i like to consume media and scream into the void

also petitecanard on ao3

[ashleyloob]

what's the most cancelable shit y'all do when ur not online

[predatory-lesbians]

sometimes i like to acknowledge nuance

[themirokai]

Can this post find anyone who was involved in Warrior Cats fandom on fanfiction.net in the 2010s?

Because I desperately need to know if they recognize the story told on the most recent episode of Normal Gossip.

It was a fantastic story of ridiculous fandom drama. Totally worth a listen.

[petite-duck]

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

chapter three up!!

[petite-duck]

tamora pierce books are a hug

i’m rereading some right now — at first to refresh because i want to write a daja/kel fic — but i forgot how these books soothe my soul. the way she writes friendship and growth is so important so chefs kiss.

i love how she writes character arcs — both negative and positive. like everyone has the capacity for change (wyldon of cavall) but not everyone will, and sometimes people get worse (joren of stone mountain). in will of the empress berenene has multiple chances to stop being The Worst and gets Worse — but in a way that is understandable, believable, and human. it adds such texture to the books. and some people like king jon in keladry’s books are protagonist and antagonist.

the adult mentors are so real and varied: niko, frostpine, rosethorn, vedris, lark, myles of olau, sir raoul, wyldon. they joke, they laugh, they make mistakes — like real people instead of caricatures.

and tammy’s stories build on each other like stone after stone in a foundation — like when kel is going to scanra to save her people it is so believable that all of her friends ride after her because kel has four books worth of proving she is the type of leader people would do that for. tammy understands her characters and their motivations so well.

also owen of jesslaw plsss i would die for him

in conclusion: i genuinely think reading these books as a kid was so vital to me and they should be required reading for everyone

[petite-duck]

ok besties! i've finally posted the first part of a daja/kel fic:

Jousting, Sparring, and Other Flirting Techniques by petitecanard Chapters: 1/4 Fandom: Tortall - Tamora Pierce, Emelan - Tamora Pierce, PIERCE Tamora - Works Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Keladry of Mindelan/Daja Kisubo Characters: Briar Moss, Sandrilene fa Toren, Trisana Chandler Additional Tags: assorted cast of characters, let's go lesbians!!!, Romance, Fluff

Keladry of Mindelan trotted the gelding to the fallen knight and dismounted, offering her hand to help him up. The other knight refused. Keladry shrugged and walked her gelding out of the arena. Daja watched her hand her horse to a groomsman and the jousting lance to another attendant before she took off her helmet. She was beautiful, Daja thought. Keladry ran her hand through her chin length hair, slipping off the tie on it so it framed her face, which Daja found both stubborn and surprisingly delicate. Briar whistled. “You might have to fight me for a chance with her,” he told Daja. He must have felt the surge of attraction through their bond. “You wouldn’t know what to do with a woman like that,” Daja retorted.

[petite-duck]

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

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Emelan - Tamora Pierce, Tortall - Tamora Pierce, PIERCE Tamora - Works Relationships: Dovasary Balitang/Briar Moss Characters: Winnamine Balitang, Alianne Cooper, Saraiyu Balitang, Sandrilene fa Toren, Trisana Chandler, Daja Kisubo Additional Tags: Loss of Virginity, Marriage, Romance, briar is a simp continued, Fluff Series: Part 4 of Tortall x Emelan Summary:

She couldn’t help that she loved him.

[yandere-angela]

realizing cis women also struggle with “passing” a lot of times and has a lot of the same issues with dysphoria trans women have (issues with putting on/losing weight, dissatisfied with bust size, not feeling “feminine” enough, etc.) has done a lot to combat dysphoria for me, cause it’s like, wow, we really have a lot more in common than we have in difference huh

[yandere-angela]

terfs are starting to find this post, and i gotta say: terfs getting mad at a post that explicitly acknowledges cis women’s struggles and with notes full of cis women agreeing and talking about their own struggles and experiences really speaks volumes about how anti-feminist, and frankly misogynistic, terfs really are, that they don’t even give a shit about cis women’s struggles and experiences

[minuiko]

Yuki gifting Neal her shukusen. Scene from Squire

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

no but that scene where kid Tris bluntly but PRIVATELY reveals to Briar that she KNOWS he can't read- she's known all along-

how he waits for everyone else to start doing their chores for the day before starting on whatever's left, instead of just checking the board where it all gets written up-

she never poked at that

never used it against him. even back when they didn't LIKE each other- him a kid from the streets and her from a merchant family, social oil and water, all their scuffs and tiffs. her temper is hot and her words are sharp

Tris never. not once. mocked him for not being able to read. didn't even mention it

and she noticed. this before the four of them all really grow into being foster siblings, back when they're just four traumatized and thrown away kids plopped down into a cottage with two women who weirdly enough won't stop caring about them-

even back then, prickly Tris paid attention

the offer to teach him comes later- in private- she is NOT embarrassing him in front of anyone else when she talks about it. it's after the four survived almost dying together, a quiet moment alone, when she finally mentions she could help if he wanted

he does. instantly- and it's not hard to see why he's so comfortable with saying yes, now. he wouldn't let on to anyone else, their teachers and guardians, but Tris saw and kept quiet and is asking him

her urge is to share this thing that'd given her so much comfort and strength with someone else who doesn't have that yet. and to do it just for him, no one else to see, just his thing to study with her, something she's happy to make time for

then years later, they are the family bookworms together. sister and brother with more academic interests than their other two siblings. they reconnect so quietly and easily even though they both are maybe the hardest to get along with in general, the sharpest and most likely to snap and lash out. but Tris taught Briar to read without making him feel stupid about it. he grew up and taught HIS student to read, using a lot of the same tricks Tris had used on him

i dunno. it gets to me, is all

[nightmaskart]

Alanna the Lioness, done for Dual Wield Studios 40th anniversary of Tamora Pierce's book!

[deceitfulapple-eatingscoundrel]

millyillus.

[petite-duck]

Woowowowo people r so talented

[demonprincex]

A thing that a lot of people miss in conversations about transition is that like, lots of nonbinary people absolutely have strong gender dysphoria, lots of agender people have dysphoria, lots of gender fluid people have dysphoria, etc, and it's not always a type of dysphoria that transition with hormones or surgery can solve but that doesn't make it any less real. Medical transition is worth trying for many! I will never stop extolling the virtues of T and the numerous positives that it brought to me and so many others. At the same time, if you don't feel comfortable in your embodiment or your assigned gender role but would also feel deeply uncomfortable in the embodiment and role that hormones or surgery would generally get you, you have a kind of dysphoria that cannot easily be cured! you might be kinda low-grade miserable with either option and still exhibit all the same negative consequences that any other dysphoric trans people do when they are not able to transition, and that suffering merits consideration. it's not less serious a form of dysphoria just because it doesn't have a "solution".

of course, this isn't an exclusively nonbinary thing, and of course it is possible for a person to seek gender-affirming care that is very boundary-breaking and gender-fucky and unique (and many """"binary""" trans people use those methods too), and those options are all great. but there is a sincere dysphoria felt by those of us who just... aren't at home in a human gendered embodiment at all. and sometimes becoming a different type of human just doesn't nip that in the bud and never can. it's still dysphoria.

[vmpirevnom]

Vintage LGBTQ photos are so beautiful

[nessiandaily]

Nesta Archeron by renata_watsonn [instagram]

[petite-duck]

this is BEAUTIFUL

[cheaphalloweencostume]

not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl… what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

[altospaceangel]

If ANYTHING is a heritage post it’s this.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Literally everyone else: the courtly folk are extremely dangerous you should always engage with them with complete caution

Emily Wilde, Academic: I can't believe this Irish fuck who can't handle the cold is my only friend I'm going to kill everyone in this room and then myself if he doesn't stop making branches bloom in the depths of winter istg

[minuiko]

The Queen and her Spymaster (quick sketch of Dove and Aly from Trickster’s Queen on request)

[petite-duck]

tamora pierce books are a hug

i’m rereading some right now — at first to refresh because i want to write a daja/kel fic — but i forgot how these books soothe my soul. the way she writes friendship and growth is so important so chefs kiss.

i love how she writes character arcs — both negative and positive. like everyone has the capacity for change (wyldon of cavall) but not everyone will, and sometimes people get worse (joren of stone mountain). in will of the empress berenene has multiple chances to stop being The Worst and gets Worse — but in a way that is understandable, believable, and human. it adds such texture to the books. and some people like king jon in keladry’s books are protagonist and antagonist.

the adult mentors are so real and varied: niko, frostpine, rosethorn, vedris, lark, myles of olau, sir raoul, wyldon. they joke, they laugh, they make mistakes — like real people instead of caricatures.

and tammy’s stories build on each other like stone after stone in a foundation — like when kel is going to scanra to save her people it is so believable that all of her friends ride after her because kel has four books worth of proving she is the type of leader people would do that for. tammy understands her characters and their motivations so well.

also owen of jesslaw plsss i would die for him

in conclusion: i genuinely think reading these books as a kid was so vital to me and they should be required reading for everyone