Mehr Writes

Mehr, he/they, adult | AO3: @mehraea | Naruto, ATLA, LOZ, FMA, Deus Ex

[mehraea]

Stadium Love

Ilya traces down the curve of Shane's family history and up the I-89 from Boston to Ottawa. All the way up to the way Yuna Hollander asks: "Are you serious?"

[aisatsaa]

pt.2 dark fantasy au

[hypotenussy]

the number 1 rule of fanfic is have fun and be yourself. the number 2 rule is the average healthy adult male can lose roughly 2 liters of blood before dying.

[thecharmingquirksofothers]

incredible prev tags

[mehraea]

Signed up for a Nart fic exchange thingy and now I have 7 misc Nart fic to finish in the next... month. Time to start reading through Ursula LeGuin's entire body of work

[doodlespatulas]

"Doomed yuri" this, "doomed yaoi" that

WHAT ABOUT DOOMED SIBLINGS

What if we were two sides of the same coin. What if i lived in your shadow all my life but found comfort in the darkness and dont know what to do once youre gone. What if youre the only person who understands. What if you have have no idea what i went through. What if we went through the same traumas but ended up with oposite conclusions about our suffering. What if i dont recognize you anymore. What if i see the ghost of my former self reflected through your eyes. What if it never had to go this way. What if this was the only way things were ever going to go

[fruitgummmmy]

yayy

[weepycat]

ED IS SUCH a precious stupid fucking dork idiot at the start of the series but he literally does a 180 while still holding onto the sense of justice he started with. like instead of starting with no morals and gaining them, or starting with many and losing them, he begins and ends with a strong set of beliefs and ideas that grow to accommodate the people, cultures, and truths he comes across. so by the end hes this tall and well educated guy who got past his cynicism and became thE SAPPIEST AND MOST WELL ROUNDED PERSON EVER

I LOVE ED ELRIC

[gavilarkholin-deactivated116710]

That’s so true tho like especially in the manga when cornello’s telling him his plans to take over the country ed literally says “I don’t care about that.” His morals just extend to him and his loved ones bc he knows the world is screwed up but he’s fighting tooth and nail just to make things right for his brother and he’s not making progress and he feels so helpless. He sees what happened to Nina, and how preventable it could’ve been, and mustang’s just telling him not to let it affect him. It’s the same attitude ed had toward cornello but he doesn’t want to feel that way anymore, he doesn’t want to accept a world where little girls are abused in the name of science, but at the same time he’s still fighting that feeling of helplessness - “we’re only human!” so what difference can he make in this world? But it turns out he makes a huge difference. He figures out the homunculi’s plans and realizes his and Al’s whole struggle was coopted by the homunculi so they could destroy Amestris - and now he’s fighting to help save the country he said he didn’t care about in chapter one. But he’s still fighting that feeling of helplessness, he tells Winry how the odds are against him winning and how he’s afraid to hope everything will come out all right. But she refuses to think that way, and eventually he accepts her faith in him. It gets him thinking how humans support each other even when they fail, how our greatest strength as a species is in how we band together, and when he tells this to envy he realizes that that’s the only strength humans have that homunculi don’t. He realizes how alchemy has become about the power of the individual, and that its greatest power - the philosopher’s stone - is an inversion of humanity’s greatest strength. Instead of the individual serving society for the greater good - “alchemist, be thou for the people” - a community of souls is used to power one alchemist. It’s this knowledge that ed uses to defeat Truth - who is the personification of all the energy in the universe - by giving up his individual power, ed relies on the power of the whole. “Who needs alchemy when I’ve got them?” Ed realizes it’s not him against the world - that in the end, he was only able to accomplish his goal after he had effectively saved the world - and it becomes his personal philosophy to give more to humanity than he received, to be the one who contributes to the whole, because that’s the set of rules ed lives by now. He doesn’t live by equivalent exchange anymore. He’s not looking to get as good as he gives. He’s going to contribute to the world in every way he can, because even though he’s only one human being, he’s not THE only one. His one has become part of the all.

[weirdoldmanhoho]

wow, this is so good, and it’s literally just dawning on me that the very thing Edward was seeking in the beginning of the series, the Philosopher’s Stone, is an inversion and corruption of the very thing that becomes his greatest strength in the end

[speedlimit15]

a tshirt that says I LIKE YOU AND I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND YOU

[strawberrycamel]

we really should be calling it fanworks, not content

[strawberrycamel]

I'm here for fun and community not to rp a mega corporation's underpaid social media intern

[mehraea]

I talk about this a lot with my writing group, but the most jarring thing about returning to fic writing after the pandemic is how different the culture feels.

Yes, commenting culture is different. Yes, people discuss fic privately on Discord rather than on Tumblr. Yes, it’s now suddenly more acceptable to discuss fanfiction on the public sphere (hello Heated Rivalry). All of that feels like the symptom, not the cause. The symptom being: fanfic as consumption culture.

In other words: the mindset that fic is something you consume after a long day and then move on from. Which, it definitely can be. But that ignores the part of fanwork which keeps this whole thing fun and running: engaging back. All art is a conversation. It’s no fun to toss your thoughts into the void.

The older I get, the more respect I have for people willing to build something and throw it out into the world. It takes effort and guts! It’s fun to catch what someone’s throwing and throw it back to them, just in a slightly different shape

[stephexmachina]

proposing a new genre of fiction called an anti-romance where u r presented w a couple at the start & the story is about their emotional journey towards a catastrophic break up

[stephexmachina]

will they won't they (end this farce). there's only one bed (but for some reason they don't really want to share it). out of context eavesdropping (that paints the relationship in a better light than it deserves). chasing after them to stop them getting on that plane (and stopping them from finally being free)

[stephexmachina]

nobody understands my vision i don't mean any old story where a relationship fails and it's tragic or w/e i mean a story where the intention is for the audience to root for it failing the same way u root for it succeeding in a romance. & when the relationship finally implodes at the climax of the story it's all very cathartic & everybody cheers.

[stephexmachina]

like have u never wanted a fictional couple to break up so badly it hurt?

[mehraea]

Artificial Angels

Edward Elric is sixteen and on a camping trip from hell and he hasn’t seen his brother in months. Edward Elric is sixteen and Prideful.

[mehraea]

Interestingly, 2026 has become the year where every protagonist I write is examining pridefulness as an emotion. I think 2021-2023 it was exploring anger as an emotion.

[drfish0-0]

sleepover at sakuras

my brotp

[nightblood]

[galileosballs]

[radioactive-yuri]

me when the character has a uniquely fucked mindset. me when the character's fundamental views of how the world works lead to them being hurt and/or hurting others and not seeing the problem with this. me when the character is a little freak who does weird shit because their beliefs, inspired entirely by their environment, are fuckeddddd

[radioactive-yuri]

[said with so much adoration in my heart it physically hurts] why would they say that. what do they mean by that. why would they do this❤️ [also said while knowing exactly why they'd do this and, in fact, having done hours of analysis into why they'd do this]