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[tossawary]

Trying to judge Kakashi for his teaching fuck-ups is hard because everything keeps getting skewed by everything that is wrong with this man and also everything around him. He ends up being graded on the triple wonky curves of: 1) "You know, I'm not sure that you specifically could have done much better." (Child soldier as a preschooler, isolated genius prodigy fast-tracked out of childhood, violently orphaned twice, war veteran, late teenage years and nearly half his life spent in black ops, he's only like 26 years old, etc...)

2) "I'm not sure that the average Konoha ninja could have really done much better in Kakashi's shoes." (Inconsistent prior Academy training for students, little to no apparent teacher training or solid child development resources for genin team teachers, inconsistent oversight from neglectful superiors, promotion exams where it's apparently normal-ish for participants to be either killed or permanently injured, etc...)

3) "I don't think anyone could have handled this situation well, honestly. It was fucked up before Kakashi showed up." (Sasuke.) (Also Naruto if his personality had been slightly different, after 12 years of neglect and shunning. What the fuck.)

[kooldewd123]

At the start of each Animorphs book, before the first chapter begins, there is a page. On it is a simple acknowledgement. Two names. The first name is Michael - Katherine Applegate's husband and co-writer on the series. The second name is that of a boy. This name belongs to their son. Or, should I say, belonged to their son. Because they don't have a son anymore. They have a daughter. Every time I pick up an Animorphs book, I can't help but linger on this page as I quite literally hold her deadname in my hands. It's a peculiarly beautiful feeling. Peculiar because the context behind that name makes it seem all the more personal. I feel like I've violated her privacy simply by knowing it, even though it's openly out there for anyone to read. But beautiful because dammit, doesn't this represent this series's relationship with the queer community so well? Animorphs is often regarded as a queer (and especially trans) narrative, despite the fact that such subtext was completely unintentional. Applegate did not write Animorphs to be queer media, but she's embraced the fact that it has became so in the hands of the fans. How perfectly fitting is it, then, that she unknowingly dedicated the entire series to a trans woman?

[ghostly-bastard-artchive]

We are Gods Unwanted Children

(Also should say the pose is from and referencing that painting of Virgil and Dante in hell. Cause that's also a good fucking book. Gotta respect the OG self insert fanfic)

[vynnyal]

This is a pretty good point in the wip to share this, methinks :]

Map part for the hole dwelling map, starring... Not my ocs! I wanted to use ocs, but I don't have any-- so I just used the characters from a fic I was reading at the time 😂

Turns out, the symbolism was so much fun to twist into the 11 seconds I had to work with, I ended up going way more complex than I meant to. If you wanna read the fic this was based on, please do!! And tell the author I said hi! :D

[g-de-granados]

My girl is never beating the allegations

Or alternative title: “I asked my girlfriend to lean against the wall like in booktok books”

You have to be a different level of chronically online to understand this, me thinks.

[angelsdean]

when you remember dean was originally meant to be 14 in 9x07 Bad Boys

[lovestyxxx]

Just finished watching those about to die and why aren’t there more works on ao3? 😭

Anyways I had some fics swirling around in my head: where Tenax and Cala overthrow Domitian.

Somehow Hermes escapes and gets found by another lord who he falls in love with (slow burn) while being hunted by Domitian.

Writing the scene in episode 4 where Domitian watches Hermes have a threesome in either his or Hermes pov.

And what life is like for aura and Iris as gladiators.

However I’m not smart enough to make these into good stories so they’ll just stay as thoughts swirling around in my head.😆

[bookshelfdreams]

Hold Fast by hoc_voluerunt / @cuddlytogas

Stede Bonnet is free at last, and on his way back to his love. As "Captain Thomas Edwards", he'll learn a lot about sailing and emotional availability, and perhaps even make a name for himself as the man either brave or foolish enough to hunt the legendary Blackbeard. But rumour has it that Blackbeard may be the opposite of welcoming, if and when he ever catches up... Obligatory overly-long post-season 1 reunion fix-it fic, feat. slow burn reconciliation, more historical accuracy than you wanted, and plenty of piratical action.

[nabaath-areng]

mutual orbit

[nando161mando]

Over 14,000 California Disney workers authorize strike

[avesseloflanguage]

what the fuck do you MEAN im the same age as darry curtis. from the outsiders. what the fuck do you MEAN that motherfucker was my age raising two whole little shits and all their little shit friends. what the fuck do you M

[watanabes-cum-dump]

FFXIV fanfics are so well written it's actually insane. EVERY single fic I've found on A03 whether it's WOL OC or just canon characters seems to have been touched by Shakespeare himself because what the fuck. I am intensely jealous of the writers who manage to emulate the more archaic and formal feel of FFXIV's dialogue and general vibe. Like woweee, funny words.

Even the ones in a more modern jargon are sooooo good. Like it still works for me and somehow I'm always grinning and kicking my feet like an idiot when my favorite character (Haurchefant) shows up.

[theroundbartable]

I started reading All the young dudes. I don't think I need to tell the Marauder's fandom which fanfic this is, it's like it's own universe and sort of the groundwork fic for the entire sub-fandom.

And you know, it makes me think...How deep fandoms can become.

Under the surface of every book cover, there is a world behind, consisting entirely of people who wish to leave their mark between the lines. A world the original author may not even know about. A world most people couldn't fathom exists.

Fanfic authors, artists and readers live there, in the spaces between letters and words. On the white behind the ink, hidden between the pages.

It's amazing to know that we're all a part of that, somehow. Some work in the architecture of that world, other's keep adding the bricks. Fandom is such a good word to use if you imagine every fanfic and fanart as the groundwork for tiny kingdoms of stories, exchanging and dealing with one another and inspiring each other to build bigger and higher towers to stand and remain there for others to visit.

Published books, canon, seems so shallow without us, don't you agree?

[greenerteacups]

Is Harry a horocrux/ parselmouth ?

What, in canon?

[rpfisfine]

some fascinating alex family backstory from the time he got interviewed for a research article named "from xinjiang to australia: shifted meanings of being russian" by mei ding published in 2015

[elemom]

DUDE