Thinking about your retirement fic today 🤍
aww thank you anon! i wish i had more scenes to share, but i think i've posted most/all of what i have written for retirement au, so all i can offer is my gratitude.

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@baiyunli
Thinking about your retirement fic today 🤍
aww thank you anon! i wish i had more scenes to share, but i think i've posted most/all of what i have written for retirement au, so all i can offer is my gratitude.
hi yun! hope you're doing well :) i was wondering if you still have plans to release the farmwife au?? i love your work so much, "maybe it was me who brought you here" is one of my fav fics ever <3
hey anon!!! sorry for the late reply. i've actually been meaning to make a more formal post about this, but i've been active fairly sporadically over the past few months and wanted to say that i'm going to be phasing out of my fandom stuff in the next while. i won't be posting anything on my ao3 and probably won't be around much, if at all, on tumblr going forward for various real-life reasons.
i've put a few scenes of farmwife au under the cut for your enjoyment, because in all likelihood nothing will be getting posted, but thank you for enjoying my writing!!! it's so lovely to hear <3 i hope you like these last offerings of this au!!! if anyone wants to pick up the idea or anything, you're more than welcome to it.
trying to figure out how to say this delicately. i do think that the pwhl is going to make some progress, and already the support for the league is showing how much of a market there is for women's sports even from a few years ago. but it's kind of been irking me to see so many posts that act like there has never been any arena for women's pro hockey before. like do you understand how many people — how many leagues!! — came before this to even make the pwhl a possibility. do you know how many people have fought tooth and nail for women's pro hockey for DECADES. i'm not saying don't support the league, but don't act like it's the perfect solution to a brand new issue
i know i literally just reblogged this but i gotta do so again bc i can't leave this addition from @degrommunism in the tags
heavily biased "what fandom was the first fanfic you read for" but for my specific fandom generation instead of people who are currently teenagers
power leveling shonen juggernauts (g1 naruto, bleach, dragon ball, etc)
weeaboo crew (anything that made you more of a weeb than watching dragon ball)
harry potter
superwholock
cult classic live action american tv (buffy, xfiles, star trek, etc)
homestuck
boy band rpf (anything in the span from backstreet boys to one direction)
emo bandom (mcr, fob, p!atd, of course, along with anything else in that realm)
twilight (books or movies)
lord of the rings (books or movies or extended universe)
star wars (books or movies or extended universe)
other (put it in the TAGS i am a fandom HISTORIAN i need to KNOW)
addendums: cult classic tv overlaps with early supernatural seasons somewhat, i am aware, just choose based on the cultural context in which you read your first fic.
for weeaboo crew i was thinking of examples like hetalia, black butler, soul eater, etc--popular anime absolutely included but the distinction is that people who were into dragon ball weren't necessarily going to anime club every week and making deviantart stamps about yaoi, but people into ouran high school host club ABSOLUTELY were.
homestuck is in its own category because homestuck changed fandom forever at a critical time which just happened to be when i was growing up in fandom. harry potter, lotr, star wars, and twilight are in their own categories because they were such multimedia juggernauts they had entire archives dedicated solely and only to their fic that spanned multiple franchise reboots (books -> movies -> extended universes). (i acknowledge star trek technically would fit under this but at the time culturally it had more overlap with other cult classic tv fandoms.)
honorable mentions that didn't make it to the list because i had to pick-and-choose with the 12 answer limit: the final fantasy franchise (axed because i am not familiar enough with the fic scene to know if it was as iconic of a gateway drug as, like, naruto or twilight or star wars fic), a general YA lit category (YA lit outside of twilight only went mainstream slightly after this time period), the MCU (i have a hate boner for the MCU), a broader "american superhero comics" category (this would be valid as an option but i don't have the space)
november 7, 2021 | van vs dal
what is with the crazy amount of rpf propaganda that showed up all of a sudden. Not falling for that. Pretty gross!
#why is this nearly phrased like a trump tweet (via @sprucewoodmpreg)
important question here: how many kids do we think nick and jack will be having? 3 boys? 🙇🏻♀️
i think they would both decide that three is the perfect amount! lil and i have discussed this many times and figured out that they would at least have an eldest daughter, mostly for our selfish agenda re: nico being a girldad (and lil's current fic project) and then maybe a son and another daughter! but honestly i think it could go either way - i love the idea of them being SO committed to parenting but in totally different ways. like, nico would be buying them cute lunchboxes while jack would be trying to clean up their skating edgework by the tender age of three.
njd@wsh | 03.01.23
take my rpf quiz boy
knee deep in the passenger seat
Jack/Nico, 3.9k
a little toxic friends with benefits for the New Year!
Extract from Refaat Alareer's course on English poetry in 2019:
"Of course we always fall into this trap of saying, 'she [Fadwa Tuqan] was arrested for just writing poetry!' We do this a lot, even us believers in literature. [We say] 'Why would Israel arrest somebody or put someone under house arrest, she only wrote a poem?' So we contradict ourselves sometimes; we believe in the power of literature changing lives, as a means of resistance, as a means of fighting back, and then at the end of the day, we say 'She just wrote a poem!' We shouldn't be saying that. Moshe Dayan, an Israeli general, said that 'The poems of Fadwa Tuqan are like facing 20 enemy fighters.' Wow. She didn't throw stones, she didn't shoot at the invading Israeli jeeps, she just wrote poetry. And I'm falling for that again—I said she just wrote poetry.
And the same thing happened to Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour. She wrote poetry, celebrating Palestinians' struggle, encouraging Palestinians to resist, not to give up, to fight back— She was put under house arrest, she was put into prison for years. And therefore, I end here, with a very significant point: Don't forget that Palestine was first and foremost occupied in Zionist literature and Zionist poetry.
When the Zionists thought of going back to Palestine, it wasn't like 'Oh, let's go to Palestine.' It took them years, over 50 years of thinking, of planning, politics, money and everything else. But literature played one of the most crucial roles here.
Palestine in Zionist Jewish literature was presented to Jewish people around the world... [as] Palestine is a land without a people for a people without a land. Palestine flows with milk and honey. There is no one there—so let's go. [but] there were people—there have always been people in Palestine. But this is an example of how poetry can be a very significant part of life." [13:05-14:40]
credits to @/protosemite on X for the transcription.
Prof Refaat Alareer was killed by an israeli airstrike that targeted his house 2 days ago.
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@bryson_stott10 via Instagram Stories (December 28, 2023)
Back in the 1800s you could just show up to a town and be like “I’m a wealthy prince” or “I’m a doctor” and no one checked if you were lying. I was born in the wrong time because in that madness I would thrive
Arundhati Roy, ‘Our country has lost its moral compass’