Pretzel

i should probably have put in a proper description by now

[bambamramfan]

unironically so important

[fatusfar]

[lilawritesangst]

As much as I enjoy a ship focused fanfic, can we please appreciate the plot driven fics. Seriously. I’ve read some of the most passionate, beautiful fics purely made for the plot and they need more credit form the fanfic community <3

[oyuna-art]

Traveling Troupe (놀이패) AU

Aang & Toph travel around the Earth Kingdom in a troupe with their harmless rope walker scam (aka airbending)

[cabingold]

hilarious to me how Percy and Thalia just Don't Have Teachers. hazel learned magic from hecate and Gaea. Jason had loads of resources on hand from the Senate. Nico had fucking King Minos teach him to raise the dead. thalia improvised lightning when she was 12 and almost killed Luke and percy figured out he could breath underwater accidentally when the Chimera pushed him into the Mississippi River from a 600-foot height. arent they just so funny

[octxii]

team avatar 👅

[stuck-in-playplace-tube]

[katechh]

[nanometr0s]

old sengen sketch from stageplay (cat gen really cute)

[pkpkhnttmi]

things your boyfriend says to you out of nowhere like it's nothing while you take 10 billion points of damage

[ghostlythinglady-deactivated202]

A lot of fantasy goes with Tolkien explanation of fantasy racism being the result of ancestral grudge.

Then you got Dungeon Meshi which is like:

"Elves and Dwarves hate each other because their respective empires make up 2/3 of the imperial core and are stuck in a cold war as the planet runs out of uncolonized land to grab. Elves are able to live in pastoral paradise because they've horded most of the settings farm-able land and natural capital, displacing and mass murdering any natives in the process. Orcs and goblins are hostile to other races because there the primary targets of an ongoing slavery and genocide campaign. The dividing line between human and inhuman is arbitrarily assigned via a phrenological pseudo-science that quickly falls apart when questioned by anyone who wasn't indoctrinated into it since birth."

[hyperfixations-and-hecticness]

As much as I make fun of Percy for being down bad from day one what I really love is that he truly thinks this is regular friend behaviour. He’s unleashing his inner wattpad mafia boss for Annabeth, has her picture on his mirror, promises he’d burn down Olympus for her, seems offended there’s ‘another’ boyfriend and thinks it is purely platonic. And the best part is Percy is such a loverboy in all meanings of the world that that genuinely is understandable because he is simultaneously going to the sea of monsters for Grover, having Grover’s picture on his mirror, telling Grover he looks beautiful in a wedding dress, embracing Grover like the husband he presumed missing at sea and being so soulmated to his best friend that they dream together.

[flodaya]

#biblically accurate percabeth

[ju-nebugg]

every universe except this one, i guess.

[bananananurr]

This is an old draft for a larger thing I was attempting but-

Them meeting in s4 rather than s2 because Max still lives with her father.

Max is a happy loner til the new kid(s) come along. Then she becomes a happy ex-loner with weird but cool friends.

[miwiromantics]

Gaten in a skirt, Sadie in a suit,,, all of them look soo good I can’t breathe…

[hearteyes-wheeler]

Thinking about how Mike's story in stranger things is actually a tragedy. It's a prison he's locked himself in.

He starts out as this kid with a big mouth and a bigger heart. A kid that doesn't leave his friends behind and has nerdy hobbies. And he's bullied. In relatively quiet ways. Taunts built on presumption. And he wants to be weird and silly and play dnd and tell stories but he's told to be realistic, told to get serious and its stifling.

Then he tries to grow up too soon and wield emotions he's too young for and struggles with managing his feelings and friends and his girlfriend and that one boy he cant stop thinking about and it all explodes and hurts everyone around him, including himself.

And then he still tries and still fucks it up and he spends so much of s4 hurting himself and his people some more and he's lying to himself and being lied to about his feelings and he can only choke out confessions for his girlfriend when that one boy sears the words into him with his touch and his pretty doe eyes and oh right, he's supposed to be in love with his girlfriend.

And THEN. for a brief second in s5, the boy he doesn't know he loves is looking at him like he means something. He's touching him under the warm sunlight and whispers his name into his ear and he feels an unfamiliar hope that fades before he can make sense of it because he cant face the truth. He's too deeply stuck in the sad, predictable, mold he's carved for himself that is so different from the bright 12y/o he used to be and so, so similar to all the lifeless adults around him

He's Stuck in a prison of conformity. Of what could've been and he's forced to watch his loved ones find joy and move on while he sits in his lamp lit room, typing away stories he wishes he could live out but doesn't have the courage to. that painting on his wall is tattooed inside his eyes and he doesn't know why he can only hear the feelings of his dead girlfriend in the voice of the boy he's too scared to reach out to. He doesn't know and no one tells him the feelings he clings to belong to that boy he can't stop thinking about.

He's a storyteller and a dreamer but he's too scared to dream bigger than the walls he's known all his life. Now he's made his bed on his false, forced feelings for a girl he never knew how to love and the boy he never could stop loving. And when he lies down for the night, he can hear the soft, hushed whisper of his name, "Mike". It's the last time he felt those arms around him. It's a voice he'll never forget.