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It's some small comfort to the modern author of Arthurian pastiche that, in spite of having lived in a time when knights were still a going concern, the vast majority of the writers of one's 12th Century source material also hadn't the slightest idea how knighthood actually works.

angel-of-the-redacted

Reblog if you've found friendship because of your fandoms.

loucifersbitch

if you need me, i’ll be sobbing on the floor. humans, man

turkweek

FFVII Turk Week 2026

Thanks to @interfaceleader for submitting some prompts this year and asking if we’d be running the event.

Turks. The Investigation Sector of the General Affairs Department. The Department of Administrative Research. Whatever you call them, they know who you are, and what you’re doing there. You don’t want to be on their bad side, and unless they’re working for you, you don’t want them following you, not that you’d notice them unless they wanted you to. They’re an interesting bunch, full of secrets, their own and others.

Below we have the list of prompts. Feel free to be as creative with those as you want to, and take your time working on your entries, but please don’t forget to post them on the right date if you can. (But remember, late is better than never!) Don’t like the prompts, or need MOAR PROMPTS? Make up your own! Or pull from a previous year!

Mar 24 - Day 1. Contingency Plan / "We blew past Plan B a while ago..."

Mar 25 - Day 2. Dual Action / "Double the Turks, double the fun"

Mar 26 - Day 3. Exfiltration / "Getting in isn't the problem, it's getting out."

Mar 27- Day 4. Midnight Cheer / "When restless souls roam"

Mar 28 - Day 5. Wardrobe Malfunction / “Hey that’s my shirt!” “I’m not changing, you change!” “Where’s my clothes?” “I’m not wearing that!”

Mar 29 - Day 6. Training Day / “How do I do this again?” “Did you read the instructions?” “We’ll just wing it.” “I lied on my resume.”

Mar 30 - Day 7. Break Room / Free Day (What goes on in the break room in the Turks part of the ShinRa Tower? Or take this as a free day for your own prompt.)

Please remember to include the week’s tag (ffviiturkweek) within the first 5 tags or else we might be unable to find your work! We will NOT accept/reblog anything containing Character/Ship Hate, so avoid including those in your entries. Also don’t repost anyone else’s work as your own! You are welcome to reblog other’s posts, but credit where credit is due. (Please message Asylos directly on tumblr or Mirintala on Discord if your post missed being reblogged.)

You can submit your works on AO3 to the event collection at https://archiveofourown.org/collections/TurkWeek

And if you have any questions, don’t be afraid of sending an ask, or messaging the mod (link in the menu sidebar).

We hope it turns out to be a fun event for everyone!

knightwithahundredkings

You all have GOT to read this new book I found. Did I mention it has MULTIPLE love triangles AND canon LGBTQ+ rep?

knightwithahundredkings

OMG did I mention there's more in the series?!!!

tineiya

genderoutlaws

Never read Baldwin before?

Nonfiction

The Price of The Ticket (borrow from IA)

The Fire Next Time (pdf download)

Notes of A Native Son (pdf download)

Nothing Personal (read on IA - not great quality sorry)

The Last Interview (pdf download) (only 10 pages!)

Fiction

Giovanni's Room (pdf download)

If Beale Street Could Talk (pdf download)

BONUS

Little Man Little Man (read or pdf download on scribd) (Baldwin's only children's book)

Go Tell It On The Mountain (pdf download)

Another Country (pdf and epub download)

Sonny's Blues (pdf download)

Going to Meet the Man (pdf download)

creatingblackcharacters

My next Black History Month request:

Pick one of James Baldwin's works and read it!!! The Fire Next Time is an excellent essay, most of us are familiar with the quote on gay white people from The Last Interview but not the rest of it. If Beale Street Could Talk even has a movie!

wastemanjohn

i just saw a post on reddit titled "the writer is cooking but the food doesn't agree with me" and it was about OP clicking off a fic because they don't like the direction it's going in. slightly different context but can we all be more like this reddit OP. i think "the writer is cooking but the food doesn't agree with me" should be the new "don't like don't read." dead doves may give you diarrhea but don't make that everyone else's problem.

naeurisblog

Yeah, yeah, Cassandra Clare got her start writing fanfic, old news.

Rebecca Thorne wrote She-Ra fanfic before writing Tomes & Tea.

Matt Dinniman wrote GI Joe and Transformers crossover fanfic before writing Dungeon Crawler Carl.

Pierce Brown wrote Greek Mythology fanfic before writing Red Rising.

Andy Weir wrote Ready Player One fanfic that later got canonized by Ernest Cline before writing The Martian.

Fanfic has never been, and will never be inferior to published works, and writing one does not discredit or devalue the quality of your work when writing another.

cherrycardamom

Finally accepting this reality is what helped me to actually start writing again, and what helped me to complete the first pieces I had finished in more than a decade. Fanfiction is not some "inferior" form of writing.

fullest-circlest

If you're writing 18th century dialogue, this website lets you search words and phrases to double-check whether they were in use & meant what you intend. It doesn't include every period-accurate use of a word/phrase, but it certainly helped me separate genuine 18th century grammar from the vague tangle of 💬old-fashioned fancy-speak💬 I've internalized from TV and video games.

my-deer-friend

Other websites that let you do this:

Johnson's Dictionary Online (thanks @yellowbelliedtoad!) – 1755 and 1773

Green's Dictionary of Slang – 1300s to today

A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – 1788

Feraud's Dictionaire critique de la langue française – 1778

zisurru

A dictionary of the English and Italian languages by Giuseppe Baretti is a bilingual dictionary from 1790!

tholiabentz

Vincent Valentine 🌹 Final Fantasy VII ·

moleshow

thilien

Same, Charles Darwin. Same.

#mood

incorrectdiscworldquotes

Drumknott: I heard an interesting rumor today.

Vetinari: Only one? I started at least twelve.

thesociallyanxioussociopath

Post Finale Quite hopeful of you to think Lucifer "can't-be-bothered-to-know-any-sinner's-name" Morningstar would remember your existence after a tour in The Scary Box, Alastor

interfaceleader

Got tagged by @phantasmacabre ! Put your favourite females characters in a poll and have people vote for their favourites:

Favourite female character

Scully (X-Files)

Mon Mothma (Andor)

Ripley (Alien)

Tifa (FF7)

Lune (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)

Ayla (Clan of the Cave Bear)

Malta (Liveship Traders)

Voting ended onFeb 4

There's others! I honestly love every female character in FF7, but didn't want to make this too FF7 centric XD

Tagging @poodlemoney and anyone else who wants to do it :)

poodlemoney

Thank you, @interfaceleader !

Tifa all the way!! Though I’ll have to add Aerith to the mix! There are too many to name.

Favorite Female Character

Aerith (FF7)

Uhura (Star Trek)

Leia (Star Wars)

Fang Runin (Poppy Wars)

Lara Croft (Tomb Raider)

Voting ended onFeb 6

Tagging @ephemerasnape @azrielya @fluoxetinehcl @errantnight @thilien and anyone else who wants to do it!

thilien

Thank you @poodlemoney @interfaceleader! Some excellent choices in those polls that made choosing just one very tricky!

Favourite Female Character?

Sciel (Expedition 33)

Claire Redfield (Resident Evil)

Eowyn (The Lord of the Rings)

Morgan Le Fay (Arthurian Myth)

Elizabeth Bennet (Pride & Prejudice)

Granny Weatherwax (Discworld)

Elena of the Turks (FFVII)

Voting ended onFeb 12

I could have added so many more, especially from games (Jill Valentine, Ada Wong, Lune, Maelle, Rinoa, Selphie, Fran, Ashe, Yuna, Rikku, Lulu, Aloy…the list goes on) but I wanted to vary it up a bit.

Tagging @interfaceleader @dreamingsoldier @shirro-ni @laterose13 and anyone else who wants to take part!

beachesgetpeaches

sometimes a girl's just gotta watch that scene of aragorn opening the doors at helm's deep over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...