#and i straight up just had no answer

[kaidabakugou]

the new girl at one of my favorite bakeries called me pretty this morning and it literally melted all my stress away 🥺

[teaandinanity]

Question for people who are good at AO3:

Is there a way to force a search to ONLY look for your target pairing as the first listed relationship?

[ladytauria]

trick or treat!!! 🎃🎃🎃

(and thank you for your comments on my lil drabbles!!!! i loved reading your tags & thoughts<3<3)

(<3 i'm glad! i love reading your stuff!! it's always so good! & ty for ur tags on mine, i appreciate them sm <33333)

this is a snippet from a wip i've been working on for... i think about a year now, lol. working title is "slipping tongues" & is v loosely inspired by that one panel, where jason calls himself "daddy" while defusing a bomb xD

i shared a slightly earlier snippet of it here~

Stupid, stupid, stupid. Of all the things he could have said—

It’s all Tim’s fault. He’s been driving Jason crazy all night. It’s Jason’s fault, of course, for agreeing to Tim’s idea all those weeks ago in the first place. He’d been complaining, again, about his nights at the lounge, and at the time… Well. He hadn’t seen how Tim playing as Hood’s arm candy could go wrong.

Big mistake.

He’d forgotten just how much effort Tim put into his undercover identities.

Or—

No, that wasn’t quite right.

Jason had been expecting Tim’s identity to cater to their audience. And in a way, it did. There was nothing threatening about his appearance, the act he put on. The amount of conversations that had taken place right in front of him, as if he wasn’t even there would be infuriating if it wasn’t playing right into their hands. But the appearance of the disguise…

That was tailored specifically to Jason.

Subtle makeup to soften his face; just enough padding to give him the illusion of curves. Small breasts, a black wig, just a bit longer than his natural hair—and jewelry to draw the eye from anything he couldn’t disguise. And—look, okay. Jason is biased. He thinks obsessive, 72 hours no sleep, wearing his rattiest clothes, caffeine-addled gremlin Tim is hot. This Tim? Dolled up in provocative outfits and sultry make-up? He’s a goner.

And Tim knows it. He walks a fine line, teasing just enough to drive Jason mad without also compromising his persona as Hood. It’s maddening… and hot as hell. Could anyone blame him, if maybe his brains were a bit addled? Or if maybe, just maybe, he wanted to turn the tables on Tim, even if just for a moment?

Jason doesn’t think so.

If Tim asks, Jason will tell him it was a slip of the tongue. He got too deep into the Hood headspace. Otherwise—they can just… forget about it. Pretend it never happened in the first place.

Yeah. That sounds good.

[jinstronaut]

this is also why i stopped using my tracked tag for a while tbh

[gregoftom]

scenes that make you go hmmm

[inklessletter]

Someday, I swear to god, I'm going to make a screenshot of your incredible tags and I'm going to reply to you.

That's a threat.

But with love because I love your tags asdfads

[daminini]

You say that fiction doesn’t affect reality and that most ppl don’t care about what you ship, yet you take steps to hide your problematic ships and intentionally mislead your followers into thinking that you are completely neutral on fandom discourse, because you know that people would not willingly follow an account that draws mpreg between a 15 year old boy and a 40 year old man. How strange.

[good-beans]

[skyward-floored]

Yeah fr idk if you knew this but you can’t write a fic with Vio and Shadow without ONE person thinking it’s a ship. I had Vio call Shadow him his BROTHER for that reason and I still had people thinking it was a ship 😭😭 it’s not a ship not everyone likes it

I KNOW IT DRIVES ME CRAZY Just because something is fandom norm does not mean everyone goes along with it. Some people just aren't gonna agree, no matter what it is.

And yep yep. Exactly.

[999-roses]

I think it's nice, sure, that people who aren't Chinese are interested in a Chinese classic...

BUT it's really fucking off-putting that a non-chinese westerner who has only casual knowledge on the literature or its contexts and next to no knowledge about wider Chinese culture is running the discussion & making commentary on it. answering questions confidently... sometimes incorrectly.

i think i'd have less issues with it if it was like clearly funny (yknow the type of humor on this web site where "people can just say anything") but no they're entirely straight serious about it.

also placing social context & commenting on it in terms of modern-day standards ,... and not like literally what other coeval societies (contemporaries like romans or w/e) were doing. great we have more racist 'look what these backwards people were doing. their social practices were so uniquely barbaric' good job stop reading this novel from my culture. :) now.

to be fair sometimes they do say 'hey i dont know this. does any chinese person know & want to share'. well, maybe just my personal opinion but looking at the lack of responses... maybe you've already lost their attention... anyway they don't always ask for help. there's been plenty of times where they answer confidently and they're just WRONG.

[arabian-batboy]

I have been really loving Fruits Basket so far, but I’m at the end of the show and I gotta be honest.......I’m not feeling some of these resolutions?

[south-sea]

mysteries of the universe (or i’m just incredibly out of the loop): what is metal sonic powered by

[dearedwardteach]

I'm probably going to regret this but what have people been saying about jimin? I haven't been on Twitter all day.

im not on twitter at all but still i read about it i cant seem to escape the drama 😩 apparently (cuz i went looking into it a bit more and nothing has been confirmed by hybe or the sk ministry of defense so it might be false in the end and we'll probably never know anyway) some jk solos/taekookers have addressed a formal complaint to the ministry of defense towards jimin, arguing that he is gay and should not be put in the same baracks as jk for the later's safety (completely bonkers, they literally lived in the same cramped dorm room for years. ANYWAYS). since there are laws that discriminate against queer ppl in the sk army they have to investigate that claim (if you are known to be queer the army will categorise you as having a mental disability, you can also be dishonorably discharged... also if i understand correctly, if you have sex while in military facilities and while not being off duty, it's authomatically considered sexual assault/harrasment). anyways all that to say that if the rumours turn out to be true i hope hybe will take legal actions against those ppl. i mean they never have before no matter how far solos/shippers/stalkers have taken things but this is endangering jimin on a whole new level. cause it doesn't matter what his sexual orientation is: what matters is that there's a doubt, that's plenty enough for bullies, they don't need you to actually be queer they need you to be an easy target. the good thing for jimin (which isn't the case for most kpop idols who experience a lot of bullying and harrasment during military service), and for bts as a whole, is that they are so famous and so indispensable to sk as a political weapon now nobody will let random men bully them. but you never know yk? and the same ppl who claim that two members are queer and in love are being the most queerphobic pieces of shit possible. i hate shippers with a passion those ppl have always been on another level of queerphobia and queerphobic violence.

[straylaughs]

// GENSHIN SPOILERS

[bitegore]

if you are an educator of any kind, and you want to give an assignment based on a piece of media, ask yourself:

has everyone in my class seen this? (The answer is no, unless you have told them to or shown it in class. My professors are constantly making this mistake.)

If they haven't seen it, does it have any specialized information that will require a passing-or-better familiarity with it and understanding of how the plot and world works?

If the answer to the first is no, and the second s yes, then you need to either assign the media or take that out.

[jeannetheblonde]

here are my two cents about Tales of the Empire:

1. although it was short and simplified and could use a little bit more work, I liked where they went with Barriss;

2. Morgan's character just breaths and breaks the lore, I can't wrap my head neither around her nor her motivation, girl doesn't make any sense, she's not convincing and somehow she's still here, WHY.