why i even bring the thunder

A place for me to vomit my Hamilton obsession into because fanartists deserve reblogs and all that. I welcome writing requests but take 10 years to complete them. ~Occasional tagged nsfw~

[nightshiftblues]

meep morp

[zkyeline]

I made my way up to the top, this is my show.

[towkken-deactivated20210328]

get him a chair

[pixelburied]

Also, some of you don’t actually know what enemies to lovers is huh… Where is the clashing of principles? The righteous fury? The gut wrenching guilt of having unwanted affection for someone who is actively trying to destroy everything you’ve worked your entire life to build? The overwhelming anger thrown at the object of your affection to mask your anger for yourself? The reluctant truce brought about by extenuating circumstances? The begruding birth of respect? The creeping realization that you are on the wrong side? The long agonizing journey to redemption? The slow quiet blossoming of a friendship? The underlying current of a desire that has always been there but you have never been in a position to act on before? The fear that your antagonistic history carries too much baggage? The resigned acceptance that a friendship is more than you are even worthy for? A heroic display that solidifies your position as one of the good guys? The epiphany of love and a hint that it might not be so unrequited? The inevitable conclusion??

Honestly, you guys see two people on opposite sides and just skip to the lovers part….

[quasi-normalcy]

It’s important that everyone understand that, when I say that I “like” a villainous character, what I in fact mean is that I consider them to be both cool and morally praiseworthy, as well as correct in their aims and methods and worthy of emulation by people in the real world. Just in case there was any ambiguity on this point.

[quasi-normalcy]

I further elaborate that I consider them to be An Excellent Role-Model for Impressionable Children.

[quasi-normalcy]

I almost neglected to mention that they are a worthy sexual partner and that I am aroused by everything that they do.

[nightshiftblues]

Axiom’s end characters as Matt Adrian’s troubled birds let’s go

Cora

Ampersand

Luciana

Nils

Sol

Obelus

Bonus: corampersand as a ship

[thecyndimistuff]

my English prof teaching abt cover letters today and me trying not to bring up the luke skywalker cover letter post:

[thecyndimistuff]

@serialreblogger​ here you go:

[lolotehe]

[ao3commentoftheday]

So I just found out that there are more people making works on AO3 with a million tags on them in protest to AO3 not removing that one fic (you know the one). I would just like to state my own personal opinion about that right up front: if you’re trolling AO3, no matter your reason for doing so, you’re the asshole.

I know we all call it AO3, but the a stands for Archive. It’s a site built on the premise that fanworks deserve to exist and shouldn’t be taken down, unless the author is making that decision for themselves. 

This means that there are lots of works on AO3 that I think suck. There are works that are poorly written or boring or morally reprehensible. And guess what? All of that is protected because it’s not about a single work, it’s about fanworks in general and all of us having a place we can rely on to have our backs. 

The whole point of AO3 is not deleting works just because someone complains about them. The work needs to violate the Terms of Service and if it doesn’t, then it shouldn’t be removed. The rules that protect me protect those other works too. 

The volunteers at AO3 take the site’s goals and premise very seriously. They aren’t going to make snap judgements about a work, not even a work with a million tags. They also aren’t going to make snap judgements about implementing a limit on tags when there hasn’t been one before. 

They need to talk things out and discuss the short and long term ramifications. They need to talk about where to draw the line, and how can they explain why they decided to draw the line there? Will this decision affect works that already exist on the Archive? What do we do about them? Those authors posted before this new rule came into being, so you can’t punish them for a rule that didn’t exist at the time. 

Creating more works with the same issue just means that volunteer tag wranglers have even more work to do. Mass reporting a work that has already been reported just means that Policy & Abuse volunteers have even more work to do. If you fill up their lives with nonsense tags or repeat reports, you know what they can’t do? The thing that everyone (including them) wants them to be doing. 

People who volunteer for AO3 also read on AO3. They are as annoyed about these works as you are. But making more work for them to do isn’t the answer. Being patient is. It’s going to take time for them to make decisions about things like tag limits. It’s going to take time for them to code the limit into the site. It’s going to take time for them to test the code and make sure it doesn’t break anything. And in the meantime:

Filter out the author and bookmark your filter in your browser so you don’t have to enter it every time.

Add the work-blocking code to your site skin so you never need to see that work again, as long as you’re logged in.

There are tools you can use to avoid the things you don’t want to see. Creating a bigger problem isn’t the solution. It’s just a dick move.

[breha]

superimposing the destiel ending onto straight characters is a very fun thing to do i do recommend it. doomsday but rose just doesn’t really come up after that and the bbc aggressively insists the doctor was going to say “i wish you the best my very good pal.” han says “i love you” to leia instead before he gets frozen in carbonite. she doesn’t say anything back and they just don’t bother to rescue him and he’s not really an important character after that. mulder confesses his love to scully, then gets immediately abducted by aliens, followed by two episodes where scully solves the plot problems, eats ice cream, and then dies for unrelated reasons. that’s the ending.

[princesshamlet-deactivated20210]

[sanvitheartificer]

id: tags that read #mr darcy says ‘you have bewitched me body and soul and i love i love i love you’ and lizzie doesn’t react #and an earthquake spontaneously occurs and swallows mr. darcy into the soil and #lizzie is just like ‘huh’ and goes home #and three days later someone shoots her

[nightshiftblues]

Made a poncho and a pixie hat for this sage traveller.

[nightshiftblues]

we have this jamilton group chat where we talked about how great your writing is, especially your fic "Oh Snap", which every single jamilton fan apparently read :)

whaaat that’s so flattering?!

the popularity of oh snap confounds me to this day, especially since it’s a fic that i straight up forget about all the time :’D not complaining though, i’m glad people enjoyed it

[ayo-cowbelly]

the fanfic writing moodboard:

(ive felt all of these on intense levels)

[bauliya]

i think villains in general provide better, more epic romances because they're allowed to go to extremes. they're allowed to put their love over the greater good. they're allowed to be selfish. the best a hero can offer you is number two, because their duty comes first. villains, though. villains will burn down the world for a last kiss goodbye.

[cake-writes]

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

must a fictional relationship be “healthy” or “functional”? is it not enough to simply watch two made up people destroy each other, hand in unlovable hand???

[vividoll-xx]

hey what the fuck is wrong with you people

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

idk, what is wrong with me? i’m in a healthy and stable relationship with a great partner, i’ve had lots of therapy that has helped me establish strong boundaries and recognize red flags, and i have an active social life and fulfilling career. could it be that i just… like to read books and watch movies and tv shows about dysfunctional people??? you tell me, tumblr user girlcreator!

[derelict-stranger]

You’re a bourgeois degenerate who wants to see shitty despicable & violent relationships for your disgusting sense of entertainment— and you should feel fucking ashamed of yourself.

I agree with @girlcreator but I definitely know there’s something wrong with you. People like you are a huge red flag to me. Bad vibes, for sure.

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

can you weirdos just smoke some fucking weed

[annabellioncourt]

shakespeare frantically rewriting macbeth’s marriage to be healthy and adjusted becuase no one will ever want to watch the original 

[alex-wf]

reblog if you’re a bourgeois degenerate who wants to see shitty despicable and violent relationships for your disgusting sense of entertainment (and you should feel fucking ashamed of yourself)

[geminiwave]

Worldbuilders naming towns: I named this town Elygwe’meth which means “Where the Dearly Beloved King died next to his Lover” in the language I invented and also a combination of the Old English word for diamonds and the Maori word for apples since that’s their main exports

People in real life naming towns: I named this town Big Falls cause big fall there

[bumblebeebats]

me poring over a fantasy map: Shit I already used that name for a town, I can’t use it again, that’s such sloppy worldbuilding

real life maps: There are six rivers in Britain called the River Avon, which means River River, because when the Romans asked the Celts “what is that?” they replied “a river?” and the Romans nodded and jotted it down

[poeplanet]

i’ma leave this here since some of y’all’s racism is jumping tf out on beyoncé’s internet

[darkmagyk]

So, 100% this is some racist shit. But I can’t help but wonder if another part of it is that Twilight and Gossip Girl are “girly”, and Star Wars is like a pillar of nerd culture and is suppose to be taken seriously. 

So white men, making fun of white girls is like, a seminal part of culture. Comedians have made entire acts about it. 

Men of color, making fun of things beloved by white men is one of the most subversive acts that can be committed. 

It is intersectional. And also shitty as fuck.

[lemonsharks]

This is a thing I’ve been trying to put into words for A Time

[smashfan64]

Especially if you remember that everyone fucking loves it when Harrison Ford hates on Star Wars. Should be the same for every actor who does.

[roach-works]

hey remember what happened to megan fox when she wasn’t consistently, comprehensively thrilled about transformers

[lemonsharks]

Fandom is shifting

Some distinguished guests may remember when all characters were assumed heterosexual and straight unless they’d had a specific and inarguable coming out subplot in their canon, or canon was otherwise absolutely and incontrovertibly clear about their sexualities. 

And all the fic needed a “Prove he’s capable of loving a man, any man, this man” arc and also a “gay panic” arc where the characters panicked about “no homo? yes … homo? GAY COOTIES??????” for the ship to be considered “in character”

And then a lot of people were like, “That’s shitty, let’s not do that.”  

And then a lot of other people (but not as many as we’d feared) were like, “Blah blah conservative Christian rhetorical fallacies blah blah I don’t approve of murder either but I still enjoy the mystery genre blah blah.” 

And some time passed, people stopped warning for m/m and f/f content (and started CREATING f/f content outside of Xena fandom, bless you Xena fandom)

And now it’s like we just assume everyone falls somewhere on the bi-pan-omni-multi spectrum unless they very specifically canonically have a Storyline About Being Exclusively Kinsey 6 Level Gay. (Or they very explicitly have a moment where they’re like “nah man, I wish but I’m straight. good luck though!” (the second moment is treated as “Yeah but fuck canon tho” and the first is treated as “and N’e’er a gender unlike their own shall approach romanic’ly” 

ANYWAY.

What I’m saying here is that I’m seeing a similar thing happen with gender right now. We’re coming out of a place where All Characters Are Considered Cis Unless They’re Explicitly Canonically Trans Or Are Played By A Trans Actor to a place of 

We Don’t Fucking Know Any Of These Characters’ Genders Unless They Say Something About It In Canon And If They Say “Cis” Well Then Fuck Canon We Create What We Want. 

It’s a little disconcerting to be cis and fannish while this sea change is taking place (I was conservative, Christian, and closeted while the previous seismic shift happened and I mostly closed my eyes and went LA LA LA while it did) but I’m glad the great genderquake of 20XX is going on. 

And our trans+ comrades getting a fan space that’s safer and more welcoming and more comfortable? Is WELL worth the lil disconcertion I (and other cis people I am looking at you too) have about it as cis people. 

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cc @ao3commentoftheday [Related Post: Tagging Sexualities (And Genders)]