#fic: you're gonna be fine

[otrtbs]

y’all are so weird. if you hate the way i characterized regulus in ahb! then,,, stop reading it? no one is forcing you to read it?? you can just put it down,,, you know that right???? who has the gun to your head making you click next chapter??? you can just stop reading it at any time. no really, trust me!

[jamiesfootball]

And a third 🌹 for good luck.

Thank you for these Roses! It's hard to share the more angsty snippets when all of them seem like they're having so much fun.

That said, I finally have a snippet that isn't devastating (or whumpy)! From one of the earlier chapters of Oh God You're Gonna Get It, talking about the Keeley and Shandy of it all:

"It's not like she was always like this," Keeley explained, dabbing carefully at her eyes. "When we were working together, she was always really sweet. And, well, bossy, but in a kind way, you know? Introduced herself to anyone who looked nervous, stayed late to make sure we'd all leave as a group, things like that. And creative too! Better ideas on staging than half the photographers I worked with; we used to piss ourselves laughing at how easy it was for her to pick apart their ideas. I thought she was brilliant.

"But I guess that's harder to laugh at when you're on the receiving end."

[dylanlila]

this is the first time i've ever wanted to gatekeep something, i hate feeling like this

[djevelbl]

Kill the cringe cop in your head, do what makes you happy.

[citrine-elephant]

no, but i have the stubborness of the chreon boys

as my head spins and i grow increasingly nauseous, i continue writing because i'm drafting a really really good fuckin part

i can't stop and rest to take care of my 'wounds' because i'm so close. i'm almost there. i'm - aouughh *leon re4 05 passing out gif*

[xhanisai]

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[arggghhhsstuff]

when the plot twist is so world-shattering you have to go back and check the tags just to be sure you didn't miss anything

[desperatecheesecubes]

Every time I see a post making fun of people being afraid to get into comics I think about how when I was first getting into comics I thought it would be fun to read Infinite Crisis because it was a HUGE event and it would give me an idea of what a whole slew of runs and characters were like. I made a post about some panel pretty early into the event (I think it was a build up comic that wasn't even officially part of the Road To Infinite Crisis so EARLY early) and some blog I didn't know made fun of me for not knowing the greater context of the panel I was commenting on. And while I was naively typing up a quick little 'ah sorry I'm new to comics and didn't know that. Thanks for the context!' they had gone through my blog and started doing the same for a bunch of other comics I'd read, and then mocked me for reading IC when I clearly new so little about comics.

Now, obviously, that behavior is ridiculous, and I just blocked them, but it did stick with me. It was one of my earliest interactions with comic fandom and I never forgot it. Most of the people I've intereacted with have been lovely. Even when I have gotten comic cannon wrong corrections are normally very kind. But not all of them are, and the ones who aren't are so vocal about it.

So i actually don't think it's the comics themselves that make getting into comics an unappealing prospect.

[everymlmhybrid]

this part genuinely makes me feel like eating dry wall like i can't explain how i feel about it without making some of you finally tire of me and block me about it i think

[bumblingbabooshka]

T’Pring Memes 

[slingbats]

Putting my face in my hands

[numbknee]

uhhhh i’m finally just about done with my new kyman fic lol but i gotta sleep 😭 I’ll proofread it in the morning and probs post tomorrow or the day after

[woulddieforloki]

W A I T okay this has probably been done before but has anyone ever written a fic where The Avengers just. like. didn't happen? like Thanos couldn't break Loki so he just threw him down to Earth or maybe Thanos did break him but the Mind Stone was supposed to make him do Evil Things except it stopped working after he went through the Tesseract? so Loki's just kinda There™ in SHIELD headquarters while the whole place is falling apart and everyone's just like ??? and Fury and Clint drag the very confused random man out of there before they call get very dead and Loki's either half-dead because Thanos couldn't break him or he's just very confused because the Mind Stone suddenly stopped working and it's just a very unproductive moment?

and then stuff happens and Thor comes down to Earth and they manage to get the Tesseract from SHIELD somehow and they go back to Asgard and Loki hasn't actually really done anything so they go to see Odin and Odin's just like ........... because like yeah Loki kinda overthrew the monarchy but he was having a bad day and he does seem to realize that was wrong (at least enough that he's not actively trying to murder his brother again) so Odin just kinda awkwardly pats him on the back and welcomes him home

and then Loki just has to. like. live with it. and everyone's all weird about him now and they've always been weird about him but now they're extra weird about him because he was king for a day? and then fucking died? except he didn't? and then obviously Heimdall and Sif and the Warriors Three know what really happened which makes it even weirder when Loki comes back and tries to go back to his normal life and nobody's gonna tell him not to go back to his normal life because. like. he should do that. probably. but at the same time like twelve months ago Loki fucking killed himself and how do you just move on from that (and if you figure out the answer please tell Loki because he really doesn't fucking know)

[rotisseries]

just remembered in march how I scrounged through the entire ellabs ao3 tag on some sort of feverish mission after binging playthroughs of both tlou games in the span of about 3 days. who else here remembers that

[whimsicalcotton]

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[coffeeflavored-tears]

god. thinking about one of my favorite fics again