#fandom: fairy tail

[miyu-writings]

Fic recs Friday

Why not?

So here are a few recs of fics I've been reading this past week.

Fairy Tail's Trump Card by kiraakitsune. (Gratsu) I was pleasantly surprised by this one. It read quite IC, was quite nice and gotta love fics where the boys get together.

Son of a Dragon by LetoaSai. (Gratsu) One of my faves. I needed the niceness of this fic this week. Also, still gearing up for my little plan. Anyway, a very nice AU where Natsu and Gray meet as children and their future changes.

& it was everything by kitthekazoo. (Rhodestead) It's an arranged marriage and kingdom AU. I'm a big sucker for all the above.

Radiance by greygerbil. (Victor/Georgi) This is a No Banquet/No Video AU, so as the author warned, Victor's not aware of Yuuri. I was reading this fic but then there was a hiatus and I now I'm rereading and reading the rest of the fic. I like this author so despite not knowing the end (yet), I do recommend it.

Stay, Just this Once - or - GroundHob Day by SigniorBenedickofPadua. (Dreamling) I'm the biggest sucker for time loop/groundhog day AUs. And this one is super good. Poor Hob is stuck repeating the same day - which ends every time Dream leaves.

Currently, I'm living for Dreamling - it's such a joy to read all the great fics. Wish it were as simple for every fandom haha.

Anyway...

I'm going to try to do a thing out of this. Fingers crossed it goes so... 😂

[moongirlcleo]

"We'll always be together... Forever."

[roseletterchan]

I am just so impulsive when it comes to drawing. It’s actually ridiculous. But yeah, nalu for the win

(Also more felinette coming soon (づ￣ ³￣)づ)

[scarletgray]

writers i have a question. how do you start writing

[kurainvillager]

More of fairy Kirby ✨🌱🌸

[ft-platonicweek]

Platonic Week 2024

Thank you to everyone who showed interest in the debut of the platonic week event! The event will be June 24-30, and all forms of submissions are welcome: art, fanfic, video edits, mood boards, etc. Please see the rules for more information.

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Prompts

Each day features multiple prompts, but only one prompt is necessary to fulfill the day. Or choose multiple! Combining days and prompts is welcome as well. Participate as much or little as you like.

—Monday (6/24): "Game on!" | Competition | Training —Tuesday (6/25): "Idiot." | Potluck | Shenanigans —Wednesday (6/26): "What is that?" | Road Trip | Camping —Thursday (6/27): "Can I sleep on your couch tonight?" | Storm | Silence —Friday (6/28): "Nobody hurts my friends!" | Scars | Injury —Saturday (6/29): "Unison Raid!" | Teasing | Matching —Sunday (6/30): "You can count on me." | Tears | Protection

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Rules / Event Information

—Submissions: Platonic week is to celebrate all types of platonic relationships, so as such, the focus of the work must be platonic in nature, be it friends, family, queerplatonic relationships, found family, etc. Any romantic relationships must be relegated to the background only and not be integral to the work. Other than that, anything goes! Submissions may be any media type you can fathom, so long as the entry is original and not previously posted in any manner. Late submissions are welcome too! While it is a dated event, there is no time limit.

—Posting: Please mention ( @ft-platonicweek ) the blog to help ensure the post is visible and it will be reblogged. Include the tag #ft platonic week 2024 within the first five tags as well. If there are any necessary content warnings or mature content, please tag those accordingly.

—AO3 Collection: Fairy Tail Platonic Week 2024

—Generic Rules: Please, keep it friendly between submitters, and no blatant character bashing. No ships should be the focus, and no ships involving incest or adult/child romances should be included at all.

If there are any questions, please feel free to send an ask!

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banner art by @pencilofawesomeness

@ftguildevents

[fairytailuv4life]

All of these moments will finally be animated this summer ✨💙

[allaboutnalu]

Prompt voting for Nalu Week 2024 is now open! ☆♡

Voting will remain open until April 3rd.

Vote here!

[momoreeclipse]

HAPPY NALU DAY

👑🐉🥰🥰🫶🏾

[naluslayers]

It’s been decades why are they not kissing eachother already

[cogamori]

[moongirlcleo]

Happiness is Nalu

not my photo, it's just cute

[fairydares]

loook i get why the idea of riding the "anti/pro" fandom disk horse makes people gag a little in their mouth and try to opt out entirely, but here's why i went from feeling exactly the same way to taking a firm profiction stance. I've been meaning to make this post for a while.

~10 years ago, I posted a fic for the first time and it got its own harassment campaign. The fic wasn't even sexual, and wasn't going to be (it remains incomplete). It was accurately rated T on fanfiction.net. Anyone in the Fairy Tail fandom will understand this: I literally got harassed for writing a "Lucy leaves the guild" fic💀.

After many nice comments, someone left a pretty nasty one. Hurt, I messaged them back. They acted super attacked that I'd responded (lmao) and after we argued, threatened to "rip my shitty story apart in the comments section" if I responded again. I told them "go ahead lol."

They went ahead.

Now know that it was a relatively small harassment campaign, but at the time, it was devastating. Right around then, I wound up in the hospital. After I got out, I went to excitedly check my fic, and found several reviews saying things I wouldn't repeat to my worst enemy. I was suicide-baited more than once, told "thank fuck you finally abandoned this shitty story, dumb cunt," stuff like that.

There were several accounts involved, and I can't say for sure, but I suspect at least a couple different people were involved, though probably at least half of it was one person.

All the other comments were screeching about how I hadn't updated, mostly. "NO UPDAAATEE WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPENS TO MEEEE??!!!" was one that stood out after I'd been miserable in a hospital for an extended period of time.

Idk what people think is going on when FT fic authors write this trope, and frankly I don't give a fuck. Because while I was partly writing the story out of some young, cringe feminist rage, I also did genuinely have a real story I was compelled to tell. I was inspired by another, popular fic I loved which used the trope to talk about how trying to shoulder our burdens alone really just hurts both ourselves and everyone who cares about us.

My own story was ultimately going to have similar themes, with more focus on strength, what it means, and in what contexts earning and having it actually matters. In retrospect, no wonder I wound up in hot water, because at the time "Lucy vs. Strength vs. Misogyny" was the FT fandom's Designated Nonsensically Activist Debate™. But that's partly why i wanted to write about it; engaging with the fandom had gotten me thinking about it 🤷‍♂️

Not too long after that, FFNet oh-so-benevolently granted us the ability to delete comments from our own stories (they never took my reports seriously at all, afaik). I deleted all or most of the harassers' comments (may still be a one or two up, and i'm fairly sure there's a couple comments defending my fic from the harassment) without saving screenshots, which I really regret now. I was just so mortified and full of self-loathing about the whole thing that i wanted to forget it completely. Something that had brought me joy at a very lonely, vulnerable period of my life had turned so negative, and i couldn't even tell the people closest to me about it without being made fun of for writing anime fan fiction.

I didn't understand why this happened at the time, but--after a period of trying to forget/bid out of it all with a slight anti lean (a common approach I see people use, and one which I'm not proud of adopting)--I just had to figure out What the Fuck Even Happened There. And I'm telling you, after years of reflecting, wrestling with both sides, and educating myself, that this "status quo of harassment" culture which pervades fandom goes way deeper than you think and comes out of a way darker well than you probably realize. An astonishing amount of this is, quite literally, TERF shit and evangelical shit.

Trying to be in fandom and take a stance of, "Anti/Pro shit? Ew, I'm Not Touching that," is like swimming in a heavily polluted river and being like, "Poison? Cringe. Not me lol."

You might be lucky enough to be in a less-polluted part of the river (AKA a relatively non-toxic fandom, in which case good for you!)...but tbh this rhetoric and peer-signalling will still seep in.

I can't stress enough that pro-fiction, AKA "proship", is the normal, leftist-about-art-and-sex opinion. Pro-ship is against all the horrible things you're against; in fact, pro-ship isn't trivializing real trauma by equating it with fictional trauma, or trying to apply literal evangelical/radfem solutions--which are proven not to prevent or help. Profiction/proship is literally just saying, "Fiction is fiction, reality is reality, and the two don't have a 1:1 relationship. And historically, trying to censor just things we've decided are bad has done nothing but get LGBTQ+ and POCs censored. Therefore, depictions of illegal things shouldn't be censored." That's it. "Proshippers all ship problematic ships," is a brazen lie. Many of them share other fans' disgust for those ships, they just don't believe in censoring fic authors over it.

It is also taking a stand against harassment because--and I hope my own story has helped drive this home--as with all groups who adopt ingroup/outgroup thinking, antis are defined by their tactics, not actual stances on real, serious issues. What happened to me was absolutely a result of anti, "it's okay to 'bully out' anything I just don't like" mindset pervading fandom. In a way, this was the mindset's final form. They didn't even feel the need to cite a reason the trope was "bad" or "wrong"; it annoyed them, and they viewed their own feelings as a valid enough pathway for policing to go right ahead and do so.

In the interest of offering solutions instead of just bitching about problems, I might make a "how to know if you've bought into these types of views"-type post sometime. Also might come back to this and provide some sources/citation.

[roseletterchan]

I was about to sleep but then masayume chasing started playing on my playlist and I drew them on straight impulse. They’re staring straight into my soul

[heartfilias-stars]

thinking about a Nalu singer x bodyguard au where Lucy is an artist who very much wants to quit being a celebrity and join a guild and go on adventures and Natsu is a member of her favorite guild hired with the task of protecting her after she starts getting very serious threats