[nix-lina]

So annoying to be dealing with an artist/writer's block while hyperfixated on your ocs sometimes like 'Oh I hope there's more material of them out there' like BROTHER YOU'RE THE MANUFACTURER AND YOU'VE BEEN OUT OF BUSINESS SINCE 1976????

[nix-lina]

*staring down the open ao3 page with my hands in front like an intrigued investor* he would definitely not say that but I'm intrigued by a possibility in which he could. *leaning in* Tell me more

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

❝ What’s the point of bots mass commenting on people’s works on AO3? What do they get from doing this? ❞

Besides trying to get your personal information and/or get you to “commission” them (you will almost certainly not get what you paid for, or it will be just AI-generated stuff), the only reason I can think of as to why these bots would do this, is because they want to use/steal your works to train their AI, and in order for them to avoid getting a copyright strike (since the works you create are YOUR OWN—even if it’s fanfiction of other people’s copyrighted characters—you can absolutely copyright strike anybody who steals your fics), they want you to delete your works off the internet.

Once the original material, which in this case is your fic, is deleted, it becomes way more difficult and complicated for you to claim ownership of your own work. Because it’s already been deleted. There’s no proof that you posted it first.

The bottom line, the bots are trying to get you to delete your works so that it would be easier for them to steal your works to train their AI without getting hit with a copyright strike from you.

Don’t delete your works.

MORE ABOUT BOTS AND SCAMMERS PLAGUING AO3’S COMMENTS SECTION

[nix-lina]

The final sprint of my internship is killing me but rest assured I still have gay old men to smush together as stress relief.

[nix-lina]

I love how as soon as ao3 goes down everyone just instantly migrates to Tumblr and does the internet equivalent of a caged animal gnawing at the bars of its enclosure

[nix-lina]

I was calm and I was doing okay until the medical old man yaoi hit and now I'm down another hyperfixation train. Motherfuck–

[shencomix]

To the person anonymously writing slowburn office lady yuri in my DMs

I don't know why you've chosen me for this harassment campaign you've embarked on. I don't know why you feel that my DMs are a better medium for this story than, I don't know, posting them on a writing website?? Or on your own blog??? And most importantly, I don't know why you are laboring under the delusion that I can't report you just because you are sending the chapters anonymously -- I can in fact, and you would be IP banned.

I'm issuing you this ultimatum right now:

Stop sending me your slowburn office lady yuri

OR

I will report you

OR

Send me the next chapter within 24 hours, because are a fucker for where you left it off, and you have not sent a new chapter in several days. I need to know whether, when they were the only two in the office late at night after a brutal crunch week, and the stars could be seen in the sky due to a power outage on their block, and they talked about life, they actually do kiss or if that's another fakeout, of which you have done MANY.

My patience with you has worn thin. Stop sending me this story, or send me more, or I will report you.

Good night.

[rebeccasteventaylor]

Got my alarm set as the Mission Impossible theme so instead of waking up and thinking I have to get through another shitty workday, I can think…

‘Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is fully carry out all the tasks required of you by the work place and completely fool your bosses into thinking you are a competent worker and not weird at all. You may call on agents Ethan Hunt and Benji Dunn for Yaoi daydreams if required to help you complete this task.

As always, should you or any of your team be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This message will self-destruct in ten seconds. Good luck Rebecca. ‘

And that normally gets me through the day. I’m not stuck at work, I’m carrying out a mission. And if things get really bad I can imagine Benji Dunn in an earpiece telling me what to do (I’m very Ethan, I’ll do anything Benji says)

[nix-lina]

Okay but I have to share the other side of this in that I did this for an alarm for my meds and I forgot about it (because of course I did) only for it to blare in the middle of my senior explaining the experiment protocol to me. Like I appreciate the timing but the embarassment in that moment made me wanna crawl into a hole and die.

[nix-lina]

I finished my fic!!! So if you like Benthan omegaverse with non traditional dynamics Alpha/Beta pairing, some angst and a splash of Ilsa/Jane, you can check it out!

More info and tags about the fic below!

Chapters: 8/8 Fandom: Mission: Impossible (Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Benji Dunn/Ethan Hunt, Benji Dunn & Ethan Hunt, William Brandt & Benji Dunn, Benji Dunn & Original Female Character(s), Jane Carter & Benji Dunn, Jane Carter/Ilsa Faust, Jane Carter & Ilsa Faust Characters: Benji Dunn, Ethan Hunt, William Brandt, Luther Stickell, Ilsa Faust, Jane Carter (Mission: Impossible), Original IMF Agents (Mission: Impossible), Original Characters, Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Non-Traditional Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha Ethan Hunt, Beta Benji Dunn, Omega William Brandt, Humor, Pre-Relationship, Pre-Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), Movie: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), Fluff, no beta we die like my sanity, Alpha/Beta, Im honestly updating tags as I go, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Less text of canon and more the spirit perhaps, Angst, Fluff and Angst, Rare Pairings, Now with femslash, because I said soooo, POV Multiple, Alpha/Omega, but with a twist, Ethan Hunt Needs a Hug, everyone needs a hug tbh Series: Part 3 of In Softness, we prevail (Benthan ABOverse) Summary:

Benji surprisingly found himself working alongside Ethan more after the Cobalt Crisis. Along with Brandt and Luther, sure. (Although it did take some time for him to get used to the latter. Benji was half-sure the beta was this close to shooting him during their first official mission in Romania due to him being so obviously starstruck which–Sue him, it's hard to be normal when you're working with The Phineas Phreak himself, okay?)

But Ethan? He wasn't complaining but it really came as a surprise how the guy seemed almost unavoidable post-Cobalt. It's not like they were joined at the hip, not necessarily. Less nine-times-out-of-ten, but six-times-out-of-ten was still a valid and above average statistic to be continuously working with one Ethan Hunt.

Or awkward unspoken courtship rituals, rogue agents and me trying desperately to do some worldbuilding..

[nix-lina]

Being more of a shipper than a lover, I'm not into Y/N type dating sims which is why I'm so glad that Date Everything gives you the option to set people up. Like yes, I like these freaks but I don't want to be with them, I want Freak A to be with Freak B and observe their interactions like a microbiologist observing a petridish.

[itslifetreesworld]

My favorite Benthan looks in M: I (8/8): The Final Reckoning!

M:I 1-3

Ghost Protocol

Rouge Nation

Fallout

Dead Reckoning

Can't believe we are here already...The Final Reckoning...

The following will be the costume based on my not very good memory and as much stuff as I can find from trailers and behind-the-scenes pics. Sadly because of this, it would be much more text-heavy than the previous ones.

I am pretty sure I will go back and remake this one when TFR went online, but again I think I still got quite some interesting things out of it, so here we go one last time:

Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning

First of all... is anyone surprised(?) Do I really need to explain?

But I do have some details that I want to talk about:

I'm just being very normal about Ethan's soft grey turtle neck sweater... We usually see Ethan being pretty indifferent about the temperature, he just wears a jumper and a jacket wherever he goes, and the clothes cling to him very tightly

But this time it was soft, the shape hung loosely on him and every corner and turn of his silhouette were so soft and round, it's as if the cold finally seeps into his bones when he drowns in the freezing depths of the sea, and he really needs something warm and soft (like a hug) to recover from that nightmare

I couldn't find any pic about what trousers he's wearing so I just made something up, but I made it as warm and soft as possible because he looks like he really needs that

(Sadly I couldn't find anything in a better angle)

And for Benji, on the airplane he was actually wearing a very neat black shirt, usually Ethan's thing. It's as if in this moment their roles were exchanged, Benji is taking the responsibility of the team leader, so Ethan can catch some precious time to rest and just let loose the weight he's carrying for even just a brief moment.

...but I decided to go with the brown sweater he's in in the cabin because I just love it too much

It's just... the texture, soft but still with a bit of roughness is just such a Benji thing...And I just want to see them in comfy sweaters is that too much to ask

Btw the posture I did was actually a combination of the forehead kiss (I'm just gonna call it like that) and the farewell in the mines. (I swear I have the pic in the mines saved somewhere but I just can't find it you'll have to conjure it up in your memory) This slight tweak was because I was putting Ethan on the left side for the entirety of this thing and I don't really want to change this,,, so I hope I still capture the precious moment of...them...

With my pick explained, let's have a look at whatever we've got at the moment and what they are telling us!

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I've noticed that a lot of the scenes/costumes are a direct reference to previous m:i movies, I am almost 100% sure that the early scene in the embassy is a direct reference to the Rogue Nation Vienna Opera House scene.

Does any detail on this shirt look familiar to you? Mhmmmm....

(I didn't find any pic with Benji in this part but I think he was also wearing a bowtie and glasses in the car)

btw I really like the coat Ethan was wearing running across London. I think it's a really cute length and silhouette

The next one in the timeline is Ethan in this blue jumper. Obviously it was an attempt to make him look harmless(?) in some way, but I just can't help but remember this from mi3

I know it was very different in plot, in TFR he's doing this willingly while in mi3 he was captured as a highly dangerous rogue agent, but it just feels like somebody just went "Oh yeah you know what he's gonna break all of those at some point so why bother just throw a cuff or something"

btw I also really like Ethan's hair in TFR, it's something shorter than mi2 and GP but longer than RN and there are some layers and curves as well.

The next one I've noticed is that in the helicopter he's already in the swimsuit, so Ethan "out of your mind" Hunt's plan has always been jumping straight into the freezing water, it just happened slightly earlier than he thought

Last time I talked about how Benji in DR had no brightness balance and how everything on him blurred into something dark. Now this time we have the opposite example of that!

He's still wearing dark colors, it's the same type of suit+vest+tie but now you can clearly see how everything is balanced by the lighter color of the tie, something in the middle to break up the blurry dark area. If you compare this to the one below in DR I think it's obvious that he looks less grave and somber. The tie also helps bring attention to his face by creating an extra layer of information around the center. (He's definitely doing much better now than the end of DR)

I think I briefly mentioned this before, but I LOVE the fact that Benji's texture is rough. It's always something natural/tough, very earthly, but never pointy or dangerous, kind of like sandpaper. I think that's an amazing expression of Benji's character in the recent films.

The last one on my list is the one in the mine!

Funnily enough, I actually did some research on collarless shirts before for a play called The Pillowman. From what I remembered it's collarless because it's easier for the workers/soldiers wearing them to move around and it's easier to clean. It's also called a grandfather shirt because the person who wears it was usually the oldest man working in the family (I have a hazy memory so I don't have any source, they might be terribly wrong but I just think it's really funny...)

And... when I see Benji's hat I just can't help but think of Luther. Maybe that's Benji's way of honoring him by taking part of him to this final battlefield, he is with them till the very end...

And with that... this is the end (for now)! Wow, I can't believe I actually made it. When I started I genuinely didn't think anyone would be that interested in my random ramblings about clothes, but I'm absolutely overwhelmed by all the love and comments and reblogs. Like I said, I enjoy this immensely and it just makes me so, so happy that there are other people who enjoy this as much as I do.

So, thank you so very much for reading all of these analyses! Lots and lots of love to all of you, and I hope you had a wonderful time!

Quick links again for previous analysis:

M:I 1-3

Ghost Protocol

Rouge Nation

Fallout

Dead Reckoning

[nix-lina]

I just finished Murderbot and God I'm devastated. It's just so so good. The finale made me weep because my found family instincts were like Nooooo don't leavee but I really get why it needed to end the way it did. My favourite aspect of the finale is that Gurathin was the one to give the last farewell. It just...fits so well with the character arc, you know?

[scienceofdeducjohn]

[nix-lina]

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

Chapters: 6/? Fandom: Mission: Impossible (Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Benji Dunn/Ethan Hunt, Benji Dunn & Ethan Hunt, William Brandt & Benji Dunn, Benji Dunn & Original Female Character(s), Jane Carter & Benji Dunn, Jane Carter/Ilsa Faust, Jane Carter & Ilsa Faust Characters: Benji Dunn, Ethan Hunt, William Brandt, Luther Stickell, Ilsa Faust, Jane Carter (Mission: Impossible), Original IMF Agents (Mission: Impossible), Original Characters, Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Non-Traditional Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha Ethan Hunt, Beta Benji Dunn, Omega William Brandt, Humor, Pre-Relationship, Pre-Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), Movie: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), Fluff, no beta we die like my sanity, Alpha/Beta, Im honestly updating tags as I go, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Less text of canon and more the spirit perhaps, Angst, Fluff and Angst, Rare Pairings, Now with femslash, because I said soooo, POV Multiple, Alpha/Omega, but with a twist Series: Part 3 of In Softness, we prevail (Benthan ABOverse) Summary:

Benji surprisingly found himself working alongside Ethan more after the Cobalt Crisis. Along with Brandt and Luther, sure. (Although it did take some time for him to get used to the latter. Benji was half-sure the beta was this close to shooting him during their first official mission in Romania due to him being so obviously starstruck which–Sue him, it's hard to be normal when you're working with The Phineas Phreak himself, okay?)

But Ethan? He wasn't complaining but it really came as a surprise how the guy seemed almost unavoidable post-Cobalt. It's not like they were joined at the hip, not necessarily. Less nine-times-out-of-ten, but six-times-out-of-ten was still a valid and above average statistic to be continuously working with one Ethan Hunt.

Or awkward unspoken courtship rituals, rogue agents and me trying desperately to do some worldbuilding.

[u-r-dunn]

Me to the writers of MI: "if you touch one hair on Benji's head I swear to God..."

Me writing MI fanfiction: and then Benji got shot and stabbed and hit by a car

[magicvu]

[ciricearts]

i loved the movie omggg