Currently Halfway Down the Street

Certified Adult; Living Shadow; End of the Rope

[merirat]

Index of recent fanfic

Hazbin Hotel (on AO3)

Aversion — Alastor & Angel Dust; rated M for sexual themes

You Can't Break a Trope (Don't Die on this Hill) — Alastor/Lucifer (non-graphic); rated M for sexual themes

You Can't Break a Trope: Interlude — Alastor/Lucifer; rate M

But You Can Break a Spirit — Alastor & Lucifer; rated T

Dancing Queen — Charlie/Vaggie, Alastor, Rosie; rated G

Bathing Beauty — Alastor & Rosie; rated T (platonic nudity; consensual blood drinking)

Take Me Out — Alastor & Angel Dust; rated T

Enough — Alastor & Vox; rated T

The Wall — Alastor & Vaggie; rated G

Invasion (Tumblr, AO3) — Alastor & Vaggi; rated T

RadioRoseWeek 2024:

Day 1: Habits/Routines — Small Things; rated G

Day 2: Meeting/Dance — Levels of Communication; rated G

Day 3: Jokes/Horror — Night Music; rated G

Day 4: Roses/Smile — Faraway Places; rated G

Day 5: Heal/Protect — Aftermath; rated G

Day 6: Dates/Marriage — Paint the Town Red; rated G

Day 7: Human AU/Partnership — An End to All the Gifts; rated G (tw: mentions of suicide)

RadioRoseWeek 2: Electric Boogaloo 2024:

Day 1: First Meeting — Beautiful Monster; rated G

Day 2: Tea Time — Tea or the Perception Thereof; rated G

Day 3: Sleepover — Spoiled; rated T

RadioRoseWeekend 2025:

Day 1: Injury - Dusk; rated G (tw: mentions of death)

Day 2: Cooking Together - Dinner for Two; rated G

Welcome Home (on AO3)

How to Greet New Neighbours — Wally Darling & Barnaby B. Beagle, Welcome Home Ensemble; rated G

Colours of Home — Wally Darling; rated G

A Matter of Care — Frank Frankly & Julie Joyful; rated G

Trust — Wally Darling & Frank Frankly; rated G

Daily Routines — Wally Darling & Barnaby B. Beagle; rated G

Happiness — Wally Darling & Barnaby B. Beagle; rated G

[strawijuice]

Did this drawing for reds Alastor anthology art book!⊹ ࣪

[ineedhjalp]

I love fanfiction because sometimes The Character needs to be held gently and sometimes they need to be beaten to death with a club. and you 🫵 can make both of those happen. for free

[lilietsblog]

my opinion on Alastor and Niffty

Niffty has ABSOLUTELY hit on him when they first met. she just got over it with time

Alastor doesn't think of Niffty as his daughter, exactly, as he is convinced that he would make an absolutely terrible parent. But it's... pretty much what he's doing, yes. He thinks of her as an adult, but even adults can need someone to look after them you know?

Niffty by now thinks of Alastor as her little brother. Of course he thinks she needs looking after and doesn't want her to protect him when he's in trouble, that's just what little brothers are like. Makes perfect sense. She forgives him for being stupid about it

[pangur-and-grim]

she cries if I dont hold her, so I have to use my exercise bike like this

[pangur-and-grim]

[pangur-and-grim]

[oncce-againn]

My alone time is for everyone’s safety

[mousegirlheart]

Look, i know you said the problematic thing over a decade ago, have been squeaky clean ever since, aren't like that anymore and have grown as a person, but I'm only just finding about it now, so it's basically like it just happened so i gotta persecute you and harass you out of your community. You understand :)

[dragon-png]

nodding my head to show that i approve of all the shitty things this character has done because i'm a bad person

[zsnes]

Melanie Martinez wishes she was Grimes. Grimes wishes she was Bjork. Bjork wishes she was 2 inches tall so she could go inside the computer and have a big adventure

[headspace-hotel]

I am learning to imagine the future:

My sycamore tree began life in the gravel at the edge of a parking lot. If trees can feel pain, that is a painful, unlucky death. I carefully dug it up and put it in a pot I made out of a disposable cup.

Hello small one. This world may be cruel, but I will not be.

I decided to take care of it, not expecting it to survive, and when my sycamore tree unfurled one tiny leaf and then another, it chiseled a tiny foothold in my terrified brain, the kind of brain that doesn't remember a world before the atomic bomb and before 9/11.

I googled the lifespans of trees. My neurons had to stretch and expand to accommodate what I learned: My sycamore tree may live five hundred years. It's hard to think something so big. In twenty years, my baby sycamore tree will be three stories tall, and the home of many creatures. In five years, my sycamore tree will be taller than I am. In one year, it will be summer.

There's this concept called sense of foreshortened future where people who have lived through trauma can't conceptualize a future for themselves because deep down they don't expect to survive, When I look forward, all I see is fire and death, melting ice and burning sky. We were raised Evangelical. All we see is Judgment Day, except there is no heaven.

But now there is a tiny gap in the wall, a crack in the door of my cell

and on the other side, I see a tree

There is, in the future, a great old sycamore tree, full of clean winds and the stir of a thousand wings. A hundred years from now. Fifty years from now. There will be forests in that world. There will be a world.

It takes courage, but we have to imagine it.

Most tree species can live in excess of three or four hundred years. I think I'm learning something. I think there are ancient voices saying hello small one, touch the dirt and the leaves, for now you are part of something that cannot die

in 2030 I will be thirty years old and the world will not have ended and there will still be hummingbirds, and we will have photos of the stars more beautiful than we can now imagine.

I planted an Eastern Redcedar; they may live nine hundred years. There will be nine hundred years. The people in that time will remember us. Maybe we will meet the aliens (hi aliens!).

I will blow out the candles on many birthday cakes in a world where there are wolves in dark forests far from home. I am learning to imagine the future. I learned recently that elk were reintroduced to the Appalachian Mountains after over a hundred years of extirpation, and that they are expanding their range.

That tiny crack I can see through now opens a tiny bit more:

Maybe elk will pass through my hometown, maybe there will be a forest where the pasture is on the high hill that I can see from my home

say it, say it, say it: ten years, thirty years, a hundred years from now

I am learning to imagine the future. There is a crack in the wall of this prison, of this machine, of this darkness, and through it, I see a tree.

[headspace-hotel]

[headspace-hotel]

[headspace-hotel]

today

[shiveagit]

Doodle wip of Rosie

She is beauty. I locked in and next thing i new this sketch was born.

[luna-azzurra]

Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.

[sith-shenanigans]

*looks at polyamorous triad* so which of you is the soldier and which is the poet and which is the king

[sith-shenanigans]

this is the perfect reblog post cancelled

[bewbin]

LETS BRING BACK 1337 SPEAK 

[bewbin]

why do i even try 

[bunney]

I THoUGHT YOU MEANT THE YEAR

[esoanem]

my l0rd, t3h p34s4nt5 4r3 r3v01t1ng! W3 mu5t s411y f0rth 4g41n5t th3m 4thw1th!

[addamatic]

Happy ten years of being so old no one knows what 1337 is

[carduelis-carduelis]

Fandom PSAs

Dont’ Like, Don’t Read

or DL; DR

You are responsible for curating your own online experience.

If something upsets you, makes you angry or queasy or triggers you, stop reading/looking at it. Avoid things that might make you feel that way.

Learn to use the Sort and Filter function on AO3, especially the Exclude tools.

On social media, block and mute accounts / tags / words when necessary.

If you hated something, you don’t need to tell that to the creator or start pointing fingers at them publicly.

The Back button is free. Use it.

Addendum:

Yes, for this to work, creators need to tag their works accordingly, so that people know what sort of content they are about to engage with and can nope out if necessary.

I will probably make another PSA about the importance of proper tagging later.

Ship And Let Ship

or SALS

You are allowed to ship whatever you want.

Everyone else is also allowed to ship whatever they want.

You are entitled to dislike or even hate a ship. If you want to do this online, in public, don’t use the ship tags for hate posts.

If you see someone posting about a ship they like and you don’t, there is no need for you to start arguing with them in their replies / comments / QRTs / reblogs. Don’t throw your hate in their face.

Do not harass fan creators or fans for shipping something you disapprove.

All of this also applies to liking / disliking an individual character.

Addendum:

”I agree with this, except when…”

No, then you are NOT agreeing with this.

Let me make this VERY clear. There are NO exceptions. None.

You don’t EVER harass real people over pixels.

If you disagree with this, kindly block and move on.

Your Kink Is Not My Kink

or YKINMK / YKINMKATO

The longer version is ”Your Kink Is Not My Kink And That’s Okay”.

People have different tastes. Not everything is for everybody.

Even if you don’t like a specific kink, other people are still allowed to use it in their creations.

You are entitled to dislike kinky content and think that it’s ”weird”.

Don’t kink shame or judge people based on their kinks.

This goes both ways: your kink is not someone else’s kink, so don’t push it onto those who are not into it.

Be Kind

or Don’t Be An Asshole

Focus on the things you like instead of the things you hate.

Create and unite instead of destroying and dividing.

Don’t harass real people over fictional things.

Stop stirring up petty drama just to get some attention on social media.

Stop trying to ”win”. Fandom is not a competition.

Remember that your own experiences aren’t universally shared. Your perception of things can differ from someone else’s, but that doesn’t mean either of you is necessarily wrong.

[existennialmemes]

Companies in the 2000s: You wouldn't download a car! Digital copies are still stealing, even if the original copy remains with us.

Companies in the 2020s: That digital copy, which you have paid for, doesn't really belong to you. We're removing it from your library now.

[existennialmemes]

Companies deleting media you've literally purchased is 1000x more realistically "stealing" than digital piracy, you cannot change my mind

[catsofyore]

Unknown kitty from my parents’ college photo album. ☺️