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ao3: alachii

[oliveskylarks]

ok so here's the gist of what this blog has going on:

mo dao zu shi (grandmaster of demonic cultivation/mdzs/the untamed)

the locked tomb

my fics my main account

i'd rather this be an 18+ space, but realistically i know that i can't police this blog's borders. if you're a minor and will be interacting w this blog beyond just passing through, pls make sure i am aware that you're a minor. i just wanna keep y'all safe. there will be 18+ content here

a more comprehensive list of my fandoms:

supernatural

criminal minds

tian guan ci fu (heaven's official blessing/tgcf)

teen wolf

911

lord of the rings

bbc merlin

interview with the vampire

percy jackson

the bone season

bokura no shokutaku (our dining table/odt/bns)

cheng hua shi si nian (the sleuth of ming dynasty/chssn/tsomd)

hp (but i don't really engage a lot bc fuck jkr yknow)

bad buddy the series

pls feel free to request whatever you like, just as long as you know there's a chance it won't get to happen. i am in grad school, so i don't have traditional work-life balance. but i would absolutely love to write for any requests!! i'll let you know if that ever changes :)

so far i have not ever written smut, and that's bc i'm ace. it's not a hard and fast rule, but i don't think i will? i also don't write rpf. idk. that's not to say i won't write dark shit, bc i absolutely will.

also i do have lots of fandom playlists that i put actual thought and effort into if anyone's interested?? u can just ask <3

essentially, i have a very simple tagging system. i tag by fandom, media type, and ship. anything else doesn't get specified in tags

[inklessdevotion]

Wangxian ❤️

[skaraptor]

AO3 should have an Annotation Mode where you can click to view all of the author's commentary and thoughts about certain parts of the work. A little comment that says "I spent five hours researching vintage radio mechanics for this and didn't even end up using it" or "this is an ancient Hebrew literary technique!" would make my day

[gatesofminrathous]

there will never be anything as funny as the mutual disbelief between long form and short form fic writers about each other's style.

short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.

meanwhile long form writers look at people writing 1000 word one shots like god I would cut off my left nipple to be able to say anything concisely. i would love to play with multiple ideas. free me from the shackles of this child I have birthed. i love them but I now must take them to t-ball and doctor's appointments and they're going to destroy everything I own.

[juiche]

I love treating my blorbos like dress up ken and barbie dolls 😌🎀

[mimimause]

[kamceyri]

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[nothingbizzare]

My dear , my everything

[officialspec]

martyr / mausoleum

[demonic-caffeination]

*through gritted teeth* the final chapter of the story doesn’t have to be perfect. it doesn’t have to surprise anyone. it doesn’t have to be the best thing I’ve ever written. it doesn’t have to be more interesting than everything that came before it. it doesn’t have to be the high water mark of excitement in the story. it doesn’t have to change the reader’s life. it just has to bring the narrative to a close. it just has to exist

[stormynightsreawake]

It was the first time you realized God could not understand you.

[lloydloverirl]

I’ve got nothing to tell

[30foolish]

My cat, the first one I adopted and cared for, is dying. Soon he will go over the rainbow, somewhere I can’t follow. He’s not gone, and yet I feel his absence like a wound. I had to channel this feeling somehow, and I guess I understand better now what Lan Wangji went through, even if just a little.

[balrogballs]

COMMISSION DETAILS

As (long 😩) promised, I've put all my prices and commission information on a single post, and here it is, complete with a gallery.

Opening up queue slots to July turnaround now since we've just been hit by The Landlord Surprise (landlord selling his house before the Renter's Rights Bill becomes law because god forbid renters receive rights) and need to find a new place in Hell City at short notice. Available slots/dates are under the cut, I'll strikethrough each one as they're taken.

All commissions via KO-FI (where you can also buy me a house), all reblogs appreciated!

QUEUE SPOTS:

May Turnaround: Slot 1 / Slot 2

June Turnaround: Slot 1 / Slot 2 /Slot 3

July Turnaround: Slot 1 / Slot 2 / Slot 3

[mixelation]

things ppl often get wrong in academia AUs (specifically ones in modern university settings with focus on graduate students & professors):

no one is spending enough time complaining about writing

hierarchy is wrong. your grad student TA is not a professor or faculty and might not even be considered an employee. that 32 year old man is not a full professor no matter how talented he is or how old you think 30+ is, and he should be talking more about "the tenure clock"

grad students only ever taking or TAing classes & never doing research or working on their thesis/dissertation. there are masters programs with no thesis component so i'm sure there are ones that have no research requirement, but you can't get a PhD only taking classes

everyone has too much money. but also if it's set in the US there's an obsession with accumulating student debt for positions that generally you would not have to take out loans for

relationship with academic advisor never sufficiently unhinged

not enough discussion of stats where it's obvious everyone only barely understands what's happening

[esukos]

【四季山庄的罪人】 (2024)

我记得四季山庄每张死在我面前的脸，都死了，唯独我活着，一个都保护不了。

[sugar-petals]

saw someone say they feel bad and awkward ‘contributing nothing’ to fandom (“no fics, no drawings, no theories, just gluttony”) and to anyone who feels inferiority about this i gotta say us creators, doing things for free, love nothing more than your unbridled spiralling greed in our notifications aka genuinely be more unapologetically gluttonous 24/7 there is nothing wrong with enjoying something insatiably because us writers and artists feel empty and despairing without a passionate audience and feral surroundings so please and thank you and we love you

[draculastarion]

yes!!!! you CAN contribute something!!!!! if you feel guilty, you can:

reblog art instead of just liking it! not only will you increase the amount of people who see it (more cool people seeing cool art!!!!) but then you can also leave some nice comments in the tags about how cool the art is!!!

no theories??? you can reblog the ones you really like, or even question the ones you don’t! fandom thrives on engagement! i’m not saying yell at someone for having a different opinion, but there’s no harm saying “oh, i didn’t see it that way. can you tell me more?” if you know of someone who has cool/interesting theories, please encourage them to talk more about it!! they probably held back the first time!

COMMENT ON FIC!!!!!! please, we are begging. literally just a heart emoji as a second kudos feels like the bare minimum but damn… sometimes we out here getting NO comments. one single emoji in the inbox might MAKE SOMEONE’S DAY.

if you feel guilty, if you feel greedy, ENGAGE WITH THE CONTENT

[athenadark]

as someone who was once the core of a rarepair in a dying fandom

create content - it doesn’t have to be good, it has to be THERE

you think your art is crap - the fans of that will not care

you go into one of their spaces and go “hey, I have a thought” and say it

talk to people, engage with them as well as the content

some of your favourite fancreators were once nervous little fans scared to dip their toes, and now they’re stomping in like godzilla to the delight of tokyo

you are the best part of fandom, you are different and have different ideas and yeah, we all start as tiny little fans scared to speak up, and now, we’re the ones being asked for content, every one of us dropped fics we’d like to scour off the internet, or art, or amv or whatever

don’t be afraid to speak up, we want to hear it, fandom isn’t reddit, there are no wrong answers