[throatoftheworld]

Michelle Avery Konczyk

[blackheartbiohazards]

➡️ Content warnings on fiction are a courtesy. 

➡️ Not every medium of fiction and storytelling has or is expected to have content warnings or extensive tagging.

➡️ Print novels do not traditionally warn for content in any way.

➡️ Until AO3 came along, fanfiction did not traditionally warn for content in any significant way.

➡️ An author is only obligated to warn for content to the degree mandated by the format they publish their fiction on.

➡️ Content warnings beyond the minimum are a courtesy, not an obligation.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is a valid tag that authors are allowed to use on AO3. It means there could be anything in there and you have accepted the risk. 'May contain peanuts!'

➡️ Writers are allowed to use 'Creator chose not to warn' for any reason, including to maintain surprise and avoid spoilers.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is not the same thing as 'no archive warnings apply'.

➡️ It is your responsibility to protect yourself and close a book, or hit the back button if you find something in fiction that you're reading that upsets you.

➡️ You are responsible for protecting yourself from fiction that causes you discomfort.

[spoiledblogif]

Imma just...

[fruityangilva67777]

“Will with an earring”

[brittlepredatordemon]

Actually, no, I don't think that friendships dropping like flies in your late 20s and early 30s because no one has time for that between overwork and family obligations and marriage and kids and partners and the ritual of the time slayer is normal and ok. No I don't think deep conversations and spontaneous adventures being replaced with a tired coffee every six months is a normal part of growing up. I don't think that emotional intimacy and soul bonds disintegrating in the face of practical inconvenience is a fact of life. I think that means something is deeply deeply wrong with our society and I will never forgive it for the friends I've lost

[anxeious]

bathe in your own sunlight !!!!!!

[reflectivestars]

New Chapter out now!

I really need to start preparing my fic for bychance week which Im so excited for, anyways, hope you enjoy

[jediwill]

smalltown boy will forever be THE will byers song #tome idc that it was on some mike wheeler themed promotional spotify playlist

Ugh I KNOWWW whoever made that didnt care to look into the history of the song or even the fucking lyrics. Im so bitter that this song is associated with mike and not will. It is WILL’S SONG

[roadhogsbigbelly]

i think there'd be alot less discourse around "fanfic vs literature" if more people treated fanfiction as it's own medium with it's own strength and weaknesses, rather than comparing it to traditional literature, because most of what i love about fan-fiction just straight up does not work in original fiction. at all.

[limbel]

we have to thank our brave soldiers in fandom who write gen fics. we have to thank our brave soldiers in fandom who write character studies and stories with no focus on romance or sex. we have to get on our knees and thank the brave soldiers in fandom who write about minor characters and friendship and family with no focus on romance or sex. i know it’s hard to care about characters in a world that seems to only revolve around ships but i see you. and i love you

[holdmybychance]

Married bychance who have to navigate their domestic life along with their disabilities — Will still has PTSD, asthma and seizure, while Chance has back pain and tendinitis because of manual work.

Taking care of each other while trying to survive the economy as a working class gay couple.

[holdmybychance]

update: I got sick right before our date but he was so sweet about it and re-planned the whole hangout so I could sit down more and enjoy my time even if I didn't feel good... He kept checking if I was okay but also distracted me and made me laugh.

It's the first time I don't feel like I'm too much around someone and unmasked a little, it's so liberating.

[blairwitchdiaries-deactivated20]

turns out my life purpose isn’t supposed to be as small and silent and accommodating and convenient as possible

[arstoryels]

Sometimes I mourn the Byler space this fandom could have had if people had just acted normal about it.

If people had accepted Will as the only canon queer character in the pair and respected his specific, queer story arc instead of trying to strip it down and hand it over to Mike. A ship not being canon doesn’t make it any less valid, rich, or fun—that’s literally what fanworks are for.

If people had just treated Byler as a normal shipping experience instead of turning it into a hyper-fixated, theory-filled crusade to prove it as a concrete "canon endgame." Imagine if all that energy had been redirected into reimagining Mike's queerness as a collective headcanon, built through fic and art, instead of trying to force its objective "canon" validity through 50-page manifestos.

I mourn that space. Maybe it would’ve been kinder to Will’s character. Maybe the shipwars wouldn't be half as toxic, and maybe Mileven shippers would've kept to themselves/would've been less antagonizing to the ship too. Or maybe they would’ve just faded out quietly by January, the way most het-ships naturally die down in fan spaces once the show ends.

And maybe—most importantly—Will's character wouldn't constantly be collateral damage caught in the middle of 24/7 hits from people hating on the byler shippers, or the homophobic hits from every side of the discourse.

I would've really liked to interact with a space like that, use it as an outlet to give Will all the happiness he deserved in the show. The truth is that byler has a very fun dynamic to explore, but the constant insistence of "but it should've been canon!!" gets very exhausting, very quick.

[hyeque]

i hope all mutuals who i never talk to are having a good day

[sawed-on-shotgun]

need a hat that says I WONT SPEAK UNLESS SPOKEN TO AND ITS NOT BECAUSE IM DISINTERESTED AND DONT LIKE YOU I JUST DONT UNDERSTAND SOCIAL INTERACTION AS WELL AS MOST PEOPLE AND ASSUME BY DEFAULT MY PRESENCE IS UNWELCOME AS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE SO I KEEP TO MYSELF BUT I DONT MIND IF YOU INITIATE so i can wear it to work

[ilovebylerandstonathan]

Never got the ga not finding Jonathan hot. Bc like have you seen Charlie heaton???? Hello?? Have you seen Jonathan in the show??? At very least on season 2??? Hello???? also like hes so caring. And that’s really hot.

Like that’s my actual man omfg.

[holdmybychance]

I got a date????for the first time in my life???oh my god???