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I hope that this is me with my writing. I try to create a safe space for everyone to relax and enjoy themselves when I write.

I love when you find an author who just has a good flavor to their writing. It could be the way they handle characters, the way they use certain tropes or themes, even the specific lilt of their words. Its familiar and comforting and carries across different stories, like coming back to a place of comfort and recognizing the furniture.

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"can you explain this gap in your resume?" I once breached the Fade in the name of another, to serve the Old Gods of the empire in person. I found only chaos and corruption. Dead whispers. For a thousand years I was confused. No more. I have gathered the will to return under no name but my own, to champion withered Tevinter and correct this blighted world. Beg that I succeed, for I have seen the throne of the gods, and it was empty!

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This.

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Those who understand understand.

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TW: Self-destructive/self-harming behaviors

Title: It’s Complicated

Fandom: MCU

Ship: Matt Murdock/Frank Castle

Summary: A lot can happen in one year, especially if you’re Matt Murdock.

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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.

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Wolverine has come to accept being the meat in The Poolverinessa Sandwich.

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y’all ever read a fanfic that you cannot believe an author just wrote for free?? what an honor it is to read a piece of someone’s soul they shared out of nothing but love for a piece of media. what a privilege it is to be allowed their talent because you share an interest!!

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There’s no cover for this story because I am scared shitless to post for this sacred fandom. It took a lot of guts for me to finally take a chance and write one of my ideas out, so here I am with my first ever Destiel fic. Please enjoy this uber meta commentary.

Title: Supernatural IV: Raised from Perdition

Fandom: Supernatural

Ship: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Summary: Castiel returned from the Empty just in time to save Dean's life in that barn. It's been a year since that day, and they still haven't talked about Cas' speech before the Empty took him.

Sam has no idea what's going on since Dean won't open up about that day, and sends a text to Jack - who is now God. This sets off a chain of events no one (except fic writers) could have anticipated.

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Happy Pride, everyone!! Here's my story I wrote to celebrate the start of June.

Title: Client Privilege

Fandom: Daredevil/MCU

Ship: Matt Murdock/Frank Castle

Summary: After a recent and devastating breakup, Matt is dragged out to Pride because Foggy and Karen. What he doesn't expect is running into his old client Frank Castle, and finding out that he's single.

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I wrote some crack. Please enjoy.

Title: Lucky Day

Fandom: Resident Evil (Biohazard)

Ship: Leon S. Kennedy/Luis Serra

Summary: What happens when an aphrodisiac is unleashed on STRATCOM headquarters?

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Some days, being a writer is simply creating a scenario so that two characters kiss. No research required, just fluff and romance.

Others days, you’re trying to find a trauma doctor who can tell you how fucked up Frank Castle’s face is after getting punched by 16 cops while zip-tied to a chair.

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I FINALLY posted the second chapter of this fic!!

Title: Lake Tahoe

Fandom: Drake & Josh

Rating: Explicit

Ship: Drake Parker/Josh Nichols

Summary: the fabled vacation built up from the previous chapter.

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Normalize leaving unhinged comments on ao3 fics you like. I'm tired of being the only one brave enough to write "I am chewing on this fic" in the comment section. Be weird. Authors will love you for it

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Today, I have a petition I created to protect our works from AI.

These AI companies have been farming our content on AO3 for too long, and it’s time we take the power back by making them build AI protections into the site. By signing this petition, the goal is to make AO3 and the @transformativeworks take seriously the fact that AI companies scrape our hard work without our permission.

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This pretty much sums up my feelings for Daredevil/Punisher and Rick O’Connell/Ardeth Bey.

There needs to be a term for a pairing that you don’t really ship, but you don’t not ship. It’s slightly more than indifference. Like I approve of this pairing but I’m not going to die on this hill.