drown them fuckers in your tears

Olga, Russian, 32. pronouns are she her. Languages & history nerd, disaster bi, fandom trash, check out my latest obsessions!

[lovelylogans]

is there such a thing as a beta but instead of reading for line edits or plot notes, they just read my work and recommend what tags to put on ao3 outside of like. warnings.

[centrumlumina]

Lulu's Totally Unofficial Guide to the Top 10 Freeform Tags to Add to Your Fanfic

Genre - Fluff, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Slice of Life, Case Fic, etc.

AU - If it's an AU, what kind? What role do each of the characters play? How is it different to their canon role?

Parts of canon - If it's not an AU, what part of canon is it about? Is it set before, during or after a particular episode?

Themes - Are there any topics or ideas which you are trying to explore, or which come up repeatedly?

Minor Warnings - Is there anything you think you should warn for that isn't included in the archive warnings?

Format & Length - Is your work art, video, podfic, etc? Does it use a particular format like a Drabble or 5+1?

Characters - What is going on with each of your major characters? If you had to describe them with one or two adjectives, what would you pick? (Format as [Adjective] [Character Name].)

Relationships - What is going on with each of your major relationships? Are there any relationship tropes like Slow Burn or Enemies to Lovers in your story?

Tropes - Are there any tropes or common story elements in your story that haven't been tagged yet? If your work was on TV tropes, what are the first things you would add?

Sex - If your work includes sex, what kink(s) and specific act(s) does it involve?

Remember: you can always look at the drop-down menu for suggestions. But! If you want to tag something that doesn't appear on the drop-down menu, you can & should write in a new tag!

[anthropologistfromentropy]

Hey, I would like to take part in Fandom Kombat this year, but I have no idea how to find and join a team? (If westerners are even welcome?) Are any of you, my followers, planning on taking part in it? Or can you give me advice what to do?

Would rather do it with people I know and/or are in the same fandom(s) as me. I don't mind if we don't write fics in the same language, if you are fine chatting with me in English lol.

[erlenwein]

hiii i've been an active participant for at least a decade, so hopefully i can answer some questions!

there are two kombat events, summer (THE kombat), and winter (winter temporary fandom kombat that became very permanent). the winter one is ending soon, but the summer one is on the horizon.

there is the main fandom kombat discord with alllll te rules and links and official info. closer to the start of summer season there will be a page compiling all the participating teams, and it will say if they are open to new teammates (some prefer to keep their team as a group of friends, most are welcoming strangers, some allow for 'over the fence' submissions where you are not in the group chat but your works are published under the team's name)

basically your first move would be to join the server and keep an eye on the team you're interested in. some captains (team leaders) are more active on the server, some are less active, but the rules require at least one person from each team to be able to represent the team on the server.

as for language: 99% of the participants are russian speakers, but there is an option to post fanfiction in english. i'm (hopefully) fluent in english, so last summer i wrote a longfic in english and we posted it to a special non-voted collection, and then my amazing teammate was able to translate it into russian so it could be voted for. (there are no prizes for winning, just some ego boost). so the group chats (usually on discord or telegram) are in russian, but if you're okay with using a translation tool then it's manageable, or you can just send your works to the team captain without participating in the group chat

if you have any further questions feel free to ask me!

[anthropologistfromentropy]

Thank you! Yeah, I'm okay with using a translation tool. I actually used DeepL to answer questions in a support chat in both Russian and Ukrainian. I'm still nervous about using it to write my own messages though. And I’m easily overwhelmed and exhausted if there's a lot of messages to read. (Currently avoiding Rubikus and House of Helsinki telegram channels...)

And I definitively don't want to use it to translate my whole fic. Hopefully I can find a teammate to translate it! Two of my best friends are from Russia, but I don't know if they have the spoons to do it and I don't want to bother them. They have more important things to do lol.

[erlenwein]

then your course of action now would be to join the discord (https://discordapp.com/invite/yW8YFCd) and look at the works posted on ao3 to see which team seems to be right for you (what they post about, etc.)

for example if you're interested in bubble comics there are several teams posting content for it, but some are specifically bubble-focused and some are more broad. ie the team im in, fandom mold, is composed of people who have 15+ years of fandom experience (so the group chat is part creating and part exchanging random life tips and complaining about back pain)

then you wait until the new season preparations start, look at the teams who have open admission, contact their captain and go from there. each team is different, some are more active, some are on their last breath, some have a lot of people and some only a few.

good luck!

[anthropologistfromentropy]

Hey, I would like to take part in Fandom Kombat this year, but I have no idea how to find and join a team? (If westerners are even welcome?) Are any of you, my followers, planning on taking part in it? Or can you give me advice what to do?

Would rather do it with people I know and/or are in the same fandom(s) as me. I don't mind if we don't write fics in the same language, if you are fine chatting with me in English lol.

[erlenwein]

hiii i've been an active participant for at least a decade, so hopefully i can answer some questions!

there are two kombat events, summer (THE kombat), and winter (winter temporary fandom kombat that became very permanent). the winter one is ending soon, but the summer one is on the horizon.

there is the main fandom kombat discord with alllll te rules and links and official info. closer to the start of summer season there will be a page compiling all the participating teams, and it will say if they are open to new teammates (some prefer to keep their team as a group of friends, most are welcoming strangers, some allow for 'over the fence' submissions where you are not in the group chat but your works are published under the team's name)

basically your first move would be to join the server and keep an eye on the team you're interested in. some captains (team leaders) are more active on the server, some are less active, but the rules require at least one person from each team to be able to represent the team on the server.

as for language: 99% of the participants are russian speakers, but there is an option to post fanfiction in english. i'm (hopefully) fluent in english, so last summer i wrote a longfic in english and we posted it to a special non-voted collection, and then my amazing teammate was able to translate it into russian so it could be voted for. (there are no prizes for winning, just some ego boost). so the group chats (usually on discord or telegram) are in russian, but if you're okay with using a translation tool then it's manageable, or you can just send your works to the team captain without participating in the group chat

if you have any further questions feel free to ask me!

[finnslay]

things you DO NOT need to be a man

a dick

he/him pronouns

XY chromosomes

things you DO need to be a man

the swiftness of a coursing river

the force of a great typhoon

the strength of a raging fire

the mysteriousness of the dark side of the moon

^this post was brought to you by LGBT^

Let's

Get down to

Business

To defeat the huns

[faggotcwilbur]

do you like men

man is a hopeless creature. i don't like much of anyone

[faggotcwilbur]

oh if you meant sexually then yes

[notvaeda]

[toastyyrye]

First time smut writer: Um. Hope this is OK? It's only a bit of smut at the very end of the epilogue and you can skip it, it's ok. So sorry, um. Oh dear me. Please don't judge me. Nobody read this omg what have I done 😳

Seasoned smut writer: *ringing bell* Come get uR PORNOGRAPHY! 10k pwp, it's KINKY AS HECK so share it with all your friends!!! If you've got any suggestions for my Kinktober just drop it in the comments, I will write whatever wet, messy & DOWNRIGHT FILTHY fic about these two idiots 👏

[ineffablepretzel]

First time smut reader: I'd better read this as a guest so it's not in my history. I'm never telling anyone about this. Oh my god, how do people dare to comment, I could never.

Seasoned smut reader:

[jarenka]

We won't get it in the series, but that should be a canonical event.

so, for my non-Russian followers. Yury Dud is a former sports journalist and a former editor of sports.ru who became really famous for his interviews on his youtube channel vDud. He also known for asking very personal and invasive questions. So like... Yury Dud interview with the first openly queer high-profile Russian athlete. (If Ilya came out before 2022, or he would be second after Kasatkina)

[jockinit]

having friends is important because otherwise you’ll stay convinced your parents are normal

[aropride]

please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy

[bladespark]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[conservethis]

Casting with all my might

[heatedrivalrysource]

@hudsonwilliamsofficial teaches Jimmy a Shane Hollander-inspired hockey stretch 😳

[dowereallyneedthis]

“I don’t do math because I’m gay” “the gays can’t do math” “If I explain math on tumblr I’ll lose my gay card” all of you apologize to Alan Turing right now 

[myfootyrthroat]

The “+” in LGBTQ+ is for math.

[dowereallyneedthis]

It’s literally been years since anyone added something slightly clever or original to this post, so I would like to congratulate you and maybe even bestow some kind of award. I don’t have anything to give you though

[idionymon]

In my restless dreams, I see that town.

[slytherverse]

i say this in all seriousness, a great way to resist the broad cultural shift of devaluing curiosity and critical thinking is to play my favorite game, Hey What Is That Thing

you play it while walking around with friends and if you see something and don't know what it is or wonder why its there, you stop and point and say Hey What Is That Thing. and everyone speculates about it. googling it is allowed but preferably after spending several minutes guessing or asking a passerby about it

weird structures, ambiguous signs, unfamiliar car modifications, anything that you can't immediately understand its function. eight times out of ten, someone in the group actually knows, and now you know!

a few examples from me and my friends the past few weeks: "why is there a piece of plywood sticking out of that pond in a way that looks intentional?" (its a ramp so squirrels that fall in to the pond can climb out) • "my boss keeps insisting i take a vacation of nine days or more, thats so specific" (you work at a bank, banks make employees take vacation in long chunks so if youre stealing or committing fraud, itll be more obvious) • "why does this brick wall have random wooden blocks in it" (theres actually several reasons why this could be but we asked and it was so you could nail stuff to the wall) • "most of these old factories we drive past have tinted windows, was that just for style?" (fun fact the factory owners realized that blue light keeps people awake, much like screen light does now, so they tinted the windows blue to keep workers alert and make them work longer hours)

been playing this game for a long time and ive learned (and taught) a fuckton about zoning laws, local history, utilities (did you know you can just go to your local water treatment plant and ask for a tour and if they have a spare intern theyll just give you a tour!!!) and a whole lot of fun trivia. and now suddenly you're paying more attention when youre walking around, thinking about the reasons behind every design choice in the place you live that used to just be background noise. and it fuckin rules.

[abandonedandurbex]

Amusement park in Berlin left to nature’s devices [640x480]

[kosmonin]

It was “left to nature’s devices” because the owner got caught importing a roller coaster with 180 kilos of peruvian cocaine inside it

[cykelops]

season one merlin (the character) was so good… like he really had his head in the right place (dismantle the monarchy) but you know how it is when a jock pays attention to you suddenly the system is not so bad anymore

[zaatanna-moved]

anyway just a reminder for the myth lovers out there

king arthur was welsh. merlin was welsh. camelot was in wales. the lady and the lake she pops out of; welsh. excalibur; magic inanimate welsh object. etc.

on the way to see family, i drive past a lake that in which is welsh legend, is the last resting place of excalibur.

i’m just saying in my experience a lot of these legends had been so anglo-fied in the past and it’s like, all this cool shit is celtic welsh legend.

[jackironsides]

Arthur’s wife was called Gwenhwyfar first.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Like the kraken I emerge, summoned by the English theft of Arthur

Arthur is a Welsh name. It means ‘bear’. He’s likely derived from a Gaulish bear god

In the form of King Arthur, he is an anti-Saxon mythological WELSH figure, representing the native Brythonic people of Britain against the Anglo-Saxon invaders, dating from the 500s AD

The version appropriated by the English in the 1100s is the shitty boring sanitised version - they did it because they were trying to compete with the romance tradition on the continent at the time but didn’t have anything of their own to romanticise

Merlin is called Myrddin

Percival is Peredur

Kay is Cei, and also was subject to enormous character assassination in the English version - in the Welsh version he’s much closer to Arthur’s right hand man

Guinevere is Gwenhwyfar

There is no Lancelot, no Galahad, no tedious affair story

There is no Camelot. Arthur’s seat was Caerllion - modern Caerleon, putting him into both the region of the Silures (one of the most fearsome and warlike of the British tribes, modern South East Wales) and the old Roman fortress, which would have been an impossibly huge Palace for a warlord at the time.

They all have super powers and get up to wacky hijinks involving hair care, giants, strange giant wildlife, spectral revolving/glass fortresses in the Celtic sea, and a really fucking weird chess match. Also a cloak made out of beards.

What the fuck is the round table

Anyway it’s particularly irritating because traditional Welsh culture and beliefs have been so thoroughly stripped away and destroyed by England over the centuries, and Arthurian legend is one of the few surviving fragments we have left to preserve. And he’s specifically an anti-English figure. So the ubiquity of the boring and appropriative English Arthur across the whole fucking world is… Well, it’s not great.

[may-or-may-not-be-me]

This is so interesting! Does anyone know a good source/reading material where one could get more of the original Welsh versions of the stories?

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

The Mabinogion, translated by Sioned Davies is your best bet! It’s got a bunch of big-ass Welsh myths in, but most relevantly it includes Culhwch ac Olwen, which is a full-on Arthurian text (plus a couple of interesting ones).

There’s a whole bunch more that’s survived in fragments, but they’re all in Old Welsh - fully readable if you speak Welsh, but obviously not much use if you don’t (I don’t know if you do or not but from context I’m guessing not lol).

[cythraul]

Trioedd Ynys Prydain (literally “the Triads of the Island of Britain”, though in English they’re usually called “the Welsh Triads”) are a huge collection of lists of three things from Welsh lore, including a lot of Arthurian lore. They’re not stories, but they contain fascinating allusions to stories, to whole strains of the Arthurian tradition, that we may or may not have elsewhere.

Keep reading

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Absolutely fantastic addition, yes, Rachel Bronwich’s Triads are glorious.