Classy Dreamland Alpaca

to further my point...

callum and rayla being the most bratty, sassy, entertaining-until-you-have-to-deal-with-them, smartass little shits of all time

#the dragon prince #the dragon king

stuck-in-jelly

What y’all did to Callum not even 3 days after his adult design dropped

stray-shinkii

Callum’s the type of gentleman to stop Rayla before she can try to open a door & go “oh no allow me-“

Then proceed to push a pull door.

evil-mage

tategaminu

Callum: damn I can't believe I have to betray my brother

Rayla: you don't really have to

Callum: no‚ I'm gonna

this line just confirmed it for me he reads WAYYYY too many romance novels

callum: omg we're so friends-to-lovers fluff-and-angst speedrun starcrossed-lovers 20k

rayla: what

callum in book 6: stars

ok i know he's talking about his dead dad but did he have to be so pretty during it

callum dump

+some gifs i have forced upon @rayllurn

so sorry i forgot @bisexualenbyblueberry

what-even-is-thiss

When I suggest people go to the doctor for something a lot of them seem to assume I don’t know what it’s like to have doctors that don’t listen to you. Yeah I do actually. I still think you should go to the doctor.

what-even-is-thiss

Yeah you shouldn’t have to be incredibly assertive and possibly try multiple doctors to get what you need. But we live in the real world and unfortunately talking about what should be won’t fix your diseases.

You deserve to be treated for what ails you. Act like it. I know it’s difficult. I know from firsthand experience. You still deserve help.

what-even-is-thiss

It took me a while but I found a primary care doctor who doesn’t assume that all of my health problems are due to my weight and he’s been so helpful in advocating for me to specialists who won’t listen. Doctors that will listen to you are out there.

cactusringed

I think fanfiction as a medium is different enough from mainstream literature in the tools it offers writers that it's a shame that it's not talked about more often. And it's not me saying "fanfic is better than books xD" because that sort of mindset is a symptom of people who aren't particularly well read in either medium. I'm just speaking of like... The little things you get to do with a fanfic that you genuinely can't really do in an original story.

I had a big fanfic in a previous fandom where one of the big reveals was the involvement of a kind of infamous villain, whose presence was built up to and foreshadowed through the whole fic until his reveal without ever mentioning his name, so that the name drop would be a gut punch. It worked especially well because of who the villain was and his presence in that fandom space specifically (it's very complicated) and if it was an original story this reveal wouldn't work at all the way it was written in the fic. Because if you don't have a predisposition to think about that character and his relationship to the hero in a very specific way, then just seeing their name won't do much to you; the reveal and the recontextualisation it pushes upon you hinges on your previous knowledge of the source material.

I think it's an interesting tool fanfic authors are given. One of my favorite fanfic of all time is partially a re-imagining of its source material's canon, and something it does is introduce antagonists much earlier in the story or deepen npcs' stories. It then works to evoke a tragic irony that again wouldn't work if you didn't know the source material, and it's something the author obviously has a lot of fun with.

You could call it cheap or a crutch and I mean, yeah, sure, it is a little bit: the fanfic relies on previously established emotional bonds and stakes to achieve its goal, and in some cases it saves the author from having to 'properly' build up its stakes. But I think it's INTERESTING that it has that tool at its disposal. I think it's a fun thing to play with and I think these built in expectations and emotional bonds are especially why I find story driven aus in particular to be fascinating in the amount of ways you can play with them. You know??

lifeafterpsychiatry

I think the harm of denying people the right to control their own bodies is so, so much worse than the risk of people regretting the decisions they make. Regretting something you decided to do is a much healthier pain than the pain of regretting that you didn't get to have a choice.

Girlfriend hug attack upon ye!

tostavart

This show is lowk underrated