hello fellow denizens of our beloved hellsite, please help me select my next book to read based on ZERO propaganda, only titles and cover vibes. here are The Options:
and here they are, all lined up and waiting:
help me, button-pressing site, you're my only hope!!
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OC insight: what kind of love are you?
take this uquiz as your OC and share your result!
thank you to the lovely @elinorbard for tagging me!
i have once again been infected by a mindflayer tadpole so I am talking about Isoldt again :)
Love as a Flaw
Cowering, your love hides in the dark. In shadows and under cover of night, your love runs from corner to corner, afraid to linger, afraid to be caught. Afraid, afraid, afraid of everything. When you fall in love, it is with alarm bells ringing. Your love is a mistake, a flaw in the code, a purchase you don’t remember making and desperately want to return. You didn’t ask for this. You didn’t want this. It’s a problem–– your problem ––and you would do anything to pass it off, burn it away, scoop it out of you with bare hands, or carved out with hooked knives before it can destroy you. Get it out, just get it out now. You don’t care who you hurt in the process, only that you can’t afford to be hurt first. Being loved by you is to be loved by a figment of the imagination. It is to be loved in halves, or not at all.
relevant ao3 tags:
mutual pining, religious imagery and symbolism, religious guilt, hurt/comfort, angst, implied/referenced self-harm, feelings realization, denial of feelings, self-flagellation
ow. yeah. That’s her alright (eventually she grows away from it, but I mostly write pre-canon and she’s firmly in this mindset)
I’m tagging @femmeharel, @threeofswrds, @collegeoflore, and @flamemittens if you want to join!
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childhood friends w aki and he punches out some guy who was rude to you and completely forgets about it as an adult. you’ll be like remember when you hit (x) that was so cool when we were teenagers. and he’ll be like ?? what the hell are you talking about. and yet he remembers the dumb stuff like taking a pen from your least favorite high school teacher or putting gum in the shoe of a girl who was mean to you - 🍊
YES THIS... EXACTLY THIS....
you can't help but tease him about it a little, aki was so rude to everyone but you when you were kids and he wouldn't stand for anyone messing with you. if you were ranting to him about some kids in your class that kept making fun of you his first response would always be, "do you want me to beat them up for you? they'll leave you alone then." (you'd always say no, you know he's serious about it and you just don't want him to get in trouble).
now, when you ask aki about it he's always like, "huhhh... I wouldn't do something like that." but yes he definitely would. and he knows he probably did. he's just embarrassed to admit it.
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Yet west they wandered by ways of thirst,
and haggard hunger, hunted often,
and hiding in holes and hollow caverns,
by their fate defended. At the furthest end
of Dor-na-Fauglith's dusty spaces
to a mighty mound in the moon looming
they came at midnight: it was crowned with mist,
bedewed as by drops of drooping tears.
'A! green that hill with grass fadeless,
where sleep the swords of seven kindreds,
where the folk of Faërie once fell uncounted.
There was fought the field by folk naméd
Nirnaith Ornoth, Unnumbered Tears.
'Twas built with the blood of the beaten people;
neath moon nor sun is it mounted ever
by Man nor Elf; not Morgoth's host
ever dare for dread to delve therein.'
Thus Flinding faltered, faintly stirring
Túrin's heaviness, that he turned his hand
toward Thangorodrim, and thrice he cursed
the maker of mourning, Morgoth Bauglir.
-The Lay of the Children of Hurin
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as funny as the idea of shadow being completely unable to use technology is i feel like it doesnt actually make much sense because like . yeah he basically fell asleep 50 years ago and woke up in the modern day and theres been a lot of changes in culture and technology that he'd have to get used to. but he wasnt living on earth with zero exposure to computers he was living on a space station where the science was advanced enough for them to be able to create him. maybe he'd struggle a bit using modern computers/phones/etc but i dont think he'd just know nothing about technology either. you know.
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New Cat’s Cradle chapter, perhaps?
Hi.
I appreciate that you like the fic enough to want more of it. Did you... see the author's notes at the end of the last chapter?
The last updates were less than a month ago. I'm writing my Master's thesis. I haven't had much time for fic since posting that heads up.
Also, fwiw, treating an author like a vending machine for content is a great way to jam the muse up. It's not quite the compliment you might think it is! It's really dehumanizing and actually makes me want to do anything but touch that fic.
Don't needle authors for updates if you actually want updates. It usually produces the opposite effect, and is pretty rude.
So no, no new Cat's Cradle chapter.
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