it's a wild ride here

just a depiction of my mind

[pomnibefriendsgod]

PART TWOOOO

Small comic based on this post

I absolutely love @ctrl-alt-del-au 's AU it hits all the little niche plot fun that gets my brain wiggling lolol Wanted to join in on the fanart for it!

Lowkey hoping i remembered the right symbol for neurodivergence... if wrong oops 😬

Also, random parts zooble bc I can't be bothered to draw a specific episode set

[sodainto]

creative process

[kilfeur]

Rayla : Quand j'avais ton âge... Callum : Quand j'avais ta taille. Rayla : Ok, écoute moi bien sale petite merde !

Rayla : When I was your age... Callum : When I had your height. Rayla : Okay, listen to me you little shit !

[fishcart]

So Callum and Ezran are scared of the thunderstorm at the beginning of S1E1 because their mom was killed by Thunder

coolcooolcooolcoolcool

[kilfeur]

J'étais en train de penser au deuil dans tdp et je suis rendue compte d'une chose. Le deuil de Callum s'oppose à celui d'Aaravos en revanche celui d'Ezran fait parallèle à celui d'Aaravos. Déjà contrairement à Aaravos qui a perdu un seul membre de sa famille. Callum en a perdu trois : d'abord son père biologique, Damian à cause de sa maladie respiratoire. Puis Sarai qu'il a perdu étant plus jeune et enfin Harrow qu'il a crû perdre le jour où les elfes de la lune sont venus à Katolis. Et dans l'acte 1, il l'ignorait jusqu'à ce qu'il l'apprenne de la bouche de Claudia et a été incapable de le dire à Ezran ne sachant pas comment l'aborder.

Callum était triste, car ce n'est pas qu'un parent qu'il a perdu. C'était le troisième parent qu'il perdait. Et cette fois ci, c'était son beau père avec qui il était distant car il ne se voyait pas comme son vrai fils contrairement à Ezran. Mais la lettre lui a permit de comprendre qu'Harrow l'aimait comme son propre fils et qu'il se voyait à travers lui. Cette lettre lui a permit de commencer à faire son deuil. Quand Ezran apprend que son père est mort, il est triste mais aussi en colère. Mais en parlant avec Claudia, il a enfin comprit ce qu'il devait faire et se sentait mieux. Toutefois à cause de leur voyage dans l'acte 1, les deux frangins n'ont pas vraiment eu le temps de faire correctement leur deuil. C'est lors du discours d'Ezran que les frangins expriment leur deuil pour Harrow.

En revanche, ce qui est intéressant c'est qu'on voit qu'Ezran a intériorisé certains de ses sentiments vis à vis de son deuil. Dans l'histoire courte, on le voit écrasé une flèche contenant la lettre annonçant la réussite de l'assassinat de son père. Et cette colère et cette haine explose quand il voit Runaan, le responsable de la mort d'Harrow. Tout comme Aaravos qui après être revenu sur Xadia, s'est juré de se venger dans l'ordre cosmique. En revanche ce qui différence Ezran à d'Aaravos, c'est qu'il avait quelqu'un : et cette personne était son grand frère. Dans la s7, Callum empêche son petit frère de détruire tout ce qu'il a prôné et construit jusqu'à maintenant : à savoir la paix. Lui expliquant même qu'il a pardonné à Zubeia car la situation était compliqué. Ils ont fait des erreurs mais qu'ils n'avaient pas à les continuer. Ici, Callum agit comme la conscience d'Ezran, il ne lui dit pas de le pardonner. Seulement il lui montre que la situation avec Runaan est bien plus complexe qu'il ne le pense. Et honnêtement si Rayla avait attendu peut être qu'Ezran aurait agit différemment. Mais ça on le saura jamais.

Quand Ezran fait face à Aaravos et parle avec lui, le fait qu'il a perdu sa chère fille et a "continué son œuvre" se prétendant comme "l'allié de l'humanité" mais ne voyant ce monde qu'à travers la haine. Sa colère envers l'ordre cosmique fait parallèle à la colère et à la haine qu'a ressenti Ezran envers Runaan. Mais contrairement à Aaravos, Ezran décide d'être miséricordieux envers Runaan lui disant qu'un jour, il arrivera à le pardonner. Tout comme il choisit de pardonner à son grand frère car il lui a manqué et a besoin de lui.

L'autre différence entre les deuils des frangins contrairement à celui d'Aaravos. C'est que les deux frangins n'étaient pas seuls pour faire face à leurs deuils respectifs, ils étaient entourés et soutenus par leurs proches. Aaravos en revanche, n'avait pas personne pendant toutes ces années. Il était seule pleurant la mort de sa fille si il avait quelqu'un, un ami peut être, peut être qu'il aurait pu faire son deuil et enfin aller de l'avant concernant la mort de Leola. Mais ça, on ne le saura jamais.

I was thinking about grief in TDP and I realized something. Callum’s grief contrasts with Aaravos’s, whereas Ezran’s parallels Aaravos’s. Firstly, unlike Aaravos, who lost only one family member. Callum lost three: first his biological father, Damian, due to his respiratory illness. Then Sarai, whom he lost when he was younger, and finally Harrow, whom he thought he’d lost the day the moon elves came to Katolis. And in Act 1, he didn’t know until he heard it from Claudia and was unable to tell Ezran, not knowing how to bring it up.

Callum was sad, because it wasn’t just a parent he had lost. It was the third parent he had lost. And this time, it was his stepfather, with whom he had been distant because he didn’t see himself as his real son, unlike Ezran. But the letter helped him understand that Harrow loved him like his own son and saw himself in him. That letter allowed him to begin to grieve. When Ezran learns that his father has died, he is sad but also angry. But after talking with Claudia, he finally understood what he needed to do and felt better. However, because of their journey in Act 1, the two brothers didn’t really have time to properly grieve. It is during Ezran’s speech that the brothers express their grief for Harrow.

On the other hand, what’s interesting is that we see Ezran has internalized some of his feelings regarding his grief. In the short story, we see him crushing an arrow containing the letter announcing the success of his father’s assassination. And that anger and hatred explode when he sees Runaan, the man responsible for Harrow’s death. Just like Aaravos, who, after returning to Xadia, swore to seek revenge within the cosmic order. However, what sets Ezran apart from Aaravos is that he had someone: and that person was his big brother. In Season 7, Callum stops his little brother from destroying everything he has stood for and built up until now: peace. He even explains to him that he forgave Zubeia because the situation was complicated. They made mistakes, but they didn’t have to keep making them. Here, Callum acts as Ezran’s conscience; he doesn’t tell him to forgive him. He simply shows him that the situation with Runaan is far more complex than he thinks. And honestly, if Rayla had waited, perhaps Ezran would have acted differently. But we’ll never know.

When Ezran confronts Aaravos and speaks with him, the fact that he lost his beloved daughter and “continued her work” claiming to be “the ally of humanity” but seeing this world only through the lens of hatred. His anger toward the cosmic order parallels the anger and hatred Ezran felt toward Runaan. But unlike Aaravos, Ezran decides to show mercy toward Runaan, telling him that one day, he will be able to forgive him. Just as he chooses to forgive his big brother because he missed him and needs him.

The other difference between the brothers’ griefs, unlike Aaravos’s, is that the two brothers were not alone in facing their respective losses; they were surrounded and supported by their loved ones. Aaravos, on the other hand, had no one during all those years. He was alone, mourning the death of his daughter; if he’d had someone, a friend perhaps, maybe he could have worked through his grief and finally moved on from Leola’s death. But that’s something we’ll never know.

[creekmotel]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[luvlyleyy]

What happened in the middle of those 7 years bfor arc 3 probably

[guiltfactory]

the "my favorite character did nothing wrong" mindset is completely unappealing to me because i love thinking about all the things my favorite characters did wrong

[anxietyproblem]

[dailyrayllum]

[hypotenussy]

the number 1 rule of fanfic is have fun and be yourself. the number 2 rule is the average healthy adult male can lose roughly 2 liters of blood before dying.

[typebeanie]

I absolutely love the way Callum’s face changes from fear to determination every time he chooses to put himself in harms way to save someone else

[bebs-art-gallery]

Art by Essi Välimäki

[analogue-dragon]

"are you begging for mercy?"

"no"

"good, you don't deserve any"

EZRAN YOU COLD MF

"Maybe I want to see you suffer"

SOREN YOU COLD MF

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

ao3 isnt an archive NOR a library pls lmao

you do know ao3 stands for archive of our own, right? you do know its full name is literally archive of our own, right?

[frownyalfred]

Reminders for new ao3 users (in no particular order):

- filter your searches like you would on a library website or in an online catalogue

- don’t post placeholders, fic searches, or recommendations as fics. DON’T! It’s against ao3 TOS

- there is no algorithm. ao3 sorts by date posted/updated unless you filter with specific search criteria

- ao3 is a non profit. that means it doesn’t sell ads to make money — it only survives on donations. this is why it can show you so many fics without ever flashing an ad or pop up at you!

- report fics that break TOS when you see them (I.e., placeholder fics, searches) to help other users navigate better

- the tag “dead dove, do not eat” doesn’t equate to gore/awfulness automatically. it is a complementary tag that enhances current tags. E.g., if the fic is tagged “gore” and “dead dove, do not eat” the author really wants you to mind the gore tag

- most fandoms have a variation of “no beta, we die like (x character)” and they all link back to the “No beta” tag

- publishing a new fic sometimes means it won’t show up in the fandom/pairing tag for a few minutes

- subscribers receive update emails at different times, depending on when you update/publish your fic. there’s no good way to predict when an e-mail will be sent — it can be in 30 seconds, or two hours later

- some fics are restricted by authors to those with ao3 accounts only. if you see a blue lock in the upper right corner, that fic is only visible to logged in ao3 users

- you can block commenters now! this didn’t use to be a thing

- updating a fic just to stay at the top of the pairing tag/fandom tag is a dick move. unless you’re legitimately editing or adding chapters, this just annoys readers and fellow authors, and people will skip over your fic

[bundibird]

- make sure that you tag your ships correctly, both romantic and platonic. Putting an “&” between a pair of names means that the ship is platonic. Putting a “/” between the characters means its romantic. For example: “Greg & Steve” = platonic. “Greg/Steve” = romantic. They are NOT interchangable.

- if your fic includes original character/s or reader insert or y/n or etc, then TAG THOSE IN THE CHARACTER TAGS. Not just in the relationship tags!! They are characters in the story, so include them in the character tags. Failing to do so means people who want to find fics with those tags won’t be able to, and people who want to exclude fics with those tags won’t be able to.

- NEVER EVER EVER ADD A LINK TO A PATREON OR KO-FEE ACCOUNT OR ETC. Ao3’s entire legal protection hinges on the fact that no one is making money from fics. If you start commissioning fics or linking to a monetary platform, you are in breach of the Ao3 terms, risking legal action, and risking ao3 as a whole. There are loads of authors/companies who WILL sue if they think you’re making money off their intellectual property.

- seconding what OP said about Dead Dove Do Not Eat. It doesn’t automatically mean “gore”; it just means “heed the tags.” It means “Hey yeah when I tagged this as [thing] I was NOT fucking around, ok? Only read this fic if you’re OK with reading [thing].”

[arahir]

additions from someone who has posted way too much on this site please listen to me:

there are no best times to post but generally sunday and monday are a good zone for traffic

you must double check and make sure the publication date matches the day a chapter is posted or it won’t show up on the first page of updates. sometimes you have to physically edit the posting date multiple times for this to be fixed.

on that note: artificially editing your publication date so your fic shows up at the top when you haven’t added a chapter is the dickest of moves and will make you a pariah. do not do this. yes everyone will notice.

editing existing chapters doesn’t count as updating a fic and won’t change the publication date.

ao3 usually adds weird spaces after italics if you copy and paste in your writing pre-formatted. it doesn’t add these until after you’ve saved a draft or posted so you have to re-edit.

check the “add space after paragraph” option in your word precessor of choice to avoid having to delete an extra space between all your paragraphs on ao3.

when you add a second chapter to a one chapter fic, your original start/end authors notes will now be appended onto the notes of every chapter unless you move them to the now extant first chapter notes sections. this is confusing, but you’ll see what i mean.

to post on anon: add your fic to the anonymous (anonymous) collection. it’ll take up to fifteen to minutes to show in the tag once posted. it’ll show up (to you) as AUTHOR NAME: fic title. no one else sees it this way. it will never show up on your own dashboard unless you go to your stats page. if you ever de-anon, all your subs will get an email about it as if it were just posted.

if you update multiple fics at once, ao3 will group the updates into one email.

to transfer a fic to a new ao3 account: make a new account, make the new account a co-author, remove the old account as co-author.

you cannot mention money changing hands for fic on ao3, ever. don’t say commissions. say a fic was requested if you must say anything. your fic can get taken down for this.

reply to comments or never complain about engagement in fandom.

per that: EVERY TIME YOU EDIT A COMMENT, THE AUTHOR GETS A NEW COPY OF YOUR COMMENT IN THEIR EMAIL. we can see all the edits. be aware.

tagging is both a warning and an enticement, do so accordingly. you really don’t need to tag things that fall outside that unless you want to.

on that note: please don’t do the “short fics for 300 different fandoms in one fic” thing. no one wants to scroll past that. i mean you can but it just makes it harder for people to find the thing you’ve written that they want to read.

if you are really bad at summaries just think of it as a movie tag line and don’t say you’re bad at summaries. don’t neg your own fic.

re all the questions i saw in replies: fic searches are people looking for specific fics. i don’t know what the fuck a placeholder fic is but these aren’t fanworks and you can’t post them. you can’t post discord links or rp requests or complaints about fandom. you can post fanart and meta essays. that’s allowed.

[cleanlenins]

“Read by Author” tag is not a tag to say that you proofread the fic. It is specifically for podfic, saying that the fic is read outloud by the author

Remember the Block and Mute feature. Block means that someone cannot interact with your works. Mute, however, means you will not see the person’s works in the search. If you don’t want to see fics by a specific author, mute them.

Basic html works in comments. If you want to add an image, use <img src=“URL”> with the image url replacing URL. Keep the quotation marks.

Comments are not for critique. Unless the author specifically asks for critique, you are a jerk if you start pointing out everything you dislike. It doesn’t matter how vile you think the content is. If you don’t like it, just back out without saying anything.

If you do not want a work attached to your account at all, you can Orphan it. When you Orphan a fic, you can no longer edit it or delete it. This cannot be undone. If you just want to be anonymous, use the Anonymous feature described above.

If you wish to make a collection of fic that includes all of the fic you have read, consider making a collection of your bookmarks instead. Not every author wants their work to be in a million collections, but you don’t have to ask permission to make a collection of bookmarks.

The “Inspired By” option is great if you draw inspiration from another author’s fic. And it helps give credit to other amazing fanfic writers.

Fic can be downloaded in many different ways. If you want to download a fic and use it like an ebook, go for the EPUB version. But all versions have their merits.

No fanfic author in existence is going to be upset that you made fanart.

[chimaerakitten]

“Blanket permissions” AKA a writer saying if they’re cool with people making podfics/translations etc are usually going to be in the writer’s profile tab. When in doubt check there.