#skeleton queue

[dragonnarrative-writes]

Something something going over to the huge guy who keeps to himself at the back of the bar. Offering to buy his drink if he lets you talk at him for a while, just long enough for the obnoxious guy who's been harassing you to leave you alone. Not knowing what to talk about, so you just recount the plot of the last romance novel you read (you barely remember it beyond the parts you didn't like). Big guy ("'m Simon.") insists that you finish telling the story, even though whatshisfuck has left the bar by now.

When you finally finish telling him about the lighthouse, he smiles down at you. "tha's minging. Tell me another."

[dragonnarrative-writes]

A throwback to my Final Fantasy VII days! Blonde Ambition by @sephcounttheways. I was reading this story on ff.net, before I knew who I was as a person.

In chapter one, Cloud has decided to pursue his dreams, but in order to do that, he has to choose to shed his old self and become the fabulous bitch he knows he is inside. And on the way to doing that, he feels sad, he has a moment of grief about letting go of his old life.

That "... Goodbye." has stayed with me for more than a decade.

has anyone else ever had a fanfic that just... haunts them? like it's been months and maybe even years since you read it, but it just lingers with you and you can never truly leave behind the imprint it made on you? and maybe it's just a single line, one sentence that you can't shake off, that takes up residence in your mind and stays there, feeding into your psyche and subtly influencing your brainspace and maybe even your writing or other works?

[dragonnarrative-writes]

Generative AI will never be as satisfyingly and creatively horny as you can be. Don't limit your freak.

[preqvelle]

💀✨️

[dragonnarrative-writes]

I would add: if you plan to change anything, pick one thing (or one from each category) to go up one level within a month. So if you rarely meditate, take a month to get to the point where you sometimes meditate, as an example. Sustainable change is slow! Take your time.

i know we're all sick of self-care being a marketing tactic now, but i don't think a lot of us have any other concept of self-care beyond what companies have tried to sell us, so i thought i'd share my favorite self-care hand out

brought to you by how mad i just got at a Target ad

[creepy-girls-do-it-better]

Found on Pintrest. Source unknown

[thefuchsianeko]

This was just gonna be one drawing but it turned into a whole sketch page, whoopsy doodle 🤸‍♀️

My brain is stirring, give me ur pre-infection Jaw Bone theories and headcannons

[dragonnarrative-writes]

If you didn't know, the Organization for Transformative Works, the parent org to Archive of Our Own, is dedicated to protecting all fanworks. In fact, the Open Doors Project is a branch of the organization dedicated to archiving and preserving works that are at risk of being lost to time and purges.

AO3 was literally built to house the works other sites deem "undesirable," and continues to build halls for everyone.

There are a lot of great analyses of why censorship is bad . Early has a wonderful post about dark fic, ethics, and the fact that disgust is not an indication of morality. Censorship disproportionately impacts marginalized communities. Censorship based on some people being "allowed' to write and engage with certain content often requires painful disclosure to strangers which, again, disproportionately impacts marginalized communities.

"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.

[preqvelle]

[crossroadsdog]

Wild Horse v2, 2024

sold

[yourfaveisintersex]

Sans from Undertale is an intersex coffee bean transmasc (link), and his variation is Aromatase Excess Syndrome (AEXS) with hypoandrogenism!

Intersex flag-only edits under the cut!

[leapingbadger]

Fuuuck!! This is so good. A kiss from Obi Wan will bring him back to the light for sure!

So hey, I wanted to jump on the Purge Trooper Cody bandwagon, but I’m also completely incapable of doing angst. 

Obi-Wan’s getting his man back post-haste.

[yellow-computer-mouse]

it's officially my 2-year coming out anniversary! :D i've been out as trans to my parents for 2 slutty, slutty years /ref

i missed my 1-year, which i'm kinda bummed about, and my parents certainly don't care lol

idk! happy 2 years me! ^^

[creepy-girls-do-it-better]

71 days until halloween

[elviehun]

IT'S GERARD DAY, EVERYONE!!!!

LET'S WISH HIM AN INCREDIBLY HAPPY 48th, because HE IS THE MOST AMAZING, SPECIAL AND TALENTED PERSON WHOSE STEPS EVER TOUCHED THIS GLOBE. 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🎂🍰🧁🥧🍩🍪🍨

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BEAUTIFUL ONE!

🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

(it's so freaking hard to pick 48 fave pics even if I limit myself to the recent 10ish years lol. He's just THAT magical. Sigh. They don't make them like him anymore. And yes I cheated with duplicating one of the best pics of him. Because I like a challenge)

[leapingbadger]

Oh this is so lovely!

Sunburst

Weee this ship pretty much gripped me instantly I had to draw something T v T I also just have to draw itsy bitsy little freckles on them both too many fics mentioning said freckles for me not to include them T o T