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applecrumbledore on AO3. main: rontology

[applecrumbledore]

roni ✍️ they/them. applecrumbledore on AO3

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[applecrumbledore]

please watch half man and then write fanfic for it. the finale aired thursday and im so frustrated that there isnt enough fic yet. calling all dead dove authors!!!! alert your fic writing friends too!!!! i really need someone on this tbh!!!!!!

aha yes I have seen half man. it was incredible. I won't be writing fic for it though because I cannot think of a way to improve on what happened in the show. that last scene was more intimate than penetrative sex and nothing could be more narratively fascinating than compulsively swallowing pen caps you've chewed on because you're worried your stepbrother, who is in prison, will find a way to frame you for a crime using the dna from your chewed pen caps. nothing could sound better than "it's the only thing I've ever felt."

for me, and many, fic comes from a place of wanting to explore or fill gaps in canon, and I did not find any gaps in half man. like yeah they could fuck, but I love what the show says about sex being easy and cheap and thoughtless, and love, obsession, compulsion, idolatry and fear being this scorchingly intimate, towering thing that makes sexual attraction feel small. this isn't to shame you ofc, I hope you find the fic you're looking for.

[yaoist]

there was this discussion about reader added content warnings on ao3 the other day and while a lot of people pointed out that would be a disaster for harassment i think it’s also very bad form, i know i would never want to host my writing on a site that allows crowdsourced metanarrative in the same place that i present my fic as i wish to

[yaoist]

context added by the conversation around media is i think very relevant and a boon to the discussion that is creating art but writers should be able to present their creation in the way that they wish to when they present it. other people can of course put it into a different context but there should at least be an initial place where the author presents it unmolested

[applecrumbledore]

if there was ever a true Hand In Unlovable Hand, it is Richard gadd's half man (2026)

[jonmoxleys]

I feel it everywhere. It sort of runs through me in a way. It's like… dangerous. It is the best and the worst thing all at once. It's like the only thing. It's the only thing I've ever felt. It's like I'm fucking… high off of you or something. Chemically dependent. I don't know.

HALF MAN 1.06

[firstprinced]

It's like... dangerous. It is the best, and the worst thing all at once. It's like the only thing. It's the only thing I've ever felt. ⇒ Half Man 1.06

[ruffaloon]

hilson - feels like we only go backwards ⏪️

[inter-state80]

that said i do think incest between brothers is romantic with a capital R as in it’s intense and sublime and beyond most conceptions of human connection

[inter-state80]

like this

[willgrahamscock]

how are you gonna be 31 and posting fandom content bro leave it to the teenagers

People 10 and 20 years older than me are writing your favorite fanfics, and drawing your favorite characters. You'd have no fandom without the people you think are 'too old' to have hobbies.

[valarrs-targaryen]

BERTIE CARVEL as BAELOR BREAKSPEAR and PETER CLAFFEY as SER DUNCAN THE TALL A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS // 1.02 Hard Salt Beef

[applecrumbledore]

I think about these tags a LOT @takiki16

[applecrumbledore]

ok it's finally happened: I'm tired of the sound of my own voice. I have a few more directors commentary asks in the hopper and I'll leave them there for when I inevitably would like to do them. thank you all for listening while it lasted, I hope it wasn't too annoying. love and light.

[help-me-yes]

yes... ha ha ha... yes!

[deansnotstraight]

I say this wholeheartedly and without ironic intent. I hope supernatural continues to have drama for the next 10 years at least. I hope that in 2033 i can once again text my best friend saying "something is happening in supernatural" for the 5 millionth time.

[palmviolet]

savage gift — A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV)

'The hedge knight lives, so I hear. Licking his wounds and pacing up and down outside the castle wall all hours. Your latest loyal dog.'

// Prince Baelor survives the blow at Ashford Meadow, but not without consequences. The seasons begin to turn.

Chapter 12: SPRING 210 A.C. (II)

And then Dunk was imagining it: himself ahorse — it would be Thunder, for tourney, bred tall and strong for that purpose — riding up the lists for the king's approval, armoured and outfitted in the king's colours. The king watching down from the royal box, resplendent, crowned. Eyes the same as always. And the twice-broken nose, proof, such as it was, that he wasn't only up there; he was down here too. He could be touched.

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[applecrumbledore]

I have been absolutely devouring this. like and subscribe

[juiche]

I love treating my blorbos like dress up ken and barbie dolls 😌🎀

[applecrumbledore]

Hi! Do you have any good book recommendations you'd like to share?

GOOD book recommendations? you're asking too much (kidding). I'll rattle off some faves off the top of my head but I'm not really going to give a synopsis because no synopsis sounds good.

American psycho by Brett Easton Ellis. I cannot believe how funny and great this book was. the movie is good but loses a LOT of the odd manic humour of the book. I didn't expect it to be funny. haven't read any of Ellis's other stuff yet but I've got a few in the hopper.

I've spent the last year(s) reading [checks watch] 10 of Robin Hobb's books, the farseer books or the elderlings or whatever you want to call them, starting with Assassin's Apprentice. a very cool world, very whole characters that fuck up and live and age and you get very attached to them. it's about... the bastard son of a prince who gets raised to be an assassin I guess. barry read them first and now a friend is reading them too and we call it being hobbled (like Robin hobb) when you can't put one of her books down. here's a photo Barry took of me while I was hobbled. I spent hours reading like this because it was so intense.

read Ubik by Phillip k dick recently, really enjoyed that. great short punchy sci fi as one expects from PKD.

a fire upon the deep by vernor vinge is an absolute classic and one I think about very very often even though I read it years ago. it's got.. aliens. war. big scale but also character driven.

the name of the wind by patrick rothfuss, and its sequel, is so good I want to reread them. be warned: there's a 3rd book "due" that he will never write. but I named my cat after a character in this so that's something. great "garbage shitboy wizard who becomes grizzled and regretful" stuff, not unlike the farseer books and also the OG, Ursula le guin's Earthsea series (also a high recommend)

The left hand of darkness by Ursula le guin is probably one of the best books ever written, while I'm at it. also due for a re read. or anything of hers, you can't go wrong.

ok that's all I can think of and I have to go to work. best of luck.

EDIT oh my god I forgot hyperion by Dan Simmons. THAT is one of the best books ever written.

I also have a goodreads where you can see what I'm reading but I haven't added every book I've ever read nor do I write good reviews, just like, a log going forward

[wulfhalls]

―      Euripides,         Medea