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Hi!

I’m Cosmopolis (or Cosmo for short!) and this account is part of my silly corner of the internet. I like talking about comics (X-Men, Young Avengers, occasionally Batman), and you’ll likely see me posting about my various hobbies (writing, cosplay, HEMA) on here.

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RP blog: @gone-feral

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Fanfiction: #my fic or #my fanfiction

Art: #my art

Cosplay: #my cosplay

Miscellaneous: #my stuff

Poetry & Quotes: #words

References: #for later

Asks: #ask game & #thanks for asking!

Last updated July 1, 2026.

#pinned intro #my fic #my art #my stuff #words #for later #thanks for asking!#my fanfiction

angelbabymikaa

i wish someone had a crush on me *kicks rocks*

ashstfu

seven-winged-liar

brother you gotta put those big brown eyes away. youll kill someone

houndmother

if you are a tme queer person holding an event, especially a dyke/sapphic one, you need to go out of your way to make sure that the trans women in your community know they are welcome. most of the girls i know assume we’re not.

fantasticgothicpeachsludge

Anyway, how fucked up would it be if one of Wanda “no more mutants” Maximoff’s twins were reborn to like. Cyclops, or something. Instead of just random humans.

Also, what would happen if either of the twins had been reborn to a mutant with physical mutations? Would the X-gene do anything to change their appearance? Like override the magik or whatever enough to give them any physical mutations?

#this is genuinely such a creative thought #<- prev #this is so so so interesting #x men #wanda maximoff

ao3commentoftheday

For anyone who hasn't seen them before, Hidden Search Operators are handy tricks you can use when you're either searching or filtering AO3.

summary: string is a generic way of explaining that you can search AO3 for a specific word that appears in a summary. You can do this from the search bar in the header, from the Any Field box at the top of the Advanced Search form, or from the Search Within Results box at the bottom of the filter menu.

Examples:

summary: Bruce

summary: "Bruce Banner"

summary: Bruce OR summary: Banner OR summary: Hulk

You need to put quotation marks around your search term if it is more than one word. The quotes make sure that the site searches for those two words together.

The other two operators listed work best in the Search Within Results box.

expected_number_of_chapters: 1 will return results where every fic has only 1 chapter currently posted.

You can use expected_number_of_chapters: -1 if you want results where every fic has more than 1 chapter currently posted.

otp:true will return results where there is only 1 relationship tag on the fic. If you want results where there are 2+ relationship tags (and no fics with only 1 relationship tag) then you can use otp:false

katri-24

This page is so beautiful and honestly I hope it reaches and helps any new people that are just starting out on Ao3 because it's helping me and I’ve been using the site for 5+ years now

ao3commentoftheday

I saw your tags @jackdaw-sprite and I figured I could offer you some help? You've got a few options to find fics that are actually about your fave who is often sidelined.

My own personal go-to is to use the Search Within Results filter. You can find the filters by clicking/tapping on any tag. If you're on a wide screen like a laptop, they'll be on the right hand side of the screen. If you're on a narrow screen like a phone, you'll need to press the Filters button at the top of the page to open up the menu.

In that menu, scroll down until you're near the bottom. That's where you can find the box labelled Search Within Results. In that box, you can type

summary: Renhardt OR summary: Rendog

When you filter for that result, you'll get 19 fics with that name mentioned in the summary, and if the name is in the summary you've got MUCH higher chances of them being central to the fic.

There's also a way to find fics with a tag in the X position. Fan coders have had this same issue, and so they've created userscripts that you can add to your web browser (like an extension). Here are a few that might be helpful for you to try:

AO3 Actually Relevant Characters - Sorts and highlights works based on how relevant the tagged character seems in the work's tags and summary.

AO3: Prioritise my Faves - Hide work if chosen tags are late in sequence, or if blacklisted tags are early

AO3 Secondary Character & Pairing Filter - Replaces works with placeholder if the tags you want aren't the first few tags, with option to show work.

Editing to add: this version of the post has a syntax error in it. To remove oneshots with a filter, use

-expected_number_of_chapters: 1

playwrongs

remarkable. all these holes look just like my grave

loveridden1999

person (non-practicing)

pomegranatears

yeah it's all by choice and not because i have issues with intimacy and vulnerability and abandonment and relationships and my body and my parents and my childhood and how much i value myself and how im perceived and

ultramanzer0

comic sites are dying tokusatsu sites are dying piracy is fighting a war like nobodys seen before

tomato-greens

btw I am not blaming anyone for this but do you know how bad at teaching most TAs are, and how little support they get at becoming better teachers? sooo much writing instruction is outsourced to people who have never been in front of a classroom before, and to people in the humanities who consider teaching in writing programs to be beneath them, btw. and some of them have been my colleagues and friends, and everyone has to start somewhere, but yeesh. everything’s tight right now but if some minor amount of money could be diverted from [various projects that make universities look good to donors but don’t contribute to teaching], so much could be done !

tomato-greens

it’s cheaper: faculty, even very low-level adjunct faculty, are entitled to more money and better benefits than TAs are. meanwhile, humanities PhD students don’t receive the same amount of grant, government/armed forces, and industry funding the way many STEM PhD students do; humanities research has also been extremely devalued in the public eye, which means almost nothing in the humanities leads to increased donor interest or increased university brand recognition (with some exceptions). thus, many humanities PhD students fund their degrees by teaching alongside doing their research, which is why it takes on average 1-2 years longer for humanities students to complete their degrees (though anecdotally everyone I know who has completed their humanities PhD since the pandemic started has taken 8 or 9 years, which is to say 3-4 years longer than the old 5-year standard). that said, yes, this is mostly happening in larger universities with a pool of grad students whose labor they can easily access/exploit. smaller universities often rely on higher tuition, among other things.

meikuree

[tumblr tags: #why is it like this! #see prev tags #..I say. as someone whose current university doesn't really have TAs in my [undergrad student] area (no grad program)]