TheFoolsYouSee

I be writing https://archiveofourown.org/users/TheFoolsYouSee/works

[thefoolsyousee]

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

Chapters: 4/5 Fandom: The Owl House (Cartoon) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Luz Noceda, Willow Park, Eda Clawthorne, Amity Blight, Lilith Clawthorne, Emira Blight, Edric Blight, Alador Blight, Professor Hermonculus | Abomination Teacher (The Owl House), Odalia Blight, King (The Owl House), Jerbo (The Owl House), Gus Porter, Perry Porter, Mattholomule (The Owl House), Principal Bump (The Owl House), Darius Deamonne, Hooty (The Owl House) Additional Tags: Murder Mystery, Grief/Mourning, Minor Character Death, Not Canon Compliant Series: Part 8 of After Blood And Souls Summary:

“All right," Eda announced, "we’d better head off to our next stop to see His Lordship.”

Luz chuckled as she climbed onto the back of the staff. “Honestly I don’t think becoming Emperor will have changed King that much from what he was already like.”

“No, that’s what we have to call him,” Eda replied, shooting Luz an unamused look over her shoulder. “The summons letter said ‘Lordship’ is one of the official form of address.”

“…Oh.”

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After the events of the Day of Unity, King finds himself in an unexpected position of power.

[thefoolsyousee]

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

Chapters: 3/5 Fandom: The Owl House (Cartoon) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Luz Noceda, Willow Park, Eda Clawthorne, Amity Blight, Lilith Clawthorne, Emira Blight, Edric Blight, Alador Blight, Professor Hermonculus | Abomination Teacher (The Owl House), Odalia Blight, King (The Owl House), Jerbo (The Owl House), Gus Porter, Perry Porter, Mattholomule (The Owl House), Principal Bump (The Owl House), Darius Deamonne, Hooty (The Owl House) Additional Tags: Murder Mystery, Grief/Mourning, Minor Character Death, Not Canon Compliant Series: Part 8 of After Blood And Souls Summary:

“All right," Eda announced, "we’d better head off to our next stop to see His Lordship.”

Luz chuckled as she climbed onto the back of the staff. “Honestly I don’t think becoming Emperor will have changed King that much from what he was already like.”

“No, that’s what we have to call him,” Eda replied, shooting Luz an unamused look over her shoulder. “The summons letter said ‘Lordship’ is one of the official form of address.”

“…Oh.”

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After the events of the Day of Unity, King finds himself in an unexpected position of power.

[thefoolsyousee]

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

Chapters: 2/5 Fandom: The Owl House (Cartoon) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Luz Noceda, Willow Park, Eda Clawthorne, Amity Blight, Lilith Clawthorne, Emira Blight, Edric Blight, Alador Blight, Professor Hermonculus | Abomination Teacher (The Owl House), Odalia Blight, King (The Owl House), Jerbo (The Owl House), Gus Porter, Perry Porter, Mattholomule (The Owl House), Principal Bump (The Owl House), Darius Deamonne, Hooty (The Owl House) Additional Tags: Murder Mystery, Grief/Mourning, Minor Character Death, Not Canon Compliant Series: Part 8 of After Blood And Souls Summary:

“All right," Eda announced, "we’d better head off to our next stop to see His Lordship.”

Luz chuckled as she climbed onto the back of the staff. “Honestly I don’t think becoming Emperor will have changed King that much from what he was already like.”

“No, that’s what we have to call him,” Eda replied, shooting Luz an unamused look over her shoulder. “The summons letter said ‘Lordship’ is one of the official form of address.”

“…Oh.”

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After the events of the Day of Unity, King finds himself in an unexpected position of power.

[thefoolsyousee]

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

Chapters: 1/5 Fandom: The Owl House (Cartoon) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Amity Blight/Luz Noceda Characters: Luz Noceda, Willow Park, Eda Clawthorne, Amity Blight, Lilith Clawthorne, Emira Blight, Edric Blight, Alador Blight, Professor Hermonculus | Abomination Teacher (The Owl House), Odalia Blight, King (The Owl House), Jerbo (The Owl House), Gus Porter, Perry Porter, Mattholomule (The Owl House), Principal Bump (The Owl House), Darius Deamonne, Hooty (The Owl House) Additional Tags: Murder Mystery, Grief/Mourning Series: Part 8 of After Blood And Souls Summary:

After the events of the Day of Unity, King finds himself in an unexpected position of power.

[beetlebongos]

I want all the microplastics in me to gather together n come out of my face as a pair of sunglasses

[noc10-moved]

executive dysfunction

[justaluzblog]

Human being who is a blessing to our worlds (not Belos)

[shieldagent93]

Luz diving headfirst into magic.

[pebblume]

what do u think they’re dancing to? 👀

[thefoolsyousee]

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

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hawkeye (TV 2021), Black Widow (Movie 2021), Daredevil (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Yelena Belova/Kate Bishop, Vanessa Marianna Fisk/Wilson Fisk Characters: Kate Bishop, Yelena Belova, Wilson Fisk, Vanessa Marianna Fisk, famous Marvel character Lumberjack who appeared for exactly two panels in 1987 Additional Tags: Wilson Fisk: King of Gamers, Amphibia Season 2 Finale Spoilers, gen z - boomer hostility, action and intrigue with a fluff dessert Summary:

“Kate Bishop!” Yelena beamed. She took a brief second to assess Kate's appearance. “You shouldn’t sleep so late, you know. It messes up your circadian rhythm.”

“I wasn’t sleeping,” Kate retorted, trying to ignore the embarrassed burn that was creeping over her face. She sorely wished she had chosen anything other than her ducky-print pyjamas for her Saturday attire. “I was just watching something.”

Yelena nodded. “Learning more cool hand-to-hand combat moves?”

“Yep,” Kate nodded coolly. “Just brushing up from YouTube in case I need to be ready.” She scrabbled to grab a loose coin from the shelf behind the door and flicked it over her shoulder towards her laptop - the coin hit the pause button, cutting off the incriminating sounds of the cartoon she’d been watching.

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It's finally time for the lazy day off Kate Bishop has been looking forward to,. But her plans are scuppered when Yelena reappears in her life to recruit her for a mission, on which they stumble into the Kingpin's latest business venture.

[rosemarytrash]

I adore your art style! Are there any other ships you enjoy as much as rosemary?

hey thank you!!!

and honestly NO there's nothing that even comes close to rosemary. HOWEVER, i have been on the lumity hype train since last summer... and i do love them quite a lot ;;

[madyxuwu]

Just Hunter things

[veeaziel]

every day i am percieved™️

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

There is a reason for this though!

The original tweet summarizes it pretty well. Fanfic tends to be popular among certain types of neurodivergent people (aka people most likely to read excessively as a child, and have burnout as an adult) for the same reasons that we tend to hyperfixate–neurochemical signaling (I hope I’m using that phrase correctly). What I mean is, for people who are really dependent on changes in dopamine/serotonin/neurotransmitter levels, who have low levels or wonky neural reward systems (perhaps the most common types of neurodivergence)…people like us rely on dependable external sources of those neurochemicals. In order to function, we spend a lot of our free time trying to level out our brain chemistry using things that can reliably bring us a steady stream of joyful moments (rewards) without costing too much of the mental effort that is already in short supply. 

significantly: the investment of reading has to be balanced with a steady “return on investment”–and this return has to start fairly quickly. because again, we don’t have a lot of attention/energy to invest on tiring things. we have perpetual “low batteries” in that regard.

that doesn’t mean these stories are “simple,” or that they lack complexity or value–only that the reward has to come in short regular intervals, and it has to have a low “upfront cost.” these stories are only “easy” to read in the sense that the effort we put into them is rewarded in a timely manner. which is why fanfic stories are so perfectly formulated for neurodivergent readers–they are often beautifully written, but skip a lot of the upfront costs (of introducing new characters, of world-building, of getting the audience emotionally connected to the story elements).

the nature of fanfiction is that the reader has a pre-existing relationship with this world and these characters. that–combined with the shorter average length of fics–means that fan fics very quickly start rewarding the reader in a way that traditional fiction struggles to. that’s not a bad thing! and maybe it’s something more traditionally published writers should be paying attention to.

Fanfic, as a genre, has been uniquely helpful and accessible to many neurodivergent readers who would otherwise struggle to immerse themselves in stories. I’m glad so many of you have found a way to love and enjoy reading again! The important thing is that you are spending time inside stories you love–the way those stories are published or presented to the world is just one detail. The fact that you find joy in the process of reading (or listening!) to stories–that is what matters.

[thefoolsyousee]

[thefoolsyousee]

There are huge games out there that create a world almost as big as our own, where you can explore any corner and find a new story being told. But one of the great strengths of Horizon: Zero Dawn is how it creates a world with centuries of history, sprawling ecology, complex political relationships between its tribes and individual stories of heartbreak and joy for their members, and then threads each one of those elements together into the overarching narrative, which in turn forms the main character's emotional arc. Superlative storytelling.

[brookreader]

This feels obligatory

[aletheiawriting]

why you should keep writing your story

because it’s a puzzle no one else will ever arrange the same way as you.

because there are ideas that simply won’t come to you until you write down the wrong words.

because all the bad scenes are the bones of the wonderful scenes.

because someone will love it: someone will read it once, and twice, and thrice; someone will ramble to you about the complexity of it; someone will doodle your characters out of love; someone will find it in exactly what they were looking for with or without knowing it.

because they have things to say, your characters. they’ve told you all those secrets and they have more to tell you, if you will listen.

because you love it even when you don’t; even when it drives you mad or when it accidentally turns into apathy; even when you think you’re doing it all wrong; you love it, and it loves you back.

because you can get a treasure even from things that go wrong; because if a story crumbles down you can build a shinier one on the same spot; because you won’t know where it will take you until it takes you there.