no healing to be had through vengeance

This is my fanfic side blog so my IRLs don’t find out I write gratuitous Bat-angst in my free time. you’re special though, and you can come say hi to me on my main if you’d like ;) (@bat-kidsarebi-kids) Cover art by MaskoftheRay

[whatiswhump]

[the-wandering-whumper]

This is…. This is magical. Beautiful. Phenomenal.

[groovypaperpizza]

If anyone knows the shows, please tell me 🤤🤤🤤

[whatiswhump]

@groovypaperpizza at one point I posted it with all of the sources so I have no idea where they went so sorry, but here they are again!!

(In no particular order tho they’re so intertwined)

Sources: Wayne, The Imitation Game, Stargate SG-1, The Magicians, Cardinal, The Preppie Connection, You Are Wanted, White Collar, OA, The Messenger, Beautiful Mind, Asylum, Sleepy Hollow, Hannah, The Man in the High Castle, Prodigal Son, Dog Pound, The Old Guard, The Jacket, Insanitarium, The Umbrella Academy

[jonimakesstuff]

This video got me to watch Wayne and holy fuck holy fuck holy fuck that is a good show.

[whatiswhump]

@jonimakesstuff ISNT IT?! I was so sad that they never made another season 😭

[much-ado-about-whumping]

You know, I haven’t seen the source material for most of these, and I probably won’t anytime soon, bit watching this beautiful video gave me a realization about whump-as-genre I hadn’t fully articulated before. Sometimes, even in moments of hurt-no-comfort, the form treats the character with gentleness even if the narrative does not. There are moments here where the cinematography allows a strong young man to look really, really delicate, and the film-making creates a kind of caress even if there isn’t one on screen. I’m realizing written whump can do this, too - we often describe actions that are abrasive and painful and ugly using language that is undeniably kind of beautiful.

There’s something in here about honoring the experience of the survivor, right? What was done to you was repulsive, but you are not. There’s something in here about making great pain possible to witness without flinching away. The tenderness of a camera angle or an analogy can sort of soothe the viewer or reader’s nervous system a little, help the audience come down from the heightened state of the conflict.

I don’t really have more of a thesis than that. I’m just thinking about how and why we create what we do here, and I think this is part of it for me.

[colubrina]

for the love of god, write all the self-indulgent scenes you want.  be utterly  shameless about including every last fantasy.  i know everyone likes to share quotes and quips about how miserably hard writing is, but please please try thinking of it as a joyful act where you get to be a messy human who makes art rather than some pain filled quest for icy perfection.

[colubrina]

“authenticity looks an awful lot like self-indulgence but it is the only way to find your true audience”

[caps-clever-girl]

i updated my cap/oc fic last night and hit 30k words, was really happy until i realised just how much more there is to come

[kitausuret]

Write fanfic for yourself.

Publish fanfic for the rotation of 3-6 people who are devoted readers and will either go feral or leave you very nice words and yell with you about it.

[redheadspark]

Thank you to those specific mutuals who do this with my work. you don't know how much it means to me :)

[foibles-fables]

I know sometimes it makes folks nervous, so…

I promise we love and appreciate you and your enthusiasm and it’s not weird or creepy at all 😭😭😭💕💕💕

[hellyeahbottombucky-deactivated]

Writers always appreciate it!

[lifblogs]

Minors: AO3 is disgusting.

Adults: Okay, then don’t read properly tagged explicit or dark fics. Or perhaps don’t lie to the website that you are 18 or over and are mature enough to view that content when you’re clearly not.

Minor: Nah, AO3 is disgusting and needs to go.

[apocalypticromantic666]

I wish kids nowadays would just take some goddamn responsibility for themselves instead of just shrieking the classic “I’m baby, everyone cater to me and my dewicate sensibiwities! uwu”

When I was 14-15, I’d lie about my age and read adult fics. Yeah, we all did it. The difference is that if there was something I didn’t like, I’d just hit the back button and find one that DID fit my tastes.

I didn’t attack the author. I didn’t scream for the site to be sanitized, or cleansed of content that I shouldn’t have been viewing in the first place. Because that is what an irresponsible, entitled cunt does.

Don’t be an irresponsible, entitled cunt. Because you kids are going to feel really, really fucking stupid if we lose ao3 and when you get to be my age, there isn’t anywhere safe for you to go to read the fics you actually DO enjoy, because sniveling children who acted just like you did threw a little bitch fit and got all of the safe spaces for adults taken away.

No one wants to use Wattpad anymore because they delete fics just for being reported without even investigating the content contained therein. Fanfic.net sucks now because porn isn’t allowed and abuse and harassment reports go unanswered for YEARS. And antis who pretend to hate Ao3 STILL post there because they’re hungry for views/comments/kudos, which they know they can’t get anywhere else.

What these antis and bitchy kids want is to feel like they no longer have to compete with creators who make content they don’t like.

The majority are butthurt over the numbers of their uwu wholesome fic being smaller than that of a story containing a ship they hate or kink they’re squicked by.

They take their disgust of something and pretend that disgust is actually ‘moral righteous anger’, and use that to fuel their little hate crusades, which come in the form of bullying, doxxing, and suicide baiting. And they really don’t like that Ao3 doesn’t put up with it. If they comment on a fic with hate, they get reported and lose their privilege to use the site, while Fanfic.net lets it go.

Guys, Ao3 is something we have to defend with everything we got. The demand for censorship is getting worse, but you know what? The opposition may be loud, but they are SO very outnumbered.

Ao3 was founded by the people they hate. The freaks, weirdos, shippers, and queers that they have tried so hard to drive into a corner and shun from society.

Ao3 is that corner, and now they want to push us out of it and take it for themselves.

We aren’t going to let them. Ao3 is OURS. Our safe space. The safe space we need to ensure is there for our kids and generations after.

So donate if you can. Volunteer if you can. Leave kudos and comments to encourage your favorite authors.

And if you are a kid that isn’t supposed to be there, just hit the back button like I did.

The minors are right; the *content* there blatantly violates the rules of the site itself, and the site owners are the ones bullying members and blatantly violating the law by protecting overt and labeled *by the authors* pornography; so the site will no doubt be gone- sadly that means a lot of good, morally-speaking, stories will also be gone; but good riddance to these authorities who side with producing things *intended to cause a sexual response on the parts of the viewers* for crying out loud!

That kind of garbage they protect on the site isn’t even *legal according to the site rules* for crying out loud!

I’m more than in favor of taking charge of oneself, but so do the site owners, or they lose the site due to them blatantly abusing the members as they regularly do, by bullying the members.

[apocalypticromantic666]

The minors are idiots, and so are you.

[plague-of-insomnia]

“sadly that means a lot of good, morally-speaking, stories will also be gone”

“Intended to cause a sexual response”

I think a fundamentalist church somewhere is missing their idiot

[lifblogs]

@plague-of-insomnia is right. Clearly these people have never looked at the rules or US law. Everything on AO3 is legal. If you don’t like it then leave. How hard is it to hit back button? I’m disabled and can hit a back button.

[evilwriter37]

I’m screaming. Everything on ao3 is perfectly legal. Smut is legal. It doesn’t go against the site guidelines.

[lucario2012]

Oh so *this* is the post that got a bunch of people screaming with laughter on my dash recently.

[athingofvikings]

Yup! Isn’t it hysterical? They’re so stereotypically a Conservative Christian that it almost hurts.

[apocalypticromantic666]

@hedgewyse Your tags have me SCREAMING 😂😂😂

[alyona11]

Those who understand understand.

[ao3commentoftheday]

image is 2 screenshots from the movie Up. In the first, Carl says to Russell, "I would like to award you the highest honor i can bestow." In the second, we see a pin on Russell's sash. The pin has been edited to read, "a fanart for your fic"

[simmerandcry]

is there anything worse than the excitement of a new comment that is crushed by the singular ‘update please!’ phrase?

[caydencrypted]

one of my most hated tropes in fiction is when you have a character who goes “i am unlovable… i am a worthless terrible human being… i cannot be redeemed…” and then are so obviously literal saints that you want to slap them which is why all of my characters who say shit like “i’m a monster” are kind of a little bit right about it

[ck2k18]

"I physically injure my blorbos" "I give them more trauma" "i kill their parents" all basic. Wanna talk about REAL torture? I make them gay and in love with their best friend.

[writing-and-nutmeg]

When you’re writing as fast as you can type at three a.m. because you’ve been hit with Writing Inspiration™ after a month of staring at the lone word “The” on your doc:

[epitome-of-an-openbook]

I feel like this is an unpopular opinion, but more people should read incomplete/unfinished/in-progress fanfics.

I've noticed this huge trend where creators on tiktok and tumblr who will be explaining how to use Archive Of Our Own to new users and they always say "and make sure to scroll down and click completed only" or how people will go out of their way to mention they only read completed fics 'because they were traumatized when they forgot to check the dates and didn't realize this fic hadn't been updated since 2012'.

The thing is - I think by not engaging with and/or actively avoiding writer's WIPs readers are potentially adding to the aggregate of abandoned works. Now this obviously isn't the case for all abandoned fics, anything from major life events, to loss of interest, to getting busy can be a reason for a fic getting abandoned - but at least on some level I just know that writers are quitting while they're ahead when they aren't garnering any response or feedback because reading WIPs has become unpopular. If you're worried about reading something that hasn't been updated since 2012 then you can use the date updated function to sort out old fics.

Anyways, support your favorite fanfic writers by engaging with their WIPs.

[faeriekit]

If people hadn't hyped up blister pack, it wouldn't have been finished. Like full stop.

[faeriekit]

Wait, actually, I have a better story;

Once upon a time there was a fanfic with a weird and unusual premise posted on ffn by a...I want to say moderately famous to famous fanfiction author. I, being however old I was (high school??), read it, and got fully attached to it. Like, completely and fully attached to it. It hit me right in the gender euphoria, had a really interesting premise, and was already well on its way into an interesting plot with a lot of sick cultural details. I didn't have an account, so all my lurking was undocumented and anonymous.

The author only ever added one more chapter. After that, it was on hiatus/abandoned for years. You know how it went on ffn. It was posted, but the years crawled on without updates or notes. I still religiously went back to that fanfic, year after year, though, to reread it when I remembered it existed.

And then one day. It stopped showing up in my search results. My heart broke.

I remembered the author's name, but I couldn't find them; I figured out eventually that they had changed it, so I hunted them down, got into contact with them-- somehow, idk, did I drop my email in a comment or something??-- and went pretty pretty PLEASE do you still have the document, I need it for my emotional well-being!!

And they were like "huh. Uh, yeah, here you go. There's some unreleased stuff in here too."

And I cried like a baby.

The moral of this story is that literally anything could be someone's comfort fic, and you will never know. That half-finished fic from a fandom you feel mildly ashamed of now could be someone's holy grail. YOU could stumble on a half-finished fic and find out it was YOUR holy grail. And the only way to know is to appreciate half finished fics for what they are: cool as hell and with room to grow alongside the author.

Read unfinished fics. Comment. Show your appreciation. All of it matters.

[the-haiku-bot]

And then one day. It

stopped showing up in my search

results. My heart broke.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[overfalls]

IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST

OR ‘PEAKED’

BUT PIQUED

‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’

THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA

[owlbearcounter]

THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY USEFUL THANK YOU

[ranetree]

ADDITIONALLY:

YOU ARE NOT ‘PHASED’. YOU ARE ‘FAZED.’

IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.

ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME

‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’

THANK YOU

[tassiekitty]

BREATHE - THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE

BREATH - THE NOUN FORM

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE

WANDER - TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY

WONDER - TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)

[fairywails]

DEFIANT - RESISTANT DEFINITE - CERTAIN

[melancholicmarionette]

WANTON - DELIBERATE AND UNPROVOKED ACTION (ALSO AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN)

WONTON - IT’S A DUMPLING THAT’S ALL IT IS IT’S A FUCKING DUMPLING

[proletariatbitch]

BAWL- TO SOB/CRY

BALL- A FUCKING BALL

YOU CANNOT “BALL” YOUR EYES OUT

[soggywarmpockets]

AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE, IT’S NOT “SIKE”; IT’S “PSYCH”. AS IN “I PSYCHED YOU OUT”; BECAUSE YOU MOMENTARILY MADE SOMEONE BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT WASN’T TRUE.

THANK YOU.

[everylineeverystory]

*slams reblog*

[leonawriter]

IT’S ‘MIGHT AS WELL’. ‘MIND AS WELL’ DOES NOT MAKE GRAMMATICAL SENSE.

[penbrydd]

SLEIGHT - DEXTERITY, ARTIFICE, CRAFT (FROM ‘SLY’) SLIGHT - VERY LITTLE, FRAIL, DELICATE

IT’S ‘SLEIGHT OF HAND’.

[maverlok]

[celynbrum]

DISCRETE - SEPARATE, DISTINCT, PARTED

DISCREET - SUBTLE, STEALTHY, DIPLOMATIC

[othercat2]

BORN= existing as a result of birth

BORNE= carried or transported by

[typesetjez]

LIGHTENING = to make something less dark in color or to lessen its weight

LIGHTNING = bright flash of light during electrical storms

[obervation-subject-753]

{This is quite helpful. Thank you Rebloggers.}

[ask-the-dancingdreamer-archive]

((adm: I just want to add-

Loose- untight

Lose- opposite of winning))

[ask-the-awesome]

((ALSO: A fun trick -  Affect = Action  Effect = End Result ))

[ed-edward-blackbeard]

There = In that place

Their = belonging to them

can’t = a contraction for cannot

cant = a tilt or lean at an angle, usually to accommodate accessibility

[gossip-girl-of-middleearth]

Me thinking that this is child’s play and that I know it all already:

Me realising there are some things I didn’t already know:

[inthememetime]

TO- GOING ONE PLACE TOWARDS ANOTHER

TWO- 2, A NUMBER BETWEEN 1 AND 3

TOO- A DESCRIPTIVE WORD, THE MUSIC IS TOO LOUD, THE SHIRT IS TOO LOOSE.

[the-haiku-bot]

TOO- A DESCRIPTIVE

WORD, THE MUSIC IS TOO LOUD,

THE SHIRT IS TOO LOOSE.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[phanboyo]

I’m gonna add

ROGUE: CRIMINAL/REBEL/VAGRANT/ETC

ROUGE: RED MAKEUP

it’s rogues gallery, guys. Not rouge gallery. You’re making me think batman has an extensive lipstick collection.

[broadminded]

If you’re talking about a weapons CACHE, it’s pronounced cash.

If you say cashay, that’s how CACHET is pronounced which means prestige and does not mean a collection of items stored together in a hidden/inaccessible place.

[therobotmonster]

NO ONE IS ‘PREJUDICE"

PEOPLE ARE “PREJUDICED”

[foreignobjecticus]

If he’s not moving, he’s STATIONARY.

If he’s a fucking space pencil, then carry on with STATIONERY.

[dduane]

If it’s wet precipitation falling out of the sky, it’s RAIN

If it’s someone ruling over people, it’s REIGN

If it’s holding back someone from (or getting someone to stop doing) something, that’s to REIN [them] IN (…as if you were using REINS on a horse)

[dduane]

(and oh yeah)

If you’re telling someone they’re going to have to reconsider an opinion or course of action, then they have ANOTHER THINK COMING

(because “another thing coming” makes no damn sense whatsoever unless they’re in some kind of monster movie, ffs)

[petermorwood]

Just adding:

HOARD - (n.) a collection of stuff, (vb) to collect a collection of stuff.

HORDE - (n.) a collection, group, mob or host of people, often unruly or barbaric.

PEEL - (n.) the outside skin of fruit, also (archaic n.) a tower house, sometimes spelled PELE; (vb) to remove the outside skin of fruit; by extension, usually as PEEL OFF, to remove clothing, but also (aviation) to break away, one aircraft at a time, from a larger formation.

PEAL - (n.) the sound of several church bells ringing together or in sequence; (vb.) to ring bells in this manner.

BREACH - (n.) a break or opening, usually in a wall; (vb) to make such an opening, also a whale rising clear of the surface of the sea. (The words BREACH and BREAK are distant relatives.)

BREECH - (n.) the bottom end of a gun-barrel, where it’s loaded; also (BREECH PRESENTATION) a baby being born bottom-foremost; also (n. pl.) BREECHES, a historical style of trousers ending just below the knee and (archaic vb) to BREECH, to dress a boy in breeches (adult clothing) for the first time.

English is…  Complicated.

[neil-gaiman]

And my favourite recent one,

It is “TO ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES” and not “TO ALL INTENSIVE PURPOSES”.

[faisdm]

[faisdm]

Every time I return to Tumblr, this flowchart has more likes.

Sometimes it turns up on Facebook, or friends alert me that some dick has put it on merch or uploaded it somewhere without credit…

People have written entire blogs about it…

It’s just something I made at like 11pm at night one time in a very “RRGH!” mood and shoved up on Tumblr and went to bed.

Sometimes it’s fun to read though what the latest comments are. Some people get it or feel encouraged, and some people are SO angry at me for encouraging people to keep trying, like how DARE people make art while not being already great at making art or feeling confident!? Absolutely hilarious. Cry harder!

Just remember two things:

1. This flow chart was made by a professional illustrator called Kate Holden, inexplicably the same person who voices Kanaya in Let’s Read Homestuck, because hey, it’s Tumblr, of course I’m a Homestuck.

2. You ARE an Artist. Make more art. 🧡

[purgetrooperfox]

casting a spell of finish your wip rb to pass it on

[infectiouspiss]

i love him that’s why i need to see him tortured to within an inch of his life covered in his own blood and tears

[dear-ao3]