#(not the same thing)

[arrestedexgirlfriendafterhigh]

“Oh but they wouldn’t be like good together yk?”

Um I didn’t say that, I said they were in love.

[phightinghottakes]

soda please make phighter 16 a Latina🥺🙏

Where's that screenshot of one of The Devs saying they will not being adding "big booty Latinas" to Phighting?

[im-a-luxury]

i think one of the many reasons people (specifically queer people) latched onto gambit is bc we were desperately in need of a femme fatale character that was actually just a guy

[atrophicgardenia]

that one time (last week) i forgot what the omegaverse was and i googled it on the school chromebook and i panicked and i searched up 'multiverse' and then 'spiderman multiverse' to cover it up

[ifr1t]

Was reading a fic and the last couple of chapters were released recently so I was very excited

IT ENDED W THE MC BEING BRUTALLY MURDERED.....

[child--ish]

I actually hate when people say they dislike love triangles when they're talking about a love LINE.

Like you can dislike love triangles, everyone has an opinion that's ok, but do NOT shit on them when you're talking about a love LINE.

An actual love triangle is Character A loves Character B, but Character B loves Character C, and Character C loves Character A. THAT is a love triangle.

See? And I LOVEEEE this. What I DON'T like, however, is a love line.

Character C loves Character A, and Character B ALSO loves Character A, and Character A... depends on the story. Usually doesn't know who to choose.

And it's fine if you do like this! I'm not the fun police, go off, but PLEASE do not mistake a love line and a love triangle. Please. I see so many people say that they don't like love triangles when they mean love lines. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE! as I just showed.

TL;DR: a love line and triangle is not the same thing. A love triangle is when everybody loves everyone but not the person that loves them, and a love line is when two characters love one character. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[regencyama]

Bridgerton is not set in the Victorian Era

(updated for S3)

I haven't received an ask about this but I've seen so many people mistakenly describe Bridgerton as Victorian that I have to explain why it's not.

Bridgerton S3 is set in Spring 1815. This is four years before the real Princess Victoria, the future Queen of England, is even born. (Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story has a faster timeline than that of real history -- going by the last episode of that, the Bridgerton Universe's Victoria will be born later in 1815.)

1815 is the middle of the Regency Era (1811-1820), the time when King George III was unable to rule because of his rapidly declining mental health, so his eldest son George, the Prince of Wales, ruled as the Prince Regent.

After George III dies, Prince George rules as King George IV for another ten years. So, the Regency Era is part of the Georgian Era (1714-1830), which spans the reigns of Kings George I - George IV. George IV's younger brother William succeeded him as King William IV, but since he only reigned from 1830-1837 and things weren't remarkably different, his reign is often considered part of the Georgian Era.

George IV and William IV's niece Princess Victoria then became Queen Victoria. Her reign was so long (1837-1901) and so different that it is known as the Victorian Era.

TLDR: The people during the era of Bridgerton S1-3 are Georgians living in the Regency Era, not Victorians living in the Victorian Era.

[impossiblesuitcase]

I can’t believe my kind exists in Australia. What do you say, “baurlaur bao” ?

No! When I say Chinese words I at least try to pronounce them correctly 😭 I can't speak for other Aussies though.

[cwritesfiction]

Spoiler!!

In both my current WIPs, a character loudly announces to anyone who will listen that they will not do a specific thing (and by the end of the story, they do it)

Send me a “spoiler!” and I’ll post a vague spoiler from something I’m writing!

[modernchemical]

watching death note with my family and after the college entrance episode my mom asked offhandedly if anyone had ever pictured L and light as a couple before. it felt like one single white dove had landed on a crystalline lake in a beautiful pure clearing. no i dont think anyones ever thought of that before

[cunning-and-cool]

idk man but something about Stanley "taught himself extremely advance physics/math/probably many other things while running a relatively successful business" Pines and Stanford "is wanted in almost every dimension with a judicial system of some kind" Pines is sooo fucking funny to me

[time-traveling-fetus]

Wh-whats going on??????

[snowstories]

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

[ninemensmorrisforfish]

I'm working for the enemy

(the rival after school program that took over the gym from MY after school program when i was like 9)

[widdershins-ly]

When someone writes a post offering thoughtful literary analysis and/or criticism, I find myself in the awkward spot of mistrusting their opinion. How have you come to your very thoughtful conclusions, and still it never occurred to you to make inquiries surrounding the purpose and use of apostrophes? Seeing how they appear in the text you're commenting on, you must have encountered them on prior occasions, perhaps even quite frequently.

It's wrong of me to make assumptions based on people's writing. I'll still do it.