#author says thanks

[minalots]

so about that book…

#trigun #nicholas d. wolfwood #wolfwood #trigun maximum #trimax #iykyk LMAOOOOOO #edit: i fuxked up the title of the book do not look at me rn im throwing myself out my window #other edit: yes ik the author retweeted this im in shock bro #tbh im just in shock how this is even doing numbers everywhere but thank you guys HAHAHAHAHAHA #other other edit: also i see someone asking if the book is good. i haven’t ordered mine yet cuz im saving to go to a con but everyone #around me has been saying its very good n you heard bdww so #da gallery

[corantus]

mitsuki & aya from "the guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all". so obsessed w them it's not even funny love lesbians who listen to music 💚🖤

#the guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all #気になってる人が男じゃなかった #mitsuki koga #aya oosawa #i love to disappear for 2 weeks and come back w an interest no one asked for. thanks! #before anyone asks: #read it on the author's twitter (@agu_knzm) otherwise. uhh. google it. i shant say

[killjoy-prince]

House M.D. but it's when House says Wilson's name

#house md #gregory house #prince's talk tag #after almost two weeks of going through the transcripts of every episode I finally finish this and the Wilson version #first off thank you to the clinic-duty team on livejournal for making the transcripts for these episodes #because this video would be near impossible to make without their clear transcripts. I hope y'all are doing well #ive been reading a lot of fics with these two and i see how the authors have the characters refer to each other in their fics #and that got me wondering how much do they say each other's name in the show and how do they refer to each other #since this is the house video ill put his stats here #s1 was 19 times s2 was 31 s3 was 34 s4 was 30 s5 was 35 s6 was 58 s7 was 25 and s8 was 28 #in total he says his name 260 times. Mostly refers to him just by Wilson #He's only said Wilson's first name 7 times. Once by Jim 3 by Jimmy and 3 by James #He'll use his full name in professional settings or to be sarcastic or to pretend to be him #You know since House is the main character and in every episode of the show i thought he'd say his name more than him #but Wilson beats him by 42 times bc s7 and s8 he doesn't say his name as much. it took Wilson getting cancer for him to say it more #than he was before that point

[luceafarul-de-dimineata]

"What will you do once I pass away?" The question came out of the blue, but such strange questions were par for the course at this point. Gamigin was nuzzling to your neck when you spoke, but he wasn't phased.

"I'll revive you. Death won't be permenent in Paradise Lost for as long as I'm around to stop it." You were running a hand through his blue hair, playing with a strand of it.

"But what if you don't revive me? If you can't revive me? What will you do then?" The dragon stopped kissing up your neck and shifted so he would be at eye level with you on the bed. He looked confused and hurt which almost made you ashamed that you asked the question.

"My staff can bring anyone back from the dead."

"Ok, but I age and demons don't what about that? What if I get so old I want to die to end my mysery."

Gamigin looked even more confused by your words. He didn't quite understand why humans aged so fast. He pouted in thought and stared at the ceiling. After a while, with a stern voice he asks "How long do humans usually live for?"

You try to remember your anthropology classes and what the avarage age of death was for your country, but you just can't put your finger on it. "I don't know, 70 or something like that." "70! Only 70 years!?!" He pushed you to the bed and pinned you to it with a shocked expression. His mind was working overtime trying to calculate just how long that timespan felt like.

Finally, he turns to you and holds your hands softly kissing them both. He stares determined in your eyes. "You are going to have the most exciting life ever. I promise you. What do you wish to do before you die?"

You've never seen him so stern, but the question was one that you've many times asked yourself yet never seemed to have an answer to. Gamigin's glare was starting to intimidate you so you gently slap his face.

"Don't look at me like that! You're making me nervous! I don't know what I want to do before I die. I just kind of want to see where life takes me."

Gamigin smiles like he usually does and pins you to the bed with a hug. His staff, which he kept in one hand at all times, jiggled lively as you both collapsed on the cottage bed.

"Well then, I want to cuddle with you and rewatch the 'How to Train Your Dragon' trilogy. And then we can play blackjack and whoever wins has to wash the dishes after dinner!" Gamigin proclaimed before kissing your cheek and nuzzling into it.

"Who tought you blackjack?" It was strange hearing your usually innocent boyfriend putting forth the idea of blackjack of all things.

"My brother Buer. He also thought me the dishes strategy as well. Jokes on him, I won." His giggle was contagious and you two ended up just cuddling and watching movies for the better half of the night.

If your relationship with Gamigin thought you anything, it was that you didn't have to live through bombastic experiences to enjoy life. You were having the time of your life just being close to him.

#whb #what in hell is bad #whb gamigin #whb fluff #whb x reader #I'm experimenting with writing formats #to see which ones I like the best #for now I can say that I love writing dialog #but I struggle with narrative and especially serious one #let's hope practice will improve on this issue over time #and you'll get to see it! #did you guys know I'm a published author of non fiction #crazy world out there #if you read all of this through #hi #you're really cool #thank you for caring about my stuff

[dragonpropaganda]

you should talk about your thoughts on rw fanon (looking with huge eyes)

Oh god, there's a lot of major misconceptions have concreted into fanon, mostly around ancient society and ascension.

First things first! Ascension is not death! They are entirely separate things treated entirely separately by the text of the game. I can see where the interpretation is coming from, but it doesn't really align with how the text treats either subject. Five Pebbles may want to remove the self destruction taboo, but from his reaction to the rot it's clear that he doesn't want to die. Conflation of ascension and death only comes up as an offhand possibility that pebbs makes on iterator 4chan, when he's going into the possibilities of scenarios that even the other sliverists are doubtful of! (let me make clear that I am not a sliverist by any means)

Ascension is more of talked about as a form of transcendence, yeah? A Bell, Eighteen Amber Beads talks about their sitution as being "To have grasped at the boundless infinites of the cosmic void…", not as them seeking an end to life.

The beta dialogue goes into more detail, mentioning the "infinities of time and space" and the "boundless fractal planes of spirit and reality...", though this dialogue was cut and it's hard to tell how much it reflects the concept as in the released game.

As for the cultural misconceptions... there's A Lot to talk about, but the first that comes to mind is the common conflation of the five natural urges and the christian concept of sin.

It is true that the negation of urges is mentioned by moon as an alternative method of ascension, but much of what we know about the culture of the people who the fandom calls the ancients (which makes discussion of the depths a mess but that's something for another post entirely) points towards the urges not being seen as shameful.

Even the first urge does not seem to be particularly scorned! Being a warrior is presented as a cause for bragging in the Shaded Citadel pearl, being comparable with being an artist and a fashion legend. The second urge, also does not seem to be suppressed. Multiple sources attribute some level of honour to parenthood! The aforementioned pearl also mentions Seventeen Axes, Fifteen Spoked Wheel as being a "Mother, Father and Spouse" without any hint of shamefulness. Nineteen Spades, Endless Reflections expresses pride about having progeny, mentioning it alongside their owned land and esteem among their peers.

After some peer review, an esteemed friend has told me to add a section on purposed organisms as well! This is not so much my area, so I might be a bit off on some things.

As moon says, the majority of purposed organisms were tubes in boxes, and that the primal fauna of the world are almost entirely extinct. A lot of the fandom seems to ignore the first part, and i can't say I blame them, but the evolution of the creatures is so much weirder than people think.

Concept art for the creatures has this interesting quality to it, where the organic parts of the creatures have an almost... melty quality to them.

In the concept art, the flesh appears as if it's almost defying the machinery to form an animal shape. It's as if it's conquering its own artificiality the way the foliage grows over the (stone, brick and concrete, not mostly metal as some think!) ruins.

Of course, it's hard to really tell how much of this reflects the finalised concept, most of the integration is much smoother in the game, in line with a seamless kind of biomechanical design. There was always an intention of biomechanical strangeness, as shown in this screenshot of the devlog before the term "slugcat" even existed!

That said, the melty nature of the concept art shows a level of wild change inherent the biomechanical nature of the creatures, as if they truly are the result of these "tubes in boxes" almost revolting against their own boxes.

and considering centipedes... some tubes may not have had boxes in the first place!

#rain world #rain world lore #rainworld #rw spoilers #please note! my role in downpour development does not make me an authority on what is canon or not! #my domain is entirely within challenge mode and arena which aren't canon anyway #my lore analysis is just lore analysis with no looks behind the scenes of anything vanilla #downpour was made as a fan expansion and the rewrites were just done directly by james #we didn't get any disambiguation on the lore (and thank fuck for that honestly. analysis is the best part) #though the hills ARE made of bricks #this is canon not because i say so but because it is visibly true in some areas of the game. part of the text and thus canon. weep. #i could go into more detail on most of this! purposed organisms aren't my area of expertise tho so i might be a bit shaky on some of that #anyway if anyone has any fact checking to do. please do so #media analysis is a dialogue!

[ala-baguette]

On April 28, 2009, I posted the very first chapter of this story.  Today-- fourteen years, eight months, and three weeks later-- I posted the last.

I didn’t plan for this story to take me a decade and a half to write.  I didn’t plan to take a ten-year hiatus halfway through.  But life happened and the responsibilities of adulthood overtook the ambitions of youth. Still, never once in all those years did I forget about my story.  Never once did I consider it abandoned.  Through it all, I always intended to go back to it. To the writers out there worrying that it has been too long since their last update to continue: There is no such thing.  To those worrying they are too old: There is no such thing.  To those worrying they are too busy to update frequently enough: There is no such thing.  If writing brings you joy, write.  Don’t worry about the timeline, don’t worry about how often you can or cannot update.  Don’t worry about whether you might be losing readers—the readers that matter will wait (believe it or not, I actually had a few readers still there waiting for me after ten years without a word!).  And even if none do wait, you’ll find new readers along the way.  If it brings you joy, then write. To the readers out there anxiously waiting for an update from their favourite authors:  Tell them.  No, don’t just drop a kudos and move on.  Leave the comment, write the review, DM them, it doesn’t matter, just tell them!  You never know when a simple message saying that you are still there waiting might make an author pick up their quill again. And finally, to my own readers.  My wonderful, glorious, patient, kind-hearted, and encouraging readers.  I would never have finished this story without you.  This story exists because of you.  I write because of you.  Thank you.

#harry potter fanfiction #hp fanfic #knowing where to look #harry potter #writing #fan fiction #it's not abandoned until the author says its abandoned #just leave the comment #thank you #you are where I look

[numbuh424]

shoutout to whatever L and Light had going on in Time Speaks

#and they had A LOT going on #death note #l lawliet #light yagami #death note fanfiction #lawlight #been thinking about rereading it. overwhelmed with emotion simply at the thought #god that fic is so. so..... #if you've read the fic please....... please talk to me #it's a time loop fic it's a fix-it fic it's got angst it's got lore it's got good misa writing it's got domesticity it's got mind games #it has everything like EVERYTHINGGG #I've never been so engaged with death note lore before #the world building is crazy the build-up to the reveal is crazy #almost every character shows up at least once and I cheered every time #if it weren't 400k words long I'd almost say it should be required reading I love it a lot #I know the author is on tumblr I follow them #if they see this hello thank you I owe you everything actually

[princington]

“Can you please just say ‘thank you for calling me beautiful, Ava’? That’s all I want.”

the gods we can touch ch 4 by @thecousinsdangereux

#avatrice #warrior nun fan art #ava silva #sister beatrice #this fic has me going through so many motions #just say thank you bea #the gods we can touch #author rec: thecousinsdangereux #my art

[underwittingly]

An expression flickered across Tom’s face so quickly that he couldn’t read it. “I won’t do it again,” he said after a beat, sounding far less flippant than he had before. He was on top of Draco, a knee on each side of his hips, one hand still on his shoulder from rolling him over, the other on the pillow beside his head. He was, well, not warm but solid, real. It was difficult to be angry with him when he was so close.

ch 8 - Alley Cat by @the-paper-monkey

#my art #tom riddle #draco malfoy #tomdraco #CAN I JUST SAY THIS IS MY FAVOURITE FIC EVER 100/10 #i love you and i hate you author for writing this fic and all ur other fics and pulling me into taco rarepair hell ><><><>< #they were so CUTE in this scene ?djbefj:MKFndkfm; #draco is so oblivious and cute wtsksjnf #thank this fic for pulling me out of a huge artist block #amen #fic rec

[selkienight60]

Lately, I've observed a recurring pattern across various fandoms that I'd like to address. It seems that both myself and others I have spoken with have been receiving comments from individuals who delve into great detail about their dislike for our stories. These comments tend to focus on perceived flaws or deviations from character portrayals. Unfortunately, these critiques rarely end on a positive note, and it can be quite frustrating. 

 As authors, we invest significant amounts of time and effort into crafting our stories. While I personally appreciate constructive criticism (although I understand that not everyone feels the same way!), what I've been encountering is different. It appears that some individuals express their dissatisfaction in a lacklustre manner, posing their dislike as half-hearted questions or providing lengthy suggestions on how the story should have unfolded. This is not an entirely new phenomenon, but recently, I've noticed an increase in this behaviour. I've spoken to numerous authors who have similar experiences to share. 

I kindly request that as commenters, we strive to be more mindful of how our words come across. Waking up to a comment that attacks the several hours to years of work we've (authors) poured into our stories is never a pleasant experience. Please understand that my intention is not to sound harsh; quite the contrary, and I want to emphasize that my following words are not directed at any specific individual, as I've come across numerous comments of this nature (many in the last week, in fact). I simply believe it is important to highlight the significant time and effort fanfic authors dedicate to their stories. If you find yourself not enjoying an author’s work, refrain from expressing your dissatisfaction directly to us. Writing is a hobby, not a duty.

#Thank you to everyone who comments positivity #ConCrit =/= whatever this new and weird version of entitlement is #The Back Button exists #Stop! Think: would I say this to a friends face? If no - do not say it to an author

[stil-lindigo]

I work for a Palestinian man at his small business. It's just me, him, and two others doing env. testing. He is old and has family in the region. I've shown my support already, donated money for medical supplies etc. Do I go on strike, or would causing him problems at this time be counterproductive? I feel like I'm in one of the few situations where I'm behooved not to go on strike for this specific instance.

hi - yes, in this situation, i absolutely agree with you here. I can't imagine what your employer must be feeling right now, and I think if there's anything you can do to minimise his burden, that would be wonderful.

If at all possible this week and if you're in a situation where it's doable, I think it would also be a good idea to try do something nice for him. And, if you feel comfortable about it and his business takes donations, feel free to share a link in the replies.

#i wish you and your employer the best #and thank you for showing your support in other ways #btw (and this is completely unrelated to the asker) but i feel like ive become an authority (???) in this strike for some reason #and would just like to say im a normal person doing her best like the rest of you #im happy to direct y'all to resources and stuff #but im really like. not specially qualified to be giving out advice #askbox

[turtle-ly]

No one understands how much i want adora to be weird. like c'mon she lived in an army run by an alien for the entirely of her childhood! with a cat person as her best friend!! and shes also an alien!!! you cant tell me adora hasnt tried to purr or groom catras hair at least twice (to her dismay). i want her to eat a rock and be a-ok. adora is a freak if not in canon then in spirit

#she ra #spop adora #my thoughts #yeah yeah she also has military kink. thats the tamest of her problems #the girls are Weird and im saying this with so much affection in my heart #thank u authors and artists who portray catradora as weirdos even by horde standard #the girls have more things happening between them and to them than most horde soldiers yet they didnt even know to unpack any of that in 5S #...ah fuck did i inject mental eelness into her again #adora #my footprints #my she ra stuff #spop

[blooming-gwens]

I'm pleased to inform you that the wait is over! Here is CHAPTER TWO of For Everything

Chapters: 2/

Fandom: Spider-Man: Spider-Verse (Sony Animated Movies)

Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Miles Morales/Gwen Stacy | Spider-Gwen Summary:

~Perhaps they were meant for each other. It was written in the stars—stars meant to burn out in their all at once powerful surge. Stars meant to fall. Bright, burning and then gone. And in its sudden demise, no one would even remember it was once there, lost in the infinity of severed constellations.

That was the way of the universe. That was the way it had to be.~

Alternatively: Gwen Stacy is doomed but Miles Morales’ love might save her.

Please feel free to reblog to support and share my work!

#my oh my it’s been a long time coming #I’ve divided my time between finishing moving in and writing and while I may have made some unwise decisions #I’m still so happy to be able to post this #my garden may have suffered for it but heyyyy it was worth it lol #anyways #please read the authors note for special thanks #and please do tell me what you think of the newest installment #Atsv #across the spiderverse #across the spiderverse fic #Ghostflower #gwiles #Gwen Stacy #miles morales #ghostflower fic #all the characters are in this joint but I don’t want to clutter the tags #my wiritng #megan says things

[killjoy-prince]

House M.D. but it's when Wilson says House's name

#house md #james wilson #prince's talk tag #finally!!! it's done! this and the house version took almost two weeks to do #first off thank you to the clinic-duty team on livejournal for making the transcripts for these episodes #because this video would be near impossible to make without their clear transcripts. I hope y'all are doing well #ive been reading a lot of fics with these two and i see how the authors have the characters refer to each other in their fics #and that got me wondering how much do they say each other's name in the show and how do they refer to each other #since this is the wilson video ill put his stats here #s1 was 11 times s2 was 18 s3 was 45 s4 was 32 s5 was 41 s6 was 60 s7 was 47 and s8 was 48 #in total he says his name 302 times. Mostly refers to him just by House #the only time I've heard him say his first name its when he's being professional or when he's really angry (and that one time he proposed) #and even then it's always the full name not just the first name #the only instance I've seen him use just his first name was on that note he put on House's xmas gift that we see in season 5 #and as much as I wanted to put that moment in here he never actually says the contents of the note out loud so i had to leave it out #but what surprised me was he says House's name more than House says his name #especially when the earlier seasons didn't have him say his name as much

[nostalgicish]

me: i hate cliches

ao3 authors: one of them was bitten by a love bug and has fallen deeply in love with the other except they were already in love to begin with and the bug helped reveal their true feelings for each other

me: oh my god one of them was bitten by a love bug and has fallen deeply in love with the other except they were already in love to begin with and the bug helped reveal their true feelings for each other

#ao3 #lovebug #lovebug au #everyone say thank you ao3 authors #love me some lovebug #this was about #klance #lol #stal.txt

[ao3screenshotss]

#submission #thank you for submitting!! #ao3 funny #title #The boy from the rift #author #Finley_Cy #crossover #hermitcraft #empires smp #dream smp #scott smajor #joel smallishbeans #jimmy solidarity #lizzie ldshadowlady #ykw this reminds me of #that one thing where people go into a restaurant and ask for a table of 2 even though there’s only 1 person and one person lifts up a wine #glass to toast and says happy anniversary #idk but yeah