I can’t be half gentle enough,

A. aka Ayrith, freijya. Still around, shockingly. Mostly a writing tumblr, although will also reblog humor/fandom stuff also. For older works, check out ff.net. For current works, ao3. For work not published on either, search #my fic on this tumblr or browse this ancient not-updated live journal (at your own peril).

[papermagnolias]

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

Title: Let’s Fall in Love Pairing: Axel/Kairi

I don’t want a nice guy, she told him. You don’t want a friend, he corrected.

Kairi’s a pre-med student in her third year and Axel is her friend’s friend. They enter into a not-relationship that is going about as well as you’d expect.

>>Chapter 1: [ffnet][ao3]<<

[papermagnolias]

Let’s Fall in Love (21/21, Complete)

I don't really post on here anymore, but I figured I'd post the completion of this.

Title: Let’s Fall in Love (21/21) Pairing: Axel/Kairi

I don’t want a nice guy, she told him. You don't want a friend, he corrected.

Kairi’s a pre-med student in her third year and Axel is her friend’s friend. They enter into a not-relationship that is going about as well as you'd expect.

>>Chapter 21: [ao3] <<

Cheers.

[papermagnolias]

Hi! There was a multi chapter InuSan fanfic on AO3 that now I can't find. I think it was deleted. I don't remember much about it except that Inuyasha and Sango had started a sexual relationship, and Kagome and Sango had a conversation about not knowing if Sango and Inuyasha were in love or not, but needing time to figure it out. There was no character bashing and it was really well written. Do you know what I'm talking about?

Hi! I didn’t know there were any active Inuyasha/Sango multifics outside of the Mine Enemy series I’ve been writing, so unfortunately I cannot help you! :( however I am very intrigued and if you happen to find it I would love if you could share.

The only other thing I can think of is if it’s an older fic, maybe it’s on FF.net? Here is an old Inuyasha/Sango community that has quite a few Inu/San classics: https://www.fanfiction.net/community/Inuyasha-and-Sango-Storys/796/

Good luck and hope you do find it!

[sweetiepie08]

Sometimes falling in love with a character is about seeing yourself in a character, or what you could be, and drawing strength and inspiration from them.

And sometimes it’s like finding an angry opossum in a dumpster, eating your trash, and deciding it’s your baby.

[locusimperium]

[swan-archive]

locusimperium:

A few years ago, when I was living in the housing co-op and looking for a quick cookie recipe, I came across a blog post for something called “Norwegian Christmas butter squares.” I’d never found anything like it before: it created rich, buttery and chewy cookies, like a vastly superior version of the holiday sugar cookies I’d eaten growing up. About a year ago I went looking for the recipe again, and failed to find it. The blog had been taken down, and it sent me into momentary panic. 

Luckily, I remembered enough to find it on the Wayback Machine, and quickly copied it into a file that I’ve saved ever since. I probably make these cookies about once a month, and they last about five days around my voracious husband - they’re fantastic with a cup of bitter coffee or tea. I’m skeptical that there is something distinctively Norwegian about these cookies, but they do seem like the perfect thing to eat on a cold day. 

Norwegian Christmas Butter Squares

1 cup unsalted butter, softened

1 egg 1 cup sugar 2 cups flour 1 tsp vanilla ½ tsp salt Turbinado/ Raw Sugar for dusting

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Chill a 9x13″ baking pan in the freezer. Do not grease the pan.

Using a mixer, blend the butter, egg, sugar, and salt together until it is creamy.  Add the flour and vanilla and mix using your hands until the mixture holds together in large clumps. If it seems overly soft, add a little extra flour. 

Using your hands, press the dough out onto the chilled and ungreased baking sheet until it is even and ¼ inch thick.  Dust the top of the cookies evenly with raw sugar.

Bake at 400 degrees until the edges turn a golden brown, about 12-15 minutes. Remove from the oven. Let cool for about five minutes before cutting the cooked dough into squares. Remove the squares from the warm pan using a spatula.

[brawltogethernow]

So I tried this recipe.

And it is GREAT.

It basically makes the platonic ideal of commercial sugar cookies, only in bar form. When I give them to people (which I do a lot, because this is one of those simple recipes where the results seem very impressive), I just tell them they’re sugar cookie bars.

[davetheshady]

Life hack: add white chocolate chips and sea salt

[mxxnlit-witch]

I made these today for the equinox with sea salt caramel chips and they are simply amazing. Let’s see how long they last with six people in the house!

[dduane]

Noting for later (as we need more butter for this, and probably won’t do a grocery shopping till the weekend).

[softhanyou]

[papermagnolias]

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

Title: Let’s Fall in Love Pairing: Axel/Kairi

I don’t want a nice guy, she told him. You don't want a friend, he corrected.

Kairi’s a pre-med student in her third year and Axel is her friend’s friend. They enter into a not-relationship that is going about as well as you'd expect.

>>Chapter 1: [ffnet][ao3]<<

[mjalti]

listen, when i go to open my mouth & what comes out is 12 degrees of seperation from what the original topic was, u need to connect the dots bitch. think fast. i’m not gonna hold ur hand but we’re leaving now and visiting every topic along the line. wave it goodbye, don’t get hung up on it

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

everyone who reblogged this has adhd

[mjalti]

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

[papermagnolias]

ao3 migration incoming

so...I never thought I would actually do this, but just in case anything happens over at ff.net, I’m going to try to upload all my old fic (Read: 56) to AO3.

Apologies for any spam to subscriptions. I’ll probably spread it out and try to load it in large chunks by fandom with back dated posting dates 

[sarahseeandersen]

[lostsometime]

i had a very illuminating conversation with a guy about 10 years younger than me that really put this change into perspective, which is this:

i have a very distinct memory, in my childhood, of the moment of my disillusionment.  i believed that grown-ups knew what they were doing, and that the things that seemed so obvious to me had to be obvious to them, too (things like DON’T GO TO WAR IN IRAQ, for example).  i believed that, and had that belief pulled out from under me, so my disillusionment comes with a sense of betrayal.

a mere 10 years younger than me, this guy has no such moment or memory.  he never believed grown-ups were fundamentally competent, or good, or reasonable.  he never lived in a world where things didn’t feel constantly careening wildly out of control.  there’s no betrayal in his sense that the government has failed him - of course it has, it was always going to.  he doesn’t remember a time pre-bush, or pre-9/11, or pre-iraq war.  this is just what the world has always looked like for him.  so it’s not really a sense of “disillusionment,” actually - his generation never had any illusions to lose.  they’ve just been in this world so long it’s all they’ve ever known.

[marsupials-of-mars]

As gen z, yeah this adds up… also we grew up with the internet where everyone was always disagreeing and calling shit out so it never seemed like everyone knew what was best

[beepboopbitch-deactivated202011]

same tbh, ive never felt like the govt WASNT being shitty or the world wasnt absolutely insane

[papermagnolias]

writing updates + plans

I’m still around and still writing. :)

So far 2021 has actually been a good year of writing for me. The reason I’ve been missing is because in January I decided to practically rehaul my Axel/Kairi alt pairing Kingdom Hearts fic Tin Men. Then I gave myself the entire month of February and the first half of March to nanowrimo-style write a new Axel/Kairi AU 90K+ fic that for various reasons is near and dear to my heart. I’ve been riding a high for the last few days. The fic is explicit, but I will attempt to tone down the many (practically half of the) chapters that would otherwise make it unreadable on ffnet, with an original full version posted on AO3. When I start posting that, it should be updated once or twice a week.


Before I even thought of posting or working on anything else though, I wanted to sneak in some updates for Thine Enemy. The Hunt was already finished awhile ago as a bonus. If I can finish the next chapter of Tin Men too, I'll hit all my writing goals for March. :) 

April will probably be spent alternating between Thine Enemy and one of the others depending on if I need a break. A lesson I learned for myself in February is that I really do work better A. with an outline and B. if I do a little writing everyday. It would be really lovely if I can do for Thine Enemy or one of the others what I did in February for my KH project. But we’ll see. I have ambitious writing goals this year, but so far I’ve been doing pretty good.

2020 was an incredibly tough year and 2021 has not been easier. :( I hope you all stay safe.

[papermagnolias]

The Hunt, Chapter 4 (Final Fantasy IX)

Title: The Hunt

Summary: On the eve of the Hunt Festival, two old friends meet. Freya is still looking for Fratley. Zidane is still a hopeless skirt chaser. But this time, a few things are different.

Zidane/Freya, Freya/Fratley, Zidane/Garnet

Chapter 1: [ffnet][ao3]   Chapter 2: [ffnet][ao3] Chapter 3: [ffnet][ao3]  >>Chapter 4: [ffnet][ao3]<<

[papermagnolias]

Thine Enemy, Chapter 3 (Inuyasha)

Title: Thine Enemy

Summary: [InuSanNar] Human, youkai, hanyou. When the scariest of monsters can pass for man, who are the real demons? Sequel to Mine Enemy.

Inuyasha/Sango, Naraku/Sango.

Chapter 1: [ffnet] [ao3]  Chapter 2: [ffnet] [ao3] >>Chapter 3: [ffnet] [ao3]<<

[awed-frog]

when you’re trying to write and your last two functioning brain cells start yelling at each other

[starcitysirens]

There are two kinds of fic writers:

1. Fuck it, it’s fiction

2. Let me look up real estate listings, so I can plot out subway routes and schedules and see if this walk really is long enough for them to have this conversation.

Guess which kind I am.

[cerulean-beekeeper-deactivated2]

3. People who are a weird mix of the above two.

[pixiecodesnowbaz]

Me: you know what I don’t care if this doesn’t quite make sense no one cares they will love it and this won’t be analysed it’s fanfic

Also me: I SWEAR if I can’t find a TREE with this EXACT type of bark that I’m imagining I WILL DIE

[mochegato]

Yep. Definitely both

[silentwalrus1]

I think the fundamentals to then Ed-Roy dynamic is that Roy sees Ed as an teenager with nukes for hands who has to be VERY CAREFULLY AIMED and Ed sees Roy as decorative.

fghjk this is funny because

1. when mustang takes ed to the exam, the only thing he knows about this kid is that he’s committed a gruesome, disfiguring, extremely alchemically challenging felony

2. mustang has NO IDEA what ed’s gonna do. none. he has no fucking conversation with this kid, no plan for if this tiny child just freezes up on the stage and starts crying or whatever in front of the president because again, HE’S TWELVE

3. mustang @ ed: lmao just do whatever. i dont care

4. ed: [does whatever for 5 years]

5. mustang, continually: lmao fucking wild. Y’all see that? crazy. what a kid! Anyway nobody look at what I’m doing over here 

in conclusion mustang’s like “This is a teenager with nukes for hands. Here, kid, have a million dollars and no fucking supervision! God love ya. That should keep the military occupied for a while” 

and it’s so fucking great

[silentwalrus1]

#also 'teenager with nukes for hands that has to be carefully aimed' is absolutely what the rest of the military thinks about mustang  @shadowdyke​

[inwildspace]

Hello, friends!

I’m in a Star Wars (vastly Reylo) inspired band called MissThis. We just put out a new music video for our song, ‘Divide’, which is a sequel to our previous video for our song ‘Rise’. These two videos are both inspired by Ben and Rey and their connection. We shot divide at the Imperial Sand Dunes (where parts of ROTJ were filmed). I hope you enjoy!

These videos will be a part of a trilogy! So far we have the first and second completed. 💕

Rise:

Divide: