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[dduane]

:) hi DD! Hope you're well. Have you seen this?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/

Search turns up 186 entries for Diane Duane.

I’ve seen it, yeah.

As far as I can tell, just about every book I’ve ever written got used to help train their nasty wasteful idiotic garbage-spouting machinery. Some of my novels were used several times in different formats, or multiple languages. A significant portion of them were obtained from our own little ebook store (because they’re not sold anywhere else).

I am…

(gropes for words)

…For the moment let’s just put it as gently as possible and say “Not Amused.”

And I intend to make sure that the next book of mine that comes out is wearing a cover sticker that says NEW! NOT STOLEN BY META!

…Anyway, thanks for asking.

[nofatclips]

Ajalaiye by Metá Metá

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Fic Questionnaire

Thank you, @enteselene, for tagging me! I'm a tiny fic writer, but I like talking about my fics, seeing that I have nothing else in my life.

1. How many works on AO3?

150 (50 of them are a series of ~500-1,000 Kylux ficlets written to a list of prompts)

2. Total AO3 Word Count?

1,155,848

3. Top 5 fics by Kudos?

Ease My Mind (a TBSATDH one-shot I wrote and slapped on AO3 within three hours after finishing the show because I wanted to try my hand at writing polyamory)

When the Line Connects (a fluffy MCU Steve/Bucky comedy that features fannish practices as a love language)

Hold His Broken Pieces (a dark Kylux story about non-sexy sex slavery and a long, convoluted, but ultimately hopeful path to recovery)

Give This Man a Hug (a gen MCU story about Steve Rogers needing—and getting—a goddamn hug)

Compatibility in the Time of Cholera (my very first omegaverse fic, a Kylux story featuring an epidemic that turns all heats into fuck-or-die situations where Hux finds a creative solution to handle the issue)

4. What fandoms do you write for?

I've written for Fullmetal Alchemist (Roy/Ed), Marvel Cinematic Universe (Steve/Bucky, Bucky/Loki), The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself (Nathan/Gabriel/Annalise), Our Flag Means Death (Ed/Stede), Star Wars (Kylux), and Supernatural (Wincest). I also wrote fic for Card Captor Sakura when I was ten, not knowing what fanfiction even is, and for Gravitation when I was 16, but, thankfully, those works have been lost.

5. Do you respond to comments?

Absolutely. I cherish every comment and I do my best to respond to all of them.

6. Angstiest Ending?

Hands down "give me another version, a different room"; it's the second part of a Wincest trilogy "Other Voices, Other Rooms" where Sam keeps trying to kick Dean out of his life, and in this installment, it works. (They do end up together in the end, but that's a different story.)

7. Fic with the Happiest Ending?

Almost all my fics have happy endings because I'm a big, big softie. But I'll say Great Heights, a Wincest story of Sam's love for Dean that spans from pre-Stanford to Heaven and features so much angst, the ending feels that much happier.

8. Do you get hate?

Although I write Kylux and Wincest, I've never had to deal with hate (yet), possibly because I'm just a little guy, not popular enough to be noticed by someone outside a small circle of readers.

9. Do you write smut?

Yes. Yes, I do. All my Wincest fics are explicit because, to me, actual sex is the only thing the show lacks in terms of their psychotic, irrational, erotic relationship. So that’s the hole I’m filling (all puns intended). (I should probably note that I’m asexual, and it always thrills me when someone calls my smut hot, because I myself don’t see it like that.)

10. Do you write crossovers?

I've written about a dozen Kylux Adjacent fics, which are technically crossovers. Apart from that, I wrote a crossover between Our Flag Means Death and a horror video game Slay the Princess.

11. Ever had a fic stolen?

No idea. Hopefully, no.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes, two, both Kylux.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic?

Yes, with a few other members of a Kylux discord. We are yet to post it, though.

14. All time favourite ship?

Wincest. As much as I love Kylux, and I still do, Wincest is THE sibling incest I'd been waiting for my entire life. These two boys are perfect for me. They're the answer to all my dark, twisted heart's prayers.

15. WIPs you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

A Steve/Bucky story "Shared Death Experience" that I started in 2020. It was supposed to be a story about ghosts where (almost) everyone is dead but it's a comedy. I have 10k written, and I love them, but I just don't have any time left for MCU with my life taken over by SPN events.

16. Writing Strengths?

I've had people praise my phrasing, my dialogue, my characterization, my angst, my fluff, my porn with feels, and my humor. Naturally, I myself think people are being way too kind, but that's what they say.

17. Writing Weaknesses?

Plot. I either get my stories fully (or almost fully) formed in the middle of the night, or I have to sit down and squeeze the story out of my brain with a great deal of pain. Coming up with actual events to take place in the story is like pulling teeth with my bare hands. I can't sustain long plots at all; my two 100k+ fics were written by accident. Don't get me started on Wincest case fics. Which I keep writing. Because I hate myself.

18. Thoughts on mixed language dialogue?

I had Natasha use some Russian curses in When the Line Connects and a couple of OCs use Ukrainian phrases in How Deep Does the Water Go (a Kylux FBI!Hux & Hacker!Kylo AU), but I mostly avoid mixing languages.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

As I've already mentioned, it was Card Captor Sakura. I was ten. I don't remember a single word, which, I think, is for the best.

20. Favourite fic you’ve ever written?

I mostly forget every word as soon as I post a fic, and I almost never re-read my own work because I'm too embarrassed by it. However, I had the sweetest time writing "every day, we stray further," a Wincest omegaverse Christmas fic set after 15x19 where Sam softly and tenderly seduces Dean into the best relationship of their lives. This one, I did re-read and it made me happy.

Tagging @spnj2fanlw @jinkieswouldyoulookatthis @fictionallemons @jaynesilver @notlikelybutpossible @nylon-rabbit (apologies if you already did it and I missed it)

[dr-futbol-blog]

Bonus

John Sheppard is not looking for someone to save. He has a world full of people to save as it is.

John Sheppard is looking for someone to save him. He is looking for someone that can save the world with him.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Niklaus Stoecklin

META META

1941

[thejolteonmastertj]

Anyways y’all should check out this YouTube video by @stoic--rose about the literal first Final Fantasy’s own mysteriously disappeared Ancients(TM) complete with a WarMech that Nukes your party. No literally. Yes this is Final Fantasy.

[littleeyesofpallas]

I was building up to some kind of rant but i lost my train of thought while compiling images, as i often do, and whatever frenzy my brain was in has passed, so i doubt there's any salvaging whatever the thought was. All that's left is this mess of nonsense. i excise thee from my drafts, foul stain!

something about two types of balance: western/christian stasis vs eastern/daoist flow. shinigami achieving enlightenment through meditation -vs- quincy achieving oneness with god via eucharist. Creator/supreme gods and the soul king. god as sun/sun as god, and the light of god, love/grace of god and the guiding light of enlightenment. Dante' inferno being pretty overtly influenced by some familiarity with the buddhist naraka. sternritter as angels vs the shinigami as buddhist deva. etc...

[gofancyninjaworld]

there's one other difference between the OPM manga and webcomic

And it's one that has nothing to do with their contents. ONE is like a bad boyfriend, while Murata is a good one. Murata is reliable, communicative, and tells us if he's going to be late or skip a week. ONE ghosts us for months, then gives us some attention and it's wonderful and all is forgiven. Then he's gone again. It gives everything about the webcomic that little bit extra glitz.

While we're like yeah yeah, another manga chapter. Whatever.

There's a reason bad boyfriends last so long. They're exciting.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

What if the Animorphs are actually their own human-like race, & were the dominant power until the Andalites released a virus that rendered them weak enough for them to defeat? Eternally young, they hide in fear of the Andalites realizing they live, hope returns when they create a cube that restores them to their natural state, allowing them to reproduce. Then the Yeerks invade, & the Andalite Empire that follows is not the one they remember, for starters they crudely mimic the Animorph's power!

I feel like this is one of those AUs like the one where Ed Edd 'n Eddy takes place in Purgatory, or Aang is the fourth Avatar since Roku but the White Lotus killed the other three in infancy — it would dramatically change the tone of the series, while nothing about the surface-level plot or characters would actually be any different from canon. Like, it's certainly possible to headcanon that Ferris Bueller is a figment of Cameron's imagination or C-3PO has been hacked and is now serving as an imperial spy. It changes the interpretation of the story in fascinating and fun ways.

If the Animorphs are reincarnated evil overlords, but they're reincarnated as a species motivated to pretend to be ordinary human kids and to be on the andalites' side... then again that changes a million things about the interpretation of the series, without having to change the plot. It forces a new understanding of Ax's role on the team, for one — is he the only normal kid out of the loop? Is he pretending to be an andalite? Does he sense anything is off about these people? For that matter, it raises questions about Jake's ultimate endgame. Obviously it's reasonable he's still motivated to defend the Earth, but was all that maneuvering with andalite power structures on purpose? Was he carefully manipulating the War Council, or is he just that charismatic naturally? So on and so forth.

[nofatclips]

Engasga Gato and Oranian by Metá Metá, a take away show in São Paulo for La Blogothèque

[dr-futbol-blog]

First of all, I want to thank everyone who has reblogged my posts, it's much appreciated!

And I also want to warn you in advance that Sanctuary (which is coming up tomorrow) is in 18 parts, so it's going to take a while to get through. I... had more to say about it than I originally thought I would.

[thejolteonmastertj]

I happen to be on a Game Dev Tycoon kick atm so people’s reactions to Nintendo bringing 12+ year old franchises back from the dead is so (wholesomely) funny to me

b/c now I imagine this is what’s happening when I reach the late-game of a successful run & am just making sequels to everything cuz idgaf about research points anymore yippie.

[thejolteonmastertj]

[Image Description: Fanart of the Pokémon Togekiss, shown in a series of two drawings on the same page.

First it’s initially in its usual football-like shape perched on the ground, looking up at a slice of cake on the table.

In the second image of the series, the neck stretches out & up towards the cake, revealing a much slimmer head than expected, snout while still rounded is also much slimmer, generally looking more like an actual animal’s snout. The rest of the body seems tightened up just a bit in the stretch as well, & The 3 decorative feather-like things on its head happen to become reoriented in a way that frames the smaller head more snugly.

Togekiss gently licks at the cake.

End of Image Description.]

💙headcanon: togekisses can actually stick their neck out far like a seal, they're just a flying football by default

[edsrosetattoo]

This is the best idea in the history of film.