#LOVE YOU LOTS!!

[elitadream]

*Ugly crying* UUUFGH you guyyyys ;_;

I had a vague feeling that my sudden and prolonged absence would potentially be felt after a while, and a part of me was dearly hoping to see some of you as soon as I'd log in again, but I wasn't expecting SUCH a huge, heartfelt and genuine welcome, omg. I don't know what to say. I love you all and I CAN'T wait to spend more time here with each and every one of you. Also I'll be more than happy to talk about my trip more throughout the next few upcoming days if you're curious! :D ⛰️💖

@the-brucest-fan @multicolour-ink @justcallmerosey @sp00kies almost forgot to tag you in my rush to respond to all your warm wishes 🥹🫂

[cadoodledoodleydoo]

Hi Shan!!!!

It's my birthday today! So I'm running around to some of the coolest people I know and giving them some cake!

Your art is so fucking cute and I swear it gives the vibes of sitting on a cloud oh my LORD. 🍰💜💜💜

If you don't like cake, imagine it's something you prefer!

oof this is late cause the day got away from me but im sharing it regardless cause you deserve it bb!! Happy 18th Birthday Phantom! I hope it's been a special day full of celebrating just how amazing you are fam! Thank you for loving on my ocs + myself so genuinely, you've really made this lil corner of the web a lovely creative space to thrive in! XoXoXoXo Lots of love from Shan & Aven ᡣ𐭩

[bruh-anator3000]

So, dear wife, did you say Mob AU? 👀 I'm ✨curious✨

I actually wanted to ask about all of them but let's just choose two JKSHJDJFJHF

The last one is (You can't) Outgrow our love, the title feels angsty to me but idk i'm probably wrong (?)

Anyway :3 love yaaa, mhaw *runs away*

Thank you for asking my dearest! If you want, I have no problem explaining all! I did indeed say mob au! Its your average mob, that your parents happen to owe money to. What was it? Oh yeah, 15 million dollars are owed to these guys. Which really sucks, especially since they went to the Bermuda, never to be see again. With a gun to the back of your head, you accept your life will end in front of three tragically beautiful people.

And for the (You can't) Outgrow our Love, it is pretty angsty. Childhood lovers, but too afraid to say it, torn apart by progress. He left for the Academy, then he left your exchange of letters, left the hospital when you went to visit him. He was gone. (And then i cant decide if i want MH!Viktor and reader to meet, or if Reader tries the lab, and gets sucked into Viktor's Hexcore soul exchange)

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Snippet for the Mob!AU:

Why didn't your parents ever send you a postcard? If they truly did steal 15 million dollars, why did you never see it? You still had an analog television. From when you were 6. You had a crappy burner phone. Every book you ever read was from the library.

You never owned anything that was over 100 dollars. Your mattress was the result of a dumpster dive and sheets were from friends who felt bad. If they had really, truly had 15 million dollars, why weren't you good enough to spend it on?

"Am I shooting the girl or not?" Freezing cold ran like a rocket down your spine. A thick and deep accent that you couldn't quite place drawled from behind you. Metal pressed against the back of your head and your throat ran dry.

Everyone seemed to be as chilled as you because they all fell silent. The brunette turned to you once more but his gaze was set behind you. It was so quiet, you could hear the trigger creak, ready to be pulled.

You were certain they were going to let it happen. You said your piece, after all. They gained nothing from it, so what was stopping them from letting the bullet shoot right through your head now?

You could've sobbed if you weren't so terrified.

"She stays alive." Your head fell into your tied hands and you shook with silent relief.

"Ztráta času." You heard them hiss behind you and the gun was dropped. Thunking was heard next, like whoever was walking had to drag and drop their leg in order to move. You felt bad as your assumption was correct.

A man with fluffed out chestnut hair and golden eyes rounded the edge of the table set up behind you. His thin lips wore a scowl as his gaze ripped down your body, only to shake his head when his met yours once again. He leaned into the cane underneath his arm, limping all the way to the other man and shoved the gun into his hands.

"What do you suggest we do with her?" He asked, voice dripping with disgust.

"Keep her." The other shrugged. You all let a 'what,' slip past your lips. "On the off chance her parents come looking for her, we need her as a leverage."

Of course.

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(You can't) Outgrow our Love snippet:

Close up, you could see his hair had been ruffled and his tan shirt had began to fray near the edges. His hand fidgeting on the top of his wooden stick as he leaned into it. There was, in fact, two moles on his face. One under his eye, the other over his lip.

He stared down at you, chest rising quickly. His eyebrows were pinched together and his eyes filled with worry. Deciding on something in that brilliant brain of his, he shook his head and began to walk back.

"It got caught on my shoe lace." You blurted out, hoping he would stay. "It's pretty cool. I like it." The boy froze when you held his boat up to him.

He stopped in his mid turn, choosing to face you again. You smiled and raised your hand higher so he could just take the boat and leave, if he wanted.

"It isn't working." He frowned at his hard work. His voice was laced with an accent you never heard before. "It keeps..." His golden gaze rose to meet your eyes and he clamped his mouth shut. "Sorry." He muttered, and gently plucked the boat from your hands.

"It keeps doing what?" You scootted closer, eyes pleading him to go on. Freezing for the second time, he stared down at you.

He breathed lowly. "It keeps turning in on itself." You nodded.

"What does that mean?" He held the boat and waited. Watching you, he waited. One, two, three moments passed and you stayed wide eyed and expecting. He sat down and told you everything.

By the time the sun had began to set, you had learned three thrilling things. You were taught how his boat worked, you were told he would be happy to meet with you tomorrow,

And, that his name was Viktor.

[iovetecchou]

i’m also so happy to call you my friend ^^ and oh my god at first i was so embarrassed about that vm but for you i’d do as many vm of me cursing in my nativ language as you like my dear jshsjshsbs

NO DONT BE EMBARRASSED I LOVED IT SO MUCH!! i would gladly accept more vm’s of you cursing in your native language any day…. hehe… 🫣💗🌸💗🌸💗

[httpsgfg]

HBD my yugosos partner in crime 💜 Hope the 29th chapter of your life features lots of happy scenes filled with emotional calm, the occasional episodes of euphoria, passport stamps, concert ticket stubs, salary raises (yes, that's in plural) and an abundance of love ☺️🎂🎉

ana my love, thank you for the wonderful wishes!! 💜

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

License to Kitty.

[noelledeltarune]

EVERY SINGLE DAY there are MILLIONS of characters in their late 20s who get falsely accused of being father figures to teenagers when in reality the description of "weird older cousin" or "step-sibling that moved out before you were born" is 1000000x more apt

[daincrediblegg]

OK THIS IS NOT A FUCKING DRILL EVERYONE FUCKING REPEAT AFTER ME. THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL DO WHEN YOU WATCH MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL THIS YEAR:

You will navigate to the page on disney plus (and it has to be here. Unless someone has actually uploaded the REAL movie anywhere else you cannot get it elsewhere)

BUT YOU WILL NOT HIT PLAY. You won’t do it. Because it’s NOT THE REAL VERSION OF THE FILM AND DISNEY IS FUCKING LYING TO YOU AS IT ALWAYS DOES

You will scroll down HERE. To EXTRAS instead. You MUST GO HERE. This is non -negotiable

THEN YOU WILL SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE EXTRAS AND YOU WILL THEN HIT PLAY ON THIS BAD BOY: THE FULL LENGTH VERSION

And you will watch it. And you will thank me for having been so blind and led astray by that stupid fucking mouse. You’re welcome.

[martyrbat]

i dont know who needs to hear this but you do not need to go on a diet. you do not need to lose weight as a new year revolution. you do not need to feel shame for gaining any weight over the holidays and for enjoying yourself and the food. you do not need to tolerate diet talk after setting a boundary and if someone cant respect that then theyre being the asshole. you already have a summer body. you already are hot. theres no moral failure or shame in being fat

[tearlessrain]

please help me- i used to be pretty smart but i’m having so much trouble grasping the concept of diegetic vs non-diegetic bdsm!

gfkjldghfd okay first of all I'm sorry for the confusion, if you're not finding anything on the phrase it's because I made it up and absolutely nobody but me ever uses it, but I haven't found a better way to express what I'm trying to say so I keep using it. but now you've given me an excuse to ramble on about some shit that is only relevant to me and my deeply inefficient way of talking and by god I'm going to take it.

SO. the way diegetic and non-diegetic are normally used is to talk about music and sound design in movies/tv shows. in case you aren't familiar with that concept, here's a rundown:

diegetic sound is sound that happens within the world of the movie/show and can be acknowledged by the characters, like a song playing on the stereo during a driving scene, or sung on stage in Phantom of the Opera. it's also most other sounds that happen in a movie, like the sounds of traffic in a city scene, or a thunderclap, or a marching band passing by. or one of the three stock horse sounds they use in every movie with a horse in it even though horses don't really vocalize much in real life, but that's beside the point, the horse is supposed to be actually making that noise within the movie's world and the characters can hear it whinnying.

non-diegetic sound is any sound that doesn't exist in the world of the movie/show and can't be perceived by the characters. this includes things like laugh tracks and most soundtrack music. when Duel of Fates plays in Star Wars during the lightsaber fight for dramatic effect, that's non-diegetic. it exists to the audience, but the characters don't know their fight is being backed by sick ass music and, sadly, can't hear it.

the lines can get blurry between the two, you've probably seen the film trope where the clearly non-diegetic music in the title sequence fades out to the same music, now diegetic and playing from the character's car stereo. and then there are things like Phantom of the Opera as mentioned above, where the soundtrack is also part of the plot, but Phantom of the Opera does also have segments of non-diegetic music: the Phantom probably does not have an entire orchestra and some guy with an electric guitar hiding down in his sewer just waiting for someone to break into song, but both of those show up in the songs they sing down there.

now, on to how I apply this to bdsm in fiction.

if I'm referring to diegetic bdsm what I mean is that the bdsm is acknowledged for what it is in-world. the characters themselves are roleplaying whatever scenarios their scenes involve and are operating with knowledge of real life rules/safety practices. if there's cnc depicted, it will be apparent at some point, usually right away, that both characters actually are fully consenting and it's all just a planned scene, and you'll often see on-screen negotiation and aftercare, and elements of the story may involve the kink community wherever the characters are. Love and Leashes is a great example of this, 50 Shades and Bonding are terrible examples of this, but they all feature characters that know they're doing bdsm and are intentional about it.

if I'm talking about non-diegetic bdsm, I'm referring to a story that portrays certain kinks without the direct acknowledgement that the characters are doing bdsm. this would be something like Captive Prince, or Phantom of the Opera again, or the vast majority of bodice ripper type stories where an innocent woman is kidnapped by a pirate king or something and totally doesn't want to be ravished but then it turns out he's so cool and sexy and good at ravishing that she decides she's into it and becomes his pirate consort or whatever it is that happens at the end of those books. the characters don't know they're playing out a cnc or D/s fantasy, and in-universe it's often straight up noncon or dubcon rather than cnc at all. the thing about entirely non-diegetic bdsm is that it's almost always Problematic™ in some way if you're not willing to meet the story where it's at, but as long as you're not judging it by the standards of diegetic bdsm, it's just providing the reader the same thing that a partner in a scene would: the illusion of whatever risk or taboo floats your boat, sometimes to extremes that can't be replicated in real life due to safety, practicality, physics, the law, vampires not being real, etc. it's consensual by default because it's already pretend; the characters are vehicles for the story and not actually people who can be hurt, and the reader chose to pick up the book and is aware that nothing in it is real, so it's all good.

this difference is where people tend to get hung up in the discourse, from what I've observed. which is why I started using this phrasing, because I think it's very crucial to be able to differentiate which one you're talking about if you try to have a conversation with someone about the portrayal of bdsm in media. it would also, frankly, be useful for tagging, because sometimes when you're in the mood for non-diegetic bodice ripper shit you'd call the police over in real life, it can get really annoying to read paragraphs of negotiation and check-ins that break the illusion of the scene and so on, and the opposite can be jarring too.

it's very possible to blur these together the same way Phantom of the Opera blurs its diegetic and non-diegetic music as well. this leaves you even more open to being misunderstood by people reading in bad faith, but it can also be really fun to play with. @not-poignant writes fantastic fanfic, novels, and original serials on ao3 that pull this off really well, if you're okay with some dark shit in your fiction I would highly recommend their work. some of it does get really fucking dark in places though, just like. be advised. read the tags and all that.

but yeah, spontaneous writer plug aside, that's what I mean.

[bastardlybonkers]

i feel like not enough ppl are factoring in the cultural clash between laios and shuro and the many micro agressions shuro faced while being in their group. literally the name 'shuro' in itself is one

his name is toshiro 😭 lets also not forget that he has his own communication issues, in the opposite way that laios does- thats literally a factor in their argument, that his envy for laios's ability to express himself sincerely manifested as part of his distaste for him.

ig all this to say like, was their fight heart wrenching, especially when reading laios as autistic? absolutely. anybody whos ever been in laios's position knows how much it hurts to realize someone you thought was your friend doesnt actually like having you around, especially when they didnt tell you and you had no way of knowing due to not understanding their cues. but im begging yall to step back and see the nuance of this situation cause im gonna be real a lot of you are kinda just brushing over it acting like everything is toshiros fault and that hes a terrible person when in reality hes an average guy who really, really clashed with laios and it led to a very long misunderstanding due to their supremely opposite methods of communication. even laios and toshiro, after letting everything out in their fight, were able to come to an understanding and start a foundation for an actual friendship built on better communication

ok yknow what Edit: i shouldve made it even more explicit at the end of this post, i hadnt thought i would need to since i started the post with this, but i think a few too many people are missing my point so i just wanna clarify. i shouldnt have said 'really clashed' and left it at that because yeah they did, but it wasnt just their opposite methods of communication, it is also very much that toshiro was experiencing microaggressions via laios. it may have been unintentional on laios's part, but it still happened and wore him down, made it harder for him to communicate on top of both the more subtle social cues that he was raised with and his own communication difficulties. i also want to say that the fandom reaction to toshiro and the complete ignorance of this point is also racist tbh or at the very least ignorant. i understand that the anime did not cover this panel, and neither did the manga, as this was an omake, but im gonna be real with you guys. there are enough context clues within the story to clue you into this. if you didnt pick up on it thats ok, but i think this is a good lesson in picking up subtext in the stories that youre watching and/or reading. kui shouldnt have to explicitly say 'by the way laios was racist to toshiro' for this point to be understood, and at the very least, when the author portrays a character in a sympathetic light (as kui clearly does) it should make you question Why they are doing so and what makes them sympathetic, rather than youre immediate and only reaction to be 'well i hated what this guy did/said so i hate them and they suck'. idk exactly how to finish this, just. idk. question your biases and gut reactions to things you see in media and stories, and think about whether or not theres subtext that youre missing.

[ciearcab]

how do you live?

[tadfools]

You guys are commenting on the fics you read right? You’re at least leaving kudos on the Astarion smut and the pairs that have less than 20 fics for them too? You’re bookmarking stories you really like that are still being updated and ones that haven’t been touched in over a year right?

You know that even the smallest interactions are like cocaine to fic writers right? You understand how important a string of emoji hearts left behind on chapter at three am is right?? Right????

You’re treating AO3 like a community and not a content factory….right?

[adriles]

when we’re done with our overwhelming grief we’ll eat i guess

[coolerdracula]

saying “visual style" because, for example, if you would swap your current wardrobe for an identical, ethically made counterpart, there would be no visible change

[killerboyratzmp3]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JORDS!!

THANK YOU LOVELYYY