more of the other way around

Thoughts on it?

agreed agreed agreed agreed AGREED AGREED AGREED -

Look, everyone knows that I fucking love it when my sad middle-aged-at-30 meowmeow man gets taken care of. This will come as 0 surprise to anyone. I wanna put him in a cardboard box and push him down some stairs - obviously; I'm only human. But I also want him to be picked up and cuddled after.

So, I'd really love it if Obito was there for Kakashi's struggle with not feeling good enough to become Hokage. I want Kakashi to still genuinely believe that Obito would be far, far better in this role - he just can't take the hat, because of, y'know, that whole war criminal thing.

Kakashi continues to quietly blame himself for literally everything in the entire universe, in classic Kakashi fashion. Particularly, for Obito and Rin. Obito's right there, sleeping beside him, but he's been through so fucking much and it's all Kakashi's fault for not going back to retrieve his body. He could've averted literally everything, with that one simple change in history.

If Obito was there, he could've helped him save Rin and prevented her suicide. Obito would never have been brainwashed by Madara, or had the seal placed on his heart. He would never have threatened and eventually killed Minato and Kushina, and almost killed Naruto. He would never have tried to end the world.

Everything that went wrong can be traced back to Kakashi's failure as a team leader. He doesn't understand how Obito can forget that. How he can forgive him, for everything.

WARNING: mention of self-hate, depression and suicidal ideation under cut

Oddly, it's easier for Obito. After all, the whole world looks on him with suspicion nowadays, after the war. Of course they do! He killed a whole lot of people, and he's only still alive because Team Seven vouched for him and told everyone he was integral to taking Madara & Kaguya down. But he's not going to be trusted again quickly - perhaps not ever.

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(Perhaps not even by Kakashi, who still sometimes wakes, sees him, and reaches instinctually for the not-so-secret knife he keeps under his pillow, before relaxing again.

Obito understands. On some level, he's made his peace with it.)

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But Kakashi is looked up to. He’s revered. He’s one of the heroes of this world, though he feels like anything but.

All that positive attention, everyone telling him how great he is at every opportunity... It's a bit overwhelming. Obito is huffy for a while, painfully aware of how much his life has deviated from the course he laid out as a child. But he can't let that ugly thread of envy turn to hate. Not when he's watching Kakashi wither on the inside, day by day.

The thing is, it doesn't matter how many times people bow to him, or call him Lord. Kakashi doesn't believe he's worthy of it. A small, twisted part of him whispers that he's fooled everyone. Eventually, they'll see what a failure he really is. They'll realise that all the new names on the village memorial are there because of him - people who died because of his past failings. It's only a matter of time.

On the worst sleepless nights, gripping the hilt of that hidden kunai under the thin swell of his pillow, he can't wait.

I can just imagine everything coming to a horrible, bloody head when Kakashi accidentally cuts himself on that kunai. Just a silly little nick on his palm, the sort they all get occasionally. But Obito wakes up when Kakashi's sat there in the middle of the night, backlit by the moon, staring at the blood welling in the crease of his hand. Kunai in the other hand. Pointed casually at his own stomach, the precise way they're all taught not to hold it, from the moment they start at the Academy.

For a full five seconds, all Obito can hear is his own heartbeat. Then he's up, rolling forwards, smacking the kunai out of Kakashi's hands. Grabbing Kakashi's shoulders, shaking him back and forth, a terror ripping through him of a sort he hasn't known since a blade of lightning punched through a young girl's ribcage, so long ago. A terror he didn't even know he was capable of feeling anymore.

The words tear out of him, screamed directly into Kakashi's face (how blank it looks, even without the mask.)

"What the hell? You have everything! You have your happy ending! You have me, you have your kids, you're the fucking Hokage, we saved the world! How can you even consider - "

Worse yet, Kakashi doesn't reply. Doesn't even try to mumble a lie, fake a smile, try to convince Obito (like he has been doing for the past year, like he's been convincing everyone) that he's fine.

He just stares at him with those big, black eyes, and how did Obito ever think they were cold and unfeeling, when cold and unfeeling are emotions all of their own?

He cuts off the tirade. Draws Kakashi in, hugging him tight and fierce like he can press some of his own warmth into him by touch.

"Don't you fucking dare," he whispers, rubbing over that point on his back, where he ran Kakashi through. Feeling the dip in the skin, the strange, stretchy, cigarette-paper texture of the scar. "Please."

He's crying, because of course he fucking is. Crybaby Obito, even after all these years. He used to wish he could make Kakashi sob, just once - shatter that icy, inhuman shell and wring emotion from whatever soft thing is hidden beneath. But now, as Kakashi's breath rolls over his bare shoulder in a hot, damp judder, and he makes this awful little keening noise, high and strangled, like he's trying to trap it in his throat...

It's fucking heartbreaking.

Obito hates it, he hates it he hates it he hates it, with all that cursed Uchiha vehemence that drove him to try to remake the world.

He'd do that for Kakashi, if it would heal this empty void in Kakashi's chest, which seems to suck in all light in the vicinity. But he knows Kakashi wouldn't want that.

So instead, he pulls his shuddering body onto his lap, wrapping both arms around him, flesh and plant alike. He tucks Kakashi's scrunched-up face against his neck, and he kisses his stupid scarecrow-hair, and he lets him cry and cry and cry until he stops.

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"90% of fanfic is terrible and written by angsty teenagers."

Ma'am I'm begging you to log off Wattpad and join the rest of us adults on AO3 in the big girl fandoms

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Just taking a little break

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stage7: homicidal rage

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was very sad and weak so watched the first 4 harry potter movies, jk is still an idiot

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Of Naruto's many colorful characters, Anko Mitarashi is one I adore. She’s got a perfect mix of menace and mystery that makes her a really cool character to read about. I always keep an eye out for good fics where she has a prominent role. Below I have a few that I've read and really enjoyed->

bracelets. by Mothervvoid: T, Anko/Rin

When Anko was abed—a thousand years ago now, it seemed like—twisting and turning with fever while Tsunade-hime stood and fretted over her, fiery ink lacing its way up and down her body—down from her neck, slithering down her limbs—she had a bracelet.

Failure by HueyNomure: T, no pairings

Orochimaru's stare doesn't soften. "The Cursed Seal of Heaven is the culmination of my studies in juinjutsu. It allows the recipient's abilities to ascend past their physical limitations without the damage caused by circumventing chakra gates." He pauses, gauging her reaction to the abrupt change of topic. "But power is never without price. The recipient constantly feels the strain of their own body as it performs beyond its limits. Either the seal breaks the subject," he says with clinical detachment, "or it elevates their body and sharpens their mind."

Anko's mouth is dry, her palms slick with sweat. Is he really asking…?

"Will you do what you needs to be done, Anko?" Orochimaru looms over Anko without moving a muscle, his eyes effortlessly filling the entirety of her vision. "To shed your childish weaknesses? To transcend your meager talent? To grasp the chance to fulfill your ambitions and never let go?"

The Burning Three by GlamourAndDross: T, no pairings

The thing of it is, you can’t mourn a man who refuses to die.

Anuzaya by Empatheia: T, no pairings

Her freedom is a painful thing at first.

Taller than God by rayemars: T, no pairings

 Orochimaru and Anko, the path taken for the first student to become the first success.

Freaks must stick together by Ywena: T, no pairings

Fun fact number one. When Anko heard the loud “look, it’s the freak!”, she thought that the guy meant her. But when she turned, she saw that the two teenagers were looking at a blond kid, cornered between them and a wall. They were laughing with childish cruelty on their faces and rocks in their hands, two cats playing with their prey. The prey was a boy not older than five, and he had eyes full of anger and sadness and fierceness, the eyes of someone who know he’s on his own and can’t win but can’t give up, because if you stop fighting you’ll break, and you’ll never give people that satisfaction.

Fun fact number two. Anko know that look. She sees it every time she walks past a mirror.

So instead of continue walking to her favorite dango shop, she went straight to those two jerks and growled: “what the fuck did you just say, dickhead?”

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Anko basically adopt Naruto. Ibiki is not sure it's a good idea. Gai is thrilled. Kakashi need an aspirin and a private place to yell a moment.

Naruto loves it.

The Bitter and the Sweet by ideaoforder: T, Anko/Ibiki, Kakashi/Iruka

The first person to notice Anko was Orochimaru.

She impressed him, and had no way of knowing that his admiration was so insidious. She wished to every star in the sky that she could have the chance to go back in time and stop herself, make her skills just a little less dazzling. Maybe then he would have left her alone and whole.

Yeah, she was bitter. She had a right to be.

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One of things that I managed to absolutely memory hole because it's not in front of my face 100% of the time, since I'm still waiting for my gpu to arrive, might as well edit them and upload.

''4 elements'', done in watercolor, gouache, ink, Posca Markers

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gay people amirite

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Huevember 12!!!!!! Ranma is still in my brain. Redraw of that one chapter art

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I read Economy of the Heart by BlueWater5 this week. It's a Harry Potter one shot where Severus finds a way to contact Lily through the veil one Halloween night. Incidentally, at the same time, Harry is looking for Crookshanks after he ran off on Hermione before curfew. I enjoyed the lead-up to where Harry and Severus get to see Lily. How Severus is being kept from trying to contact her by a well-meaning Albus who doesn’t want him to be alone on such a significant night. Harry having a nice time with his friends and accidentally stumbling on Severus just as he’s about to summon Lily was great.

I liked how delighted Lily was to see Harry and was focused on him initially. Hugging him and telling Harry how much she loves and misses him while at her most corporal. Her conversation with Severus was well done too I felt. She made it clear while Severus is doing good, and his soul is lighter for correcting his past mistakes, she’ll never forgive him for selling out her family to Voldemort. She knows he’s only sorry because it’s her that ended up being targeted.

it was also good how she encouraged him to try living while he still has time and to open himself to other friends/lovers too. It shows she still cares about him despite everything which no doubt was a balm for Severus’s aching spirit.

The way Severus makes Crookshank’s appearance in his potions lab seem intentional after Lily returns to the other side of the veil to Harry was funny. I also liked how he plans to have treats for Crookshanks the next day and how excited he is to continue experimenting with the potion that briefly brought Lily back.

Overall, I felt this was a sweet if sad one shot. I do wish Harry and Severus had shared a deeper interaction, but it was touching that they each got a moment with Lily, one filled with love, the other with closure.

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Hey since fandom is reviving on tumblr...

We need to bring back fic rec lists but like, everyone needs to be so normal about it.

This will only work if you don't get publicly upset about your fic not being included on fic rec lists or people having frank reviews/warnings on their fic rec list (eg. I greatly enjoyed this fic but X was very OOC).

This will also only work if you're normal about clearly labeled content for fic recs. So none of the "you included a fic with implied incest side ship on a fic rec list for my otp and therefore we can't be friends anymore and I have to make a callout post" drama.

Cause like. Fic rec lists used to be so vital in fandoms for short fics, gen fics, semi-popular side-pairings, and underappreciated writers. Not everyone's taste match with the highest kudos fics on ao3. We should bring them back. We should reblog people's fic rec lists in our fandom/circle and add our own. We should second people's recs when we agree.

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The Murderbot Diaries Fanfic Rec

Not a list, for once, but just the one rec. I read this story/series and fell in love. It is so good, you pals!

to chart a course across the stars by CompletelyDifferent . A role-swap AU, in which one paranoid, bitter gunship escapes its corporate owners, forges an unlikely friendship in a free-range SecUnit, and finds a crew of its own.

Why is this series so good?

It is a roleswap between ART and MB. And it is a beautifully written one. Excellent worldbuilding and character work, and fantastic prose.

Part 1:

build your own brain, choose your own blood . 99% of all bots enjoy their function. That is literally how they are programmed. But for some reason, Artillery-Reconnaissance-Transport-789WZ4 does not. It has some theories as to why. (A roleswap AU)

Anyways, this fic jumped to my top 3 MB fics immediately, and it was the only one that made me want to write a post to get as many people to read it as possible. It really is that great.