#which it would be

[tennessoui]

Hi kit! So I was feeling down yesterday and decided to reward myself by rereading your hanahaki au and foolproof au (yes I stayed up very late) and I LOVED both fics so much as always but it also made me remember the toxic version of foolproof you mentioned in another ask where obi-wan and anakin start sleeping together without discussing feelings (1/2)

I started imagining a scenario where obi-wan starts developing hanahaki in the toxic foolproof variant which of course makes anakin lose his mind bc obi-wan fell in love with someone else while they’re sleeping together AND now he has to figure out who to coughcough kill to stop obi-wan’s coughing. super messy but fun to think about!! thank you for your amazing fics 💜 (2/2)

god imagine. how messy would that be. incredibly messy. perhaps, the messiest lmao

like - already messy if they started sleeping together without discussing their feelings so it's just a dirty little affair behind everyone's backs, but then it'd be SO much worse if obi-wan developed hanahaki and master anakin was convinced that it wasn't for him but for someone else. cause they're sleeping together, but it's casual, and he's been hearing stories about obi-wan's....promiscuity for years. of course he's not the only person obi-wan's been sleeping with lately. and now he's gone and fallen in love with someone else? while anakin is in his bed?

i bet master skywalker would get very mean and distanced about it which would only make the hanahaki worse because there'd be no other way for obi-wan to read that except as rejection. but also master skywalker wouldn't stop sleeping with obi-wan because he can't give up the only parts of him that he thinks he has, so it just makes him distant and mean while in bed with obi-wan which just makes obi-wan praise kink desperate to please and be good kenobi feel more sick

meanwhile master skywalker is ALSO trying to subtly figure out who else obi-wan has been seeing that he's fallen in love with. for murder list purposes.

for about a week he thinks. well. maybe it's ahsoka? and he has to grapple with if he'd kill his own padawan to save obi-wan. and he doesn't think he has it in him but he does like....hesitate.

[not-poignant]

It's funny to me how 'late' these roots are, because I still remember gossamer era (which is still late to some), where you measured how long a fic was purely by its kb size and not word length, where there were no author's notes and you could only review by email, and where 'flames will be used to roast marshmallows' and the 'I don't own this / this is the property of X' notes were everywhere.

Tags and warnings didn't exist, except for the 'slash' warning if you were reading same sex. (Yes, for a time, slash / same sex was treated as way more serious than rape or any other kind of warning, because homophobic hate mail was very real).

For me, fanfiction.net that allowed adult content came much later.

never forget your roots

fanfiction.net before they removed the NC-17 stories

going to fanfiction.net at all

going to adultfanfiction.net in the fallout of the great “purge”

figuring out that ain’t nobody actually monitoring NC-17 stories there anyway so just rate it “M”

“please R&R! concrit appreciated!”

warning: lemon

though it may be more on the limey side of lemon

“summary sux just read it”

replying to reviews in the author’s notes

author’s notes in which the characters talk to each other and the author

[macbethz]

Well I like it but it’s not very well written. Also it’s a visual mess. The plot doesnt make any sense and the creators suck and its politics oscillate from mildly problematic to frankly baffling. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. However. the character

[humming-fly]

was thinking about that one blind professor post earlier today and how well it applied to the aptly named Team Dark

(really 'Team Dark' just sounds a lot cooler than 'Team Saves-On-Electricity')

[milfsisyphus]

your job is not more important than media from 2005. never forget this.

[icewindandboringhorror]

(also feel free in the tags to clarify Why you made the choice you made!! :0c)

[swan2swan]

Whoever conceived and animated this moment, I hope they're doing well and thriving. This is S-rank romance stuff here.

[pirateprincessjess]

When I was a kid my family pretended to get raptured so I would think I was left behind on earth while they all went to heaven.

I was like 8 years old and my sister and mom had gotten really into the Left Behind novels (bible fan fic about the rapture). In the books when the rapture happened the clothes that people were wearing when they got raptured were left behind in neatly folded piles.

One day when I was getting home from school my family decided that they would leave piles of neatly folded clothes around the house, and then hide in the basement.

The intended effect was that I would get home and see the clothes then, think that my family had been raptured and that I wasn’t good enough to get into heaven… or something?

The problem was that I had never read these books, and didn’t really think about the rapture very often. There was no reason that I would see some laundry on the floor and think “The rapture happened and I’ve been abandoned by God! I’ll never see my family again!! Oh nooo!!!!”

I just sat down and watched cartoons and eventually my family got bored and revealed that they were all hiding in the basement.

It’s a good thing I didn’t understand the joke, otherwise that shit would have been traumatic.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Glinda really had an entire musical number expounding on the theme of "success in life is not about being highly qualified or even competent, but manipulating people's superficial perception of you." and then she went into POLITICS. truly the #girlboss representation the world has earned

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Knowledge Revenge.

[goomyloid]

The remorseful player

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[artemisdesari-blog]

A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

[akaanmo]

thought about what a robin to the absolute!batman would look like. conclusion: small

[pangur-and-grim]

one thing that took me embarrassingly long to learn is "sometimes when people say things, they will not be true."

I used to tell people about this revelation and they'd be like yeah.....duh.....but like, why wouldn't my base assumption be that you're communicating to me in a straightforward manner. anyway, I get scammed a lot.