Reverie

she/her, 29 | Reverie (cl410) on Ao3

[i-like-plan-m]

FAQs

✒️ Find me on: Ao3 (Reverie/cl410) — Twitter (@reverie076)

✒️ Tumblr prompts are open! I’m currently accepting MDZS oneshot prompts and prompts for/related to any of my WIPs posted to Ao3. Specifics can be found at the end of this post.

✒️ While I absolutely appreciate requests for my fics to be added to a collection, the Ao3 collection owner gains the ability to make the fic anonymous (effectively removing the author from the fic), which means unfortunately I do not accept any collection requests for my fics.

✒️ Podfics and translations of my fics are always welcome (as long as they are ONLY posted to Ao3)! However I’m absolutely never ok with my fics or any translations being posted to Wattpad, so if you see them there I’d really appreciate a DM so I can report it!

✒️ MDZS ships I will always accept prompts for: Wangxian ofc; Nielan (NMJ/LXC); Jiang Yanli/Wen Qing; Mianmian/Wen Qing; Lan Sizhui/Lan Jingyi

✒️ Unlikely to write: Xue Yang-centric; Jin Guangyao-centric; 3zun; anything positive about JGS. Also long/extremely specific prompts as they ten to be too restrictive for me to write well.

✒️ Definitely won’t write: Noncon; Unhappy Endings; Infidelity in main pairings; and I reserve the right to refuse whatever else I can’t think of rn

[shigure]

i'm sorry i never did your tag game. i love you

[musicofthe-ainur]

Am I the only person who thought this was really fucking funny

[eleemosynecdoche]

A lot of the really funny moments in Lord of the Rings come from Tolkien playing with language like this, where we have relatively formal, archaic, “high” language responded to with informal, modern, “low” language. 

[modernclaire]

another hilarious example:

[lotrmusical]

my absolute favorite example of tolkien switching registers in this way is

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

[henstomper]

dude it's just politics, it doesn't matter. all it does is shape every single aspect of the society you live in from the second you are born until forever

[queer-is-future-deactivated2025]

so when straight people ask me why I say I’m “queer” or “gay” instead of sharing my actual identity as a panromantic demisexual non-binary sapphic queer I just tell them “ok look, when you’re talking to someone who isn’t local and they ask you where you’re from and you either say the name of the largest city nearby or ‘town name, suburb of large nearby city’ so they can get some geographical context of where you’re located right, bc they’re probably not going to know the name of the little town you actually live in.”

but if you’re talking to a local you can say the name of your actual town bc they have a greater chance of knowing where/what that is.

ok well when I’m talking to a straight person I start with queer bc chances are they aren’t as familiar with the context of all the little towns in that big queer city and need gps (gay positioning system) to find me.

if I’m talking to another queer person and I say I live in a suburb of gay city in a town called panromantic on the demisexual side of the tracks which is in the county of queer and I live off the intersection of non-binary and sapphic, they’d probably be able to find me with little to no problems, make sense?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Also because my exact address in Queertown is usually nobody's business.

[tarragonthedragon]

In either case, you only need all the details if you're coming back to my place.

[cooking-with-hailstones]

And also sometimes if I say what part of the city I'm from, people from other parts of the city will be like "oh well that's not REALLY the city! You're basically a glorified suburb" and I don't always wanna have that argument 🤷‍♀️

[rainyydoves]

i beat myself up for not knowing enough about my special interests a lot but then i remember the average person off the street has no idea what the carboniferous is and i feel better

[rainyydoves]

are you really bad at it or are you in "good at it" spaces

[bigbigtruck]

"are you really bad at it or are you in 'good at it' spaces" has derailed so much self-hate since I read it

this is a load bearing sentence in my psyche and I can't believe it's only 2 months old

[baddywronglegs]

Often you will surround yourself with other people interested in the same things you are because an interest shared is an interest... Fucking great, I dunno, imagine I said better words.

By being good at things you create the perfect conditions for a good at it space to flourish around you. You aren't just in a good at it space, you are a part of good at it space.

[carriecmoney]

You know when you're checking out a new fandom and you stumble across a writer/artist you loved in a previous fandom and it feels like running into a childhood friend at a bar

[carriecmoney]

Running into the arms of trusted ao3 handles in a new tag like an airport greeting

[reagan-slayer69]

“but what if you abort the baby who’ll cure cancer?!” sir the baby who will cure cancer is an organic chemistry major who works at a Home Depot because you use AI to go through your resumes

[mel-155-a]

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

[pomrania]

“This reads like fanfiction (it feels like it was written by a preteen, and most of such things posted publicly are fanfic)” vs “This reads like fanfiction (it has a focus on character and relationships, like the style of a lot of modern fanfic)” vs “This reads like fanfiction (it keeps referencing people and events with the assumption that the audience is already familiar with them, like how fanfic doesn’t need to rehash the source material)”

[pomrania]

Some further suggestions from the notes:

“This reads like fanfiction (it’s a love story for the ages as long as you can overlook that the author keeps misspelling ‘you're’)” vs “This reads like fanfiction (you can tell the author was having a blast writing this and now so do you reading it)” vs “This reads like fanfiction (the author is clearly info-dumping about a very niche hobby of theirs that they’re passionate about)” vs “This reads like fanfiction (the characters keep getting put in increasingly weirder situations which you’d normally only find in fanfic)” vs “This reads like fanfiction (the author felt the need to rehash the characters from when they were first introduced instead of after several years’ worth of character growth)” vs “This reads like fanfiction (it feels like it had no editor)”

[kat-of-letters]

i know that “don’t harass people for being weird, they might be autistic!” is a fairly popular take on here. but as a Certified Autist, i’d like to add that harassing allistic and/or neurotypical people for being weird is also bad, and should not be done

and before you come in with “yeah, you never know who is and isn’t autistic, and you shouldn’t force people to out themselves!” i want to say two things: one, i agree. and two, even if you could magically avoid ever harassing a single autistic person, it still wouldn’t be okay to go after NTs for being weird. they’re people, janice. they’re allowed to be really invested in naruto

[blujayonthewing]

#stop playing the game of ‘who is it okay for me to hurt?’ #the answer is no one #the answer is ALWAYS going to be no one #none people is the correct number of people to hurt [X]

[miinobobeano]

It bothers me so much that the healthcare system relies so much on the patient's ability to advocate for themselves, organize their history, and be so persistent against every medical “professional” who says there’s nothing wrong/they can do. But so many struggle with fatigue, brain fog, and face such ingrained systemic barriers, that the people who need and deserve help and support can’t access it.

I saw something recently that resonated with me: “Access shouldn't depend on who has the energy to fight for it.” And I’ve never agreed with anything more.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

god give me a sign but not that one i just saw

[voyaging-too]

Eowyn/Faramir was one of the first ships I was truly obsessed with, and am still obsessed with. Faramir has lived the past year of his life in the shadow of the Nazgul, burdened by grief, fighting a desperate war that knows he's going to lose, hating that he has to fight at all but still doing it to protect his men (many of whom will die anyway), to obey his father (who doesn't love him), to defend his city (which is probably doomed.) He bears up heroically under his burden, he doesn't have illusions, he tolerates hopelessness so well that he's not even tempted by the ring: if no actions can avert the inevitable destruction, he might as well act righteously. He holds up under the burden, and he holds others upright as well, but it's sickening him, and the sickening dread that he fights every day has a voice and shape, black wings in the sky.

And then Eowyn shows up having killed one of those.

[voyaging-too]

Imagine waking up in a hospital bed. There's a girl in the room next to yours who keeps arguing with the nurses and trying to check herself out of the hospital even though she's got so many broken bones and just generally looks half dead. There's a security guard on her door because she's an obvious flight risk. You ask another patient who's well enough to walk around how she ended up in there and he tells you she killed depression. Not all depression, but the big one, the King Depression, definitely. She stabbed it in the face.

[tuxankhamun]

"Use your Google account to log—"

just let me use your website you insufferable rat

[sourdough-seal]

“what are you doing this weekend” i am going to fantasy land. i am hiding under the covers in bed. i am making things up. i am contemplating events that didnt happen. i am talking to fake people. i am listening to my tunes. i am envisioning scenarios

[papayajuan2019]

paper and pen seems so powerful now. on account of all the. surveillance

[marmorada]

[werewolf-girlfriend]

i rly like how many electronic devices you can turn off by holding the power button down. its very intuitive to kill a thing by choking it