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All the cool kids are doing these. If you prefer to live chaotically, no thoughts just vibes, it's all here. In fact there's certainly stuff in the tag that I'm too lazy or chaotic to put here! Each fic has a brief summary on the post, there's nothing here that requires strong warnings (consider No Archive Warnings Apply), hope you enjoy it and so on and so forth thank you for reading have a good morning/day/evening/night/three am,
Under the cut, because I have manners/keep getting annoyed trying to look at my own blog. Updated 2025 as I rotate Arthur Morgan in my mind till I make myself sick (for the second time)
Pet tag: canon-typical violence, my beloved
Red Dead Redemption
✘ I Never Asked for Company (But I'm Not Asking You To Leave) ✘
Link to the masterlist where hopefully everything is
i. Woodrot & Gunsmoke ✘ ii. The naming of cowboys is a serious matter ✘ iii. Of Warrior Queens and Foundling Sons ✘iv. There was only one tent ✘ v. Dust and Rocks ✘ vi. Claws & Fangs ✘ vii. Every End a Beginning
Same universe, not the chapter fic:
✘ Schofield Shambolics - Arthur Morgan / Female Reader (Hellcat)
✘ Photograph - Arthur Morgan / Female reader (Hellcat)
✘ Cowboy Hitch - Arthur Morgan / Female reader (Hellcat) (18+, smut, explicit)
✘ Moustache (inktober) - Arthur Morgan / Hellcat (f reader)
✘ All in Due Course - Arthur Morgan / Female reader (Hellcat) (18+, smut, explicit)
✘✘ Gen fic (no central romantic relationships)
✘ Uncle Arthur - (Red Dead Redemption 2)
✘ ✘ A Moment's Peace - Arthur Morgan (Red Dead Redemption 2)
✘✘✘ Warnings: Canon-typical violence
✘ Not So Different - Arthur Morgan (Red Dead Redemption 2) & Charles Vane (Black Sails)
✘ Elysium For Exiles (Arthur is a ghost, helping Jack Marston, post RDR1. Multi chapter, ongoing)
✘ i. I grew up fast, I guess I grew up mean ✘
The Witcher
Tea & Tinctures ( Geralt of Rivia / Original Female Character, multi-chapter, ongoing (on hiatus)
The boulder pushing punishment is iconic. But I think more people should know the reason Sisyphus was punished to begin with, which was for cheating death, twice.
The first time he cheated death, Sisyphus had just angered Zeus by revealing the location of the Asopid Aegina whom Zeus abducted. Which is super valid, fuck Zeus.
Sisyphus knew that Zeus would send the god of death Thanatos after him, so he prepared a trap and trapped Thanatos in the chains meant for him.
After that, nothing on Earth was able to die so long as Thanatos was in chains. Which meant no animals could be sacrificed to the gods. This angered the gods, who made Sisyphus' life so miserable with pain and illness that he would beg for death. And so he released Thanatos.
But then came the second time Sisyphus cheated death. As he was dying, he asked his wife to dump his naked corpse in the middle of the public square. Denied a proper burial, his soul ended up on the far side of the river Styx, unable to cross.
He complained to Hades and Persephone about how his wife disrespected him, and begged them to let him return briefly to the world of the living to scold her and make her bury him properly. They agreed, and Sisyphus returned to life. He then embraced his wife, and refused to return to the Underworld.
It's only when he finally died of old age that he was sent to Tartarus and punished with the boulder.
I don't remember where I've seen it, but I like the interpretation that Sisyphus doesn't have to push the boulder. He can choose to stay in Tartarus and rest. But he was promised that if he managed to push the boulder to the top of the mountain, he'll ascend to Elysium.
And Sisyphus, in his stubbornness and cleverness, refuses to give up on a challenge.
One must indeed imagine Sisyphus happy, planning and scheming about how he'll cheat the gods next.
plot 150 words
bed-sharing 200 words
smut 800 words
projecting my fears, insecurities, and anxieties onto a fictional character 9,356 words
fluff 150 words
someone who is good at fan fiction please help me budget my WIP, my family is dying
Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).
When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".
When the boat is still being built, your say "it".
When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".
When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".
When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.
If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").
If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")
If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").
If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.
If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.
I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.
As much as I want to support ethical farming practices I will be buying the cheapest bag of frozen chicken thighs as much as the next frugal/poor person which is why animal welfare needs to be legislated, not left up to the invisible hand of the free market or some bullshit. Invisible hand of the free market finds itself around a lot of throats.
some of you weren’t around for the fan fiction dot net purge of 2002 (when they banned explicit content and mass-deleted thousands of fics) and the livejournal purge of 2007 (when they deleted hundreds of blogs, disproportionately targeting queer & kink content) and it shows
if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it being the last line of the brokeback mountain novella is so crazy it makes me feel like my guts are falling out. if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it. jesus fucking christ
ChatGPT in particular has been so incredibly helpful in my writing process! It works perfectly in fueling my undying hatred for the slop plagiarism machine. Spite has been my singular motivator as I spend every day loathing the amount of AI covers and slop books flooding the market. AI has done what no motivational video on YouTube has managed to do: it has motivated me to sit my ass down and fucking write because I am a writer and'll be damned before I let some second hand thinker get the last laugh
[Prompt Calender: July 16th, Artificial Intelligence Appreciation Day]
