Would rather be in the Grey Gull

Welcome to my litte corner of Haven fangirling. I go by CookieDoughMe on AO3. I'm here mostly for Haven (mostly Nathan and Duke), but also SPN (specifically Dean), Buffy, Lost Girl, Dollhouse, Farscape, Firefly, White Collar, Burn Notice, and The Gentlemen. Also occasional detours into non-fandom topics including UK politics or other British nonsense. Slight tendency to get over invested and put my foot in it, for which I apologise in advance. Sometimes I think the only form of communication I understand at all is fiction.

[amongaesthetics]

Guys I LOVE a love triangle where it’s a true triangle. I’m talking a friendship between the two guys that has you yelling KISS ALREADY. I’m talking tension you can cut with a knife. I’m talking people calling the other one their “husband” or “boyfriend.” I’m talking Jem Carstairs and Will Herondale. I’m talking Duke Crocker and Nathan Wuornos.

I’m talking give me something beyond friendship. I’m talking Corey and Raven with Kayli.

Give me a love trianglleeeeeeeeee.

[mariana-oconnor]

Rewatching both Merlin and Haven at the same time has led me to believe that a Merlin/Arthur/Gwaine Haven fusion fic with Merlin as Audrey, Arthur as Nathan, Gwaine as Duke would work surprisingly well.

[notsoprettylankydetective]

really funny to me how Duke starts season 3 with long hair and Dwight starts out with short hair. They teamed up for one episode in season 2 and went “yeah I could rock his look”

[mightyuncomfychair]

We got Duke shirtless, Nathan naked, all we need is some reason for them to be like that at the same time😏. Preferably locked in a room with Audrey, she knows exactly what to do with them. I would have settled for a beach episode tho considering they live in a costal town 🥲. I would have lived to watch Nathan drool over his boyfriend and girlfriend as he watches then frolicking in the water.

[martinseptimyaoi]

rewatching haven

[bakedspoonie]

I love how the people in haven are just a little kooky. Even the ones without family troubles are still a little strange and I love it so much. Reminds me of watching murder she wrote as a kid and all the citizens of Cabot cove were also weird but in a very endearing way.

[amplifyme]

A sad way to start the weekend. 🥹🥹🥹

Rest in peace, Tony. You were the best librarian, vampire hunter, and surrogate father to the Scooby Gang there ever could've been.

Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72

The British actor, who also appeared in Merlin and Little Britain, died of complications from pneumonia.

[notsoprettylankydetective]

Watching Haven and I have to say, I am really impressed with season 2 episode 6 “Audrey Parker’s Day Off” and it’s OCD rep. For a show made in the early 2010s this is actually really solid writing. I particularly like how they showed a non-contamination ocd and how they didn’t relate his “trouble” directly to his ocd but instead had his ocd affect how he used his power. The ending was a little depressing but I understand artistically why they went that way. I just really wanted it to end happier because he had ocd and I related.

[hmslusitania]

I’ve made it most of the way through season three of Haven in the last [checks notes] two days since I started it and its rare to see something that so desperately ought to have resolved its love triangle in polyamory

[hmslusitania]

Like the thing with so many love triangles that we (collective fandoms United) try to polycule is that the dynamic between the off axis of the triangle is usually not conducive to romance because its usually not a real triangle just two points angling one person into a corner etc

BUT

Duke and Nathan? Sure fucking do have some moments all on their own god bless. the neck hold in the season 3 finale? Duke running to Nathan first when he’d been shot dead? “Nathan and I have a complicated relationship” they love each other as much as they love Audrey that HUG in 4.01 damn

[flopstat]

audrey: is sweet to duke

duke:

[cloysterbell]

dukemara….samruby oh yeah.

Rick.......... that's what I've been SAYING........... like imagine you have this destiny shoved upon you and it sucks and you want no part of it because your destiny involves killing people to juice yourself up but then here comes someone who says she can help you with it and you start to trust her over time because the other option is dealing with whatever the hell Dean/Nathan is doing and because maybe deep down you think quite possibly you're actually doing the right thing because that's what this woman has been trying to tell you..... but then turns out you were being manipulated the entire time into basically killing yourself to open up a hell portal......... WAUGH........

[infizero]

ive talked about "childhood friends gone wrong" on here before right

[infizero]

there's probably already a name for this but it's a trope i coined for a very specific type of dynamic that im consistently obsessed with. give me two people who grew up together and played together and were each other's best friend and then Something Happened and now everything's fucked up but they're still friends. or they want to be at least. you look so different now and everything is so much more complicated now than when we played in your backyard but literally who else knows me better than you. who else could i ever call my best friend

[cloysterbell]

But the strings will keen and the horns will cry When it's just me against the sky

[flopstat]

never forget that sometime in between duke carrying nathan to the hospital and him sticking tacks in nathan's back........they were also little league buddies

[knotanowl]

there really isn't anything better than guy whose serious and doesn't really care x guy who is silly to cover up how very much he cares

[deanlighful]

Dr. Callahan: Don’t jump to conclusions Nathan

Nathan :

[iguanodonwildman]

Hey! Just a reminder! AO3 does NOT have an app. This garbage was made by theives who steal fan artist’s work and sell it back to you.

“Oh, but it’s free!” There are ads. They are making money off of this. They are stealing from the creators you love and you are hurting those same creators if you use this app or any similar app.

Don’t use it. Report it at every opportunity.

[kyra45]

To summarize it overall:

App acts like a browser but paywalls offline reading while reviews state it’s full of intrusive ads and lacks basic functionality such as commenting. Do not use this app. Use the ao3 website. The app uses Gen-AI content for imagery on categories and is essentially forcing people to pay if they want to read your fics offline.

By the way you don’t have to pay anything to read fics offline. You can do it for free using easily accessible resources that don’t cost anything.

You do not need to pay $1 every week, $2 every month, or even $18 a year. It can be done free! By anyone!

You can also turn ao3 into an app itself by adding it to your Home Screen. You don’t need to download shady apps.

[adulthumanproblem-deactivated20]

The way to read fics offline is by downloading them onto your device. AO3 lets you do this, in multiple file formats, right at the top of the page:

If you don't have a PDF reader on your phone, there are any free ones (I personally like ReadEra). Or you download it as HTML.

AO3 doesn't have an app, and doesn't need an app. Don't fall for this. There's no telling what they'll do with your login data.