I don't know why it took me so long to realize, but I am convinced our Chief Lizard's version of offering comfort is “Kim Soleum-ssi, do you require my advice?”
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I don't know why it took me so long to realize, but I am convinced our Chief Lizard's version of offering comfort is “Kim Soleum-ssi, do you require my advice?”
Thinking about this post talking about “Oracle that nobody believes” trope and how I need that for Tobirama.
Tobirama who looks at Izuna and sees an eyeless corpse, who looks at Madara and sees a raving madman intent on destruction, who looks at his oldest brother and sees him so tired and worn, who looks at Kawarama and Itama and sees nothing.
Tobirama who has become used to people not listening to him, doing everything on his own, who has tried everything in his power to change just one little bit of the future he can see! And he can’t. He can’t change Konoha’s future. Danzo’s future, the Uchiha’s future. Not even his own. Nothing he does changes it.
Tobirama begging Izuna to stop fighting every battle, saying that if they keep fighting Izuna will die, and his death will lead the world to ruin. If not by Tobirama’s hand then by another’s. All Tobirama can do is try to keep damage to a minimum. Please, can they just have peace, even though he knows it’s useless.
And maybe once, just once, in a fit of desperation, Tobirama tells Madara. About what he has seen, about how he can see the future. How nobody believes him. Because maybe Madara will be stubborn enough to believe him out of spite. But of course Madara doesn’t believe him, even goes so far as to mock him.
Then as he’s dying Madara finds him, and Tobirama laughs weakly, because he knew this was going to happen. “Do you believe me now? I told you… I told you this would happen…”
And he had. Had told Madara that Tobirama would be killed saving his students from the Gold and Silver brothers, and before he died, Madara would find him.
Left with the corpse of the man he thought he hated more than anyone, Madara has to wonder how much would have changed if they had only listened to him?
Literally dead and dying. Tell me why Audrey is like:
You need to not hold everything in and be happy it will stop you from literally driving yourself insane. ^u^;
And Klein is like:
Mhm yeah sure buddy. But you don't know about my lead wall I keep between myself and human connection because. It protects me. Ignore Leonard I don't know how he got past it either.
I’m just going to drop this WIP of Hermes x Luke that I’m not sure I’ll finish. The only thing I’m happy with is Hermes cloak honestly.
Klein being the pov character means we as the readers can follow along with his thought process so we see it as logical and as the only thing he could do but as an experience veteran of unreliable narrators I just wash him and think:
"There are 300 other options actually just your unquenchable curiosity and lack of self-preservation (despite how much you want to pretend you have it) makes you feel like there's only one."
"Keeping this all a secret is unhealthy you need like a confidant or else your going to burn out."
"Claiming you would pretend to be the second coming of Jesus if this is the modern day is actually not a normal thing to say in the fact they only thing stopping you from doing that now is the fact that gods can respond is actually insane."
"Hey no your expectations for something going well shouldn't be "I only got slightly mutilated in the fog dimension.""
This had me dyin’…
My man Klein is the very embodiment of “fake it till you make it”
Klein during the gatherings: just act cool don’t give away that you’re a noob.
Klein: conduct this ritual that I made up
Justice and Hanged man: wow he must be an ancient and divine god! How cool! Absolutely, oh great one!
I love this man. He’s just like “ah yes, I am a mysterious mystery person! One with extraordinary powers beyond your feeble comprehension!” While also being like “wtf is going on right now?!?”
And they all 100% believe him.
Klein on the outside: powerful, mysterious, gentleman
Klein on the inside: dude I just want to go home. I have no clue what I’m doing.
If Klein was an idol what type of idol do you think he'd be? Also his personas would make such a fun idol group
Merlin the main face of the idol group with his fun personality and Gehrman the rapper. Klein is the lead dancer (he's the first one with clown powers) who acts really chill all the time and thinks he isn't a big deal, but is actually incredibly popular. "I'm just here to dance I'm not even that good looking" nuhuh. everyone wants you.
Leonard is a solo artist in the same agency and went through one of those survival shows with Klein and is devastated they didn't end up signed as a duo.
I was like teehee I bet people will say something silly and cute and- proceeded to get shot in the face with rapper Gehrman and lead dancer Klein.
I love it! And Mr Fool is their mysterious manager who is definitely not one of the members himself, no sirree. Dwayne could be their lead vocalist? He's very commanding when he's out and about but in a fancy shmancy way. Sherlock would be an all rounder himself, with a side of more wet pathetic bastard energy going on to match with the others vibes of, "bastard but also [blank]" theme. I can see them being kind of rough but gentlemen themed which would sort of translated into Bastard energy lol
Poor Leonard never gets his way no matter what! His manager has to be Pallez by the way, for the extra points of Mr Fool and Pallez having beef and thus never being able to actually do a collab together (the beef of same agency managers is crazy lol)
I love your mind.
Amon is probably a producer with control over the mixing and recording who loves to see the drama between groups
name is probably Tarot (stylised in some way) or perhaps Blessed.
ofc Audrey owns the company. she is not heavily involved but she Sees Everything. she knows all your secrets, and more importantly knows when her staff are stressed and need therapy
Mr Fool an elusive manager who is almost never seen and is hard to get ahold of, but always answers his idols calls quickly
Pallez known for being finicky and scary as a manager but acts strangely lenient with Leonard. despite admonishing him a lot it's an oddly fond tone... netizens attribute this to Leonard's good looks and Tragic Backstory winning him over
Sinbad Voluntier was announced to be part of the group but never actually had any public appearances, rumours say he backed out at the last minute
the Face roll was assigned after a public vote and no one (in agency) expected Merlin to win it, but apparently he has this thing the fans call 'skrunkly rizz'.
Fan edits of Gehrman always feature a generous amount of gunshot sound effects. outside of performance he talks tersely and concisely, and no one can really tell if he's joking or not with his displeasure (Merlin can) (fans call it a miracle)
along with dancer Klein is also songwriter, but this isn't made public because he cringes really hard about it.
Klein would cringe really hard about it tbh, thats such a Klein thing to do about popular songs he wrote. Would Derek be one of their OG fans? And Alger as well? Always defending them online or in person, but Alger for sure glazes the hell out of them all the time to the point it's a little too much (fan site master Alger).
Derrick is the fan who is like "your songs changed my life" which makes Klein vaguely uneasy but Merlin is thrilled to have a positive impact on people.
Alger has a conspiracy theory that they're all actually related to incredibly powerful people in the economy/politics and is constantly trying to figure things out from their schedules and backgrounds and chats
OMG I LOVE THIS. I WANT THIS. Pls someone make a fic out of this!
ogKRS gives of "depressed old man syndrome" energy, ogCale gives "altrustic bastard fraud hiding under a lout facade" energy, KRS!Cale gives "cunty young man with depression" energy, and Heniroksoo gives "cunt serving depressed old man that's simultaneously a dilf AND a milf" energy
I desperately NEED a fic where Uther executes Merlin after somehow finding out about his magic, and Arthur straight up loses his mind and just... walks away. From his father. From the hatred of magic. From his knights. From his friends. From his people.
From Camelot.
He's done. Merlin is gone, and nothing means anything anymore.
Uther burned Merlin while Arthur was in the dungeons for protesting. Uther who claimed to love Arthur's mother, and still bargained with her life for a son.
I want Uther to see his son's devotion (feelings realized too late, too late) to the dead servant boy. To realize that unlike him, Arthur would never have sacrificed the love of his life for a legacy.
I want Uther to realize that Arthur's love for a dead sorcerer is far greater and purer and more selfless than Uther's obsession for Ygraine ever was. (Because Arthur would never take his anger out on innocents. Cannot bear to imagine what Merlin would say if he did. Caring about a sorcerer's opinion, loving the sorcerer -Not really his father's perfect son, eh?)
And I want Uther to realize that he, King Uther Pendragon, has done to his son what he accused Nimueh of doing to him. (And knew, always, deep down that she didn't.)
I want Morgana, so recently "rescued" from the clutches of her sweet sister, to find out that the boy, once a friend, who poisoned her to save Arthur and Camelot and was rewarded with his death for it, was like her all along.
I want Morgause to exclaim in delight to Morgana that with the Crown Prince having taken himself out of the way, Camelot is ripe for the taking.
And for Morgana to hear this and think -none of this makes sense, what even is the point?
I want Arthur's last words ever to his father to be that he would never forgive him for this.
That in killing the sorcerer who had prevented Arthur from ending Uther's miserable worthless life, he's lost his son forever.
Uther Pendragon's young dynasty built on blood and bones and tears and screams and ash did not have it's legacy robbed by magic.
The legacy walked away.
And it will keep walking, wandering, alone from this land to that, until over a thousand years later, when it finds its soul's mate again, in a world forever changed to the both of them.
The rest of the thread is here.
tl;dr: Don’t monetize AO3, kids. You won’t like what happens next.
read this thread. this is by far the most concise explanation of a lot of different issues that i’ve seen in fandom spaces in a while. cosigning both the linked thread and the thread about aus/uk/can law that’s linked in-thread.
AHDHXHEBSG TWITTER WRITERS DID WHAT NOW???? AND PEOPLE PAID THEM????
If someone has never taken a class that includes copyright law, they may not know this stuff, so I don’t necessarily blame random people for not knowing what copyright is, but like… maybe just maybe it’s something that should be taught????
Just another reminder, because this always drives me crazy, but even if monetizing your fic was 100% unambiguously legal and protected, AO3 would still not let you do it because AO3 was founded and is supported by people like me who want a fandom community that is completely divested from making money off of fic.
Yes, this. Lots of fanworks on AO3 are unambiguously legal. Fics based on Shakespeare plays and fairy tales and Greek mythology and The Great Gatsby and your original character from your D&D game are not violations of copyright, because no copyright applies to those things.
AO3 still doesn’t let you monetize those things on the site, because we don’t want the site to be commercial! Because that’s not what it’s for!
It’s not there for you (generic you) to make money off the efforts of the people who build and maintain the site for free! We aren’t getting paid for the work we do to give you a nice site to use, just like you aren’t getting paid for the work you do to create whatever art you share there. Because fandom is supposed to be a community where we share with each other, and therefore we all benefit.
The deal is, we give you a free, stable, safe platform to host your works. In exchange, you get a site that isn’t covered in ads and tip jars and links to gofundme and “read the next chapter at my patreon”. You get one goddamn place on the internet that isn’t trying to make money off you. And we will defend that space and keep it non-commercial.
GUYS. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN WRITE CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE FICS ON AO3
Other things you can do:
Linked footnotes
Customized page dividers
Sticky notes
Lined paper
Paper that looks stacked on top of each other
Old looking paper
Newspaper articles
Tumblr posts
iOS text messages
Emails
Fake ao3 authors notes and kudos button
Freaking discord chats
Its fucking amazing. Ao3 is fucking amazing. Can I legally marry a website?
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
WHAT
One of those times I'm reblogging something so I can find it again later
Q. A. B. by jihnari and specifically this chapter of Walking Study in Demonology by ijustwanttodestroy are both great examples of the insane shit you can do on AO3
Closed Loop System by One_of_Them is told through a functional game of minesweeper made in ao3 and has multiple endings based on how you play the game
iconic sassy merlin moment no. 24
Arthur & Merlin | 3.05 "The Crystal Cave"
There is NO WAY that it doesn't exist a Kim Dokja's fannart wearing a Victoria Secret Angel or Demom costume. I'm not letting this pass I NEED to get to the kitchen.
Reposting as a reminder for myself to draw this
Reblog if it's okay to invade your ask box.
Canon divergent AU where Arthur takes the blame for Merlin’s magic before Uther by saying Merlin was acting under Arthur’s direct orders. Bonus points if he’s bluffing and just found out about Merlin’s magic 5 min prior and is really hoping nobody interrogates them separately
Choi Han: I’m going to defeat you with the power of friendship!... And this sword Cale-nim give me.
Or-
Lock: I’m going to defeat you with the power of friendship!... And this shield the last Dragon Lord give me.
Alternative:
Alberu: I’m going to defeat you with the power of friendship!… And this gun the sun goddess left for me.
And;
Rosalyn: I'm going to defeat you with the power of friendship!... And these highest grade of mana stones that the young master gives me.
And;
Mary: I'm going to defeat you with the power of friendship!... And the bone dragon young master Cale gave me.
And;
Raon: I'm going to defeat you with the power of friendship!... And the knowledge of swears my human gave me.
Toonka: I'm going to defeat you with the power of friendship!... And my fists!
Clopeh: I'm going to defeat you with the power of my faith!... And the wyverns I can control due to the graciousness of Cale-nim
Ron: I'm going to kill you, not with the power of friendship, but with this knife I've been sharpening all my life
Cale: I won't defeat you. My friends will do that. That's the power of friendship (he says, while going to battle an enemy head on)