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Hudson Williams, #1 Shane Understander

I think Shane was a character who, soon as I read him, made all the sense to me. I felt immediately a kinship and an ownership over Shane. I was like, “I need to be the only person to tell this story. I get it. I want to be the person to be Shane and I want to spend time with him.” [x]

(sources below)

vexbatch

Bidding is open for Fandom Trumps Hate!

To view all listings for Heated Rivalry, go here: https://fth2026offerings.dreamwidth.org/tag/fandom:%20heated%20rivalry

There are people offering fanfic, podfic, fanvids, fanart, as well as beta services, culture pickers, typesetters, and more! This is an easy and fun way to get a fanwork made while also supporting charity. Bidding ends March 7!

Not sure what any of this means?

You can look through all the auctions, view existing bids and place a bid using the spreadsheet and form linked in each individual auction post, and if you win, the creator will work with you to create a fanwork after you have donated to one of the charities they have specified!

Be sure to read each auction carefully to find the ones that align with what you're looking for. Closer to the end of bidding, there will be a searchable tag added to find auctions without bids!

For more links separated by type of auction, see under the cut!

jennisaisquoi79

Aaahhhhh so helpful!!!

helorific

Hello. It’s me. I know I said I was quitting tumblr, but I wanted to share my (finally) finished Check, Please! Netflix Teaser. I also now have a YouTube channel, where you can find more of my edits. Like, subscribe, and enjoy!

jennisaisquoi79

Reblogging so I never lose this again omfg i just scrolled back through 11 years of liked posts ( it was like digging through the sediment of my fandom obsessions) and finally found a vid by helorific that looked similar and then searched and scrolled helorific’s inactive account and wow. Found it. Hell yeah.

lego-jack

More of the Samwell Women’s Volleyball team! These characters (other than March & April) are made up by @abermb and @asterlark.

First we have Kelsey & bailey being cute. They are an actual couple. <3

Second, some of the other girls after they’ve won a game - I mean, they kick ass at volleyball.

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The real pain chart 🙌

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I want to apologise to

- Britney for making fun of her when she had her breakdown

- Monica Lewinski for judging her when she was a 22year old temp sexually assaulted by the most powerful man in the world

- Ke$ha for ever thinking she was trashy when all she wanted to do was make party music

- Kristen Stewart for ever thinking she was dumb when she’s actually one of the coolest people ever

- Megan Fox for ever thinking she was just a slut when actually she was an actress being harassed by her employer.

- Hating all the women who made a career out of having a hot body. Being is shape is hard, beauty is a weapon and auto promotion is hard work.

- All the Mary-Sues, who exist because young girls everywhere want to be part of a story they love so much

- All the female characters I ever snobbed because they got in the way of my ship.

- Hating the color pink during my teenage years, when it’s actually a lovely color and what I resented was society’s pressure to perform femininity.

butchsandwich-deactivated201912

Wow. Yeah. All true.

delphinidin4

theprofessional-amateur

a-wild-torterra

God the cougar one, the Milky Way one, and the kardshian one are absolutely perfect

rosalarian

When I say "my ADHD wouldn't be a disability if society was structured differently," I don't mean that my physical brain structure/chemistry would somehow change the moment capitalism went away. I mean we as a society could choose to accommodate it to the level we accommodated nearsightedness to the point where most people don't think of it as a disability anymore.

To use this metaphor, imagine if in order to access help for your nearsightedness, you had to endure years of people not believing you're nearsighted because they don't believe anybody is near sighted, and you are just faking it for attention and the privilege of always sitting up front. And if you do manage to get help, you have to go to the eye doctor every 30 days for new glasses because they're not allowed to give you a prescription for longer than that. And the government is creating an artificial scarcity of glasses because they think too many people are lying about needing glasses. And when you try to push through and you make a bunch of mistakes because you can't see, it's all your fault. And because you can sorta see when you squint your eyes really hard, you're expected to do that all the time while keeping up with everybody who can just see well.

Disability is not just about what's going on in your brain and body, it's about societal response to it. Do we believe it even exists as a problem? Do we moralize having the problem? Do we have the ability to accommodate it? Do we follow through on those accommodations without complaint? Or do we throw up further obstacles? This is so much of what separates divergence from disability.

jennisaisquoi79

Oof

pod-together

Pod-Together Day 1 Reveals 2023

The Matchmaking Bentley (Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Queen (Band)) written by ChrisCalledMeSweetie, performed by Juulna Summary: Crowley's Bentley is determined to make the ineffable husbands' relationship more effable - with a bit of help from Queen.

Just Missed You (Ted Lasso (TV)) written by chainofclovers and gnen, performed by klb, rockinhamburger, petrodobreva, eafay70, Ceewelsh, JanuariumPods, meyml, ToughPaperRound, dairaliz, SSLeif, HowOldAreWe, gnen, chainofclovers, and DryDreams Summary: Ted and Beard, one year later. (They love each other, they will see each other again.) A "found audio" story for pod-together 2023.

Value (Jewish Scripture & Legend) written by Hagar, performed by eafay70 Summary: Le’a is kind as often as possible, but it doesn’t always help ease the sting of life in the shadow of her beautiful sister Rachel.

Lightning (Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV)) written by tadhana_writes, performed by gracicah Summary:"Lightning flashed. In that horrible moment of pure light, I saw my mistake."

Things are well. Holmes has returned, life has returned to a quiet lull, and they're in another case. Same thing as always. By the light of a thunderstorm, Watson realises that things may not be the as well as he wishes them to be.

Pay Attention to Me (A3! (Video Game), A3! (Anime)) written by Dokuhan, performed by ChaosKiro Summary: Chikage will swear up and down, left to right, backwards and forwards that jealousy is beneath him. But that becomes a lot harder to say when Sakuya and Tasuku start spending more time together than usual.

camouflage (Twisted-Wonderland (Video Game)) written by roxas_oxo13, performed by Wonderlandian_Geek Summary: “You remind me of myself, I guess.” “Impossible.” “Why’s that?” It's now or never. He’s already not likable; he has to nothing to lose. “You’re good-looking. You’re always surrounded by your flowery little posse. You always have something to say. You don’t know what it’s like to have people avoid you and tell you that your parents are the only thing you have going for you. It’s always do this, try this, be better, until it’s time to do a science project and suddenly you’re hot shit.”

Visit to a Strange World (陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) RPF, 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù) written by FlutterFyre, performed by pezzax Summary: Xiao Zhan awakens to find himself in an impossible situation. He has more questions than he knows what to do with, the biggest being, How do I get home?

Surrender (Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling) written by SanctuaryAngel, performed by SerenaEW Summary: Harry ends his life within the Veil after losing Sirius, and Severus spends every day visiting, wondering if he should follow.

Don the Mantle [text, audio] (Star Wars: Rebels) written by wanderingjedihistorian, performed by Flowerparrish Summary: The world spun as he took in the date before him. Perhaps this was a nightmare of some sort? Or a hallucination? The brief said they weren’t entirely sure what protections the device had on it. Forcing him to relive the assault on Lasan certainly would be a fitting way to neutralize him. Still, that didn’t…that idea didn’t seem right. This felt all too real.

Not Alone (เขา...ไม่ใช่ผม | Not Me (TV 2021)) written by FlutterFyre, performed by Wereflamingo Summary: Not that any of that mattered. Black wasn’t here and – like the rest of them – Sean was hooded, cuffed, and crammed in the back of this van like unwanted luggage. Helpless.

Get A Read On Me (Men's Hockey RPF) written by savvygambols, performed by Beryllinthranox Summary: Roope considers Jason, his broad chest and his strong arms, his big dark eyes and his beautiful brown skin. Jason is a good-looking man and his shirt doesn’t fit at all. “We’re going shopping after practice,” say Roope. “Uh—” says Jason. He rubs his palms on his jeans. His jeans don’t fit. Roope can fix this. Roope can fix all of this. “I mean, I don’t know, Roope. I don’t, like—I mean, you know me and clothes, right? It’s not my thing.” “It wasn’t a question,” says Roope. “We’re going.”

rhythmelia

What I Know (podfic from Pride Month Twitter Love Stories series)

[ID: podfic cover with a gathering of tall trumpet-shaped purple and yellow flowers (photo by beautifulduckweed). Title is "What I Know" with credits as "By beautifulduckweed, read by jennisaisquoi, risa-say-quail, simon-says-quack, curlofacalyx, Gavilan, rhythmia, wilfriede0815, HowOldAreWe" /end ID]

Multivoice podfic! Organized/edited/executive produced by jennisaisquoi / @mama-phd!

Podfic: What I Know Original fic: What I Know by @beautifulduckweed, also on twitter here: https://twitter.com/gleebags/status/1542743379309514752

Tagging other contributors with tumblrs: @takonxmz @gavilansblog @wilfriede

It's been an honor participating in it, the original twitter/AO3 story is absolutely wonderful/gutwrenching and as I mentioned in chat multiple chunks of this story are L I T E R A L L Y ME which is why I asked to read the section of the story I did (Hiiiii I'm the "bad at being Chinese" part). Once again showing how being specific about one's experiences (in this case about growing up queer and Chinese) is one way you can be incredibly relatable to others 💜

jennisaisquoi did an AMAZING job putting it together (listen to the music version if you can for EVEN MORE FEELS) and I love everyone in this bar. Have tissues ready, I was definitely emotionally compromised and tearing up for multiple parts of it, everyone is SO GOOD at their performances ahhhhh

🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🏳️‍🌈🌈😭🥰

(psst also check out the rest of jennisaisquoi's Pride Month Twitter Love podfic series on AO3 based on beautifulduckweed's Pride Month Twitter Love series from 2022!)

beautifulduckweed

I am bad at promoting things I do, and even worse with the lovelier things people do with the things I did. Anyway jennisaisquoi and HowOldAreWe recorded podfics for the Twitter Pride Month stories I did last year, and I am prostrate from the sheer amount of Feelings I've felt about that, but this recording in particular straight-up murdered me. Please give it a listen and show everyone who contributed some love. Just typing this is making me tear up. Here's to all us queerdos. We are all worthy; we are all enough; may we continue to bring strangeness and beauty into the world.

rhythmelia

Here's to all us queerdos. We are all worthy; we are all enough; may we continue to bring strangeness and beauty into the world.

jennisaisquoi79

This was such a joy to make!

balaclava-trismegistus

Sun Tzu is so fucking funny to me because for his time he was legitimately a brilliant tactician but a bunch of his insight is shit like "if you think you might lose, avoid doing that", "being outnumbered is bad generally", and "consider lying."

elidyce

My personal favourite is his lengthy lecture on the subject of Supplies Being Very Important I Cannot Stress Enough The Importance Of Protecting Your Supply Lines But Also Supply Lines Are Expensive As Shit So Steal The Enemy’s Supplies At Every Opportunity.

biohammer

via- @elidyce

crazy-pages

One of the more important things to consider about any historical work is the audience it was published for. The Art Of War was aimed at fancy nobles high on philosophy with little practical military experience who were nonetheless leading armies.

limpurtikles

Sun Tzu, after desperatly trying to explain extremely basic logic to a bunch of upper-class twits, basically sat down and wrote the most elaborate "As per my last email" ever

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the art of war is tedious and irritating when you read it as like, immortal prose by the most brilliant man ever to kick ass. but it’s incredibly fucking funny when you realize that sun tzu had to write every single one of those entries because someone somewhere did not know this ahead of time and made a really, really expensive oopsie doodles.

everyonehasamnesia

As someone recently diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, one thing that’s been helping me grapple with the intense shame I have over all my “wasted potential” is accepting that potential doesn’t exist and never did.

This sounds so harsh, but please bare with me.

I procrastinated a lot growing up. I still procrastinate today, but less so. And yet, I got good grades. I could write an A+ paper that “knocked [my professor]’s socks off” in the hour before class and print it with sweat running down my face.

I was so used to hearing from teachers and family that if I just didn’t procrastinate and worked all the time, I could do anything! I had all this potential I wasn’t living up to!

And that’s true, as far as it goes, but that’s like saying if Usain Bolt just kept going he could be the fastest marathon runner in the world. Why does he stop at the end of the race??

If ANYONE could make their top speed/most productive setting the one they used all the time, anyone could do anything. But you can’t. Your top speed is not a speed you’re able to sustain.

Now, I’ve found that I do need to work on not procrastinating. Not because the product is better, even, but because it’s better for my mental health and physical health to not have a full, sweating, panicked breakdown over every task even if the task itself turns out excellently. It’s a shitty way to live! You feel bad ALL the time! And I don’t deserve to live like that anymore.

So all of this to say, I’m not wasting a ton of potential. I don’t have an ocean of productivity and accomplishments inside of me that I could easily, effortlessly access if I just sat down 8 hours a day and worked. There’s no fucking way. That’s not real. It’s an illusion. It’s fine not to live up to an illusion.

And if you have ADHD, I mean this from the bottom of my heart: you do not have limitless potential confounded by your laziness. You have the good potential of a good person, and you can access it with practice and work, but do not accept the story that you are choosing not to be all that you are or can be. You are just a human person.

bravecrab

"Potential" is such a manipulative word, in that it implies that if you weren't failing to maintain your personal responsibilities to society, you would not only be good, you would be great, you would be a success.

It shows that we are conditioned from a young age to believe that if we don't do what is expected of us, that it is a personal failing, regardless of if those expectations are actually achievable without inflicting harm upon ourselves.

Our mental health is in shreds because we're expected to live on a knife-edge of endless growing goals and painful failure, and we're supposed to get through it all as individuals.

beautifulduckweed

Holy shit this is some galaxy brain revelation here

jennisaisquoi79

Oh my god my whole brain just exploded and reformed at 10:30 on this Wednesday morning.

umbrellanumber5-deactivated2021

This.

This is why people who stay in my life are neurodiverse like me!

jennisaisquoi79

Holy shit my whole life now makes so much more sense.

addressedtothefire

I keep thinking about this tweet, how meaningful and reassuring it was that when one pillar of my childhoods crumbled, the others stepped forward to show they would continue to shoulder the remaining weight all their own.

And this phrase in particular — “I do not think these things of you” — is such a quintessential Piercian refrain. It’s direct in a way that cuts to the core of the argument. It’s a little old fashioned, a bit clunky in its plainness. It acknowledges the distasteful power an argument may hold while simultaneously denying it room to breathe.

I keep hearing that thing Tammy said about Alanna and Kel—which itself is not particularly meaningful to me—playing in my head over and over like a mantra. Because it’s catchy.

“Alanna prefers “Sir” because she was making a point. Kel prefers “Lady Knight” because she’s making a different point.”

…The clarity! The concision! The oddly plain, repetitive twist, easily avoided, that nonetheless persists and makes you stumble.

The statement cuts straight to the point, but it leaves space for you to draw the conclusion yourself. It’s instructive but not pedagogical. It’s a bit awkward, but somehow that works in its favor.

It’s a way Tammy has of writing that I (an overwriter, an overthinker) have held up in my head as a model for years. As much as I am grateful for Tammy’s consistent stance on the right side of the fight for justice, I am also grateful for her specific way with words: simple, blunt, and unadorned, which has meant something to me for so long.

shaaknaa

Anyone else remember that scene in Bloodhound where Bekah asks a trans woman how she can just get on stage and be a beautiful woman and she was all, “It’s cuz I *am* a beautiful woman, and we have Queer mythology btw.”

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she retroactively made kel ace almost on a whim and then when ace fans damn near cried with joy over it, she went all in and doubled down on it to make sure we got that protagonist representation, while also validating aces who spent a while figuring out their orientation or have dated before - a thing you NEVER see in any medium EVER tammy pierce knows damn well the power an author can wield for good, and has spent decades learning alongside her audience and trying to meet the needs of her fans in any way she can

yourfriendthefangirl

[Image Description: A tweet by Tamora Pierce @/TamoraPierce, dated June 10, 2020. It reads, “Regarding JKR’s statement: I do not think these things of you. I do not believe you are not who you are. I know you have fought a long, hard battle to become yourselves in the eyes of the world. In my eyes, you are heroic. #TransWomenAreWomen #TransMenAreMen” /End ID]