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Useful meme format for 2020?

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Chapters: 4/6 Fandom: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Phryne Fisher/Jack Robinson, Jack Robinson/food Characters: Phryne Fisher, Jack Robinson, Elizabeth MacMillan, Dorothy "Dot" Williams, Tobias Butler Additional Tags: Quarantine, what do i tag this yall, stuck together, coronafic, 1920s, Sexual Tension, Resolved Sexual Tension, wink wink, Confinement, cabin fever, Yearning, Mutual Pining, Pining, thirst, Fluff and Smut, Fluff, Isolation, Bread, Smut, Eventual Smut, Romance, Drunken Flirting, No Plot/Plotless, Minor Hugh Collins/Dorothy "Dot" Williams, Virus Summary:

Phryne and Jack come in contact with an unknown virus. Jack gets stuck in quarantine at Phryne’s house for a week. They definitely don’t social-distance.

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Do you have any recommendations for works (poems/books) about heartwrenching loneliness and touch starvation? Its sad hours 24/7 for me 🥺

Aw, don’t be sad, anon. That’s random, but, you know, there’s something I really appreciate about the English language (more so because we don’t have that in French)—it makes a lexical and semantical distinction between loneliness and solitude, and... Being aware of that is fundamental, I think?

Anyway, yes, I have a few recommendations. This is a bit redundant, we’ve talked quite a bit about loneliness around here these days, but—I think you’d relate to Anne Carson’s The Anthropology of Water and Autobiography of Red, Richard Siken’s Crush, Yusuf Al-Khal’s “Prayers in a Temple” and “The Long Poem” (I personally like Abdullah al-Udhari’s translations), Louise Glück’s The Triumph of Achilles, Gregory Orr’s Orpheus and Eurydice; Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice (I recommend Howe-Porter’s translations for Mann, though they take more liberties than the more modern ones) and Franz Kafka’s Diaries. 

Incidentally, Fallen Hero: Rebirth (and its sequel) tackles the notion of crippling loneliness through multiple narrative devices and character behaviour, while also giving the player the option to handle it head-on. As always: it’s amazing.

On the other hand, you might enjoy Mary Oliver’s The Truro Bear and Other Adventures and Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes, who both paint a lovely, fulfilling picture of solitude. Marlen Haushofer’s describes a much harsher, but ultimately satisfying loneliness in The Wall. Also, Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, where he praises solitude as a fuel to creativity and profound reflexion (you’ll find Herter Norton’s translation everywhere), and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning and Robert Browning’s correspondance, who dwell on the loneliness they both felt before they met each other and found joy in each other and creating together.  

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i love being queerbaited and i love tragedy i am the gay person homophobic people write for

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Find someone who looks at you the way that John looks at Oscar

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we always walked a very thin line... you didn't even hear me out

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Chapters: 3/6 Fandom: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Phryne Fisher/Jack Robinson, Jack Robinson/food Characters: Phryne Fisher, Jack Robinson, Elizabeth MacMillan, Dorothy "Dot" Williams, Tobias Butler Additional Tags: Quarantine, what do i tag this yall, stuck together, coronafic, 1920s, Sexual Tension, Resolved Sexual Tension, wink wink, Confinement, cabin fever, Yearning, Mutual Pining, Pining, thirst, Fluff and Smut, Fluff, Isolation, Bread, Smut, Eventual Smut, Romance, Drunken Flirting, No Plot/Plotless, Minor Hugh Collins/Dorothy "Dot" Williams, Virus Summary:

Phryne and Jack come in contact with an unknown virus. Jack gets stuck in quarantine at Phryne’s house for a week. They definitely don’t social-distance.

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Fic: At the Edges

At the Edges (5067 words) by blithers Fandom: New Girl Rating: Explicit Relationships: Jessica Day/Nick Miller Summary:

Because let’s be real here: she is totally flirting with him, too. There’s no question about it. She’s flirting back hard, her hand wrapped around the stem of her wineglass and her laugh getting throatier and lower into Jessica Day sexy land.

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Atonement (2007) dir. Joe Wright // Lonely by Natalie Wee // “Holding hands” by Daniel Arsham, 2015 // Taking the Hands by Robert Bly // Pride and Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright // Your Hands by Florence Ripley Mastin // Anna Karenina (2012) dir. Joe Wright // No Children by The Mountain Goats // Emma (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde

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Tropes that get me every damn time, in no particular order and with no particular rhyme or reason

a group of morally grey criminals/thugs/assassins has a Mom Friend in the group 

Incredibly broken character trying to love, knowing they don’t know how to accept or show affection and trying anyway 

Gentle and Good™ character who would Never Hurt a Fly goes into absolute beast mode after their family or someone they care about is hurt or threatened 

Group of characters who hate each other’s guts forced to team up 

Literally any book-within-a-book device is used: excerpts or even mentions of a made-up in-universe book within the book. Bonus points if it’s some kind of Fantasy Textbook being included purely for infodump purposes. 

Independent, self-serving character ends up forced to be a hero and do good. Bonus points if this happens multiple times and independent self-serving character is just resigned to it at this point. 

On that note: universe/world has to rely on a bunch of criminals with 0 moral fibre that were more or less dragged out of a dumpster to save everyone 

any scene wherein the strong and stoic™ is getting patched up post-battle by their love interest for whom they have not yet admitted their feelings, probably shirtless and definitely wincing in a brave manner as bandages are applied 

Smol and Cute character turns out to be full of terrifying darkness 

Character finds terrifying monsters cute and/or endearing. 

Character doesn’t understand sarcasm or figurative language. Literally. Any. Use. Of. This. Trope. 

Character’s somewhat embarrassing or weird backstory comes out only when it is ABSOLUTELY necessary. Example: In the seventh book of a series, the characters must go undercover at a Zyrg’hnrrian ball and the Strong Stoic Axe Warrior Guy, who we have known for all seven books so far, must grudgingly admit that he knows how to dance a Zyrg’hnrrian Waltz. 

on that note: characters must disguise as something and go undercover but their already super shoddy cover starts falling apart, resulting in your entire body cringing at the page. bonus points if their disguises start LITERALLY falling apart 

on THAT note: only reason characters are able to infiltrate something is that the guards are bored and not paying attention 

Characters who are a couple team up in battle and start absolutely kicking ass 

Criminal mastermind getting himself involved in multiple recursive layers of double-crossing that all fall apart at the worst possible time. 

A character who has spent the whole book acting like he doesn’t care suddenly throws himself into harm’s way for another character and comes out of it battered and half dead 

Literally any scene where a badass character comes out of something that should have killed them covered in blood and wounds and with fire in their eyes. 

Any scene where a character puts on a brave face for something that no person should be able to bear or endure, on behalf of someone they love. 

Literally any story where MC goes to school to learn the art of murder/to be an assassin/to be a villain/the ways of evil and darkness in any sense  

S N A R K 

Over the top plots where shit is just hitting the fan and the characters themselves are somewhat aware of how crazy it all is and are just like “this might as well happen” 

A Good, rule-following character forced to collaborate with morally-grey trash can. 

character bonds with an animal that annoys them at first but by the end they are willing to lay down their life for the varmint. Bonus points if they rush back into danger cursing about how annoying and ungrateful their animal companion is while actively risking their life on its behalf. 

Bar fights. hhhhhhhh

Character who has never really received affection and love receives loving physical touch and has no idea how to respond or process what’s going on inside them other than oh god don’t stop 

On that note: hideous, monstrous-looking creature/character is shown gentleness/affection for the first time. 

Any scene where a monologuing villain gets slammed with a comeback that makes him realize all of a sudden what the heroes’ plan is all along and that he’s lost 

villains have great fashion sense 

on that note: sexy villains hhhghghhhh. Yes you can write a callout post. 

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ok but has anyone considered… stormtrooper memes. stormtroopers with injokes. stormtroopers quietly passing along little nudges and references while they’re standing guard or patrolling endless hallways. hux pausing halfway through a speech, suspiciously— he just heard a very tiny, staticy giggle. like,

(standing in front of blank wall or empty box) nothing to see here, move along

let’s just put that in the back pocket for now mmkay

*eats ration bar* mm mmm tastes like [dead comrade]

you can’t be mean to me on my birthday

*force chokes a problem*

(between heavy darth vader wheezes) i’m not mad, i’m just disappointed. 

(when something falls over) rebel scum!

*points at large machine* mom

it’s party time (everyone stands perfectly still for at least a minute)

(when friend come into the room) you’re surplus to requirements

they put a worm in him

*picks up thing that is not a phaser* pew pew

i’m matt the radar technician

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where’s that?? Fuckin. Boba Fett thottily answering his comm in full armor comic panel at??

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the tea aisle has big fanfic energy

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when i started drawing this, in my head it was just going to be flirty, but it surpassed that and now they are definitely engaged. woops.

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Nodding off on the bf’s shoulder during an endless briefing #justresistancethings

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