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[14chubs]

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

recommending a spotify playlist (made by yours truly) that i listen to whenever i read any weasley twins’ fics. (recommended for fluff reads and some angst, occasionally)

may your reading experience be as magical and heartwarming as fred and george are.

playlist: slow dancing underneath the burning stars

will update every now and then. hope you all enjoy!

[tispyyyyy]

THE CRUEL PALACE (Court Intrigue IF)

Being born into a noble family is a blessing to most. For you, it became a sentence.

When false accusations threaten to destroy your family, you're forced into a dangerous decision: enter the royal palace as a concubine to prove your family's loyalty and protect their name. But life behind palace walls is nothing like the noble life you knew. It’s a world ruled by secrets, schemes, and power plays—where trust is rare, and betrayal is everywhere.

As the child of a respected civil official, your fate was supposed to be different. Now, you're caught in the middle of court politics, royal jealousy, and the lingering scandal left behind by your mother. The only way to survive is to play the game and win.

Will you rise through the ranks and gain the Emperor’s favour? Or will you lose yourself in the cruelty of palace life?

Your choices will decide your future, your family's honour, and the legacy you leave behind.

Key Features:

Play as male or female, and shape how the world sees you—from your looks to your personality.

Make choices that matter—every decision affects your future and your family’s fate.

Explore life in the royal palace, filled with secrets, lies, and unexpected allies.

Build or break relationships with other concubines, servants, nobles, and even the Emperor.

Choose who you trust, and who you love—romance the Emperor, a fellow concubine, a sharp maidservant, or a rising military officer.

Balance duty and desire—stay loyal to your family, or chase your own path to power.

Uncover the truth behind your family's downfall and your mother's scandal.

DEMO Approx 35k words

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[littlemissemeritus]

i hate when people are like “yeah hes hot but hes also evil so i cant like him. 💔” like babe thats literally the best part

[tirajpg]

[to-to-o]

[guardian-of-time-if]

List of Arranged Marriage IFs

So arranged marriage is obviously a centeral theme in Guardian of Time, and a favorite trope of mine, so I thought I was compile a list of other IFs that have arranged marriages in them for you guys to enjoy while in between updates. Also just to give shout outs to other authors in the IF community. (You are all so talented it's intimidating.)

In no particular order (link go to the writer's tumblr):

Sygian Sun: Total Eclipse by @stygiansun-totaleclipse - I just read this one recently, and I love all our siblings.😭

Fields of Asphodel by @chrysanthemumgames - I was always a sucker for Hades and Persephone stories anyway, and this one is exceptionally well done.

Softly, Opulent by @softlyopulent-if - Still relatively early in the IF, but I'm intrigued.

Fate Unwritten by @fateunwritten-if - I took forever deciding which noble house to make my MC from, there were too many good choices.

Bethroned by @barracuda-shark-games - The arranged marriage partner is not romancable in this one, but I thought I'd still include it since the marriage itself is still central to the lot.

My marriage to the Cursed Royal by @the-bed-gremlins-reading-list -Been a while since I read this one, but I remember liking it, the brother especially.

I know there's more, but now that I've set myself to come up with a list, this is all I can think of. 😭(Also is anyone wants to be removed from the list let me know.)

[smetakovec]

saw this meme and immediately thought of him

[cluelessjellyfish]

"Roommates"

[14chubs]

i need ZEKE

[kylekoraki]

pov: y/n entered Hange's room

[mercutiosaruanishop]

Pouty face Hange is so adorable, they look like they are about to stop around in a circle and making a big show of holding their breath until they get their way.

I imagine they agree with the quote. “There's no point being grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes.”

[se-conway]

no outlining, we struggle with the plot halfway through like real men /j

[perfectlyrose]

AU prompts: masterlist of lists

Okay so if you’re anything like me you see those lists of au ideas floating around and you like them but when it comes time to write something and you need an idea you have no idea what you tagged them as or if they’re buried somewhere in your likes so….have a list of some of the ones I’ve come across! This is updated with new lists and fixed links fairly frequently so check back here if you’d like more! 

also: there are a few lists that people have requested that i have not been able to find so if you know of one/write one, please send it to me. my messages/ask/submit are all open. WANTED: expectant parents/parents with newborns aus, historical aus

 (updated on november 6th, 2016) 

(current count: ~163 lists + 39 individual prompts)

themed:

super long list of college aus

more college aus

even more college aus

autumn aus

it’s really cold outside aus

meet-ugly

art school aus

femslash aus

they know each other but don’t know that they know each other aus

awkward first meeting aus

MORE college aus

airport related aus

fake married/dating trope

pub aus (here for halloween season)

royal aus

assassin aus

opposites attract

lots more under the cut, the post was getting unwieldy

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[hanszoe]

hansi's pronouns in translation

sometime around december 2013, editorial presumably released a statement to all publishers concerning how hansi's gender should be translated. we only know about this statement due to the social media manager of kodansha usa at the time twice referencing it. it apparently comprised the following:

"Isayama has … instructed us to avoid gendered pronouns when referring to Hange, or at least to use he AND she with equal frequency".

since this was presumably a statement to all publishers, this would cover all languages the manga was translated into. the existence of this qualification to avoid gendered pronouns or "at least" he and she equally seems to exist to accommodate languages which have grammatical gender. the reported preference was to "avoid gendered pronouns".

english happens to have a neutral gender, however there's a quirk in that when used to refer to people whose identities are known this is not an "ungendered pronoun" and is instead a pronoun refuting binary gender identity. while it is technically neutral, it is still inclusive of nonbinary gender identities and could thus be considered a "gendered pronoun". however this statement would have been translated from japanese, and the word that would have been used is 性別, which means explicitly "a distinction between the two sexes". in the japanese sense, using neutral gender is not gendering them.

so what did isayama intend? how is their gender expressed in the original work? let's look at the first reference to them in third person in original language and the only published english edition that translates this moment in the neutral gender, the second omnibus (ISBN 978-1646513758).

if you'll notice in the english translation "they'll" is bolded and eren responds with some confusion repeating it. the translator decided to emphasize this pronoun for a reason. while in original language it's bolded the second time levi says it, the translator wanted to keep the nuance of it being said the first time and was only able to do so by emphasizing it. it's the same case with the "she" translation, so the bolding is actually not related to gender, it's expressing something else from the original text.

japanese does not have grammatical gender, and third person pronouns are almost always omitted or are "gender neutral" in the sense of them being used to refer to anyone without consideration of gender. the pronoun used here, あいつ, is one such pronoun. the reason why it's bolded in the translation and why eren is reacting with some confusion is that it is rude.

so while i love the idea of hansi using gender neutral pronouns in the original work and of this being an intentional decision from their author, it is unfortunately adding nuance that not only doesn't exist in the original text, it is changing this dialog entirely from something rude to what would be this character firmly establishing and advocating for hansi's gender identity. without ability to obtain further clarification from the author, i would personally translate the use of this pronoun within these restrictions as "that one".

but why did isayama issue this clarification to publishers? what did he intend, if not this? to start i want to address that japanese does unavoidably express gender through language, and that means hansi also uses gendered language.

first, every single first person pronoun is gendered. this is not like english "he" and "she" where use of one absolutely means an individual is male or female, but they provide an understanding of how the speaker views themself in relation to others in context. broadly, japanese uses three main first person pronouns: 私 (female and formal neutral), 僕 (male, casual), and 俺 (male, most casual/rough). these are very broad generalizations, but most of the time we can say that men only use 私 in formal contexts, and use of 僕 or 俺 by adult women (female children may use 僕 without it being seen as strange) is rare to very rare (excluding some dialects), and almost always a statement of queer gender or sexuality.

hansi's first person pronoun is 私, the female/formal neutral one. they never use anything else. this is not explicitly a statement of gender, however it means that they do not use male in-group pronouns in casual groups of men. though it's probably referenced a lot and known by anyone who has interest in this, i've always found this "impossible to translate" dialog in your name a great example of this, as taki should be using male in-group pronouns with his friends, but mitsuha (in his body) used her usual 私 instead.

second is that some grammar is gendered, for example sentence ending particles. likewise these are also not "strictly gendered", but they provide an overall impression of gender identity in context. hansi uses a lot of "male" grammar, however they don't use it all the time, usually when they're upset or excited. otherwise their speech is more neutral. their expression of "gender identity" at least through language is not very binary in this way. of course this does not definitionally make one some gender over another, but hansi's masculine speech was enough to be a deciding factor to a lot of japanese fans in questioning what their gender identity is.

so what does this mean for their pronouns in english? well there are a few sources we can look at to get a better idea of isayama's impression of their gender identity as a character outside of the text (which never "genders them" in the english sense of the term). the first thing i want to bring up is other approved ways of referring to them in third person, and how he himself has referred to them. i've made a list before in what seems to be overall order of preference, but to quickly reiterate, in english the next best thing to using name is using neutral gender, as "he" or "she" are both explicitly gendering, while "they" is not. in english pronouns are unfortunately extremely ubiquitous and hard to avoid, in addition to being required for reflexive case.

most notably to me is isayama himself has gone against his "preferably avoided" rule about gendered pronouns to refer to hansi with 彼または彼女 (“him or her”, or “he or she”). i mentioned above that japanese does not have grammatical gender nor does it require the use of gendered pronouns. consequently, no pronoun exists to indicate unknown gender or to refute one's status as either. if isayama had such a pronoun, i feel like he would use it here to refer to them.

further, i want to emphasize from that same interview 「枠にとらわれない」, meaning that hansi "cannot be confined to a box/framework", that binary gender (like i mentioned before, 性別 in japanese, meaning "a distinction between male or female") is a box, and hansi cannot be put in it. on top of that he has said that if they had a character song it would be like 自分らしく by shinsei kamattechan, which is about not fitting into the gender binary.

so while the original text was not written from the perspective that any of these characters were acknowledging hansi's gender identity, we can infer that hansi prefers not to be gendered as male or female, and that in an speaking english context outside of the text, they/them is the best way to refer to them.

[kirimachi]

Levi & Hange 💚💜

I love them in their vest when they visit Kiyomi's house!

[polkadotzzzz]

want them to approach me n ask if im open minded

[14chubs]

genuinely i appreciate the thirst like i get it, but the fanfiction famine is real with zeke yeager is so real, that i need something aside from smuT Y’ALL PLS

LIKE IK HE EXTRA FINE AND HE REPRESENTS the dilf attraction we’re all trying to suppress but he’s fine asf and that’s ok,….. but i need ROMANCE??? FLUFF??? ANGST???

PLSSSSS END MY SUFFERING PUT AN END TO THIS FAMINE

ps: still also actively looking for hange zoe x reader fics so 🤭🤭🤭 heyyy

[daenyseastar]

idk how ppl still choose younger zeke over full bearded looking DILF grown up zeke

[14chubs]

no for real like why is he so fiNE

[farahauvile]

scout my beloved