#IT WOULDN'T BE THERE IF IT WASNT NEEDED

[hinamie]

to moving forward

[lilithofpenandbook]

Seriously how can M*r*uders stans like random Slytherins (who tf are Evan Rosier, Pandora (is that Luna's mum and why tf is she Evan Rosier's twin in half of these), and I don't even want to discuss Regulus) and make them Actually Misunderstood Good People Who Were Forced Down That Path when at least one of them *coughreguluscough* was obsessed with Voldemort

And then turn around and make Snape an awful person?

[valleyofstars24]

got lazy with le'garde so he looks like unseasoned raw chicken 😢

og image btw :D

[superbellsubways]

beta HB

[babybirbb]

Just started watching suits recently and was wondering if you had any good fic recs, particularly AUs. The nature of the show really lends itself to Selkie fics imo but also I just love selkies

anon i need you to know that as soon as i saw your ask i immediately went scouring through the AU tag on ao3. i’m not gonna lie, i'm not usually an AU reader but i wanted to challenge myself to provide some recs as unbiasedly as possible.

at first observation, i noticed a lot of the AU fics were still in some way canon (divergent and adjacent)-- usually splitting off somewhere along the show or a situation where Mike or Harvey is still a lawyer, while the other was not. i will say i skipped over smut-based (omegaverse, bdsm) and lengthy fics (under 20k is nothing, anything more than 50k is pushing it for me) cause i just did not have the brainpower to even try to get through them :/

so of course the ones i ended up liking were mostly canon divergent/adjacent but i tried my best to get you something different. what i managed to dig up for you is under the cut and i really hope you like them anon (also fyi these are all pretty much marvey fics, hope that's okay!) <3 also thanks so much for the ask! i enjoyed this little scavenger hunt haha!

As the World Caves In by SupernaturalIdjit16 | Mature - Zombie Apocalypse, Warning for the usual triggers that come with zombie apocalypse. It’s not a complete work but it literally got updated today!

Here at the end of all things by tattooedsiren | Explicit - Apocalypse, Hurt/Comfort, Mike and Harvey protecting each other, Mike does shoot someone and goes a bit into the psychological aftermath, light smut towards the end

The Haunting of Penthouse B by Skara_Brae | Teen+ - Supernatural Elements, Happy ending, Mike’s a ghost…or is he?

Meet Me at Midnight by butdaddyilovehim | Teen+ - Superheroes/Superpowers, Protective Harvey, he's also Batman…need i say more?

Complications by LearnedFoot | Teen+ - Canon divergence, Fake/pretend relationship, Harvey decides not to hire Mike, instead asks for his help to spite Jessica, of course they end up falling in love

The Touch by FrivolousSuits | Teen+ - Magic, Angst, Soulmate inspired, it’s also from Donna’s pov which was super fun and interesting, as was the nature of the magic

TBR list:

Wear My Name by Lunarflare14 (Teen+) and whatever the question by tattooedsiren (Explicit) - These are both Fake/Pretend relationship AUs based/inspired by The Proposal movie! (a very good movie imo)

The Game by FrivolousSuits | Teen+ - It’s a Hunger Games AU so i am intrigued, just haven't gotten around to reading it yet

Ocean Dream by Blue_Five | Mature - i apologize for being unable to provide you with a selkie fic so the best i could do was the incomplete merperson au... i hope it's enjoyable...😅

[hajihiko]

sorry if you explained this already and I didn't see but why in your profile background or whatever it's called, Hajime is so far away from everyone else?? Like, everyone is close and cuddling and he's just away from everyone else 😭

Alluding to the general feeling of not belonging yet and also the Horrors

[laugtherhyena]

I love making stupidly long chapters due to always misjudging how long scenes turn out to be

[mpsansy]

A thought just came to mind. That Stretch, when he was alive, never wanted to be a dad. Like, at all. It's not a thing that once ever occurred to him just because. And the more he thought about it, the more he was so relieved. Cause he enjoyed the single life so much.

Even so, any time he wanted to feel the "parental bond" or whatever, he'd just pay a vist to his sister-in-law and take care of Casper as she did things like rest or catch up on her own hobbies. And perhaps even treat Casper to things that his parents normally told him he couldn't have.

The perks of having an uncle that will spoil you rotten, am I right? Yet Casper was always very polite upon receiving gifts and offered to share if they were things like food or other stuff. So I guess the whole spoiled deal doesn't apply. Probably for the best if you ask anybody else.

Idk where I was going with this, but like? I just wanted to type it down of them getting along so great as humans. But the relationship now as ghosts almost doesn't translate. Almost. There's still a good piece in Stretch, but it's so deep within his soul, he probably doesn't even realize it's still there.

The other two uncles seem to have a similar problem, but eh. Those three will come to their senses and recognize that this kid really is their whole afterlife

[gophergal]

Watched Defenders of the Realm with @cursed--alien today and realized that they gave Sub-Zero hips that do not lie. And the way they draw his costume makes his pants look like thigh high boots. So behold, The Thiccckening

[lupismaris]

Sometimes self care is having a very stern talking to with the wounded scared parts of yourself that don't want to do the hard and difficult things and reminding them that nothing will get better if the hard and difficult things aren't even attempted

And then as a reward you promise to buy those wounded parts of yourself an entirely hot pink/pastel pink practice set if they agree to do the work required, as a little treat

[mackmp3]

just saw a post saying 'if these are on her bookshelf, run' and it had this is how you lose the time war and the starless sea on it??? and like gideon the ninth??? which i still havent read rahhh but like these are not femcel books whatare you talkingggg abouttttttttttt the starless sea is really lovely???? this is how you lose the time war is dark and complex but like????? and it had the secret history on it too and i havent read that either but its a very popular book. the only people who are toxic about that book are the people who romanticise it and i'm pretty sure thats missing the point of that book idk. lots of people like that book who dont think working yourself into a delirium is hashtag aesthetic or liking fiction murder makes you edgy. and if you've missed the point of the secret history surely theres no way you got anything out of the starless sea that book has LAYERS. i dont know man

[torybrennan]

show tempe gang crossover with the morris islanders would actually have been the best episode of bones ever. btw

[hussyknee]

Idk if there's enough people talking about what a gigantic energy drain Complex PTSD is. It's not just one single traumatic event, it's having lived in a traumatic situation for a long time. And in the case of child abuse, your entire formative life period. Everything is a trigger, anxiety is your default, and your brain keeps trying to keep you safe by yelling at you about everything you're doing "wrong", which will lead to pain. Your brain is a constant war zone, braced for attack, rarely relaxed, at least some part of you always hypervigilant. The stress it takes on your body is insane. It's why trauma is linked to autoimmune issues, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and, according to one study, cancer.

Physical disability leaves you even more vulnerable and less able to live up to the impossible standards of control and "correct" behaviour your brain insists on, not to mention the free gift given to all patients of chronic illness that is medical gaslighting and patient-blaming, all of which simply compounds the trauma. Reduced physical and mental health obviously leads to systemic risk factors such as inability to pursue academic and professional qualifications, poverty and financial struggle, malnutrition, becoming unhoused or bad living conditions, exacerbated medical issues and further lack of medical resources, reliance on welfare and care networks, and becoming trapped in codependent, abusive or toxic relationships. The knock-on effects are endless.

This is all to say— if you're wondering why you can't seem to do more than the bare minimum every day when you haven't been diagnosed with a physical illness, or you're "not that disabled", or you think your symptoms are "just psychosomatic" (which means your brain is under so much intolerable stress that it's started taking a chair to the windows and destroying the furniture just to get you to NOTICE AND MAKE IT STOP): the answer is that your body is actually struggling under the kind of stress that kills trained soldiers and disables them for life. So stop trying to convince yourself that you're just not trying hard enough when what you really, desperately need to get your life on track is community, care, rest and ease.

[zoppzoop]

me: *yearns eternally for having a close friendship with someone which we develop over years where we can talk to each other about anything and everything no matter how big or trivial it is and we stay friends for a long long time*

also me: *scared as fuck of saying anything or asking for anything or even just talking about anything to people because of the forever looming irrational fear of rejection*

[esterigermaine]

Theory:

Honestly, I think the tadpole paired with extreme cranial trauma may have actually benefited durge in the initial aftermath of their injury.

[pretty-ichor]

i feel like i should be over it by now but im not