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The Virtual Manor of Alfred - Fandoms include BNHA, Star Wars, & Tower of Fantasy. Proship! AO3 SFW: https://archiveofourown.org/users/OfOtherWorlds

[pangur-and-grim]

I think some of the loneliness of autism is that you feel like you hurt people just by Interacting Wrong, but you don’t know how to Interact Right, and the more effort you put into it, the more exhausted you are and the more artificial it comes across (with the end result of people still being upset with you). and it’s not anyone’s fault for not liking Being Interacted With Wrong, and it’s not your fault for doing it so wrong, but it is very, very lonely.

[pangur-and-grim]

anyway, every single book I write ever is going to secretly be about autism

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[adreeps]

Padawan Luke and Leia AU 👼🏼👼🏻

Friendly reminder, I have opened a new Patreon (just in case you want to support me and my art) 👀 -> Link in bio

[lannamichaels]

"And Though The Static Walls Surround Me." (Vorkosigan Saga) G

Title: And Though The Static Walls Surround Me. Author:lannamichaels Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga Series: Part 11 of Are You Out There, Can You Hear This? Rating: G A/N: The title is from Are You Out There by Dar Williams. Archives:Archive Of Our Own, SquidgeWorld

Summary: Miles is hanging out with mercenaries. Gregor has a headache and would rather be listening to the radio. Or: Warrior's Apprentice in radioverse.

[maykendehoutman]

I Know What Kind of Love This Is

Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga

Rating: M (for language, discussions of sexual subjects, drug/alcohol references, mild dub con)

Words: 956

Summary: Ges and Aral make a little list. Or: a really unprofessional chat over the Barrayaran version of an instant messenger system while on duty. Because Aral was dumb like that and Ges was, well, Ges.

“I know what kind of love this is After all, I was there when we made it.”

“I Know What Kind of Love This Is” Dar Williams

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[nasa]

Welcome to the Far Side of the Moon

A crescent Earth sets behind the Moon.

On April 6, 2026, the Artemis II astronauts flew around the Moon, observing the far side – which we never see on Earth thanks to tidal locking – with their own eyes and with cameras.

See more of the Moon:

A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon’s horizon.

Earth setting behind the Moon as seen by the Artemis II crew. Over half the left side of the image is filled by the gray lunar surface, pocked with craters.

A close view of the Moon. Jagged circles of craters dot the gray surface, fading to dark on the left side of the image.

A close view of the edge of the Moon. Jagged circles of craters dot the dark gray lunar surface, which arcs across the image.

A close-up view of the Moon, filling most of the frame. Along the left side of the image, the terminator divides the illuminated and darkened sides of the Moon.

A close-up view of the Moon, filling most of the frame. Along the left side of the image, the terminator divides the illuminated and darkened sides of the Moon.

Earth just as it set behind the Moon, as seen by the Artemis II crew. The dark gray surface of the Moon, pocked with craters, arcs from the bottom left corner of the image to the top right.

Check out more photos from the lunar flyby, including astronaut selfies and the solar eclipse only they experienced.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space!

[starboy-with-a-gun]

Let’s go to the beach -each, let’s go get away.

It’s summer time in Australia so have some summer fits. Made bases so now I can make as many outfits designs as I want hehe. I could totally explore and give Tord a gyaruo kinda vibe.

[norflameplaguextuonelascassa]

SO GUYS… i remember how much i love palpaplaguies some years ago (IT’S ALMOST TEN YEARS?? OH SHI-)

I WISH I HAVE SOMEONE TO DISCUSS THEM…. I DEMAND NEW IDEAS TO DRAW

[ilonga]

In Sacrifice, Peace

new star wars fic! it’s the Anakin-dies-in-the-Temple-Au I posted a snippet of earlier. thanks @primeemeraldheiress for the title suggestion!

summary:

“Shh…” Anakin says, gathering the younglings around him, reminding Obi-wan of all those whispered arguments where he had insisted to Anakin that yes, he was good with children, he’d be just fine teaching Ahsoka. He can almost feel the terror rising off Anakin from the hologram; Anakin doesn’t know what’s happening either. But he isn’t letting the younglings feel it. “You need to listen to me very carefully, okay? This–” his voice breaks, “–this is going to be scary. But you have to be calm, and strong. Just like Master Yoda taught you.”

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Or, the ROTS au where Obi-wan finds a very different type of pain while looking through the Temple’s recordings of Order 66.

ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/26304412

[azenshelby]

I read A Vader Family Sithmas. I want more. No matter how much I read, I never get tired of Lord Vader’s parenting stories.

btw, how old is Anakin in this series?

[bebx]

[pangur-and-grim]

Do you have any writing experience (as in, previous books or even fanfic) or did you one day decide to write the Sir Cameron book and suddenly became an author?

(What I'm trying to say is, has your writing talent been lying dormant this whole time or was it just your first *professionally published* book?)

oh boy!

so when I was a kid, my favourite author was Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. she wrote her first professional novel at 14, and my thinking was, I needed to do that, because if my fourteenth birthday passed and I hadn't published a book, I'd be an irredeemable failure.

anyway. many years later, after many horrible unfinished novels, and many horrible short stories, and shelves full of books like YOUR FIRST DRAFT and 50 FIRST PAGES, I finally finished a manuscript. and managed to sell it!

I get how from an outside perspective it looks like I just wrote a book on a whim, but in actuality I am standing on a mountain of my own failures. it's just that the heap finally got tall enough for me to actually get anywhere

[emperorwhoemperorstheworld]

Everyone say Thank you Ao3 volunteer, we appreciate your work. Do it Right Now

[cutebutalsostabby]

Thank you AO3 volunteers I appreciate your work

[cricketcat9]

☝️❤️

[alfredsmanor]

I really want to write a work where the main villain partakes of many heroic tropes and the hero partakes of villainous ones.

The Necromancer is good looking, and as skilled with a sword as he is with his magic. He’s a simple farmboy who was orphaned by a plague. He’s also the rightful king, his father was the Rightful Prince who escaped The Userper and took refuge in the countryside. He has the requisite magic sword. He’s charismatic enough to recruit a huge legion of the living as well as the undead. He’s a hit with the ladies, and the men too. But he’s always a perfect gentleman. He eventually marries the Princess, the daughter of the Usurper whose father shut her up in a tower, claiming that she was insane.

The only problem is that he hates all of humanity and intends to kill everyone with a magical plague and rule forever over a realm of the undead. The Princess was shut up in her tower because she’s actually insane and evil.

Opposing him is the elderly Usurper and his fat, spoiled, lazy and annoying son The Conjurer Prince. They’re both awful people, though deep down they do have a sense of responsibility for the kingdom. The Usurper is a coldly manipulative overlord who doesn’t think twice about ordering assassinations, torture, and repression. He thinks that he’s doing it for the Greater Good. The Conjurer Prince is interested in magical research, but more interested in gluttony and drunkenness. He’s lazy and spills food and drink on himself. He surrounds himself with floozies, he’s homophobic and sexist, though he will get better about that over the course of the story. He’ll end up as being a jerk to everyone. But he’s the one who has to end up saving the day. Even as he does so, he’s a weasel that tries his best to get other people to do all of the hard work. He’s a coward who abandons his friends, again at least at first. But he’ll always be willing to preserve his own hide at someone else’s expense. He’ll eventually realize that the Necromancer will never stop hunting him and the only way to save himself is to Win.

It might be interesting to write a trilogy where the first book looks like a conventional Hero’s Journey at the beginning and only outright reveals that the protagonist is the villain of the series after his victory at the end. Possibly the final confirmation is when the Princess suggests to the Necromancer that they should celebrate their wedding by having the entire population of the capital city impaled. He agrees, then reanimates them as zombies that spread his magical plague. That might be too OTT, I’ll figure it out.

Then the POV shifts to the Conjurer Prince for the next two books.

[azenshelby]

Happy holidays 🎄🌟🎁

[alfredsmanor]

🎄⭐️ The Emperor, Lord Vader, and Prince and Princess Luke and Leia Amidala-Naberrie would like to wish all their loyal Imperial subjects a very merry Life Day! ⭐️🎄

[t0ast-ghost]

Can’t explain it but they’re really cunty in this photo

[anghraine]

I love that this simultaneously looks like a 90s girl band album cover and each of them is cunty in their own completely distinct way. It's like

Bones: I fucking hate space, I hate it so much, why am I here, why did I think friendship was a good idea and necessary part of life, they NEVER LISTEN and I'm going to have to fix whatever goes horrifically wrong THIS time

Spock: if it were possible for I, a Vulcan, to love anything, I would love loping around expanding the boundaries of knowledge and the security of knowing I can kick the ass of anything that might threaten my dearest friend and beloved, but as it is, I will derive profound satisfaction from observing unfamiliar data at Jim's side, formulating and testing substantively-supported hypotheses, and following his tactically superior orders while occasionally insulting the doctor

Kirk: ooh NEW PLACE new rocks NEW FLOWERS MAYBE new runways to swish down if you have the vision. which I do. everywhere I go

[bananonbinary]

weird take about fiction: sometimes, actions that would be abusive in real life, hit different in a story. and sometimes i see people react very very strongly to those actions, and i totally get it, because like, that can be extremely triggering and ymmv on whether its handled well or not, but it always makes me a bit. hm.

like, i think the most obvious one is slapping/hitting. in real life, there is basically no situation where that is acceptable, unless you're actively defending yourself/someone else. but fiction is inherently larger than life, its about how it feels, subjectively, over what actually happens, literally. sometimes a character who has never before been violent will hit someone, and it's intended as like, an indicator of how fucked up everything is. that shit is going down. or, a character will trash a room, throwing things and destroying everything in their path. and then its never mentioned again, everything just continues as if they HADNT destroyed their own and other people's property in a frankly terrifying display, because it was just a cathartic moment to represent the storm of emotions the person was feeling. and when i see people like 'this character is an abuser, the story needs to address this,' i think maybe its actually okay for fictional characters to do shitty things and not have it framed as shitty, by the story itself or even on any sort of meta level, with the intended audience reaction. sometimes the point is just to resonate with your emotions, not to dissect the literal sequence of events.

[bananonbinary]

like obviously ive been on the 'you can portray whatever you want in fiction, its all a pretend game' train forever. but i think the important thing to me here is that, you can also defend bad things in fiction. not just 'they did everything wrong and i love that,' but even 'they were 100% justified when they did [thing that would be extremely bad irl].' cause its like, ok, they did do that, but like it was the only way to tell the story well. dont worry about it.

[mikkeneko]

related but tangential, about villains.

by now i've been through a lot of fandoms, seen a lot of different kinds of villains, and met a lot of fans of villain characters. and one theme that seems to surface over and over again, is that the stories and arcs of villain characters provide a very specific fantasy of... hm...

Of your pain matters. Yes, it does. Even if it was overlooked at the time, even if the cops didn't care or your friends excused it, what you felt in that painful moment matters. The villain's big plan is a way of reflecting that pain back on the world. Making everybody look at it and share in it and say yes, this was awful, this should never have happened to you, in a way that nobody can overlook and dismiss.

and in real life, obviously, someone deciding to blow up the moon because their relationship melted down or wife died and now they'll never look at the moon with her again would be Bad. Duh. But it's a story and it's fucking fine because it's not the real moon, so for a moment you can go yes, that's right, I want everyone in the world to feel this grief with me tonight.