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regulusrules · 8 hours
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Question for the fandom:
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Slightly going insane from my BAMF Gwen characterization in the julius caesar au My breaths are run by your compass. Like. girl I would willingly lay my own kingdom down your feet if I had one
“I just don’t get you, Arthur,” Gwen replied offhandedly, cutting with her words too close to what Arthur didn’t want anyone to know. “You finally get a chance for a new beginning, for a way to have him fully after all these years of yearning, and you just leave him in Gwaine’s arms?”
fuck.
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New fic idea: Merlin tells everyone he has magic right from the start, but no one believes him.
Arthur: How did you manage to bring me rolls that are still warm, Merlin?
Merlin: Magic, sire. (with a teasing grin)
Arthur: Haha, very funny, Merlin
Gwen: How did the poultice you gave me heal my father?
Merlin: Magic.
Gwen: You can tell me me the truth, Merlin. I know you're not foolish enough to use magic in Camelot.
Merlin: I really, really am.
Gwain: How do you keep not dying when we run into bandits?
Merlin: I use my magic to protect myself.
Gwaine: Lol, nice one, Merlin.
Leon: Hey Merlin, why are you reading from a book that looks like a book of sorcery?
Merlin: Oh, because I have magic and am studying spells so I can use it better.
Leon, laughing: If you say so, Merlin.
Percival: Hey Merlin, how do you get the fire started so quickly?
Merlin: Magic. Forbearn is a really easy spell.
Percival, laughing: Alright, fine. Keep your secrets, 'oh mystical sorcerer'.
Elyan: And where do you keep disappearing to, Merlin?
Merlin: Oh, just saving Arthur from whatever assasin or magical threat crops up this week!
Elyan, playing along: Oh really? And which was it when you missed going to the tavern with us?
Merlin, completely serious: Morgause sent a swarm of enchanted birds to try and rip out Arthur's heart.
Elyan: You have a strange sense of humour, Merlin.
Uther: And how, precisely, did you survive the encounter you've just described?
Merlin: I used magic.
Uther:...I have no idea why my son seems to like you so much. You're an idiot.
Arthur: Hey, he's my idiot. And my idiot is just the kind of person to joke about having magic to the king of Camelot.
Merlin: Why do you assume I'm joking?
Arthur: See what I mean?
Lancelot, the only person besides Gaiuss that actually knows about Merlin's magic: How on earth do you keep that a secret?
Merlin: I don't. I use magic in front of literally everyone, and no one believes me.
Lancelot: You're joking.
Merlin: I literally use magic to fill Arthur's tub in front of him every day, and he assumes I'm joking about having it.
Gaius, very distressed: Merlin, you really should be more careful with your magic.
Merlin, calls Arthur over: watch this trick!
Merlin, summons a glowing, clearly magic butterfly in front of Arthur: Isn't magic neat?
Arthur, patting Merlin on the shoulder: Like you could ever learn magic, Merlin. Make sure you polish my armor again, will you?
Merlin: Why, do you intend to use it as a mirror?
Arthur: *flips Merlin off and walks away*
Merlin: See Gaius? Perfectly safe.
Gaius:...
Merlin: If it wasn't so convenient for me, I'd be very worried about how unobservant our future king is.
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regulusrules · 3 days
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Curious though about the choice of art? which shows 1. an orientalist, stereotypical, western depiction of islamic civilization (which is a civilization fundamentally based on equality between men and women) and 2. ancient egyptian civilization (which is one of the first civilizations that had queens ruling and of which women's roles were even more elevated than that of men)
Just. it's very ironic how us the west keep projecting our backwardness on other civilizations as if they were the retarded ones and that we have come to save them. as if they thought of women as human pets and baby machines (not the reverse) and that we must educate and "civilize" them. all instead of reading about them for two minutes and actually seeing/admitting how these civilizations were way ahead of us, and have long revered women and had them on equal ground to men long before we woke up in the 20th century
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regulusrules · 4 days
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Guide for: What Tags to Add to Your Fic
Do you guys have the same problem of how when you're about to post a fic and reach to the tags section you're like .. what r werds 🫠
It's also why some works don't get any visibility even though we're blessed by god almighty for no algorithm in ao3
And I kid you not, I found some of the best goddamn fics out there by sheer coincidence because they weren't tagged right and they remain overlooked because of this fact
So here's a small classified guide for you!
This post is solely based on observation, the ao3 tag search, and my own personal system for tagging! I am not, by any means or sorts, an ao3 fandom moderator, but someone who's read nearly 30 thousand of the fics out there and struggles to read the rest
General tags for any fic
For fic forms: Art - Fanart - Digital Art - Drabble - Short - Complete - One shot - 5+1 Things - Poetry - Podfic - Songfic - Text Fic - Prompt Fic - Case Fic - Ficlet - RPF
For plot: Fix-it - Pre-Canon - Canon Era - Post-Canon - Canon Compliant - Not Canon Compliant - Everybody Lives/Nobody dies - Everybody dies/Nobody lives - Alternate Universe: Modern / Canon Divergence / Historical / College / Fantasy / Soulmates / Royalty / Powers / No Powers / Roommates - Kid Fic - Sickfic - Future Fic - Reincarnation - Time Travel - Plot What Plot (PWP) - Epilogue What Epilogue (EWE) - Slow Build - Missing Scene - Flashbacks - Crossover - ANY triggering topic you are writing about (eg: death, rape, violence, suicide, etc)
For vibes: Hurt/Comfort - Comfort - Hurt No Comfort - Humour - Fluff - Domestic Fluff - Fluff and Angst - Angst - Light Angst - Heavy Angst - Angst with a Happy Ending - No Happy Ending - Happy Ending - Whump - Crack - Cute - Humour - Dark - Sweet
For relationships: Slow burn - Romance - First Kiss - No/Mild/Explicit Sexual Content - Specific kinks (eg: Praise Kink) - Smut - No Smut - Feels - Getting Together - First Time - Pre-Relationship - Developing Relationship - Established Relationship - Mutual Pining - Pining - Friends to Lovers - Enemies to Lovers - Friends With Benefits - Love Confessions - Unrequited Love - True Love - Forbidden Love - Falling in Love
For characters: POV (insert character name) - Pining (character) - Hurt (character) - Jealous (character) - Worried (character) - Protective (character) - Dark (character) - BAMF (character) - Possessive (character) - Caring (character) - Top/Bottom (character) - Good/Evil (character) - Oblivious (character) - Manipulative (character) - Soft (character) - (character) lives - (character) dies
For tropes: Christmas - Sharing a bed - Weddings - Jealousy - Misunderstandings - Secret Relationship - First Meetings - Scars - Aftercare - Arranged Marriage - Kidnapping - Blood - Blood and Injury - Injury - Magic - Panic Attacks - Amnesia - Bathing/Washing - Soul-Identifying Marks - Touch-Starved
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regulusrules · 5 days
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there are two types of strong bonds in this world: ionic bonds and the bond between a writer and their wip readers who comment every time they update
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Ah, my favourite episode to read/write canon divergent fics about.
Every time I watch the death song of uther pendragon I’m always left in shock. Like I can’t believe he actually said all that stuff.
Arthur said “I feel so alone sometimes without you” and uther replied with “everything you’ve done since you became king sucks you failure, yes even though you’ve brought more peace to the kingdom than I’ve ever had you’re one big DISAPPOINTMENT.” then tried to kill him and all his loved ones.
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regulusrules · 5 days
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HOLY JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!?!?!!!!!!!!
In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.
I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!
From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!
I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.
The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.
(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)
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If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.
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The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.
insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box
add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box
delete -> self explanatory
on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic
The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.
Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.
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regulusrules · 5 days
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It kills me how everyday the posts and content about Palestine decrease because of how many people are getting killed everyday.
It also kills me how many stopped boycotting or has never even tried to boycott.
Somethings are so small to do and easy yet people don't even bother when it's a genocide that has been going and going and going not since October 7th but for decades.
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regulusrules · 5 days
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the curse of local theatre is that a show can change you forever and there is no recording of it anywhere at all and after a few years all you have are scattered memories and the knowledge that you were different before.
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you’re too sweet for meeeee 🕺
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regulusrules · 6 days
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At that moment, Merlin’s legs entirely gave away.
“Hey, hey, I got you,” Gwaine murmured softly, his remorse immediately replaced with worry, steadying Merlin up with one hand on his shoulder and the other around his waist.
“No, Gwaine, you—” Merlin started hyperventilating, his breaths shortening this time from the fresh image of pain implanted in his mind. “You were nearly gone and I wasn’t there, you – I didn’t get you, I—”
Act 2 of My breaths are run by your compass is out, my loves!
Happy stabby reading 🔪🫶
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regulusrules · 7 days
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There's a belief that passivity and objectivity is morally superior to anger towards injustice — an idea that's very often employed by liberal zionist types. They believe that the root of evil is anger rather than a very concentrated effort by the zionist entity called Israel to perpetually displace, kill, and torture Palestinians that is central to its purpose and thereby imply the solution to violence is nonviolence no matter the circumstance or situation. They believe the occupied and occupier come from the same moral base and should be judged by the same standards across the board, so the call for nonviolence from Palestinians (ie: perpetuating the cycle of violence that only ever gets used against Palestinians) is denial that israel is a fundamental harm to the Palestinian identity, let alone the Palestinian body.
Not really a conclusion to this thought, just an observation that I think is the root cause of the problem with how libzionists engage with ideas about Palestine.
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regulusrules · 7 days
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DROP IT TO THE WORLD BESTIE
Insane Merlin AU
Hear me out, hear me out!
What if, instead of waiting for Albion's moment of greatest need, Merlin brings it upon them?
Like. After years of desperately waiting, Merlin would be like, “Arthur needs a catastrophe to wake up? Well, I'll do one.”
To the point of what if he is the one responsible for the destruction of Camelot?
And Arthur actually comes back then, only to watch in horror how Merlin turned, and it would be up to him to save Merlin this time
Holy shit
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regulusrules · 7 days
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YOU THERE! YES YOU! FIC READER!
I just read a fic from 2013 and left a comment on the end. The author responded within 3 hours.
Please leave comments on fics. It doesn't matter if you don't know what to say I literally made a joke about a space worm. Please comment on fics it'll make the authors day even if its from 9 years ago.
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