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Carried Home
the first of two non-finale compliant The Adventure Zone fics I wrote in a mad dash before that episode dropped, so spoilers up through all of Story & Song and all that. shout out to my good friend who gave me the initial idea for this!
Carried Home (side Barry/Lup)
Years ago, Lup had sworn off ever having children.
you can also read it here on AO3!Ā
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Blaze of Glory
the second of two non-finale compliant The Adventure Zone fics I wrote in a mad dash before that episode dropped, so spoilers up through all of Story & Song and all that. shout out to my friends who came up with this ridiculous, yet so in character, fic idea. parts got a little more angsty than I intended but Iām real good at that oops.Ā
content warning for stuff like drug use, murder, and everyone being completely unashamed about such things. listen. itās ya boys. do you expect anything less??
Blaze of Glory (side Barry/Lup, please check those tags)
One last mission for a dear friend who canāt do it himself, a plate of special macarons, and absolutely no dogs on the moon.
you can also read it here on AO3!
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PSA
hey guys! havenāt been around much this summer for a variety of reasons; first, so much cat sitting. second, the family house apparently is just full of so much bad history that getting anything done while here is impossible. loving that mental block. thirdly, Iāve done way better just. not being on here. so much (way too much) of fandom is just so toxic and shitty and honestly? I donāt need that in my life.
Iāll still be posting fics up on @giraffles and reblogging them here, and of course on AO3. nothing has been abandoned! just put on hold while I ride the summer out. :> thanks for all your support!
you can catch me on Twitter @ kawaiiaggron if you still want occasional dumb updates or need to message me. you can also message me for my discord if youād like.
anyway thanks for listening fam š
adding an update that I'm finally, FINALLY back in my actual home. which is a distracting disaster that needs to be cleaned but I'm hooommmeee!!
so maybe writing will be a thing again real soon, though I have things like weekly DMing and nanowrimo coming up-- but we'll see how it goes with fic stuff too. :> again all the info up there is relevant and open to all, and I'm gonna go post some belated TAZ things before nyooming off tumblr again byeeee
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CARI!!! @cariisms
iām super thrilled to gift to you this absolutely amazing drawing based on your fic hurricane, which was done by the amazingly talented and awesome @bergzerk. seriously, everyone go check him out and possibly even commission him because as you can see, he kicks serious ass. a million thanks again! ā„
speaking of being amazing - cari, youāre legit one of the most amazing people i know. youāre so enthusiastic and passionate and kind, your light touches everyone you interact with, and iām honored to get to be someone who can bask in it. i love you so much and i hope i can tell you in person soon!! the Best of Baes ā„
enjoy the pancake son!!!
/UNHOLY RAPTOR SHREIKS OF CONFUSION AND JOY
PSA
hey guys! haven't been around much this summer for a variety of reasons; first, so much cat sitting. second, the family house apparently is just full of so much bad history that getting anything done while here is impossible. loving that mental block. thirdly, I've done way better just. not being on here. so much (way too much) of fandom is just so toxic and shitty and honestly? I don't need that in my life. I'll still be posting fics up on @giraffles and reblogging them here, and of course on AO3. nothing has been abandoned! just put on hold while I ride the summer out. :> thanks for all your support! you can catch me on Twitter @ kawaiiaggron if you still want occasional dumb updates or need to message me. you can also message me for my discord if you'd like. anyway thanks for listening fam š
This post is going to be a mess of jumbled thoughts but Iām feeling saltyā¦
If you are anti-Otayuri and have ever once uttered something along the lines ofĀ ā18 year olds are adults, minors (everyone 17 and younger) are children; ships between adults and minors are ALWAYS wrong,āā¦
ā¦and now with the reveal that Keith is 18, youāre likeĀ āuM WELL heās barely an adult, so it doesnāt count and Klance is okayāā¦
ā¦and if you have ādonāt follow me if you support adult/minor shipsā on your byf pages and still ship Klance after now knowing that Keith is an 18 year old adultā¦
ā¦ then you are a Grade-A Hypocrite.
You canāt pick and choose when a ship is okay and when itās not.Ā
Why is 18 year old Keith still a teenager, okay to be shipped with 17 year old Lance? But 18 year old Otabek is a grown-ass adult, who cannot be ship with 16 year old Yurio because itās āpedophiliaā?Ā
(spoiler alert: itās not pedophilia, neither ship is, but thatās another rant for another post)
And donāt pull theĀ āOtayuri has a bigger age gap than Klanceā crap on me. I see some of yāall donāt ship LeoJi as well. Yāall may not be outright anti-LeoJi, but Iāve seen many of yāall sayĀ āitāsĀ āiffyā to me because of the age gap.ā Freakin LeoJi, who are 17 and 19, who, when you look at their birthdays, have a 1 year and like 5 months age difference. Yāall say itās iffy because Leo is a grown ass 19 year old and Guang Hong is still a literal child of 17. Okay, sure.
I also wanna call out anti-Otayuri people who ship Sara and Mila (because there are a lot of you, I see you). Saraās 22 and Mila is 18, just keep that in mind.Ā
Now with the new age reveal for VLD, shippers are saying that, by your own anti logic, that Sheith is fine because Keith is 18, heās an adult, itās totally fine for him to date another adult like Shiro, right? And youāre turning it around sayingĀ āoh but itās still creepy for a 25 year old to date an 18 year old because 18 year olds are still teenagers!!āĀ
Why is it okay to ship 18 year old Mila with a 20-something-year-old, but not okay to ship 18 year old Keith with a 20-something-year-old? Hm?
None of these ships are wrong. None of these ships are gross. None of these ships are pedophlia because none of these characters are pre-pubescent.Ā
You donāt like Otayuri or Sheith because the age gap make you uncomfy? Cool, thatās fine. But stop harassing shippers and calling them pedophile apologists.
Iām just pointing out your hypocrisy by using your own anti logic on ships that you do like/ship, such as Klance and Sara/Mila.Ā Ā
Ā You donāt like certain ships (Otayuri and Sheith), so you had to make up some BS reasons to vilify the ships you hated. Then when we shippers use that exact same logic on you, youāre doing these mental gymnastics to make your ship Safe and Okay, but the Gross Ships and still Gross somehow for some reason.Ā
Do you antis not see your own hypocrisy? Your lack of self-awareness is astounding, I gotta say.
Donāt like your own medicine? Maybe you should think long and hard about all the times you have harassed and bullied Otayuri and Sheith/Shaladin shippers, telling them to choke or rot in hell or kill themselves, accusing them of pedophilia, etc, the list of your crap goes on and on.Ā
Harassed real life people. And all for what? Fictional ships? Ships from an anime and a cartoon. Get a grip, people.Ā
Abled Person: Hey man, can you hold this wad of $2,000 and this one penny for me while I open my wallet?
Disabled Person: YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER FOOL!
The United States Government:
(Watch how many people donāt get this.)
#raises handĀ #i dont understandĀ #please explain?Ā
In order for disabled people to receive any sort of financial assistant for their housing, food, bills, medical supplies, etc., they cannot ever have more than $2,000 of resources to their name. Ever.
It doesnāt matter what itās for.
Youāre saving up for a new wheelchair?
For college?
To put a downpayment on a house?
Hell man, you just happen to budget for once in your life so that you can have some extra money in case something bad happens?
Your benefits immediately get cut off if youāre a cent over $2,000.
And, even worse, you usually end up having to pay back every dollar the government gave you that month.
So say you get $400. If they find out youāre twenty dollars over the resource limit, you have to give them all $400 back and you undergo an investigation of your funds to see if you will continue getting money.
āWhat if I spend the money that day?ā
Doesnāt matter. In fact, from what I can tell, people who do this are actually put under investigation for fraud.
And yes, this system literally kills people.
Ohā¦shit.
yyyyyyep
russel should use his alchemy to make ed a flowercrown
He made it with love
@calangkoh
@bpdrussell
fletchmei would also make tons of flower crowns unironically
on a scale to 1 to ed and al ignoring the fact that the body of their resurrected dead mother went missing and moved on its own how much do you ignore your problems?
every time I see more of theĀ āao3 is evilā crap circulating I think, āwell, tumblr is evil too and I donāt see you stop using itā
You know, the more I think about this, the more I think the real complaint isnāt that AO3 hosts āevilā content, itās that it doesnāt allow harassment/dogpiling of āevilā creators as easily as Tumblr. Abuse wonāt remove or even re-tag a work except in a handful of very specific cases, but they will suspend or ban users for harassment, including filing repeated unfounded Abuse reports. Authors also have at least some ability to screen/block comments on works, and thereās no direct messaging system outside of commenting on works through which to pursue harassment. You can follow a creator but you canāt block them (much less encourage others to do the same). Tumblr, by contrast, generally ignores any abuse report that doesnāt involve the DMCA, and aggressive anons can and have driven bloggers off the site entirely. The fact that the same tactics are used by social justice bloggers and neo-Nazis (for instance) doesnāt matter ā theyāre the affordances of the site, by accident or design, and an entire fannish generation have gotten very used to performing their fannish (and moral) identity in this fashion. (I thinks itās relevant that AO3 was designed by fandomās LJ generation and in some respect mirrors the affordances of LJ circa 2010. Tumblr is a very different site and that, moreso than age differences, seems to be at the root of this ā though of course age intersect with site experience in a non-trivial way.)
ding ding ding ding.
Ao3 requires you to police your own consumption of content.Ā Ao3 wonāt let you destroy someoneās online presence simply because you donāt like it. Ā Ao3 wonāt let you impose your own morality on other without cause. If you have issues with this, and the fact that Ao3 requires you to have responsibility and agency,Ā then you seriously need to sit down and have a damned good long hard look at yourself.
The question I usually fail to see being answered when people bitch about the content on AO3 is - so who gets to decide?
You? Me? A committee of my friends? Of yours? Of those who have the most kudos? Of those who have no interest in fandom, but want to protect other people from dangerous content, whatever it may be? Who gets that power, and how long will they have it?
Who are you comfortable with giving the power of regulating all the content? What happens in grey areas? What happens when something you like isnāt liked by the Decider? Is there an appeal? Who gets to make the arguments for and against something?
The world is complex and there are no easy answers.
The impossibility of creating a censorship board that curates based on content is a great reason why those things donāt exist, and shouldnāt.
Certain people are screaming that AO3 is bad because itās not aĀ āsafe space.ā The real problem they have, though, is that AO3 was created to be a safe space - for writers. And it does a pretty good job of that.Ā It was designed to be a place where writers are safe from arbitrary content rule changes, random and unwarned deletions, and abuse-report abuse (which is common on ff.net). The Four Big Warnings + CNTW system is beautiful in its fairness and simplicity.
Antis canāt take control of it. And because control-freakdom is at the heart of theirĀ āmovement,ā this drives them into frenzies. Good. It motivated me to dig a little deeper into my pocket to donate on the last drive. For all the pleasure AO3 has given me over the years, thatās money well spent.
The real problem they have, though, is that AO3 was created to be a safe space - for writers.Ā
Preach it loud and hard!
Iām a member of the LJ generation, and when I first came to Tumblr (grudgingly and out of desperation, I might add, since it tragically seems to be the only place to really connect with other fandom peeps) I was horrified at how people here had established this sort of fucked up bully culture, where nobody is responsible for monitoring their own consumption, and rather they expect everyone else to custom tailor content to the whims and desires of the Shrieking Banshee Masses. And woe be to the person who doesnāt bend and break! āIām going to bully you while accusing you and your Big Mean Poopie Content of being the actual bully, so I can hopefully distract you and others from realizing Iām being a royal intrusive asshat who failed Astronomy 101 b/c I clearly believe the world revolves around me.ā
The irony here is that this in itself is an abuse tactic - victim blaming with a side of gaslighting. Pot, meet kettle.
And itās the exact same mentality that drives right-wing lunatics to kick up a fuss about the existence of icky cootie gay people in media because we need to āprotect family valuesā, or who take to screeching at Starbucks because their particular religious symbolism isnāt portrayed on the winter holiday cups and OMG WAR ON CHRISTMAS, STARBUCKS STOP OPPRESSING ME BY NOT CATERING TO MY PERSONAL TASTE.
The mentality is one and the same - āCater to ME ME ME or FACE MY DIVINE WRATH even if it means taking away other peopleās freedom!ā while hiding behind a flimsy-ass shield of faux righteous anger. Ā
And when these bozos find an environment or situation where theyāre unable or not allowed to bully people into silence and submission, they stomp their feet and pitch a tantrum and claim that theyāre the ones being oppressed. Identical shit, different pile, and itās the exact same infantile, schoolyard rubbish no matter which side itās coming from.
This was a really interesting read. The last poster in particular but all of it.
AO3 was literally created to give fan creators a place where they would never be controlled by the whims of those using the so-called protection of the vulnerable as their excuse for bullshit control and attack tactics.
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iām officially trash for these babies
YURIO CHOREOGRAPHED HIS EX IN FUCKING ONE NIGHT IM FUCKING SCREAMING
im just imagining this little shit running around the streets of barcelona in the middle of the night trying to cobble a costume together while he lets beka handle the music
he bursts into chrisās hotel room at 3 like āgive me one of your sexy tank topsā
& chris is 75% asleep and doesnāt register that none of his clothes are appropriate for a 15 year old. he gestures at his wardrobe and as yurio leaves heās like. āim 2 sizes bigger than you my tanks will fall offā
yurio looks him dead in the eye. āgood.ā
yurio takes pleasure in waking JJ up at 5 am and asking for his tackiest piece of jewelry.
āhereās this cross necklace that i got at a flea market for 2 bucksā
yurio snatches it out of his hands. āim going to kick your ass today shitheadā
JJ wonders if yurio understands the meaning of an exhibition skate.
the hardest part is the jacket bc yurioās outfit just isnāt right but thereās no one here thatās actually his size and yurio hasnāt slept in 24 hours.
heās on his 5th red bull.
when suddenly, like a bolt from the blue, he sees someone outside the rink wearing the gaudiest purple leather jacket heās ever seen. itās perfect.
āyou! how much for your jacket!ā
the man is confused bc he doesnāt speak english and also the menās GPF gold medalist is screaming at him. heās 80% sure these are his last moments on earth.
ājacketā yurio says like that will make the man understand.
through a complex game of charades, yurio manages to communicate that he wants the jacket. the man happily hands it over bc holy shit itās the ice tiger of russia.
yurio throws the guy 30,000 rubles.
yurio shows up right before his EX running on 15 red bulls with under eye circles darker than his soul.
āyou look like youāve been shoved through a meat grinderā mila says
āgoodā yurio replies.
no amount of foundation will help. lilia is panicking, barcelona is falling. yurioās eyes still look like they can see through time.
georgi kicks in the door. āi got thisā
itās 5 minutes to show time and yuuri and viktor come to see him off. theyāre still in their own EX costumes.
āwow! so chic!ā viktor says before getting distracted by a dog in the stands. (āitās in a purse yuuri, 10/10 would doggo againā)
ādavai!ā yuuri says.
yuuri has a pair of sunglasses clipped to his shirt. yurio points at them. āare those viktorāsā
āyes?ā
theyāre gucci and worth more than nikolai plisetskyās car.
yurio snatches them and skates off before viktor comes back.
beka is at the edge of the rink dressed in all black. he flashes yurio a thumbs up.
āwow those sunglasses look just like mine!ā
comprehensive list of things Iām allergic to:Ā
tumblrāsĀ āyour fav is problematic so I must VOW TO HATE THEM FROM NOW UNTIL ETERNITYā culture
tumblrāsĀ "I am not even 1% problematicā cultureĀ
tumblrāsĀ āwow look the media is so biased and puts so much spin on everything and we are angels who donāt spin at all! we are beacons of unbiased knowledge!ā cultureĀ
tumblrāsĀ āwow this person is so wrong so I MUST SEND THEM TWELVE THOUSAND ANONYMOUS MESSAGES TELLING THEM TO DELETE AND DIEā cultureĀ
tumblrāsĀ āTHIS PERSON IS THE BEST PERSON EVER THEY ARE OUR QUEEN OUR KING OUR SAVIOR AND CAN DO NO WRONGā cultureĀ
tumblrās inability to see things in not black and whiteĀ
tumblrās inability to recognize that people can change and growāmoreover, their inability to acknowledge change and growth as legitimateĀ
tumblrās inability to perceive complexityĀ
sometimes I have seasonal allergies when the weather changes dramaticallyĀ
hey tumblr fam! checking in to say Iām not dead (no more than usual at least) and Iāve been distracted with health issues this week. Man I gotta rebuild the queue, whoops.
Iāll also be heading back to NY Saturday, to cat sit for a few weeks, so the best way to contact me is probably my Discord, giraffles#7385!
much love to everyone waiting on fic updates of various kindsā commissions take priority, but once thatās done I can get back to other things. thank you for being so patient!
rebagelling to let everyone know again, I'm currently keeping three furry dumbasses company, so hit me up on discord if you need me B)
