#but oh it's different because he writes fantasy ooooo

[the-hype-dragon]

ok I am a hater but it would do a lot of people who make "literary criticism" content a lot of good not to have bad faith readings of every stupid little word an author puts on paper

like I remember reading a sporking/blow-by-blow of some cassie clare book here on tumblr years ago, this character was saying shit that you were obviously supposed to find objectionable--because he was a villain and he was saying it to his traumatized mother who felt like a bad mom already because of the crap her husband pulled on her in the backstory--but then the person writing this critique went off on this tangent talking about how oh no ladies you aren't a bad mom just because of this that and the other thing and I was sitting there like, are you for fucking real right now, like they were acting like cc was sitting here saying "oh yes, this obvious bad guy is totally parroting my own opinions about women and moms in particular" I felt like I was idk I felt like I was going kinda crazy

[solsticethebatearedfox]

The map is so cool!

The tabletop is so fucking cool i'm so happy it looks sick as hell

Sad that Adaine hasn't taken Jawbone's last name

I love her dog Moggy the Doggy

Omg mini of Moggy and Boggy aaaaaaaaaa

the production quality is insane

okay i was hoping for Fabian/Riz or even fabian/Aelwyn but i think it's just gonna be Fabian/Ecaf

Lou why the heck have you kept the bad die what the hell

???????

Fabian????? Is already prone????? oh no

Ecaf is iconic, going "Jesus Christ" and "This fucking kid" absolute icon

"Sire! Oh shit you're under there!" From the hangman also iconic

How many times has that bike saved the day because it's way more than it should be I think

I agree with Siobhan the die is cursed

geniunely curious how many minis rick perry made for this season

This yorbie sounds like a brennan self-insert

Lolololololol the hymn in the background

Again, production quality is off the charts

I just noticed the background of the dome. very immersive. i do hope it's just regular colours in non-battle scenes tho, that's too iconic to lose

but the art is so gorgeous

Ally pulling out the first nat 20 makes so much sense

Omg the smoke so cool

Woooooooo nat 20 off Fig! "I fear not darkness. I am from hell." So sick i might add that to my jacket

I should make a fantasy high jacket ngl that'd be so sick. Dimension 20 battle jacket

Riz is so hot. I'm ace and so is he but man

Ooooo art of Cassandra looks like sophomore year Kristen!!!! as above so below ig. she looks hot. i love her

"I'm just gonna go ahead and Eldritch Blast the Night Yorb" epic line

Squeem nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Ngl teary eyed over that

Geniunely think the sig figs could tank yorbie's popularity by writing a diss track

Oooooo Adaine can cast 5th level spells??? hell yeah

Brennan rolling a handful of dice scares me

Kristen is such a butch lesbian I love her

Nooooooo Adaine is done

"lemony yellow" "sickening gurgling"???? is gilear a fucking demon/devil now??????? i can never remember the difference but what the hell????????

the theme song at the end is sick as hell, feels like an episode of a cool drama series

[chunhua-s]

Kuroo in a wedding planner AU? Fluffy👀

ooooo wedding planner! this was another challenging au for me because i’ve neither read nor written anything for it before, but i had an idea that i want to try and put out for this! for this, i was swimming between the idea of going with friends to lovers or for an established relationship, but in the end i decided to go with the latter since it would give me more room to add the ending i wanted to make. writing this made me tear up a little bit? because it’s like, damn, thinking about being with someone who compares you to the stars and the entire galaxy, it’s so soft and utterly endearing? just the way our kuroo’s so in love with the reader makes me feel really warm, like i would need nothing else in the world if i had him with me. it’s hard to convey the feelings i have about it but i hope that while reading this, you’ll feel the same way! don’t be shy to tell me what you guys thought of it by the end, alright? i love to hear your thoughts and opinions 💕 with that being said, please enjoy reading!

AT AN ALTAR OF STARDUST ➽ TETSURO KUROO x READER

genre: fluff

au: wedding planner

warnings: none!

the scenery’s something straight out of a fantasy, he thinks.

fairy lights dangle from summer green trees, white lengths of cloth wrap around their trunks and tie together in elegant bows. the setting sun paints his world with orange fires that blend with gentle lavenders and deep blues, against which the stars dance on their faint lights. the sight of them is almost playful with the way they twinkle and fade, winking at him as if they bear secrets that they dangle tauntingly over his head, never for him to reach out for and grab between his fingers, never to taste their whispers against his yearning lips. they reel him in on stolen glances and teasing smiles, ones in which your eyes would glisten under the dying sun and show to him a vast galaxy, where laughter and joy orbit your entire being like planets, and you— you become the center of gravity, the giant star that burns so brilliantly like a ball of fire.

“so??” your energy vibrates all throughout your body as you clutch your hands to your chest, wide eyes searching kuroo’s expression for any hint of what he thinks of the venue you prepared. you’re always looking for his approval, so eager to hear his thoughts as if seeing his lips pull back into that familiar grin or the way his eyes show his admiration for the work you’ve done. and of course you would, kuroo considers: the both of you work together as a team after all. while you, as the wedding designer, handle the creative and aesthetic details, kuroo works as the planner, handling legal details, budgets and booking venues. it’s a combination that, between the two of you, works so seamlessly, what with the way the both of you could so easily connect with one another. it’s as if you could hear each other’s thoughts and count the beating of your hearts, understand every ‘thump, thump’ beneath your fingertips for the words you leave unsaid. “do you think the clients are gonna like it?”

the man pretends to think, lifting a hand to his chin as he scrutinizes the golden lanterns and the white and yellow roses decorating each table, the small glass orbs that sway so softly on a silent breeze, sounding like chiming bells and building on the fairytale ambience. and in the middle of it all, you stand smiling at him, your picture so radiant and breathtaking that, for a moment, kuroo willingly forgets that this wedding won’t be your own. he forgets that you won’t be the bride wearing white roses in her hair, won’t be dressed up in a beautiful gown. he forgets that he won’t be the man waiting for you at the altar, tears in his eyes as he watches you get closer and closer, until the both of you would say your ‘i do’s and bind your souls together for an eternity and more.

he wants that day to come more than anything.

“you always outdo yourself, hm?” he hums, grinning as your eyes light up under his approval. your smile is like a beacon under the setting sun, your eyes hold the secrets of the stars above and suddenly, you become the single most beautiful thing in his universe. you glow with the warmth of a heavenly flame and, like a moth, kuroo finds himself getting pulled further into you, wanting nothing more than to drown himself inside your all-consuming fire and give every part of himself to you. till the name tetsuro kuroo should vanish behind the blue curtains of your galaxy, till he’s made renewed with only the traces of your existence painted across his skin like ink, your name buried on his heart like a tattoo. when he looks at you, he feels himself melting into a pool of fallen stars, slipping between your fingers and leaving trails of purple and blue across your skin like paint. he wonders, is it the same for you? does the galaxy sing for you the way it does for him, does it tell you the secrets of his heart, how he whispers your name like a prayer for the moon to hear his voice? do the planets spin around him in orbit, do the heavens adorn his head with a crown of stardust and leave silver dots across his skin like freckles? when you look into his eyes, can you see the universe in them just as yours show to him the different solar systems beyond home?

he doesn’t know that when you look into his eyes, you see all that and so much more.

your eyes squint under your smile as you look back out at your hard work, turning your back to kuroo to admire the way the orange sun cast her final embers against the approaching night sky. as you feel tetsurou’s arms wrap around your waist, his chin resting atop your head, you melt into his hold and let out a satisfied hum. “i think seeing everyone enjoy themselves with what we did for them is my favourite part of our job,” you quietly confess, and as you admire the scenery, you feel kuroo’s heart beating against his chest, every rise and fall of his breaths soothing you like a familiar lullaby as you sink further into his hold. one of your hands comes up to caress his skin, your finger tracing his jawline as you turn your gaze to meet his; you see the milky way in honey gold pools. “do you think we’ll be able to have something like this one day?”

and oh, your poor heart, it flutters inside your chest and soars above silver clouds when he presses his lips against your forehead. it’s a simple and familiar sentiment, one that you’ve shared between stolen moments where the world stops spinning, when the wind sings your love and admiration on faded whispers between swaying leaves. you fall apart in kuroo’s arms, and, with every bit of devotion that he feels for you, he’s there to pull you back together. “i swear to you, baby,” he whispers against your skin, tracing the words with his lips so that they’ll paint the moon and stars and the planets above. “when it’s our time, i’ll give you the entire universe to hold.”

and he will. after all, you’ve given to him the galaxies, given to him a star to hold for every kiss you press against his lips, ever moment you spend loving him with all that you are. it’s only fair that he should give it all back to you.

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[jemariel]

Jem! 💜 1, 2, 4, & 9 pls

Hello!

1: Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.

Ooooo Okay I feel like I have a couple of different comfort zones that I veer between wildly. There’s like. Comfortably canon playing with the tropes we all know and love like wingfic and casefic where there’s only one bed. Then there’s a/b/o that subverts the tropes and uses betas as an analogy for gender variance and other kinds of queerness in the real world. Then there’s whacky fairyland nonsense that goes all trippy and I don’t know if anyone else has any idea what’s going on, because I don’t either xD

Come to think of it I think my top three stories fall into these three categories. Nice. (Grooming Instincts, Oddly Shaped Empty, and Samhain Trials respectively)

2: Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?

Hmmmmmmm I really want to write a “snowed in in a cabin” fic, or some other story that makes use of the cave trope (cabin is just a really nice cave) because it’s like… the ORIGINAL slash fanfic trope. I haven’t actually played a ton with hurt/comfort, so maybe I do that one of these days.

4: How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?

Oh god, so many. Just the google docs tabs I have open right now: 

A snowed-in cabin fic (see above lmao) that goes way creepier and angrier than most cabin fics.

Something called “Adventures in Sex Wedge Transportation” that I only have the inspiration to write around Christmas time (because it’s a Christmas fic) when I also have absolutely no time to write. 

My story for the To Hell And Back Anthology (shhhhh)

The start of a fantasy/historical gladiator-and-harem-boy a/b/o thing that I’m not sure I even remember where I was going with

A demon!Dean AU where Cas is the good little Christian boy he has to corrupt if he wants to get back into heaven (don’t worry about the logic) but of course Cas saves his soul instead.

And the next chapter of Cats & Tats which is what I should be working on instead of answering this xD

9: Which fic has been the hardest to write?

That’s tough, because they’re all hard while you’re going through them, and then the difficulties fade with time. But I think Human Error involved the most false starts and backtracking. Especially near the end, I had no forking clue what I was doing and it just kept getting longer and not feeling right and UGH @elanor-n-evermind can confirm, I was a mess.

Thanks for the ask!! Ask me more things

[lebibish]

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Thank you! I promise you, I will honestly and truly love any story you want to tell or enjoy writing!

General Request and DNW

I love worldbuilding and cultural detail, family relationships (I am all about the sibling feels—found family and family you were raised with), extremely competent characters, discovering secrets, mythology, and discovering/building competence. You know how training montages are common tropes for saving time? I’d be a happy clam if those were expanded into entire series where I could watch people building their skills, connecting to the people around them, and learning more about the world. I adore fantasy world-building—the concept of everyday magic, for example, where everyone has their own little piece of the world (always knowing when the phone is about to ring, or being able to call how many times a rock will skip on the water) or integrated magic systems.

Anything from gen to smut is welcome, angst with a happy ending is good but the happy ending is key, kidfic is lovely, femslash is beautiful although slash and het and other are more than fine too. If you present me with a love triangle my go-to solution is always polyamory. Please no child death, death of pets, grim!dark, or character bashing.

Optional Details for Fandoms:

Smash and Grab

Man, they were just so incredibly expressive throughout this. I have so many feels for the robots. The playing and the obvious care for each other and figuring out ways to have fun with each other. The robots had clearly played together before. How did that start? And up on top of the train, when tall robot was like, ok, time to play and small robot just went with it, clearly before it had figured it out…it was so precious. (I’m trying really hard not to gender the robots, I got to say.) And OMG, at the end, when they tried to go different directions and Tall one figured it out and then shrugged and was like fine, we’ll go your way…I’mma cry.

I got questions too, though! Is this a society entirely of robots? Why were the robots Tall one watched touching hands?  Do the trains run constantly or are there off hours or days that they are being repaired? What happens now? Why were there bots with guns on that train? What are they usually there for? Two robots with three arms and one power source? They vaguely look like they’re heading toward a floating city, what then? How long do those power sources last?

Jumanji

This one is all about the world-building for me. And the found family and traumatized sibling feels.

 I’m interested in where this game came from; why it exists. I’m interested in Alan’s life in the jungle—a kid surviving on his own so long is pretty unlikely. And the hunter proves that there are other people there. Is it entirely a part of the game? Or is it like Narnia where the game just takes you to a different real world? Is the jungle in Neverland? The movie sets it up where Alan learns a lesson about family and honesty, etc. But what if the game ended up in the hands of someone who didn’t want to go home? Someone who has a truly bad home life and wants to go somewhere else? A lot of what fascinates me in the movie is how this suburban/small town kid got so incredibly good at surviving in the jungle. Also, the idea of it as a real, functional (magical) place is pretty amazing. Him figuring it out by himself would be great but I’d especially love to see him interacting with others. What if Sarah got pulled in too? How would two kids take care of each other? What would that relationship look like when they grew up? Or if the Shepards got pulled in instead of getting Alan out…how would he deal with two grief-stricken kids in a dangerous, fantastical jungle? Is the jungle a real place somewhere? Do other players get different places?

 Oh My General

I have to confess, I’m not actually all that far into the series. I’m mostly here for the bi!rights, trans/NB!rights, and kickass woman warrior. I love that Ye Zhao continues to be a general. I love that she keeps referring to herself as a man and then correcting herself in that same tone of voice you use when you’re trying to stop yourself from swearing in front of small children. I love her grandfather referring to Zhao Yujin as daughter-in-law and giving him the sort of pregnancy charms new wives get. I love the concubines swooning over her as she is training. I would be very, very down for some polyamorous relationship negotiations here—this is *our* harem now. Also, Ye Zhao and Zhao Yujin discovering/appreciating each other’s competencies—dance takes similar muscle control to martial arts, just applied in very different ways. Art is amazing and artists are wonderful.

Jeeves and Wooster

I wouldn’t normally request this, although I do enjoy Jeeves and Wooster, but I glanced at the character listing and immediately went ooooo, WLW/MLM solidarity. Nice. I greatly enjoy Jeeves’ competence and I find Bertie kind of sweet—Hugh Laurie’s version, at least. I enjoy the shenanigans. This is also a setting where I would be fascinated to see how the addition of some kind of magic did or did not change elements of the canon. Either a well-known magic system (like in the Sorcery and Cecelia books if you know those),  or some of the Tumblr strings of thought where everyone has a small magic like the ability to always find your keys or knowing the weather without looking outside, or a hidden magic system that Bertie stumbles on. Or possibly one where Bertie has magic and he’s been keeping it hidden from Jeeves—I also greatly enjoy when someone has hidden depths and we get to discover the ways in which they’ve been underestimated.

Sinbad

I ask for this fandom every year because: people with different cultures and languages coming together and forming a functional group/found family/deep friendships, real mythology being played with, magic hiding in the world as science becomes more prevalent…it’s all amazing.

 Sinbad’s original curse—not being able to stay on land for more than a day and what that would mean if they had succeeded in being traders; the possibility that Cook has something strange going on with his own refusal to leave the ship; and post-series what these people end up doing and how they interact. Any and all back-stories are love, any and all myths, legends or monsters entering the story are brilliant.

 Emelan

I love the magic system in this so much. The idea that there are people who learn this school-based/book-based magic, but also people who just interact with magic in their own ways. Craft-based magic and magic that flows through how you interact with the world—love it. I loved all of the found-family feels in the books too and I adore fics where we get to see that relationship as they grow up and continue to care for and take care of each other. But, one thing that truly fascinates me in the idea of the story is—the teachers. Rosethorn/Lark, sure, love it, but also all of the teachers and what it’s like to be a teacher in a school like that and how they deal with other the other more traditional schools and what they think about the kids in their care. What about the other students they’ve had in their care over the years? How did they find their kind of magic? What conversations are going on between the teachers during canon? In the “break room” teachers have so they can (hopefully fondly) complain about students?