Beyond B. Linus

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗠𝗲: ♀️ | 🇩🇪 | library assistant 📚 | ff author ✍🏻 | cover designer 🎨 | infj | Benjamin Linus Fangirl 🤭

[redfar]

porn :D

[storywriter12]

Omg look at that cute tummy 😍

He looks so cuddly

[its-michael-emerson]

Ben Linus’ tunic appreciation post.

[3.05 “The Cost of Living”]

[gifsontherun]

Michael Emerson | Lost - Outside the Box

[writingdose]

me: I should write

also me: let me play the scene in my head and fantasize about writing it instead

[writingdose]

being a writer means there are times where you don’t write anything for a week or so, and then there are times where you write 10,000 words in one day

[writingdose]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[oldcoyote]

if you ever doubt that your ao3 comments matter or mean something: i have been struggling with my writing for 6 months straight, crying myself to sleep afraid that i will never be able to write again, that the thing i love most in the world has left me, that my writing is just gone

this morning i got this comment:

and after i stopped blubbering over it, i picked up my writing notebook, and re-read all my fic research, and opened up my document again for the first time in weeks without being afraid of it

you have no idea how much writers treasure every single comment we get. you have no idea how big an impact you can have. sometimes, just sometimes, your one "insignificant" comment changes everything

[apicturewithasmile]

“In their defense, I’m not an easy person to trust.”

[slashfuhrer]

Sextape by Deftones started playing in my headphones pretty much at the exact moment I saw this post

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[darkwing-katy]

I don’t know why but the mental picture of Ben Linus with Harold Finch on one shoulder and Leland Townsend on the other is sending me. Like picture the whole “good angel, bad angel” schtick (post-finale for him so he actually has to wrestle a bit with being the old murder-happy manipulator Ben). I dunno, man. LOST predates both PoI and Evil but this is still so funny to me.

[amazonykamiaba]

[apcqlypse]

god i wish ao3 had in-line comments sometimes that's like the only thing i miss about wattpad </3 when something crazy would happen and there would be like 7k comments all in despair... it really established a sense of community

[overthinkingao3]

We write for ourselves, but we post for others.

(this came out of a conversation in the comments on a previous post about an author threatening to stop updating a fic because of lack of engagement)

So there’s this idea that fic writers should write for themselves and not care too much about stats or engagement,

and i totally get the sentiment behind that. if writing becomes entirely about stats and external validation, something important does get lost - creative freedom and joy, conviction in your own writing

but i also think:

“i write for myself, but i post for others.”

because posting fic is not only self-expression. it’s social. ao3 is called an archive, but emotionally it often functions as a community space.

people post for connection, for participation, for others to bear witness to their pain and trauma and grief,

and i don’t think most people are asking to be admired so much as acknowledged. there’s something deeply human about wanting another person to encounter something that mattered to you and go:

“ok, yeah, I see what you were trying to say. I see you.”

especially because fanfic is often people processing very real feelings through fictional characters at a safe distance, one step removed,

and then uploading that deeply personal thing into a shared archive and hoping somebody else might connect with it.

And i think that’s why it hurts so much when you summon up the courage and post a fic into the void and you get nothing back,

and then it’s like,

does anyone see me? does anyone even care?

[daily-daydream]

Non-spicy ways to show Intimacy

Intimacy isn't always just the spicy stuff! Here's a few ways to show it through your characters in a few, simple ways...

Kissing their S/O's hand, knuckles, wrist...bonus points for eye contact!

Speaking of which...eyes. Glances across the room, prolonged eye contact, staring at each other

Tending to the other's wounds/ injuries

Knowing the other's tiny habits

Reaching out to the other when in pain, trouble, ect

Whispering jokes to each other

Carefully wiping off a stain from their clothes or face

Taking care of each other when sick or hurt

Hand over the heart/ ear over the heart just to hear it beat

Pressing their thumb over the pulse point for the same thing

Tracing scars, tattoos, birth marks, freckles

Giving the other something tiny that means a lot, a picture, a shiny rock, a flower

In fantasy settings, helping the other put on/ take off armor...trusting the other to know where daggers, knives, poisons are hidden

Telling each other secrets/ thoughts they've told nobody before

Tucking back the other's hair

Putting a piece of jewelry on the other or letting them borrow clothes

Keeping each other warm in the cold

In cases with chronic illness, letting the other care for/ know symptoms

Brushing, braiding hair, applying skincare, etc.

Nightmare comfort

Wiping away tears

Proximity- sitting near each other, sticking close, standing beside each other while doing a task such as cooking, laundry, painting...

Sharing a book, sitting close enough to read it together

[emmynominees]

michael emerson as ben linus in season four of lost

primetime emmy award nominee for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series

[unheard-frequencies]