Ryan O'Reily/Miguel Alvarez @miguelryan - Tumblr Blog

Happy New Year to all of you, dear friends. I don't visit here often these days, but I appreciate how lucky I am to have found this fandom and this small community. I hope that 2026 will be kinder to you, to us, than previous years. I wish you happiness and enjoyment of creativity, both your own and that of others. I love you all❤️

schloezer

I must confess, your honor. Actually I like this guy. Not that I'm crying over his death or anything, but… Okay, maybe a little.

#Dino Ortolani #oz #hbo #oz hbo

wawamouse

am i seeing things or is this actually a super faded striped shirt

(˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶)

≽^•⩊•^≼

miguelryan

#yeap yeap yeap #ryan o'reily #cyril o'reily #hbo oz

pilot-nobody

@merelyafigment here is another contribution to hopefully lift your spirits! I have bound "Better Places To Be" (i had to bind it into two books... it was too big as one book😝)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

@sachart very graciously let me use their art works as inside pages, so it looks really beautiful on the inside. And I added some of the comments you received to the beginning and end of each book, just to remind you of how beloved you are in this fandom!

Special thanks to @wawamouse, @imposterzoe, @9cbffs, @officialnotary for organizing this!!

I hope you like them!

#this is absolutely amazing #bptb #oz #ryan o reily #miguel alvarez

viaalterego

trishacollins

Actually, my therapist has told me this is a healthy way of processing things. Because you can get the trauma out of your head And you can write the ending you wish it had. The trusted person rescue, the catharsis of getting to kill the one who hurt you.

It's good for your brain. It's healthier than bottling it up. Fiction is where we go for emotional release. That can be true with trauma too.

erelierraceala

so what you're saying is

character: NO

therapist: YES

vmures

Adding @dear-massacre's tags because they are so true:

#this is why it's important to remember that fictional characters are fake #they have no agency. they're made up #it hurts no one to make any character go through the horrors #it is healthy and cathartic

yeahokayillreblogthat

yeah okay ill reblog that

motziedapul

I need more people to read this because we are at an all-time literacy low where certain people think that making fictional characters go through bad things is bad, or that it makes you a bad person for liking "bad fiction". That is not the case at all.

#That's how I process things