[samsblades]

⋆₊ you inched yourself across the great divide

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꩜｡⋆ criminal minds, lotr, young sherlock, atla the unselected journals of emma m. lion

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[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

do you ever feel yourself fail a charisma check in real time

[on-whereabouts-lane]

(Emma Lion, after any interaction with Ben Chambers)

[star-light-artist]

Absolutely obsessed with this series right now!

[samsblades]

soon. soon i will begin efforts to revive ask culture more.. moots new and old prepare to receive asks soon. blink blink

[goatedsaminator]

broke speedrun

[sboochi]

guys I had the most perverted idea......what if....they hugged.....

[lotusfiore]

twelveclara wip

[aisatsaa]

Waiting for Tenzin

[samsblades]

there are three genders: the doctor, the companion, and rory

[samsblades]

twelve..claraaa...aaahhh aghhh weughhhhh ahhh wahhh Aahhh

[lotusfiore]

laundry day

[lotusfiore]

#so they get stuck in time right#they're stuck in....what time is the light in this drawing giving me. i don't know. 70s or 80s. whatever. they're in a city in the U.S.#tardis takes off without them#spooked by the detonation of the spore creature they were there to stop from slowly poisoning the city#doctor does some calculations and it'll take the tardis 4000 years to shake off the spores in the time vortex#so it'll be back for them in a month#a month? says clara. i hope you like dishwashing. we're going to have to get jobs. also that's rubbish that a time machine needs a month#to process 4000 years.#of course it doesn't need a month to process 4000 years the doctor says. the spores have thrown off its internal metrics that's all.#like a human getting sick and sleeping through the daytime and thinking it's still the previous day when they wake up at night.#anyway no more dialogue so they're staying in this apartment owned by one of the people they'd helped with the spore creature#and clara gets a job as a server at a diner (lol) and the doctor works as a dishwasher (she clocked him on that) at a different place for#a week or so#before he somehow stumbles into being a sleight of hand magician/opening act/host for a local burlesque style club#the performers love him because he's grumpy but never weird with them and they assume he and clara are together after she comes to#a performance and then lectures him backstage#so youre the manager. quips one of the girls. we knew someone had to be keeping an eye on that one so he didn't fall into a sewer grate.#im not that old the doctor says#the girls laugh because that's not what they meant. clara knows what they meant. she fixes the doctor's bow tie.#been a while since i've seen you in one of these she says#anyway i agree with prev that she does the laundry and he cooks#there's only one bed in the creaky little apartment because it's one little room with the kitchen and clothing washer stuffed into one end#he doesn't need to sleep as much as humans but when he does they share the bed. no argument. she'll go to sleep alone and wake up#with him next to her. sharp elbows in her ribs. it's stranger because it doesn't feel strange to her. his face in the morning light.#it's the first time she's seen him asleep since his regeneration sickness. one morning she wakes up to find her arm across his chest#and for the first time she thinks it might not be so bad if the tardis takes her time returning to them#for real though this is a gorgeous little drawing and very evocative obviously from my tags lollll

these tags are the reason why i keep posting my drawings.. what a beautiful mind you have

[lostlamblizzie]

ARM. ARM. ARM.

[m0rab3za]

You get injured

Includes: Thorin, Fili, Kili, Legolas Warnings: mention of injury (very vague) request for anonymous!

Thorin

Everything stops, and he's immediately taking it upon himself to fix it. Whether it's a blade wound or a sprained ankle, he's doing everything he can for you---and if it's life-threatening, as fast as he can. While his bedside manner is sub-par, he's focusing all his energy on keeping you alive. Comfort would come later when he knew you were okay. It's also the only time he's not so hesitant to be rougher with you, when necessary of course. A stab wound or gash? He's tearing off any clothing in his way, packing the injury full of kingsfoil with little regard for the way it might sting. Dislocation? He's popping it back in without hesitation or warning. When he's fighting against time, it's his top priority, and he sees no sense in prolonging your pain or risking any further injury. But rest assured, as soon as he's made sure you're physically okay, you'll hear him audibly exhale as his touch softens and his arms encircle you, hushing your cries and drying your tears.

Fili

When anything happens to you, his heart leaps to his throat and pounds in his chest with a whirlwind of emotions---mainly fear of losing you and guilt from not preventing it. His immediate response is to keep you right next to him where he has you in sight. He assures himself that as long as you're with him, nothing else can happen to you. As soon as there's a moment to get you out of harm's way, he's scooping you up in his arms and getting you somewhere he can have a look at you. If others are near, he's yelling orders to get you what you need. It's one of the few times you'll hear him actually raise his voice. He does his best to keep you calm and comfort you while he works, either packing the wound or tying a splint or stitching you up. Thorin will keep an eye on it all, but knows he taught Fili well when it comes to medical emergencies. And no matter how much he's panicking internally, Fili's exterior is steady and calm---soothing you with assured softness, firmly holding your hand, talking you through what he's doing. He knows that minimizing your distress is the best way to make sure it all goes smoothly, and it's one of the things he's best at.

Kili

He definitely freaks out a little (a lot). His first reaction is to eliminate whatever caused your injury. If it's an orc, it's dead on sight. If the injury was something more spontaneous like falling or breaking something, his hand switches at his bow anyway with the instinct to protect. As soon as he notices any sense of pain or distress from you, it's as though he feels it himself. He holds your hands while Thorin and Fili come to help, trying not to cry as he watches the way your eyes well with tears. He assures you over and over that he wishes he could take the pain on himself and away from you. When he knows you're okay again, he doesn't let you out of his sight for at least the next few days, his own mind hyperaware of every possible threat.

Legolas

It's one of the only times you'll actually see panic on his face. His eyes will widen and his face sort of drops, sharp eyes instantly assessing what went wrong. If it's serious, he delivers you to a healer before you can blink. His whole world stops until you're okay again. If it's something more minor, that initial spasm of his heart will settle as he decides what's best to do. He'll focus firstly on calming you down and reassuring you it will all be okay, that he'll take care of you. Then, he methodically does what needs to be done, talking you through every step and praising how well you're doing. After you're patched up, he subtly hints that perhaps you should stay inside for a while, suggesting some indoor activities that might prevent you from getting yourself hurt again.

[intosnarkness]

Here’s the thing: authors know when they get a rec on an older story. There’s a telltale uptick of kudos (with a 10-15% comment rate if you’re lucky) in your digest email.

The thing is, there’s no way to know where these people are coming from. In the before, when fandom was more in the corners we all knew about, you could search LJ or a message board or whatever social bookmarking site we were using. You could join the community and participate.

You could get a little dopamine hit by seeing someone tell their friends why they loved your story.

Anymore, those recs are hidden in discords, or in tiktoks or instagram slideshows that you can’t search for. They’re inaccessible, not discoverable unless you’re already there. You may never know why 27 people left kudos on an old story of yours, what they liked and found in your writing. You just get the thumbs up and a kinda lonely feeling, cause these could be your people. You could like them, maybe. You could be friends.

But you’ll never find out why they stopped by, or what people are saying about you behind your back, and that’s sad.

So thank you to the people who still do public rec lists on this webbed site. You are my sunshine, and I’m appreciative of all of you.

[cactusringed]

I think fanfiction as a medium is different enough from mainstream literature in the tools it offers writers that it's a shame that it's not talked about more often. And it's not me saying "fanfic is better than books xD" because that sort of mindset is a symptom of people who aren't particularly well read in either medium. I'm just speaking of like... The little things you get to do with a fanfic that you genuinely can't really do in an original story.

I had a big fanfic in a previous fandom where one of the big reveals was the involvement of a kind of infamous villain, whose presence was built up to and foreshadowed through the whole fic until his reveal without ever mentioning his name, so that the name drop would be a gut punch. It worked especially well because of who the villain was and his presence in that fandom space specifically (it's very complicated) and if it was an original story this reveal wouldn't work at all the way it was written in the fic. Because if you don't have a predisposition to think about that character and his relationship to the hero in a very specific way, then just seeing their name won't do much to you; the reveal and the recontextualisation it pushes upon you hinges on your previous knowledge of the source material.

I think it's an interesting tool fanfic authors are given. One of my favorite fanfic of all time is partially a re-imagining of its source material's canon, and something it does is introduce antagonists much earlier in the story or deepen npcs' stories. It then works to evoke a tragic irony that again wouldn't work if you didn't know the source material, and it's something the author obviously has a lot of fun with.

You could call it cheap or a crutch and I mean, yeah, sure, it is a little bit: the fanfic relies on previously established emotional bonds and stakes to achieve its goal, and in some cases it saves the author from having to 'properly' build up its stakes. But I think it's INTERESTING that it has that tool at its disposal. I think it's a fun thing to play with and I think these built in expectations and emotional bonds are especially why I find story driven aus in particular to be fascinating in the amount of ways you can play with them. You know??

[narciesuss]

[theboyfromcork]

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Thanks @lostgirl88!