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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

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But I don’t want to go to bed- I want to stay up all night ruining my carefully put together sleep schedule in order to finish rereading my favorite fanfic 🥺🥺

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Sure, sex is great and all, but you ever have a really bad day and then you get home and there's an email from AO3 saying your favorite fic was updated and you can just melt into it and it makes everything better?

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AO3 IS DOWN 😭😭😭😭

immediately headed here for the ao3 tag

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“id send you this post but u are dead to me” is such a strange feeling. im retreating to the woods

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Hey! Hi! Hiya! I read the Merlin one-shot you put out earlier, and now I'm really missing your writing, do you have a fic, or series, of yours you'd reccomened reading?

This is gonna be a long one and I happened to log into tumblr to check messages then saw your ask and drowned in a puddle and so because I wanted to update anyway, I decided to answer your ask because anything related to my writing brings me endless joy and happiness and tears.

Yes! I presume you're talking about Infiltrating Great Minds? Yes! As you can see, it's part of a Merlin+character crackfic series so if you want Merlin crack, you can have all of it in that series. I'm already halfway through a Gwaine&Merlin and finished completely outlining Leon&Merlin and Daegal&Merlin fics.

If you're looking for the angst/magic reveal sort of thing, I'd say How Do You Feel? and Shackled are good, though neither of them are magic reveals. I'm just realizing this is the first magic reveal I posted 😅

Although! I'm working on a super super super angsty magic reveal oneshot and another 4-chapter magic reveal which connects to a (currently) 45-chapter Golden Age AU fic. They're going to be in a series. Or maybe I'll split the 45 chapter, idk, i only finished outlining it yesterday XD

However, I won't be posting any fics or content until after April 10th bc of Ramadan and I want to focus on myself and my peace of mind and mental health. But, I have a goal to post content every week after April 10th since I already wrote halfway through like three fics and have complete and full outlines for like 10-ish fics, one of which is a multichap. So keep a look out for that!

For now, whatever I've posted is it :)

Tysm for the ask! It warms my heart so much because I've been having a stressful and hard few weeks and especially today ^^

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reblog to teleport your mutuals to a massive party when jkr dies

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The first real conversation Katniss has with Peeta is when he tells her that he wants to die as himself, that he doesn't want the games to change him into something he's not, and that he wants to keep his identity and prove he's more than just a piece in their games because that's the only thing he has left to care about.

The first time we see Lucy Gray she sings a song that basically says that nothing they could take from her was worth keeping. "Can't take my past. Can't take my history... You can't take my charm. You can't take my health."

The capitol has taken everything from them both, but at the same time, they could never take away who they are.

They are both likeable charismatic and funny, with the kindest hearts, and incredibly loyal to the people they care about.

At the same time, everything they do before the games, and during is calculated. Lucy Gray singing a love song and winning the hearts of the capitol. Peeta confesses he's in love with his district partner, therefore cementing her identity as desirable. Both of them know how to sway people with words, how to charm people, and how to manipulate crowds. Neither of them has any problem doing so to keep themselves, and the people they love safe.

Lucy Gray's song The Old Therebefore, about learning how to love and live her life to the fullest before death, a final and calculated stroke in a last-ditch effort to save herself from the arena. This evokes enough emotion in the watchers to get them to rise to their feet and plead for her life alongside Snow.

Snow, watching the 74th and preparing for the 75th Hunger Games sees Lucy Gray in Katniss. A young girl, from the 12th district. Unafraid at the reaping. Selling a false love story, manipulating a boy who loves her in order to get out and supporting the revolution with the mockingjay as her symbol.

He threatens her family to get her to sell that she and Peeta are in love, to prevent the revolution, because obviously, she's pretending. He's had experience with a girl just like her before. He has no doubt that she has the acting ability to sell this story because clearly, she manipulated the first Hunger Games in her favor, the same way Lucy Gray manipulated him.

Watching the interviews for the 75th Hunger Games he realizes-

Katniss is just an impulsive girl, in a Mockingjay dress she didn't know about, made by someone who supports the revolution.

Peeta is a boy who has the ability to move people with just his words. He made Katniss desirable, he was the one who sold the love story, and he was the one to make their romance seem real. Katniss only started the revolution because she would rather risk dying with him than live without him. A concept President Snow was completely unfamiliar with. And it is with all these realizations crashing around him Peeta drops the baby bomb. He knows the baby's not real, and so does Snow. But it evokes enough emotion in the watchers to get them to rise to their feet and plead for the lives of the tributes.

Is it Lucy Gray or Peeta?

By the time Snow realizes he's made a mistake, it's too late.

Peeta is still charming and manipulating the capitol. Katniss is in love.

He goes up against a kindhearted boy expecting to beat Sejanus again, only to find out that it's Lucy Gray he's fighting; knowing he will never be able to escape their ghosts.

-from a conversation i had with @grandtyphoonpoetry breaking down every character in the hunger games.

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Lucy Gray Baird was not a victim. Yes she was used by Snow because he wanted to get famous but she wasn't a victim. She was manipulating him too, right from the start. It's what makes their dynamic so interesting. Lucy gray needed to survive and Snow was how she would accomplish that. She held affection for him yes, but she also charmed him, played him right to the end. She was going to leave with the rebels without him ever knowing and later when that plan went to hell she asked him to run away with her. Why? Why didn't she take the covey with her? Because the covey was too precious and the journey too dangerous. But she couldn't do it herself. So she asked Coryo to follow her. She was manipulating him too, up to the point when she realized how dangerous he was. Because she knew he was a killer but at that moment she also realized how dangerous. She had made him believe he was a good person and maybe she did too a little, convinced by her own lies. But in the end Snow killed his brother and Lucy Gray went to find the katniss that would come later to haunt him.

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Coriolanus snow is capable of love, he is not capable of accepting it. We are constantly reminded by his need of absolute control, possibly stemming from a childhood during which he could control nothing. He couldn't control his surroundings, his safety, his food. His mother died because of lack of order. It could explain why he's so obsessed with it. He has a tendency to control everyone he loves, like thinking about selling Tigris, or continuously saying lucy gray belonged to him. When sejanus decided to betray the Capitol, Snow realized he couldn't control him anymore, and decided to kill him, even though he was fond of him, if not loved him. The mockingjays were such a threat for him because they weren't supposed to exist, yet enjoyed life free of all regulations. He wanted lucy gray attached to him, controlled and subdued. He truly loved her but a glimpse of her free in the wild was enough to send him spiraling. Coryo felt true love but it was such a wild emotion, so impossible to control that he killed it himself.

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So basically Crowley and Aziraphale

new ship dynamic called schrodinger’s divorce where characters are simultaneously bitterly divorced and fondly married for twenty years

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nothing that stimulant medication and a coffee and an energy drink and a bump of coke and a good hard slap in the face and seven years in the harsh wilderness and a hug from a friend and a firm prostate milking and 250mg of MDMA crystals and a top of the line gaming PC and a tall glass of water and a distant memory of summer and piano lessons and four 20mg edibles and a sword that hungers for human blood and a well socialized tuxedo cat and a sushi dinner and a leather jacket and a power nap and a single beautiful rod of depleted uranium and regular estradiol injections and a typewritten sheet of paper bearing the solution to the hard problem of consciousness and nipple clamps and a lobotomy and a gun and another coffee can't fix

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I have to admit, I hate the almond theory, and before all you almond-theory fans come at me, let me explain. Neither Aziraphale nor Crowley are right in this situation for different reasons.

Aziraphale has been struggling with the concept of goodness for about 6000 now. He's an angel, he wants to be good, to do good, and yet he realizes that sometimes heaven's plan isn't actually good. That becomes even more apparent in season 2. Aziraphale admires Crowley, because even if he's a demon, he marches to his own drum, he does whatever he feels is right. Crowley doesn't follow an agenda, he's his own person, and he's good and nice and kind because he chooses so. And Aziraphale finds that extraordinary. Aziraphale was a cherub, a pretty low ranking angel. He never had any real power, he couldn't change anything in heaven. Also I believe he holds archangel Gabriel accountable for everything that went wrong in heaven. He was the authority he came into contact with, so it makes sense. So when he gets offered a powerful position in heaven it's only natural that he wants to fix things. He wants to create a heaven where he and Crowley will be able to live together, to fix everything, to make heaven truly good. He wants to make a better world for Crowley and he genuinely believes he can.

Crowley was traumatized from heaven. He was abandoned for loving his creation too much, for asking a few questions. He thinks Aziraphale clings to his once angelic nature every time he calls him good and it hurts him every time. Crowley doesn't want to get involved anymore. He wants to be his own person with Aziraphale, away from everything. But the thing is, that's not possible. He truly believes they can escape and live their happily ever after. When Aziraphale asks him to go back to heaven with him, he knows Ira because his angel doesn't see him as good enough for him, he hates he's a demon, he wants to fix him. Aziraphale wants him to go back to a truly traumatic situation and it's the ultimate betrayal.

The thing is, both of them are horrible at communicating their feelings, so their intentions get lost in the translation. Aziraphale completely fails to get Crowley to understand why he wants him to go to heaven together and Crowley cannot articulate properly why he doesn't want to, how he knows nothing can change because he himself was a high ranking demon. The thing is they also can't run away. They've attracted the metatrons attention, there is nowhere to escape to.

In conclusion if this two fucking idiots knew how to properly explain their feelings we wouldn't have been so utterly heartbroken with the end of season 2 both of their approaches are wrong because they both fail to take into account the other one's feelings.

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Vampires are human and that's what's terrifying about them. The whole rhetoric that vampires loose their human soul upon their transformation is just a good reason to kill them. And it also does make them seem like absolute monsters, untrustworthy liars, beasts. It offers solace to separate humans from monsters with such an obvious and clear line. But vampires are human in the exact way a human is human. What makes them monsters is that they have no limits and no repercussions for their actions. They're immortal, strong humans that can do as they please without being punished. That's why they're monsters. It's not because they're not human anymore. It's because they're as much human as one can be. They're humans with no limits.

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im the prettiest canary in this mine