#also love that it was specifically a merlin fanfic

[thesaintofnevergettingitright]

It’s time for….

✨Niche Content With Suzy!✨

I’m so sorry, this is about to be the least relatable thing I’ve ever said, but…

I just saw a Hanahaki fic with the title “Mop Up What Is Left of My Lungs” and I CANNOT BELIEVE that this is the first time I’ve seen that lyric applied to that trope! It works SO insanely well! Like. To the extent that I’m not going to be able to listen to Blossoms the same way anymore lmao

#tad #mine #the amazing devil #hanahaki #so sorry everyone I know this is DEEPLY niche content lmao #but it just gave me such an intense moment of 'Eureka!' that I had to share #like! yeah man!!! that's EXACTLY how that lyric should be used! You are correct! #also love that it was specifically a merlin fanfic #cuz that means someone is out there writing hanahaki fanfic of bbc's merlin in the year 2022 and i LOVE that #it's what merlin deserves! #in other news..... my most toxic trait? how much I enjoy hanahaki fics #I know it's a kinda inherently coersive trope #I know that it raises romantic love WAY above any other kind of love in a way that's kinda toxic #but also??? #I crave that good good mutual pining/angst with a happy ending/idiots in love vibe #and hanahaki does it so well! #and it's fun to play with flower meanings! #leave me alone! #bbc merlin #blossoms #merlin #man idk if it’s the meds or WHAT but… #I s2g the last few days it’s like my brain is CRAVING #the mortifying ordeal of being known #I just feel the need to share every damn thought in my head and I have no clue how to shut up #help

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

There's something to be said for constantly describing/highlighting certain physical features of a character when writing not because I find them personally attractive but because I want to dissect them like a bug

#listen this is specifically about #eleventh doctor #tenth doctor #amy pond #but it has also applied to plenty of the following: #izzy hands #ziggy grover #niccolo fares #nicolo di genova #bbc merlin #merlin emrys #robbie shapiro #I'm realizing that this is mostly a very specific type of guy #lucius spriggs #black pete #klaus hargreeves #fanfic #writing process #would love to hear y'alls

[cbk1000]

So what exactly is it about Merlin and Arthur that make them so ship-worthy, sparking million-word fanfics? Why does it remain one of the most popular fandoms? Why do you never seem to tire of them as a writer? (Not that I am complaining or anything. I just find the loyalty fascinating considering how much new stuff is coming out every day).

Bradley and Colin and their chemistry together as performers certainly is an important aspect of the popularity of that specific ship, but I think the endurance of the Merlin fandom as a whole is due primarily to two main things, which are: that tragic ending, and the unrealised potential of the show.

The primary consensus amongst Merlin fans if you ask them about a piece of media they're still obsessing over, twelve years after it ended, is, "BBC Merlin is terrible; it's so good." The premise and characters are interesting. There are some absolute banger lines. There are bits and pieces of it that are good. But as a whole, it's a muddled piece of trash (I still love you, BBC Merlin, don't worry). Uther is a tyrant who has committed literal genocide, and they make the main villain a woman who is a part of the oppressed class of people that he's indiscriminately murdering. Women in general get to be one of two things: love interest, or moustache-twirling villain. Arthur grows as a person only for the writing to immediately walk back that growth, usually for a cheap joke. The major narrative arcs, the most familiar, identifiable aspects of Arthurian legend in the cultural consciousness (Lancelot, the love triangle, the fall of Morgana, Mordred's betrayal, etc.) are either barely present (see: Lancelot's two seconds of screentime) or completely devoid of believable character motivation (see: Mordred suddenly turning on Arthur because he executes a woman who committed terrorism who it turns out was someone Mordred knew as a kid and completely forgot about till the moment he saw her in her jail cell).

When something is, in some ways, quite good, and in a lot of other ways, hot garbage, it leaves a wide-open sandbox for fans to play in. I think if the show were much more well-written, and consistently so, the fandom would have died out years ago. But instead, we never saw the Golden Age of Camelot. We never saw Albion united. We never saw Merlin and Arthur reunited. We were left, at the end, with one main character dead, and the other centuries later still waiting for a person the show literally describes as his other half to come back to him. People haven't moved on because they spent five seasons watching a silly, stupid family show to see its main character fail at what he was literally prophesied to achieve and hold his best friend while he died. We don't even know for sure in the end that Arthur came back to him. We see Merlin alone, in modern day, at the lake, still waiting for him, with no indication that Arthur is rising again. And for people watching the show as it aired, the BBC delivered this nut punch on Christmas Eve.

I think it's about what the show didn't do, and the space that creates for fans to come in and do it themselves, over and over again.

Also, personally, I'm trying to self-soothe.

#bbc merlin #nobody asked for an answer this long #but here it is

[lord-aldhelm]

Since I have seen other mutuals posting new year messages and gratitude and I thought I would do the same!

I joined The Last Kingdom fandom kind of late. I watched the show in mid 2022 just as season 5 was released. It was sitting in my Netflix watch list for years; and I kept putting it off because I thought it was just another Vikings knock off. But I was bored and decided to give it a try and I am so glad I did! This show has really profoundly affected me, and inspired me to do many things which I have never done before, such as writing fanfic, drawing fanart, joining fandom communities and starting this blog.

I started this blog several months ago as a place to keep track of all the posts I was bookmarking, as well as to share my screencaps and also the fanfic which I started last year and hesitated to publish until I just said "screw it" and did so. I have never had a fandom blog; I have been on Tumblr for years with my art but never really had the desire to do any kind of fan blog because, to be quite honest, I was never really that much into any TV show or movie enough to care to do so. I never really expected anything from it; I honestly did not think anyone would follow me or interact with me at all.

But I have met many wonderful people through this fandom and through Tumblr specifically so I am forever grateful that I discovered this show and started this blog here. I love all the discussions, discourse, and creative works from all of you about this wonderful show. I also am forever grateful for your love and support of my artwork and also of my very first fanfic!

I want to give a shout out to my wonderful and amazing mutuals who honestly made this place feel like home to me @synindoodles @thelettersfromnoone @gemini-mama @garunsdottir @lonnson @larlarmojo @whitedarkmoonflower @finanhasmyheart @charming-merlin @kingslionheart and @emilyhufflepufftlk

I hope you all and of course everyone else who follows me has a safe and happy new year and I hope for peace, love, and prosperity in the new year!

💜⚔️🛡️⚔️💜

#txt #happy new year! #I am so glad I met all of you!

[gvaine]

can you tell us more about your fanfic tracking spreadsheet. please.

i certainly could 😭 i decided to put it under a read more because. idk. i really do love spreadsheets but not everyone does dkfjsdhf

thanks for indulging me. i love you.

i started it because i saw someone else post their stats last year and i thought it was fascinating to read about. so it would be even more interesting to do it for myself.

i fucking love tracking stuff (or rather looking at the graphs afterwards) and i was curious how much i actually read. i also wanted to keep track of which pairings i read and how my reading tastes/habits may change throughout the year. and some other things, just to see if i might gain any interesting (to me, lol) insight at the end of the year. it also helps because i don't bookmark everything i read, but this way i don't have to worry about never finding a particular fic again without having to scroll through pagessss of my ao3 history. i only started doing it jan 1 though. i wish i had begun earlier!!

basically i write down the titles of the fics i read in my notes app, and then every few days i go to my ao3 history and into my spreadsheet and enter all the "data". this includes, besides fandom, pairing, title and author: word count, rating, category, publish date; more specific things like whether it's an au, whether it's established relationship, and "vibe" (humor, fluff, angst, horror, smut, and "general" for fics that can't be categorized so easily)

i also rate how i enjoyed it and whether it was a reread.

some interesting things i've gathered so far: i read a lot, much more than i thought. i read mostly M and E-rated fics. late march/early april i had a three-week long phase in which not a single fic i read made a particularly noteworthy impression on me, haha. i know which authors i read the most. i know that i had four days this year where i read over 100k words each. on average i read somewhere between 20k and 30k words per day.

my favorite thing, i think, was realizing that i read much more of certain pairings than i would have realized without the numbers - arthur/gwaine/merlin, for example.

i've rambled on too much already but if you're interested i could add some graphs and stuff 🥲❤️

#asks #i do realize that this might be really weird to some people lol but it's so satisfying for me personally #idk why i feel the need to defend myself for being a nerd on the nerd website

[remythologise]

bestie… what’s the 600k incomplete merlin fic please drop the title

SO glad you asked and also I misspoke. It is actually 871k. THE HANDS OF A HUNDRED WINTERS by FOURLEGGEDFISH. It is in four parts and you both can and should read it despite being incomplete, I have only read 3/4 parts because I am loathe to part with the reading experience of writing this good. This is both my favourite Merlin fic I've ever read and potentially my favourite longfic I've ever read (though hard to assess when it's incomplete and I haven't read it all as yet). It's AMAZING to me that the author has managed to sustain and even increase my interest over this many words, a feat managed by no other fanfiction I've read longer than 400k words ever (and I read a lot of those!). Don't get me wrong it's not perfect, and I do have minor scruples with some things*! I also don't think it's for everyone, my dear friend didn't like it and found it too dark for her personal tastes. But for ME? SPECIFICALLY FOR ME? To quote something I said to my friends 'wells for boys, lads, wells for fucking boys.' I also think it's so immaculately beautifully written that even if it's not your personal cup of tea you should read it anyway. ALSO the sheer dazzling breadth of research that went into this fic is REMARKABLE. I am not joking when I say this author has achieved everything I want to achieve as a writer in this fic. In many ways this is Ur Merlin Fic. The Once and Future Fic. To Me!

*I have minor scruples with almost every fic I've ever read and frankly remarkable how few scruples occur with a fic on this size. There are also scruples I had with things like tone, characterisation or even sex scenes that were then resolved with plot explanations that made sense a mere half a million words later in a quite satisfying way. This fic is a masterpiece in how it threads things like that through and pays them off very handsomely. I know how much blood sweat and tears goes into creating fanfic and I am overwhelmed by the skill, love and zillions of hours that must have gone into crafting this. Nothing but respect for such an incredible piece of art.

#this is what fanfiction should aspire to be. this is the star by which we should all navigate. #merlin #fic rec #arthur x merlin #ask #anonymous #kira for ts #I cannot say enough about this fic you should see my group chat history about it. #again I do have a few scruples or Things I Would Have Done Slightly Differently but like #what is that in the face of being constantly dazzled by the writing. arrogance I'd say. I only mention it bc as I said #I know it's not for everyone and I will state that upfront #but this is literally like to me. everything I've ever ever ever wanted in a merlin fic #and more! #looking back through my chat log on this fic and to quote me #funny that some people will just come out of covid and write a 800000 word cross-era merlin epic #well we all went through things during the pandemic wish mine was half as productive

[liminalmemories21]

Get to Know Your Fanfic Writer

tagged by @cha-melodius. Thank you!

I was tagged by @bebx, thanks!

When did you post your first ever fanfic?

July 2021. This is not an indication of how long I've been in fandom. I've been reading since [ahem] 1998-ish. Just an indication of how long it took me to get around to committing something I was willing to show the world. Thank you pandemic.

First character(s) you wrote for:

Published? TK/Carlos

Unpublished? Umm, Merlin/Arthur Academic AU. And/or The Old Guard Academic AU. There's a theme here.

Main character(s) you’re currently writing for:

TK Strand, Carlos Reyes, assorted members of their families

Character(s) you haven’t written about before but plan on writing about soon:

Hmm, maybe FirstPrince, or a 911 OG crossover. I do love Bobby and Athena.

Fandom(s) you’re currently writing for:

Lonestar

Platonic pairing(s) you currently write for:

Nothing specifically, but I do really enjoy writing Carlos and Paul being friends and occasionally giving each other some hard truths. I also enjoyed exploring Carlos's relationship with his sisters in the S4 Interstitials - waiting to be joss'd so hard next season.

Romantic pairing(s) you currently write for:

TK/Carlos

Your top 3 tags on AO3 (if you post your works on AO3):

Hmm, I'm actually not great at tags beyond characters and specific content warnings. I guess 5+1,and then maybe Enzo, and canonical references to things like drug use. Wow, I really need to get better at tagging.

Your current platform where you post your works:

AO3. I come from the days before AO3 and you will pry it away from my cold dead hands.

Snippet of the wip you’re currently working on:

TK flips through the case notes.  “All of these are Kist systems?”  Matt nods.  TK shrugs.  “They found a security flaw. Once they found that getting in and out would be easy, no need to rock the boat.”  He catches Carlos’s eye and gestures at one of the lists.  “They took a Grandma Moses, but left the Cassatt.”

Matt nods, catching up to TK train of thought.  “The Grandma Moses is easy to fence, good money but hard to trace just because she was so prolific. The Cassatt is unique.  You fence that and people start asking questions.”  

TK gestures at the handwritten list Matt’s holding  “That list is the expensive shit that’s easy to sell, that’s what they came for.  Anything else they took is personal or on commission.  You had any hits on any of these things turning up on the open market?”  

Matt shakes his head. “Every local branch has had feelers out, nothing’s popped yet.”

TK looks at the map on the table.  “They’re probably not fencing where they’re working, and if they’re moving as fast as it looks like from this map then they’re making it hard for the Feds to track them.”  He gives Matt a shark like smile.  “Nothing is as helpful as an FBI turf war.”

Tagging @actual-sleeping-beauty, @strandnreyes, @rmd-writes, @wandering-night19, and @carlos-in-glasses in return

#writing #tarlos #knave-verse #911 lonestar

[chouthechaoticraccoon]

About Me

My name is Morgan Alexander but I also go by Chou and Cedar

My pronouns are he/they, but neos are fine too :)

I am 15 and going on 16 though I’m somewhere above 60 in my heart

I am a… hoo boy, this is complicated. Um, I'm transnasculine and nonbinary as well as an oriented aroace (bi/omni cupio/quoiromantic graysexual, to be specific), so… gay af but also no, thank you. I’m also romance-positive and sex-neutral

I have a spicy brain (also known as Asperger's, ADHD, depression, anxiety, and MaDD with some gender dysphoria and unlabeled weirdness sprinkled in for good measure)

I also have a weird body (Type 1 diabetes, Celiac disease, Hashimoto’s, and chronic pain from joints and headaches and shit as well as some other symptoms)

My ethnicity is confusing because my family didn't keep good records, but I'm mixed (about ⅓-½ Blackfoot, ⅔-½ European) and white-passing

Very introverted, I like my alone time more than being around another person no matter who they are. Honestly, I might be a little socially anxious…

A dual high school and college student set to graduate in 2026

INTx-T (can be either INTJ or INTP)

Leo, I guess? Born August 16, so yeah. Not really into that astrology stuff, though

Converting to Reform Judaism as soon as I’m able to

Everybody deserves equal rights no matter skin color, religion, gender, orientation, physical appearance, or class. I'll respect your opinion as long as it doesn't disrespect anybody's existence. Don't agree with this, don't interact with me and get off my page

AKA transphobes, homophobes, ableists, racists, MAPs, zoophiles, etc aren’t welcome

Inbox and DMs are open, happy to make friends or mutuals (and might be open to a QPR or romantic relationship after I get to know you :) )

Asks are fine, and I love talking to people (online, that is) so just reach out if you want to know more about me

Don’t send me NSFW content. Like, ever. I may dabble in writing it (I write SA sometimes, varying from not-at-all to moderately graphic, but to be honest I only really write it so that there can be major hurt/comfort and I always depict it as a horrific act of violence and in some cases torture), but that doesn’t mean that I am interested in sexual content or comfortable with it. I am also a minor and asexual so it’s a big no-no

Artist (drawing, painting, and photography), comedian (stand-up), musician (piano, violin, vocals, and guitar), poet, and writer (original novels, short stories, and fanfics). Happy to do commissions on any of my chosen art forms, just DM me :)

I speak and am learning to speak ASL, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, and Yiddish (I alphabetized lol)

I like pretty much all music except country (Jolene is an exception)

I have precisely 69 Spotify playlists and am very proud of it

I’m actually starting an alternative rock band called Blue Humor. I’ll let you know when our first album drops

I like a lot of music, with over 32 pages on my list of bands I like (actual thing, might post the link later but it’s a list of over 1200 bands that I enjoy and am constantly expanding)

My fandoms include Abbott Elementary, Adventure Time, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Aurora Cycle, Big Hero 6, Bo Burnham, Brooklyn 99, Cavetown, Coraline, Creepypasta, Danny Phantom, the DCU, Deadpool, Derry Girls, Disenchantment, Disney, Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, Good Omens, Game of Thrones, Gravity Falls, Gregor the Overlander, Heartstopper/Osemanverse, Hunger Games, I Am Not Okay With This, In a Heartbeat, Into/Across the Spider-Verse, IT (2017/19), Jamie Dodger, John Mulaney, Jurassic Park/World, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, Les Miserables, Lord of the Rings, Manifest, Marvel, Merlin, Monk, Monty Python, Mythic Quest, Narnia, Night at the Museum, NOAHFINNCE, Our Flag Means Death, Over the Garden Wall, Once Upon a Time, ParaNorman, Parks & Recreation, Red, White, and Royal Blue, Riordanverse (Percy Jackson, Heroes of Olympus, Kane Chronicles, Magnus Chase, etc), Shaaba, Sherlock (BBC), Star Trek, Star Wars, Steven Universe, Stranger Things, Supernatural, Ted Lasso, The Adam Project, The Afterparty, The Good Place, The Goldfinch, The Hollow, The Office, The Simpsons, The Sims, The X-Files, Tim Burton, The Owl House, The Umbrella Academy, TwoSet Violin, Wednesday, Wings of Fire, and Young Royals.

#get to know the blogger #get to know the person behind the blog #introductory post #introducing myself

[akaashism]

Hello... Do you mind if I ask your top favorite fanfics that you've written? Why are they're special to you? Do you have specific inspiration when you wrote them? Thanks if you want to answer.....

So when I got this ask, I told myself that I would only pick 3 fics no matter what. If I went beyond that, we would be here all day, but picking 3 out of 60 made the task very hard as well 😭 They're all my babies tbh.

But even then, these are a bit more special.

Lucky Again: Written for my first fanfiction event (Kagehina Big Bang 2022) that I was so excited for, and believe me, I put my entire heart and soul into this fic. No other writing experience will ever compare to this one and I will always be extremely proud of this fic ❤️ I've always loved exes to lovers as a trope and I was itching to write it for kagehina, so that's how this fic was born :')

religion's in your lips (even if it's a false god): Another fic I am very proud of, particularly of my writing in it. It was stupidly difficult to write this because of the ambiguous/toxic relationship theme, but it was a passion project for me, I simply needed to put it out into the world. I go back to reread it all the time and I love it a lot. My main inspiration for it was that Oikawa is always the indifferent, detached one in oikage fics and I wanted to reverse their roles and make Kageyama like that, while Oikawa yearned for something more from him. I hope I did a good job portraying the vision :))

gold rush: Merthur is the ship I've written the most number of fics for so choosing only one out of them made my hands shake violently. There are so many merthur fics that meant the world to me when I wrote them, but now, years later, when I look back, this is the fic that I find myself revisiting the most. I can't tell you the reason why. The inspiration for this was being totally gone for the idea of Merlin's magic being in love with Arthur ❤️

getting it right: Also a shout-out to this fic which is not only my longest work on ao3, but the fic that completely sucked me into kagehina, never to escape. Writing this was some of the most fun time of my life and I love rereading it too 🥰

Thank you for such a wonderful ask!! ❤️❤️

#ask response #kagehina #oikage #haikyuu!! #merthur #bbc merlin #fanfiction #ao3

[camlannpod]

Ok u followed me back so now that we are moots it has openned the flood gates for me to gush about the fact that I've LOVED Arthurian lore ever since I was a middle schooler watching the bbc merlin tv shows and immediately hyper fixated on it. I actually read the history brittonium for fun just because its the oldest reference to king arthur and merlin and im learning welsh specifically because i am a nerd who want to visit wales some day to go to Mold to go to the library with the largest collection of Arthurian legend texts. So yeah anyway im so excited for your podcast!!!!

Haha, we actively encourage Arthurian gushing! Hi!!!!! I got deeeeeep into BBC Merlin in my last two years of school - I used to rewatch episodes and make notes about it (I wrote....so much fanfic). I love the Historia Brittonum! But you know one of the oldest references to Arthur (we believe) is in Culhwch ac Olwen, a Welsh story! I'd also really recommend the Four Branches of the Mabinogi (more commonly known as The Mabinogion, best translation by Sioned Davies). And I enjoy the Chretien de Troyes stuff too!

I'm always enthusiastically in support of anyone learning Welsh, it's a beautiful language!! I hope you are able to visit Wales one day. Our show is actually set near Carmarthen because its name in Welsh, Caerfyrddin, means Merlin's Castle! (Or fortress)

I'm really glad you're excited for the podcast, thank you! I hope you enjoy ep 1 and ep 2 (coming this Monday!)

#arthuriana #question this #scifikimmi #camlann #camlann podcast

[spacehostilityy]

My NNT rewatch s1ep19-24

Ps these are backlogged lol I watched fast but then ran out of time for work. Posting this now bc I'm going to Appalachia to visit family and will have very little wifi lol

I know Elaine is pretty underdeveloped (nothing a little fanfic can't fix), but I do love how even in flashbacks, she's more serious and responsible than king

Why was Diane still like 6 after hundreds of years ?? Like why wouldn't they just show her aging?

ITS BEEN 500 YEARS? Meaning only a couple centuries before present?? WHY IS DIANE SO SMALL? HOW BAD WAS HER GROWTH SPURT???

Damn king rlly said mercy kill

The Druids having the technique Enslavement of the Dead is actually really cool because it shows us that the goddess race really was that fucked up from the very beginning. Like the characters realize that Ludociel and Nerobasta are not all there made out to be eventually, but we can see just from the types of abilities the druids (aka those closest to and led by the goddess race) possess

Hendrickson saying "bien, princesa" or EVEN BETTER "THAT'S A GOOD GIRL" LIKE ASDJSKFJSL hes evil and a little annoying but so fcking hot

Ban telling Meliodas he loves him and then trying to kill him while meliodas is just like bitch I'm busy we can do this later is so funny

this man gives zero fucks

Ban being the first to realize (after merlin obvi, but she always knew) that Meliodas is a demon and also being the first to accept him means so much to me. This is why I love their relationship. No matter how horrible the other seems to be (or is lol), they stand by each other. I mean not in this specific scenario, but Ban only cares bc the horn of cernunos told him to, so I don't think it really counts. (im delusional)

also I'm typing this on my laptop now and I forgot that I can type this fast ehehe AND i found a way to screenshot so no more taking pics of my laptop for meee

Something about characters begging for death (ban and meliodas) makes me become obsessed with them (i am mentally ill)

MELIODAS BEING WILLING TO LET BAN KILL HIM (if he can do so successfully lol)😭 I know he would just come back, but he would be stuck in Purgatory ASJDKFJSL I JUST LOVE THEM SO MUCHHH

every day, i find out just how i much i am capable of shipping them and every day that limit is surpassed

straight besties that would literally die for each other is the ideal fictional relationship

esp bc melizabeth (my actual main ship) doesn't get rlly good until she regains her memories/is a flashback

AJSHDFKSDB FNFKS BAN PICKING UP GIL WHILE MARGARET AND VIVIAN SOB AND JUST TELLING THEM "im borrowing this"

bro i totally forgot dreyfus fucking dies how does he come back??

ok ban is having his MOMENT after finding out hendy has been using the corpse of the red demon HE killed 20 yrs ago

also I know ban is like 43 and the whole twilight argument is edward is basically just a 100 year old man so following that logic, Ban is middle aged BUT as someone who is close in age to Ban from before he became immortal, that man is the most 23 year old man to ever 23 year old man. He is chronically in his early 20s frfr

king realizing in that moment judt how wrong he was abt the destruction of the fairykings' forest is the biggest oh fuck moment lol

also i may have 🏴‍☠️ed the bandit ban ova to hurt my own feelings

hendy taunting ban by saying his demonic powers are all thanks to him and ban just saying he's "always happy to help" is such a mood honestly

hendy gets hotter with every demon transformation😔

Meliodas and Ban mourning hawk actually makes me so sad wtf

elizabeth is such a bad bitch when she awakens her power i love her

also hendy being like wow such a powerful druid as if he himself is not a druid and should know this power (and her eyes) is goddess level 🤨

i bet meliodas was shitting himself trying to see whether or not re reawakened her memories tho like damn he was actually probably so scared he would lose her in 3 days without the chance to break their curses

Diane and Ban having the exact same expression is actually rlly funny to me

LAST EP OF SEASON 1!!!!!

WAIT OMG IS HE GOING TO REVENGE COUNTER👀👀

wow i remember so little of season 1 lol

them all just beating the everloving shit out of meliodas is entirely too funny to me

HAHA i was RIGHT about revenge counter im literally a genius

😏 face down ass up babygorl

this is one of the cutest frames in the whole show fr fr😌

Diane: "Sorry we didnt come for you sooner!☺️" King: "Yeah we've never kidnapped a princess before haha :}"

so in the very last after credits scene, gil, howzer, and griamore are all standing around Dreyfus's work table staring at the drawing of meliodas's demon mark as. But as we know from other characrers later on, can have lots of different marks. Meliodas, Zeldris, and Estarossa all have the same one, but maybe this is a family thing? But if it is, why would demon!Hendy have it?? is the grey denon somehow a relatuve of the demon bros lol

anyway I FINISHED SEASON ONEEEEE

ill do a mini ramble over the ovas that netflix likes to call season 2 then move on to the read deal

#seven deadly sins #tess rambles on her nnt rewatch #nanatsu no taizai #nnt #7ds #tess rambles #meliodas #elizabeth liones #elizabeth nnt #ban nnt #diane nnt #gilthunder #howzer #hendrickson #melban #melizabeth #demon mel is best mel

[lightasthesun]

🖤🔐🫐🪐☂️ for the get to know me thingy!

yay thank you for the ask!! And so many too 🫶

🖤 favorite hobbies outside of your blog

writing, reading, painting with acrylics, horse riding, and brainstorming. I really really really love brainstorming. I've been working on a post war no-order 66 AU for like a little more than a year on and off and I just got back into it again and I freaking love doing all the research. I'm working on establishing Mikkia and the Mikkians rn ie. coz one of my oc's is Mikkian and I completely went off the rails and hyperfixated. It's so FUN

🔐 something no one would guess about you

hmm that's hard. I'm a pretty open person. I tell my friends everything if they bother to ask but I think from the outside people would be surprised by how much I care about other people's opinions and how much it holds me back (sadly) I think it even surprises my friends and family despite them knowing me so well. I'm a risk taker but before I take any risks I worry for like a decade before making a decision. It's one of my biggest faults.

🫐 some place you’d love to visit

the merlin set omg but especially the darkling woods!!! Pretty sure it's puzzlewood in Gloucester. But also New Zealand. It's home to so many of my favourite movies and it literally has mountains and snow and beaches and forests and rainforests and like!!! Everything!! So cool. Sadly very expensive but one day!

🪐 favorite shows / series of all time

Star Wars The Clone Wars and Merlin. They're both constantly fighting for first place.

☂️ your favorite fanfic from another writer

Omg omg omg SO MANY. But you're a fellow merlin fan tho your url also suggests the mandalorian at least? Here are some specifically for you. I'm always happy to rec fics.

scar reveal/reveal fic merlin

merthur and magic reveal before Arthur's coronation by the brilliant @regulusrules

the phenomenal @southfarthing pulls you apart and then slowly puts you back together

also my all time favourite series that I devoured in less than a week that ended in a reading burnout for half a year

from these asks

#ask game #thank you for the great asks!

[merlinfluffalooza]

Rules and Schedule for 2023

General Fest Guidelines: 

This is an 18+ fest, meaning you have to be 18 years or older to participate. 

We accept all kinds of ratings and all pairings (Merlin characters only).

The fest will be held on Tumblr, Livejournal and Discord. You are required to have an AO3 account for posting. If you don’t have an account, you can request an invite here (please make sure to ask for invites sufficiently ahead of time as they may take up to two weeks or more to arrive, especially in light of recent attacks).

To participate in the fest, please fill out the sign-up form (open before and throughout the fest). 

When you create something for the fest, we ask that you put a link in the dedicated discord channel, so that we can keep track (and for your work to be easily found by the other participants!). If you do not have a discord account, do not worry! We will also have a way for you to submit your creations on tumblr, where you won’t need an account.

Fanworks must be original, stand-alone works created for the purpose of the fest. Please don’t dust off older works and reuse them. 

On this note, all fanworks must be human made. No AI is allowed.

Types of accepted fanworks are fanfic, fanart (digital and traditional, moodboards included), fanvids, podfics.

Podfics must be a recording of an original work created for the fest. No podficcing fics that are already out there.

As a main requirement, participants are expected to post at least one fanwork for The Red Thread of Fluff main challenge. You are free to produce as many fanworks as you like if you feel extra inspired. The Bonus Challenges are not a must. (For more, see requirements)

Fics/fanworks must be considered fluff and must have a happy ending. You can write any kind of fic as long as it covers these grounds. An ideal estimate would be that ⅔ of the fic is centered around fluff.  

You are allowed to crosspost with any fest you want as long as permission to crosspost is given by other fest runners.

In case of defaulting, please contact a mod either on discord (@Admin) or by email at [email protected] .

Guidelines for Creators: 

For writers, the minimum word count is 500 words for the Main Challenge: Red Thread of Fluff. There is no maximum word count. 

For artists, the minimum is one completed art piece for the Main Challenge: Red Thread of Fluff. (The definition of complete depends on the artist).

For moodboards, the minimum is 9 elements (pictures, background, titles,...) with at least 2 pictures with characters from the show.

For fanvids, at least 30 seconds of video is required for the Main Challenge: Red Thread of Fluff. 

For podfics, at least 500 words of original fic and at least 7 minutes of reading time is required for the Main Challenge: Red Thread of Fluff.

Chaptered fics are allowed, however, all chapters must be posted before the end of the fest.

There is no specific requirements for the Bonus Challenges.

This is a lightweight fest, so having a beta is not required, though you can still choose to get your work betaed. 

Please tag/rate your works properly, and add warnings if there are any. 

And finally, remember to keep it schmoopy! Work must be considered fluff (⅔ of a written story should be happy making ;-))

Challenges explanations:

This year, the fest gets a makeover! Instead of asking you lovely people for prompts, the mods offer two kinds of challenges:

The Red Thread of Fluff

For those of you who have participated or followed Kinkalot, you may recognise this type of prompting as it is similar to the infamous Kink Link! We will give you a whole range of choices with this challenge. You will have to pick one option from each of the three columns (settings, trope and details), then create! Favourite combinations exhausted yet you want to create more, or simply looking to be surprised? We’ve got you covered, as we can offer you to roll a virtual dice, Dice Maiden, in a dedicated discord channel!

This is your main event and will run for the entire duration of the fest. Prompts will be revealed on September 24th allowing you a bit of preparation time before the start of the fest! Note that posting will only be allowed from October 1st.

Bonus challenges

Each Monday we will offer you a set of prompts in a new format. You will have until the end of the week to submit your fills. The prompts for the bonus are just for your inspiration, if you feel it works, it works for us.

Schedule: 

Fest will run from October 1st to October 31st

Sign-ups run from September 17th 2023 until the end of the main challenge on October 29th.

The Main Challenge, our Red Thread of Fluff, will run from October 1st to October 29th. The prompts will be revealed on the 24th September.

Posting is open from October 1st to October 29th. 

Each Monday, a fun and surprise bonus challenge will be provided by the mods. 

Link Collection - All the Links you’ll need!

Discord server: https://discord.gg/rD3esXdS 

Livejournal Community: https://m-fluffalooza.livejournal.com/ 

Tumblr: https://merlinfluffalooza.tumblr.com/ 

Ao3 Collection: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/merlin_fluffalooza_2023 

Contact the mods: [email protected] or @Admin on discord

#merlin #merlin bbc #bbc merlin #fandom #merlin fluffalooza 2023 #mod post #rules and schedule

[tibby]

Hi Tibby! I saw your post that Casey McQuiston was originally a prolific fanfic writer of AG/JE rpf. I had heard that they were a prolific rpf writer…but for a different fandom. More specifically Harry/Louis from 1D. And that they were one of the mysterious authors of the legendary These Inconvenient Fireworks.

I find it interesting that it’s a well known rumor that they wrote rpf, but there are differing details about which fandoms they wrote for. Though in this case, they heyday of the social network fandom was ~2010 (afaik) and 1D fanfiction peaked closer to 2014 (though TIF was written in 2012). It’s definitely possible they wrote for both.

Just curious about your thoughts on the matter 😏

hi ariel! i have never been involved in the 1d fandom, so i can't say if i know anything about the (in)famous fics within it. my knowledge begins and ends with the after films being based on harry styles/oc rpf. so i cannot offer any answer there.

i WILL also say that i cannot say with any certainty that rwrb is in fact jesse eisenberg/andrew garfield fanfiction. i just know that casey mcquiston was a prolific tsn writer back in the day, and the american guy and british guy falling in love is a very funny coincidence to me. and also that reporter guy had STRONG justin timberlake energies. honestly i've spent enough time in tsn fandom to pick up on which character was meant to represent who, but for all i know the same can be said for 1d fic or whatever.

i've also had people in the tags of that post claim that rwrb was based on a merlic fic, so who knows for sure. i personally don't think that the story itself was originally fic, but that casey was simply inspired by. certain actors or characters when writing their leads.

anyway. i didn't expect my posts to get any kind of attention outside of my immediate mutual circle, which is primarily compromised of people i know and many of whom already had the rpf knowledge. i just find the whole thing funny, and as a tsn stannie it's just something i like bringing up because it makes me laugh. i don't particularly care about fic writers becoming authors or rpf being made into movies, because. well. shit happens, it makes money, tsn is virtually rpf and one of my favourite movies of all time. there are much better hills to die on.

i am just of the opinion that if rpf/fanfic IS going to continue to be made into movies then they need to commit to the bit. cast the actual person it was based on. if that meant we needed jesse and andrew, or harry and louis, or the two guys from merlin to be the rwrb leads...then so be it. we all know it's fanfiction and possibly rpf anyway. why not take it all the way?

#ask #arielfabulous

[ashesandhackles]

001 for remadora 👻

Oh Eve. You know my feelings about the way Tonks was handled in canon, so Remadora stans, please proceed with caution.

when I started shipping it if I did:

Reading fanwork centered on them. Specifically yours and @thecat-isblogging-blog work!

my thoughts:

Tonks was shafted in canon. A character with great introduction (she is funny, she is a bit nosy, she is impertinent with mad-Eye who everyone respects or is wary of! She has ties to the Black family and her mother has history with Sirius and Bellatrix that would make her ripe for exploration). She got reduced to a red herring in HBP ("oh whats up with Tonks? Why is she depressed?") and then love interest and mother in DH, who exists offscreen to propel Remus and Harry's relationship. I will also say that the hospital scene isn't great in what it intends to be - grand declaration of romance. (it says a lot of unhealthy and dysfunctional things that I think is great to explore for the relationship in fan work).

What makes me happy about them:

Doomed relationship! I love doomed relationships. I love relationships that may not work out in future, but still irrevocably changes a character. I love what you had to say about them here. That take really speaks to me and my life experiences.

What makes me sad about them:

I am forever amused that most in sync we see them together in DH is when they jump off the fence together when the Minister of magic comes in for Harry's birthday. Tonks, my girl, the man is a walking red flag lol. They have problems, and its delicious and sad, but wonderful to explore.

things done in fanfic that annoys me:

I only read works that have been recommended, so my experience of this ship in fanwork has been stellar! You, Cat, Merlin and Celeste are pretty much the only authors I have read and it has been great.

things I look for in fanfic:

Writers who really excavate the potential of Tonks from what we see in canon, and a Remus characterisation that I agree with XD

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: 

For Tonks? Fleur, maybe. I think there is an interesting idea there about women with powers related to their appearance - Tonks with her ability to change, and Fleur with her ability to do a version of thrall. XD Remus needs therapy - but if I want to make him worse, I would pick Sirius. If I want a healthier relationship for him, I would pick James.

My happily ever after for them:

Co-parenting Teddy after an amicable break up after a whirlwind relationship.

who is the big spoon/little spoon:

Depends on Tonks' mood. If she wants to be big spoon, she will be.

what is their favorite non-sexual activity:

Watching Muggle movies together. Remus likes it because it gives him a connection to his mother. Tonks discovers it thanks to him, and she tries to find out if her father had favourite movies growing up.

#asks

[faeriecap]

∘₊✧ about ✧₊∘

hi !! you can call me jay :) im a professional writer/literary editor. i use they/she pronouns. im 23, from the us, and have been in the marvel fandom since about 2013 or 2014 (watching iron man as a little kid doesn’t count) but now i’m like a reformed marvel stan in that i am so. fucking tired lol… spare good content, kevin feige ??? my posts primarily focus on cap quartet, especially steve rogers + bucky barnes, but you’ll also see other marvel media (like spider-man !!!!!!), dc, the occasional merlin post, poetry, fine art, music, aesthetics, memes, american girl, avengers-adjacent theme park stuff, and any other things that strike my fancy <3 some of my primary interests besides marvel include celtic and slavic mythology, fairytales, comics, and history !!

i headcanon steve rogers as bisexual, and mcu!bucky as gay (in terms of comics!bucky barnes, i could see him as more ambiguously MLM or bi). i consider myself a multishipper, with my main ships being stevebucky and samsteve, however i love love love samstevebucky (or stevesambucky ????), and enjoy others such as winterhawk, sambucky, clintasha, carolmaria, petermj, and sammisty too !! typically, i tend to only write for the first three but i enjoy fanfic and fanart for all of them. cartinelli also has a lot of nostalgia (and other more painful emotions) associated with it so there might be some of that on here in my older posts if you go through those tags. also i have three captain america ocs from my works a winter in the sun + a summer in new york: stepan, dani, and (bu)chanan, who appear on here from time to time.

im @faeriecap on all social platforms ! i love making new friends so please feel free to say hi in my asks or dms <3

disclaimer: this blog is often critical of the mcu in general, with specific posts sometimes focusing on its writers’ depictions of tony stark, peggy carter/captain britain, and representations of bucky barnes + his trauma in fatws. furthermore, i’m anti endg*me steve + i do not support the casting of elizabeth olsen as wanda.

#i speak #about me #ignore this hehe one day i will figure out how to link back to this not as a post