#I’m using it for a book idea

[shywhumpauthor]

Nothing better than a Whumper who wears thick, heavy rings backhanding a Whumpee across the face, the rubies that decorate their fingers splitting a gash across Whumpee’s cheek

And the little gasp that follows the impact

#mmmmm gonna use this in the book I’m never gonna write #you can just see the prince- this scrawny lil mf who’s like 5’7 max just backhanding the 6’2 guard cause he was “being disrespectful” or sm #but somehow the guard ends up falling for that fucker man idk #or maybe the king would do that hmm #but I’m def going to include it #whump #whumpblr #whump community #whump writing #its me coal #coal wrote something #whumpee #whumper #whump prompt #whump prompts #whump trope #whump tropes #writing prompts #writing prompt #whump idea #whump ideas

[crazy-fangirl2524]

Andrew Minyard puts on his black combat boots and black armbands. He wears his black hoodie because Andrew is not like other boys. His newest teammate Neil Josten has an aura of danger that Andrew knows he is better off not getting close. But Andrew cannot help it. He is like a moth drawn to a flame. Neil’s untamed auburn hair that is never styled yet it is messy in an effortless way and his big blue orbs that must have a lot of hidden secrets. Andrew knows he should not play with fire but with that toned body Andrew minyard can not stay away.

Whatever, not like Neil josten would notice him anyways. He is the outcast in his teams and no one likes him. Neil josten would not care about him.

Imagine Andrew’s surprise when Neil josten joins him on the roof and shares his secrets. Andrew is right, Neil has a very dark past that is even darker than Andrew’s. Neil is involved in the mafia! But because Andrew is not like other boys he does not care and promise to protect Neil even though Andrew probably cannot do anything if anything happens. Neil probably has to be the one to save Andrew.

Neil also turns out to be loaded and he buys Andrew a car when his was destroyed and Andrew cannot say no to a Maserati.

Everyone else on the team is so shock when super attractive good looking Neil josten will choose to be with someone like Andrew minyard but Neil does not care and growls at anyone that says anything bad about Andrew.

#THIS IS SATIRE #SATIRE #okay this is satire pls don’t take this seriously #I have the idea to write like cringy wattpad from Andrew pov but the more I write the more I’m like oh no I feel like Andrew’s inner #monologue is exactly like that and I could not differentiate and had to try so hard lmao #I literally just have to tone shit up and like use cringy words and summarise the books and boom wow bad boy billionaire mafia Neil #and y/n Andrew!!! #I was low-key laughing out loud at how accurate this is tho like wdym this is exactly what happens in the books #from now on if people ask me what’s aftg about I’ll show them this #and that’s why Nora has amazing writing skills because imagine being able to write this shit in such a poetic way #and actually adding layers and deep meanings and it’s not dumb or cringe #anyways I love aftg and Nora sakavic #aftg #all for the game #tfc #the foxhole court #aftg series #aftg fandom #aftg incorrect quotes #andrew minyard #neil josten #andrew joseph minyard #the sunshine court #aftg thoughts #aftg reread #aftg shitpost #tfc shitpost #incorrect tfc #tfc textpost #aftg andreil

[sugarcoatednightshade]

Tired of seeing fic on ao3 claiming to be based off dune the book series when it’s very obvious that the writer has only seen dune the movie(s).

Yes, it matters. Yes, these are very different works. You’re probably doing this for visibility; I don’t care. Archive Of Our Own is a fucking archive, stop labeling your works with a tag you know is factually incorrect. It makes it impossible for me to filter for fics I want to read.

#ao3 #dune #dune books #dune messiah #written because I’ve seen so many fics claiming to be based off the book who have no idea who Alia is #like girl! that’s my girl!!! #if your fic doesn’t contain Alia The Murderous Toddler then I don’t want it in my house in my home in my life #also the fight between feyd and paul went so differently in the books vs the movie. like it’s barely even an obstacle for Paul in the books #the differences are subtle in fic but really obvious if you’re expecting to see one thing and then all of a sudden it’s something else #(did I just describe all of fic? yes. but I hope y’all know what I mean. we are working off of different canon baselines) #seriously Alia is 15 pounds soaking wet three year old child. and she kills the baron . for fun… #also the fremen are not prudes. most people get this. but really neither is the rest of the empire??? I mean the harkonens obviously were. #.like that.. but also I get the feeling that no one else really cared #I’m only on the second book so I could be wrong. but from here it seems like the dune universe has a very fluid understanding of gender and #and sexuality. and polyamory. and drug use. #shout out to face changers gotta be one of my favorite genders btw #anyway. ugh. #long rant is long

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Walking In Two Worlds & The Everlasting Road

YA sff set in the near future where an opensource augmented reality is commonly used like social media, and there’s also a completely virtual fantasy game version

follows an Anishinaabe girl who who’s the top player in the VR game, and is constantly fighting to keep her place against the misogynist neo-nazi group in second place

as well as her real life, dealing with being a shy and self-conscious teen growing up on the Rez, and her brother having cancer

and a Uyghur boy who’s moved to her community from China after finding acceptance in an online community (even when he doesn’t agree with their more extreme views) - but when he gets to know Bugz, he has to decide who truly deserves his loyalty

great mix of sff and culture, the future while also very real community traumas of the past (and present)

#walking in two worlds #the everlasting road #wab kinew #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #This has some REALLY interesting and important concepts! #I just think it could have used some more development… Obvs this is YA and I’m an adult I know I’m not quite the audience! #There’s a lot of depth in the setup of the characters but I feel like it skips a lot of the progression #I think there could have been space for more development in a lot of places to make the story feel more dimensional #- but also has so many plot threads that maybe that would have bulked it out too much #It does also jump around quite a bit between the different parts but I think that makes sense with how juggling with irl / online life. #she’s got a lot of internalised fatphobia at the start (and the love interest going “I don’t think you’re fat!!” when people call her fat.. #then in book 2 suddenly she’s okay about it - again I wish there was some progression! #her brothers cancer journey is. basically all offscreen lol mostly as set up for plot in book 2. so it doesn't have the emotional impact it #could have.. #I liked the way it integrates her culture into the game in a really cool way (though I would have liked more detail there) #also having auto language translators but they regularly don't translate quite right / still run into issues - realistic! #the parallels drawn between his being taken from his family and put in a state education school and Indigenous residential schools #the way that a future world will never be as separate from the past as ur average sff future often portrays #but yeah anyway lots of good ideas execution not so much for me..

[somer-writes]

if you get this, answer w/ three random facts about yourself and send it to the last seven blogs in your notifs. anon or not, doesn’t matter, let’s get to know the person behind the blog ! (you don’t need to answer if you don’t want to!)

Oooh fun!! I’m not that interesting tbh so here goes:

I’ve been in 4 fist fights (won 2, lost 1, one got broken up)

I’ve been seriously writing fiction since I was 10! My first story was about two girls who unleash a curse at a museum. It was handwritten in a journal and no longer exists. I’ve been saving my writing since 2011. Prior to that I wrote/drew about animals :D

a story I was writing on fiction press got scouted by a publisher in 2012 and was published in 2013. It’s garbage and I’ve scrubbed it from the internet.

#somer answers #fun facts #actually the rewrite of the published book is on my ao3 but it’s hot garbage I just write for fun when I’m bored #it’s a mess so it’s my dumping ground for ideas that won’t get used anywhere else #I’ve had 2 teeth knocked out and a fat lip and broken knuckles

[galenti]

i’m like 85% through the lies of locke lamora and i love locke so much ahhhh

#locke lamora #gentleman bastards #my art #reference used #it’s taken me like a year to read this book but i’m sooo close lol #can’t wait to read the next book!!!! #also i had no idea it’s supposed to get like 7 books lol i thought it was a trilogy shfjshfj #i bought all 3 books before i even started reading lol #anyway i’m having so much fun with this series even tho i’m on the first book lol it’s been a lot of fun and a lot of gasps #the lies of locke lamora

[itspileofgoodthings]

The strategy with which I planned this day off fills me with joy.

#I don’t mean what I’m going to do today. I have no idea lol #but I mean at SCHOOL #I didn’t tell a single student #and I booked the retired English teacher as a sub because she used to teach these classes and knows the material #and she will have the energy and the presence to carry them through stuff I want them to know but am too tired to teach #lol #like I really pushed myself all week with my high schoolers especially #and now she gets to step in and tag team #it is NOT a do nothing day #also she’s old school strict and they love to complain about that but the joy I felt in my heart #every time they were annoying this week. to think of the ace up my sleeve #and then!!!!! I did it on a Friday!!! so guess WHAT. by Monday most of them will have forgotten #and I won’t have to hear about it #I love to scheme in this way lol #a true joy of being a teacher #I know this is ridiculous blathering but I love to see it

[ireallyamthemaincharacter]

Dude this is so me fr

#this is the autistic narcopath rep I wanna see in the world #that’s a joke btw i have no idea if the creator has pd’s lol but this video really sums up my whole deal #it used to really bother my friends in high school when I would just mirror bc they would be like “hey do you like *insert movie here*” #and I would say “Yeah omg it was super good!” and then agree with them about it and everything #and they eventually caught on to the fact that I almost never saw/liked the same films as them. or actors or shows or books or or or #lemme tell you it was SUCH a relief to finally let go of all those friendships with the excuse of “outgrowing each other”. i get to be #totally myself whenever I’m alone and it I get to be alone a lot more now!!! it’s so so so good #i hate masking I hate mirroring imagine being behind the counter of a store 24/7 365 and having to do ur customer service thing always #that’s life for me. utterly exhausting #npd tag #aspd tag #autism

[geryone]

I’m probably going to be getting rid of quite a few books over the next month or so!!! If any of my mutuals that live in the US want to give me like a 2 sentence description of what you like to read I’d be happy to mail you some books that I think you might like!!

#just US bc I’m going to ship media mail & while I’m happy to spend $5 shipping books I don’t want to do more than that lmao #can’t promise it’ll be exactly what you’re looking for but I have so many advanced copies of things who knows maybe you enjoy!!!! #give me some idea of horror/romance/fantasy and I can do my best from there!! #I will donate all the other ones for my local library sale hehe

[mariathechosen1]

Seeing a lot of people criticize Netflix’s 3 Body Problem for its casting choices (which I understand, they’ve definitely made an…….interesting decision), but when it comes to criticizing it as a show I think many are being a bit unfair.

I get that a lot of people don’t like it when adaptations change elements of their favorite book, but this show was honestly pretty well made! Not to mention visually stunning!

I watched it with my dad, who has read all the books and who’s a really big fan, while I’m only vaguely familiar with the book plot, but we both really liked it! I definitely agree with some critics that the show sometimes struggles (especially in the first episodes) with giving us proper direction and motivation (something/someone to root for ya know?) but that fixed itself a bit as we got to know the main cast more and more. The show’s biggest flaw (except for all the weird af adaptation choices) is that they don’t give us more time with our main cast. They can be a bit flat at times, and I really feel like most of them carry a lot of unexplored potential.

Onto the positives: The way these guys do dialogue is just *chef’s kisses*. It’s smart, it’s layered, it’s funny and they never made exposition boring. I think a lot of the characters were ‘saved’ by just how great the dialogue was. Characters like Wade very quickly became favorites because of just how entertaining they were, while, on the other side, characters like Auggie seemed a bit ‘dull’ at times (though Auggie definitely became better once they gave her more agency). The show’s characters almost seem divided into two categories: Those with emotional depth, but dull dialogue, and those with no depth, but awesome dialogue. Sometimes it balances itself out, other times it’s a bit frustrating.

I was also pleasantly surprised by how they handled the horror element of the story. While probably not as effective as in the original book (converting written to visual horror is a challenge of its own caliber.), there were several scenes that very much scared the shit out of me.

I also cried……several times. Kudos to Alex Sharp for a breathtaking performance.

I think this show is best suited for two types of people: 1) People who haven’t read the books, but who are interested in some nice sci fi, and 2) Book fans…….who aren’t too emotionally attached to the original storyline.

#I completely understand that a lot of book fans hate how they’ve removed the context of the setting though #As a person who hasn’t read the books I’ll probably never understand how important they are as a political backdrop to the story #but I still really wish they’d kept in more of the culture revolution #…and I wish they gave us more time with the main cast #no idea how they’d manage to fit both but hey #3 body problem #I’m not the one doing the writing #tv review #maria talks about things

[lavenderlace16]

Someone please write a Good Omens fanfic about Crowley tagging along on the 1810 Clerkenwell Diamond robbery with Jane Austen bc I need this in my life and have no writing talent to do the idea justice.

#@Books-and-omens and @racketghost I’m looking at you two #Obv no one has to do it I’m just desperate to read something like that and am selling the idea away for free use #Good omens #good omens fanfiction #crowley #ineffable husbands #jane austen #good omens season 2 #pleaseeee

[soupdreamer]

desperately need to go back to the time when the geronimo stilton/thea sisters books were peak fiction

#THEY WERE SO GOOD I LOVED THE ILLUSTRATIONS AND THE CHARACTER DESIGNS AND THE FUN AND THE MAGIC #no idea if anyone remembers the special edition hardback books where they went to fantasy worlds #just found some pdfs of the books i’m tempted to read them again for old times sakes #also the technology and fantasy elements were all chefs kiss #my fav one i think is the one where they go to russia for the dance competition i was obsessed #also geronimo stilton being a reporter kinda kickstarted my interest in journalism at the time #started reading way more of the young people’s newspapers my old school distributed so thanks ig #ugh those books were just so fun and cute and exciting and silly the illustrations were cute the different fonts used were interesting ajdh #also creepella von cacklefur. absolute queen #valeramblings

[thatineffablewitch]

Relating aros to love is like conceptualizing women against men

So we agree that women exist outside of men, right? Saying women can do what men do is still problematic because it assumes we want to be like men, that masculinity is the bar everyone must be striving to achieve. That, as Adrienne Rich points out in her iconic piece on compulsive heterosexuality, a great deal of feminist scholarship still assumes women are innately drawn to men and refuses to examine the institution of heterosexuality. Women and femininity exist in their own right, and don’t always need to be compared against men. Men are not the universal measuring pole that gives something worth.

We’re agreed on that? Yes? Good.

So explain to me why we do the exact same thing with love.

Now, everything I say may not be 100% accurate because I just accepted myself as aro. I’ve learned a lot about myself and this community in the past few months, so if I mis-explain something, please understand it is ignorance rather than purposeful malice/exclusion and kindly correct me (we do basic human respect on this blog).

A (if not, the) main LGBTQIA+ slogan we hear is “love is love.” People justify and sanitize queerness by centering love in the conversation, usually romantic love. This itself probably plays a big role in aromantic erasure when it comes to a majority of queer spaces. People understand love, think of it as this unifying and positive force that brings people together, and assume this feeling is universal and good.

Aromanticism means we innately have a different relationship with the word, “love.” Whether we still experience other forms of love (platonic, familial, love for pizza, etc.) or are loveless, we know the importance of other feelings. A queer experience of romantic attraction naturally shapes our experience with the general idea of love, and what it means to truly experience that. We know there are an abundance of other experiences in this world worth having, and that love isn’t necessarily the only way to care about other people. Love isn’t the only thing to give life meaning, or to make someone whole. Queerness in queer theory means to question to status quo. If love is baked into our amatonormative society, what does “love is love” do to queer this widespread societal ideal? Nothing.

We use love like a weapon, a measuring stick for something or someone’s worth. So to be loveless, if love is what society uses to assign worth and validity, is to be worthless or inhuman. Hence any media representation we manage to scrounge up (or at least be coded as) are either villains, not human, or both. Instead of accepting aromantic existence, instead of being intrigued by lovelessness and allowing curiosity to lead to liberation, society insists on erasing and invalidating aromantics instead.

Well, just as women exist independently outside of men, we can exist outside of love. Love does not measure our worth just as men do not measure a woman’s worth. We can treat people kindly and care about things and be complete, whole human beings without love. This seems to me like a radical flavor of queerness that society as a whole (and some other queers!) aren’t eager to contemplate or try to understand. But whether they understand or not, we are valid and cool as fuck anyways.

Wishing every brave and gorgeous aro a wonderful aromantic awareness week!

#This might make zero sense but maybe other aros will understand what I’m saying #And part of me was nervous to post this cuz I dread the idea of aphobes coming at me #But I sure as fuck don’t want to let fear rule my life either so here we are #Hoping for the best #If you don’t understand that’s ok #I’ve been acquainted with aromanticism since I was like 15 and it’s taken me six years to even begin understanding it and myself #Amatonormativity is a bitch #They really cook this shit into us so I know it’s hard to try understanding this stuff #I admire anyone brave enough to question love #This community is seriously so gorgeous and wise #Happy aro week incredible people #And if you’re angry that you don’t understand #Don’t take it out on me #Go book a rage room or something if you’re mad about it—find healthier coping mechanisms than yelling @ strangers online #Aro #Aromantic #Aro pride #aromantic pride #loveless aro #aro awareness week #aromantic awareness week #adrienne rich #queer theory #amatonormativity #My post

[danothan]

i can’t believe hal didn’t grow up poor, i’m gonna be sick

#I THOUGHT HE WAS ONE OF US #he’s so often homeless and unemployed in his adult life that i forget that his family raised him on military shmoney #i should’ve realized smth was up when he grew up with 2 brothers and they all had their own rooms #unbelievable… and the fact that barry had to be more frugal in his childhood… #not that i think the allen’s were low income they did pretty decently growing up in the suburbs-ish #im just thinking abt his worn down shoes and how he was only allowed to get One comic book at the store #so i’m thinking that they had extra money to spend but not that much #the idea that hal grew up with more money than barry is literally boggling my mind #and ik it’s not the same now as adults but HAL. YOU’RE LITERALLY ALWAYS ASKING BARRY TO SPEND MONEY ON YOU. #making the working class man pay your rent when you’re literally friends with billionaires. unbelievable. #this is all lighthearted and probably 40% headcanon btw #i’m just astounded by the fact #hal jordan #green lantern #barry allen #the flash #dc #danbles

[laniidae-passerine]

Honestly I think Dean Highbottom has some shit to answer to as well. The mockery, the derision, the outright admittance that he was hoping Coriolanus would fail and the Snow family would continue to suffer. How someone who loathed the Games still treated a young man with cruelty because of the past, because of social divides that would be so easy to tear down. In the end, it wasn’t just Gaul who shaped Snow into the man he became. So bitter and hateful. So incapable of compassion and forgiveness. Just like his father. Just like his Dean.

#like yeah there were a lot of things questionable about Snow even before he was chosen as a mentor in the games #but like. damn. you didn’t even consider the idea he could be better than his father did you? #the way kindness could have unravelled some of the hate in Snow’s heart #listen to me tell you the horrible things your father did. listen to me tell you that you can be different. you are not the past. #the divides between us do not truly exist. look at the weapon in your hand. it is real. and it can do real damage #but if you never hate someone - if they never fool you into letting violence into your heart - they can never make you use it #it breaks my heart. how could you hate a ghost so much that you’d kill a child. I don’t know. but the Dean does. and so does Snow. #the cycles run and run until somebody stops. and burns some bread. and shares berries. and takes an arrow. and says no more. I love you #it is difficult. it could hurt me. it could be the very last thing I do. it may not even serve me well. but I love you. I love. always. #how pathetic hate makes you. how strong love makes you. like staring at the Dean and staring at characters like Haymitch #like two substance abusing men who know the system inside out. who are complicit. who are victims. both embittered and angry. #but one saw a child and decided to punish him for the past #and the other saw a child and decided - okay. it’s been 23 years. my heart hurts. I want to give in. I want to hate you. I want to not care. #I’m going to care anyway. I’m in so much pain. It’s killing me. I’m going to care anyway. about you both. it won’t be perfect. but I care. #and I’ll be here through hell. and I will fuck up. so fucking badly. because I’m still addicted and angry and god knows I have suffered. #god knows these hands are bloody and they always will be. but I will keep coming back. I will keep trying. I will still love. #and in the end I will write names in a book that belongs to you and I will find a little bit of peace in a house where the sun shines #and the geese make ridiculous noises in the yard. and love will have seen me through. #HAYMITCH YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS I LOVE YOU MY IMPERFECT DARLING #dean highbottom #coriolanus snow #the hunger games #a ballad of songbirds and snakes #haymitch abernathy #thg #abosas #suzanne collins #SHE WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS

[spyderschaos]

Man who put me up to doing things I’ve never done before

#I’m in my school’s film club and this year we have decided to make a year book for the seniors which btw is smth my school doesn’t usually #do like either it has never done it or it hasn’t in a rlly long time idk either way this year film club is gonna do it #(film club is like three years old so yea we wanted to try doing it last year but we ended just not doing it) #but THIS YEAR guess who’s working on it #you guessed it me #we haven’t started yet and ofc there’s ppl who r gonna help me but it’s my responsibility y’know and omg I have no idea of how to even #start #but whatever #fuck it we ball #next is the design for the school’s volleyball tournament tshirt #I agreed to do it #y’know smth that’s gonna be used by most of the school #ahi #spyder’s chaos