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As someone who plays DnD, let me break down what’s going on with the mxtx characters:

SQQ is an example of what happens when someone puts all their points into Charisma and uses wisdom as a dump stat.

WWX is what happens when someone puts all their points into intelligence and never bothers to roll an insight check.

Xie Lian is what happens when someone has a character with fantastic stats, but cannot roll above a 5 to save their life.

ao3topshipsbracket

Top Femslash Ships Bracket: Seeding

As promised, we're back with a new bracket! However, we're doing things a little differently this time. Rather than taking the data for seeding directly from a ranked list, we want you guys to be a part of the seeding process!

> Here is the Femslash Bracket Seeding Survey! <

This survey contains a list of over 100 ships, pulled from centreoftheselights's AO3 ship stats for 2023 and 2024, and Tumblr's year in review, as well as a few submissions that are not on either list but are considered iconic or historically important. It asks two questions: which ships have you heard of, and which ships do you view positively? The final seeding for the bracket will be based on a ratio of these numbers, from which we will rank the top 96!

A few notes regarding this survey:

Please answer as honestly as you can! Yes, that does mean going through a long list of ships twice in order to check all the relevant boxes, but such is the price we pay for accurate data.

Please only submit the survey once! While we normally delight in voter fraud, artificially boosting your favorite ship in this survey will only skew the results with no benefit; in fact, it could potentially hurt your chances in the actual bracket!

Do, however, feel free to reblog this post so we get a larger sample size.

The form does require that you be logged into a Google account; however, we are not collecting email addresses, and responses will be fully anonymous.

As always, this poll is a celebration of fandom and fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.

We will be collecting responses until January 5, 2025, at 12:00 pm EST.

Take the survey here!

And, if you'd like to review the ships before you click through, here's the full list below the cut (listed alphabetically by source)

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

I finished my @flufftober series on the 31st! Never thought I could do it after not writing anything for so long, but here we are. It was so much fun!

If anyone is interested in reading some of the (most of the time very short) oneshots, I put the Link here. It's different fandoms, some MHA, some Teen Wolf, BTS, Akatsuki no Yona, Percy Jackson, a few stragglers of One Piece, Fire Emblem Fates and Fairy Tail.

#flufftober #flufftober23 #ao3 #ao3 fanfic #my hero academia #bts #teen wolf #flufftober2023

flufftober

🍂 🍃 Hello and welcome to our third annual Flufftober 🍂 🍃

We’re so excited to be back and to once again have you here!

As always, let’s fill the month of October with as much fluff as possible 🥰 and for that to happen, we not only have 31 prompts for you, no; we also have something special this year...

Prompt Extras

Last year's Prompt Substitutes were very well-loved and a lot of you used them to replace some prompts from the original list. You're more than welcome to do this again if there's a prompt that doesn't work for you for whatever reason - no explanation needed.

Once again, we offer you last year's top five fan favorites (as voted in the end survey). In addition to that, we also offer five scenario prompts.

If you don't want to replace any prompt from the original list but still love the additional ones - or you simply want to challenge yourself - you can also mix them all together!

So in whichever way you use these Prompt Extras, have fun with them and go wild 💚

Below the cut you'll find all our rules, posting info, all the prompts in writing, as well as some explanation for prompts we feel might need clarification. If you have any more questions, please feel free to send us an ask 🥰

We hope you like these prompts, and now

Happy Creating 🥳

silentcookiestuff

First 5 submissions are already posted on ao3, I'm curious how many I'll manage to write xD But I'm excited for the journey, the prompts are so cute!

everythingfox

“Bunny enjoying a little snacky snack”

(via)

flameslikeanything

If you’re ever feeling down, just pull up google maps, zoom in on England and start looking at all the place names.

flameslikeanything

lowpolyrats

my personal recommendations:

catchymemes

thespectacularspider-girl

Fun fact, The Questing Beast of Arthurian Legend is the result of people attempting to describe what a giraffe was, then being explained and drawn by people who have never actually seen it.

The Questing Beast was said to have a head and neck of a snake (long neck), body of leopard (coat pattern), hind legs of a lion (tufted tail) and feet of a deer (”hooves:).

pixie-mask

I’m having emotions at this artwork. It’s caught between fright and awe; fascination and fear.

supreme-leader-stoat

Behold, a unicorn.

boss-of-the-plains

He got two horns tho

supreme-leader-stoat

*record scratch*

*music starts back up*

BEHOLD, A UNICORN

supreme-leader-stoat

kaenith

This week’s pride dragon is for demisexual pride!

The finished pieces of this series-in-progress can be found here, and the to-do list is here.

This design is also available on TeePublic and Redbubble.

silentcookiestuff

This dragon is so cute <3

#demisexual #ace pride

kaenith

This week’s pride dragon is for asexual pride!

The finished pieces of this series-in-progress can be found here, and the to-do list is here.

This design is also available on TeePublic and Redbubble.

silentcookiestuff

This is so beautiful 😍

#ace #asexual #acedragon #ace dragon #ace pride

Slytherins knocking at the door of the Hufflepuff dormitory seeking shelter because they refuse to enter the Slytherin dorms as long as the password is “pureblood”. Hufflepuffs welcoming them with open arms and organizing an impromptu slumber party, already plotting the downfall of the other Slytherins and whoever is responsible for the passwords.

#hogwarts #hogwarts headcanon #hogwarts houses #hufflepuff #slytherin #lifeathogwarts

stiles-halee

When you’re super excited to begin writing the next part of your fic. And then you sit down, and proceed to stare at the cursor blinking as you blank. I’ve got nothin’.

seijishunart

Shhhhh—🤫🤫❤❤

My Kofi

fangirlingsohardithurts

I’m bold

NOT THAT BOLD

silentcookiestuff

True ^^’ It always has to be hurt/comfort or angst with happy ending! I’m too weak to go without it xD

alessiajontrunfio

“Nico had summoned the dead with Coke and cheeseburgers.”

sethkiel

She hugged Percy tighter and kissed him. ‘Tell me about New Rome,’ she demanded. ‘What were your plans for us?’ ‘New Rome … For us …’ ‘Yeah, Seaweed Brain. You said we could have a future there! Tell me!’ Annabeth had never wanted to leave Camp Half-Blood. It was the only real home she’d ever known. But days ago, on the Argo II, Percy had told her that he imagined a future for the two of them among the Roman demigods. In their city of New Rome, veterans of the legion could settle down safely, go to college, get married, even have kids.

- The House of Hades

Remember when we all said “I will forever go down with this ship” and we actually went to tartarus with them? Yeah, me too. All those years ago I laughed and cried for them and now that Im older and reread this I cried even more. Im still so inspired by these two and I will forever love them. Here is some art I made while bawling enjoy ;_;

wordswithkittywitch

The Cake-Card-Dragon Theory of Asexuality

This is something I’ve been sitting on for almost a year, and I have to accept that it’s never going to express exactly what I want it to express, especially if I don’t share it with other people with other experiences that could expand on it. These are different types of asexuals I’ve seen in the community and different types of characters who frequently get headcanoned as asexual.

That being said, I can see how this might get oversimplified to “asexuals with feminine/neutral/masculine gender expression” but I want to emphasise it’s not actually about gender expression.

Cakes

Cakes are the asexuals who can be seen enjoying their food, playing with bath bombs, and dressing up in fabulous clothing such as lolita or new romantic. Cakes are likely to joke about “It took me three hours to get into this outfit, I’m not taking it off for anyone!” Cakes may feed into the stereotype that asexuals are prissy or stuck up, or they may get a bit continental with their kisses: a friendly greeting rather than an expression of romance. Sometimes both. They are likely to express passions, but usually towards food or comfortable living. People with a poor understanding of asexuality might say that they are replacing sex with other sensual pleasures, but that’s a very silly thing to say because allosexuals can enjoy food, fashion, and self-care just as much as asexuals.

Fictional Examples of Cakes:

The Eighth Doctor

Aziraphale

Bilbo Baggins

Cards

Cards are the asexuals who come off as intellectual and cold, even if their areas of expertise are far from the usual “intellectual pursuits”. A card is usually ready to verbally smack down people who don’t believe in asexuality with statistics, facts, and explanations of how their debating opponent has a very shaky grasp on biology. However, they may feel extremely frustrated or bored having these conversations over and over again and are rarely shy in expressing that. Cards sometimes, but not always, can present themselves as androgynous to some degree, but are usually neat and tidy in their fashion. They are also likely to be very funny people, often with dry or absurd humour. They are likely to express confusion or dismay over their allosexual friends’ behaviour, either out of genuine confusion or a rhetorical technique to try and get those who feel sexual attraction to examine their own thought processes. A card may find themselves “looking into the camera as if they’re on The Office” whether they’re a real person or not. Cards feed into the stereotype that asexuals are too absorbed by mental concerns to even be aware of their bodies. Fictional characters headcanoned as cards are often also headcanoned as autistic, but one does not necessarily preclude the other, not in fiction or real life. People with a poor understanding of asexuality might say they seem inhuman or mechanical, but cards are some of the first people to point out that a biological process shared by the entire animal kingdom is not a very good gauge of humanity.

Fictional Examples of Cards:

Sherlock Holmes

Spock

Katniss Everdeen

Dragons

Dragons are the asexuals who got really annoyed when they found out what Netflix and Chill meant, because they were ready with the blankets and popcorn. If cakes dress fancy and cards dress sharply, then a dragon dresses for comfort. They often don’t care about their clothing at all, or if they do it’s ironically or simply flying in the face of what many would consider stylish; ie. “Look at my ridiculous hat! Isn’t it the best!” Especially if said ridiculous hat is worn with their most lived-in jeans and a sweatshirt. Dragons are likely to start listing off all their interests and joke that they simply don’t have the time to be interested in sex as well. They might do this four hours into lying on their stomach watching Netflix, but those four hours of Netflix were well-spent. Often, dragons can be perceived as or wonder themselves if they are too attached to their possessions, but this is because they have decided to fill their lives with that which makes them happy, regardless of how that appears. If a dragon wants to sleep with thirty stuffed animals because they’ve been given a new one for every birthday, they aren’t going to let being thirty get in the way of cuddling their stuffed animals. Dragons may feed into the stereotype that asexuals are childish or hyperfocused on frivolous pursuits, but they can be wonderful friends because they’re fun to be around and they are just as likely to hoard a person as an item: if a dragon decides you’re one of their favourite people, they can be the most ride-or-die friend you have. If they’ve fully accepted that their life is fulfilled from interests they’ve chosen themselves, dragons can be some of the happiest people you’ve ever met. Of course, some people may say that they’re also some of the strangest people you’ve ever met, but no one consciously picks normal over happy. People with a poor understanding of asexuality might say dragons never properly grew up, but this is less a problem with the dragons and more a problem with how society expects adults to be boring and miserable.

Fictional Examples of Dragons:

Charlie Weasley

Jughead Jones

The Eleventh Doctor

silentcookiestuff

Never thought of it like this, but I kinda like it xD