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Im gonna start posting references to my fic, in case anyone wonders if you should read it.

Listen, I don't know if what I bring to the fandom is your cup of tea, but I brought something. It's there, on the table, take it or leave it.

Also feel free to msj me if you want me to add yours!

Link to my Ao3.

By @alisgravenil1and2

@rurtler in twitter

#about me #my fics #i loved it 😂😂😂

animentality

fetus-cakes

don't forget livejournal (for the list of stuff predating tumblr)

#fanzines was where was at #or mIRC #you could say discord is similar but naah #at the very least the need to know basic programming language made it a good filter

abyssal-ilk

perhaps this will be the year people stop saying stuff like "i hate them/they are my least favorite character/i think about hurting this character all the time" on posts where the op is clearly very much a fan of said character. probably not but I can hope

mikkeneko

same energy as being in a coffee shop and the barista calls out "mocha latte with double cream pickup" and someone pushes to the front of the crowd to shout "I'm lactose intolerant! Cream makes me sick! I hate mocha!" and the barista says "is this your order?" and they say "no"

tide-locked

i feel like people forget that sometimes characters in fic are written like that because it's a reflection of real life.

people have sex without setting boundaries. people have unprotected sex without talking about their sexual histories or producing recent sti tests. people play with kink without discussing it ahead of time or establishing a safeword. they have anal without 'enough' prep or lube—they may even prefer it like that.

and none of this is really a fantasy. it's all pretty normal. you can feel that it's inappropriately normalised, and you'd probably be right! but it is normalised: one study found that 58% of female undergraduate students on the campus studied had been choked during sex. 20% of those students said that they'd never been asked if it was ok; another 30% said they'd only sometimes been asked if they consented. fully half! (non-paywalled journal article on choking during sex here, including these numbers.) despite a rise in stis of all sorts, condom use is declining. (pdf link to the full text of this study about declining condom use in the us; aidsmap article about an australian study with similar results.)

even when people do talk about things—sex or anything else—they communicate imperfectly. 'yeah, but don't go too far' is consenting and setting a boundary, and also relying that the person you're talking to has the same metric for 'too far' that you do. for some people, 'the trash needs to go out' is a neutral, factual observation; for others, it's a request that the person they're speaking to take out the trash.

even when people understand each other perfectly, people react unpredictably to things sometimes! we behave irrationally! people laugh uncontrollably at funerals, or get angry at the straw that broke their back rather than the enormous load they were already carrying. they get scared and lash out at people trying to help them. when hurt, most people do not instinctively reach for therapy-approved grounding exercises and 'i feel' statements.

pretty much any bad choice that characters could conceivably make is a choice that people make in real life, on purpose, all the time. people do things that can have catastrophic, life-changing effects because it felt like a good idea at the time, or they're leaning into the vibe, or they just didn't think about it all that much, or an infinite number of other reasons.

fiction isn't intended as a guide on the best, safest, and most responsible ways to live your life, and fanfic isn't any different. it's not a narrative flaw to let characters do things that are messy or harmful or downright stupid—it's a reflection of what people are actually like, and not something that authors should feel they have to apologise for.

tide-locked

i am obsessed, in the most derogatory way possible, with the people in the notes who are reading this post and then saying, well, those stats you're pointing at are why you have to make it clear in fiction that they've had a conversation about Consent And Safety. if you don't tell people to use condoms, if you don't tell people that it's not ok to choke someone without prior consent, if you don't tell people that they have to do these things Correctly, you're part of the problem.

so i will say it again: fiction is a reflection of life, but it is not real life. fiction does not have to set a good example. fiction does not have to be safe, sane, or consensual.

fiction isn't intended as a guide on the best, safest, and most responsible way to live your life. if you read it looking for that, you are the problem.

naughtynanzhu

MILDRED?????

pseudophan

when your stomach is really mad at you and you're not sure which one of your fourteen unhealthy lifestyle choices is causing it

valicelavidad

somehow my app bugged and cut the last nine words off so I thought op was a cow or something

pseudophan

cruelfrenzyalchemist

mossworm

me every day without fail: I'll do [chore] when I get home

me when I get home:

bemusedlybespectacled

me every single week: I'll do it on the weekend!

me the entire weekend:

of-the-astral-sea

all of us rn

serenity-bitty

toskarin

everyone trying to minimise their intake of microplastics is going to be so mad when we invent the blood filter that can extract it and everyone who was plasticmaxxing gets a cool toy made from their poison blood as a souvenir

weepingwidar

Lou Benesch (French-American, 1989) - The Shadow (2021)

innovadesexual

biocrafthero

frodo-sam

Frodo…I swore to protect you.

positively-emerald

#lotr#sometimes I think about how real authority - real kingship especially - is at heart service and submission#and how Aragon spends his life (ranger or king or friend) serving others#kneeling before them#affirming the kingship of other kings EVEN THOUGH he sometimes outkings them!!#and the moment of his greatest authority is really a submission of his will to his vocation#when I say I sometimes think about this#I mean easily 2-3 times a week (via byjovimbeinghumble)

zombeesknees

#aragorn didn’t go to the hollywood school of ‘need is love’ #he went to the terrence rattigan school of ‘duty is love’ #duty as a positive and willingly-perfomed service #not without sacrifice but without doubt