ginvael

i multiship and reblog pretty things. 18+

[rionni]

Viego, wip🫣

[frownyalfred]

I know I’m just an old man yelling at clouds and I’m always complaining about the ao3 subreddit, but for the last two weeks or so, r/ao3 has become inundated with “which fic was the worst read for you? explain below” and “what popular fic did you just not like and why” posts, and as a result, folks are in the comments literally linking to ao3 fics and authors they hate and writing paragraphs about why they hated their fic.

Fandom is not banding together publicly to talk about what we hate (other than canon) and it’s definitely not tagging the fic/author so other people can read the “dogshit” (real quote btw) and hate on it too.

If you’re a new fan, that’s not normal. It’s not normal at all.

[chelireads]

And when he faded—he faded into his sweetest memory, into her

[mjalti]

why did God give me these battles (getting dressed and leaving the house)

[sisyphusmile]

She reached for the pomegranate seed

knowingly, irreversibly.

Commission art credit to 觥無渡

[stealingpotatoes]

i hauve a cold

[stealingpotatoes]

[stealingpotatoes]

[stealingpotatoes]

happy anniversary to the funniest i have ever been in my life and happy one year of Lady Normalgirl and Her Eunuch!

[creekfiend]

people talk about how we need to bring back "don't feed the trolls" rhetoric for modern internet ragebait and I agree but also I think the most useful thing from the Old Internet that I miss is LURKING

be a lurker. just read things and think about them without feeling the need to weigh in or call out or disseminate everything you encounter. it's so nice and so freeing and it's a good way to learn things.

I have frequently regretted getting involved in shit that didn't involve me online but you know what I've never regretted doing? Lurking. literally lurk moar

[witchyhagz]

Vampire Rhaegar & Elia

collab with jujutsukun 𐙚

──done by @adelikashere

[april]

ⓘ Tip If you feel unfulfilled by how you spent your time today, you can stay up late to try to combat the sense of dissatisfaction. This will ensure that you feel even worse tomorrow.

[despazito]

[phantomrose96]

*sends out email I've been putting off* ah finally :). ah that's a weight off my shoulders :). ah I can relax an-- *receives response to email* what the fuck. what the fuck. what the fuckkkk

[thelioncourts]

[yellow-cat]

remember to be scared all day so youre not caught off guard when it happens

[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.

[cryptotheism]

I've found that the more expertise someone has in their particular historical subfield, the more grace they display in the face of bad history. I think the desire to behave like Bill Maher stems from insecurity. I'm speaking from experience on both sides of that dynamic.

[cryptotheism]

Theres a kind of performative incredulity that happens when you're insecure about your own knowledge. You see a take you kind of understand, but one that reveals some embarrassing conceptual gap. Like, "I don't know what this post is saying, therefore it must be dumb and gay." And then you get pissed off at the version of the post that exists in your mind. It's a great way to spend your time on line and grow your epic brain.

[cryptotheism]

This happens a lot on Tumblr where like, any conversation on history here will get comments from post doctorate level shit posters and college freshman that barely know how to read. Very easy to think you're epicly dunking on a hobbyist, when you're actually just saying embarrassing mean shit to like, the worlds leading scholar on medieval medical technology that just happens to be shit posting on Tumblr.

[ladysjazz]

Cersei & toddler Myrcella.

[bonesbeetle]

my thrall told me it wanted to be more independent so i imprisoned its soul in a necklace. how's that for in de pendant you little shit